Stages 1-16 Defending the Yellow Jersey

During the first16 stages covering 2,922 km, the riders were affected by severe wind gusts of up to 80 km/h and have conquered 45 climbs so far in this year’s . Here’s a look at some of the stories powered by data we’ve collected on their journey so far.

183 km 607 km 83% average distance Stages 1-16 to finish line in race distance travelled each day 2-18 July 2016 covered (stages 1-16)

37.5 km (stage 13) 237.5 km (stage 4) shortest distance travelled in one day – longest distance travelled in one day 44.78 km/h 43.38 km/h fastest average speed on the stage average speed of stage winner Dumoulin (TGA) (EQS)

47.0 km/h 05h 59’ 54’’ 39.16 km/h 15 highest average longest time on average speed of abandons speed on a stage the saddle riders across (stage 10) (stage 3) 16 stages

Defending the Yellow Jersey average speed of race leader 40.21 km/h Christopher Froome (SKY) over 16 stages

Team Sky dominated Team Sky and Froome stage 9, with 7 riders dominated on Mont out of 34 in the lead Ventoux until incident at the top of the with motor bike. penultimate climb.

Stage 8 Stage 11 Stage 13

Stage 9 Stage 12

Froome attacked on (TNK) Froome gains the descent of Col and Froome attack on 51” over General de Peyresourde, wins the last 12 km. Froome Classification the stage and takes wins 12 seconds. Mollema (TFS) in the the Yellow Jersey individual time trial. (fastest descent speed captured 90.9 km/h).

time difference between Froome and 01’ 47” runner-up, Mollema (TFS) after 16 stages.

Battling the elements This is the first year in which we tracked weather information.

High wind speeds Hail on the last 5 km of the Julian Alaphilippe (EQS) crashes 15 5 crashes within the first final climb (avg. gradient km from the finish, in the Individual 30 km of the race. 7.2%) causes the speed to time trial at a speed of 51.7 km/h with Peter Sagan (TNK) wins the stage drop by 31%. crosswinds of 42 km/ h. with an avg. speed of 47.2 km/h.

Start time was moved 15 minutes earlier due to strong headwinds.

Wind of 140 km on Mont Ventoux forced the organisers to shorten the stage by 6 km.

Mark Renshaw (DDD) (OBE) crashes and 39 km from finish line at 56.3 km/h (TNK) abandon the and crosswind speed of 45 km/h. race due to illness.

27.84 km/h

average climbing speed of Froome across all 25.49 km/h 259.1 km recorded climbs total distance over average climbing speed categorised climbs of all riders across all recorded climbs

Mont Ventoux toughest mountain climb so far – based on gradient, elevation and weather conditions 9.6 km at 9.3% average gradient | 899 m elevation | wind speed of 40 km/h

14.8 km/h average climbing speed of stage winner Thomas DeGendt (LTS)

12.72 km/h lowest recorded average climbing speed

Fastest speed in the individual time trial 44.78 km/h (TGA)

Individual time trial speed difference between stage winner Tom Dumoulin (TGA) and Christopher Froome (SKY)

Average speed on each stage by Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) classification Stages 1-16

Flat Hilly Mountain Individual time trial

Stage 1 44.35 km/h Stage 10 43.49 km/h Stage 5 36.96 km/h Stage 13 43.49 km/h Stage 2 41.51 km/h Stage 7 39.84 km/h Stage 3 37.21 km/h Stage 8 34.08 km/h Stage 4 43.19 km/h Stage 9 32.41 km/h Stage 6 40.20 km/h Stage 12 37.77 km/h Stage 11 46.65 km/h Stage 15 33.75 km/h Stage 14 36.31 km/h Stage 16 46.65 km/h

Fastest and slowest teams by stage Movistar leads the team classification after stage 16 but hasn’t won a single stage, while Dimension Data has grabbed 5 victories without being the fastest team on any stage.

Fastest team Average Slowest team Average Stage on the stage speed km/h on the stage speed km/h

Lotto-Soudal Bora-Argon 1 44.4 44.4 (LTS) (BOA)

Orica-BikeExchange Lotto-Soudal 2 42.1 41.7 (OBE) (LTS)

Lotto-Soudal AG2R-La Mondiale 3 37.3 37.3 (LTS) (ALM)

Team Lotto NL - Lotto-Soudal 4 39.5 39.4 Jumbo (TLJ) (LTS)

BMC Racing Team Team Dimension 5 38.7 37.0 (BMC) Data (DDD)

Etixx - Quick Step FDJ 6 40.3 40.3 (EQS) (FDJ) 7 Astana 42.2 Lotto-Soudal 40.3 (AST) (LTS)

8 Team Sky 37.0 Dimension Data 33.5 (SKY) (DDD)

9 Movistar 34.4 Direct Energie 32.7 (MOV) (DEN)

10 Orica-BikeExchange 44.9 Cofidis 43.4 (OBE) (COF)

11 Tinkoff 47.2 Cannondale-Drapac 46.7 (TNK) (CDT)

12 Movistar 38.4 Tinkoff 36.8 (MOV) (TNK)

13 Movistar 43.0 Cofidis 39.9 (MOV) (COF)

14 Orica-BikeExchange 36.4 Cannondale-Drapac 36.2 (OBE) (CDT)

15 AG2R-La Mondiale 35.9 Lotto Soudal 34.4 (ALM) (LTS)

16 BMC Racing Team 47.14 Direct Energie 46.72 (BMC) (DEN)

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trucks motorcycles 120 2 sound 2 HF airplanes

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