Norway’s Waerenskjold has won the fastest Tour de France stage in history | Bike News

At an average speed of 50.91km/h, Soren Waerenskjold’s speed was the fastest stage in the 113 editions of the Tour.

Norwegian sprinter Soren Waerenskjold launched a long race to win the Tour de France in the fastest stage in the race’s history.

Dutchman Olav Kooij, who won stage five, took second at the end of the 161-kilometer (100-mile) stage 11 from Vichy to Nevers, and Belgian Milan Fretin was promoted from fourth to third after teammate Jasper Philipsen was eliminated.

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The average speed of 50.91km/h (31.63mph) on Wednesday was the fastest in the 113 stages of the Tour de France.

“It means everything, it’s my biggest win so far,” said the 26-year-old who was second in the seventh round in Bordeaux and last year won the prestigious one-day Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

“When I arrived here, I knew that there are two or three guys who run faster than me, but if I am lucky and run as well as I did today, it is possible.

“Sometimes I have a lot of confidence, and I believe in myself, but most of the time I’m very tired and it’s impossible to win here.”

Again, there was a race without a single team able to build trains to place their runner.

Kooij’s front rider Cees Bol got out in front as the main runners hesitated, but Waerenskjold was the first to chase down the Dutchman.

He immediately put a bicycle length between himself and the rest, and although Kooij and Philipsen caught him at the line, they did not have enough power to overtake Waerenskjold.

The Belgian Tim Merlier, who won the seventh and eighth rounds, completed a disappointing 14th.

Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay finished fifth to cut Mads Pedersen’s lead in the green jersey to 43 points while the Dane finished 10th.

It was the second race for the Norwegian team Uno-X Mobility, which is in its first year as a World Tour outfit, after Jonas Abrahamsen won once last year.

The team also held the yellow jersey for two seasons this year with Torstein Traeen before going down with a broken nose and broken ribs.

Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar finished well in the pack to maintain his overall lead of three and a half minutes over two-time winner Jonas Vingegaard.

He attributed the fast pace in part to the power of deviant riders.

“There were many opportunities for the runners to go to the end, and the racing teams, they control them and they need to catch them,” said the 27-year-old national champion.

“Today was a strong finish, that’s why the speed must be high.

“When we caught them, we dropped very slowly, and it was funny to go from 5km to 2km (3.1-1.2 miles) away – we were going very slowly all day.

The main reason is the hurricane, which is very fast.

“But when you have a strong problem in front, you go faster.”

Four refugees set off at the beginning of the stage, which began in the old town of Vichy.

He was no longer allowed a length of one minute and 40 seconds, and four became three when Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe, the former world champion and wearing the yellow jersey, was dropped on a short hill with about 40km (25 miles) to go.

But Anthon Charmig, Mathis Le Berre and Nelson Oliveira worked well together to resist the peloton’s inevitable comeback.

With 10km (6.2 miles) to go, their lead was only 20 seconds.

But within four kilometers (2.5 miles), their resistance was over, and the expected speed began.