Evans wins Tour de France

Australian Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) has won the Tour de France.

Australian Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) has won the Tour de France.

Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) was second, with Andre Greipel (Omega Pharma-Lotto) third as Cavendish reached Paris for the third time and extended his 100% record on the French capital’s most famous boulevard.

Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) won the overall title by one minute 34 seconds from Andy Schleck (Leopard Trek) to become the first Australian winner of cycling’s most prestigious race.

Mark Cavendish won the green jersey after a third successive win in Paris.

The 26-year-old from the Isle of Man took his career total to 20 stage wins with victory on the 21st and final stage of the 2011 Tour, the 95-kilometre route from Creteil to the Champs-Elysees.

A fifth win of the 2011 Tour saw the Manxman become the second Briton to stand atop the Tour podium, emulating Robert Millar’s 1984 success when the Scot was crowned King of the Mountains.

Cavendish won the points classification’s maillot vert with a total of 334 points, while his nearest rival Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar) failed to score at the finish today.

Rojas was second on 272 points, with Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) third on 236.

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