2013 Torneo Internacional AGT – Doubles
John Peers and John-Patrick Smith were the defending champions but decided not to participate together. Peers played alongside Jamie Murray, Smith partnered up with Samuel Groth. Both pairs lost to Marcelo Demoliner and Franko Škugor in the first and second round, respectively. Chris Guccione and Matt Reid defeated Purav Raja and Divij Sharan 6–3, 7–5 in the final to win the title.


2013 Torneo Internacional AGT – Singles
Denis Zivkovic was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to John Millman. Donald Young defeated Jimmy Wang 6–2, 6–2 in the final to win the title.


2013 Torneo Transición (Primera B de Chile)
The 2013 Torneo Transición was the 63rd completed season of the Primera B de Chile.


2013 Torneo de Promoción y Reserva
The Torneo de Promoción y Reserva is a football tournament in Peru. There are currently 16 clubs in the league. Each team will have in staff to twelve 21-year-old players, three of 19 and three experienced; whenever they be recorded in the club. The team champion in this tournament will offer two points and the runner-up a point of bonus to the respective regular team in the 2013 Torneo Descentralizado.


2013 Torneo di Viareggio
The 2013 Torneo di Viareggio is the 65th edition of Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the "Viareggio Tournament"; officially the "iareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale"), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany.


2013 Torneo di Viareggio, Format
The 48 teams are seeded in 12 pools, split up into 6-pool groups. Each team from a pool meets the others in a single tie. The winning club from each pool and two best runners-up from both group A and group B progress to the final knockout stage. All matches in the final rounds are single tie. The Round of 16 after envisions penalties and no extra time, while the rest of the final round matches include 30 minutes extra time and penalties to be played if the draw between teams still holds.


2013 Torneo di Viareggio, Participating teams
48 teams participate in the tournament. The list of the teams are below.


2013 Toronto Argonauts season
The 2013 Toronto Argonauts season was the 56th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 141st season overall. The Argonauts finished in first place in the East Division with an 11–7 record, but their hopes of repeating their 2012 Grey Cup championship were ended by a 36–24 loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the East Final.


2013 Toronto Argonauts season, Offseason, CFL Draft
The 2013 CFL Draft took place on May 6, 2013. The Argonauts had five selections in the seven-round draft, after trading their fourth round pick to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and trading their third round pick to the Edmonton Eskimos for two fifth round picks. The club, in turn, traded three fifth round picks to Saskatchewan for a third round pick.


2013 Toronto Blue Jays season
The 2013 Toronto Blue Jays season was the 37th season of Major League Baseball's Toronto Blue Jays franchise, and the 24th full season of play (25th overall) at the Rogers Centre. Despite high expectations heading into the season, the Blue Jays finished 74–88, in last place in the division.


2013 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Coaching staff
On October 21, 2012, the Blue Jays officially announced that they had released their manager John Farrell from his contract in the same agreement that sent David Carpenter to the Red Sox in exchange for Mike Avilés.


2013 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Coaching staff
On November 20, 2012, the Blue Jays announced that former manager John Gibbons would once again manage the Blue Jays, in 2013.


2013 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Coaching staff
On November 26, 2012, the Blue Jays announced most of the coaching staff that will be working under John Gibbons. Five of its six coaching positions were filled. DeMarlo Hale (bench coach), Chad Mottola (hitting coach), Dwayne Murphy (first base coach) Luis Rivera (third base coach) and Pete Walker (pitching coach) were all signed on. The following month, Pat Hentgen was hired as the bullpen coach.


2013 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Departing players
After the end of the 2012 season, the Blue Jays lost a number of players including Carlos Villanueva, Kelly Johnson, Jason Frasor and Brandon Lyon. They also declined the option for Rajai Davis, but instead gave him a $2.5 million one-year contract.


2013 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Player signings
The Blue Jays started their offseason by signing free agent Maicer Izturis to a three-year $9 million deal with an option year, on November 8. On November 16, they signed free agent Melky Cabrera to a two-year $16 million deal.


2013 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Trades
On the same day as the Izturis signing, the Blue Jays acquired RHP Jeremy Jeffress from the Kansas City Royals for cash considerations. They then completed a trade with the Cleveland Indians in which they acquired RHP Esmil Rogers in exchange for the newly acquired Mike Avilés and Yan Gomes.


2013 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Trades
On November 14, Toronto Blue Jays and Miami Marlins completed a blockbuster trade. Toronto acquired pitcher Josh Johnson, pitcher Mark Buehrle, shortstop José Reyes, utility man Emilio Bonifacio, and catcher John Buck. In return, Toronto sent pitcher Henderson Álvarez, pitching prospect Justin Nicolino, outfield prospect Jake Marisnick, infielder Yunel Escobar, infielder Adeiny Hechavarria, catcher Jeff Mathis and pitching prospect Anthony DeSclafani. Toronto also received $8+ million in cash from the Marlins. The mega-trade is described as a fire sale after the Marlins took on huge salaries a year prior, and dumped all of their high-salaried players.


2013 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Trades
On December 17, 2012, the Blue Jays acquired the 2012 National League Cy Young Award winner R. A. Dickey in a trade with the New York Mets that sent prospects Travis D'Arnaud, Noah Syndergaard, minor leaguer Wuilmer Becrra and catcher John Buck to New York. Toronto also received catcher Josh Thole and minor league catcher Mike Nickeas in the trade. As part of the transaction, the Blue Jays signed Dickey to an extension worth a total of $29 million over 3 years with a $12 million 4th year option.


2013 Toronto Blue Jays season, Offseason, Opening Day
The Blue Jays began their 2013 season on April 2, with a home game against the Cleveland Indians. On February 5, 2013 at the annual state of the franchise address, manager John Gibbons named reigning National League Cy Young Award winner R. A. Dickey as the opening day starter for the Blue Jays.


2013 Toronto Blue Jays season, 2013 Draft
The 2013 Major League Baseball draft was held on June 6–8.


2013 Toronto FC season
The 2013 Toronto FC season was Toronto FC's seventh season in Major League Soccer, the top tier of soccer in the United States and Canada. Kevin Payne became the club's first president during the off-season. He also became the club's general manager. The season opened on March 2.


2013 Toronto FC season
The club entered the season as the defending Canadian Championship winners.


2013 Toronto FC season, Review and events
Kevin Payne became the club president and general manager during the off-season. The club fired Paul Mariner as head coach and was replaced by Ryan Nelsen, who was at the time an active player with Queens Park Rangers F.C. in England. Kevin Payne stated, in reference to Nelson's availability, that "We're not sure when he'll join us." Nelson terminated his QPR contract before the end of the season, and joined TFC in February, 2013.


2013 Toronto FC season, Review and events
The season opened with an away game on March 2 against the Vancouver Whitecaps FC and the following week played their only MLS match away from BMO Field, the home opener against Sporting Kansas City on March 9, 2013, with a then-record Toronto FC home MLS attendance of 25,991. The season finished with a home win against Montreal Impact on October 26.


2013 Toronto FC season, Fixtures and results, MLS regular season, MLS regular season standings
(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion


2013 Toronto FC season, Fixtures and results, MLS regular season, MLS regular season standings
Note: the table below has no impact on playoff qualification and is used solely for determining host of the MLS Cup, certain CCL spots, and 2014 MLS draft. The conference tables are the sole determinant for teams qualifying to the playoffs


2013 Toronto FC season, Fixtures and results, MLS regular season, MLS regular season standings
(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion


2013 Toronto FC season, Fixtures and results, MLS regular season, MLS regular season standings
Last updated: September 14, 2013Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2013 Toronto International Film Festival
The 38th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 5 and 15, 2013. The Fifth Estate was selected as the opening film and Life of Crime was the closing film. 75 films were added to the festival line-up in August. A total of 366 films from 70 countries were screened, including 146 world premieres.


2013 Toronto Rock season
The Toronto Rock are a lacrosse team based in Toronto playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2013 season was the 16th in franchise history, and 15th as the Rock.


2013 Toronto Rock season
After a strong 5-1 start to the season, the Rock went 5-5 the rest of the way, but it was still enough to clinch first place overall. In the division semi-finals, the Rock faced the western division's Minnesota Swarm who, because their record was better than that of the Buffalo Bandits, crossed over into the East division. The Swarm ended the Rock's season by defeating them 20-11 at the Air Canada Centre to advance to the Eastern final.


2013 Toronto Rock season, Regular season, Final standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2013 Toronto Rock season, Transactions, Entry Draft
The 2012 NLL Entry Draft took place on October 1, 2012. The Rock made the following selections:


2013 Toulon Tournament
The 2013 Toulon Tournament was the 41st edition of the Toulon Tournament. México were the defending champions but failed to secure a spot in the finals.


2013 Toulon Tournament squads
Below are the squads for the 2013 Toulon Tournament. Each team had to submit a maximum of 22 players.


2013 Toulon Tournament squads
Players in boldface have been capped at full international level at some point in their career.


2013 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
The 2013  Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche will be a women's cycle stage race held in France. The tour will be held from 2 September to 5 September, 2013. The tour has an UCI rating of 2.2.


2013 Tour Down Under
The 2013 Santos Tour Down Under was the 15th edition of the Tour Down Under stage race. It took place from 22 to 27 January in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and was the first race of the 2013 UCI World Tour.


2013 Tour Down Under
The race was won by Dutch rider Tom-Jelte Slagter of the Blanco Pro Cycling team, after taking the lead on the penultimate stage of the race and held the race leader's ochre jersey to the finish, the next day, in Adelaide. Slagter also won the third stage of the race, taking the first victories of his professional career at the race. Slagter's winning margin over runner-up Javier Moreno of the Movistar Team was 17 seconds, and Team Sky's Geraint Thomas completed the podium, 8 seconds behind Moreno and 25 seconds in arrears of Slagter. Like Slagter, Thomas won a stage of the race, winning the second stage and held the race lead for three days.


