One year after he claimed his first victory at the Tour de France in stage 13 to Rodez when he outsprinted Peter Sagan, Greg Van Avermaet of BMC Racing Team stepped up in the history of the race as he added the yellow jersey to his brilliant solo win at Le Lioran, taking over from the Slovakian who led the race for three days. In the morning, he feared the stage in the Massif Central was too hard for him but it wasn’t the case. He rode all his breakaway companions off in the hills. Thomas De Gendt was last to surrender with 17km to go in the ascent to col du Perthus. The last yellow jersey holder from Belgium was Jan Bakelants in 2013. This is the fifth yellow jersey in the history of the BMC Racing Team after Australians Cadel Evans (one day in 2010, two in 2011) and Rohan Dennis (one day in 2015).
Jersey wearers after the stage 5
yellow jersey
No.98Greg
VAN AVERMAET
No.32Peter
SAGAN
TINKOFF
No.163Thomas
DE GENDT
BELLOTTO SOUDAL
No.182Julian
ALAPHILIPPE
ETIXX-QUICK STEP
No.98Greg
VAN AVERMAET
BMC RACING TEAM
team
BMC RACING TEAM
USA
No.
Thomas De Gendt
Lotto Soudal
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
| 1. | BELVAN AVERMAET Greg | 98 | BMC RACING TEAM | 25h 34' 46'' | |
| 2. | FRAALAPHILIPPE Julian | 182 | ETIXX-QUICK STEP | 25h 39' 57'' | + 05' 11'' |
| 3. | ESPVALVERDE Alejandro | 12 | MOVISTAR TEAM | 25h 39' 59'' | + 05' 13'' |
| 4. | ESPRODRIGUEZ OLIVER Joaquin | 141 | TEAM KATUSHA | 25h 40' 00'' | + 05' 14'' |
| 5. | GBRFROOME Christopher | 1 | TEAM SKY | 25h 40' 03'' | + 05' 17'' |
| 6. | FRABARGUIL WARREN | 111 | TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN | 25h 40' 03'' | + 05' 17'' |
| 7. | COLQUINTANA Nairo | 11 | MOVISTAR TEAM | 25h 40' 03'' | + 05' 17'' |
| 8. | ITAARU Fabio | 21 | ASTANA PRO TEAM | 25h 40' 03'' | + 05' 17'' |
| 9. | FRAROLLAND Pierre | 81 | CANNONDALE DRAPAC TEAM | 25h 40' 03'' | + 05' 17'' |
| 10. | IRLMARTIN Daniel | 184 | ETIXX-QUICK STEP | 25h 40' 03'' | + 05' 17'' |