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Thor Hushovd won the nail-biting 13th stage of Tour and 15.07.2011

Norwegian Thor Hushovd won the nail-biting 13th stage of Tour de France cycling. He has come a long distance 152.5 km in 3 hours, 47 minutes and 36 seconds. Norwegian developed an average speed of 40.2 kmh.

Stage, however, quite nail-biting finish after the finish of the Norwegian David Monkutie ahead of France and left him 10 seconds behind. Again the Frenchman was third - Jeremy Roy of 26 seconds, followed by Lars Bak of Denmark Iting (of 5.02 minutes).

This is a nine stage victories in the Tour de France 33-year-old Hushovd.

Frenchman Thomas Fyokler retain the yellow jersey of the leader after today's second round, held in the Pyrenees. Column, which were all favorites, finished in the mountain stage of about 7 and a half minutes behind the winner.

Fyokler Thomas (France) has led to the main individual standings with 55 hours, 49 minutes and 57 seconds, followed by Frank Schleck (Luxembourg) - at 1:49 minutes, Cadet Evans (Australia) - at 2:06 minutes, and others.