2013 Tour Down Under
In the race's other classifications, Slagter's overall victory ensured that he also won the black jersey for the highest placed rider under the age of 26, while Thomas won the blue jersey for the sprints classification on the final day – taking points at the intermediate sprints and the finish to displace Slagter of the jersey – to hold off Lotto–Belisol's André Greipel; Greipel won three stages during the race to surpass Robbie McEwen's previous record of most stage wins, and also picked up his 100th career victory with his final stage win. Moreno won the mountains classification, while RadioShack–Leopard won the teams classification.


2013 Tour Down Under, Participating teams
As the Tour Down Under was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams at the time of the race were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Team Katusha was not invited, as the legal proceedings concerning their ProTour status were not resolved yet. Together with a selection of Australian riders forming the UniSA-Australia squad, this formed the event's 19-team peloton.


2013 Tour Down Under, Participating teams
Among the 133-rider start list were four previous winners of the race. Stuart O'Grady (1999 and 2001) and Simon Gerrans (2006 and 2012) were both part of the Orica–GreenEDGE line-up, 2003 winner Mikel Astarloza was part of the Euskaltel–Euskadi squad for the race, while André Greipel – another two-time winner, in 2008 and 2010 respectively – was the main sprinter for the Lotto–Belisol squad.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 1
For the second successive year, the Tour Down Under started with a stage beginning in Prospect; on this occasion, an undulating 135 km (83.9 mi) parcours was scheduled for the riders, including one categorised climb – a steep, second-category ascent of Checker Hill – around a third into the stage. Three intermediate sprint points were also scheduled, as the riders completed nearly three laps of a finishing circuit around Lobethal, with the sprints each taking place in the town of Charleston. The final sprint came with around 16.5 km (10.3 mi) remaining of the stage, before leading to the uphill finish in Lobethal; where it was likely to result in a sprint finish.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 1
On his World Tour début, the Australian under-23 champion Jordan Kerby launched a solo attack for the UniSA-Australia representative team in the early moments of the stage; he held a maximum lead of around seven minutes at one point during the stage, but was eventually caught during the second of the finishing laps around Lobethal by Omega Pharma–Quick-Step rider Jérôme Pineau. Pineau dropped Kerby not long after catching him, and accumulated a lead of 1' 15" as he started the final lap.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 1
His move was ended in Charleston, as BMC Racing Team's Philippe Gilbert moved out of the peloton to gain the three bonus seconds on offer for the first rider across the sprint line. After several late attacks were caught, the sprint trains of the Lotto–Belisol and Blanco Pro Cycling teams moved towards the front of the field. With a lead-out from Lotto–Belisol team-mates Jürgen Roelandts and Greg Henderson, André Greipel achieved a record-equalling twelfth Tour Down Under stage victory, comfortably winning the sprint ahead of Arnaud Démare (FDJ) and Blanco Pro Cycling's Mark Renshaw. As a result, Greipel picked up the ochre and blue jerseys for being the first leader of the points and general classifications.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 2
Although relatively short at 116.5 km (72.4 mi) in length, the second stage of the Tour was undulating from the start in Mount Barker. After passing through the first sprint point in the town of Echunga, the riders had to negotiate a short loop around the Adelaide Hills, passing Hahndorf and Littlehampton on the route, before a second intermediate sprint at Oakbank. The run-in towards the finish at Rostrevor was punctuated by the day's only categorised climb, the first-category Corkscrew ascent, which made its début in the race. With parts of the climb reaching a gradient of around 17%, it was expected to significantly reduce the numbers in the peloton before the descent into Rostrevor, with sprinters not expecting to feature by the end.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 2
A quartet of riders – UniSA-Australia's Calvin Watson, Argos–Shimano rider Will Clarke, Guillaume Bonnafond of Ag2r–La Mondiale and Saxo–Tinkoff's Christopher Juul-Jensen – made the early breakaway from the field, but were not allowed to attain a substantial advantage due to the Corkscrew and its potential to split the race apart. Clarke won both of the intermediate sprints on the route, beating Watson at the first of them and Bonnafond at the latter sprint.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 2
In the peloton, BMC Racing Team were keeping station at the front as Swiss champion Martin Kohler, who led the race overall at one point in 2012, was protecting their leader Philippe Gilbert, who had been in the top ten overall overnight after his bonus seconds gained on the opening stage. Gilbert would ultimately be one of twenty riders to crash on the descent from the Corkscrew, and rode to the finish with a broken derailleur, losing nearly three minutes.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 2
The breakaway was gradually brought back, with Clarke remaining off the front of the main field until the foot of the Corkscrew. Several mini-attacks occurred as soon as the gradient rose, but it was not until the pre-stage favourite George Bennett (RadioShack–Leopard) made his move on the climb that an attack gained ground from the main field. Team Sky's Geraint Thomas joined him for a point on the climb, before moving further up the road, to take maximum points for the climb and the classification lead.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 2
Bennett caught up to Thomas on the descent, with his team-mate Ben Hermans and Javier Moreno of the Movistar Team also joining the duo. As the most proficient sprinter of the group, Thomas waited longest to launch his sprint and soon sped past his rivals to take the stage victory, achieving a one-second gap in the process and the ochre jersey. Moreno and Hermans also stayed ahead of a closing eleven-rider group, while Bennett finished the stage tenth.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 3
The third stage of the race was predominantly a circuit race around Stirling; just over 30 km (18.6 mi) from the start in Unley – via a second-category climb in the early kilometres of the stage, at Eagle On The Hill – the riders reached the finishing town of Stirling. From there, five laps of a 21.4 km (13.3 mi) circuit were completed – two more than the equivalent circuit around the town during the second stage of the 2012 Tour – with intermediate sprints to be contested in Heathfield on each of the first two laps.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 3
A hilly circuit was projected to reduce the numbers in any potential final sprint, although not as prominently as the previous stage. After several mini-breaks were initiated before Eagle On The Hill, leading to a 23-rider lead group for a short period, the day's breakaway was formed by a pair of riders.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 3
Orica–GreenEDGE rider Simon Clarke was joined at the head of the race by Will Clarke – the winner in Stirling in 2012 after a stage-long breakaway – who featured in the lead for the second day running, for Argos–Shimano. The Clarkes built up a maximum lead of around three-and-a-half minutes, with Team Sky leading the peloton and protecting race leader Geraint Thomas. Thomas gained a second at the first intermediate sprint, to extend his overall lead by one second, as the Clarkes took maximum points on offer at each sprint.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 3
They were joined by six other riders, who had been a part of a 12-rider move that had broken clear of the peloton on the third lap of the circuit. The move broke down on the final lap, and after Cannondale's Cameron Wurf was caught inside the final kilometre, it ultimately set up a reduced sprint of around thirty riders.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 3
With only David Tanner as a lead-out, Blanco Pro Cycling's Tom-Jelte Slagter – the young rider classification leader – moved to the front of the line, launched his sprint early, and held off the rest of the group to take his first professional victory by a bike length, ahead of Matthew Goss (Orica–GreenEDGE) and BMC Racing Team's Philippe Gilbert. He moved into second place overall, five seconds behind Thomas, who retained the ochre jersey.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 4
The fourth stage saw the remaining riders head north-west from the start in Modbury to the eventual finish in the Barossa Valley and the town of Tanunda, for its third stage finish of the Tour in four years; on the two previous occasions, sprinters had fared best as André Greipel won the opening stage in 2010, while Óscar Freire was the victor in 2012, winning stage four.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 4
The 126.5 km (78.6 mi) itinerary, consisting of one categorised climb – a second category climb in Humbug Scrub – and two intermediate sprints once again, was exponentially suited to the sprinters and a bunch sprint was to be expected in Tanunda. Not long after the start, another two-rider breakaway of the day was formed, consisting of the reigning World Champion Philippe Gilbert of the BMC Racing Team, and Damien Howson of the UniSA-Australia representative team.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 4
The pair built up a lead of over three minutes during the stage, but once again, the peloton did not allow for it to climb any further, to minimise the threats to the general classification. Howson took maximum points at Humbug Scrub, with Gilbert taking the honours at both intermediate sprint points in Mount Pleasant and Springton respectively. The duo remained off the front until inside the final 10 km (6.2 mi), when the sprint trains of the sprinters' teams began to move towards the front of the main field.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 4
Inside the final kilometre, six riders – including three members of the Orica–GreenEDGE squad – crashed, but all riders were able to remount and finish the stage. Lotto–Belisol led out from the front, with Greg Henderson the final man for Greipel to launch his sprint off of. Greipel ultimately won by a bike length, ahead of Lampre–Merida's Roberto Ferrari and Jonathan Cantwell of Saxo–Tinkoff, to achieve a record-breaking thirteenth stage win at the race, surpassing Robbie McEwen's previous record of twelve. None of the top ten overall were involved in the late-stage incidents, allowing Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) to maintain his overall lead.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 5
The race's queen stage was unaltered from its 2012 iteration, for the 2013 event. From the start in McLaren Vale, the peloton covered several kilometres before reaching Willunga, and from there, riders completed three laps of a coast-side loop around Aldinga Beach and Snapper Point; both of the intermediate sprint points were held in the latter suburb, coming on the second and third laps.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 5
Upon reaching Willunga for the fourth time, the race headed in the opposite direction, and the first of two ascents of Old Willunga Hill – a 3 km (1.9 mi) long, first-category climb at an average gradient of 7.6% – on another short loop, before the summit finish. It was expected that the finish would be contested between a small group, and that the climb would crown the overall winner of the race, ahead of the final stage criterium in Adelaide.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 5
After two earlier foiled attacks, the stage saw an eventual breakaway of seven riders, as they quickly went clear of the main field; home rider Calvin Watson (UniSA-Australia) was part of the group on Australia Day, where he was joined by Vacansoleil–DCM pairing Thomas De Gendt and Tomasz Marczyński, Jens Mouris of Orica–GreenEDGE, Argos–Shimano's Koen de Kort, Manuele Boaro (Saxo–Tinkoff) and BMC Racing Team rider Klaas Lodewyck.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 5
With de Kort being 2' 52" behind the overall leader Geraint Thomas (Team Sky), the peloton did not allow for a substantial lead to be accumulated, as the maximum time gap that the breakaway established was around four-and-a-half minutes at the midway point of the stage. Blanco Pro Cycling were prominent on the front of the group in the hope of trying to move Tom-Jelte Slagter, the young rider classification leader and second to Thomas overall, into the ochre jersey ahead of the final stage.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 5
The upped pace in the peloton spelled the end of the breakaway just as they reached Old Willunga Hill for the first time. On the climb, the Movistar Team sent two of the riders off the front in the intention of helping Javier Moreno into ochre; Eros Capecchi and José Herrada were later joined by Ag2r–La Mondiale's Guillaume Bonnafond and Lotto–Belisol rider Jürgen Roelandts.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 5
They reached the summit of the climb with a gap of around fifteen seconds. At this point, the peloton slowed slightly to allow the lead group to extend their advantage to around forty seconds. However, they were caught on the climb to the finish, which sparked several counter-moves in the peloton; Edvald Boasson Hagen was setting the pace for Thomas, with Slagter just behind, as Moreno attacked with 1.7 km (1.1 mi) remaining. He held clear into the final kilometre, as defending overall winner Simon Gerrans (Orica–GreenEDGE) moved forward in the pack, soon breaking clear to join Moreno.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 5
Slagter made his move not long after, and Thomas could not follow, cracking with 600 metres (2,000 ft) left. Slagter and Gerrans ultimately contested a two-man sprint for the line which Gerrans narrowly won – avenging a narrow defeat to Alejandro Valverde in 2012 – while Slagter's second-place finish allowed him to take the ochre jersey ahead of Moreno, who finished the stage third, and claimed the mountains classification lead. Thomas fell to fifth overall, as RadioShack–Leopard's Ben Hermans and Jon Izagirre of Euskaltel–Euskadi moved into third and fourth respectively.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 6
The race finished with its now-customary criterium race around the streets of Adelaide; for the 90 km (55.9 mi) distance, a circuit of 4.5 km (2.8 mi) was completed twenty times, with several passages through the finish line counting towards the sub-classifications for sprints and the mountains. With Team Sky looking to move Geraint Thomas back onto the final overall podium, any attempts at a breakaway were quickly shut down and no move garnered more than thirty seconds of a time gap.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 6
Thus, at the first intermediate sprint point at the end of the eighth lap, Thomas sprinted for bonus seconds and after help from Edvald Boasson Hagen, he won the sprint to accumulate three seconds back. Thomas took a further second at the second sprint, won by Boasson Hagen, to move nearer the top placings.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 6
Ultimately, the race came down to the final sprint where André Greipel (Lotto–Belisol) took his third win of the race, and the 100th victory of his professional career. He was followed across the line by Mark Renshaw of the Blanco Pro Cycling team and Boasson Hagen completed a strong day for himself with third place. A sixth-place finish for Thomas, combined with points achieved at the earlier intermediate sprints, allowed him to take the sprints classification ahead of Greipel; his stage performance was also rewarded with the most combative rider of the day honours.


