Bernal Hails Tour De France Triumph Ineos Rider Becomes First Colombian Winner of Cycling’S Greatest Prize and Its Youngest in More Than a Century
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AATHLETICSTHLETICS | Page 3 FFOOTBALLOOTBALL | Page 7 Felix misses Bale’s China team in 400, move off aft er Kendricks soars Real board in pole vault block deal Monday, July 29, 2019 CRICKET Dhul-Qa’da 26, 1440 AH Sri Lanka seal series GULF TIMES against Bangladesh with easy win SPORT Page 2 CYCLING ‘My greatest victory’: Bernal hails Tour de France triumph Ineos rider becomes first Colombian winner of cycling’s greatest prize and its youngest in more than a century AFP Paris CLASS WINNERS Overall yellow jersey: Egan Bernal (COL/Ineos) Green sprint points jersey: Peter Sagan (SVK/ gan Bernal clinched Bora) victory in the Tour de Polka dot ‘King of the Mountain’ points jer- France yesterday, pa- sey: Romain Bardet (FRA/AG2R La Mondiale) rading into Paris safe- White under-25 jersey: Egan Bernal Ely in the overall leader’s yellow Team: Movistar jersey, becoming the fi rst Co- Combativity: Julian Alaphilippe (FRA/Deceun- lombian winner of cycling’s inck) greatest prize and its youngest in more than a century. BERNAL FILES With the sun setting be- Name: Egan Bernal hind the Arc de Triomphe, the Date of birth: January 13, 1997 (22 years old) 22-year-old Ineos rider com- Place of birth: Zipaquira, Colombia pleted the 21 stage, 3,409km Nationality: Colombian (2,118 miles) marathon around Height: 1.75m France 1min 10sec ahead of Teams: Androni (2016-17), Sky/Ineos (since 2018 champion and teammate 2018) Geraint Thomas. MAJOR WINS Colombian spectators Grand Tours: thronged the Champs Elysees Tour de France overall (2019) to witness the traditional Tour de France best rider under 25 (2019) eight-lap fi nale, where Aus- National championships: tralia’s Caleb Ewan, also 22, Colombian time-trial championship (2018) won his third stage of the 2019 Stage races: edition on the culminating Paris-Nice (2019) mass bunch sprint. Tour de Suisse (2019) The champion was wel- Tour of Colombia (2018) comed by his younger brother Tour of California (2018) Ronald, his parents and girl- Tour de l’Avenir (2017) friend, before embracing his Other Grand Tour participations: teammates. 2018 Tour de France: 15th “I thank France for organis- ing the best race in the world, LAST 10 TOUR DE FRANCE WINNERS and for organising my greatest 2019: Egan Bernal (COL) victory,” Bernal said in French. Team Ineos riders Jonathan Castroviejo (left) of Spain and Geraint Thomas (right) of Britain congratulate Egan Bernal of Colombia as he celebrates his victory on the 2018: Geraint Thomas (GBR) “This is the Tour, this is the finish line of the 21st and last stage of the Tour de France at Champs-Elysees, in Paris, yesterday. (AFP) 2017: Chris Froome (GBR) Tour, there is nothing more 2016: Chris Froome (GBR) important than the Tour de and who thrived on a course ble in Pau and was warned by thrilling tone of this Tour with a He fi nally lost his lead af- contested procession to Paris, 2015: Chris Froome (GBR) France and I want to take this featuring seven mountain a speeding motorbike when dashing 14 day tenure in yellow. ter two of three Alpine stages the Ineos team were all wear- 2014: Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) jersey back to Colombia,” he stages and fi ve summit fi nish- racing downhill at 100kph “It was an honour, it was where the fi nal real action ing a yellow trim to their clar- 2013: Chris Froome (GBR) said, switching back to Span- es, scampering away from his when a freak hail storm my duty, it was unforget- played out, before Bernal de- et and black outfi ts, with even 2012: Bradley Wiggins (GBR) ish. closest rivals in the rarefi ed caused a mudslide ahead. table,” Alaphilippe said on fended it Saturday on a long the team car sporting a yellow 2011: Cadel Evans (AUS) The highest Tour in histo- oxygen that only suits some. That was Friday when he Sunday after missing out on 33km climb to the Val Torrens stripe to honour the eight- 2010: Andy Schleck (LUX) * ry, as it was billed, suited the He had to weather a sear- clinched the overall lead from becoming France’s fi rst win- ski-resort, itself shortened be- man team who had sacrifi cing * Schleck awarded victory after Alberto 2019 champion Bernal, who ing four-day heatwave that French hero, the daring Julian ner of the Tour since Bernard cause of storms and mudslides. personal gain for the Colom- Contador stripped of win for doping grew up at 2600m altitude saw runner up Thomas wob- Alaphilippe who had set the Hinault in 