2025 Paris-Nice, France (World Tour)

83rd edition: March 9 - 16, 2025
Complete results

Paris-Nice podium history | 2024 edition | Start list
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5 | Stage 6 | Stage 7 | Stage 8

2025 Paris-Nice route. 8 stages covering 1,206 kilometers

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Sunday, March 16: 8th & Final Stage, Nice - Nice, 119.9 km

Stage 8 map & profile

Magnus Sheffield wins the final stage.

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Weather at the start/finish city of Nice at 1:10 PM, local time: 15C (59F), sunny, with the wind from the southwest at 27 km/hr (17 mph). No rain is forecast.

Rated ascents:

• Km 50.7: Col de la Porte, 7 kms @ 7.2%. Cat. 1
• Km 79.2: Côte de Peille, 6.5 km @ 6.9%. Cat. 1
• Km 110.9: Col des Quatre Chemins, 3.6 km @ 8.8%. Cat 1

The race: Alberto Dainese (Tudor) and Roel van Sintmaartensdijk (Intermarché-Wanty) did no start stage 8. That leaves 122 riders in the starting peloton. Soon after the start Andrien Petit (Intermarché-Wanty) & Max Walker (EF Education-EasyPost) abandoned after being dropped by the peloton. Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates), who has been feeling ill, also quit the race.

Here's the race organizer's stage eight summary:

The Promenade des Anglais (“the Englishman’s promenade”) in Nice smiled at the USA’s stars on Sunday. Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) made the most of an animated stage 8, marked by the many attacks of Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), to claim his first victory in the World Tour. In his wake, Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) finished second of the stage and thus sealed the overall victory in dominant fashion, putting the final touches to a triumph built both on the flat, especially with the echelons towards Berre-l’Étang (stage 6), and on the climbs.

Already crowned in 2024, he is the tenth rider to win back-to-back editions of the Race to the Sun, following the likes of Jacques Anquetil (the first to do so, in 1965 and 1966), Sean Kelly (who holds the records with 7 wins in a row in the 1980s) and Max Schachmann (winner in 2020 and 2021). His runner-up Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) wins the best young rider standings and Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) completes the overall podium, just ahead of Sheffield.

At last. The riders get to race under sunny, blue skies as the eighth & final stage is launched. Well, Paris-Nice is "The Race to the Sun".

The race:
The peloton have reached Nice and the sky is blue for the final stage of the 83rd edition of the Race to the Sun. The final day is traditionally explosive and today’s course is very much suited for attacking with the Col de la Porte, Côte de Peille and Col des Quatre Chemins. And it’s very windy today…

Too brutal for McNulty
Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) attacks as soon as the flag drops. It’s only the beginning of an impressive show from the Danish star, leader of the points standings. As in tradition, a flurry of attacks animates the final stage around Nice. And Pedersen features in almost every group, with other attackers such as Ben O’Connor (Jayco AlUla), Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor), Georg Steinhauser (EF Education-EasyPost)…

The pace is too brutal for Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates), 7th in GC, who abandons after being dropped early in the day. Max Walker (EF Education-EasyPost) and Adrien Petit (Intermarché-Wanty) suffer the same fate.

Pedersen, again and again and again
With the peloton chasing every attack and counter-attack, Pedersen goes solo at the bottom of the first categorised climb of the day, to Col de la Porte (7km at 7.2%). He’s caught again as Ineos Grenadiers set a strong pace in the bunch, reduced to less than 30 riders at the summit. Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) is isolated, with no teammate around him.

Pedersen thus goes again on the downhill. And this time, he opens a gap of 1’15’’ into the last 50 kilometres of the stage.

Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) attacks up the Côte de Peille (summit at km 79.2). But Matteo Jorgenson reacts well. Felix Gall (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) and Aleks Vlasov (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) eventually manage to join him inside the last kilometre of ascent. The gap to the GC group is down to 20’’.

Sheffield and Jorgenson fly away
Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) gets away on the downhill and bridges the gap to the front trio with 30 km to go. The gap to the GC group increases to a minute but Jorgenson reacts towards Col d’Èze, with an intermediate sprint at the summit. Pedersen goes first on the line to all but secure the green jersey. Jorgenson brings the gap down to 15’’.

American racer Matteo Jorgenson wins the final 2025 Paris-Nice GC.

The situation settles towards the final climb of the day, Col des Quatre Chemins, with its gradient reaching 16%. Sheffield goes solo with 12.5 km to go. At the summit, he is 20’’ ahead of Jorgenson and Gall. That’s more than enough for Sheffield to storm to victory in Nice, while Jorgenson seals the overall victory for the second year in a row.

Complete results

119.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.665 km/hr

1	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	2hr 48min 37sec
2	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 29sec
3	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	0:35
4	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:01
5	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
6	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
7	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
8	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:04
9	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	1:40
10	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
11	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
12	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
13	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
14	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:52
15	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:54
16	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
17	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	2:21
18	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	2:51
19	William Barta	Movistar Team	3:19
20	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	3:47
21	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	3:55
22	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	4:14
23	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
24	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
25	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
26	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
27	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
28	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	4:30
29	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
30	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
31	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
32	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
33	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
34	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
35	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
36	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	5:00
37	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	5:14
38	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	5:25
39	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
40	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	5:54
41	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
42	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	6:19
43	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	6:39
44	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
45	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	7:43
46	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	8:03
47	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
48	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
49	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	9:38
50	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	10:54
51	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
52	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	s.t.
53	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	13:31
54	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
55	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
56	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
57	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
58	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
59	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
60	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
61	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
62	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
63	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
64	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
65	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
66	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
67	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
68	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
69	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
70	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
71	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	s.t.
72	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
73	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
74	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
75	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
76	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
77	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
78	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
79	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
80	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
81	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
82	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
83	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
84	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
85	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
86	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	15:51
87	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
88	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
89	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
90	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
91	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
92	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
93	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
94	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
95	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
96	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
97	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
98	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
99	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
100	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
101	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
102	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
103	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
104	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	17:44
105	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
106	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
107	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
108	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	19:20
109	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
110	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
111	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
112	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	s.t.
113	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	s.t.
114	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	23:02

 

Final GC after stage 8:

• GC winner: Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike)
• Mountains classification winner: Thomas Gachignard (Team TotalEnergies)
• Points classification winner: Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek)
• Best young rider: Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
• Teams classification winner: INEOS Grenadiers

1,157.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.919 km/hr

1	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	26hr 26min 42sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 1min 15sec
3	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	1:58
4	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	2:17
5	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	3:03
6	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	3:57
7	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	4:00
8	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	4:53
9	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	4:59
10	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	5:26
11	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	5:45
12	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	6:07
13	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	6:43
14	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	8:51
15	William Barta	Movistar Team	9:53
16	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	10:07
17	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	10:55
18	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	12:06
19	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	12:46
20	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	13:51
21	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	14:48
22	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	15:26
23	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	16:05
24	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	17:28
25	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	17:44
26	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	18:10
27	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	18:21
28	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	19:26
29	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	20:49
30	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	21:09
31	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	21:11
32	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	22:28
33	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	23:17
34	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	25:06
35	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	26:24
36	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	26:30
37	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	29:09
38	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	30:28
39	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	31:30
40	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	32:49
41	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	33:31
42	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	33:32
43	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	33:54
44	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	34:10
45	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	36:13
46	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	36:26
47	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
48	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	38:39
49	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	38:49
50	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	38:59
51	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	39:38
52	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	39:51
53	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	39:54
54	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	40:11
55	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	42:08
56	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	42:10
57	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	42:22
58	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	42:23
59	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	43:12
60	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	45:08
61	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	45:21
62	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	45:39
63	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	45:55
64	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	46:10
65	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	46:27
66	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	48:22
67	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	48:42
68	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	48:52
69	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	49:02
70	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	49:04
71	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	49:26
72	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	49:35
73	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	49:53
74	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	50:05
75	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	50:10
76	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	50:27
77	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	51:10
78	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	53:00
79	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	53:03
80	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	53:31
81	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	55:30
82	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	55:52
83	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	56:09
84	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	58:13
85	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	58:22
86	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	59:02
87	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	59:56
88	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:00:52
89	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	1:00:58
90	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	1:01:58
91	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:02:05
92	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	1:02:44
93	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	1:05:11
94	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	1:05:25
95	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	1:06:15
96	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:06:22
97	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:06:28
98	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	1:06:41
99	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	1:09:00
100	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	1:09:21
101	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	1:10:01
102	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	1:12:01
103	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:12:38
104	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:13:58
105	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:15:24
106	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	1:15:42
107	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:17:39
108	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:18:50
109	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	1:19:41
110	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:20:07
111	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:21:20
112	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:21:57
113	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	1:25:54
114	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	1:29:27

 

Stage 8 map & profile:

Stage 8 map

Stage 8 profile

Profile of the final climb, the Col des Quatre Chemins

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Saturday, March 15: Stage 7, Nice - Auron, 109.3 km

Stage 7 map & profile

Michael Storer wins in Auron.

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Weather at the town of Isola, on the route, 18 kms from the finish, aqt 1:10 PM, local time: 6C (43F), cloudy, with the wind from the east-southeast at 13 km/hr (8 mph). There is a 90% chance of rain during the afternoon.

Rated ascents:

• Km 19.6: Còte d'Aspremont, 9 kms @ 5%. Cat. 2
• Km 109.3: Auron, 7.3 km @ 7.2%. Cat 1

The race: Cofidis report that Aimé De Gendt and Stanislaw Aniokowski got ill overnight. The same goes with UAE Team Emirates-XRG’s Juan Sebastian Molano. Arkéa-B&B Hotels also say Arnaud Démare won’t start today, without specifying a reason. Max Walscheid (Jayco AlUla), Robin Froidevaux (Tudor), Cees Bol (XDS Astana), Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility) and Hugo Page (Intermarché-Wanty) are also out of Paris-Nice 2025.