2013 Tour Down Under, Stages, Stage 6
A small time gap also allowed him to finish third overall, with Euskaltel–Euskadi's Jon Izagirre also moving ahead of RadioShack–Leopard rider Ben Hermans in the final standings. Renshaw's team-mate Tom-Jelte Slagter finished in the same time as Greipel, to achieve his first overall victory as a professional – becoming the first Dutchman to win the race – extending his winning margin over Javier Moreno (Movistar Team) to 17 seconds, after Moreno finished four seconds behind.


2013 Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table
In the 2013 Tour Down Under, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, the leader received an ochre jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2013 Tour Down Under, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.


2013 Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table
Additionally, there was a sprints classification, which awarded a blue jersey. In the sprints classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. For winning a stage, a rider earned 15 points, with one point fewer per place down to a single point for 15th place. Points towards the classification could also be accrued at intermediate sprint points during each stage; these intermediate sprints also offered bonus seconds towards the general classification. There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a white jersey. In the mountains classification, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs.


2013 Tour Down Under, Classification leadership table
The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a black jersey. This was decided in the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1987 were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a classification for teams, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time, and each member of the winning team received a red jersey on the final podium. Additionally, a green jersey was awarded on the podium each day, for the most aggressive rider, or riders, of that day's stage.


2013 Tour de Corse
The 2013 Tour de Corse, formally the 56. Tour de Corse, was the fifth round of the 2013 European Rally Championship season. Bryan Bouffier took his first ever European Rally Championship (ERC) victory, with the rally also being the first ERC victory for the Peugeot 207 S2000 that he drove. The 2WD category was won by Kornél Lukács in a Citroën C2 R2 MAX, whilst the Production Cup was won by Andreas Aigner in a Subaru Impreza STi R4.


2013 Tour de Feminin – O cenu Ceského Švýcarska
The 2013 Tour de Feminin – O cenu Ceského Švýcarska , or 2013 Tour de Feminin - Krasna Lipa, will be the 26th running of the Tour de Feminin - Krasna Lipa rated by the UCI as 2.2. Tour de Feminin - Krasna Lipa is a stage race based in the Czech Republic, which forms part of the 2013 women's road cycling calendar. It will be held over five stages from 4 July to 7 July 2013, starting in Krásná Lípa, in the Ústí nad Labem Region and concluding back in Krásná Lípa. The race will run over four stages and one individual time trial.


2013 Tour de France
The 2013 Tour de France was the 100th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on the island of Corsica on 30 June and finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 21 July. The Tour consisted of twenty-one stages and covered a total distance of 3,403.5 km (2,115 mi). The overall general classification was won by Chris Froome of Team Sky. Second and third respectively were Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) and the Team Katusha rider Joaquim Rodríguez.


2013 Tour de France
Marcel Kittel (Argos–Shimano) was the first rider to wear the general classification leader's yellow jersey after winning stage one. He lost the lead the next day to Jan Bakelants of RadioShack–Leopard, who managed to obtain a one-second lead from a late solo attack. Simon Gerrans gained the race lead after his team, Orica–GreenEDGE, won the stage four team time trial. Gerrans passed the lead on to teammate Daryl Impey after the fifth stage. Froome took the lead from Impey after the eighth stage, the first classified as mountainous. Froome maintained his lead for the remainder of the race by consolidating his lead through solid performances in the individual time trials and in the high mountains.


2013 Tour de France
Froome became the second consecutive British cyclist to win the Tour de France, after Bradley Wiggins accomplished the feat the year before. In the race's other classifications, Movistar Team rider Quintana won the mountains classification and also finished as the best young rider in the general classification, finishing in second place overall; Peter Sagan of the Cannondale team was the winner of the points classification, with Saxo–Tinkoff finishing as the winners of the team classification. Christophe Riblon (Ag2r–La Mondiale) was given the award for the most combative rider. Kittel won the most stages, with four.


2013 Tour de France, Teams
Twenty-two teams participated in the 2013 edition of the Tour de France. The race was the 18th of the 29 events in the UCI World Tour, and all of its nineteen UCI ProTeams were entitled, and obliged, to enter the race. On 27 April 2013, the organiser of the Tour, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), announced the three second-tier UCI Professional Continental teams given wildcard invitations, all of which were French-based. The presentation of the teams took place at the harbour of Porto-Vecchio on the island of Corsica on 27 June, two days before the opening stage held in the town. Each team arrived by boat to the stage, before being introduced to the crowd.


2013 Tour de France, Teams
Each squad was allowed a maximum of nine riders, therefore the start list contained a total of 198 riders. Of these, 54 were riding the Tour de France for the first time. The riders came from 34 countries; France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Australia, Belgium and Germany all had 10 or more riders in the race. Riders from ten countries won stages during the race; German riders won the largest number of stages, with six. The average age of riders in the race was 29.45 years, ranging from the 19-year-old Danny van Poppel (Vacansoleil–DCM) to the 41-year-old Jens Voigt (RadioShack–Leopard). Of the total average ages, Cannondale was the youngest team and Saxo–Tinkoff the oldest.


2013 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
In the run up to the 2013 Tour de France, Chris Froome (Team Sky) was widely considered as the top pre-race favourite for the general classification, with his closest rivals thought to be Alberto Contador (Saxo–Tinkoff) and Joaquim Rodríguez (Team Katusha). Astana's Vincenzo Nibali was also a possible contender after getting his first Tour podium in 2012 but he had focused on the 2013 Giro d'Italia. The other riders considered contenders for the general classification were BMC Racing Team riders Cadel Evans and Tejay van Garderen, Richie Porte (Team Sky), Jurgen Van den Broeck (Lotto–Belisol), Thibaut Pinot (FDJ.fr), Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin–Sharp), Robert Gesink (Belkin Pro Cycling), and Movistar Team riders Alejandro Valverde and Nairo Quintana.


