The rolling 183.4km stage to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises came down to a reduced sprint on a riding gradient up to the finish line.
Eritrean sprinter Biniam Girmay won stage eight of the Tour de France on Saturday at a finish line in the village where former French president Charles de Gaulle lived and is buried.De Gaulle led the Free French during WWII and was later president and architect of the Fifth French Republic.
Andre Drege, a Norwegian cyclist, has died after a crash on a mountain road descent at the Tour of Austria.