That left 129 starting riders. Midway into the stage Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X Mobility) abandoned. With 52km to go GC third-place Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) crashed after hitting some road furniture and abandoned.

Points leader Mads Pedersen & GC leader Matteo Jorgensen on the start line.

Here's the race organizer's stage seven summary:

A short, explosive stage from Nice to Auron saw Michael Storer (Tudor) rise to victory at the summit. The Australian climber attacked early in the day and proved to be the strongest in a 15-man breakaway that also featured Julian Alaphilippe, who gave his all to lead his teammate toward the stage win and the 4th position in the general classification.

In 2nd place in the overall standings, Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) gained 3 seconds on Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), who retains the yellow and white jersey on the eve of the final stage around Nice. Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) is now 3rd (+1’20’’) after Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) crashed out of the race. This is Storer's 7th professional victory, the 5th on French roads and the 3rd in the UCI World Tour after he took two stages of La Vuelta 21 in similar fashion.

The peloton of the Race to the Sun faces the final weekend with two decisive stages that will crown the overall winner of the 83rd edition. First, Saturday’s course takes them to the Auron ski resort, atop a 7.3-km climb with an average gradient of 7.2%. 129 riders enjoy a sunny start from Nice as they head for the snowy mountains.

It's time to go racing in the Alps.

Big battle for the break
Mauro Schmid (Jayco AlUla) accelerates as soon as the flag drops. His move is followed by a flurry of attacks, and the first climb of the day, the cat-2 Côte d’Aspremont (summit at km 19.6), becomes the perfect launchpad for many more attackers.

After 17 kilometers, two groups merge to form the 15-man break of the day with Kelland O’Brien, Mauro Schmid (Jayco AlUla), Josh Tarling (Ineos), Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Ivan Romeo (Movistar), Julian Alaphilippe, Michael Storer (Tudor), Johan Jacobs, Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ), Neilson Powless, Georg Steinhauser (EF Education-EasyPost), Clément Izquierdo (Cofidis), Alexandre Delettre and Jordan Jegat (Total Energies).

The day's breakaway led by Julian Alaphilippe on the final climb to Auron. Alaphilippe, working for teammate Michael Storer, also in the break, took a last hard pull and dropped off from the break.

Skjelmose goes down
Visma-Lease a Bike, Lidl-Trek and UAE Team Emirates-XRG take turns at the front of the peloton to control the gap. The situation changes after Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) crashes out of the race with 52 km to go. The Danish climber is taken to the hospital after hitting the ground on his right hip.

The gap goes up to 3’10’’ (km 68) before new faces up the ante in the bunch. Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, Bahrain Victorious and XDS-Astana collaborate to bring the gap down to 1’45’’ at the bottom of the climb to Auron.

The break with 7 kilometers to go. Julian Alaphilppe (in black Tudor jersey) has taken his final pull for teammate Michael Storer and swung off.

Storer rises
Michael Storer sets the pace at the front. Mauro Schmid is the last rider to keep up with the Australian climber, who eventually went solo inside the last 2.5km. Never looking back, Storer takes the stage win and also moves from 13th to 4th in the overall standings.

Behind him, Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) and Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) shake the GC group. The Austrian climber finishes 6th (+57’’), ahead of the French youngster (+1’04’’). Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) follows with a gap of 1’11’’, just 3 seconds ahead of the rest of the GC contenders.

Here's the finish line in Auron as the stage was starting.

Complete results:

109.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.106 km/hr

1	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2hr 43min 31sec
2	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	@ 20sec
3	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	0:30
4	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	0:45
5	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	0:50
6	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	0:57
7	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	1:04
8	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:11
9	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	1:14
10	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
11	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
12	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
13	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
14	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
15	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
16	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	1:17
17	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
18	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:26
19	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
20	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:34
21	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:40
22	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	1:47
23	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	1:55
24	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:58
25	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	2:07
26	William Barta	Movistar Team	2:20
27	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
28	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
29	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	2:25
30	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	2:33
31	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:36
32	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
33	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	2:39
34	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	2:55
35	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	3:05
36	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	3:10
37	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	3:37
38	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
39	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	3:47
40	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	3:50
41	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	4:04
42	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
43	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	4:17
44	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	4:41
45	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	4:50
46	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	5:27
47	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
48	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	5:46
49	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	5:48
50	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	5:52
51	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	5:58
52	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	5:59
53	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	6:03
54	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
55	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	6:10
56	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	6:15
57	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	6:18
58	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	6:31
59	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	6:47
60	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	6:59
61	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	7:04
62	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
63	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
64	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
65	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
66	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	8:52
67	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	9:10
68	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	9:14
69	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	9:46
70	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	9:50
71	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	9:56
72	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
73	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
74	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
75	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	10:09
76	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	11:01
77	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	11:04
78	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
79	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	11:12
80	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
81	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	11:18
82	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
83	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	11:20
84	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	11:22
85	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	11:38
86	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	13:37
87	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
88	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	14:04
89	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	14:17
90	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	15:17
91	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	15:47
92	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	16:03
93	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	16:08
94	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	16:17
95	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
96	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
97	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
98	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
99	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
100	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
101	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
102	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
103	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
104	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
105	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
106	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
107	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	16:46
108	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	17:28
109	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
110	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:32
111	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	17:46
112	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	17:56
113	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	18:00
114	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
115	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
116	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
117	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
118	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	18:22
119	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
120	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	19:34
121	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
122	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
123	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	20:53
124	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.

 

GC after stage 7:

• GC leader: Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike)
• Mountains classification leader: Thomas Gachignard (Team TotalEnergies)
• Points classification leader: Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek)
• Best young rider: Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
• Teams classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

1,037.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.897 km/hr

1	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	23hr 37min 42sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 37sec
3	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	1:20
4	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:25
5	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	2:40
6	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	2:54
7	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	3:05
8	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	3:22
9	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	3:28
10	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	3:36
11	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	3:47
12	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	4:09
13	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	4:50
14	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	5:26
15	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	6:16
16	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	6:48
17	William Barta	Movistar Team	6:57
18	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	7:20
19	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	8:39
20	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	9:48
21	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	10:00
22	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	10:18
23	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	11:16
24	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	11:57
25	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	12:00
26	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	12:14
27	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	12:50
28	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	13:37
29	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	13:57
30	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	14:52
31	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	15:35
32	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	17:04
33	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	17:15
34	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	17:20
35	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	18:22
36	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	18:41
37	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	19:26
38	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	20:04
39	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	20:23
40	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	23:05
41	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	25:02
42	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	25:31
43	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	25:43
44	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	25:51
45	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	26:33
46	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	26:43
47	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	26:46
48	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	28:36
49	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	29:14
50	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	29:15
51	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	29:19
52	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	29:25
53	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	29:47
54	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	30:55
55	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	31:24
56	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	32:13
57	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	32:47
58	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	32:51
59	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	33:02
60	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	33:24
61	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	33:34
62	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	33:36
63	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	33:42
64	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	33:58
65	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	34:12
66	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	34:30
67	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	34:34
68	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	34:37
69	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	34:59
70	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	35:14
71	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	35:34
72	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	35:52
73	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	36:27
74	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	36:45
75	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	36:57
76	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	37:02
77	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	37:32
78	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	38:02
79	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	38:31
80	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	38:47
81	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	39:05
82	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	39:55
83	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	41:48
84	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	42:22
85	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	42:45
86	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	43:01
87	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	44:21
88	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	45:14
89	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	45:23
90	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	45:30
91	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	45:54
92	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	46:48
93	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	47:44
94	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
95	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	48:50
96	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	48:57
97	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	49:43
98	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	49:57
99	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	50:47
100	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	50:54
101	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	51:04
102	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	53:03
103	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	53:19
104	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	53:20
105	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	53:32
106	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	53:53
107	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	55:01
108	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	56:10
109	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	57:10
110	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	58:42
111	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	58:53
112	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	59:56
113	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	1:00:06
114	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	1:01:10
115	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	1:02:20
116	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:03:06
117	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:03:12
118	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	1:03:18
119	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:03:22
120	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:05:52
121	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	1:08:33
122	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:08:49
123	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	1:09:49
124	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	1:16:19

 

Stage 7 map & profile:

Stage 7 map

Stage 7 profile

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Friday, March 14: Stage 6, Saint Julien en Saint Alban - Berre l'Etang, 209.8 km

Stage 6 map & profile

Mads Pedersen beats Joshua Tarling for the stage win.

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Weather at the finish city of Berre l'Etang at 1:30 PM, local time: 8C (46F), off and on rain, with the wind from the northwest at 11 mph. There is a 77% chance of rain, dropping to 17% at 4:00 PM.

Rated ascents:

• Km 88.3: Côte de Pouzilhac, 1.8 km @ 5%. Cat. 3
• Km 145.1: Côte des Baux-de-Provence, 2.5 km @ 5.1%. Cat. 3
• Km 160.4: Côte de Mouriès, 1.2 km @ 5%. Cat. 3

The race: Jonas Vingegaard did not start. “Unfortunately, Jonas Vingegaard will not start in today’s stage of Paris-Nice”, Visma-Lease a Bike announced this morning. “Our medical staff has decided that it is best for him to recover from yesterday’s crash at home and focus on his next goals for the season.” That leaves a 138 rider starting peloton.

Here's the race organizer's stage six summary:

Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) powered to victory in Berre-l’Étang, after an eventful stage 6 of Paris-Nice 2025 marked by echelons. The Danish star was the fastest in the 17-man group that emerged after Visma-Lease a Bike turned the race upside down in the last 65 kilometres. Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) made the first echelon alongside Matteo Jorgenson, but Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) was caught behind (+1’54’’). As for Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), he lost almost 10 minutes. The road will rise again this week-end, first of all with the summit finish in Auron.

