Tour de France winner 2024
Biniam Girmay becomes first black African to win Tour de France
At the end of the longest stage on the 2024 Tour de France it was Biniam Girmay at the age 24 who grabbed the win, Tour de France had barely begun before Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) made a page of cycling history with a bunch sprint victory in Turin, becoming the first ever Black African to win a stage of cycling’s biggest bike race.
The Eritrean’s groundbreaking win came after a mass crash inside the final kilometres saw various sprinters blocked and unable to sprint, although as it was inside the ‘safety zone’, all riders were awarded the same time. Following the crash, the better stage placings for Richard Carapaz (EF Education-Easy Post) enabled the former Giro d’Italia winner to become Ecuador’s first ever Tour de France leader, tied on time with previous maillot jaune Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)
Romain Bardet (Team dsm–firmenich PostNL) leads the 2024 Tour de France after the first stage by four seconds over his teammate Frank van den Broek. Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike is 11 seconds off the lead.
Tadej Pogačar (Team UAE Emirates), the odds-on favorite to win the Tour, finished fourth on the stage and just missed out on some bonus seconds allotted to the top three finishers in the stage.TOUR DE FRANCE 2024