Monday 21 August 2023
Stage 2
Nozay
Chinon
Start of live coverage : 3:32 pm
| Distance |
195 km (121 mi) |
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| Climbing |
+1,377 m (4,518 ft) |
| Type |
Flat |
| Délais |
15%of the winner’s time |
| GPX file | Download |
| Timetable (estimated) |
PDF (87.05 KB)
Les voies sont fermées 30 min avant le passage du convoi et rouverts après le passage de la voiture balai.
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KM 96.7GPM 4 - Côte de Saint-Aubin-de-Luigné
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KM 114.5Sprint - Thouarcé
Full Results
Stage 2 PDF (387.38 KB)| Rider | Gaps | |
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| PICKRELL Riley (CAN) | 04:42:25 | |
| FRATCZAK Radoslaw (POL) |
+ 00:00
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| TENE Rotem (ISR) |
+ 00:00
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| 4 | KOGUT Oded (ISR) |
+ 00:00
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| 5 | VAN MECHELEN Vlad (BEL) |
+ 00:00
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| Rider | Gaps | |
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| POMORSKI Michał (POL) | ||
| 2 | VILLA Giacomo (ITA) |
00:00
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| 3 | BETTENDORFF Loïc (LUX) |
00:00
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| 4 | THIERRY Pierre (FRA) |
00:00
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| 5 | PICKRELL Riley (CAN) |
+ 00:00:06
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# 111 - HARVEY Dean (IRL)
Yellow Jersey
Polka dot jersey
Green jersey
White jersey
The longest stage of the Tour de l’Avenir 2023 (195km plus 12km to the actual start) was open to the sprinters and they didn’t miss a beat.
It was close, very close, but the verdict was in favour of Canada’s Riley Pickrell at the expense of Poland’s Fratczak, who perhaps made the mistake of cutting in too early.
However, the Poles found more than a consolation with the yellow jersey now on the shoulders of Michal Pomorski, the beneficiary of his presence in the breakaway who had maintained a slender advantage of 6 seconds on the first day.
It has to be said that his predecessor, Danish rider Andres Foldager, winner of stage 1, had embarked on a long breakaway in the company of young Alexandre Vinokourov and for longer with Slovenian rider Alijaz Turk as his only support. An operation that was clearly doomed to failure. This rather rare situation of a yellow jersey being launched in an off-road operation obviously had consequences, as Foldager was to pay for his efforts and finished very late, more than 7 minutes behind in a final that was also marked by breaks following a crash.
The third stage between Vatan and Issoudun, in the Indre region, should reshuffle the cards as it is contested in the form of a 26.5km team time trial.
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Nozay is located at the crossroads of several major roads linking Nantes to Rennes and Laval to Saint-Nazaire. City of the Blue Stone, Nozay is the southern gateway to the Châteaubriant region.
Thanks to its numerous sports facilities and the dynamism of its associations, Nozay has taken part in the title of “Most Sporting Town”, a challenge organised by the Loire-Atlantique Olympic and Sports Committee.
In 2016, the jury awarded Nozay three flames and the title of “Sports City”. In 2019, the commune received 4 flames for the same challenge.
This labeling as a sports city and the challenge of “the most sports city of the Pays de la Loire” meet a double objective:
to promote the investment of local authorities working significantly to develop sport,
to strengthen the dynamic of the associations and to amplify the relations between the clubs and the municipal services.
At the heart of the Loire Valley, the town of Chinon is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Chinon is first and foremost an exceptional site which favoured the establishment of the town: the presence, next to the Vienne, an important waterway, of a steep limestone hillside on which it was easy to build a wall which was naturally fortified.