2013 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
The 2012 Tour de France winner, Bradley Wiggins of Team Sky, had focused on the Giro d'Italia, but retired early due to illness, subsequently pulling out because illness and injury had left him insufficient time to train for the Tour de France and chose not to ride. This left Froome, runner-up in 2012, the undisputed leader of Team Sky. He had shown his form so far in 2013 season by winning four of the five stage races he had rode: Tour of Oman, Critérium International, Tour de Romandie and Critérium du Dauphiné.


2013 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Two-time Tour winner (2007 and 2009) Contador returned to the race having been suspended from the 2012 race; he had won the 2012 Vuelta a España and his best major result of the season was second in Oman. Rodríguez had podium finishes in both the Giro and Vuelta in 2012, as well as winning the UCI World Tour. He had top-ten placings in three major stage races in the season.


2013 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
The sprinters considered favourites for the points classification and wins in bunch sprint finishes were Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma–Quick-Step), Peter Sagan (Cannondale), André Greipel (Lotto–Belisol), Matthew Goss (Orica–GreenEDGE) and Argos–Shimano riders Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb. Cavendish won the points classification at the 2013 Giro and had shown his form with thirteen wins in the season. In the previous year's Tour, Sagan won the points classification and had won the same at the Tour de Suisse in the month preceding the Tour.


2013 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Greipel, whose team manager Marc Sergeant claimed he had the best sprint train, came into the Tour with nine wins in the season, including three at the Tour Down Under. Goss only had one victory in the season, but had a team of strong and experienced riders. Kittel, as with Greipel, would arrive with a team dedicated for the sprints and he had accumulated eleven wins in the season. His teammate Degenkolb won five stages at the 2012 Vuelta and it was thought he was most likely to be used for the hillier stages.


2013 Tour de France, Route and stages
On 24 November 2011, the ASO announced Corsica would host the 2013 edition's opening stages (known as the Grand Départ), the first time the Tour has visited the island. The route of the race was unveiled on 24 October 2012 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. The Tour was the first to be completed entirely on French soil since 2003 and included ten new start or finish locations. The Grand Départ in Corsica consisted of three stages.


2013 Tour de France, Route and stages
The ASO chartered the Mega Smeralda cruiseferry in Porto-Vecchio to house members of the organisation, media and others who work on the Tour and to host press conferences. It featured a final set of stages which were described by journalist William Fotheringham as "brutal", including three Alpine stages in the last week along with a "viciously hard" time trial. As the 100th edition of the race, the race featured some of the famous climbs from the history of the race, Mont Ventoux and Alpe d'Huez, which was climbed twice in a stage for the first time.


2013 Tour de France, Route and stages
The opening stage left Porto-Vecchio and ended in Bastia, with next two stages ending in Ajaccio and Calvi respectively. The race then moved to mainland France at Nice. Stages five to eight formed a four-stage journey that navigated westwards finishing at the Ax 3 Domaines ski resort in the Pyrenees. Stage nine took place between Saint-Girons to Bagnères-de-Bigorre, before a long transfer moved the race to the north-west of the country. Stage ten finished in the port city of Saint-Malo, with the next finishing at the Mont Saint-Michel island commune in Normandy. The following four stages, 11 to 15, crossed the centre of the country back to the south-east finishing atop Mont Ventoux. The next five stages took place in and around the Alps, before a second long transfer took the Tour to the finish with the Champs-Élysées stage in Paris.


2013 Tour de France, Route and stages
There were 21 stages in the race, covering a total of 3,403.5 kilometres (2,115 mi), 93.4 km (58 mi) shorter than the 2012 Tour. The longest mass-start stage was the fourth at 228.5 km (142 mi), and stage 20 was the shortest at 125 km (78 mi). Eight stages were officially classified as flat, three medium mountain, seven high mountain, two individual time trial and one team time trial.


2013 Tour de France, Route and stages
There were four summit finishes: stage 8, to Ax 3 Domaines; stage 15, to Mont Ventoux; stage 18, to Alpe d'Huez; and stage 20, to Semnoz; The highest point of elevation in the race was the 2,001 m (6,565 ft)-high Port de Pailhères mountain pass on stage eight. It was among seven hors catégorie (English: beyond category) rated climbs in the race. The final stage ending on the Champs-Élysées was an evening finish for the first time. There were ten new stage start or finish locations. The rest days were after stage 9, in Saint-Nazaire, and 15, in Vaucluse.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Opening week and Pyrenees
In the first stage, the Orica–GreenEDGE team bus had become stuck under the finishing arch in Bastia, Corsica, and with the peloton (the main group) 10 km (6.2 mi) away, the race officials moved the finish to the 3 km (1.9 mi) to go marker. As the peloton closed in, the bus was freed, and the decision was reversed.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Opening week and Pyrenees
Marcel Kittel took the victory from the bunch sprint, putting him in the race leader's yellow jersey; he also became the first leader of the points classification, with Juan José Lobato (Euskaltel–Euskadi) taking the polka dot jersey as the leader of the mountains classification. Two crashes occurred in the stage; the first with 37 km (23 mi) remaining and the second in the final kilometers, which included a contender for the stage, Mark Cavendish.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Opening week and Pyrenees
The second stage RadioShack–Leopard's Jan Bakelants launched an attack from a breakaway group in the final kilometer to win in Ajaccio, one second ahead of the encroaching peloton. The yellow jersey switched to Bakelants, and Pierre Rolland of Team Europcar claimed the polka dot. Simon Gerrans (Orica–GreenEDGE) won the third stage, the final in Corsica, from a bunch sprint in Calvi. Peter Sagan took over the points classification. Orica–GreenEDGE won stage four's 33 km (20.5 mi) team time trial in and around Nice, putting Gerrans in the yellow jersey. Omega Pharma–Quick-Step came in second place, one second in arrears, with Team Sky a further two.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Opening week and Pyrenees
The fifth and sixth stages ended in bunch sprints, with Cavendish and André Greipel the victors respectively. After stage six, Daryl Impey became the first South African rider to wear the yellow jersey. His teammate Gerrans ensured it for him by holding back at the finish allowing Impey – who was second overall – the time necessary to replace him at the top of the general classification. Sagan claimed the seventh stage from a bunch sprint in Albi, with Ag2r–La Mondiale rider Blel Kadri talking the polka dot jersey.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Opening week and Pyrenees
In stage eight, the Tour's first mountain stage, which ended at the Ax 3 Domaines, Froome attacked a select five-rider group, which included Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde, as they passed the lone leader Nairo Quintana with 5 km (3.1 mi) remaining. Froome took the stage win, fifty-one seconds ahead of his teammate Richie Porte, with Valverde third a further seventeen down. Contador and Quintana finished one minute forty-five seconds behind Froome. Froome's victory win put him in the lead of the general and mountains classifications, ahead of Porte.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Opening week and Pyrenees
In the ninth stage, Froome managed to subdue attacks from his rivals, although his team's efforts left him isolated for the majority of the stage. After a descent from the mountain pass of La Hourquette d'Ancizan, a group of twenty-three riders came into the finish in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, where Dan Martin (Garmin–Sharp) beat Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) from sprint, twenty seconds ahead of the group. Porte lost eighteen minutes, dropping from second overall to thirty-third, with Valverde moving up to second. Rolland took back the polka dot jersey. The next day was the first rest day of the Tour.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, North-west and journey south
Kittel took his second stage of the Tour win from the bunch sprint in the tenth stage, with his compatriot Greipel second. Stage eleven's individual time trial between Avranches and Mont Saint-Michel was taken by Omega Pharma–Quick-Step's Tony Martin. Froome came second with a deficit of twelve seconds, over two minutes ahead of the second placed overall Valverde, extending his lead to over three minutes. Two flat stages ending with bunch sprints then followed; the first, stage twelve, was won by Kittel, ahead of Cavendish, who came back to win the next. The stage saw Valverde suffer a punctured tyre and lose almost ten minutes, struggling to match the pace set by Cavendish's Omega Pharma–Quick-Step team at the head of the race. Stage fourteen was taken by Omega Pharma–Quick-Step's Matteo Trentin from a large breakaway that held off the peloton.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, North-west and journey south
Stage fifteen, finishing on Mont Ventoux, saw all of the leading contenders, with exception of Froome and Contador, dropped on the early part of the final climb. Froome then moved away from Contador and caught Quintana, who had attacked earlier in the climb. The pair worked together to put time into their rivals, before Froome attacked with 1.2 km (0.7 mi) remaining and soloed to the finish. This gave Froome a lead of four minutes and fourteen seconds over Mollema in second place, with Contador a further eleven seconds back. Froome regained the lead in the mountains classification. The following day was the Tour's second rest day.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and finale
The sixteenth stage saw a twenty-six rider breakaway reach the final climb, the Col de Manse, where Rui Costa (Movistar Team) attacked and then descended on his own to the finish in Gap. Froome won stage seventeen's time trial, finishing the 32 km (19.9 mi) course from Embrun to Chorges in 51 minutes and 33 seconds, with Contador coming in nine seconds behind, in second place. Contador moved up to second overall, four minutes and thirty-four seconds down, with teammate Roman Kreuziger third.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and finale
In the Tour's queen stage, the eighteenth, early breakaway riders Christophe Riblon (Ag2r–La Mondiale) and Tejay van Garderen led on the second ascent of Alpe d'Huez. Van Garderen attacked on the early slopes, opening up a margin of forty-five seconds on Riblon in the second part of the climb, before Riblon passed with 2 km (1.2 mi) remaining and took the stage win by fifty-nine seconds. Quintana and Rodríguez came in fourth and fifth respectively, over two minutes in arrears.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and finale
With 5 km (3.1 mi) to go, Porte and Froome, who came in under minute after the aforementioned pair, were penalised twenty seconds as Porte went back to the team car to retrieved an energy gel and water bottle for Froome outside the designated zone. Froome extended his lead over Contador by thirty-seven seconds.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and finale
Costa repeated his feat of three stages previous by taking victory in stage nineteen, by attacking on the final climb of Col de la Croix Fry and soloing to the finish in Le Grand-Bornand. There were no major changes at the head of general classification. Stage twenty, the penultimate stage, saw the leaders of the general classification still together at the head of the race with 8 km (5 mi) remaining of the final climb of Mont Semnoz.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and finale
Quintana and Rodríguez then attacked, with Froome the only rider able to bridge, and again the pair pulling away, with Quintana managing to hold off Rodríguez by eighteen seconds to take the stage win, with Froome a further eleven down. Contador came in seventh, two minutes and twenty-eight in arrears, dropping to fourth overall, with Rodríguez moving up to third. With the double points gained with his win Quintana secured the mountains classification.


