2024 Tour de France Stage 9 Results & Recap
Stage 9 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
Turgis wins compelling gravel race, Pogacar still leader
Jasper Stuyven attacked from the lead group in the approach of the final of fourteen gravel sectors. His attempt ended just after the flamme rouge before Anthony Turgis won the sprint ahead of Tom Pidcock and Derek Gee. The GC riders finished together, and Tadej Pogacar stayed in yellow.
Paul Lapeira, Romain GrĂŠgoire, Neilson Powless, Jarrad Drizners, and Derek Gee were the first riders to open up a gap after almost 10 kilometres of action. The peloton kept pushing, and the five were brought back in a 30-kilometer chase.
A group of ten riders tackle the first gravel sector with a 30 seconds lead: Elmar Reinders, Jasper Stuyven, Gianni Vermeersch, Neilson Powless, Maxim Van Gils, Derek Gee, Oier Lazkano, Javier Romo, Alexey Lutsenko, and Anthony Turgis.
While the leaders put 2 minutes into the peloton, Axel Zingle and Alex Aranburu rejoin the front. Ben Healy and Tom Pidcock make the catch just before the second gravel sector.
Primoz Roglic and Juan Ayuso lost contact with the other GC riders on the steep sector. They made it back with 114 kilometres left to race.
The pace in the main group was high, and the lead of the attackers fell to 30 seconds.
Remco Evenepoel attacked from the GC group on the CĂ´te de Chaceney. Tadej Pogacar went after him with Jonas Vingegaard in his wheel. The three caught the lead group with 74.5 kilometres remaining.
Vingegaard refused to share the workload, and the three riders dropped back into the remnants of the peloton. Moments later, Lutsenko, Gee, Pidcock, Stuyven, and Healy headed out together. Aranburu, Romo, and Turgis regained contact on âsecteur 8â.
Michael Matthews, David Gaudu, Mathieu van der Poel, Rui Costa, Jakob Fuglsang, Biniam Girmay, and Rasmus Tiller open the chase inside the final 50 kilometres. They closed the gap to within 40 seconds, and then the chase stalled.
Meanwhile, the gap of the GC group widened to over two minutes before it fell to 1.30 minutes. Pogacar then accelerated on âsecteur 4â, with 22 kilometres left to race. He dropped his rivals. First Laporte and then Jorgenson bought Vingegaard back to the yellow jerseyâs wheel. Moments later, Evenepoel regained contact with the other GC contenders in his slipstream.
Stuyven dropped his companions in the lead group 11 kilometres from the finish. He left the last âsecteurâ 9 seconds ahead of the chasers, but he was caught just after the flamme rouge.
Turgis powered to victory in the ensuing sprint. He outgunned Pidcock and Gee, while Girmay won the sprint of the chasing group, thus extending his lead in the points competition.
The GC riders finished together, 1.46 minutes behind the stage winner, and Pogacar kept the yellow jersey.
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