Greg van Avermaet takes the yellow jersey as Dan Martin returns to Tour top 10

Alberto Contador lost further time on the final climb as he continues to suffer.

Greg van Avermaet soloed to victory on stage five of the Tour de France in Le Lioran to take over the yellow jersey for the first time in his career.

The BMC rider had been part of a nine-man breakaway early in the 216km stage from Limoge but left behind the last of the other escapees - fellow Belgian Thomas De Gendt of Lotto-Soudal - at the foot of the penultimate climb of a challenging day which took the race into the Massif Central.