Tour de France: stage

Stage 1 Sat 29 JunePorto-Vecchio to Bastia 213km

Marcel Kittel wins the opener in Corsica after Mark Cavendish is denied a first yellow jersey by a crash near the finish. Confusion reigns when Orica GreenEdge's team bus gets stuck under a gantry and the finish is initially brought forward by 3km, only to be moved back

Winner Marcel Kittel

2 Alexander Kristoff 41 Chris Froome all same time

RadioShack-Leopard's Jan Bakelants claims the second stage ahead of Peter Sagan. Chris Froome comes home safely in the peloton, while David Millar moves into second overall in a race where the pre-Tour favourites try to stay out of trouble

Winner Jan Bakelants

Overall 1 Jan Bakelants 2 Peter Sagan +1sec 18 Chris Froome +1sec

Simon Gerrans beats Sagan in a photo finish on the line after a hilly third stage in Corsica's interior, but the Slovakian grabs the green jersey from Kittel. Bronchitis-stricken Cavendish trails home in 165th, while Froome again comes home safely in the peloton

Winner Simon Gerrans

Overall 1 Jan Bakelants 2 Julien Simon +1sec 15 Chris Froome +1sec

Orica GreenEdge clinch the team time trial and put Gerrans in yellow on a triumphant day for Australia. Cavendish's Omega Pharma-QuickStep finish 0.75sec behind, while Team Sky - including Geraint Thomas, riding with a broken pelvis sustained in the crash on day one - finish three seconds adrift

Winner Orica GreenEdge

Overall 1 Simon Gerrans 2 Daryl Impey same time 7 Chris Froome +3sec

Cavendish defies bronchitis for his first stage win of this year's Tour and his 24th in total, outsprinting Sagan and Team Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen to the line. Froome remains seventh after finishing alongside main rivals Alberto Contador and Cadel Evans

Winner Mark Cavendish

Overall 1 Simon Gerrans 2 Daryl Impey same time 7 Chris Froome +3sec

Stage 6 Thu 4 JulyAix-en-Provence to Montpellier 176.5km

Germany's Andre Greipel wins sprint finish ahead of Sagan and Kittel, but history is made by Daryl Impey, who becomes the first South African rider to wear the yellow jersey when his Orica team-mate and roomie Gerrans co-ordinates a finish that concedes the lead to his friend

Winner Andre Greipel

Overall 1 Daryl Impey 2 Edvald Boasson Hagen +3sec 7 Chris Froome +8sec

Points leader Peter Sagan seals victory to tighten his grip on the green jersey, outsprinting John Degenkolb to the line in a stage controlled by the Slovakian's team, Cannondale, who pushed hard on the climb to distance sprinters such as Cavendish

Winner Peter Sagan

Froome blows his rivals away with a sensational ride on the first mountain stage as he assumes the yellow jersey for the first time. On the final climb, flanked by his Sky team-mate Richie Porte, Froome makes his break and leaves a cooked Contador straying behind to record a memorable victory.

Winner Chris Froome

Ireland's Dan Martin savours the biggest win of his career, breaking away from an elite climbing group 5km from the summit of the final ascent and doing just enough to hold off a late challenge from Jacob Fuglsang. But the drama comes behind where Froome finds himself isolated from his Sky team-mates and battles alone all day to hold off a series of attacks and retain the yellow jersey

Winner Dan Martin

Cavendish collides with Tom Veelers in a sprint finish and the Dutchman hits the deck hard. The Manxman sits up as Veelers' Argos-Shimano team-mate Marcel Kittel takes another stage. 'It was Mark Cavendish's fault,' says Veelers but a pumped-up Cav denies blame, pinches a reporter's dictaphone and is later cleared by the officials. Froome steers clear of the drama. 'It was a bit tricky towards the end, but I always had a team-mate with me and I kept out of trouble.'

Winner Marcel Kittel

Tony Martin wins the time trial to the iconic island commune but Froome extended his lead over the main GC contenders with a masterful ride. Cavendish endures a day as public enemy No1 following the Veelers crash. He is jeered by spectators and gets sprayed with urine on the parcours. Twitter wags point out it may be the closest he ever gets to a yellow jersey

Winner Tony Martin

It's bad to worse for Cavendish as he gets outgunned in a Tour straight sprint for the first time in his career, Kittel surging past the Manxman on the line for his third stage win. Froome steers clear of two crashes in the closing kilometres and retains his lead. 'Every time I cross the finish line there's a little sigh of relief,' he says

Winner Marcel Kittel

Crosswinds play havoc with the peloton and split the race apart, causing Froome's first serious setback of the Tour as Bauke Mollema and Contador close the gap at the top to 1min 9secs. Cavendish hits back in typical style, responding to the previous day's agonising defeat with a sublime final dash as he perfectly times his break away from Peter Sagan to seal victory

Winner Mark Cavendish

Italian Matteo Trentin steals victory in a thrilling sprint victory, shaking off competition from an 18-man breakaway group. Although Froome finishes more than seven minutes behind Trentin, this is a day for the peloton to conserve energy ahead of Sunday's trip up Mont Ventoux

Winner Matteo Trentin

Brilliance on Bastille Day from Froome, who produces an extraordinary ride up the giant of Provence, attacking Contador 7km from the finish and overtaking Colombian climber Nairo Quintana to win by 29 seconds. The Team Sky leader justifies his billing as one of the best mountain climbers on the Tour in emphatic style

Winner Chris Froome

Rui Costa wins in style, finishing 42sec clear. Froome retains his yellow jersey despite a brief wobble when chasing Contador, the Spaniard falling on a descent and causing the Briton to swerve on to the verge. Froome accuses his Spanish rival of being 'careless'

Winner Rui Costa

Froome takes another huge step to overall victory by narrowly clinching his third stage win in the final time trial, adding to his successes in Mont Ventoux and in the Pyrenees. Trailing his rival Contador throughout, an inspired swap to a time trial bike before the last climb was probably the difference as Froome secures a nine-second win

Winner Chris Froome

Twice the pain, twice the gain for Christophe Riblon, who gives the French something to cheer about with a first home win of the Tour after a double ascent of Alpe d'Huez. Froome extends his lead further but shows his fallible side when he runs out of energy before the second climb and illegally relies on an energy gel from his team car to get him home

Winner Christophe Riblon

Movistar's Rui Costa won his second stage as the rains come down in the Alps. Froome trails across the line nearly nine minutes later in a group with the other podium contenders, and the situation at the top of the leaderboard remains unchanged with one day of hard racing left before the procession to Paris

Winner Rui Costa

Froome held his nerve to finish third on this brief but tough stage, clenching his fist to acknowledge overall victory as he crossed the line behind Quintana and Spain's Joaquim Rodriguez. The Colombian snapped up the double points on offer at the finish to secure the polka-dot jersey as king of the mountains. Contador looked nervy on the climbs again and dropped to fourth overall

Winner Nairo Quintana

The 170 remaining riders sipped champagne, puffed on cigars and posed for photographs in sweltering sunshine. But come Paris the race was on, though the gods weren't smiling for the Dutchman Lieuwe Westra who abandoned - 39km from the finish. With dusk falling, David Millar made a spirited escape, at one point 30sec ahead, before falling back into the peloton as the sprinters teams took control. Cavendish, never before beaten in Paris, couldn't get going and Marcel Kittel snatched it on the line.

Winner Marcel Kittel