 The first break of the day was formed by Philippe Gilbert ( BMC Racing Team ) and Florian Vachon ( Bretagne – Séché Environnement ) after 9 km ( 6 mi ) . Bradley Wiggins ( Team Sky ) and Antoine Duchesne ( Team Europcar ) attempted to bridge across to the leading pair ; Wiggins was first to drop back , while Duchesne was never able to get closer than two minutes to the pair ahead . Bob <unk> ( Trek Factory Racing ) took third place in the first intermediate sprint . At the first mountains sprint , Gilbert crossed the line first to win four points and take the lead of the mountains classification . Following repeated attacks from the peloton behind , Gilbert and Vachon were joined after 74 km ( 46 mi ) by Thomas Voeckler ( Team Europcar ) . Gilbert then won the two other third @-@ category climbs , earning a nine @-@ point lead in the classification . 
