TOUR DE FRANCE 2025 – STAGE 5: CAEN - CAEN (33 km)
2: EVENEPOEL DOUBLES UP
Remco Evenepoel claims his 2nd Tour victory, again in an individual time trial. The Belgian won the one finishing in Gevrey-Chambertin last year. This is his 64th professional victory, his 5th of the year.
1: THE CHAMPIONS IN ACTION
Reigning road World Champion Tadej Pogacar won yesterday; time trial World Champion Remco Evenepoel did the same today. Two different World Champions winning in two days, it never happened before!
3/5: THE BELGIANS SHINE
After Jasper Philipsen (stage 1) and Tim Merlier (stage 3), Remco Evenepoel gives Belgium a 3rd victory in the first five stages. It hasn't happened since 1981: Freddy Maertens won twice in Nice and Narbonne, plus a victory for Lucian Van Impe at Pla d'Adet.
5: POGACAR HAS (ALMOST) EVERYTHING
Tadej Pogacar becomes the 5th rider in history to lead the general classification, points classification, and mountains classification simultaneously! The previous four were Bernard Hinault (stage 2 in 1979; prologue in 1985), Acacio da Silva (stages 1-2 in 1989), Richard Virenque (stage 2 in 1992), and Philippe Gilbert (stage 1 in 2011). It’s the first time this has happened so late (stage 5). Eddy Merckx won all three classifications in 1969, but the polka dot jersey didn't exist – it was created in 1975.
41: POGACAR BACK IN YELLOW
Tadej Pogacar dethrones Mathieu Van der Poel and takes the 41st Yellow Jersey of his career. As many as Sylvère Maes, making him the 6th best-ever performer in this classification.
1: FIRST GREEN JERSEY FOR POGACAR
Tadej Pogacar succeeds Jasper Philipsen (stages 1-2) and Jonathan Milan (stages 3-4) to lead the points classification (green jersey). This is a first in the Slovenian's career, as he has never led the points classification! He has now been the holder of all the Tour's distinctive jerseys: the Yellow Jersey (41 times), the polka dot jersey (18 times), the white jersey (75 times), and the green jersey once.
9: AN ITALIAN ON THE PODIUM
Third on the day, Edoardo Affini is the first Italian to finish on the podium in an individual time trial since Fabio Aru, 3rd in Megève in 2016, 9 years ago. However, the route included climbs. For a flat time trial, this is an unprecedented performance in the 21st century!
2001: TWO FRENCHMEN IN THE TOP 5
Two Frenchmen, Bruno Armirail (4th) and Kévin Vauquelin (5th), finished in the top 5 today. It hasn't happened in an individual time trial since July 7, 2001, 24 years ago. Christophe Moreau won the 8.2 km prologue in Dunkerque, while Florent Brard finished 5th.
3: VAUQUELIN IMPRESSES
Kévin Vauquelin is now 3rd in the general classification, becoming the first Frenchman on the podium since Romain Bardet after stage 1 in 2024. To find a Frenchman on the podium after stage 5, you have to go back to Julian Alaphilippe in Colmar in 2019. The rider from Normandie is now 24 years, 2 months and 13 days old. The last Frenchman this young to be in the top 5 of an individual time trial was Armand de las Cuevas in 1992! He finished 2nd of the time trial in Luxembourg, at 24 years and 17 days old.
21: ROMEO, YOUNG AND (ALREADY) FAST
The youngest rider in the peloton, Ivan Romeo, finished 7th today. At 21 years, 10 months and 23 days, the Spaniard is the youngest rider to finish in the top 10 in an individual time trial since Dmitriy Ignatyev, 3rd in Annecy in 2009 at the age of 21 years and 26 days. Tadej Pogacar won the time trial at La Planche des Belles Filles in 2020, but he was slightly older than Romeo (21 years, 11 months and 29 days).
18: POGACAR EQUALS CLAVEYROLAT
With no points awarded in Caen, Tadej Pogacar retains his polka dot jersey, the 18th of his career. He equals Thierry Claveyrolat as the 8th cyclist with the most polka dot jerseys. Next up is Bernard Vallet, who has worn the jersey 20 times.
21: EVENEPOEL BACK IN WHITE
Today's winner, Remco Evenepoel, took the lead in the young rider classification and collected his 21st white jersey. Since his Tour debut last year, he has consistently led this ranking, excepting stage 1 in 2024 and stages 1 to 4 this year. That's 21 of the 26 stages contested so far!
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Evenepoel and Pogacar take over
The stage film July 9 th 2025 - 17:55
Tour de France 2025 | Stage 5 | Caen > Caen
The 33-km individual time trial set around Caen on day 5 of the Tour de France 2025 saw Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) dominate the field. In line with his maiden victory last year in Gevrey-Chambertin, the Belgian star claimed a second stage win in the Tour, thus becoming the third rider to dominate ITTs in different editions of the Tour as the reigning world champion. Second on the day (+16’’), Pogacar takes the Maillot Jaune as the new overall leader of the race, 42’’ ahead of Evenepoel. With yet another strong performance at home, Normandy’s Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) completes the GC top-3 (+59’’) ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), who finished 13th on the day and now trails by 1’13’’, while Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) dropped down to the 6th position (+1’28’’) after his three days with the Maillot Jaune.
The withdrawal of Emilien Jeannière (TotalEnergies) and Jasper De Buyst (Lotto) reduces the number of riders in the Tour to 179, but spectators in Caen are still treated to a clash of champions at the start of the programme for the first time trial (33km) of the 2025 edition.
Affini sets the tone
Kazakhstan and Asian champion Yegueniy Fedorov had just enough time to set a first reference, rapidly beaten by Pablo Castrillo. The Spanish rider is then overtaken by the youngest rider in the peloton, none other than his Movistar teammate Ivan Romeo, who is also the U23 ITT world champion.
His time seemed under threat from Luke Plapp, who beat him at all the intermediate time checkpoints, but the Australian champion faltered in the final stretch. It was quite the opposite for European champion Edoardo Affini, who put in a stunning performance, finishing 30 seconds ahead of his Spanish rival with an average speed of 53.2 km/h.
Evenepoel ups the ante
The ITT French champion Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) delivers a very strong finish but he is 2 seconds shy of claiming the hot seat. Then, nobody comes close to Affini's time until the best GC contenders set off a couple of hours later.
The intensity picks up with the arrival of Florian Lipowitz, stronger than his leader and former Olympic champion Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe). But it was the world champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) who really upped the ante, relegating Affini to 33 seconds behind with an average speed of 54.0 km/h.
Pogacar in yellow
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) is the closest to the Belgian star (+16’’), which earns him the Maillot Jaune, on top of the green and polka dot jerseys, with a lead of 42’’ to Evenepoel.
Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) completes the GC top-3 (+59’’) ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), who finished 13th on the day and now trails by 1’13’’, while Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) drops down to the 6th position (+1’28’’) after his three days with the Maillot Jaune.
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