2024 Tour de France Stage 17 Results & Recap
Stage 17 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
Carapaz wins stage 17
The riders unleashed fireworks right from the start in the race to Superdévoluy. On the penultimate climb, the Col du Noyer, Simon Yates attacked and Richard Carapaz bridged across to him. The Olympic Champion then headed out alone to solo to the first Tour de France stage win in his career. Tadej Pogacar stays in yellow.
"This victory means everything!" Carapaz said. "I’ve been trying to get it since the start of the Tour, that was the goal. In the general classification we are very far away, but the hope remained of winning a stage. It was a very difficult day, with a lot of attacks, but in the end, a large group formed, I was able to come out at the right time and I managed to get this result which I will remember forever. I really made the most of the moment. I knew the final well having studied it with my sports director. I had won stages in the Giro and the Vuelta but the Tour de France is the race with all the best riders in the world. Each team comes with its best set-up and its best squad. The Tour is the best race. I am also happy for all the people who follow me. I'm proud to be here and represent all of America in the best possible way."
Echelons split the peloton after 10 kilometres of action. Another 10 kilometres later, the bunch was complete again.
It was all together after 30 kilometres of action. Then Wout van Aert activated the turbo engines, and Tobias Halland Johannessen, Harold Tejada and Jarrad Drizners followed his move. Their effort ended with 142 kilometres remaining.
Attacks keep flying until Tiesj Benoot, Romain Grégoire, Magnus Cort, and Bob Jungels opened up a gap 20 kilometres later. It didn't exactly quiet down behind them. Following a chase of tens of kilometres, a huge group rode away from the peloton after the intermediate sprint.
The chasers tackled the Col Bayard almost two minutes behind the leaders. Upon reaching the summit, Guillaume Martin and Valentin Madouas were the chasers at 30 seconds. The likes Wout van Aert, Christophe Laporte, Wout Poels, Pavel Sivakov, Geraint Thomas, Enric Mas, Stephen Williams, Simon Yates, Richard Carapaz, Romain Bardet, Michael Matthews, Oscar Onley, Warren Barguil, Jan Hirt, Laurens De Plus, and Louis Meintjes were 30 seconds further down.
Martin and Madouas caught up with the leaders at the foot of the Col du Noyer while Yates set off from the chasing group. He overhauled the six with 5.7 kilometres left to climb. Carapaz and Williams copy-pasted Yates’ recipe.
The Olympic Champion shook off the Welshman to rejoin Yates 3.1 kilometres from the summit. Carapaz continued on his own, climbing 2 kilometers, and he reached the summit with a 12-second lead.
Carapaz extended his lead on the descent. Meanwhile, Pogacar attacked from the GC group on the final stretch of the Col du Noyer. Vingegaard and then Evenepoel chased after him, reaching the summit in reverse order.
While Carapaz soloed to his first stage victory in the Tour de France, the Big Three regrouped approaching the final climb. As the road starts to ascend, Evenepoel made a move. Vingegaard was unable to respond and was distanced.
Evenepoel was the first of the Big Three to finish and gained a little ground, but Pogacar continues to dominate the Tour de France.
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