Mads Pedersen won the eighth stage of the Tour de France on Saturday thwarting Jasper Philipsen from claiming back-to-back victories. The The Lidl-Trek rider completed the 201 kilometres between Libourne and Limoges in four hours, 12 minutes and 26 seconds.
"It was long sprint," said the 27-year-old Dane. "The final stretch was very painful. Jasper would have had to do a great sprint to overtake me.