Surprise perfect: young star Bernal wins the tour

Behind Bernal, the dethroned defending champion Geraint Thomas secured a double victory for the Ineos racing team in the exceptionally close 106th edition. The Dutchman Steven Kruijwswijk from the Jumbo team came third, followed by the German Emanuel Buchmann (Bora) and Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck).

Alaphilippe slips off the podium The classics specialist Alaphilippe, who had never been at the front of a major tour before, successfully defended himself against Bernal, Thomas and Co. for a long time after a very strong start, but had to give up the yellow jersey on the final weekend in the Alps and also slipped off the podium . The tour entourage with the yellow jersey in front of the Louvre. © AP / Julien de Rosa

In the highest mountains, former mountain biker Bernal, winner of Paris-Nice and the Tour de Suisse this year, proved to be the best and also put his stablemate Thomas in his place. At his tour debut last year, the Colombian, who had joined the top British racing team from the Italian Androni team, was used as a helper for Chris Froome and Thomas and came 15th. This year he didn't let fall injuries slow him down in the spring and impressively demonstrated his outstanding climbing skills in France.

Dave Brailsford's racing team, which previously competed under the name Sky, was able to celebrate its seventh Tour victory in the past eight years, although four-time champion Froome was not there due to an injury. There was also a double success for the British in 2012, when Bradley Wiggins triumphed ahead of Froome. In this year's final ranking, Bernal was 1:11 minutes ahead of Thomas, while Kruijswijk was only 1:31 behind. This is the smallest gap between the top three in tour history. Sagan with a record in the green jersey Fourth-placed Buchmann also made a promise for the future less than two minutes back. The Bora team also celebrated Peter Sagan's renewed win of the green sprinter's jersey. The Slovakian secured the points ranking for the seventh time, which is a record. The French, who once again came away empty-handed in the fight for overall victory, were able to console themselves a little with Romain Bardet's mountain jersey. Co-favorite Thibaut Pinot, who was in fifth place, had to give up on the penultimate Alpine stage due to a muscle injury. Ewan wins on the Champs-Elysees The Australian Caleb Ewan from the Lotto-Soudal team secured victory on the last section with the finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, who celebrated his third success of the day.

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Surprise perfect: young star Bernal wins the tour

Egan Bernal won the Tour de France in his second participation at the age of just 22. The climbing lightweight made history not only as the first winner from Colombia, but also as the youngest in the post-war period. He was the most celebrated man after the final stage on Sunday evening in Paris.

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