2022 Tour de France

109th edition: July 1-24, 2022

Stage 19: Friday, July 22, 2022

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Friday, July 22: Stage 19: Castelnau Magnoac - Cahors, 188.3 km

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Christophe Laporte takes stage 19. Charly Lopez/ASO photo

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Weather at the finish city of Cahors at 1:20 PM, local time: 31C (87F), fair, with the wind from the west at 14 km/hr (9 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.

Rated ascents

• Km 135.7: Côte la Cité Médiévale de Lauzerte, 1 km @ 6.2%. Cat. 4
• Km 152.6: Côte de Saint-Daunès, 1.6 km @ 6.3%. Cat. 4

The race: GC 11th place Enric Mas (Movistar) tested positive for Covid-19 and did not start. That left a starting peloton of 139 riders who began the stage at 1:09 PM.

Here's the race organizer's stage 19 summary:

Christophe Laporte avoided the host country having no stage wins like in the 1926 and 1999 Tour de France as he powered to victory almost 2km before the finishing line of stage 19 in Cahors. He surprised pure sprinters Jasper Philipsen and Alberto Dainese who came second and third. He got the green light from Wout van Aert to go and get the fifth stage victory in this Tour de France, his personal first one at the age of 29 after he transferred from Cofidis to Jumbo-Visma, the Dutch team that keeps dominating the overall classification with Jonas Vingegaard two days before reaching Paris.

139 riders took the start of stage 19 in Castelnau-Magnoac, the village of rugby player Antoine Dupont, at 13:09. Mikkel Honoré (Quick Step), Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo) and Taco van der Hoorn (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert) rode away at km 4, quickly joined by Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious) and Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe).

They got a maximum advantage of 1’30’’ as sprinters’ teams like Lotto-Soudal, Alpecin-Deceuninck, BikeExchange-Jayco and DSM kept them on a leash, riding fast with a three-quarter tailwind.

Simmons won the intermediate sprint at Auch (km 38.4) where a tribute was paid to the late Nicolas Portal who was the head sport director of Team Sky. The breakaway group was almost reeled in at Fleurance, km 53. Politt sat up but Honoré relaunched the move and Simmons, Mohoric and Van der Hoorn went with him.

Cyril Barthe (B&B Hotels-KTM) escaped from the peloton but failed to bridge the gap by a mere five seconds. The Frenchman got brought back and the advantage of the quartet went up again: 1’ at km 80.

Philippe Gilbert led the bunch for most of the race for Lotto-Soudal, with other sprinters’ teams like BikeExchange-Hayco, Alpecin-Deceuninck and DSM also involved in the chase.

Simmons attacked up the hill to the medieval town of Lauzerte. Mohoric went with him to sprint for the cat. 4 KOM prize in a spectacular manner. Simmons continued solo with 48km remaining. He was brought back 13km further. Alexis Gougeard (B&B Hotels-KTM) counter-attacked and the next rider who tried to escape from the peloton after having had a bike change due to a mechanical was no less than… Tadej Pogacar! Wout van Aert reacted quickly. Gougeard was joined in the lead by Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) and Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) with 32km to go.

The trio rode into the last 20km with 30’’ lead over the peloton led mostly by TotalEnergies. Lotto-Soudal took over with Brent Van Moer. Stage favourites Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Michael Matthews (BikeExchange-Jayco) pulled the peloton as they were racing for Christophe Laporte and Dylan Groenewegen respectively.

Wright sped up but 1.5km before the end, Laporte was the first rider to catch the trio and he put the hammer down. He accelerated a second time 500 meters before the end. He continued his effort till the finishing line at the end of a slightly uphill road to take the first French stage victory of the 109th Tour de France while Pogacar sprinted to fifth place.

Complete results:

