2013 Tour de France Stage 5 Results & Recap
Stage 5 of the 2013 Tour de France is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) took the 24th Tour de France stage victory of his career, on stage 4 of the 2013 Tour in Marseille. The Briton, who is recovering from bronchitis, clearly beat out Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) and Peter Sagan (Cannondale), with rival Andre Greipel (Lotto Belisol) fourth. A crash with several hundred meters to go stopped much of the field from continuing on to the finish line, but lost no time in the GC.
Simon Gerrans (Orica-GreenEdge) easily retained his overall lead ahead of teammates Daryl Impey and Michael Albasini.
A six rider group got away early on the stage and built up a lead of over 13 minutes. The peloton reacted late to the threat and it was touch and go as to whether they would be caught, with the last of them, Alexey Dyachenko (Astana) being swept up by the field with only 4 km to go, setting up the mass sprint.
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