World champ Hushovd takes well deserved solo Tour win

Thor Hushovd wins, Tour de France 2011, stage 13

published 15 July 2011

Day two in the mountains of this 2011 Tour de France, and the word was that stage 13 was a day for a breakaway to succeed.

Sure enough, Garmin's Thor Hushovd - the world road race champion, and wearer of the yellow jersey for most of the first week of this year's Tour - soloed to victory, the last man standing of an earlier 10-man breakaway. Almost eight minutes behind, in the main bunch, Europcar's Thomas Voeckler retained the yellow jersey.

It was hotly contested behind them, though, with José Joaquin Rojas (Movistar) pipping Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) for 11th place, and five points, with Rojas's team-mate Francisco Ventoso trying, and failing, to steal more points away from Cavendish. The Movistar duo were on the receiving end of a half-hearted, waved-hand appeal from Cavendish, with him thinking they'd blocked him a little with the side hoardings jutting out on the Manxman's side a little too much, but we'd be surprised if anything comes of it.

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World champ Hushovd takes well deserved solo Tour win

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