Healy Claims First Tour Win As Van Der Poel Regains Lead

Ireland's Ben Healy produced a stunning solo break to triumph shape six of nan Tour de France while Mathieu van der Poel regained nan title leader's yellowish jersey.

Healy and Van der Poel spent astir of nan 201.5km hilly shape successful an eight-man breakaway earlier nan erstwhile attacked pinch 42km remaining.

The EF Education-EasyPost rider past pulled distant to declare his first shape triumph connected nan Tour, crossing tche statement successful Vire Normandie almost 3 minutes earlier Quinn Simmons and Michael Storer.

Dutchman Van der Poel came successful astir 4 minutes aft Healy, followed by Tadej Pogacar astatine nan beforehand of nan peloton, and nan Alpecin-Deceuninck rider had done capable to return nan yellowish jersey backmost from reigning champion Pogacar by 1 second.

Healy was successful nan breakaway respective times past year, erstwhile he vanished 27th connected his debut, and nan 24-year-old said he targeted this hilly shape erstwhile nan way was announced.

"Last twelvemonth was a existent eye-opener and it really made maine judge that I could do it," he said.

"It's really unthinkable and [down to] hours and hours of difficult activity by truthful galore people. To salary them backmost coming is really amazing."