Laporte wins first Paris-Nice stage in Jumbo-Visma 1-2-3

Christophe Laporte, Primoz Roglic and Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) team time trial to the finish line after dropping the Sprinters on the final climb. Primoz Roglic 28 seconds up on all his rivals

Paris-Nice, the 8-day-long race towards the sun, kicked-off with a 159.8 kilometre long stage just outside Paris today, a flat and fast stage with a good chance for the sprinters to get the race going.

The breakaway of the day was brought back at 74 kilometres from the line.

Felix Großschartner was involved in a crash with 40 kilometres to go and unfortunately had to abandon the race with a broken collarbone. In a very hard and stressful finale, three riders were able to get a gap to the first group and fight for the win by themselves.

With 6.5 km to go, Jumbo-Visma set a hard pace on the final climb of the day, Wout Van Aert attacked taking teammates Laporte and Roglic with him, behind the peloton was destroyed and the sprinters were distanced, leaving the rouleurs to pick up the final places.

Christophe Laporte was gifted the stage by his teammates and Primoz Roglic  took time from all his GC rivals.

VIDEO: 2022 Paris-Nice Stage 1 Highlights

2022 Paris-Nice Stage 1 Top 10

1 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Jumbo-Visma 3:48:38
2 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Jumbo-Visma
3 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma
4 Pierre Latour (Fra) TotalEnergies 0:00:19
5 Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:22
6 Biniam Girmay (Eri) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux
7 Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spa) Movistar Team
8 Fred Wright (GBr) Bahrain Victorious
9 Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix
10 Florian Senechal (Fra) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team