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Tadej Pogačar on his second stage win
Photo: MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP
Tadej Pogačar has won stage 7 of the 2022 Tour de France.
The Slovenian prevailed after 176.3 kilometers from Tomblaine to La Planche des Belles Filles and further extended his lead in the overall standings with the second stage win.
Lennard Kämna, on the other hand, missed victory by a hair's breadth at the first mountain finish of the 109th Tour de France.
The 25-year-old professional cyclist was caught by the top stars about 100 meters from the finish line and took fourth place.
Jonas Vingegaard from Denmark took second place.
"It was super hard," said Kämna after the stage on ARD.
»I felt good, but it wasn't enough.
I can't blame myself."
For Kämna it would have been the second Tour stage win after 2020 when he triumphed in Villard-de-Lans.
In May of this year he had already won the mountain finish on Mount Etna at the Giro d'Italia.
Kämna belonged to a breakaway group around Bora-hansgrohe team-mate Maximilian Schachmann and Simon Geschke, who broke away after a good 50 kilometers.
On the final climb with an incline of up to 24 percent, Kämna pulled away alone before the favorites passed them just before the finish line.
On Saturday, the tour continues with the eighth stage over 186.3 kilometers from Dole to Lausanne.
The last kilometer has sections with gradients of up to 13 percent.
The favorites have to be correspondingly vigilant.
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