Mark Cavendish gets 4th 2008 Tour de France Stage win in a bunch sprint and the leaders remain the same.


Mark Cavendish extended his domination of the Tour de France sprints when he bolted to his fourth stage win of this year’s race. The Team Columbia rider was blocked inside the final 700 meters of the stage but then got a clear run to the line in Nîmes, beating Robbie McEwen (Silence Lotto), Romain Feillu (Agritubel), Heinrich Haussler (Gerolsteiner) and Oscar Freire (Rabobank) in the big bunch sprint.

2008 Stage 13 Results:

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team Columbia 4.25.42 (41.10 km/h)
2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Silence - Lotto
3 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel
4 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner
5 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank
6 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole
7 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
8 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram
9 Julian Dean (NZl) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30
10 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra) Française des Jeux
11 Robert Hunter (RSA) Barloworld
12 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick Step
13 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
14 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne
15 Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
16 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Bouygues Telecom
17 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30
18 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre
19 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner
20 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Agritubel

Overall classification after stage 13:

1 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 54.48.47
2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.01
3 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle 0.38
4 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.46
5 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 0.57
6 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 1.28
7 Kim Kirchen (Lux) Team Columbia 1.56
8 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 2.32
9 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel 3.51
10 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 4.18
11 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel 4.26
12 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse 4.41
13 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale 5.23
14 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre 5.37
15 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 6.01
16 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 6.07
17 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner 6.26
18 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par 7.07
19 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas 7.11
20 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank