Matej Mohoric honours late team-mate Gino Mader with stage 19 Tour de France win

Slovenian Matej Mohoric claimed his third victory on the Tour de France when he won the 19th stage on Friday as his Bahrain Victorious team celebrated for the third time in this year's race, having started it under a cloud after Gino Mader's death.

Mohoric, who has won on all three grand tours, pipped Thursday's stage winner Kasper Asgreen of Denmark to the line, breaking into tears after a photo finish gave him the victory a couple of minutes later.

Mohoric's success comes just over a month after his Swiss team-mate Mader died following a crash on the Tour de Suisse on 16 June. Bahrain Victorious riders Pello Bilbao and Wout Poels also took stage victories in this year's race.

"We started this Tour under a lot of stress after the death of Gino and Matej had the ambition to win a stage," Bahrain Victorious sports director Vladimir Miholjevic told reporters.

"It's stupid to say and could be wrongly interpreted but we lost a team member, a family member and everyone in the team, staff and riders, wanted to honour Gino. He will always be with us. It's something we managed to transform into motivation."

Australian Ben O'Connor was third in a three-man sprint ahead of a group of chasers who were caught by surprise when Asgreen attacked in the second short climb of the day.

Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard stayed safe in the bunch to retain the overall leader's yellow jersey ahead of Saturday's hilly and treacherous 20th stage between Belfort and the Markstein.

He still holds a 7:35 lead over Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.

A large breakaway took shape on the bumpy roads of the Jura with a group of 30 chasing Victor Campenaerts.

The Belgian was caught, and dropped, by O'Connor, Asgreen and Mohoric who reached the top of the Cote d'Ivory