113: VICTORIOUS AT ALL THREE GRAND TOURS
By winning a Tour de France stage for the first time, Tim Wellens becomes the 113th rider to have won at all three Grand Tours. The Belgian has twice triumphed at the Giro (stage 6 in 2016, stage 4 in 2018) and the Vuelta (stages 5 and 14 in 2020). The 112th to join this list was another Belgian, Wout van Aert, after winning a Giro stage last May.
109: EXPERIENCE MADE THE DIFFERENCE
At 34 years, 2 months, and 10 days, Tim Wellens is the 861st different Tour winner, and more importantly, the 17th oldest rider to win for the first time. He was participating in his 109th stage today, and had never achieved a single top-10 finish. His best result was a 13th place in 2017 (stage 3). Having joined the Tour in 2015 with the Lotto-Soudal team, before joining UAE Emirates XRG, Wellens has showed his attacker skills during his six participations.
55: FIRST FRENCH PODIUM WITH "ALAF"
In third place, Julian Alaphilippe is the first Frenchman on a stage podium this year. He also achieved his first podium finish since the first stage of the Tour 2021, won in Landerneau. A long wait of 55 stages, or 4 years and 24 days (1,485 days).
43: TIM THE ATTACKER
Tim Wellens launched his attack with 43 kilometers to go. One kilometer further than Ben Healy's run to Vire-Normandie (stage 6), making it the longest solo victory of this Tour. Specific to this rider, who had already escaped with 41 kilometers to go when he won his Belgian national title in Binche on June 29.
3/4: THE LORDS OF CARCASSONNE
Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe (3rd) prevented Belgium from achieving a hat-trick. With Tim Wellens (1st), Victor Campenaerts (2nd), and Wout van Aert (4th), three Belgians finished in the top-4. Unprecedented since the 9th stage of the Tour 2018 in Roubaix (Greg Van Avermaet 2nd, Yves Lampaert 3rd, Philippe Gilbert 4th). The Belgian Wellens-Campenaerts 1-2 isn't the first in Carcassonne: when the Tour last came here in 2022, Jasper Philipsen won ahead of Wout van Aert!
5/10: YOUNG ANG STRONG
With Florian Lipowitz (3rd), Oscar Onley (4th), Kévin Vauquelin (5th), Carlos Rodriguez (9th), and Ben Healy (10th), five riders of the young classification are in the top 10 of the general classification before the second rest day. Last year, four young riders finished the Tour in the top 10 (Remco Evenepoel 3rd, Carlos Rodriguez 7th, Matteo Jorgenson 8th, Santiago Buitrago 10th). It was a first!
33: VETERANS' RESISTANCE
Tim Wellens, Victor Campenaerts and Julian Alaphilippe have a combined average age of 33 years and 255 days. This is the 9th oldest stage podium in history. A fact that contrasts with the one cited just above!
8: KEEP AN EYE ON JEGAT
Of all the riders who emerged from the peloton today, Jordan Jegat was the highest-placed in the general classification (11th). The Frenchman has made a good impression over the first two weeks. Finishing 8th, he earned his first top-10 finish in 2025 and improved on his previous best Tour result (9th, stage 17 in 2024).
1: STORER THE FIGHTER
Michael Storer is awarded his first combativity prize, which is also the first for the Tudor team, a newcomer to the Tour peloton. The Australian had already given the team its first stage podium by finishing 3rd in Vire Normandie (Stage 6) ten days ago.
5: BELGIAN PARTY
Tim Wellens took Belgium's 5th victory in this Tour, as many as in 2021, 2023, and 2024. There have also been 6 in 2022. This makes 5 consecutive Tours in which Belgium has won at least 5 times. It's the most victorious country over the last 5 years (26, compared to 21 for Slovenia), for a total of 495 victories.