2013 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and finale
The final stage was won by Kittel on the Champs-Élysées, his fourth stage win of the race. Froome finished the race to claim his first Tour de France, becoming the second British rider to win the race. He beat second-placed Quintana by four minutes and twenty seconds, with Rodríguez third, a further forty-four seconds down. Sagan won his second consecutive points classification with a total of 409, 100 ahead of Cavendish in second. Froome placed second behind Quintana in the mountains classification, with Rolland third. The best young rider was Quintana, followed by Andrew Talansky (Garmin–Sharp) and Michał Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma–Quick-Step) respectively. Saxo–Tinkoff finished as the winners of the team classification, eight minutes and twenty-eight seconds ahead of second-placed Ag2r–La Mondiale. Of the 198 starters, 169 reached the finish of the last stage in Paris.


2013 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There were four main individual classifications contested in the 2013 Tour de France, as well as a team competition. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. There were no time bonuses given at the end of stages for this edition of the Tour. If a crash had happened within the final 3 km (1.9 mi) of a stage, not including time trials and summit finishes, the riders involved would have received the same time as the group they were in when the crash occurred. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered the overall winner of the Tour. The rider leading the classification wore a yellow jersey.


2013 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The second classification was the points classification. Riders received points for finishing among the highest placed in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints during the stage. The points available for each stage finish were determined by the stage's type. No points were awarded for the team time trial on stage four. The leader was identified by a green jersey.


2013 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The third classification was the mountains classification. Points were awarded to the riders that reached the summit of the most difficult climbs first. The climbs were categorised as fourth-, third-, second-, first-category and hors catégorie], with the more difficult climbs rated lower. Double points were awarded on the summit finishes on stages 5, 15, 18 and 20. The leader wore a white jersey with red polka dots.


2013 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The final individual classification was the young rider classification. This was calculated the same way as the general classification, but the classification was restricted to riders who were born on or after 1 January 1988. The leader wore a white jersey.


2013 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The final classification was a team classification. This was calculated using the finishing times of the best three riders per team on each stage, excluding the team time trial; the leading team was the team with the lowest cumulative time. The number of stage victories and placings per team determined the outcome of a tie. The riders in the team that lead this classification were identified with yellow number bibs on the back of their jerseys and yellow helmets.


2013 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
In addition, there was a combativity award given after each stage to the rider considered, by a jury, to have "made the greatest effort and who has demonstrated the best qualities of sportsmanship". No combativity awards were given for the time trials and the final stage. The winner wore a red number bib the following stage. At the conclusion of the Tour, Christophe Riblon won the overall super-combativity award, again, decided by a jury.


2013 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
A total of €2,023,300 was awarded in cash prizes in the race. The overall winner of the general classification received €450,000, with the second and third placed riders got €200,000 and €100,000 respectively. All finishers of the race were awarded with money. The holders of the classifications benefited on each stage they led; the final winners of the points and mountains were given €25,000, while the best young rider and most combative rider got €20,000. Team prizes were available, with €10,000 for the winner of team time trial and €50,000 for the winners of the team classification.


2013 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There was also a special award with a prize of €5,000, the Souvenir Henri Desgrange, given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to first rider to pass the summit of the highest climb in the Tour, the Port de Pailhères. This prize was won by Nairo Quintana on stage eight.


2013 Tour de France, UCI World Tour rankings
Riders from the ProTeams competing individually, as well as for their teams and nations, for points that contributed towards the World Tour rankings. Points were awarded to the top twenty finishers in the general classification and to the top five finishers in each stage. The 587 points accrued by Chris Froome put him in to the lead of the individual ranking, with Peter Sagan dropping to second. Team Sky retained their lead of the team ranking, ahead of second-placed Movistar Team. Spain remained as leaders of the nation ranking, with Great Britain second.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification
The 2013 Tour de France King of the Mountains is Nairo Quintana. He won the mountains classification of the 2013 Tour de France which is in place to decide the best climber of the tour. The race featured 5 Hors catégorie climbs, 6 Category-one climbs, 12 Category-two climbs, 16 Category-three climbs, and 17 Category-four climbs. That means the 2013 Tour de France included 28 mountain climbs or altitude finishes ranked Category-two, Category-one or Hors catégorie compared to 25 in 2012, 23 in 2011 and 25 in 2010. 4 of these climbs are in Corsica, 2 in the Massif Central, 7 in the Pyrenees and 15 in the Alps. Notable climbs in this year's tour include Col de Pailheres, Col de la Madeleine, Annecy-Semnoz, Mont Ventoux and Alpe d'Huez (twice).


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Point distribution
Points awarded are doubled for the final climbs on stages 8, 15, 18 and 20.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Overall classification
Final Mountains Classification top 20 riders with points by stage:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Overall classification
Final Mountains Classification top 6 riders with points by category:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Overall classification
* denotes climbs were also stage finishes and therefore points awarded were doubled.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Top 6 riders' results on the HC and 1st category climbs
The following table shows the mountains classification's top six riders' results on the 15 most difficult climbs of the 2013 Tour de France.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Top 6 riders' results on the HC and 1st category climbs
* denotes climbs were also stage finishes and therefore points awarded were doubled.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, How the polka-dot jersey was won
Pierre Rolland scored points on more climbs than any other rider; on a total of 18 climbs, compared to the King of the Mountains Nairo Quintana, who scored points on only 6 climbs. However, the climbs that Quintana scored points on included all three of the Hors Category climbs that were at stage finishes - the climbs that offered the most points. Of the climbs the riders placed in the points for, Quintana averaged 24.5 points per climb, compared to Rolland who averaged just 6.6 points. In total, Quintana won 97% of his points on Hors Category climbs, Chris Froome 79%, Rodriguez 92%, Riblon 88% and Nieve 86%, compared to Rolland who only won 48% of his points on HC climbs.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 1
In the first stage, only one climb was categorized: the Cote de Sotta, of fourth category. The details and result of the climb on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 1
This climb is 1.1 km at an average gradient of 5.9%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 1
Juan José Lobato was awarded the polka dot jersey after the stage.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 2
Juan José Lobato started the stage wearing the polka dot jersey. The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 2
This climb is 6.6 km at an average gradient of 4.6%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 2
This climb is 5.2 km at an average gradient of 6.9%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 2
This climb is 4.6 km at an average gradient of 6.5%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 2
This climb is 1 km at an average gradient of 8.9%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 2
Blel Kadri and Pierre Rolland finished the stage tied on 5 points in the mountain classification. But, the polka dot jersey was awarded to Pierre Rolland because he had the most first-place finishes on the hardest climbs. Blel Kadri won the combativity award for the stage.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 3
Stage 3 started with Pierre Rolland in the polka dot jersey. The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 3
This climb is 3.4 km at an average gradient of 4.6%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 3
This climb is 7.5 km at an average gradient of 5.4%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 3
This climb is 2 km at an average gradient of 6.4%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 3
This climb is 3.3 km at an average gradient of 8.1%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 3
Pierre Rolland increased his overall lead in the King of the Mountains classification. Simon Clarke won the combativity award for the stage.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 5
The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 5
This climb is 1.4 km at an average gradient of 8.4%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 5
This climb is 1.66 km at an average gradient of 4.1%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 5
This climb is 3.5 km at an average gradient of 4.2%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 5
This climb is 5.7 km at an average gradient of 3.1%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 5
In addition to winning 4 points and moving up to 4th place in the mountains classification, Thomas De Gendt won the combativity award for the stage. Pierre Rolland maintained a 5-point lead in the mountains classification and kept the polka dot jersey.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 6
The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 6
This climb is 0.7 km at an average gradient of 7%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 6
This was Kanstantsin Sivtsov's first point in the mountains classification, so the top of the leader-board stayed the same with Pierre Rolland retaining the polka dot jersey.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 7
The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 7
This climb is 6.9 km at an average gradient of 5.6%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 7
This climb is 6.7 km at an average gradient of 6.5%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 7
This climb is 6.5 km at an average gradient of 4%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 7
This climb is 2.6 km at an average gradient of 5%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 7
Finishing first in the first and second climbs of the stage meant Blel Kadri became the new leader in the mountains category, just one point ahead of previous leader Pierre Rolland.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 8 – Col de Pailheres
Stage 8 is the first "very difficult stage" of the 2013 Tour de France. The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 8 – Col de Pailheres
This climb is 2.2 km at an average gradient of 5.4%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 8 – Col de Pailheres
This climb is 15.3 km at an average gradient of 8% with long sections at 9-10%. The summit is the highest point on the entire route of this year's Tour. The leader over the summit won the Souvenir Henri Desgrange.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 8 – Col de Pailheres
This climb is 7.8 km at an average gradient of 8.2%. Points awarded are doubled on this climb.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 8 – Col de Pailheres
The polka dot jersey of Blel Kadri was dropped by the peloton early on the climb to the Col de Pailheres. Nairo Quintana attacked the peloton to chase down and pass breakaway rider Christophe Riblon and win the first Hors categorie climb of the 2013 Tour de France, with Pierre Rolland finishing less than a minute behind him in an attempt to reclaim the polka dot jersey. Nairo Quintana also won the combativity award for the stage. The final climb saw Chris Froome make his first push for the general classification. He was first to the summit of the climb, followed by teammate Richie Porte.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 9
While Chris Froome led the mountains classification going into this stage, the polka dot jersey was worn by Pierre Rolland because Chris Froome also had the yellow jersey. The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 9
This climb is 5.4 km at an average gradient of 7%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 9
This climb is 7 km at an average gradient of 8.1%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 9
This climb is 13.1 km at an average gradient of 7.1%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 9
This climb is 7.4 km at an average gradient of 8.3%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 9
This climb is 9.9 km at an average gradient of 7.5%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 9
With Richard Virenque and Laurent Jalabert for inspiration, Pierre Rolland won 18 points on an "epic" stage 9 to top the mountains classification outright. Dan Martin picked up 13 points on the stage, including a maximum 10 points on the final climb en route to his stage victory.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 10
The details and results of the climb on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 10
This climb is 1 km at an average gradient of 4.2%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 13
The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 13
This climb is 1.2 km at an average gradient of 4%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 14
The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 14
This climb is 6.9 km at an average gradient of 5.6%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 15 – Mont Ventoux
The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 15 – Mont Ventoux
This climb is 20.8 km at an average gradient of 7.5%. Point awarded will be double for this climb.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 16
While Chris Froome led the mountains classification going into this stage, the polka dot jersey was worn by 3rd placed Mikel Nieve because Chris Froome also had the yellow jersey and 2nd placed Nairo Quintana held the white jersey. The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 16
This climb is 5.7 km at an average gradient of 5.6%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 16
This climb is 7.6 km at an average gradient of 5.2%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 16
This climb is 9.5 km at an average gradient of 5.2%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 17
While Chris Froome led the mountains classification going into this stage, the polka dot jersey was worn by 3rd placed Mikel Nieve because Chris Froome also had the yellow jersey and 2nd placed Nairo Quintana held the white jersey. This stage is the second Individual time trial and features two category 2 climbs. The details and results of the climbs on this stage are as follows:


