Tour de France: successful escape Rafal Majka, a Pole winner in 11 … – Onet.pl

– Do not I get t-shirts best climber of the Tour de France – said a few days ago in an interview with Rafal Majka Eurosport.Onet.pl. Saxo-Tinkoff cyclist was on flat stages nearly 40 minutes behind the leader and promised better ride in the Pyrenees.

The 11th stage to confirm his words, he attacked already on the 75th kilometer, together with Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) and Serge Pauwels (MTN-Qhubeka). Later, the group has grown to seven riders, because the top three joined Steve Morabito and Arnaud Demare of FDJ, Cofidis Julien Simon and Emmanuel Buchmann from Bora-Argon 18.

At the climax escape it took until eight minutes ahead of the peloton. The difference slightly decreased, only when all the riders began their ascent of the highest peak of the Col du Tourmalet stage lying at an altitude of 2115 m above sea level With the peloton Astana group recovered more than three minutes. Then reacted Majka. Pole stepped harder on the pedals and alone tried to keep distance between him and the rest of the riders.

After climbing came time to exit. It was no secret that this element is a little weaker party to the rider with Zegartowice. However, before the current season, it is on the downhill Saxo-Tinkoff rider put special emphasis in the preparations. As shown Majka disposal, workouts were not in vain and he maintained over a five-minute advantage over the rest of the pack.

At 20 kilometers from the finish it was known that Majka much promoted in the general classification of the Tour de France. At that moment the winner of last year’s Tour de Pologne moved up from 104 at the 79th position in the “general classification”. I still had six minutes ahead of the peloton and more than a minute over the second Serge Pauwels.

As a result, our rider can not He had already given victory. The finish line in Valee de Saint-Savin drove alone, raising his hands in a gesture of triumph, outclassing the peloton, which came as a Pole about seven minutes later, the second was Daniel Martin (Garmin) with a loss of about one minute to the Pole. In the final analysis, Majka moved up from 104 at the 46th position in the overall standings. In the mountain jumped into the top ten has 32 points and is third with a loss of 8 “mesh” to wielding polka-dot shirt Richie Porte’a (Team Sky).

For Rafal Majka, the third stage win in the Tour de France. In 2014 years was the best Pole on the 14th and 17th stage of the Tour. Those victories have helped instrumental in winning his shirt for the best climber of the race. The rider from Zegartowice is the first Pole who was on the podium five times TdF.