Tour de France 2025

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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.

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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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