Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogačar has won the 2025 Tour de France, earning the championship for the second consecutive year and fourth time in his career.
Wout van Aert won the final day of the race, finishing first through a difficult Stage 21 that was paused with 50 kilometers to go and the times frozen due to dangerously slippery road conditions as the cyclists navigated the Butte Montmartre. That took any suspense or competitive element out of the final stage’s last stretch, but provided another demonstration at what a difficult ordeal completing this race is.
“Great from the organisers to neutralize the GC times so nobody had to risk anything,” Pogačar said from the winner’s podium, via The Guardian. “But I gave it a go. Wout was incredibly strong at the top of the climb and he deserves this big, big win.”
Pogačar had a comfortable lead of 4 minutes, 24 seconds over Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, who won the 2022 and 2023 races. He had to cross the finish line to officially be declared the winner of the 112th Tour de France, but still raced as if was close toward the end, finishing among the last six.
With four Tour de France championships, Pogačar ties British cyclist Chris Froome for second among all-time wins. Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain have each won the race five times.
Here are the final standings with the top 10 finishers for the 112th racing of the Tour de France:
Tadej Pogačar, Slovenia: 76 hours, 0 minutes, 32 seconds
Jonas Vingegaard, Denmark: 76:04.56 (4 minutes, 24 seconds behind)
Florian Lipowitz, Germany: 76:11.32 (11 minutes behind)
Oscar Onley, Great Britain: 76:12.44 (12 minutes, 12 seconds behind)
Felix Gall, Austria: 76:17.44 (17 minutes, 12 seconds behind)
Tobias Johannessen, Norway: 76:20.46 (20 minutes, 14 seconds behind)
Kevin Vauquelin, France: 76:23.07 (22 minutes, 35 seconds behind)
Primoz Roglic, Slovenia: 76:26.02 (25 minutes, 30 seconds behind)
Ben Healy, Ireland: 76:28.34 (28 minutes, 2 seconds behind)
Jordan Jégat, France: 76:33.14 (32 minutes, 32 seconds behind)
Pogačar, 26, also earned consecutive Coupe Omnisports trophies in 2020 and 2021, prior to Vingegaard’s two straight wins.
Last year’s Tour de France victory made him only the third male cyclist in history to win the Triple Crown of Cycling, also finishing first in the Giro and the World Championships during the same year.
