Tour de France standings set as Wout Van Aert wins Stage 20

Wout Van Aert has won Stage 20 at the 108th Tour de France on 17 July 2021. 

Wout Van Aert from Team Jumbo Visma has won the second individual time trial at the 2021 Tour de France on Stage 20.

The second individual time trial allowed general classification riders to potentially gain some time on their nearest rivals and climb up the overall Tour standings ahead of the final Stage 21 in Paris tomorrow.

Wout Van Aert speeds ahead of competitors

Van Aert managed to beat out rivals Kasper Asgreen and Stefan Keung with an average speed of 54.8 kilometres per hour in the final third sector of the stage.

This is now his second stage win in this Tour, having previously won the stage finishing on Mont Ventoux where the riders had to climb the mountain twice in one stage.

Tour de France overall standings.

The stage cemented much of the standings for the Tour so far.

Tadej Pogacar came in within the top ten of Stage 20 but still has enough time overall on the others to keep his overall race lead.

It is now certain that he will win the Tour as the five minute gap is too much to make up in the final stage.

He will wear yellow into Paris where he will then also collect the white jersey for the best young rider and the polka dot jersey for the leader of the mountain climb points classification.

Mark Cavendish will keep the green jersey for the sprints points lead but it is still possible he will lose it in tomorrow’s stage with some sprint points still to be awarded.

Second overall is Jonas Vingegaard who like many now in the top ten of the general classification initially came to the Tour to support other riders in their teams.

Third is Richard Carapaz who is the first Ecuadorian to win a podium place on the Tour de France.

Fourth is Ben O’Connor in his Tour de France debut, beating Wilco Kelderman narrowly again in Stage 20 to protect his position as Kelderman keeps fifth place.

Enric Mas keeps sixth place and Alexey Lutsenko keeps seventh.

Guillaume Martin stays in eighth place and Peio Bilbao is in ninth while Rigoberto Uran keeps tenth place.