Tour de France: Evenepoel wins the Caen time trial
Pogacar, second, returns to the yellow jersey. Vingegaard fares poorly.


Pogacar, second, returns to the yellow jersey. Vingegaard fares poorly.

Remco Evenepoel won stage five of the Tour de France, a 33km individual time trial starting and finishing in Caen.
The Soudal Quick Step rider, world champion in the specialty, finished with a time of 36'42" ahead of Tadej Pogacar, 16 seconds behind, and the excellent Edoardo Affini, third at 33 seconds.
The loser of the day was Jonas Vingegaard: the Dane lost 1'21" to Evenepoel and over a minute to Pogacar, finishing 13th.
Primoz Roglic also performed poorly, while his Red Bull Bora hansgrohe teammate, Florian Lipowitz, performed well.
In the general classification, Pogacar returns to the yellow jersey.
Order of arrival:
1 Evenepoel Remco Soudal Quick-Step 36:42
2 Pogačar Tadej UAE Team Emirates - XRG 0:16
3 Related Edoardo Team Visma | Lease a Bike 0:33
4 Armirail Bruno Decathlon AG2R The World Team 0:35
5 Vauquelin Kévin Arkéa - B&B Hotels 0:49
6 Lipowitz Florian Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 0:58
7 Romeo Iván Movistar Team 1:02
8 Almeida João UAE Team Emirates - XRG 1:14
9 Plapp Luke Team Jayco AlUla 1:17
10 Castrillo Pablo Movistar Team 1:18
General classification:
1 Pogačar Tadej UAE Team Emirates - XRG 17:22:58
2 Evenepoel Remco Soudal Quick-Step 0:42
3 Vauquelin Kévin Arkéa - B&B Hotels 0:59
4 Vingegaard Jonas Team Visma | Lease a Bike 1:13
5 Jorgenson Matteo Team Visma | Lease a Bike 1:22
6 van der Poel Mathieu Alpecin - Deceuninck 1:28
7 Almeida João UAE Team Emirates - XRG 1:53
8 Roglič Primož Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 2:30
9 Lipowitz Florian Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 2:31
10 Skjelmose Mattias Lidl - Trek 2:32
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