Mauritian rider Kim Le Court has made history for Africa by winning a stage at the women\u2019s Tour de France.<\/p>\n
Mauritian Kim Le Court became the first African to win a stage on the women\u2019s Tour de France..<\/p>\n
It was a case of double celebration for the 29-year-old who, on Wednesday took the fifth stage honours in a sprint to reclaim the leader\u2019s yellow jersey.<\/p>\n
Le Court edged Dutch duo Demi Vollering and Anna van der Breggen after a hilly 166km ride, the longest of the Tour, from Chasseneuil-du-Poitou Futuroscope to Gueret.<\/p>\n
Overnight leader Marianne Vos lost yellow to the AG Insurance-Soudal team leader after finishing eighth, 33 seconds adrift, on the day.<\/p>\n
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Soudal Team\u2019s Mauritius rider Kimberley Le Court Pienaar, centre, celebrates next to FDJ-SUEZ team\u2019s Dutch rider Demi Vollering, right, as she cycles to the finish line to win the 5th stage (out of 9) of the fourth edition of the Women\u2019s Tour de France cycling race {Julien de Rosa\/AFP]<\/p>\n
Le Court, who had a brief spell already at the top of the general classification after stage two, now leads France\u2019s Pauline Ferrand-Prevot by 18 seconds.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really been a dream start to the Tour. The stage win, the yellow jersey,\u201d said Le Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t even thinking about it when we started in Brittany.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs for what happens next, we\u2019ll see, since I don\u2019t know my limits in the mountains, this Tour being my first major stage race where my team has asked me to compete for the overall classification.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vollering, the Tour winner in 2023 and favourite for this edition, is third at 23sec after recovering from a heavy fall on Monday.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s winner, Poland\u2019s Katarzyna Niewiadoma, took fourth in the stage to sit well placed at 24sec off the overall lead.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s sixth stage is a mountainous 123.7km ride from Clermont-Ferrand to Ambert featuring three ascents, including the category one climb up the Col du Beal, with the race finishing on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mauritian rider Kim Le Court has made history for Africa by winning a stage at the women\u2019s Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,3456,637,27021,1259,44,457,82],"class_list":["post-36416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-mauritania","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}