Peter Sagan scores first win in 2013 Tour de France

Peter Sagan wins stage seven of the 2013 Tour de France

Peter Sagan took his first win of the 2013 Tour de France after a brilliantly executed stage by his Cannondale team.

Following three second-place finishes earlier this week, the Slovak may have been growing frustrated at the number of near misses, but today he managed to outsprint John Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano) and Daniele Bennati (Saxo-Tinkoff) to go one better.

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Stephen Puddicombe is a freelance journalist for Cycling Weekly, who regularly contributes to our World Tour racing coverage with race reports, news stories, interviews and features. Outside of cycling, he also enjoys writing about film and TV - but you won't find much of that content embedded into his CW articles.