Jonas Vingegaard after falling in trouble

Frenchman Lenny Martinez (Bahrain-Victorious) is the winner of the fifth stage of the Paris-Na cycling race. Total leadership was taken third in the stage last year's winner, American Matteo Jorgenon (Visma-Lease A Bike) While his team-mate, Danec Jonas Vingegaardafter a fall in the middle of the stage a lot of problems and lost 26 seconds.

On a highly vibrant route from Saint-Just-En-Chevaleta to Notre-Dame-De-Sciez with numerous short and steep climbs, the winner of the stage decided an extremely steep « wall » to the finish (1.7 km/10.8 %). In the back of the slope, the average slope was also 18 %, which caused many cyclists to problems.

In the last 100 m, Martinez, 21, had the most power, who has been a team colleague of Slovenian cyclists Matthew since this season Mohorič, Matevž Govekar and Žaka Eržena at Bahrain-Victorius. He celebrated the seventh victory of his career, with which he approached the best in the total.

Second place today won another Frenchman Clement Champoussin (XDS Astana) and third by Jorgon, both of which were three seconds behind the winner. Last year's winner of this race, Jorgon, took the lead in the overall standings, and from the yellow T -shirt undressed the team colleague Vingegarda, who lost contact with the best on the last slope about a kilometer ahead of the finish.

Two -time winner of the race across France (2022, 2023) had problems mainly due to the fall of about 85 km before the end of the stage, which was not caught by the cameras. After crossing the finish line, he was 26 seconds behind the winner, and had pain in his wrist and abrasions on his face.

Jorgenon has 22 seconds ahead of Vingegaard, and a German advanced to third place Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-organ-Hansgrohe), which is 36 seconds behind. Martinez is fifth with 55 seconds behind.

On Friday, the mostly flat sixth stage will be held by Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Albano to Berre L'etanga (209.8 km).