Tour de France: Jasper Philipsen sprints to third stage win after Girmay crash

• Belgian benefits from lead-out by Mathieu van der Poel
• Cavendish finishes 17th in his final Tour sprint finish

Jasper Philipsen won stage 16 of the Tour de France, from Gruissan to Nîmes, claiming his third success in this year’s race. The Belgian sprinter again benefited from a near‑perfect lead-out from his Alpecin-Deceu­ninck teammate, and the world road race champion, Mathieu van der Poel.

As Philipsen celebrated, however, his fellow sprinter Biniam Girmay, who leads the points classification, was climbing gingerly to his feet, after crashing badly, with a kilometre and a half still to race. The Eritrean was clearly in some pain as he crossed the finish line.

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