The ninth step of Tour de France 2023, one of the most famous road cycling events in the world, held this Sunday, July 9, between Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat It is Puy de Domehad the Canadian Michael Woods as winner.

The Israel-Premier Tech team cyclist completed the 182.5 km stage with a time of 4h19min41s. The second position goes to French Pierre Latour (Total Energies), who finished at 28 seconds, while the Slovenian Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious) finished third, 35 seconds behind the Canadian.

Woods became the first non-European cyclist to win Puy de Dôme, the highest volcano in the Puys range. His victory came in the final moments, when he managed to pass the American Matteo Jorgensen 450m from the finish line. The cyclist from the United States finished fourth.

Nothing has changed in the general classification: Jonas Vingegaard continues with the yellow leadership jersey, now with a total time of 38h37min46s. Tadej Pogacar is second and has reduced the gap with the leader from 25 to 17 seconds. Jai Hindley is third place, now 2min40 behind.

The dispute for the title of the Grand Tour in 2024 is unavoidable. In addition to the scoring of points for the ranking which will determine the classifieds in the Olympic Games Paris 2024the last champions are favorites, including the Colombian Egan Bernal (champion in 2019), the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (2020 and 2021) and Danish Jonas Vingegaard (2022).

The athletes continue to compete for the Tour de France 2023. Monday July 10 will be a rest day for the teams. On Tuesday 11, the route will resume between Vulcania and Issoire, a mountainous section of 167.5 km.

It’s the second big tour of road cycling this year, which brings together the three main competitions of the modality. In May, the Slovenian Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) won the title of Tour of Italy 2023. Then, between August and September, the Back to Spain.

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Tour de France 2023: Portuguese performance

This Sunday, Nelson Oliveira (Movistar Team) finished best cyclist in Portugal, finishing the ninth stage in 48th place, 19:56 from first place. Just behind, at number 50, came Rui Costa (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), also with the same difference for the Canadian. Ruben Guerreiro (Movistar Team) came 51st, just after his compatriot.

After the ninth stage, Ruben Guerreiro fell to 33rd place in the general classification and remains fourth in the mountain race. Nelson Oliveira moved up four positions to 66th place, while Rui Costa made another jump, now in 73rd place.

You three Portuguese athletes seek to maintain the good performance of the country in the second road cycling Grand Tour of this season. At the Giro d’Italia 2023, Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) was the third place overall and conquered the best young athlete white shirt of the competition.

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