Tour de France: Vincenzo Nibali completes race victory

LONDON. KAZINFORM Vincenzo Nibali won the 101st edition of the Tour de France as he finished the final stage safely in the peloton.The Italian is the sixth man to win all three Grand Tours - the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana.

His winning margin of seven minutes, 52 seconds over Jean-Christophe Peraud in second is the biggest since Jan Ullrich won by more than nine minutes in 1997. Germany's Marcel Kittel won Sunday's traditional final-stage sprint finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. The Giant-Shimano rider outsprinted Norway's Alexander Kristoff to win his fourth stage of this year's Tour, with Garmin-Sharp's Lithuanian Ramunas Navardauskas in third, BBC News reports. The 137.5km stage began in pedestrian fashion in Evry with Nibali, 29, collecting champagne flutes from his Astana team car to distribute among his team-mates and then posing for photographs with race officials.