The celebrations can finally begin. After three weeks of racing from Yorkshire via the Vosges, the Alps and the Pyrenees, the Tour de France is set to celebrate its finale in Paris on Sunday after the 54km time trial stage decided the final overall classification.

Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) will be crowned winner on the Champs-Élysées after extending his overall lead to 7:52 in the time trial. He becomes just the sixth rider in the history of cycling to have won all three Grand Tours in professional cycling, alongside Jacques Anquetil, Felice Gimondi, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Alberto Contador.

The Italian will be joined by two Frenchmen on the podium, with Jean-Christophe Péraud (Ag2r-La Mondiale) and Thibaut Pinot (FDJ.fr) securing second and third place thanks to determined rides in the time trial between Bergerac and Périgueux. Péraud moved past his younger compatriot to take second at 7:52, with Pinot third at 8:24. Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) was unable to gain time on them, after a terrible performance, and remains fourth at 9:55.

The USA's Tejay van Garderen (BMC) also ended the Tour on a high, moving past Romain Bardet (Ag2r-La Mondiale) to take fifth, 11:44 down on Nibali. He could have been close to the podium without a bad day in the Pyrenees but took fifth, by two seconds, after Bardet suffered a late puncture.

As widely expected and predicted, Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) won the 54km hilly time trial. The German world time trial champion was untouchable, setting a time of 1:06:21. Dutch time trial champion Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Shimano) was second at a distant but respectable 1:39. Jan Barta (Netapp-Endura) ended on a high with third place in the time trial at 1:47. Nibali was fourth at 1:58.