Tour de France 2025

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Stage 21: Tadej Pogačar claims fourth overall victory as Wout van Aert solos to victory over new Montmartre climb in Paris finale / As it happened

The 21st stage led to a thrilling finale in Paris when race leader Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) went on the attack on the climb on the wet cobbles up Montmartre, joining and then splitting the breakaway as they tackled the climb in front of huge and boisterous crowds. Though he did not win the stage, the Slovenian claimed his fourth overall title with over four minutes on GC on Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike). Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) finished third overall.

Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) dropped Pogačar the third and final time on the climb and soloed to victory on the Champs-Élysées. Davide Ballerin (XDS-Astana) took second ahead of Matej Mohorič (Bahrain-Victorious).

Stage 20: Kaden Groves completes his Grand Tour set with solo victory after breathless breakaway battle / As it happened

Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) claimed a stunning solo victory on stage 20 of the Tour de France, attacking away after a breathless fight from a 13-man breakaway 17km from the finish line in Pontarlier.

Groves was left alongside Jake Stewart (Israel-Premier Tech) and Frank van den Broek (Picnic PostNL) in the lead before he went solo just under 17km from the finish, having got in front after a crash in the lead group of six.

His gap grew all the way to the line with those behind faltering after such a tough day in wet conditions, allowing Groves to celebrate emotionally at the finish.

Stage 19: Thymen Arensman holds off Vingegaard and Pogačar in final metres to claim second victory of this year's Grand Tour / As it happened

Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) pulled off an exceptional performance to claim his second solo victory at the Tour de France, this time on shortened stage 19 atop the La Plagne.

Exhausted after a massive effort on the 19.4km hors categorie ascent to La Plagne, the Dutch climber collapsed into the roadside barriers after crossing the finish line just two seconds ahead of a chase group battling for the general classification.

Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) won the sprint for second place ahead of yellow jersey Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and fourth-place Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe).

Pogačar maintained his lead in the GC standings at 4:24 ahead of Vingegaard and 11:09 ahead of Lipowitz as the race heads into the penultimate stage 20 on Saturday.

Stage 18: Ben O'Connor sails up Col de la Loze for solo victory while Tadej Pogačar drops rivals with second at summit / As it happened

Ben O'Connor (Jayco-AlUla) overcame the pain and disappointed of two weeks of suffering at the Tour de France with a tactically brilliant ride to win atop the mighty Col de la Loze. The Australian joined the key break and then attacked in the valley, dropping Einer Rubio (Movistar) and holding off the GC chasers.

Jonas Vingegaard and his Visma-Lease a Bike teammates tried to crack Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) but he attacked the Dane near the finish to gain some extra seconds and extend his lead to 4:26 with just one mountain stage to race.

Stage 17: Jonathan Milan secures rain-soaked, crash-marred sprint victory in Valence / As it happened

Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) took an important step towards victory in the green jersey points competition with his second sprint victory in Valence. The Italian was ahead of a lade crash that took out Biniam Girmay and slowed Tim Merlier and so was able to beat Jordi Meeus and Tobias Lund Andresen.

The GC riders were soloed by the crash but were given the same time as Milan, keeping the top-ten unchanged before the Alpine stages.

Stage 16: Frenchman Valentin Paret-Peintre conquers Mont Ventoux ahead of Ben Healy / As it happened

The stage to Mont Ventoux did not cause any major shifts to the Tour de France GC standings except that Tadej Pogačar put more time into rival Jonas Vingegaard, even if it was it was just two seconds. Kévin Vauquelin dropped one spot after losing touch on a stage won by Valentin-Paret-Peintre from the breakaway.

Stage 15: Tim Wellens takes solo victory in Carcassonne / As it happened

Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) joined the elite club of riders who have won stages in all three Grand Tours after securing a 40km solo victory on stage 15 at the Tour de France.

The Belgian Champion attacked from the day's breakaway over the top of the final climb, Pas du Sant, and after high-fiving fans on the final straight away, crossed the finish line 1:06 ahead of runner-up and solo chaser Victor Campenaerts (Visma-Lease a Bike) and 1:36 ahead of third-placed Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling) from a larger chase group in Carcassonne.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) continues to lead the GC standings with 4:13 ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and 7:53 ahead of Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) as the race heads into the second rest day at the Tour de France.

Stage 14: Thymen Arensman climbs to solo victory atop the summit to Luchon-Superbagnères as Pogačar extends overall lead / As it happened

Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) took a solo win on the savage stage 14 summit finish of Superbagnères. He held off the sparring pair of Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) and Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma–Lease a Bike), gifting Ineos Grenadiers a rare return to Grand Tour glory.