Stage 19 photos

188.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 48.684 km/hr

1	Christophe Laporte	Jumbo-Visma	3hr 52min 4sec
2	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	@ 1sec
3	Alberto Dainese	Team DSM	s.t.
4	Florian Sénéchal	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	s.t.
5	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
6	Amaury Capiot	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
7	Dylan Groenewegen	BikeExchange-Jayco	s.t.
8	Hugo Hofstetter	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
9	Luka Mezgec	BikeExchange-Jayco	s.t.
10	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
11	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
12	Aleksandr Vlasov	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
13	Jonas Vingegaard	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
14	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
15	Alexander Kristoff	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
16	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
17	Yves Lampaert	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	s.t.
18	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
19	Simone Velasco	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
20	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
21	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
22	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
23	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	s.t.
24	Hugo Houle	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
25	Gregor Muhlberger	Movistar	s.t.
26	Dylan Van Baarle	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
27	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
28	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
29	Luis León Sánchez	Bahrain Victorious	0:21
30	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
31	Adam Yates	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
32	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
33	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	s.t.
34	Peter Sagan	TotalEnergies	s.t.
35	Patrick Konrad	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
36	Sebastian Schönberger	B&B Hotels-KTM	0:25
37	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
38	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
39	Matteo Jorgenson	Movistar	s.t.
40	Bob Jungels	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
41	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
42	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	0:31
43	Nils Politt	BORA-hansgrohe	0:35
44	Alexis Gougeard	B&B Hotels-KTM	0:40
45	Maciej Bodnar	TotalEnergies	0:41
46	Stefan Bissegger	EF Education-EasyPost	0:48
47	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
48	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	0:56
49	Andrey Zeits	Astana Qazaqstan	0:57
50	Maximilian Schachmann	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
51	Sepp Kuss	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
52	Ion Izagirre	Cofidis	s.t.
53	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
54	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	1:09
55	Carlos Verona	Movistar	1:16
56	Benoît Cosnefroy	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
57	Edvald Boasson-Hagen	TotalEnergies	1:33
58	John Degenkolb	Team DSM	1:47
59	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Soudal	1:49
60	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
61	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
62	Cyril Barthe	B&B Hotels-KTM	s.t.
63	Antoine Duchesne	Groupama-FDJ	1:53
64	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
65	Tiesj Benoot	Jumbo-Visma	2:08
66	Alexander Krieger	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:23
67	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
68	Alexandr Riabushenko	Astana Qazaqstan	2:26
69	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
70	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
71	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
72	Pierre-Luc Périchon	Cofidis	s.t.
73	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
74	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	s.t.
75	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
76	Andreas Leknessund	Team DSM	s.t.
77	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	s.t.
78	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
79	Dylan Teuns	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
80	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
81	Tony Gallopin	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
82	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
83	Michael Woods	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
84	Olivier Le Gac	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
85	Joe Dombrowski	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
86	Cyril Lemoine	B&B Hotels-KTM	2:36
87	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	2:39
88	Nick Schultz	BikeExchange-Jayco	s.t.
89	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
90	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
91	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
92	Stan Dewulf	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
93	Marc Hirschi	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
94	Luca Mozzato	B&B Hotels-KTM	3:01
95	Felix Grossschartner	BORA-hansgrohe	3:06
96	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
97	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	3:08
98	Fabio Jakobsen	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	3:28
99	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	3:47
100	Connor Swift	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
101	Marco Haller	BORA-hansgrohe	3:52
102	Rigoberto Uran	EF Education-EasyPost	3:54
103	Andrea Bagioli	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	4:00
104	Luke Rowe	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
105	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
106	Danny Van Poppel	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
107	Mathieu Burgaudeau	TotalEnergies	s.t.
108	Michael Matthews	BikeExchange-Jayco	s.t.
109	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	4:07
110	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	5:14
111	Mattia Cattaneo	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	6:09
112	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
113	Nils Eekhoff	Team DSM	6:35
114	Anthony Turgis	TotalEnergies	7:22
115	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	7:53
116	Michael Storer	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
117	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	7:58
118	Andreas Kron	Lotto Soudal	8:02
119	Mads Pedersen	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
120	Jack Bauer	BikeExchange-Jayco	s.t.
121	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
122	Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	Alpecin-Deceuninck	8:42
123	Philippe Gilbert	Lotto Soudal	s.t.
124	Jérémy Lecroq	B&B Hotels-KTM	8:44
125	Daniel Martinez	INEOS Grenadiers	9:31
126	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
127	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
128	Pierre Latour	TotalEnergies	s.t.
129	Amund Grøndahl Jansen	BikeExchange-Jayco	9:41
130	Mikkel Honore	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	10:47
131	Christopher Juul-Jensen	BikeExchange-Jayco	s.t.
132	Guy Niv	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
133	Simon Geschke	Cofidis	s.t.
134	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
135	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	s.t.
136	Pierre Rolland	B&B Hotels-KTM	s.t.
137	Taco Van Der Hoorn	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	s.t.
138	Albert Torres	Movistar	s.t.
139	Franck Bonnamour	B&B Hotels-KTM	21:55

 

GC after stage 19:

• GC leader: Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma)
• Mountains classification leader: Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma)
• Points classification leader: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
• Best young rider: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
• Teams classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

