2016 Tour de France

The 2016 Tour de France was the 103rd edition, 3,529 km in 21 stages from Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy on 2 July to the Champs-Élysées on 24 July, with 198 riders from 22 teams. Chris Froome won his third Tour, with Romain Bardet second and Nairo Quintana third. Mark Cavendish won the opening stage and the first yellow jersey, Peter Sagan took it by winning stage 2 and kept it until Greg Van Avermaet won stage 5; Van Avermaet lost more than 25 minutes on the mountainous eighth stage, won by Froome, who took the lead and held it through stage 17, extended it in the stage 18 mountain time trial and, despite crashing in the rain, kept it after Bardet's stage 19 win moved the Frenchman into second. Sagan won the points classification with three stage wins, Rafał Majka the mountains and Adam Yates, fourth overall, the young rider prize.