1100x10 : VAN AERT IS BACK!
Winner after attacking during the 3rd Côte de la Butte Montmartre ascent, Wout van Aert raises his arms for the 10th time on the Tour, 1,100 days after his last victory in Rocamadour 2022 (stage 20). He had since finished in the top-3 eight times, without winning. Van Aert is the 37th rider to reach 10 victories. He equals, among others, his compatriot Jasper Philipsen who took his 10th success on stage 1.
6: IT ENDS AS IT BEGAN
After Jasper Philipsen (stage 1), Tim Merlier (stages 3 and 9), Remco Evenepoel (stage 5), and Tim Wellens (stage 15), Wout van Aert claims the 6th Belgian victory of this edition. As many as in 1985 and 2022. You have to go back to the 7 victories of 1984, 41 years ago, to find a better record. Belgium is the most Tour 2025 victorious nation, ahead of Slovenia (4), the Netherlands (3), Italy (2), Australia (2), Ireland (1), Great Britain (1), Norway (1), and France (1). Van Aert is the first Belgian to win twice the Champs-Élysées final stage, that 12 Belgians have won. Freddy Maertens did it twice, but once (1976) in a time trial that took place in the morning, before the final stage.
4: POGACAR STILL RISING
Tadej Pogacar wins his 4th Tour de France and equals Chris Froome. The Slovenian is now just one victory away from the 5 won by Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Miguel Indurain. He is the youngest rider to win 4 titles at 26 years, 10 months and 6 days. Merckx achieved this at 27 years, 1 month and 6 days. His 54 Yellow Jerseys place him 5th in this ranking (record: Merckx, 111). Pogacar is the first rider to reach the podium in his first 8 Grand Tours, and the first to achieve 6 consecutive Tour de France podium finishes.
1971: THE POWER OF YOUTH
Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Florian Lipowitz, Oscar Onley and Félix Gall have a combined average age of 26 years and 37 days. This is the youngest general classification top-5 since 1971, when Eddy Merckx, Joop Zoetemelk, Lucien Van Impe, Bernard Thevenet, and Joaquim Agostinho had a 25 years and 236 days old average age.
100%: A GREEN "NEO"
Winner of two stages, Jonathan Milan becomes the 3rd Italian to win the points classification after Franco Bitossi (1968) and Alessandro Petacchi (2010). He is the first "neo" to win the green jersey since Peter Sagan in 2012. Milan has a 100% success rate in Grand Tours: he has won the points classification in both of his Giros (2023-2024), and his first Tour de France. He is the 7th different winner in the last 7 editions, something that hasn't happened since 2006-2012.
6: LIPOWITZ, A YOUNG STAR
Florian Lipowitz (3rd) won the best young rider classification in his first Tour, like Tadej Pogacar (2020) and Remco Evenepoel (2024) in recent years. This is the 7th consecutive time that the white jersey has finished on the Tour podium. The German is the 6th "neo" to finish in the top-3 in the 21st century. The last three were Tadej Pogacar (1st in 2020), Jonas Vingegaard (2nd in 2021), and Remco Evenepoel (3rd in 2024).
4/9: THE FUTURE LOOKS SHINY
With Florian Lipowitz (3rd), Oscar Onley (4th), Kévin Vauquelin (7th), and Ben Healy (9th), 4 contenders for the best young rider classification are in the top-9 of the general classification. This is slightly better than last year (4 in the top-10) and is unprecedented since the classification's introduction in 1975! At the top, 1'12" separates Lipowitz and Onley, the smallest gap since the Tour 2011 (46" between Pierre Rolland and Rein Taaramäe).
3: THE POLKA DOT JERSEY, FOR HIM TOO
Tadej Pogacar wins the mountains classification for the 3rd time after 2020 and 2021. The Slovenian equals Julio Jimenez as the 4th rider with the most polka dot jerseys. Only Richard Virenque (7), Federico Bahamontes (6), and Lucien Van Impe (6) are now ahead of him.
2: HEALY AFTER MARTIN
Winner at Vire-Normandie (stage 6), 9th overall, and at the front several times, Ben Healy has won his first Tour's combativity award. He succeeds Richard Carapaz and becomes the second Irishman to receive this distinction after Dan Martin in 2018. Like him, his compatriot also won stage 6, finishing 8th overall.
1-2: WHO CAN STOP THEM?
Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard occupy the general classification top-2 places for the 5th time (and in a row), an unprecedented feat. Before them, the duo with the most doubles was Bernard Hinault and Joop Zoetemelk (three times in 1978, 1979, and 1982). Pogacar and Vingegaard also finished 1st and 2nd in no fewer than 15 stages, 12 of which were won by the Slovenian.
5: GRAND TOURS SPECIALISTS
Wout van Aert's last 5 victories have all come in the last three Grand Tours, where he has won each time: three stages in the Vuelta 2024, one in the Giro last May, and one in the Tour de France today. This performance is identical to that of Kaden Groves, winner in the Vuelta 2024 (three times), the Giro 2025 (once), and the Tour de France yesterday in Pontarlier.
12: FEW RIDERS IN THE SAME HOUR AS THE WINNER
12 riders finished less than an hour behind Tadej Pogacar (Thymen Arensman 12th at 52'41", Jhonathan Narvaez 13th at 1h04'36"). This is the first time in 56 years that only 12 riders have finished within the same hour as the winner: you have to go back to 1969 to see this (Lucien Van Impe 12th and 56'17" behind Eddy Merckx, Jean-Claude Theillière 13th at 1h04'58"). Something that is showing the huge pace set by the leader!
