1: ABRAHAMSEN NEW WINNER
Jonas Abrahamsen raises his arms for the first time in his third Tour, having already competed in 2023 and 2024. He previously had two podium finishes: 3rd in Bourg-en-Bresse in 2023 (stage 18), 2nd in Bologna in 2024 (stage 2). It comes 409 days after his first professional victory, achieved at the 2024 Brussels Cycling Classic.
53: UNO-X MOBILITY FOR THE FIRST TIME
Jonas Abrahamsen gives Uno-X Mobility its first Tour victory. The Norwegian team had previously achieved six podium finishes with Abrahamsen (2), Alexander Kristoff (2), Tobias Johannessen (1), and Soren Waerenskjold (1). Today was its 53rd stage, just like Abrahamsen, who made his Tour debut with the team. The Tudor team, participating for the first time, is now the only of the 2025 peloton without a win.
156: FROM START TO FINISH
Jonas Abrahamsen attacked from the start of the stage, completing the 156.8 kilometers of the day at the front. This is the first victory by a rider who started a breakaway at kilometer zero since Kasper Asgreen in Bourg-en-Bresse in 2023 (stage 18). The same day, Abrahamsen finished 3rd, securing his first Tour podium (and even top-10).
2: SWITZERLAND, SO CLOSE
Second, Mauro Schmid is the first Swiss rider on a stage podium since Stefan Küng's 2nd place in the Laval time trial in 2021, four years ago. For a road stage, the last podium finish was five years ago: Sébastien Reichenbach 3rd in Villard-de-Lans (Tour 2020, stage 16). 2020 is also the year of the last Swiss victory, achieved by Marc Hirschi in Sarran.
8: DE LIE STILL SEARCHING HIS FIRST VICTORY
Fourth, Arnaud De Lie finished in the top 5 of a Tour stage for the 8th time. He's also the best young rider of the day. He is the only rider to have a top 5 finish in three of the last four stages (5th in Laval, 3rd in Châteauroux, 4th in Toulouse).
20: A SUCCESSOR TO KRISTOFF
Jonas Abrahamsen claimes Norway's 20th Tour victory, the first since Alexander Kristoff in Nice in 2020 (stage 1). He's the 6th Norwegian rider to win after Thor Hushovd (10 times), Kristoff (8), Edvald Boasson Hagen (3), Kurt-Asle Arvesen (1), and Dag-Otto Lauritzen (1). Lauritzen opened the road by winning the 14th stage of the Tour 1987 in Luz-Ardiden.
1903: TOULOUSE, PAST AND PRESENT
Toulouse, along with Paris, is the only stage city from the first Tour de France in 1903 to be in the 2025 program. This is the 27th time the "Pink City" has hosted a stage start, and also a stage finish. The last two ended in a bunch sprint – Mark Cavendish in 2008 and Caleb Ewan in 2019. For a victory achieved in a different configuration (like today), you have to go back to Juan Antonio Flecha in 2003.
3: A BRAVE NORWEGIAN
Jonas Abrahamsen won two combativity awards last year, in Bologna (stage 2) and Colombey-les-Deux-Églises (stage 8). Receiving this award for the 3rd time today, he is the Norwegian with the most prizes. The other five have only won it once each (Dag-Otto Lauritzen in 1988, Thor Hushovd in 2009, Vegard Stake Laengen in 2017, Sven Erik Bystrom in 2022, and Tobias Johannessen in 2024).
10: HEALY IN YELLOW BEFORE THE PYRENEES
Ben Healy keeps his Yellow Jersey, his second and Ireland's 10th. He has one more than his compatriot Sean Kelly, and closes in on Seamus Elliott (4) and Stephen Roche (3), on the eve of a mountain stage where his jersey will be in danger.
