2017 Tour de France

The 2017 Tour de France was the 104th edition, 3,540 km in 21 stages, opening with an individual time trial in Düsseldorf on 1 July and closing on the Champs-Élysées on 23 July, with 198 riders from 22 teams. Chris Froome won his third consecutive and fourth Tour; Rigoberto Urán was second and Romain Bardet third. Geraint Thomas won the opening stage and the first yellow jersey; Froome, the best of the favourites that day, took the lead after the summit finish of stage 5 and held it until Fabio Aru took it on the steep finish to Peyragudes on stage 12, then retook it after stage 14 and kept it to Paris. Michael Matthews won the points classification, his teammate Warren Barguil, winner of two high-mountain stages, the mountains classification and the combativity award, and Simon Yates, seventh overall, the young rider prize.