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 17
This climb is 6.4 km at an average gradient of 6%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 17
This climb is 6.9 km at an average gradient of 6.3%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 18 – Alpe d'Huez
While Chris Froome led the mountains classification going into this stage, the polka dot jersey was worn by 3rd placed Mikel Nieve because Chris Froome also had the yellow jersey and 2nd placed Nairo Quintana held the white jersey.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 18 – Alpe d'Huez
This climb is 6.6 km at an average gradient of 6.2%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 18 – Alpe d'Huez
This climb is 2.4 km at an average gradient of 8%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 18 – Alpe d'Huez
This climb is 5.1 km at an average gradient of 6.7%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 18 – Alpe d'Huez
This climb is 12.3 km at an average gradient of 8.4%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 18 – Alpe d'Huez
This climb is 3 km at an average gradient of 7.8%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 18 – Alpe d'Huez
This climb is 13.8 km at an average gradient of 8.1%. Points for this climb are doubled because it is a stage finish on a climb above category 2.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 19 – Col du Glandon and Col de la Madeleine
While Chris Froome led the mountains classification going into this stage, the polka dot jersey was worn by 3rd placed Christophe Riblon because Chris Froome also had the yellow jersey and 2nd placed Nairo Quintana held the white jersey.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 19 – Col du Glandon and Col de la Madeleine
This climb is 21.6 km at an average gradient of 5.1%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 19 – Col du Glandon and Col de la Madeleine
This climb is 19.2 km at an average gradient of 7.9%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 19 – Col du Glandon and Col de la Madeleine
This climb is 8.6 km at an average gradient of 6.2%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 19 – Col du Glandon and Col de la Madeleine
This climb is 6.1 km at an average gradient of 7.3%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 19 – Col du Glandon and Col de la Madeleine
This climb is 11.3 km at an average gradient of 7%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 20 – Annecy–Semnoz
While Chris Froome led the mountains classification going into this stage, the polka dot jersey was worn by 2nd placed Pierre Rolland because Chris Froome also had the yellow jersey.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 20 – Annecy–Semnoz
This climb is 5.4 km at an average gradient of 5.9%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 20 – Annecy–Semnoz
This climb is 3.6 km at an average gradient of 6.1%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 20 – Annecy–Semnoz
This climb is 6 km at an average gradient of 4%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 20 – Annecy–Semnoz
This climb is 3.4 km at an average gradient of 6.9%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 20 – Annecy–Semnoz
This climb is 15.9 km at an average gradient of 5.6%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 20 – Annecy–Semnoz
This climb is 10.7 km at an average gradient of 8.5%. Points for this climb are doubled because it is also the stage finish.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 20 – Annecy–Semnoz
As well as winning the stage and the final climb, Nairo Quintana also became the 2013 King of the Mountains.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 21
The 2013 Tour de France King of the Mountains Niaro Quintana wore the polka-dot jersey on the final stage of the 100th tour.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 21
This climb is 1 km at an average gradient of 6.9%.


2013 Tour de France Mountains classification, Stage by stage, Stage 21
This climb is 0.9 km at an average gradient of 4.7%.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11
The 2013 Tour de France was the 100th Tour de France. It ran from 29 June 2013 to 21 July 2013, starting in the city of Porto-Vecchio in Corsica, with the island hosting the first three stages. Corsica was the only Metropolitan region, and Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse were the only Metropolitan departments, through which the Tour had never previously passed and the organisers wanted to combine the 100th edition of the Tour with the Tour's first ever visit to Corsica.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11
The opening stage was a standard road stage rather than the more usual Individual time trial or "Prologue".