After an eventful stage 5 marked by Lenny Martinez’s first World Tour success and Jonas Vingegaard’s crash, the Danish climber withdrew from Paris-Nice 2025, leaving 138 riders to head out to Berre-l’Étang in a flat and windy stage.

Stage 6 gets a wet start.

There are three cat-3 climbs on the day, inspiring Thomas Gachignard (Total Energies) to attack as soon as the flag drops. Second in the KOM standings with 18 points - 2 less than Joao Almeida - the Frenchman is quickly joined by a countryman, Rémi Cavagna (Groupama-FDJ). Then, Jakub Otruba (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) bridges the gap to them at km 18, making it a 3-man breakaway.

Nervousness in the bunch
Tim Merlier’s Soudal Quick-Step drive the bunch. Pushed by a tailwind, the riders are flying, and the gap hits a maximum of 3’05’’ at km 60. However, the peloton is wary of potential echelons as the race heads east on some sections of the second half of the course.

Gachignard goes first atop the Côte de Pouzilhac (km 88.3) and then drops back to the bunch, trailing by 1’20’’ halfway through the 209.8-km stage.

The peloton 100 kms into the stage.

After this first warning, the situation settles, and the gap increases again: 2’35’’, as Cavagna goes solo at the front with 87 km to go. The French powerhouse pushes his advantage back up to 3’ at the bottom of the Côte-des-Baux-de-Provence.

Kilometer 145: The riders descend the Côte des Baux-de-Provence

Major echelons
Visma-Lease a Bike accelerate on the following downhill and open major splits in the peloton. Matteo Jorgenson is at the front with his five teammates, and only three rivals manage to follow. After 9 kilometers of battle, eight more riders join to form a 17-man group: Jorgenson, Affini, Campenaerts, Hagenes, Lemmen, Zingle, Schachmann, Skjelmose, Pedersen, Lipowitz, Sobrero, Arensman, Foss, Jungels, Sheffield, Tarling, and Watson.

Mads Pedersen wins stage six.

They work well together, catch up to Cavagna with 42 kilometers to go, and open significant gaps to their rivals en route to Berre-l’Étang, where Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) shows his power to take his third stage win in Paris-Nice. Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) loses 1’54’’ and Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) finishes 7 minutes further behind.

Complete results:

209.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 47.392 km/hr

1	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	4hr 25min 37sec
2	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
3	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
4	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
5	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
6	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
7	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
8	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
9	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
10	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
11	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
12	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
13	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	@ 17sec
14	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:23
15	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
16	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:35
17	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	1:54
18	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
19	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
20	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
21	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
22	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
23	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
24	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
25	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
26	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
27	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
28	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
29	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
30	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
31	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
32	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
33	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
34	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
35	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
36	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
37	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
38	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
39	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	2:07
40	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
41	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
42	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:15
43	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	2:36
44	William Barta	Movistar Team	s.t.
45	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
46	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
47	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
48	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
49	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
50	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
51	Cees Bol	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
52	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	3:01
53	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
54	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
55	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
56	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
57	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	s.t.
58	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
59	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
60	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
61	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
62	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	@ 1min 54sec
63	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	3:58
64	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
65	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
66	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
67	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
68	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	s.t.
69	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
70	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
71	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
72	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	5:02
73	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	8:57
74	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
75	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
76	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
77	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
78	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
79	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
80	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
81	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
82	Tim Naberman	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
83	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
84	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
85	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
86	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
87	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
88	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	s.t.
89	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
90	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
91	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
92	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
93	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
94	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
95	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
96	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
97	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
98	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
99	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
100	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
101	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
102	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
103	Arnaud Démare	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
104	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
105	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
106	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
107	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
108	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	s.t.
109	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
110	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
111	Robin Froidevaux	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
112	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	s.t.
113	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
114	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
115	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
116	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
117	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
118	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
119	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
120	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
121	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
122	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
123	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
124	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
125	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
126	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
127	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
128	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
129	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
130	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
131	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
132	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
133	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
134	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
135	Aimé De Gendt	Cofidis	s.t.
136	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
137	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
138	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	10:11

 

GC after stage 6:

• GC leader: Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike)
• Mountains classification leader: Thomas Gachignard (TotalEnergies)
• Points classification leader: Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek)
• Best young rider: Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
• Teams classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

927.9 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 44.434 km/hr

1	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	20hr 52min 57sec
2	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 40sec
3	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	0:59
4	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	1:20
5	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	2:40
6	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	2:47
7	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	2:54
8	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	3:05
9	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	3:22
10	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	3:24
11	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	3:36
12	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	3:44
13	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	3:55
14	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	4:20
15	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	4:38
16	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	4:52
17	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	5:32
18	William Barta	Movistar Team	5:51
19	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	6:14
20	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	6:48
21	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	7:27
22	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	7:42
23	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	9:58
24	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	10:07
25	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	10:10
26	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	10:38
27	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	11:03
28	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	11:25
29	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	11:45
30	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	12:17
31	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	12:38
32	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	12:47
33	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	13:31
34	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	13:33
35	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	14:19
36	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	14:50
37	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	14:52
38	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	15:53
39	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	16:18
40	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	16:38
41	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	18:10
42	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	18:55
43	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	19:39
44	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	20:26
45	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	20:28
46	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	20:33
47	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	20:49
48	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	21:13
49	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	21:59
50	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	22:12
51	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	22:20
52	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	22:46
53	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	23:29
54	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	23:50
55	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	23:52
56	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	23:57
57	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	24:15
58	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	24:21
59	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	24:24
60	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	24:29
61	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	24:41
62	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	24:50
63	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	24:52
64	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	25:01
65	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	25:05
66	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	25:13
67	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	26:04
68	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	26:17
69	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	26:47
70	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	26:53
71	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	26:57
72	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	27:02
73	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	27:58
74	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	28:17
75	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	28:27
76	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	28:32
77	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	28:34
78	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	29:07
79	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	29:50
80	Aimé De Gendt	Cofidis	29:57
81	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	30:20
82	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	30:35
83	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	30:51
84	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	30:58
85	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	31:11
86	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	32:02
87	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	32:08
88	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	32:21
89	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	32:24
90	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	32:27
91	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
92	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	32:41
93	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	32:43
94	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	33:09
95	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	33:24
96	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	33:26
97	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	34:32
98	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	34:40
99	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	34:54
100	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	35:00
101	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	35:44
102	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	36:34
103	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	36:58
104	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	37:09
105	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	38:06
106	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	38:15
107	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	38:16
108	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	38:50
109	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	39:20
110	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	39:24
111	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	40:31
112	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	40:37
113	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	41:28
114	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	41:34
115	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	42:07
116	Cees Bol	XDS Astana Team	42:43
117	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	43:10
118	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	43:50
119	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	44:01
120	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	45:04
121	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X Mobility	45:43
122	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	45:47
123	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	45:54
124	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	46:06
125	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	46:07
126	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	46:20
127	Arnaud Démare	Arkea-B&B Hotels	46:40
128	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	47:08
129	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	47:16
130	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	48:09
131	Robin Froidevaux	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	48:25
132	Tim Naberman	Team Picnic PostNL	49:28
133	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	50:49
134	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	52:41
135	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	53:01
136	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	53:28
137	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	54:00
138	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	58:40

 

Stage 6 map & profile:

Stage 6 map

Stage 6 profile

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Thursday, March 13: Stage 5, Saint Just en Chavalet - La Côte Sant André, 203.3 km

Stage 5 map & profile

Lenny Martinez wins stage five.

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Weather at the finish town of La Côte Sant André at 1:15 PM, local time: 11C (51F), fair, with the wind from the west at 13 km/hr (8 mph). There is a 1% chance of rain, growing to 15% at 4:00 PM.

Rated ascents:

• Km 10.9: Côte de Saint-Polgues, 1.5 km @ 5.5%. Cat. 3
• Km 106.3: Côte de Trèves, 2.3 km @ 6%. Cat 3
• Km 156.2: Côte du Château Jaune, 1.2 km @ 9.2%. Cat. 3
• Km 161.1: Côte de Sibuze, 1.1 km@ 8.2%. Cat. 3
• Km 173.9: Côte de Chavagneux, 1.1 km @ 8.6%. Cat. 3
• Km 186.8: Côte d'Arzay, 1.3 km@ 8%. Cat. 3
• Km 203.3: Côte de Notre Dame-de-Sciez, 1.7 km @ 11.1% Max gradient of 18%). Cat. 2

Stage five preview: Visma-Lease a Bike and their leaders are not infallible. It is the nature of sport, and especially cycling, where many intrinsic and external elements come together to overthrow the established order. Who thought Jonas Vingegaard and Matteo Jorgenson had all the cards in hand to dominate the second part of the Race to the Sun, after their dominant performance in Tuesday’s team time trial? Virtually everyone… Who imagined stage 4, en route to La Loge des Gardes, would turn into an absolute ordeal, with hail battering the race before the sun returned? About nobody.

And yet, at the summit, Joao Almeida found the resources to get the better of the Danish climber after a brutal day of racing. The gap at the line was minimal: 1 second. Even factoring in time bonuses, Vingegaard, now wearing the yellow and white jersey, and Jorgenson still soar above the fray. But the rivals have seen an opening. Stage 5 shall inspire them to try again, with a sequence of walls leading to the final climb at La Côte-Saint-André: 1.7 km at 11.1%.

That’s more than enough to put the hammer down and put a rival to the sword or, at least, hurt him and gain some more time through bonus seconds… if stage hunters don’t manage to get the better of the GC contenders. For his return to Paris-Nice, with his new colors, Julian Alaphilippe has marked this finish, reminiscent of the Mur de Huy he used to dominate. Bring it on!

The race: Composer Hector Berlioz was born in the finish town of La Côte Sant André.

