Vansevenant tries again at Paris-Nice

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl lined out at the start in Courthézon with just four riders, after stage 2 winner Fabio Jakobsen retired because of a cough that got progressively worse through the morning. Taking in five classified climbs, the 214km stage to Aubagne was the longest of this edition and those keen on making it in the breakaway sparked an early move that despite not having a huge advantage at any point during the race made the peloton work hard in order to bring things back together.
More attacks were expected to come inside the final ten kilometers, on a small unranked climb where the intermediate sprint was placed, and Mauri Vansevenant was among those putting in a dig to get clear, only for the yellow jersey group to respond.
Eventually, a rider took off and despite having a small gap, he managed to fend off the chasers, helped also by the technical last kilometer. As the peloton rushed to the line, Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) took the win, while Florian Sénéchal sprinted to ninth and racked up his second top 10 of the week. His Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl teammate Mauri Vansevenant remained in 16th overall ahead of Saturday’s mountain stage to Col de Turini.
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Race details
1 |
Mathieu Burgaudeau TotalEnergies |
5:33:06 |
2 |
Mads Pedersen Trek - Segafredo |
0:00 |
3 |
Wout van Aert Jumbo-Visma |
0:00 |
4 |
Biniam Girmay Hailu Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux |
0:00 |
5 |
Bryan Coquard Cofidis |
0:00 |
6 |
Luka Mezgec Team BikeExchange - Jayco |
0:00 |
7 |
Iván García Cortina Movistar Team |
0:00 |
8 |
Dorian Godon AG2R Citroën Team |
0:00 |
9 |
Florian Sénéchal
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
0:00 |
10 |
Luca Mozzato |
0:00 |
39 |
Mauri Vansevenant
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
0:00 |
103 |
Iljo Keisse
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
15:23 |
104 |
Michael Mørkøv Christensen
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
15:23 |
DNF |
Fabio Jakobsen
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
-05:33:06 |
1 |
Primož Roglič Jumbo-Visma |
22:23:34 |
2 |
Simon Yates Team BikeExchange - Jayco |
0:39 |
3 |
Pierre Latour TotalEnergies |
0:41 |
4 |
Daniel Felipe Martínez Poveda INEOS Grenadiers |
0:56 |
5 |
Aleksandr Vlasov BORA - hansgrohe |
0:59 |
6 |
Adam Yates INEOS Grenadiers |
1:11 |
7 |
Søren Kragh Andersen Team DSM |
1:26 |
8 |
Jack Haig Bahrain - Victorious |
1:35 |
9 |
Nairo Quintana Rojas Team Arkéa Samsic |
1:45 |
10 |
Ion Izagirre Insausti Cofidis |
2:01 |
16 |
Mauri Vansevenant
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
2:56 |
40 |
Florian Sénéchal
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
13:32 |
101 |
Michael Mørkøv Christensen
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
50:34 |
108 |
Iljo Keisse
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
1:00:03 |
1 |
Wout van Aert Jumbo-Visma |
56 pt |
2 |
Mads Pedersen Trek - Segafredo |
41 pt |
3 |
Christophe Laporte Jumbo-Visma |
29 pt |
4 |
Primož Roglič Jumbo-Visma |
26 pt |
5 |
Brandon McNulty UAE Team Emirates |
19 pt |
6 |
Mathieu Burgaudeau TotalEnergies |
18 pt |
7 |
Bryan Coquard Cofidis |
18 pt |
8 |
Biniam Girmay Hailu Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux |
17 pt |
9 |
Pierre Latour TotalEnergies |
16 pt |
10 |
Franck Bonnamour |
13 pt |
31 |
Michael Mørkøv Christensen
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
3 pt |
32 |
Florian Sénéchal
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
3 pt |
39 |
Mauri Vansevenant
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
1 pt |
1 |
Valentin Madouas Groupama - FDJ |
44 pt |
2 |
Harm Vanhoucke Lotto Soudal |
20 pt |
3 |
Matthew Holmes Lotto Soudal |
17 pt |
4 |
Brandon McNulty UAE Team Emirates |
12 pt |
5 |
Victor Koretzky |
9 pt |
6 |
Yevgeniy Fedorov Astana Qazaqstan Team |
8 pt |
7 |
Alexis Gougeard |
7 pt |
8 |
Owain Doull EF Education-EasyPost |
7 pt |
9 |
Mathieu Burgaudeau TotalEnergies |
6 pt |
10 |
Thomas De Gendt Lotto Soudal |
6 pt |
28 |
Iljo Keisse
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
1 pt |
1 |
Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team |
22:25:59 |
2 |
Mauri Vansevenant
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team |
0:31 |
3 |
Andreas Leknessund Team DSM |
0:33 |
4 |
João Almeida UAE Team Emirates |
0:43 |
5 |
Brandon McNulty UAE Team Emirates |
5:26 |
6 |
Fred Wright Bahrain - Victorious |
6:32 |
7 |
Mathieu Burgaudeau TotalEnergies |
10:46 |
8 |
Johan Jacobs Movistar Team |
11:25 |
9 |
Georg Zimmermann Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux |
12:54 |
10 |
Biniam Girmay Hailu Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux |
13:03 |
1 | TotalEnergies | 67:14:22 |
2 | UAE Team Emirates | 0:21 |
3 | INEOS Grenadiers | 2:51 |
4 | Team Arkéa Samsic | 8:08 |
5 | Cofidis | 8:54 |
6 | Movistar Team | 9:00 |
7 | Bahrain - Victorious | 9:08 |
8 | Jumbo-Visma | 9:32 |
9 | Trek - Segafredo | 12:28 |
10 | Team DSM | 13:11 |