Winners and losers of the Tour de France team time trial

Tour de France Stage 1 winner and yellow jersey wearer Mike Teunissen increased his lead after his Jumbo-Visma squad’s impressive win in the Stage 2 team time trial. There were good times from Ineos, Deceuninck-Quick Step, Katusha, Sunweb, EF Education First and Groupama-FDJ. There was disappointment for Movistar, UAE-Team Emirates, Trek-Segafredo and AG2R.

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What happiness looks like! ?❤️ #samenwinnen pic.twitter.com/wBBXIHZfBM

— Team Jumbo-Visma cycling (@JumboVismaRoad) July 7, 2019

The Course

At 27.6 km, the route contained some ripples and a few corners. Intermediate times were taken at the 13.2 and 20.1 km points.

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Here’s a look at the 27.6km course around Brussels. pic.twitter.com/rIB1GROCKe

— Mitchelton-SCOTT (@MitcheltonSCOTT) July 7, 2019

Ineos was first off the ramp and set the first intermediate times of 13:58 and 21:10 before stopping the clock at 29:18.

Jakob Fuglsang's @AstanaTeam were 1.1 km/h slower than @TeamINEOS over the first 10 km of the TTT as the Dane is battling with the consequences of his crash yesterday.#TDF2019 #TDFdata pic.twitter.com/8gLTEVqYvt

— letourdata (@letourdata) July 7, 2019

Crash battered Jakob Fuglsang’s Astana was +0:20 to Ineos. Movistar was struggling out on the course and lost 44 seconds to Thomas and company. Groupama-FDJ surprised with a +0:12 showing, setting up Thibaut Pinot for the GC race, but French rival Romain Bardet’s AG2R shipped almost a minute to Ineos.

With rumours swirling around the Tour about its demise, Ilnur Zakarin’s Katusha stormed the course and finished 6-seconds in arrears. At the 2017 Vuelta a España Zakarin won a ding-dong podium battle against Wilco Kelderman, whose Team Sunweb also posted +0:06.

Mitchelton-Scott wasn’t setting the course aflame, and Simon Yates dropped off the train. However, his twin would only lose 20-seconds.

Michael Woods was having trouble keeping contact with the EF Education First column with 6 km to go, but he hung tough and the Tie-Dyed Armada finished eight seconds back of Ineos.

#PinkArgyle stops the clock at 29'25. That's seven seconds down on current leaders Team Ineos; fourth-fastest for now. There are still three teams out on the road — with Jumbo-Vismo currently on pace to unseat Ineos. #TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/MJeV2JJOvH

— EF Pro Cycling (@EFprocycling) July 7, 2019

Deceuninck and Lotto-Jumbo

Julian Alaphilippe and Enric Mas’s Wolfpack are one of the world’s crack squads and the blue and white gave Ineos some worry on the hot seat, but fell short by one second. They would be third on the day.

But the last team to start, Jumbo-Visma, with Wout van Aert, George Bennett and Tony Martin working for Steven Kruijswijk, would not be denied and took the famous win, beating Ineos by a whopping 20-seconds.

Winners
1st on GC) Michael Teunissen (The Netherlands/Jumbo-Visma) 4:51:34
3) Steven Kruijswijk (The Netherlands/Jumbo-Visma) +0:10
7) Egan Bernal (Colombia/Ineos) +0:30
8) Geraint Thomas (Great Britain/Ineos) +0:30
13) Enric Mas (Spain/Deceuninck-Quick Step) +0:31
18) Wilco Kelderman (The Netherlands/Sunweb) +0:36
21) Ilnur Zakarin (Russia/Katusha) +0:36
26) Rigoberto Uran (Colombia/EF Education First) +0:38
27) Michael Woods (Canada/EF Education First) +0:38
37) Thibaut Pinot (France/Groupama-FDJ) +0:42

Limited Damage
42) Vincenzo Nibali (Italy/Bahrain-Merida) +0:45
46) Rohan Dennis (Australia/Bahrain-Merida) +0:45
51) Adam Yates (Great Britain/Mitchelton-Scott) +0:51
53) Hugo Houle (Canada/Astana) +0:51
54) Jakob Fuglsang (Denmark/Astana) +0:51
63) Emanuel Buchmann (Germany/Bora-Hansgrohe) +0:56

Took a Hit
92) Dan Martin (Ireland/UAE-Emirates) +1:13
95) Nairo Quintana (Colombia/Movistar) +1:15
95) Mikel Landa (Spain/Movistar) +1:15
104) Richie Porte (Australia/Trek-Segafredo) +1:28
108) Romain Bardet (France/AG2R) +1:29