TOUR DE FRANCE 2025 – STAGE 19: ALBERTVILLE - LA PLAGNE

Friday, July 25th, 19th stage: Albertville > La Plagne - 

Already a stage winner at Hautacam, Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) doubled up with a second stage win, this time at La Plagne. The Dutchman attacked with 13 kilometres to go on the final HC climb of the Tour de France 2025. At the summit, he narrowly resisted Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), who crossed the line only 2 seconds behind the winner. Right behind them, Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) defended his white jersey and his spot on the GC podium against Oscar Onley (Picnic PostNL). With just two stages to go, Tadej Pogacar takes his 52nd Maillot Jaune. He matches Jacques Anquetil’s record and enters the top-5 for most days leading the overall standings of the Tour.

Arensman also takes La Plagne

The stage film July 25 th 2025 - 17:47

Tour de France 2025 | Stage 19 | Albertville > La Plagne

Already a stage winner at Hautacam, Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) doubled up with a second stage win, this time at La Plagne. The Dutchman attacked with 13 kilometres to go on the final HC climb of the Tour de France 2025. At the summit, he narrowly resisted Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), who crossed the line only 2 seconds behind the winner. Right behind them, Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) defended his white jersey and his spot on the GC podium against Oscar Onley (Picnic PostNL). With just two stages to go, Tadej Pogacar takes his 52nd Maillot Jaune. He matches Jacques Anquetil’s record and enters the top-5 for most days leading the overall standings of the Tour.

It’s time for the final mountain stage of the Tour 2025. Due to the change of course, a 161-man peloton will head to Beaufort, where they will rejoin the original route, heading to La Plagne. The stage will thus cover a total distance of 93.1 km instead of the originally planned 129,9 km.

Roglic, Paret-Peintre and Martinez lead the way

A sequence exactly similar to the previous day begins with Lidl-Trek riders taking control of the peloton, en route to the intermediate sprint at Villard-sur-Doron (km 12.1). Clad with his green jersey, Jonathan Milan is first on the line.

The climb to the Col du Pré comes up next and after several attacks, two groups form at the front of the race. A trio eventually emerges with Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal-Quick Step), who cross the pass in that order before launching their assault on the Cormet de Roselend.

Roglic sets off

Once again, Martinez goes first at the summit. In the peloton, Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X Mobility) sets the pace to distance Kevin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), who was distanced over the top of Col du Pré. At Cormet de Roselend, the GC group are 50’’ behind the leaders while the French man trails by 1’50’’.

Roglic distances the two French climbers on the downhill. Back on the valley, Paret-Peintre and Martinez are reeled in by the bunch, led by Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), with 32 km to go. The Belgian all-rounder then bridges the gap to Roglic 2 kilometres away from the start of the final major climb of the Tour 2025: 19.1km at 7.2% to reach the finish line at La Plagne.

The last major summit

Roglic is dropped early on the ascent, which incites Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale to up the ante as Felix Gall can take the 5th place in the overall standings.

With 14 kilometres to go, Tadej Pogacar launches an attack that scatters the group. Only Jonas Vingegaard manages to stay on his wheel, but the duo is joined by Arensman. The Dutchman takes a gamble and drops them with 13 kilometres to go. Three kilometres further on, a group reforms around Pogacar and Vingegaard, with Gall, Oscar Onley (Picnic PostNL), Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) and Ben Healy, while Arensman tries to keep his hopes alive with a 30’’ lead.

The gap is still up to 20’’ into the last 3 kilometres and Onley shows some signs of weakness. Lipowitz accelerates, Arensman is in sight… But he resists and takes the win 2 seconds ahead of Vingegaard and Pogacar.

Stage 19

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2: DUTCH CLIMBERS' NEW STAR

Winner in Superbagnères six days ago, Thymen Arensman raises his arms for the 2nd time and gives the Netherlands its 170th Tour victory. He is the first Dutchman to win two mountain stages since Peter Winnen, who triumphed at L'Alpe d'Huez in 1981 and 1983, over 40 years ago!

1981: NEOS GOING PAST ONE

Two riders, Jonathan Milan and Thymen Arensman, scored 2 stage wins in their first Tour. Not a common sight: the last time it happened was in 1981, with both Ad Wijnands and Daniel Willems scoring 2 stage wins at their first participation. Before Milan and Arensman, the last "neo" to win two Tour stages was Tadej Pogacar in 2020.

6/12: A HALF... MORE THAN A HALF

Thymen Arensman 1st (2 wins), Tadej Pogacar 3rd (4), Ben Healy 8th (1), Valentin Paret-Peintre 9th (1), Simon Yates 10th (1), Ben O’Connor 12th (1): half of the top-12 riders have won more than half of the stages contested (10 out of 19)!

52: POGACAR LIKE ANQUETIL

Tadej Pogacar still leads the general classification and equals Jacques Anquetil as the 5th rider with the most Yellow Jerseys (52). His next target is Christopher Froome (59).

2000: GALL FOR AUSTRIA

Félix Gall reaches 5th place in the general classification, the best ever achieved by this rider, who is finishing his third Tour de France (8th and stage winner in 2023). He has never done as well in a Grand Tour, his references being a 6th place in the Vuelta (2022, stages 4-5) and a 18th place in the Giro (2024, stage 1). He is the first Austrian to be in the top 5 of the Tour de France since Peter Luttenberger, who was 5th after stages 10 and 11 in... 2000!

6: JOHANNESSEN IS MAKING HISTORY

Moving from 7th to 6th overall, Tobias Johannessen improves a result that would be historic for Norway. A Norwegian has never finished in the top 10 of the Tour, the highest ranking being Jostein Wilmann's 14th place in 1980.

10: VINGEGAARD BEATS POGACAR. FINALLY!

Tadej Pogacar had beaten Jonas Vingegaard in the last 10 mountain stages. Even if it wasn't for today's victory, the Dane (2nd) ended this streak by finally beating the Slovenian (3rd) in La Plagne. It hadn't happened since the 11th stage of the Tour 2024, won by Vingegaard in Le Lioran.

63: ONE MINUTE FOR THE PODIUM

63 seconds (or 1'03") separate Florian Lipowitz (3rd) and Oscar Onley (4th) in the general classification. The battle for the podium – which is also the battle for the white jersey – has not been this tight after 19 stages since the Tour 2019. Geraint Thomas was then 3rd, 12 seconds ahead of Steven Kruijswijk.

3: LOSER OF THE DAY

Attacking in the first part of the stage, Primoz Roglic finished 27th, 12'39" behind the winner. The Slovenian had not finished so far since Mende 2022 (113th, +24'23"). He lost 3 places, slipping from 5th to 8th overall behind Kévin Vauquelin. 8th would be his worst result in a "finished" Grand Tour since 2017 (38th in the Tour de France, with a stage victory in Serre Chevalier). During this period, he won 5 Grand Tours, finished on the podium in three others... but also abandoned five times.

11: MARTINEZ'S EFFORTS WERE NOT ENOUGH

First at the summit of the Col du Pré, and then the Cormet de Roselend, Lenny Martinez has conquered 11 climbs in this Tour. It's the highest number, far ahead of Tadej Pogacar (5), who dominates the mountains classification. The Frenchman is mathematically no longer in contention for the polka dot jersey: he is 20 points behind, with 14 remaining.