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11
To accommodate the tour entourage during their stay in Corsica, the organisers chartered the Mega Smeralda cruiseferry to house members of the organisation, media and others who work on the Tour and to host press conferences, although the riders stayed in hotels in and around Porto-Vecchio.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
The first stage of the race was a relatively flat stage on the east coast of Corsica and was expected to end with a sprint finish, with Mark Cavendish looking to claim the sprint and with it the maillot jaune for the overall race leader.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
The Tour started out inauspiciously for top favourite Chris Froome of Team Sky, as he crashed in the neutralised area before the true beginning of the stage although he was not hurt. Once the flag came down to signal the true beginning of the stage, five riders immediately distinguished themselves as the day's principal escape group – Jérôme Cousin of Team Europcar, Euskaltel–Euskadi's Juan José Lobato, Belkin Pro Cycling rider Lars Boom, Juan Antonio Flecha representing Vacansoleil–DCM, and Cyril Lemoine from Sojasun.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
The peloton did not allow them very much lead, as the mostly Omega Pharma–Quick-Step-paced main field kept the time gap between two and three minutes for the majority of the stage. The fourth-category Cote de Sotta came at the 45 km (28.0 mi) mark in the stage, the only climb on the day's parcours. This meant that the first rider, from the breakaway, over the line would be the first holder of the polka-dot jersey. It was Lobato who crossed first, beating out Cousin and Boom, and Lobato pulled on the climber's jersey at day's end.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
At that point the breakaway sat up (stopped riding hard) and attempted to rejoin the peloton behind them, since the stage's flat profile (and its prestige) meant it was extremely unlikely they could stay away for victory. The time gap got to as little as 39 seconds before eventually getting as high again as four minutes. After both the break and the peloton had passed through the feeding station, it was again reduced to 40 seconds.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
Four of the riders again looked to sit up and abandon their efforts, but Cousin continued to ride, and eventually so did the whole breakaway group. For these efforts, Cousin was awarded the daily combativity award at stage's end. The time gap then got as large as four minutes, allowing the breakaway to contest the intermediate sprint as well. This one went to Boom ahead of Flecha. A few minutes later, three of the Tour's top sprinters André Greipel, Mark Cavendish, and Peter Sagan sprinted for the points available to them, coming across the line in that very order. The breakaway were at last caught with 37 km (23.0 mi) remaining in the stage, and the teams set up for the anticipated sprint finale.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
It was about this time that reports came through of a problem at the finish line – a bus for the Orica–GreenEDGE team had become stuck under the finishing arch. It was too tall to pass through. It disrupted the electronic timing for the stage, but the more pressing problem was the fact that the finish line was not clear to be covered by the cyclists. Race officials tried to extricate the bus, having no success for several minutes as the riders came nearer and nearer to the finish line.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
As the peloton passed through the 10 km (6.2 mi) to go mark, the decision was sent out over race radio for the finish line to be moved to the banner representing 3 km (1.9 mi) to the (original) finish line. Around this same time, the day's first major crash occurred, sending, among numerous others, 2012 Giro d'Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal off his bicycle. At approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) to go the original finish, meaning 3 km (1.9 mi) to go the revised finish line, teams such as Lotto–Belisol and Cannondale had begun their leadouts.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
It was at this point that the bus was successfully removed from under the finishing arch, so race officials chose to move the stage finish back to the original finishing line. Also at this point, a crash of tremendous scope thinned the possible stage winners substantially, as sprinters Sagan, Cavendish, and Matthew Goss all either fell themselves or were caught behind the crash. Greipel, for his part, managed to stay upright and at the front of the race through both crashes, but a mechanical issue ended his chances at a stage victory and a yellow jersey.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
His German compatriot, 24-year-old Marcel Kittel from the Argos–Shimano team, was the rider who profited from the day's chaos and took stage honours, with the yellow, green, and white jerseys to go with it. No time gaps were taken on the stage – all 197 other riders in the field were given the same time as Kittel. Along with sprinters who missed out on the possibility at a stage win, some overall contenders and noteworthy stage-hunters also crashed.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
Alberto Contador crashed, and while his injuries were not severe enough to force him to retire from the race, he did express concern that they might keep him from being able to ride in optimal position for the upcoming team time trial. Tony Martin and Ted King sustained perhaps the worst injuries of anyone; Martin sustained a concussion and a lung contusion to go along with soft tissue damage and a deep shoulder wound, and King suffered a badly bruised and possibly broken shoulder. Tejay van Garderen, Philippe Gilbert, Gert Steegmans, Janez Brajkovič, Tony Gallopin, and Murilo Fischer all also crashed. Geraint Thomas also crashed, suffering a hairline fracture to his pelvis in the incident.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
After the stage, Cavendish, Lotto–Belisol rider Greg Henderson, and FDJ.fr team boss Marc Madiot all expressed their displeasure with race officials for moving the finish back to the original line while the teams were at sprint speed racing for the supposed finish at the 3 km (1.9 mi) banner. Henderson's criticisms focused on the effects the rapid changes had on the competitive aspect of the race, while Cavendish and Madiot were more concerned with how they affected rider safety.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
Orica–GreenEDGE were fined 2,000 Swiss francs for "not respecting the timetable put in place for auxiliary team vehicles arriving at the stage finish" as a result of the incident. For his part, stage winner Kittel claimed not to have heard the instructions over race radio for the revised finish at the 3 km (1.9 mi) banner, which would seem to have played a part in his being focused to ride hard for the original finish line and take the day's honours.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
The tour crossed the island to Ajaccio on the west coast, with four ranked climbs including the Category 2 Col de Vizzavona (1,163 m (3,816 ft)) after 95 km (59.0 mi) and a Category 3 climb 12 km (7.5 mi) before the finish.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
The day started with an opening attack within the opening kilometre and the formation of the day's breakaway by the 6 km (3.7 mi) mark. The break consisted of Rubén Pérez of Euskaltel–Euskadi, Belkin Pro Cycling's Lars Boom, Team Europcar rider David Veilleux, and Blel Kadri for Ag2r–La Mondiale and expanded their lead to three minutes in the first hour of racing. Boom crossed the intermediate sprint point ahead of his breakaway compatriots, while André Greipel (Lotto–Belisol) lead the peloton across the same point, beating Cannondale's Peter Sagan. The four breakaway riders started the climb of the Col de Bellagranajo with a 1' 50" advantage that was cut to a 1' 00" advantage at the summit of the climb.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
Veilleux and Kadri broke away from their companions at the start of the second climb while Veilleux's team-mate Thomas Voeckler attacked from the peloton, but was quickly brought back. At this point, a gruppetto was forming which included the yellow jersey Marcel Kittel (Argos–Shimano) as well as the other top sprinters in the tour. Pierre Rolland attacked from the peloton and was followed by Sojasun's Brice Feillu. Rolland passed the breakaway riders and crossed the summit first, but was caught by the peloton on the col de Vizzavona after a concerted effort from FDJ.fr and Team Sky.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
On the final climb of the day, separate attacks were made by Team Europcar's Cyril Gautier, Chris Froome (Team Sky), and Juan Antonio Flecha of Vacansoleil–DCM; each of which was unsuccessful. With 7 km (4.3 mi) to go, Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma–Quick-Step) attacked and was joined by RadioShack–Leopard's Jan Bakelants, Euskaltel–Euskadi rider Gorka Izagirre, Manuele Mori for Lampre–Merida, Astana's Jakob Fuglsang, and Flecha. The leading peloton picked off members of the breakaway one by one, until only Bakelants remained. Bakelants finished across the line a second in front of Sagan, earning himself his first Tour stage victory and the yellow jersey.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3
The third and final day on Corsica saw the race return northwards again along the rugged west coast with several small climbs including the short but steep climb of the Category 2 Col de Marsolino (443 m (1,453 ft)), 13 km (8.1 mi) before the finish in Calvi. Simon Gerrans won the stage.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
The first stage on mainland France was a team time trial, in which each team's time was taken when their fifth rider crosses the line. The race commenced in the Jardin Albert I and looped around the streets of Nice until reaching the Promenade des Anglais after 1.5 km (0.9 mi). The route then followed the seafront for 6.5 km (4.0 mi) before turning north at Nice Côte d'Azur Airport to follow the Var valley. The intermediate time check came at 13 km (8.1 mi), after which the race turned south and returned via the Promenade des Anglais to the Jardin Albert I.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
American cyclist Ted King, who was nursing a shoulder injury, was controversially eliminated from the tour after riding on his own using a standard road bike (rather than a time trial bike) and finishing seven seconds outside the cutoff time. Many felt that race officials should have taken account of his courage in completing the stage and allowed him to continue the tour.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5
The fifth stage took the riders westwards through Provence, crossing four small categorised climbs before reaching the port of Marseille, finishing at Parc Borély, to the south of the city centre. Mark Cavendish won the stage which was the 24th Tour de France stage victory of his career.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6
The race continued westwards through southern France into Languedoc. The stage was won by André Greipel in a sprint finish.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7
This stage took the riders north-west through the Monts de Lacaune including the climbs of the Col des 13 Vents ("The Pass of 13 Winds") and the Category 2 Col de la Croix de Mounis (809 m (2,654 ft)). After passing the town of Lacaune, the race dropped down over two smaller climbs before the finish in the World Heritage Site city of Albi. Peter Sagan won the stage in a sprint finish.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
After 120 km (74.6 mi) of flat to start, Stage 8 featured the first mountains of the tour, including the Hors catégorie climb of the Port de Pailhères which, at 2,001 m (6,565 ft), is the highest point reached on the 2013 Tour. The first rider to cross the summit, Movistar Team's Nairo Quintana won the Souvenir Henri Desgrange. The finish was at the Ax 3 Domaines ski resort, at 1,375 m (4,511 ft), with the final climb covering 7.8 km (4.8 mi) and rising 670 m (2,198 ft) at an average gradient of 8.6%. The final climb saw the GC contenders come to the front in this tour's first battle for the maillot jaune.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil–DCM) attacked as soon as the flag was dropped and was quickly joined by three other riders: Jean-Marc Marino (Sojasun), Christophe Riblon (Ag2r–La Mondiale), and Rudy Molard (Cofidis). The group opened a gap of roughly nine minutes over the flatter two-thirds of the course and crossed through the sprint point at 117 km (72.7 mi). Back in the peloton, André Greipel (Lotto–Belisol) took the sprint honors ahead of Peter Sagan (Cannondale) and Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma–Quick-Step).


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
The race soon reached the base of the Port de Pailhères with the leading group only holding an advantage of under two minutes. Hoogerland attempted to break away from his companions at the 50 km (31.1 mi) to go mark before being brought back. Riblon then launched an attack of his own and built a sizable lead over his former escape companions. Robert Gesink (Belkin Pro Cycling) was the first rider to attack from the peloton and was followed by an attack from Thomas Voeckler (Team Europcar). At this point, yellow jersey holder Daryl Impey (Orica–GreenEDGE) was dropped.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
Quintana launched his own attack with 34 km (21.1 mi) to go; quickly catching and passing Voeckler, Gesink, and Riblon. Pierre Rolland (Team Europcar) and Igor Antón (Euskaltel–Euskadi) attempted to follow, but Quintana built and advantage of 55 seconds over the chasing group at the top of the climb. Rolland would catch Quintana on the bottom of the descent, but was quickly dropped as the riders began the ascent up to Ax 3 Domaines.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
Riders were continuously shelled from the back of the chasing group until only five riders remained with under 10 km (6.2 mi) to go: Team Sky riders Chris Froome and Richie Porte, Quintana's team-mate Alejandro Valverde and Saxo–Tinkoff pairing Alberto Contador and Roman Kreuziger. Porte and Froome, having built a small gap over the other three riders, soon caught Quintana; thus prompting Froome to launch an attack of his own up the mountain. Froome gradually built a larger advantage all the way to the finish line and into the yellow jersey. Behind, Valverde attempted to chase after Froome, before being passed by Porte who comfortably rode into second place. Contador and Kreuziger struggled behind and were passed by Belkin Pro Cycling duo Bauke Mollema and Laurens ten Dam, and Euskaltel–Euskadi's Mikel Nieve.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
The second stage in the Pyrenees saw the race cross the Category 2 Col de Portet d'Aspet (1,069 m (3,507 ft)) soon after the start, followed by four Category 1 climbs: Col de Menté (1,349 m (4,426 ft)), Col de Peyresourde (1,569 m (5,148 ft)), Col de Val Louron-Azet (1,580 m (5,184 ft)) and La Hourquette d'Ancizan (1,564 m (5,131 ft)). This is a "roller-coaster" stage.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
Following Froome and Team Sky's dominating performance at Ax 3 Domaines, Movistar and Garmin attacked from the early stages. Although Chris Froome was able to follow the attacks, Richie Porte's efforts caused him to be dropped by the leaders and eventually lose 10 minutes. As a result Froome was left isolated for the majority of the stage, having to hold off several attacks from Nairo Quintana on the final climb. A late attack on the final climb by Jakob Fuglsang and Dan Martin was allowed to escape, and the Irish rider held off Fuglsang to win the stage. The rest of the leading riders, minus Porte, finished in a group behind Martin.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21
The 2013 Tour de France was the 100th Tour de France. It ran from 29 June 2013 to 21 July 2013, starting in the city of Porto-Vecchio in Corsica.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13
The 13th stage saw a big change in the general classification due to crosswinds leading to the formation of echelons. A 15 man group led by Alberto Contador's Team Saxo Bank, with the help of eventual stage winner Mark Cavendish's Omega Pharma-Quick Step and Bauke Mollema's Belkin Pro Cycling used the crosswinds to make a gap with other General Classification riders 31 kilometers from the finish to form the echelons. Then again This helped Contador gain 1'09" on - among others - Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana and Joaquim Rodriguez.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13
The biggest victim however was the number 2 in the General Classification at that point: Alejandro Valverde. He lost 9'54" after having a puncture at a critical point in the race. The stage saw escapees Bauke Mollema move to second, Alberto Contador to third, Roman Kreuziger to fourth, Laurens ten Dam to fifth and Jakob Fuglsang to sixth in the General Classification. Chris Froome retained the yellow jersey, while Alejandro Valverde dropped to 16th.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18
The queen stage of the 2013 Tour de France saw the riders contest six categorised climbs on the day: the Col de Manse, the Rampe du Motty, the Col d'Ormon, the first ascent of the Alpe d'Huez, the Col de Sarenne, and finally a second ascent up Alpe d'Huez.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18
The day began with a breakaway of nine riders at around the 17 km (10.6 mi) mark and consisted of the following riders: Jens Voigt (RadioShack–Leopard), Arnold Jeannesson (FDJ.fr), Christophe Riblon (Ag2r–La Mondiale), Andrey Amador (Movistar Team), Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma–Quick-Step), Lars Boom (Belkin Pro Cycling), Tom Danielson (Garmin–Sharp), Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing Team), and Moreno Moser (Cannondale). By the 35 km (21.7 mi) mark, they had extended their advantage over the peloton to 5' 40".