Pogačar extended his lead in the overall classification ahead of Vingegaard, while Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) abandoned the race on the Col du Tourmalet.

Stage 13: Tadej Pogačar demolishes rivals, extends lead in mountain time trial up Peyragudes / As it happened

Race leader Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) won the 10.9km stage 13 individual time trial to Peyragudes on Friday, his fourth stage victory of this year's Tour. The Slovenian put 36 seconds into second-placed Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) on the mountain ITT, the Dane now 4:07 back in the GC in secon overall. Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) finished third on the stage at 1:20 off the winning time, and remained seventh overall.

Stage 12: Tadej Pogačar punishes challengers with massive victory on Hautacam and regains race lead / As it happened

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) was the strongest of the overall contenders and climbers on stage 12 at the Tour de France, as the race visited the high mountains for the first time to finish at the top of Hautacam. The World Champion attacked 12km from the top of the ascent to score a dominant solo victory and moved back into the overall race lead.

Pogačar now leads the overall classification by 3:31 ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and 4:45 ahead of Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) as the race heads into stage 13 on Friday.

Stage 11 - Abrahamsen edges Mauro Schmid in two-up sprint from breakaway / As it happened

Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility) completed an amazing comeback from a broken collarbone suffered under a month ago at the Baloise Belgium Tour, winning stage 11 of the Tour de France from the day-long breakaway in Toulouse.

The Norwegian, who was one of the most combative riders last July, outpaced Mauro Schmid (Jayco-AlUla) to the finish as the pair dodged a protester on the line, while metres behind, Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) fell just short of catching the pair with a solo 9km chase.

Stage 10 - Simon Yates solos to victory as Ben Healy goes into yellow / As it happened

Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike) succeeded from the breakaway to win stage 10, soloing to victory atop Le Mont-Dore after being in the early 29-man group that was slowly whittled down over eight categorised climbs. With the break building up a lead of over five minutes, third-placed Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) missed out on the stage win, but took the yellow jersey from Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG).

Some GC tension kicked off on the final two climbs as Visma-Lease a Bike managed to isolate Pogačar, and he and Jonas Vingegaard went on the attack on the final climb, but ultimately they only took six seconds on the other GC rivals, and nothing on each other.

Stage 9 - Tim Merlier eclipses Jonathan Milan at the line for second win in opening week / As it happened

Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) timed his sprint to perfection and pipped Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) at the line in Châteauroux for the stage 9 victory. The European Champion earned his second stage win of the race, so far, as the sprint teams caught and passed a 173km breakaway by Mathieu van der Poel just after the flamme rouge. Arnaud De Lie (Lotto) rounded out the podium in third place.

Van der Poel and his Alpecin-Deceuninck teammate Jonas Rickaert rode for more than three hours out front, with Rickaert earning the most combative rider prize.

Stage 8 - Jonathan Milan holds off Wout van Aert to win Laval sprint / As it happened

Wearing the green points jersey, Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) delivered a powerful sprint into Laval and won stage 8 into Laval. The Italian also celebrated his first career Tour victory, as he held off an aggressive late move by Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) at the end of the 171.4 kilometres of racing, with Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) taking third.

Milan started the day in second place in the green jersey competition, led by race leader Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), and now has full control of the classification. Pogačar finished safely in the peloton to retain the yellow jersey.

Stage 7 - Tadej Pogačar tops Jonas Vingegaard to win on Mûr-de-Bretagne / As it happened

A blistering late acceleration by Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) on the summit of the Mûr-de-Bretagne simultaneously netted the Slovenian both his nineteenth Tour stage win and a return to the top spot overall. Whilst race leader Mathieu van de Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) lost 1:20 and with it the maillot jaune, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) was able to shadow Pogačar all the way to the line, the two clipping free of a shattering mini-lead peloton of less than ten riders.
Pogačar's latest success and added advantage overall was overshadowed by a major crash in the closing kilometres, badly affecting one of his key domestiques, João Almeida, amongst others.

Stage 6 - Ben Healy launches long-range attack for solo victory / As it happened

Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) used a surprise attack from the day's breakaway with 42km to go to win the first Tour de France stage of his career, riding solo across the line into Vire Normandie. From the eight-man group that got away on the 201.5km stage, Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) moved back into the leader's jersey, using his eighth-place finish to reclaim yellow from Tadej Pogačar by just one second.

