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(English) Tour de France 2016: Chris Froome wins stage 18 to extend overall lead

Britain’s Chris Froome won the stage 18 time trial to edge closer to securing his third Tour de France title.

Team Sky’s Froome finished 21 seconds ahead of Dutchman Tom Dumoulin to win the hilly 17km stage in 30 minutes and 43 seconds, with Fabio Aru third.

Froome, the 2013 and 2015 Tour winner, now leads the 2016 edition by three minutes and 52 seconds.

Bauke Mollema of the Netherlands and Briton Adam Yates remained second and third overall respectively.

The stage started in Sallanches and featured an 11km section where the race ascended almost 700m from 566m to 1,279m before a technical descent into the finish in Megeve.

With the riders going out in reverse order, Dumoulin, who won the time trial on stage 13, again set the pace, some two hours before Froome set off.

His time of 31 minutes and four seconds bettered that of Thomas de Gendt by 41 seconds and the Team Giant-Alpecin rider then sat in the winner’s chair, watching the race unfold on television.

Froome was 23 seconds behind Dumoulin at the first time-check, after 6.5km, but had narrowed that to 10 seconds by 10km.

The next check came at 13.5km and Froome had moved 13 seconds clear and picked up another few seconds on the descent into the finish.

“I really didn’t expect to beat Tom, pacing was key,” said Froome, who is trying to become the first man to win successive Tour titles since Spain’s Miguel Indurain won five on the trot from 1991.

“I started off steady and really controlled that first part then gave it everything I had.”

His victory means British riders have won seven stages of this year’s race – Mark Cavendish with four, Froome with two and Steve Cummings – to equal the record set in 2012, when Sir Bradley Wiggins became the first British rider to win the race.

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