2013 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18
Van Garderen would attack his leading companions at the foot of the first ascent of Alpe d'Huez, with only Moser and Riblon able to keep pace and caught up with him 1 km (0.6 mi) away from the top of the climb. Despite multiple mishaps – van Garderen's chain fell on the descent of the Sarenne and Riblon went off the road – the three leaders were firmly in the lead at the base of the second climb of Alpe d'Huez. Once again, van Garderen attacked at the base of the climb and quickly distanced himself from his leading companions. Riblon, despite being down 40 seconds to van Garderen at one point, would claw his way back up and passed him with 2.4 km (1.5 mi) to go, and ultimately won the only stage by a French rider in the 2013 Tour.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18
Back in the peloton, major changes were occurring in the general classification. Belkin Pro Cycling riders Bauke Mollema and Laurens ten Dam both cracked at the beginning of the climb and slid a couple of places on the leaderboard. Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) attacked the group and was followed closely by Team Sky's Chris Froome and Richie Porte as well as Team Katusha's Joaquim Rodríguez. The Saxo–Tinkoff trio of Alberto Contador, Roman Kreuziger, and Michael Rogers were unable to follow and would lose significant amounts of time.


2013 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18
With 5 km (3.1 mi) to go, Froome and Porte would lose contact with Quintana and Rodríguez; at which point Porte dropped back to the team car to illegally get energy gels for his leader, then paced him to the end of the climb to limit his losses to Quintana and Rodríguez. Porte and Froome each received a 20-second time penalty and a fine of 200 Swiss francs for the infringement.


2013 Tour de Langkawi
The 2013 Tour de Langkawi was the 18th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. The LTdL 2013, which carries the slogan "Can You Feel The Heat?" and "The Heat is On! ", was officially began on 21 February in Kangar and ended on 2 March in Kuala Terengganu.


2013 Tour de Langkawi
The race was sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race on the 2012–13 UCI Asia Tour calendar. The race was organised by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, via the National Sports Council (NSC) in association with the Malaysian National Cycling Federation (MNCF).


2013 Tour de Langkawi
Julián Arredondo of Colombia won the overall race, 1' 15" clear of Dutch cyclist Pieter Weening and Sergio Pardilla of Spain was third overall. In the race's other classifications, Italian rider Francesco Chicchi won the blue jersey for points classification and Wang Meiyin of China won the red jersey for mountains classification and white jersey for Asian rider classification. MTN–Qhubeka won the teams classification and Tabriz Petrochemical Team won the Asian teams classification.


2013 Tour de Langkawi, Teams
22 teams accepted invitations to participate in the 2013 Tour de Langkawi. Five UCI ProTeams were invited to the race, along with six UCI Professional Continental and nine UCI Continental teams. The field was completed by two national selection teams.


2013 Tour de Langkawi, List of teams and riders
A total of 22 teams were invited to participate in the 2013 Tour de Langkawi. Out of the 132 riders, a total of 109 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Terengganu.


2013 Tour de Pologne
The 2013 Tour de Pologne was the 70th running of the Tour de Pologne cycling stage race. It started on 27 July in Rovereto, Italy – as part of two stages in the country – and ended on 3 August in Kraków, after seven stages. It was the twentieth race of the 2013 UCI World Tour season.


2013 Tour de Pologne
The race was won by Orica–GreenEDGE rider Pieter Weening of the Netherlands, after gaining enough time on the final time trial stage to move ahead of the previous race leader Christophe Riblon of the Ag2r–La Mondiale squad. Weening – runner-up to Kim Kirchen in the 2005 edition of the race – had trailed by 27 seconds (in fifth place) going into the stage, but overturned this disadvantage to eventually win the race by 13 seconds over Euskaltel–Euskadi's Jon Izagirre, who also moved ahead of Riblon on the final stage. Riblon – the winner of the race's queen stage, the second stage, to the Passo Pordoi in Trentino – ultimately completed the podium, three seconds down on Izagirre, and sixteen in arrears of Weening.


2013 Tour de Pologne
The race's other jerseys all went to Polish riders; the points classification went to Saxo–Tinkoff rider Rafał Majka, who finished as the best-placed Polish rider in fourth place, and led the race for three days due to his consistent finishing in the first half of the race. For the second year in succession, Tomasz Marczyński won the mountains classification for Vacansoleil–DCM, while Bartosz Huzarski was the winner of the intermediate sprints classification for NetApp–Endura. The teams classification was comfortably won by RadioShack–Leopard, finishing nearly twenty minutes clear of the next best team, Cannondale.


2013 Tour de Pologne, Participating teams
As the Tour de Pologne was a UCI World Tour event, all nineteen UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Along with Team Poland – the Polish national team – three other squads were given wildcard places into the race, and as such, formed the event's 23-team peloton.


2013 Tour de Pologne, Participating teams
Each team entered six riders, as part of a pilot project launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), thus forming a maximum field of 138 riders, which included 2013 Giro d'Italia winner Vincenzo Nibali, 2012 Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins, and Grand Tour stage winners Ivan Basso, Fabian Cancellara, Michele Scarponi, Rigoberto Urán and Thor Hushovd. The only previous winner in the starting field was Garmin–Sharp's Johan Vansummeren, who won the race in 2007.


2013 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 1
For the 70th edition of the Tour de Pologne, race organisers elected to move the first stage from outwith Poland for the first time in its history, with the race starting in the city of Rovereto in the Trentino region of Italy; it marked the first time that a foreign UCI World Tour race had started in Italy. The first stage was relatively flat for the opening quarter of the stage, before the first climb of the race, the first-category pass at Fai della Paganella in the Dolomites.


2013 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 1
A long descent towards the midpoint of the stage followed, through Riva del Garda, before the road steadily rose again towards the second categorised climb. The Passo del Durone summited with around 40 km (24.9 mi) remaining, and after a sharp descent, the road kicked up gradually towards the final, first-category climb to Madonna di Campiglio. Although only averaging just over 5%, the 11 km (6.8 mi)-long climb was still expected to cause damage within the field, with a false flat run-in on cobbles in the village itself.


2013 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 1
Almost immediately after the start, six riders formed the day's breakaway; the group consisted of Astana rider Valerio Agnoli, NetApp–Endura's Bartosz Huzarski, Bartłomiej Matysiak of CCC–Polsat–Polkowice, Serge Pauwels (Omega Pharma–Quick-Step), Cédric Pineau of FDJ.fr and BMC Racing Team's Marco Pinotti. The sextet would ultimately build up a lead which reached a maximum of nine minutes during the early running. The first two categorised climbs would split the break up; Agnoli and Matysiak were dropped on the first, while the Passo del Durone put paid to the chances of Pineau and Pinotti. Pauwels and Huzarski were able to maintain an advantage of approaching two minutes as they hit the final ascent towards Madonna di Campiglio, where Pauwels dropped Huzarski on the lower slopes, before the peloton brought them back. Cannondale led the peloton up the climb, before the counter-attacks began in earnest.


2013 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 1
Vacansoleil–DCM were attentive on the climb, as two of their riders – Tomasz Marczyński and Rafael Valls – pulling clear of the peloton around halfway up, with Alex Howes of the Garmin–Sharp squad providing assistance. They were brought back shortly after,  before Orica–GreenEDGE's Pieter Weening launched a solo attack on the peloton. Weening built up a lead of more than half a minute, on a vastly diminished group of riders, which did not include race favourites Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) or Team Sky rider Bradley Wiggins.


2013 Tour de Pologne, Stages, Stage 1
Movistar Team rider Eros Capecchi and Chris Anker Sørensen of Saxo–Tinkoff were able to bridge up to Weening – having dropped companion Robert Kišerlovski (RadioShack–Leopard) in the process – before the top of the climb, although Weening was able to kick again in the closing stages. He was caught inside the final 500 m (1,600 ft), with the reduced group battling out the stage honours in a sprint for the line; ultimately, it was Lampre–Merida's Diego Ulissi who finished strongest, to take the stage victory ahead of Colombia's Darwin Atapuma, and Sørensen's team-mate Rafał Majka, the best placed Polish rider.