American Lance Armstrong secured his seventh Tour de France yellow jersey following the 21st and final stage of this year's race held over 144km between Corbeil-Essone and here on Sunday.
The 33-year-old Discovery Channel team rider finished the race with a 4min 40sec lead on Italian Ivan Basso with Germany's Jan Ullrich, the 1997 winner, finishing third on the podium at 6:21 behind Armstrong.
Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan, who rides for the T-Mobile team, won the 21st and final stage after pulling ahead of Australian Brad McGee in the last 200 metres on the Champs Elysees.
Michael Rasmussen of the Rabobank team managed to avoid any mishaps and secured the polka dot jersey for the race's best climber while Norwegian Thor Hushovd of Credit Agricole won the points classification whose prize is the green jersey.
Yaroslav Popovych, of Armstrong's Discovery Channel team, won the race's white jersey for the best placed rider in the general classification aged 25 years or under.
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