Mauritian rider Kim Le Court docket has made historical past for Africa by profitable a stage on the girls’s Tour de France.
Mauritian Kim Le Court docket turned the primary African to win a stage on the ladies’s Tour de France..
It was a case of double celebration for the 29-year-old who, on Wednesday took the fifth stage honours in a dash to reclaim the chief’s yellow jersey.
Le Court docket edged Dutch duo Demi Vollering and Anna van der Breggen after a hilly 166km journey, the longest of the Tour, from Chasseneuil-du-Poitou Futuroscope to Gueret.
In a single day chief Marianne Vos misplaced yellow to the AG Insurance coverage-Soudal crew chief after ending eighth, 33 seconds adrift, on the day.
Le Court docket, who had a short spell already on the prime of the overall classification after stage two, now leads France’s Pauline Ferrand-Prevot by 18 seconds.
“It’s actually been a dream begin to the Tour. The stage win, the yellow jersey,” stated Le Court docket.
“I wasn’t even serious about it once we began in Brittany.
“As for what occurs subsequent, we’ll see, since I don’t know my limits within the mountains, this Tour being my first main stage race the place my crew has requested me to compete for the general classification.”
Vollering, the Tour winner in 2023 and favorite for this version, is third at 23sec after recovering from a heavy fall on Monday.
Final yr’s winner, Poland’s Katarzyna Niewiadoma, took fourth within the stage to take a seat effectively positioned at 24sec off the general lead.
Thursday’s sixth stage is a mountainous 123.7km journey from Clermont-Ferrand to Ambert that includes three ascents, together with the class one climb up the Col du Beal, with the race ending on Sunday.
