Sam Bennett sixth as Jasper Philipsen wins 10th stage at Tour de France

Ireland's Sam Bennett finished sixth on the 10th stage of the Tour de France as Belgian Jasper Philipsen finally claimed victory in this year's edition by winning a textbook sprint on Tuesday.

Riding for French cycling team Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale, Carrick-on-Suir native Bennett, moves up to 11th in the green jersey points standings, which he finished atop of at the end of the 2020 Tour.

Philipsen, who won four stages on the world's biggest race last year, benefited from a perfect lead-out by Alpecin-Deceuninck team-mate and world champion Mathieu van der Poel to prevail after 187.3km from Orleans.

Eritrean Biniam Girmay, who has already won two stages in this edition and leads the points standings ahead of Philipsen, took second place with German Pascal Ackermann coming home third.

Slovenian Tadej Pogacar retained the overall leader's yellow jersey, 33 seconds ahead of Remco Evenepoel after an uneventful day as the peloton gears up for a tricky mountain stage in the Massif Central on Wednesday.

Ireland's Ben Healy of the EF Education-Easypost team, who rode home in 44th on Tuesday's stage, is 19th overall in the general classification.

The peloton stayed compact throughout the day through a few rain showers but everyone stayed quiet after Monday's rest day.

Agitation came in the final five kilometres with the sprinters' teams looking to get the best position and Alpecin-Deceuninck did the best job.

Van der Poel crushed the pedals with 300 metres to go, leaving Philipsen to finish it off comfortably for his seventh career win on the Tour.

It was a big relief for the 26 year-old, whose best result was a second place since the start in Florence.

"We came on the Tour de France with a strong leadout train and it paid off today. The