The Tour de France

Germany’s Heinrich Haussler won the 13th stage of this year’s Tour de France with Spain’s Amets Txurruka second. Haussler came in more than four minutes ahead of Txurruka and France’s Brice Feillu, who took third.
Rinaldo Nocentini comfortably retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey as no attacks took place on the five climbs of the day. Thor Hushovd takes back the green jersey though.
Haussler had moved with six other riders after only three kilometres and he dropped them one by one to finish on his own after a 197-km ride in the rain and cold.
Astana rider Levi Leipheimer did no start the stage due to a broken wrist. Leipheimer was 1 of 4 Astana riders in the top 10 of the GC.
Stage 13 Results
1 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervelo Test Team -4:56:26
2 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi - 0:04:11
3 Brice Feillu (Fra) Agritubel - 0:06:13
4 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step - 0:06:31
5 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram - 0:06:43
6 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team
7 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale
8 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Garmin - Slipstream
9 George Hincapie (USA) Team Columbia - HTC
10 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank

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