3,187.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.073 km/hr

1	Jonas Vingegaard	Jumbo-Visma	75hr 45min 39sec
2	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates	@ 3min 26sec
3	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	8:00
4	David Gaudu	Groupama-FDJ	11:05
5	Nairo Quintana	Arkéa-Samsic	13:35
6	Louis Meintjes	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	13:43
7	Aleksandr Vlasov	BORA-hansgrohe	14:10
8	Romain Bardet	Team DSM	16:11
9	Alexey Lutsenko	Astana Qazaqstan	20:29
10	Adam Yates	INEOS Grenadiers	20:37
11	Valentin Madouas	Groupama-FDJ	33:34
12	Bob Jungels	Ag2r-Citroën	42:47
13	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	45:22
14	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	46:33
15	Luis León Sánchez	Bahrain Victorious	47:27
16	Patrick Konrad	BORA-hansgrohe	51:58
17	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	54:52
18	Sepp Kuss	Jumbo-Visma	58:55
19	Dylan Teuns	Bahrain Victorious	1:08:26
20	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	1:26:05
21	Matteo Jorgenson	Movistar	1:31:46
22	Hugo Houle	Israel-Premier Tech	1:35:51
23	Wout van Aert	Jumbo-Visma	1:36:14
24	Nick Schultz	BikeExchange-Jayco	1:38:11
25	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	1:43:18
26	Rigoberto Uran	EF Education-EasyPost	1:44:16
27	Carlos Verona	Movistar	1:46:32
28	Gregor Muhlberger	Movistar	1:53:17
29	Andreas Leknessund	Team DSM	1:55:45
30	Daniel Martinez	INEOS Grenadiers	1:57:57
31	Simone Velasco	Astana Qazaqstan	2:01:40
32	Gorka Izagirre	Movistar	2:08:27
33	Sebastian Schönberger	B&B Hotels-KTM	2:11:36
34	Michael Woods	Israel-Premier Tech	2:13:06
35	Dylan Van Baarle	INEOS Grenadiers	2:13:51
36	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	2:15:01
37	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	2:16:44
38	Michael Storer	Groupama-FDJ	2:18:48
39	Tiesj Benoot	Jumbo-Visma	2:19:19
40	Andrey Zeits	Astana Qazaqstan	2:22:32
41	Tony Gallopin	Trek-Segafredo	2:22:55
42	Ion Izagirre	Cofidis	2:26:27
43	Joe Dombrowski	Astana Qazaqstan	2:31:29
44	Lukasz Owsian	Arkéa-Samsic	2:33:12
45	Simon Geschke	Cofidis	2:33:23
46	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-EasyPost	2:33:29
47	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	2:34:03
48	Maximilian Schachmann	BORA-hansgrohe	2:38:13
49	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	2:42:05
50	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	2:45:17
51	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	2:45:28
52	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	2:46:16
53	Andrea Pasqualon	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	2:52:12
54	Felix Grossschartner	BORA-hansgrohe	2:53:53
55	Nelson Oliveira	Movistar	2:54:01
56	Benjamin Thomas	Cofidis	3:00:57
57	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	3:03:46
58	Nils Politt	BORA-hansgrohe	3:07:47
59	Edvald Boasson-Hagen	TotalEnergies	3:07:49
60	Pierre Latour	TotalEnergies	3:08:33
61	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	3:08:45
62	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:10:56
63	Antoine Duchesne	Groupama-FDJ	3:11:44
64	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	3:12:35
65	Pierre-Luc Périchon	Cofidis	3:18:25
66	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	3:22:03
67	Franck Bonnamour	B&B Hotels-KTM	3:22:14
68	Quinn Simmons	Trek-Segafredo	3:22:35
69	Stan Dewulf	Ag2r-Citroën	3:24:18
70	Andreas Kron	Lotto Soudal	3:24:42
71	Pierre Rolland	B&B Hotels-KTM	3:25:52
72	Mathieu Burgaudeau	TotalEnergies	3:28:02
73	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:29:50
74	Connor Swift	Arkéa-Samsic	3:33:12
75	Philippe Gilbert	Lotto Soudal	3:33:28
76	Jan Tratnik	Bahrain Victorious	3:34:04
77	Christophe Laporte	Jumbo-Visma	3:34:13
78	Matis Louvel	Arkéa-Samsic	3:35:33
79	Guy Niv	Israel-Premier Tech	3:36:48
80	Krists Neilands	Israel-Premier Tech	3:40:45
81	Michael Matthews	BikeExchange-Jayco	3:42:43
82	Cyril Barthe	B&B Hotels-KTM	3:43:07
83	Jasper Stuyven	Trek-Segafredo	3:43:56
84	Hugo Hofstetter	Arkéa-Samsic	3:44:20
85	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	3:45:59
