Tour de France: Alberto Contador wins the grand tour

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Alberto Contador of Spain has won the 2007 Tour de France general classification. He won by 23 seconds over Cadel Evans of Australia. Third place went Contador's team mate Levi Leipheimer of United States, 31 seconds behind. As a young rider, Contador also gets the white jersey to go with his yellow.

Tom Boonen of Belgium wins the green jersey points classification over Robert Hunter and Erik Zabel.

Mauricio Soler of Colombia wins the King of the Mountains classification over Contador and Yaroslav Popovych.

Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team won the team competition over Caisse d'Epargne by 19' 36" and Team CSC by 22' 10'.

Daniele Bennati of Italy won the final stage 20 in a time of 3h 51' 03". The final 146 km stage saw the riders leave from Marcoussis to enter to complete the eight laps of the traditional circuit around the Champs-Élysées.

George Hincapie was given the honor of leading his team and the peloton onto the Champs-Élysées, as he has now guided team mates to victory a record eight times.

Stage 20 results

RankRiderTeamTime1Daniele BennatiLampre-Fondital 3h 51'03"2Thor HushovdCrédit Agricole s.t."3Erik ZabelTeam Milram s.t."4 Robert HunterBarloworld s.t."5Tom BoonenQuick Step-Innergetic s.t."6Sébastien ChavanelFrançaise des Jeux s.t."7Fabian CancellaraTeam CSC s.t."8 David MillarSaunier Duval-Prodir s.t."9Robert FörsterTeam Gerolsteiner s.t."10Manuel QuinziatoLiquigas s.t."

Final general classification

RankRiderTeamTime1Alberto ContadorDiscovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 90h 00' 26"2Cadel EvansPredictor-Lotto +23"3Levi LeipheimerDiscovery Channel Pro Cycling Team +31"4Carlos SastreTeam CSC +7' 08"5Haimar ZubeldiaEuskaltel-Euskadi +8' 17"6Alejandro ValverdeCaisse d'Epargne +11' 37"7Kim KirchenT-Mobile Team +12' 18"8Yaroslav PopovychDiscovery Channel Pro Cycling Team +12' 25"9Mikel AstarlozaEuskaltel-Euskadi +14' 14"10Oscar PereiroEuskaltel-Euskadi +14' 25"