2016 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11
Rank Rider Team Time
1 Chris Froome ( GBR ) Team Sky 44h 36 ' 03
2 Adam Yates ( GBR ) Orica-BikeExchange + 16
3 Dan Martin ( IRL ) Etixx-Quick-Step + 19
4 Nairo Quintana ( COL ) Movistar Team + 23
5 Joaquim Rodríguez ( ESP ) Team Katusha + 37
6 Romain Bardet ( FRA ) AG2R La Mondiale + 44
7 Bauke Mollema ( NED ) Trek-Segafredo + 44
8 Sergio Henao ( COL ) Team Sky + 44
9 Louis Meintjes ( RSA ) Lampre-Merida + 55
10 Alejandro Valverde ( ESP ) Movistar Team + 1 ' 01
General classification after stage 9
The 2016 Tour de France is the 103rd edition of the cycle race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. On 24 November 2014 Amaury Sport Organisation announced that the race would depart, on 2 July 2016, from the French department of Manche, for the first time in the history of the Tour de France. The race is also scheduled to have a stage finish in Andorra. The race will finish on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 24 July. This flat stage departed east from Mont-Saint-Michel and headed north, following the western coastline of the Cotentin Peninsula, with the Category 4 climbs of the Côte d'Avranches at and the Côte des falaises de Champeaux at early on. The riders then passed through Granville, Montmartin-sur-Mer, Gouville-sur-Mer and Lessay. On moving inland to cross the peninsula, an intermediate sprint took place at La Haye. The race then continued through Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, turning north-east to Montebourg, and over to the opposite coast at Quinéville. The riders then travelled south-east along the coast and turned inland south-west to Sainte-Mère-Église, before heading east to the finish line at Utah Beach. The stage ended with a sprint finish won by Mark Cavendish. This hilly stage departed south-east from Saint-Lô to the Category 4 climb of the Côte de Torigny-les-Villes, then heading south-west to the Category 4 climb of the Côte de Montabot. The riders passed through Percy-en-Normandie and Hambye, reaching the Category 4 climb of the Côte de Montpinchon.