Tour De France 2018 Stage 11

Britain's Geraint Thomas became the Tour de France's overall leader with an impressive victory on stage 11.

Team Sky rider Thomas attacked with six kilometres left on a frenetic final climb up La Rosiere, to finish 20 seconds ahead of team-mate Chris Froome and second-placed Tom Dumoulin.

Belgium's Greg van Avermaet, who had led since the third stage, was well down the field in the main peloton.

Thomas leads the race overall from Froome by one minute 25 seconds.

However, Britain's Mark Cavendish, who has been unable to add to his 30 stage wins in this year's edition of the race, is out of the Tour after finishing outside the stage's time limit.

The 33-year-old was eliminated, along with German Marcel Kittel and Australian Mark Renshaw.

However Thomas, who was two minutes 22 seconds behind Van Avermaet in the overall standings at the start of the day, rarely looked like faltering towards the end of the 108.5km stage, which again demonstrated the strength of Team Sky in the mountains.

Thomas bridged a gap of more than 90 seconds to deny Spain's Mikel Nieve his first stage win on the tour and powered away from a group containing four-time champion Froome and Movistar's Nairo Quintana.


Stage 11 result

1. Geraint Thomas (Gbr/Team Sky) 3hrs 29mins 36secs
2. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Sunweb) +20secs
3. Chris Froome (Gbr/Team Sky) same time
4. Damiano Caruso (Ita/BMC) +22secs
5. Mikel Nieve (Spa/Mitchelton-Scott) same time
6. Daniel Martin (Ire/UAE Emirates) +27secs
7. Jesús Herrada (Spa/Cofidis) +57secs
8. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R) +59secs
9. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Bahrain-Merida) same time
10. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar)


General classification after stage 11

1. Geraint Thomas (Gbr/Team Sky) 44hrs 6mins 16 secs
2. Chris Froome (Gbr/Team Sky) +1min 25secs
3. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Team Sunweb) +1min 44secs
4. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Bahrain-Merida) +2mins 14secs
5. Primož Roglic (Slo/LottoNL-Jumbo) +2mins 23secs
6. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned/LottoNL-Jumbo) +2mins 40secs
7. Mikel Landa (Spa/Movistar) +2mins 56secs
8. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R) +2min 58secs
9. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) +3mins 16secs
10. Daniel Martin (Ire/UAE Emirates) same time