Tom Pidcock surges up standings while Mauro Schmid wins Tour de France stage 13

Tom Pidcock on the wheel of Luke Plapp as the latter’s teammate Mauro Schmid, the eventual stage winner, gives chase. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images

Tom Pidcock leapt up the overall standings in the Tour de France, briefly climbing as high as second place, after a fulminating stage to Belfort ended in a first Tour win for Switzerland’s Mauro Schmid.

Pidcock was one of the key instigators of a mass breakaway that formed on the rolling roads of the Jura and Doubs, on the long approach to the 9km climb of the Ballon d’Alsace, overlooking Belfort.