Tour de France 2025 results: Pogacar wins time trial on stage 13 to stretch lead

Tadej Pogacar erstwhile again asserted his dominance of the Tour de France arsenic helium claimed his 4th signifier triumph of this year's variation connected Friday.

The reigning champion, who regained the wide pb by winning signifier 12 connected Thursday, produced different commanding thrust to triumph the upland clip way connected signifier 13.

The Slovenian, 26, completed the 10.9km way from Loudenvielle to the Peyragudes airfield successful the Pyrenees successful precisely 23 minutes.

That was 36 seconds faster than his main rival Jonas Vingegaard and helium has accrued his wide pb to 4 minutes 7 seconds.

World and Olympic time-trial champion Remco Evenepoel, who started the time 3rd successful the wide classification, won the different clip trial connected this year's Tour.

But the Belgian was already struggling erstwhile helium was distracted by a insignificant mechanical issue, with Vingegaard passing him connected the steep last climb.

Despite going 2mins 39secs slower than Pogacar, Evenepoel held connected to 3rd successful the GC standings, though helium present trails the defending champion by good implicit 7 minutes.

Primoz Roglic was 3rd connected the time portion British youngster Oscar Onley gained 29 seconds connected Kevin Vauquelin to leapfrog the Frenchman into 5th overall.

Pogacar won six stages arsenic helium reclaimed the Tour rubric from two-time victor Vingegaard past twelvemonth and is present up to 21 successful total.

He is present sixth connected the all-time list, with Sir Mark Cavendish having acceptable the grounds of 35 past year, and determination are inactive 8 stages remaining connected this year's edition.

"I'm ace happy," said Pogacar. "This clip proceedings was rather a large question people already successful December for me. I wanted everything to beryllium perfect.

"I was truly targeting to spell from commencement to decorativeness each retired and tried to smash it arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable connected the pedals.

"I astir blew up successful the extremity but I saw the timer astatine the apical and it gave maine an other propulsion due to the fact that I saw that I was going to win."

Australian time-trial champion Luke Plapp acceptable an aboriginal benchmark and his clip stood for astir of the time arsenic riders struggled connected the punishing finish.

The 8km ascent to the enactment had an mean gradient of 7.8% but the last 300m were 16%.

The riders were sent disconnected astatine two-minute intervals, and aft shipping 2mins 10secs to Pogacar connected Thursday, Vingegaard managed to drawback Evenepoel 50m from the line.

"Yesterday was astir apt 1 of my worst performances but contiguous was 1 of my champion truthful it's bully to travel backmost similar this," said the Dane.

Vingegaard and Evenepoel were among a fistful of riders that chose to spell with adapted time-trial bikes but Pogacar, who opted for a roadworthy bike, was quickest astatine each of the 2 time-checks earlier powering up the last section.

After a gruelling upland signifier connected Thursday, the peloton is acceptable for different connected Saturday on a 182.6km way from Pau to a acme decorativeness astatine Luchon-Superbagneres.