Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 18 - Gap to Barcelonnette - Gap, France - July 18, 2024 Lotto Dstny's Victor Campenaerts celebrates winning stage 18 REUTERS/Manon Cruz
(Reuters) -Lotto–Dstny's Victor Campenaerts timed his attack perfectly in a three-man sprint finish to win stage 18 of the Tour de France, a 179.5 km hilly stage from Gap to Barcelonnette on Thursday.
Campenaerts was in the leading trio with Michal Kwiatkowski and Matteo Vercher, with the Belgian biding his time behind the other two riders before exploding into a powerful sprint in the final 200 metres to take his first ever Tour stage win.