Here's the race organizer's stage five summary:

Stage 5 of Paris-Nice 2025, filled with steep ascents all the way to a spectacular summit finish at La Côte-Saint-André, favoured a lightweight - Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), who surged to victory inside the last 100 metres after an animated finale. The young French climber got the better of Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) and resisted his countryman Clément Champoussin (XDS-Astana) to take his most prestigious victory to date, on slopes that saw Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) crumble. The Dane suffered a crash early in the stage, rapidly resumed action, and eventually finished 16th, with a gap of 26’’. The yellow and white jersey thus returns to Jorgenson… with Vingegaard in 2nd place of the overall standings (+22’’). Martinez moves up to 5th (+55’’).

Danes on the start line: GC leader Jonas Vingegaard and Best Young Rider Mattias Skjelmose. ASO photo

The 143 riders who finished stage 4 at La Loge des Gardes are all present to resume racing in Saint-Just-en-Chevalet. Many of them eye the possibility of a winning breakaway, and a group of 11 riders try their luck from the first (uphill) kilometre... without success.

A blistering first 2 hours
Attack and counter-attack movements follow one after the other and meet the same fate, with riders already spotted in the previous days such as Joshua Tarling, Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers), Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X), as well as new attackers like Michael Matthews (Jayco-AlUla) and Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost).

Stage five gets started. ASO photo

After two hours of battle, Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers) and Thibaud Gruel (Groupama-FDJ) get the clear for the break of the day. They set off at km 73, press on as a duo and eventually benefit from the clemency of the peloton after more than 90 kilometres, covered at an average of 48.4 km/h.

Stage five got a fast start, 49.5 kilometers covered in the first hour and an average of 48.4 km/hr after two hours. ASO photo

Vingegaard hits the deck, Foss gets away
Their lead hits a maximum of 3’15’’ (km 114) before Julian Alaphilippe’s Tudor Pro Cycling react. Meanwhile, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) hits the deck on the climb of Côte de Trèves. The Danish leader of the race rapidly gets back up and returns to the bunch.

The pace and the tension increase as the riders face the Côte du Château Jaune and the Côte de Sibuze, the first of five “walls” in the last 50 kilometres. Tobias Foss (Ineos Grenadiers) uses these launchpads to join the lead duo and build a margin of 55’’ as he goes solo on the Côte de Chavagneux, with 30 kilometres to go.

The day's break of Ben Swift (INEOS Grenadiers) & Thibaud Gruel (Groupama-FDJ) had a lead of 1min 40sec with 50 kilometers to go. ASO photo

Vingegaard struggles, Martinez flies
Trailing by 1’06’’ on GC, Foss takes the lead of the virtual standings as he pushes his advantage to 1’10’’ into the last 20 kilometres. But the peloton set a brutal pace on the penultimate climb of the day, Côte d’Arzay (16.5 km to go). The Norwegian attacker is eventually caught 4 km away from the line.

As Vingegaard struggles on the steeper slopes of the final climb, Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) sets his own pace at the front and even opens a small gap with 300 metres to go. But Harold Tejada (XDS-Astana) bridges the gap with his teammate Clément Champoussin and Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious)… The latter dances on his pedals in the last 100 metres to claim victory.

Complete results:

203.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.134 km/hr

1	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	2hr 36min 23sec
2	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	@ 3sec
3	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
4	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
5	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:06
6	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:07
7	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:11
8	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	0:16
9	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
10	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	0:18
11	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:20
12	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
13	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	0:22
14	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
15	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	0:26
16	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
17	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	0:28
18	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	0:35
19	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	0:38
20	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	0:41
21	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
22	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	0:45
23	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
24	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
25	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	0:54
26	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
27	William Barta	Movistar Team	0:59
28	Aimé De Gendt	Cofidis	1:00
29	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
30	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	1:05
31	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	1:18
32	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	1:22
33	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	1:23
34	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	1:39
35	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	1:45
36	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	2:01
37	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
38	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	2:08
39	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	2:17
40	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	2:23
41	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:58
42	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
43	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	3:10
44	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
45	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	3:15
46	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	3:24
47	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
48	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	3:28
49	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:32
50	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	3:51
51	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	3:55
52	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	3:59
53	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	4:00
54	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	4:02
55	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	4:22
56	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
57	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	4:25
58	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	4:39
59	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	4:43
60	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:24
61	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	5:26
62	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	5:35
63	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
64	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	5:46
65	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
66	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	5:53
67	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	5:58
68	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
69	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
70	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
71	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	s.t.
72	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
73	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
74	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	s.t.
75	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
76	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	s.t.
77	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	6:21
78	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
79	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	6:45
80	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	6:48
81	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	7:18
82	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	7:57
83	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
84	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
85	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	8:36
86	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	9:46
87	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
88	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
89	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
90	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
91	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
92	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
93	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
94	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	10:01
95	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
96	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	10:14
97	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	10:22
98	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
99	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	10:29
100	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	10:43
101	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	10:53
102	Tim Naberman	Team Picnic PostNL	11:21
103	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	11:24
104	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	11:38
105	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	12:13
106	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
107	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	12:31
108	Arnaud Démare	Arkea-B&B Hotels	17:04
109	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
110	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
111	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
112	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
113	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	17:11
114	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	17:16
115	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
116	Robin Froidevaux	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
117	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	17:19
118	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	17:20
119	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
120	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
121	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
122	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
123	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
124	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
125	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
126	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
127	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
128	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
129	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
130	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
131	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
132	Cees Bol	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
133	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
134	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
135	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
136	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
137	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	17:29
138	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	17:32
139	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.

 

GC after stage 5:

• GC leader: Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike)
• Mountains classification leader: Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Points classification leader: Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Best young rider: Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
• Teams classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

718.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.634 k/hr

1	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	16hr 27min 26sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:22
3	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:36
4	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:40
5	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	0:55
6	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	0:57
7	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:05
8	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	1:14
9	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	1:22
10	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	1:24
11	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	1:36
12	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	1:44
13	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:55
14	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	2:20
15	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	2:38
16	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	2:41
17	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	2:42
18	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	2:48
19	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	3:07
20	William Barta	Movistar Team	3:09
21	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	3:14
22	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	3:32
23	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	3:35
24	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:28
25	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	4:45
26	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	4:46
27	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	4:48
28	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	5:16
29	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	5:42
30	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	5:47
31	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	6:50
32	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	7:00
33	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	7:15
34	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	7:56
35	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	8:10
36	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	9:04
37	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	9:07
38	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	10:36
39	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	10:57
40	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	11:20
41	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	11:23
42	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	11:25
43	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	11:46
44	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	12:47
45	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	13:09
46	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	13:17
47	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	14:47
48	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	14:56
49	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	15:12
50	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	15:26
51	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	15:47
52	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	15:48
53	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	16:02
54	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	16:12
55	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	16:29
56	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:01
57	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	17:44
58	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	17:55
59	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	19:13
60	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	19:24
61	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	19:29
62	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	19:31
63	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	20:04
64	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	20:45
65	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	20:47
66	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s
67	Aimé De Gendt	Cofidis	20:54
68	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	21:17
69	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	21:44
70	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	21:54
71	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	22:06
72	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	22:08
73	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	22:21
74	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	22:41
75	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	22:52
76	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	22:53
77	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	22:59
78	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	23:10
79	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	23:21
80	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	23:24
81	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	23:40
82	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	23:43
83	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	23:46
84	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	24:06
85	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	24:23
86	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	24:43
87	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	25:29
88	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	25:51
89	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	26:17
90	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	26:31
91	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	26:39
92	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	26:47
93	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	26:54
94	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	27:07
95	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	27:55
96	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	27:56
97	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	28:04
98	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	29:03
99	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	29:20
100	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	29:32
101	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	29:47
102	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	30:17
103	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	30:21
104	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	30:41
105	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	30:42
106	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	31:34
107	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	32:25
108	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	32:31
109	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	33:31
110	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	34:07
111	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	34:34
112	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	34:58
113	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	35:09
114	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
115	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	36:01
116	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X Mobility	36:40
117	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	36:42
118	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	36:44
119	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	36:51
120	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	37:03
121	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	37:04
122	Arnaud Démare	Arkea-B&B Hotels	37:37
123	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	37:46
124	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	37:49
125	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	38:03
126	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	38:05
127	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	38:13
128	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	39:06
129	Robin Froidevaux	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	39:22
130	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	39:46
131	Cees Bol	XDS Astana Team	40:01
132	Tim Naberman	Team Picnic PostNL	40:25
133	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	41:46
134	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	43:38
135	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	43:58
136	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	44:25
137	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	44:57
138	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	45:51
139	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	47:37

 

Stage 5 map & profile:

Stage 5 map

Stage 5 profile

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Wednesday, March 12: Stage 4, Vichy - La Loge des Gardes, 163.4 km

Stage 4 map & profile

Joao Almeida beats Jonas Vingegaard for the stage win.

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Weather at the start city of Vichy at 1:00 PM, local time: 10C (50F), foggy, with the wind from the northeast at 3 mph. There is an 11% chance of rain, rising to 90% at 3:00 PM.

Rated ascents:

• Km 33.6: Côte de Lavoine, 7.6 km @ 4.1%. Cat 3
• Km 79.2: Côte de la Bruyère, 3.9 km @ 4.8%. Cat 3
• Km 106: Côte e la Croix Bruyère, 3.2 km @ 5%. Cat. 3
• Km 111.9: Côte du Canon, 3.6 km @ 6.7%. Cat 2
• Km 150.4: Côte da la Chabanne, 2.7 km @ 5.3%. Cat 3
• Km 163.4: La Loge des Gardes, 6.7 km @ 7.1%. Cat 1

The race: Julien Bernard (Lidl-Trek), who crashed in stage two, did not start. Amund Grondahl Jansen (Uno-X Mobility) also did not start.

With 45 kilometers to go the race was neutralized because of the weather. 17 kilometers later the race was back on with all the gaps that existed at the neutralization still in place.

