2024 Tour de France Stage 11 Results & Recap
Stage 11 of the 2024 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
Vingegaard wins stage 11
Tadej Pogacar attacked in the last 500 meters of the Puy Mary Pas de Peyrol, while Jonas Vingegaard regained contact just before the summit of the Col de Perthus. Vingegaard took the win in a millimetre sprint.
Quentin Pacher, Kévin Vauquelin, and Tobias Halland Johannessen were the first riders to open a gap. After 20 kilometres of action, Wout van Aert, Bart Lemmen, Michał Kwiatkowski, Tom Pidcock, Bruno Armirail, Romain Grégoire, Valentin Madouas, Richard Carapaz, Ben Healy, Stephen Williams, Axel Zingle, Oier Lazkano, Oscar Onley, and Harold Tejada rejoined the chasers.
The peloton did not agree, and the attackers were brought back.
Attacks kept flying for tens of kilometres. Then Cristián Rodríguez and Richard Carapaz joined forces. Magnus Cort, Clément Russo, Axel Zingle, Anthony Turgis, Matteo Vercher, Silvan Dillier, Toms Skujins, Frank van den Broek, and Paul Lapeira chased them down.
Richard Carapaz went again when the attackers were caught. Mattéo Vecher followed his move, while Ben Healy, Oier Lazkano, Oscar Onley, and Paul Lapeira rejoined them just before the summit of the first climb. Julien Bernard, Bruno Armirail, Romain Grégoire, and Guillaume Martin rounded out the lead group with 110 kilometres remaining.
The ten put a maximum of 2.30 minutes into the peloton. UAE Emirates kept the break on a tight leash.
The gap fell below 1 minute on the Col de Néronne, which inspired Healy and Lazkano to head out together. The Spaniard dropped the Irishman initially, but Healy regained contact 500 metres from the summit.
Carapaz tracked the two down on the Puy Mary Pas de Peyrol, but he was dropped again a little later. The remnants of the peloton killed the breakaway in the final kilometres of the climb.
Tadej Pogacar struck 500 meters from the summit, and he crested the Pas de Peyrol with a marginal lead over Jonas Vingegaard.
While Pogacar widened his lead in the descent, Primoz Roglic rejoined Vingegaard. João Almeida, Adam Yates, Carlos Rodriguez, Giulio Ciccone, and Remco Evenepoel bridged across later.
The yellow jersey entered the Col de Perthus with a 30-second lead. Vingegaard and Roglic distanced their companions before the Dane distanced the Slovenian. Evenepoel rejoined Roglic in the last kilometre of the Perthus.
Vingegaard caught Pogacar just before the top. The latter won the sprint for time bonuses.
In the sprint to the line, it’s the other way around. Vingegaard edged out his eternal rival in a millimetre sprint. Evenepoel crossed the line 25 seconds later to retain second place in the GC. Pogacar still leads the Tour de France with a lead of over 1 minute.
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