Team Sunweb's Michael Matthews Takes Over The Lead In The Points Classification

After a great team effort battling for the intermediate sprints and taking two of Team Sunweb's three stage wins at the Tour de France Michael Matthews (AUS) has taken over the lead in the points classification

Michael Matthews Takes Over The Lead In The Points Classification

With one goal at the forefront of their mind, Team Sunweb set out to take stage victories at the 2017 edition of the Tour de France. When the opportunity came to take additional points in the green jersey competition, the team rose to the challenge. With strong tactics Team Sunweb positioned Matthews to collect intermediate sprint points wherever they could in order to rebound on a tough deficit. Matthews now leads the classification with a total of 364 points, 160 points ahead of his nearest rival.

After the stage Matthews said: "After getting 50 points yesterday I knew that it was game on. I knew beforehand that I had to be active to get those 20 points today and was aware that even if I did get those points it was still going to be difficult. You never want to see a guy out of a race like this, it's been such a good battle up to this point and I hope Kittel is ok."

Team Sunweb's Tour de France coach Aike Visbeek (NED) added: "We've put in a big effort into taking the points at the intermediate sprints to close the gap towards the green jersey. This isn't the way that we wanted to take the lead after all of the work we had put in as a team for the points. We really put the pressure on and were prepared to fight all the way to Paris for this jersey."

Michael Matthews Takes Over The Lead In The Points Classification

2017 Tour de France Top Ten Results

1 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 5:07:41 
2 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale-Drapac 0:01:13 
3 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky   
4 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale   
5 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Sunweb   
6 Mikel Landa (Spa) Team Sky 0:01:16 
7 Daniel Martin (Irl) Quick-Step Floors 0:01:43 
8 Alberto Contador (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 0:01:44 
9 Louis Meintjes (RSA) UAE Team Emirates   
10 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team

2017 Tour de France GC after Stage 16

1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 73:27:26 
2 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale-Drapac 0:00:27 
3 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale   
4 Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana Pro Team 0:00:53 
5 Mikel Landa (Spa) Team Sky 0:01:24 
6 Daniel Martin (Irl) Quick-Step Floors 0:02:37 
7 Simon Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott 0:04:07 
8 Louis Meintjes (RSA) UAE Team Emirates 0:06:35 
9 Alberto Contador (Spa) Trek-Segafredo 0:07:45 
10 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Sunweb 0:08:52

VIDEO: Stage 16 Highlights

VIDEO: Stage 16 Final Kilometre

 
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