Here's the race organizer's stage four summary:

La Loge des Gardes still doesn’t smile at Jonas Vingegaard. On the day after a dominant team time-trial from Visma-Lease a Bike, the Danish star attacked on the final ascent of stage 4 of Paris-Nice 2025, just as he did on the same slopes in 2023. He was still leading the way into the last 200 metres… But, as happened a couple of years ago, the climb proved to be a bit too long for Vingegaard, who saw Joao Almeida turn the tables to claim victory after a subpar performance from UAE Team Emirates-XRG in the TTT.

Matteo Jorgenson (left, in yellow) & Tim Merlier on the start line. ASO photo

The Portuguese climber follows the track of his leader Tadej Pogacar, winner at La Loge des Gardes in 2023. He also gets back in the GC mix, with overall standings once again redefined after this first climbing challenge. Vingegaard takes the yellow and white jersey from his teammate Matteo Jorgenson, while Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) completes the podium on the day and in GC. The race was momentarily neutralised due to the weather conditions but the riders were then able to resume action in sunny conditions.

It's time to race. ASO photo

The peloton face the first climbing challenge of the 83rd edition of the Race to the Sun with a summit finish at La Loge des Gardes, atop a 6.7km ascent (average gradient: 7.1%). Will it redefine the overall standings on the day after Visma-Lease a Bike made the most of the team time trial to propel Matteo Jorgenson and Jonas Vingegaard to the first two positions?

The many ups and downs of the day inspire attackers. After a fierce battle for the breakaway, eight riders manage to open a gap at km 19: Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers), Thibault Guernalec (Arkéa B&B Hotels), Vincenzo Albanese (EF Education-EasyPost), Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X Mobility), Sylvain Moniquet (Cofidis), Dion Smith (Intermarché-Wanty), Thomas Gachignard (Total Energies) and Ed Planckaert (Alpecin-Deceuninck).

Gachignard steps up, Buitrago goes down
Gachignard chases the KOM points to defend his teammate Alexandre Delettre’s polka-dot jersey. Behind the attackers, Edoardo Affini and Per Strande Hagenes (Visma-Lease a Bike) drive the bunch to control the gap around 3 minutes.

As the advantage of the breakaway reaches a maximum of 3'35‘’ at km 89, Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious) suffers a puncture and then crashes as he makes his way back to the peloton. He his forced to abandon.

Race neutralised
On the Côte de Granon, Joshua Tarling and Tobias Foss (Ineos Grenadiers) launch a counter-attack, while Dion Smith was dropped by his breakaway companions.

The weather conditions become very difficult, with hailstorms and slippery roads, and the race is neutralised 45 kilometres away from the finish. At that point, the chasers trailed by 1’35’’ and the peloton by 2’20’’.

Here comes the sun
The action resumes with the same gaps and 29km to go. Leknessund sets off at the front but he doesn’t manage to open more than a 15’’ gap and waits for his chasers. Meanwhile, Swift drops back to help Foss and Tarling. And Lidl-Trek, Movistar and UAE Team Emirates unite to drive the bunch.

The three Grenadiers catch the breakaway with 11km to go. And the group explodes on the first slopes of the ascent to La Loge des Gardes. Foss goes solo with 6 km to go. Behind him, Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) drives a hard chase and brings the gap down to 30’’.

Vingegaard almost makes it
Several riders shake the bunch: Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Pablo Castrillo (Movistar), Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious)… But Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) counters and flies past everyone with 2 kilometres to go.

Into the last kilometre he has a gap of 7’’… But that’s not enough to resist Joao Almeida’s strong push in the last 200 metres. The Portuguese leader of UAE Team Emirates-XRG catches the Dane inside the last 100 metres and claims his first victory in French territory.

Complete Results:

163.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.159 km/hr

1	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	3hr 37min 6sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 1sec
3	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	0:02
4	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
5	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:06
6	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
7	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:09
8	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	0:17
9	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
10	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	0:21
11	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	0:28
12	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
13	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
14	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
15	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1:02
16	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
17	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	1:07
18	William Barta	Movistar Team	1:20
19	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:40
20	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	1:42
21	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
22	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
23	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	1:56
24	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	1:59
25	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
26	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	2:10
27	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
28	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
29	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
30	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	2:16
31	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
32	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
33	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	2:36
34	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	3:00
35	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
36	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
37	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	3:02
38	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	3:52
39	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	4:34
40	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:43
41	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	5:03
42	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	6:28
43	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	7:04
44	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	7:06
45	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	7:43
46	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
47	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
48	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	7:59
49	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
50	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
51	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
52	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
53	Sylvain Moniquet	Cofidis	8:41
54	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
55	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	9:30
56	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
57	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	9:42
58	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	9:58
59	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	10:12
60	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
61	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
62	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
63	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	11:40
64	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
65	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
66	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
67	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
68	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
69	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
70	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
71	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
72	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
73	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
74	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
75	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
76	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
77	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
78	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
79	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
80	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
81	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	12:20
82	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	13:25
83	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	14:07
84	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
85	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
86	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
87	Tim Naberman	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
88	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
89	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
90	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
91	Ryan Gibbons	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
92	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
93	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
94	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
95	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
96	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	14:18
97	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	14:20
98	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	14:26
99	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	14:57
100	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
101	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
102	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
103	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	s.t.
104	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	15:08
105	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
106	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	15:37
107	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	15:39
108	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	16:09
109	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
110	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
111	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
112	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
113	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
114	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
115	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	s.t.
116	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
117	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
118	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
119	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
120	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
121	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
122	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
123	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
124	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
125	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
126	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
127	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
128	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	16:51
129	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
130	Arnaud Démare	Arkea-B&B Hotels	16:52
131	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	16:58
132	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
133	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
134	Aimé De Gendt	Cofidis	17:00
135	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	s.t.
136	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	17:22
137	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	18:20
138	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	18:27
139	Cees Bol	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
140	Robin Froidevaux	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
141	Samuel Leroux	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
142	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
143	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.

 

GC after stage 4:

• GC leader: Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike)
• Mountains classification leader: Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Points classification leader: Tim Merlier (Soudal-Quick-Step)
• Best young rider: Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek)
• Teams classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

531.8 kilometers race so far at an average speed of 44.879 km/hr

1	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	11hr 50min 59sec
2	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 5sec
3	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	0:33
4	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:36
5	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:37
6	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	0:56
7	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:58
8	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	1:06
9	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	1:09
10	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	1:22
11	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	1:24
12	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	1:25
13	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	1:29
14	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:39
15	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	2:01
16	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	2:02
17	William Barta	Movistar Team	2:14
18	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	2:23
19	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	2:24
20	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:30
21	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	2:36
22	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	2:42
23	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	2:43
24	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	2:55
25	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	3:01
26	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	3:29
27	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	3:33
28	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	3:35
29	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	3:40
30	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	3:47
31	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
32	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	3:56
33	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	3:58
34	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	4:04
35	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	4:28
36	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	4:42
37	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	5:26
38	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	6:19
39	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	6:56
40	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	7:27
41	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	7:28
42	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	8:26
43	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	8:29
44	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	8:43
45	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	8:53
46	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	9:32
47	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	9:41
48	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	9:53
49	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	10:17
50	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	10:48
51	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	10:54
52	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	10:55
53	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	11:07
54	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	11:09
55	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	11:12
56	Sylvain Moniquet	Cofidis	11:37
57	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	11:57
58	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	12:24
59	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	12:42
60	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
61	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	12:56
62	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	13:09
63	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	13:17
64	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	13:24
65	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	13:51
66	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	13:53
67	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	13:58
68	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	14:04
69	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
70	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	14:10
71	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
72	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	14:27
73	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	14:57
74	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	15:03
75	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	15:17
76	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	15:27
77	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	15:31
78	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	15:58
79	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	16:09
80	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	16:14
81	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	16:20
82	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	16:23
83	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	16:29
84	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	16:39
85	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	16:49
86	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
87	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	16:51
88	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	16:54
89	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	16:56
90	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	17:05
91	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	17:18
92	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	17:57
93	Ryan Gibbons	Lidl-Trek	18:05
94	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	18:09
95	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	18:12
96	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
97	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	18:22
98	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	18:29
99	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	18:46
100	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	19:04
101	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	19:07
102	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	19:08
103	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	19:13
104	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X Mobility	19:24
105	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	19:26
106	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	19:28
107	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
108	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	19:35
109	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	19:36
110	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	19:42
111	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	19:47
112	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	19:48
113	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	19:52
114	Aimé De Gendt	Cofidis	19:58
115	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	19:59
116	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
117	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	20:05
118	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	20:30
119	Arnaud Démare	Arkea-B&B Hotels	20:37
120	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	20:49
121	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	20:49
122	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	20:51
123	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	20:57
124	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	21:31
125	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	21:50
126	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	22:06
127	Robin Froidevaux	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	22:10
128	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	22:30
129	Cees Bol	XDS Astana Team	22:45
130	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	22:49
131	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	23:34
132	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	23:47
133	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	24:30
134	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	24:32
135	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	26:31
136	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	26:42
137	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	27:10
138	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	27:41
139	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	28:26
140	Tim Naberman	Team Picnic PostNL	29:08
141	Samuel Leroux	Team TotalEnergies	29:39
142	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	30:07
143	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	30:09

 

Stage 4 map & profile:

Stage 4 map

Stage 4 profile

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Tuesday, March 11: Stage 3, Nevers 28.4 km Team Time Trial

Stage 3 map & profile | Start times

Team Visma | Lease a Bike on its way to winning the stage and putting Matteo Jorgenson in yellow. ASO photo

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Weather at the finish city of Nevers at 1:05 PM, local time: 14C (58F), sunny, with the wind from the east at 5 km/hr (3 mph). There is a 2% chance of rain, rising to 6% at 4:00 PM.

The race: Tudor Pro Cycling Team was the first team to start, at 2:30 PM.

Here's the race organizer's stage three summary.

