2018 Tour de France
Rank Team Time
1 Movistar Team 250h 24 ' 53
2 Bahrain-Merida + 12 ' 33
3 Team Sky + 31 ' 14
4 LottoNL-Jumbo + 47 ' 24
5 Astana + 1h 15 ' 32
6 Team Sunweb + 1h 58 ' 54
7 AG2R La Mondiale + 2h 15 ' 49
8 BMC Racing Team + 2h 35 ' 45
9 Quick-Step Floors + 3h 06 ' 17
10 Mitchelton-Scott + 3h 13 ' 41
Team classification
The 2018 Tour de France was the 105th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three Grand Tours. The -long race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 7 July in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, in western France, and concluding on 29 July with the Champs-Élysées stage in Paris. A total of 176 riders from 22 teams participated in the race. The overall general classification was won by Geraint Thomas of . Tom Dumoulin () placed second, with Thomas's teammate and four-time Tour winner Chris Froome coming third. The opening stage was won by Fernando Gaviria of , who became the Tour's first rider to wear the general classification leader's yellow jersey. Peter Sagan () then took the race lead on the following stage. won stage three's team time trial, putting their rider Greg Van Avermaet in yellow. He held the jersey for eight days until the second stage of the three Alpine stages, which Thomas won and took the lead in. He successfully defended it from Dumoulin for the rest of the Tour, which included three stages in the Pyrenees and the penultimate stage's individual time trial, the latter won by Dumoulin. Sagan, who won three stages, was placed first in the points classification for the sixth time. Julian Alaphilippe of , winner of two mountain stages, won the mountains classification, and 's Pierre Latour won the young rider classification.