Philipsen shines again as Vingegaard retains overall lead from Pogacar in Tour de France

Belgian Jasper Philipsen sprinted to his fourth stage win on this year's Tour de France with a powerful last burst on stage 11 as defending champion Jonas Vingegaard retained the overall leader's yellow jersey.

The Alpecin sprinter edged Dutch rider Dylan Groenewegen to the line on Wednesday with Phil Bauhaus in third. There was no change in the overall standings between race favourites Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates.

"It's an incredible Tour so far," said Philipsen. "I can't realise how good it's all going, I'm just super proud, really happy with my shape. To get through the final without problems is also a big challenge and we managed to do it already four times in a row so I'm super happy.

"I had to find my wheel a little but, also finding the space it's technical and a bit dangerous for crashing. I'm happy I can find a good wheel of Groenewegen and he opened up early so I could go over.

"There are maybe more sprint opportunities, but also there will be guys going for the break, but I'm already so happy to take four and hopefully looking towards Paris I can keep this jersey. I think I made a good gap now [in the points classification] which gives me comfort going into the Alps."