A year after his breakthrough victory in Paris-Nice 2024, Matteo Jorgenson is back at the top of the overall standings thanks to the performance of Visma-Lease a Bike in Tuesday’s team time-trial. After a strong collective start, the American all rounder put the hammer down on the final slopes of the day, and only Jonas Vingegaard accompanied him to set the best time of the day: 30’26’’ (56km/h).

Jayco AlUla achieved the second best performance of the day with Michael Matthews and Ben O’Connor (+15’’), and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe complete the podium of the day with Aleksandr Vlasov and Florian Lipowitz (+25’’). Ineos Grenadiers had to settle for the 5th place (+33’’) and UAE Team Emirates-XRG lost 42’’. On Wednesday, the road rises towards La Loge des Gardes on a day that will see Jorgenson wear the yellow and white jersey for the first time, after he surged to victory on the very last day of last year’s edition.

Team Groupama-FDJ starts.

After Tim Merlier’s dominant sprints on days 1 and 2, the Race to the Sun throws a very different challenge at the riders: a 28.4-km team time trial, with the format initiated in 2023 in Paris-Nice, in which each rider is credited with his actual time in the stage.

Jayco AlUla faster than Ineos Grenadiers
Julian Alaphilippe and his Tudor Pro Cycling teammates kicked off the action, but their time did not stay the top of the table for long, erased by the collective performance of Jayco AlUla, with Michael Matthews crossing the finish line in Nevers first in 30'41‘’.

Ineos Grenadiers were then expected to strike hard with rouleurs of the calibre of Joshua Tarling, Tobias Foss and Thymen Arensman to support Magnus Shefflied’s GC ambitions… But they finished 18’’ behind the provisional leaders.

Team INEOS Grenadiers heads down the start ramp.

The best time for Jorgenson and Vingegaard
All eyes turn then to UAE Team Emirates-XRG, victorious last year in Auxerre. This time, the collective split up on the Côte de la Pisserotte, and four kilometres later, only three were left to appear a short distance from the finish: Brandon McNulty, Joao Almeida and Jhonatan Narvaez, who settle for an average speed of 54.7 km/h.

As for Lidl-Trek, Mattias Skjelmose surged alone in the finale… and achieved a strong performance, 15’’ behind Jayco-AlUla.

But Visma-Lease a Bike, with the defending champion Matteo Jorgenson and Jonas Vingegaard, enforce their collective strength, setting the best time at the intermediate point of La Chaume des Pendus (km 14.1), before their two leaders pounce in the finale. Wheel to wheel, Matteo Jorgenson and Jonas Vingegaard finish the job in 30'26‘’, i.e. 56.0 km/h.

Team TotalEnergies approaches the finish in the city of Nevers.

Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe on the podium
Most of the stronger collectives have already finished, but Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe still manage to take Aleksandr Vlasov and Florian Lipowitz to the third step of the podium, 24’’ behind the day's winners.

Tim Merlier’s Soudal Quick-Step were the last on course. The Belgian sprinter stepped aside at the bottom of the Côte de la Pisserotte and bid farewell to his yellow and white jersey.

Complete results:

28.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 55.991 km/hr

1	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	30min 26sec
2	Team Jayco-AlUla	@ 15sec
3	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:25
4	Lidl-Trek	0:30
5	INEOS Grenadiers	0:33
6	EF Education-EasyPost	0:34
7	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	0:39
8	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:42
9	Movistar Team	0:49
10	Soudal Quick-Step	0:51
11	Groupama-FDJ	0:55
12	Bahrain Victorious	1:02
13	XDS Astana Team	1:03
14	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:06
15	Team TotalEnergies	1:14
16	Uno-X Mobility	1:20
17	Cofidis	1:24
18	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:32
19	ARKEA-B&B HOTELS	1:35
20	Team Picnic PostNL	1:37
21	Intermarché-Wanty	2:00
22	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	2:25

 

GC after stage 3:

• GC leader: Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike)
• Mountains classification leader: Alexandre Delettre (Team TotalEnergies)
• Points classification leader: Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Best young rider: Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgorhe)
• Teams classification leader: Visma | Lease a Bike

368.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 44.713 km/ht

1	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease A Bike	8hr 13min 52sec
2	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease A Bike	@ 6sec
3	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco Alula	0' 21''
4	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco Alula	s.t.
5	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	0' 31''
6	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
7	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco Alula	s.t.
8	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	0' 34''
9	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	0' 36''
10	Magnus Sheffield	Ineos Grenadiers	0' 38''
11	Tobias Svendsen Foss	Ineos Grenadiers	0' 39''
12	Neilson Powless	Ef Education-Easypost	0' 40''
13	Thymen Arensman	Ineos Grenadiers	s.t.
14	Georg Steinhauser	Ef Education-Easypost	0' 42''
15	Jhonatan Manuel Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates XRG	0' 44''
16	Aurélien Paret Peintre	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	0' 45''
17	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
18	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates XRG	0' 48''
19	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
20	Callum Scotson	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
21	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease A Bike	s.t.
22	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates XRG	0' 50''
23	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	0' 51''
24	Ivan Romeo Abad	Movistar Team	0' 55''
25	William Barta	Movistar Team	s.t.
26	Pablo Castrillo Zapater	Movistar Team	s.t.
27	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
28	Maximilian Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	0' 57''
29	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
30	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	1' 01''
31	Stefan Küng	Groupama-Fdj	s.t.
32	Guillaume Martin	Groupama-Fdj	s.t.
33	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-Fdj	1' 03''
34	Rémi Cavagna	Groupama-Fdj	s.t.
35	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	1' 05''
36	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	1' 08''
37	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
38	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	1' 09''
39	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
40	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
41	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1' 12''
42	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
43	Kelland O’Brien	Team Jayco Alula	1' 17''
44	Steff Cras	Totalenergies	1' 20''
45	Jordan Jegat	Totalenergies	s.t.
46	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	1' 26''
47	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
48	Sergio Samitier Samitier	Cofidis	1' 30''
49	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
50	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	1' 34''
51	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1' 35''
52	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1' 38''
53	Alfred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
54	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
55	Raul Garcia Pierna	Arkea-B&B Hotels	1' 41''
56	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
57	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic Postnl	1' 43''
58	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic Postnl	1' 45''
59	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
60	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic Postnl	2' 03''
61	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	2' 04''
62	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	2' 06''
63	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
64	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	2' 14''
65	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease A Bike	s.t.
66	Thomas Gachignard	Totalenergies	2' 17''
67	Alexandre Delettre	Totalenergies	s.t.
68	Kévin Geniets	Groupama-Fdj	2' 23''
69	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates XRG	2' 26''
70	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates XRG	2' 26''
71	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	2' 31''
72	Guillermo Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
73	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
74	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
75	Bob Jungels	Ineos Grenadiers	2' 38''
76	Joshua Tarling	Ineos Grenadiers	s.t.
77	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	2' 43''
78	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale	s.t.
79	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2' 45''
80	Owain Doull	Ef Education-Easypost	2' 48''
81	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	2' 57''
82	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	2' 59''
83	Sam Maisonobe	Cofidis	s.t.
84	Aime De Gendt	Cofidis	s.t.
85	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
86	Sylvain Moniquet	Cofidis	s.t.
87	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3' 05''
88	Mick Van Dijke	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	3' 12''
89	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X Mobility	3' 16''
90	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
91	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	3' 18''
92	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	3' 20''
93	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	3' 26''
94	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	s.t.
95	Vincenzo Albanese	Ef Education-Easypost	3' 30''
96	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	3' 38''
97	Dries Van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
98	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-Fdj	3' 40''
99	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
100	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-Fdj	3' 43''
101	Robin Froidevaux	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	3' 44''
102	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
103	Arnaud Demare	Arkea-B&B Hotels	3' 46''
104	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	3' 47''
105	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	3' 48''
106	Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	3' 51''
107	Dion Allan Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
108	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	3' 52''
109	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
110	Emilien Jeanniere	Totalenergies	3' 57''
111	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco Alula	3' 59''
112	Ryan Gibbons	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
113	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
114	Anthony Turgis	Totalenergies	4' 03''
115	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic Postnl	4' 04''
116	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease A Bike	4' 12''
117	Cees Bol	XDS Astana Team	4' 19''
118	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
119	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease A Bike	4' 22''
120	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4' 29''
121	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates XRG	4' 35''
122	Nicolya Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	4' 41''
123	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4' 43''
124	Amund Grøndahl Jansen	Uno-X Mobility	4' 45''
125	Matevž Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	4' 51''
126	Ivan Garcia Cortina	Movistar Team	4' 52''
127	Joel Nicolau Beltran	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	5' 02''
128	Juan Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates XRG	5' 11''
129	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	5' 15''
130	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic Postnl	5' 21''
131	Ben Swift	Ineos Grenadiers	6' 22''
132	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
133	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	6' 41''
134	Julius Van Den Berg	Team Picnic Postnl	6' 59''
135	Samuel Watson	Ineos Grenadiers	7' 35''
136	Harrison Sweeny	Ef Education-Easypost	7' 57''
137	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	9' 08''
138	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	9' 52''
139	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco Alula	10' 24''
140	Samuel Leroux	Totalenergies	11' 13''
141	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	11' 33''
142	Max Walker	Ef Education-Easypost	11' 34''
143	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	11' 46''
144	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	12' 25''
145	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease A Bike	13' 30''
146	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	13' 59''
147	Samuel Fernandez	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	15' 02''
148	Tim Naberman	Team Picnic Postnl	s.t.

