2019 Tour de France Stage 16 Results & Recap
Stage 16 of the 2019 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
Ewan wins twice\nBy Clara Beard
Caleb Ewan sprinted to his second stage of the Tour de France today in the Nîmes, out-kicking Elia Viviani and Dylan Groenewegen by a hefty margin after 177 kilometres of hot racing.
“To be honest, I felt so bad today,” Ewan said. “The heat really hit me but I had some extra motivation with the presence of my wife and my daughter. I was not in the ideal position with 1km to go but I followed Quick-Step pretty well and came from behind. I don’t realize what’s happening to me. It’s a dream to be here at the Tour de France. It was already such a big dream to win one stage, now I won two but I can’t believe it.”
Julian Alaphilippe is still the yellow jersey with four days left in the race. In fact, none of the jersey standings changed today. Fourth today, Peter Sagan is still the leader of the green jersey, Egan Bernal is in white and Tim Wellens, Ewan’s teammate, continues to wear the polka dots.
"I’m very happy for Caleb,” Wellens said. “We all, and Maxime Monfort, in particular, have done a perfect job and he has the well-taken advantage of it. Caleb Ewan has proven to be the fastest sprinter on the race. This Tour de France is going great for Lotto-Soudal. We are really living this race above the clouds and the motivation within the team is super high. As for the Mountains jersey, it’s Thursday when I need to be up there to collect as many points as possible. Thomas de Gendt is the man to make the breakaway tomorrow."
In a race destined to be a bunch sprint, Alexis Gougeard (AG2R-La Mondiale) and Stéphane Rossetto (Cofidis) attacked after the flag dropped. The duo was joined by Lukas Wisniowski (CCC), Lars Bak (Dimension Data) and Paul Ourselin (Total Direct Energie), and off they went into the 37-degree heat. The peloton only content to give them a maximum gap of two minutes.
The five off the front were eventually reeled back in with just 2.5 kilometres to go, and from there, Deceuninck-Quick Step took over for Viviani. Sagan and Ewan latched onto the train, but Ewan proved to be fastest yet again.
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