Stage 5 - Remco Evenepoel uses pure power to win individual time trial while Tadej Pogačar moves into yellow jersey / As it happened

Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) started the stage 5 time trial as the favourite, and finished it as a winner, using his Olympic and world title-winning power to take victory on the 33km course in Caen. Finishing in second, Tadej Pogačar seized the race lead, now leading the overall by 16 seconds from Evenepoel. It was a bad day for Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), who ceded over a minute to his two main rivals and dropped down to fourth overall.

Stage 4 - Tadej Pogačar outduels Mathieu van der Poel and Jonas Vingegaard on hotly-contested sprint finish in Rouen / As it happened

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) sprinted to the 100th victory of his career on stage 4 of the Tour de France, outpacing race leader Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) to the line at the end of the uphill drag into Rouen. The pair went head-to-head once again on the 5% slope to the line, with Van der Poel launching the sprint before the world champion came around the outside to nip through and take the win with a sharp finishing acceleration.

Stage 3 - Tim Merlier delivers win in Dunkerque on messy flat stage scattered with crashes / As it happened

Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) took a second career stage win at the Tour de France on Monday, four years after his first, prevailing in a messy sprint. It was a photo finish between Merlier and Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) in Dunkerque, at the end of a day that had been fairly calm but then descended into chaos with a number of crashes in the final 3km. Yellow jersey Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) survived the damage to hold onto the overall lead, but his teammate Jasper Philipsen was not so lucky, crashing heavily at the intermediate sprint and having to abandon the race.

Stage 2 - Mathieu van der Poel holds off Tadej Pogačar to win in Boulogne-sur-Mer / As it happened

For the second day in a row, Alpecin-Deceuninck reigned supreme as Mathieu van der Poel outsprinted Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), while for a second day in a row, too, the GC battle continued unabated. On a series of short, punchy climbs late on, 26 riders opened up a gap on the rest of the peloton, with Pogačar coming within inches of his 100th career win after trading blows with Vingegaard. While Pogačar moved into the mountains jersey lead, he, Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) and Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) all gained 30 seconds on more on the remainder of the GC contenders.

Stage 1 - Jasper Philipsen prevails to seize first yellow jersey as Evenepoel loses time in crosswind chaos / As it happened

Jasper Philipsen won a reduced bunch sprint after a late echelon attack inspired by Visma-Lease a Bike left key contenders Remco Evenepoel and Primoz Roglič trailing by 39 seconds. Whilst the Alpecin-Deceuninck racer celebrated his tenth Tour stage victory and first spell in the lead, both Jonas Vingegaard and arch-rival Tadej Pogačar made gains on their GC rivals at the first day possible. Meanwhile former double World Time Trial Champion Filippo Ganna crashed badly and was forced to abandon.

The 2025 Tour de France started in Lille with three stages in the north of France, the return of the Mûr-de-Bretagne and an early time trial in Caen featuring in the first week.

The 2025 Tour de France route includes seven stages for sprinters, six hilly stages, six mountainous days of racing and five summit finishes on Hautacam, Luchon-Superbagnères, Mont Ventoux, Courchevel Col de la Loze and La Plagne in addition to the mountain time trial from Loudenvielle to Peyragudes.

2025 Tour de France stage schedule

2025 Tour de France stage winners, jersey holders

How does the Tour de France work?

The 112th edition of the Tour de France starts in Lille on July 5 and ends three weeks later.

Riders have to cover the entire 2025 Tour de France route, covering 3320km across 21 stages.

The rider who completes the distance in the fastest time wins the race, also known as the 'overall classification'. Each day, the rider who has completed the entire distance raced the quickest is the leader of the Tour de France, and wears a yellow jersey to signify him as such.

Read more about the jerseys of the Tour de France.

There is a secondary time classification for the best rider under the age of 26, the best young riders' classification, and he wears a white jersey if leading.

Riders also gain points for their position at the end of each day of racing, known as "stages". There is a secondary prize for the rider who gains the most points - the points classification, and the leader each day wears a green jersey.

There are also points atop a select number of mountain passes for the first riders to cross the top, with more points available the harder the mountain is to climb. The leader of the mountains classification wears a white jersey with red polka dots.

Most days, the peloton race the distance of the Tour de France stage as a bunch. This year's Tour de France features two individual time trials, where riders race a set distance alone against the clock.

There are other prizes, too. Read about the Souvenir Henri Desgranges and Souvenir Jacques-Goddet.

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