Dan Martin remains in Tour de France’s top ten

Dan Martin stayed inside the top 10 on general classification at the Tour de France yesterday after a gutsy time-trial performance saw him finish 33rd of the 187 riders.

He is now 5:03 off race leader Chris Froome (Team Sky) who extended his lead at the top of the standings yesterday but is just over two minutes behind the man in third, Adam Yates (Orica-BikeExchange).

Ducthman Tom Dumoulin (Team Giant Alpecin) came into the 13th stage of the race well down the standings but his prowess against the clock came to the fore as he blitzed the 37.5km course in 50:15, a whopping 1:03 faster than runner-up Froome.