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Martin claims yellow jersey─── 09:38 Wed, 08 Jul 2015
The 30-year-old three-time world time-trial champion Tony Martin of Germany, has claimed the leaders’ yellow jersey at the Tour de France after the fourth stage.
Martin took the jersey from 2013 champion Chris Froome after winning yesterdays’ 223.5km stage in 5 hours 28 minutes, 58 seconds.
Martin made a daring solo attack from a reduced peloton with 3.3km left of the cobbled stage and held off the charging pack to win by three seconds.
That on its own would have been enough to snatch the yellow jersey from Froome but the also took a 10 second time bonus on the line that gives him a 12 second buffer over the Kenyan-born Englishman in the overall standings.
Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg of MTN-Qhubeka is back in 91st, while his teammate, Jacques Janse Van Rensburg, who is no relation to Reinhardt is back in 152rd.
Today’s fifth stage riders for a 189.5km’s from Arras Communauté Urbaine to Amiens Métropole, which will see the riders go past the South African World War one memorial at Bois Delville in Longueva.
Morgan Piek / OFM News
