Top 5 most seconds per km gained by 1st over 2nd in a Grand Tour time trial ever: 5.33 - Anquetil vs Bouvet - Tour 1961 4.38 - Vinge vs Pog - Tour 2023 4.2 - Poulidor vs Gabica - Vuelta 1965 3.77 - Maes vs Visers - Tour 1939 3.43 - Moser vs Fignon - Giro 1984 #TourDeFrance2023
Vingegaard's destruction of Pogacar in numbers: Nothing like it has been seen since the 1960s
CyclingWednesday, 19 July 2023 at 16:30
Jonas Vingegaard massacred Tadej Pogacar in the 22-kilometer time trial finishing in Combloux. The Dane took 1 minute and 38 seconds off him over that short distance. This means that the difference per kilometer that the Dane took from the Slovenian is the second biggest in the history of grand tours.
According to analyst Cillian Kelly, Vingegaard took 4.38 seconds per kilometer over Pogacar in the stage, second only to Anquetil's 5.33 over Bouvet in the 1961 Tour and ahead of such historic records as Poulidor's 4.2 over Gabica in the 1965 Vuelta and Moser's 3.43 over Fignon in the 1984 Giro d'Italia. No time trial winner in a grand tour in this century had ever managed to beat the runner-up by more than 2.5 seconds per kilometer, so Vingegaard's 4.38 over Pogacar seems to be from another era.
The Tour de France has not been sealed because of the brutal stages that still remain, however it has seen Jonas Vingegaard build a large buffer over the Slovenian in a critical moment of the race.
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