Summary

  • Stage five sees the Tour travel 162.7km from Pau to Laruns

  • This is the first mountain stage of this year's race

  • The route should offer early indicators towards the general classification battle

  • Australia's Jai Hindley wins stage five

  1. Au revoirpublished at 17:09 British Summer Time 5 July 2023

    Right that's me done for the day. I'll see you all tomorrow when the Tour de France heads from Tarbes to Cauterets on what is likely to be another big day in the GC race.

    You can read all about how Jai Hindley prospered and Jonas Vingegaard put a big dent in Tadej Pogacar's Tour hopes on stage five in our report.

    Catch you all on Thursday around 12:30 BST.

  2. Postpublished at 17:02 British Summer Time 5 July 2023

    Jai Hindley will be the eighth Australian to wear the yellow jersey.

    He follows the likes of Stuart O’Grady, Robbie McEwen, Cadel Evans and Rohan Dennis to achieve that feat.

  3. General classification after stage fivepublished at 16:59 British Summer Time 5 July 2023

    Here's how things look in the overall race:

    1. Jai Hindley (Aus/Bora-hansgrohe) 22hrs:15mins 12secs

    2. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma +47secs

    3. Giulio Ciccone (Ita/Lidl-Trek) +1mins 03secs

    4. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger/Bora-hansgrohe) +1mins 11secs

    5. Adam Yates (GB/UAE Team Emirates) +1mins 34secs

    6. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) +1mins 40secs

    7. Simon Yates (GB/Team Jayco-AlUla) +1mins 40secs

    8. Mattias Skjelmose (Den/Lidl-Trek) +1mins 56secs

    9. Carlos Rodríguez (Spa/Ineos Grenadiers) Same time

    10. David Gaudu (Fra/Groupama-FDJ)

  4. 'I had a super good day'published at 16:54 British Summer Time 5 July 2023

    Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard sounds pretty pleased with himself. "I think I had a super good day," he tells reporters in the mixed zone.

    Not sure that Tadej Pogacar will feel the same way.

  5. 'I was trying to gain as much time as possible'published at 16:52 British Summer Time 5 July 2023

    Jai Hindley wins stage five

    Now time to hear from the new race leader Jai Hindley, who is asked if that was all in the plan for today:

    "Not really we were sort of improvising and enjoying some bike racing. I just sort of managed to find myself in that group and I enjoyed it today.

    "It is really incredible and I have no words [to wearing the yellow jersey].

    "The guys in the radio were just screaming to ride to the line. I couldn't hear what was happening. I was trying to gain as much time as possible and get the stage win and I find myself in the yellow jersey.

    "I didn't know what to expect. It is my first Tour, it is hard to come here with massive ambitions but I wanted to be competitive and have some form of success and I have just won a stage of the Tour de France. Its is pretty incredible."

  6. Could Hindley follow Evans?published at 16:48 British Summer Time 5 July 2023

    Jai HindleyImage source, Getty Images

    Jai Hindley, 27, became just the second Australian to win a Grand Tour event when he took the 2022 Giro d'Italia.

    It came 11 years after Cadel Evans stood atop the podium on the Champs-Elysees draped in yellow.

    He couldn't follow Evans and take top spot on the podium in Paris could he?

  7. Stage five resultspublished at 16:41 British Summer Time 5 July 2023

    1. Jai Hindley (Aus/Bora-hansgrohe) 3hrs:57mins 07secs

    2. Giulio Ciccone (Ita/Lidl-Trek) +32secs

    3. Felix Gall (Aut/AG2R-Citroen Team) Same time

    4. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger/Bora - hansgrohe)

    5. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma +34secs

    6. Mattias Skjelmose (Den/Lidl-Trek) +1mins 38secs

    7. Daniel Martínez (Col/Ineos Grenadiers) Same time

    8. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates)

    9. David Gaudu (Fra/Groupama-FDJ)

    10. Carlos Rodríguez (Spa/Ineos Grenadiers)

  8. Postpublished at 16:30 British Summer Time 5 July 2023

    By my reckoning Jonas Vingegaard will have a 53-second lead over Tadej Pogacar, who after just one stage in the mountains looks to have serious problems due to the lack of recent racing in his legs.

  9. Pogacar loses over a minute to Vingegaardpublished at 16:28 British Summer Time 5 July 2023

    Now here comes Tadej Pogacar. He has lost 64 seconds to Jonas Vingegaard and rolls over the line behind Mattias Skjelmose and Daniel Martinez.

    Carlos Rodriguez and the Yates brothers are also in that group.

  10. Postpublished at 16:24 British Summer Time 5 July 2023

    Giulio Ciccone, Felix Gall and Emanuel Buchman outsprint Jonas Vingegaard to the line putting two seconds in to the Dane.

  11. Jai Hindley wins stage fivepublished at 16:22 British Summer Time 5 July 2023

    Jai HindleyImage source, Getty Images

    Jai Hindley crosses the line first and with it he should take the yellow jersey.

  12. Postpublished at 1km to go

    Absolutely no let up for Jai Hindley. He still has nearly 40 seconds.

  13. Postpublished at 2km to go

    Jai Hindley looks to have this in the bag.

  14. Postpublished at 3km to go

    Tadej Pogacar drops back to wait for Adam Yates and several others to join him. Surely an attempt to limit his losses. But can he pull any time back here?

  15. Postpublished at 4km to go

    Emanuel Buchmann will have the job of trying to outsprint Jonas Vingegaard on the line here.

    Good luck. The German will be attempting to try and sweep up bonus seconds to help his pal Jai Hindley who still has a 40-second plus gap.

  16. Postpublished at 8km to go

    Jonas Vingegaard is about 50 seconds off Jai Hindley.

  17. Postpublished at 10km to go

    Is Tadej Pogacar's lack of racing catching up with him? He is losing more and more time to Jonas Vingegaard.

  18. Gall to go into the polka dot jerseypublished at 12km to go

    KOM standings after the Col de Marie-Blanque:

    1. Felix Gall (Ag2r-Citröen), 282. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), 193. Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), 184. Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), 185. Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers), 15

  19. Postpublished at 13km to go

    Further down the road Tadej Pogacar is about 40 seconds adrift of his big GC rival.

  20. Postpublished at 15km to go

    Jai Hindley has a 54-second advantage over Jonas Vingegaard, who is coming up behind him like a tornado.

    Vingegaard, sweeps up Giulio Ciccone and Emanuel Buchmann,. Just Felix Gall and Hindley now ahead of him.