86	Marco Haller	BORA-hansgrohe	3:46:28
87	Amaury Capiot	Arkéa-Samsic	3:46:59
88	Stefan Bissegger	EF Education-EasyPost	3:47:30
89	Matej Mohoric	Bahrain Victorious	3:48:14
90	Olivier Le Gac	Groupama-FDJ	3:48:26
91	Benoît Cosnefroy	Ag2r-Citroën	3:48:47
92	Jonas Rutsch	EF Education-EasyPost	3:50:21
93	Alexis Gougeard	B&B Hotels-KTM	3:52:56
94	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:52:58
95	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	3:53:54
96	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	3:54:24
97	Alexandr Riabushenko	Astana Qazaqstan	3:59:14
98	Mattia Cattaneo	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	4:00:05
99	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	4:01:45
100	Andrea Bagioli	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	4:02:15
101	Mads Pedersen	Trek-Segafredo	4:06:07
102	Nathan Van Hooydonck	Jumbo-Visma	4:07:06
103	Alberto Dainese	Team DSM	4:08:37
104	Luka Mezgec	BikeExchange-Jayco	4:09:27
105	Alexander Kristoff	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	4:10:58
106	Luca Mozzato	B&B Hotels-KTM	4:11:29
107	Alexander Krieger	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:12:24
108	John Degenkolb	Team DSM	4:15:48
109	Luke Rowe	INEOS Grenadiers	4:18:29
110	Florian Sénéchal	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	4:21:07
111	Danny Van Poppel	BORA-hansgrohe	4:23:34
112	Florian Vermeersch	Lotto Soudal	4:25:47
113	Mikkel Honore	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	4:26:48
114	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:26:55
115	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	4:28:38
116	Cyril Lemoine	B&B Hotels-KTM	4:29:52
117	Dmitriy Gruzdev	Astana Qazaqstan	4:31:15
118	Dylan Groenewegen	BikeExchange-Jayco	4:33:58
119	Peter Sagan	TotalEnergies	4:34:28
120	Guillaume Boivin	Israel-Premier Tech	4:34:46
121	Maciej Bodnar	TotalEnergies	4:37:40
122	Nils Eekhoff	Team DSM	4:38:04
123	Yves Lampaert	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	4:38:29
124	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	4:39:01
125	Jack Bauer	BikeExchange-Jayco	4:40:58
126	Brent Van Moer	Lotto Soudal	4:44:04
127	Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:46:47
128	Taco Van Der Hoorn	Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert	4:53:41
129	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates	4:56:11
130	Marc Hirschi	UAE Team Emirates	5:05:37
131	Christopher Juul-Jensen	BikeExchange-Jayco	5:07:13
132	Jérémy Lecroq	B&B Hotels-KTM	5:08:02
133	Anthony Turgis	TotalEnergies	5:13:40
134	Fabio Jakobsen	Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl	5:16:34
135	Amund Grøndahl Jansen	BikeExchange-Jayco	5:22:01
136	Frederik Frison	Lotto Soudal	5:22:42
137	Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg	Lotto Soudal	5:26:40
138	Albert Torres	Movistar	5:29:13
139	Caleb Ewan	Lotto Soudal	5:33:02

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Stage 19 map & profile:

Stage 19 map

Stage 19 profile

Stage 19 photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Approaching the line, stage winner Christophe Laporte has time to sit up and enjoy his victory. Behind him in the white jersey you can see "never-say-die" Tadej Pogacar sprinting.

Stage winner Christophe Laporte delivered a surprise that I'm sure the pure sprinters didn't appreciate.

Jonas Vingegaard finishes the stage with Geraint Thomas right behind him.

Wout van Aert just has to finish this Tour to win the Points Classification. That should be his teammate Nathan Van Hooydonck on his right.

Franck Bonnamour was the last man across the line.

Christophe Laporte just after the stage.

GC leader Jonas Vingegaard just after the stage finish.

Simon Geschke gets to keep wearing the polka dots since the leader of the mountains classification is Vingegaard, who is in yellow. As the second-place rider in the category, the jersey lands on Geschke's shoulders.

Stage winner Christophe Laporte.

Tadej Pogacar remains in the Best Young Rider's white jersey.

Points classification leader Wout van Aert.

Jonas Vingegaard has two more stages to go.