 

Here are the start times:

1	14:30:00	TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM
2	14:34:00	TEAM JAYCO ALULA
3	14:38:00	DECATHLON AG2R LA MONDIALE TEAM
4	14:42:00	INEOS GRENADIERS
5	14:46:00	MOVISTAR TEAM
6	14:50:00	GROUPAMA-FDJ
7	14:54:00	UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG
8	14:58:00	LIDL-TREK
9	15:02:00	EF EDUCATION - EASYPOST
10	15:06:00	TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE
11	15:10:00	TEAM PICNIC POSTNL
12	15:14:00	RED BULL - BORA - HANSGROHE
13	15:18:00	COFIDIS
14	15:22:00	INTERMARCHÉ - WANTY
15	15:26:00	ARKEA-B&B HOTELS
16	15:30:00	CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA
17	15:34:00	UNO-X MOBILITY
18	15:38:00	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS
19	15:42:00	TOTALENERGIES
20	15:46:00	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK
21	15:50:00	XDS ASTANA TEAM
22	15:54:00	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP

Stage 3 map & profile:

Stage 3 map

Stage 3 profile

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Monday, March 10: Stage 2, Montesson - Bellegarde, 183.9 km

Stage 2 map & profile

Two stage wins in a row for Tim Merlier. Photo: ASO/Billy Ceusters

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Weather at the finish city of Bellegarde at 1:10 PM, local time: 13C (55F), cloudy, with the wind from the southwest at 13 km/hr (8 mph). There is a 5% chance of rain.

Rated ascents:

• Km 34.1: Côte des Mesnuls, 1.3 km @ 5.7%. Cat. 3
• Km 54.1: Côte dela Villeneuve, 1 km @ 5%. Cat. 3

The race: Ill, Kasper Asgreen (EF Education-EasyPost) did not start.

Here's the race organizer's stage two summary:

Stage 2 of Paris-Nice 2025 led to a much different sprint than stage 1 but the same winner powered to victory: Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step), who takes his sixth win of the year and retains the yellow and white jersey as the overall leader of the Race to the Sun. The Belgian star is the first rider to win the first two stages since Dylan Groenewegen in 2019… And it was already in Bellegarde! This time, Merlier got the better of two Frenchmen, Émilien Jeannière (TotalEnergies) and Hugo Page (Intermarché-Wanty). On Tuesday, stage 3 is set to shake the overall standings with a team time trial in Nevers, the first major rendezvous of Paris-Nice 2025 for the GC contenders.

After Kasper Asgreen (EF Education-EasyPost) came down with an illness overnight, 153 riders start stage 2 of Paris from Montesson, just outside of the French capital, to make their way towards Bellegarde. The slight rain doesn’t deter early attackers.

Stage two gets started. Photo: ASO/Billy Ceusters

In the wake of his breakaway towards Le Perray-en-Yvelines, Alexandre Delettre (TotalEnergies) is back on the move to defend his polkadot jersey. Samuel Fernandez (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) is with him again, after he won the combativity award on day 1. This time, they’re joined by Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility), a hero of the Tour de France 2024 with his many breakaway attempts.

The gap rapidly rises to 3’10’’ (km 14) before Soudal Quick-Step take the reins of the bunch on the day after Tim Merlier’s opening success.

Merlier and Pedersen unite
Delettre makes the most of the cat-3 climbs up Côte de Mesnuls (km 34.1) and Côte de la Villeneuve (km 54.1) to bring his KOM tally up to 12 points.

Mads Pedersen’s Lidl-Trek collaborate with Soudal Quick-Step and the gap drops down to 2 minutes as the peloton summit the second and last categorised ascent of the day.

With the peloton coming hot on their heels, Abrahamsen puts the hammer down 51 km away from the line. Delettre and Fernandez are caught but the Norwegian pushes his lead back up to a minute.

Merlier suvives an animated finale
The pace picks up again in the bunch but their progress is hampered by a mass crash with 46 km to go. Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) and Arnaud Démare (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) are among the riders involved but they quickly get back up. On the other hand, Florian Sénéchal (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) has to abandon.

Abrahamsen still leads the way into the final 20.3km lap around Bellegarde. Behind him, Tim Van Dijke (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) sprint for the time bonuses. Behind them, a crash splits the bunch again. Luke Durbridge (Jayco AlUla) and Gorka Sorarrain (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) abandon.

Stragglers get back and Abrahamsen is eventually caught with 2.5km to go. Bert Van Lerberghe (Soudal Quick-Step) and Merlier navigate just like they did on day 1 and the Belgian sprinter eventually pounces with 200 metres to go… Nobody can match his speed at the moment.

Complete results:

Hugo Page was relegated from 3rd to 136th.

183.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.876 km/hr

1	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	4hr 11min 29sec
2	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
3	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
4	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
5	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
6	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
7	Arnaud Démare	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
8	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
9	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
10	Cees Bol	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
11	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
12	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
13	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
14	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
15	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
16	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
17	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
18	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
19	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
20	Amund Grøndahl Jansen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
21	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
22	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
23	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
24	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
25	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	s.t.
26	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
27	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
28	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
29	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
30	Ryan Gibbons	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
31	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
32	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
33	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
34	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
35	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
36	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
37	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
38	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
39	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
40	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
41	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
42	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
43	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
44	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
45	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
46	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
47	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
48	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
49	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
50	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
51	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
52	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
53	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
54	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
55	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
56	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
57	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
58	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
59	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
60	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
61	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
62	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
63	Sam Maisonobe	Cofidis	s.t.
64	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
65	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
66	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
67	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
68	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
69	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
70	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
71	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
72	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
73	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
74	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
75	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
76	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
77	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
78	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
79	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
80	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
81	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
82	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
83	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
84	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
85	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
86	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
87	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
88	Robin Froidevaux	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
89	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	s.t.
90	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
91	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
92	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
93	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
94	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
95	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
96	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
97	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
98	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
99	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
100	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
101	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
102	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
103	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
104	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
105	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
106	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
107	Steff Cras	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
108	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
109	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
110	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
111	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
112	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
113	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
114	William Barta	Movistar Team	s.t.
115	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
116	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
117	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	s.t.
118	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	s.t.
119	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	s.t.
120	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
121	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
122	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
123	Sylvain Moniquet	Cofidis	s.t.
124	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
125	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
126	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
127	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
128	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
129	Taco van der Hoorn	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
130	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
131	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
132	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
133	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
134	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
135	Aimé De Gendt	Cofidis	s.t.
136	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
137	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	@ 24sec
138	Edward Planckaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
139	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
140	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
141	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	0:35
142	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	1:17
143	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	2:46
144	Tim Naberman	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
145	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
146	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	3:24
147	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	6:49
148	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
149	Samuel Leroux	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.

 

GC after stage 2:

• Gc leader: Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Mountains classification leader: Alexandre Delettre (Team TotalEnergies)
• Points classification leader: Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Best young rider: Mick Van Dijke (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
• Teams classification leader: XDS-Astana

340 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 44.042 km/hr

1	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	7hr 43min 12sec
2	Arnaud Démare	Arkea-B&B Hotels	@ 14sec
3	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
4	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
5	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
6	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
7	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	0:16
8	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
9	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
10	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	0:18
11	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:20
12	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
13	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
14	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
15	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
16	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
17	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
18	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
19	Cees Bol	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
20	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
21	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
22	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	s.t.
23	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
24	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
25	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
26	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
27	Amund Grøndahl Jansen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
28	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
29	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
30	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
31	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
32	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
33	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
34	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
35	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
36	Ryan Gibbons	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
37	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
38	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
39	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
40	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
41	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
42	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
43	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
44	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
45	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
46	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
47	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
48	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
49	Sam Maisonobe	Cofidis	s.t.
50	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
51	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
52	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
53	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
54	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
55	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
56	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
57	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
58	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
59	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
60	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
61	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
62	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
63	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
64	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
65	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
66	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
67	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
68	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
69	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
70	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
71	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
72	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	s.t.
73	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
74	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
75	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
76	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
77	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	s.t.
78	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
79	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
80	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
81	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
82	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
83	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
84	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
85	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
86	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
87	Robin Froidevaux	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
88	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
89	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
90	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
91	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
92	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
93	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
94	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
95	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
96	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	s.t.
97	Aimé De Gendt	Cofidis	s.t.
98	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	s.t.
99	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
100	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
101	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
102	Felix Gall	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
103	William Barta	Movistar Team	s.t.
104	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
105	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
106	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
107	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
108	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
109	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
110	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
111	Steff Cras	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
112	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
113	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
114	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
115	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
116	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
117	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
118	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
119	Callum Scotson	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale	s.t.
120	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
121	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
122	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
123	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
124	Sylvain Moniquet	Cofidis	s.t.
125	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
126	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
127	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
128	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	0:44
129	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
130	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
131	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:31
132	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	2:01
133	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	3:04
134	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	3:06
135	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	4:53
136	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	6:34
137	Samuel Leroux	Team TotalEnergies	7:09
138	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
139	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	7:15
140	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
141	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
142	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
143	Taco van der Hoorn	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
144	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	7:39
145	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	8:32
146	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	9:18
147	Tim Naberman	Team Picnic PostNL	10:01
148	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
149	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	10:39

 

Stage 2 map & profile:

Stage 2 map

Stage 2 profile

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Sunday, March 9: Stage 1, Le Perray-en-Yvelines - Le Perray-en-Yvelines, 156.1 km

Stage 1 map & profile

No surprise here. Speedster Tim Merlier wins stage one. ASO photo

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Weather at the start/finish city of Le Perray-en-Yvelines at 1:45 PM, local time: 16C (59F), sunny, with the wind from the east-southeast at 13 km/hr (8 mph). There is a 90% chance of rain, declining to 60% at 3:00 PM.

Rated ascents:

• Km 32.9: Côte de Villiers-Saint-Frédéric, 1.2 km @ 7%. Cat 3
• Km 70.1: Côte des Dix-Sept Tournants, 1.1 km @ 6.2%. Cat 3
• Km 134.5: Côte de Villiers-Saint-Frédéric, 1.2 km @ 7%. Cat 3

The race: Here's the race organizer's stage one summary.

Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) was head and shoulders above the rest of the sprinters to win stage 1 of Paris-Nice 2025 and be the first leader of “the Race to the Sun”, just like he did in 2023. The Belgian star survived the traps of the day, marked by a punchy finale, and perfectly navigated the last kilometre to fly past everyone and take his fifth success of the season. Arnaud Démare (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) and Alberto Dainese (Tudor) complete the podium of the day. As for Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), the defending champion in the overall standings, he started the race just like he did last year, claiming time bonuses in the finale.

Lined up for the teams presentation ceremony, Tim Merlier of Soudal Quick-Step is one of the heavy favorites to win this stage. ASO photo

The 83rd edition of “the Race to the Sun” kicks-off in the department of Yvelines with a first stage open to different scenarios, featuring two loops around Le Perray-en-Yvelines adding up to 156.1km of racing. First, the riders head into the Versailles plain, before exploring the Chevreuse valley. Then they get back to the first loop as they battle for the first leader’s jersey of Paris-Nice 2025.

It's time to race. Paris-Nice is on. All 154 riders started. ASO photo

The tricky terrain inspires three early attackers. Alexandre Delettre (Cofidis) and Samuel Ferrnandez (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) immediately set off and Taco van der Hoorn (Intermarché-Wanty) joins them at km 4. Behind them, Mads Pedersen’s Lidl-Trek and Tim Merlier’s Soudal Quick-Step quickly get in action to control the gap.

Alaphilippe and Jorgenson move
Delettre makes the most of the first two ascents to claim 6 KOM points but the attackers’s advantage never gets higher than 2’35’’ (km 20) and drops down to 1’05’’ as they cross the line fort he first time (km 54.6). Fernandez attacks with 62 km to go to breathe some new life into the breakaway. Delettre joins him while Van der Hoorn drops back to the bunch. The lead duo are eventually caught just inside the last 50 kilometres.

Breakaway rounded up, the pack is together with 35 kilometers to go. A big sprint was likely. ASO photo

Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor) shakes the peloton on the steepest section of the Côte de Villiers-Saint-Frédéric (21.6km to go). Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) follows him and goes first at the summit. The bunch rapidly get back together afterwards.

A flurry of attacks
The climb of Les Mesnuls, with an intermediate sprint awarding time bonuses just inside the last 10 km, is the perfect launchpad for more attacks. Jhonatan Narvaez (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) goes first at the summit, ahead of Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadier’s).

A flurry of attacks ensues and three riders eventually get away inside the last 7 kilometres: Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Joshua Tarling (Ineos Grenadiers) and Matteo Trentin (Tudor). They’re caught with less than 3 kilometres to go.

Jayco AlUla and Alpecin-Deceuninck try to set their sprinters for the win… But Bert Van Lerberghe and Tim Merlier perfectly surf wheels until the Belgian star ounces inside the last 300 metres.

Complete results:

156.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.169 km/hr

1	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	3hr 32min 3sec
2	Arnaud Démare	Arkea-B&B Hotels40	s.t.
3	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
4	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
5	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
6	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
7	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
8	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
9	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
10	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
11	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
12	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
13	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
14	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
15	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
16	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
17	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
18	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
19	Cees Bol	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
20	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	s.t.
21	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
22	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
23	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
24	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	s.t.
25	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
26	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
27	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
28	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
29	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
30	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	s.t.
31	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
32	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
33	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
34	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
35	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
36	Florian Sénéchal	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
37	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
38	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
39	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
40	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
41	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
42	Amund Grøndahl Jansen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
43	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
44	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
45	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
46	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
47	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
48	Sam Maisonobe	Cofidis	s.t.
49	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
50	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
51	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
52	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
53	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
54	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
55	Aimé De Gendt	Cofidis	s.t.
56	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
57	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
58	Ryan Gibbons	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
59	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
60	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
61	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
62	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
63	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
64	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
65	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
66	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
67	Samuel Leroux	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
68	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
69	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
70	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
71	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
72	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	s.t.
73	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
74	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
75	Robin Froidevaux	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
76	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
77	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
78	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
79	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
80	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
81	William Barta	Movistar Team	s.t.
82	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
83	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
84	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
85	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
86	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
87	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
88	Kasper Asgreen	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
89	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
90	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
91	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
92	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
93	Gorka Sorarrain	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
94	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
95	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
96	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
97	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
98	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
99	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
100	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	s.t.
101	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
102	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
103	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
104	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
105	Steff Cras	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
106	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
107	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
108	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
109	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
110	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
111	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
112	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
113	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
114	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
115	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
116	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
117	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
118	Callum Scotson	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
119	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
120	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
121	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
122	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
123	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
124	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
125	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
126	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
127	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
128	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
129	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
130	Sylvain Moniquet	Cofidis	s.t.
131	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
132	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
133	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
134	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
135	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
136	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
137	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
138	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
139	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 1min 41sec
140	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:09
141	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
142	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	4:33
143	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
144	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	6:14
145	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	6:55
146	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
147	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
148	Taco van der Hoorn	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
149	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
150	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
151	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
152	Tim Naberman	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
153	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
154	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.

 

GC after stage 1:

• GC leader: Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Mountains classification leader: Alexandre Delettre (Team TotalEnergies)
• Points classification leader: Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Best young rider: Magnus Sheffield (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Teams classification leader: XDS Astana

1	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	3hr 31min 53sec
2	Arnaud Démare	Arkea-B&B Hotels	@ 4sec
3	Jhonatan Narvaez	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
4	Alberto Dainese	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:06
5	Matteo Jorgenson	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
6	Magnus Sheffield	INEOS Grenadiers	0:08
7	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:10
8	Axel Zingle	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
9	Yevgeniy Fedorov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
10	Mick van Dijke	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
11	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
12	Vincenzo Albanese	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
13	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
14	Stanislaw Aniolkowski	Cofidis	s.t.
15	Mads Pedersen	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
16	Emilien Jeannière	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
17	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
18	Fred Wright	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
19	Alexander Kristoff	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
20	Hugo Page	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
21	Thomas Silva	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
22	Cees Bol	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
23	Clement Izquierdo	Cofidis	s.t.
24	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
25	Iúri Leitão	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
26	Owain Doull	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
27	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	s.t.
28	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
29	Anthony Turgis	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
30	Dion Smith	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
31	Enzo Paleni	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
32	Lorenzo Milesi	Movistar Team	s.t.
33	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
34	Thomas Gachignard	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
35	Jonas Vingegaard	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
36	Georg Zimmermann	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
37	Roel van Sintmaartensdijk	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
38	Florian Sénéchal	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
39	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
40	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
41	Miles Scotson	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
42	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
43	Sean Flynn	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
44	Amund Grøndahl Jansen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
45	Warren Barguil	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
46	Alex Kirsch	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
47	Clément Champoussin	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
48	Joel Nicolau	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
49	Sam Maisonobe	Cofidis	s.t.
50	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
51	Mike Teunissen	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
52	Max Schachmann	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
53	Aleksandr Vlasov	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
54	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
55	Otto Vergaerde	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
56	Aimé De Gendt	Cofidis	s.t.
57	Florian Lipowitz	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
58	Mattias Skjelmose	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
59	Ryan Gibbons	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
60	Ben O'Connor	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
61	Mauro Schmid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
62	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
63	Bob Jungels	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
64	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
65	Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
66	Pierre Thierry	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
67	Thibaud Gruel	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
68	Samuel Leroux	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
69	Michael Matthews	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
70	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
71	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
72	Tibor Del Grosso	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
73	Iván García Cortina	Movistar Team	s.t.
74	Kevin Geniets	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
75	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
76	Robin Froidevaux	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
77	Fabian Lienhard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
78	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
79	Raúl García	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
80	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
81	Nicolas Vinokurov	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
82	William Barta	Movistar Team	s.t.
83	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
84	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
85	Edward Planckaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
86	Matteo Sobrero	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
87	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
88	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
89	Kasper Asgreen	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
90	Johannes Kulset	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
91	Oliver Naesen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
92	Julian Alaphilippe	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
93	Remi Cavagna	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
94	Gorka Sorarrain	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
95	Rasmus Tiller	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
96	Neilson Powless	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
97	Ewen Costiou	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
98	Nils Politt	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
99	Luca Vergallito	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
100	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
101	Sergio Samitier	Cofidis	s.t.
102	Pavel Sivakov	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
103	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
104	Jefferson Cepeda	Movistar Team	s.t.
105	Steff Cras	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
106	Matteo Trentin	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
107	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
108	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
109	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
110	Johan Jacobs	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
111	Yves Lampaert	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
112	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
113	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
114	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
115	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
116	Ivo Oliveira	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
117	Jakub Otruba	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
118	Callum Scotson	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
119	Kelland O'Brien	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
120	Sander De Pestel	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
121	Jordan Jegat	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
122	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	s.t.
123	Dries van Gestel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
124	John Degenkolb	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
125	Lenny Martinez	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
126	Sebastian Berwick	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
127	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
128	Julien Bernard	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
129	Andreas Leknessund	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
130	Sylvain Moniquet	Cofidis	s.t.
131	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
132	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
133	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
134	Thibault Guernalec	Arkea-B&B Hotels	s.t.
135	Marco Haller	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
136	Alexandre Delettre	Team TotalEnergies	s.t.
137	Anders Skaarseth	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
138	Edoardo Affini	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
139	Victor Campenaerts	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:51
140	Tobias Bayer	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:19
141	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
142	Anthon Charmig	XDS Astana Team	4:43
143	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
144	Sam Watson	INEOS Grenadiers	6:24
145	Kamil Gradek	Bahrain Victorious	7:05
146	Harry Sweeny	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
147	Michael Hepburn	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
148	Taco van der Hoorn	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
149	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
150	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
151	Samuel Fernández Garcia	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA	s.t.
152	Tim Naberman	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
153	Max Walker	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
154	Per Strand Hagenes	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.

Stage 1 map & profile:

Stage 1 map

Stage 1 profile