Overview

• Biotherm reached the three-hour stop in Matosinhos first on the route to Cartagena in 2 days, 8 hours, 25 minutes and 15 seconds.
• Paprec Arkéa holds second at the halfway point of the long ‘king stage.’
• Team Malizia remains third overall while contesting this leg without skipper Boris Herrmann.
• The Matosinhos pause served as a brief, compulsory pit stop that splits the leg and shapes the standings.
• Herrmann is set to return for the next three stages to Nice, Genoa and Boka Bay, with final placings to be settled in a 20 September coastal race.