1985. On the traditional non- bian’s title. SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Incredible Scott split helps Britain to medley relay gold Reuters winning the men’s 400m indi- Gwangju, South Korea vidual medley for a third time, while Hungary’s ‘Iron Lady’ Katinka Hosszu became the fi rst uncan Scott swam the woman to win fi ve world titles in second-fastest relay the same event. split of all time in the The 30-year-old won her fi rst anchor leg of the men’s world gold in Rome and 10 years D4x100m medley yesterday, over- later she is still setting the stand- hauling his US and Russian rivals ard, coming home 1.68 seconds to secure gold for Britain and ahead of China’s Ye Shiwen, with deny Caeleb Dressel a seventh Japan’s Yui Ohashi taking bronze. world title in Gwangju. Britain’s come-from-behind SOUR NOTE victory came in the penultimate While governing body FINA said event of a pulsating last night in it was delighted the way Gwangju the pool. It came just before the had staged the event, the one sad US women set a world record to note for South Korea was that win the medley relay, with Regan Regan Smith competes in the women’s 4x100m medley relay final at it became the fourth host after Smith breaking the backstroke the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, yesterday. (AFP) Colombia (1975), Ecuador (1982) record in the lead-off leg. and Spain (1986) not to win a Scott plunged into the pool with to the wall fi rst in 29.84, while in freestyle double, the American swimming medal. ground to make up on the United the next lane 14-year-old Italian getting her fi ngertips to the wall But Lee Yong-sup, head of the States after Dressel opened up a (From left to right) Britain’s Adam Peaty, James Guy, Luke Greenbank and Duncan Scott celebrate their gold Benedetta Pilato burst into tears ahead of Sweden’s Sarah Sjos- championships organising com- lead for Nathan Adrian with a typ- medals on the podium for men’s 4x100m medley relay at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, South after seeing her name in the silver trom and Australian Cate Camp- mittee, told a news conference ically blistering butterfl y leg, with Korea, yesterday. (AFP) medal position ahead of Russia’s bell. yesterday he hoped the city, some Russia also breathing down the Yuliya Efemova. Florian Wellbrock also got his 330km southwest of the capital American’s neck. “I can’t say I thought I had that as people,” said the Olympic and (24.43) grabbed a surprise gold in “We got to the wall and she was name in the record books after Seoul, could one day become a However, the Glasgow-born split in me,” said Scott, still rub- world breaststroke champion of a blanket fi nish to the men’s 50m crying immediately,” said King. the German added the 1,500m hot-bed for Korean swimming. 22-year-old swam an incredible bing his head in disbelief. “I’m the team, which also included backstroke, ahead of Russians “I didn’t know if it was happy freestyle crown to his 10km open “I will review the hosting of 46.14 seconds, the fastest since just sort of speechless I’ve been James Guy and Luke Greenbank. Evgeny Rylov and Kliment Koles- tears or sad tears, she’s 14. But water gold in Gwangju, becom- a Korea Swimming Promotion American Jason Lezak’s 46.06 able to put that race together.” “We just showed that the Brit- nikov, the world record holder. I think they were happy tears, I ing the fi rst athlete to win titles Center in co-operation with at the Beijing Olympics, to run An elated Peaty said he was so ish are always up for a race.” Only 0.08 seconds separated the hope they were.” in two diff erent sports at a single the government,” he said, add- down Adrian and give Britain the pumped he would not sleep for top three. The third of the water-churn- world championships. ing that he would look to set up gold and their fi rst win over the three days. “That’s testament to HAPPY TEARS? In the women’s 50m breast- ing one-lap dashes saw Simone Daiya Seto brought some cheer competitions to unearth young US in the event. who we are as racers, who we are South African Zane Waddell stroke America’s Lilly King got Manuel complete the 50/100m to 2020 Olympics hosts Japan by swimming talent. Gulf Times 2 Monday, July 29, 2019 SPORT CRICKET Qatar second in T20 WC Asia Final Qatar’s roller-coaster cam- while second-placed Qatar had paign in the ICC T20 World four points from four matches. Cup Asia Regional Final On Saturday, Qatar scripted fetched them a second place their second victory as they behind hosts Singapore. got the better Malaysia by four Singapore will figure in the wickets.