Tour de France 2025: Start date, route, stage guide and results

The 112th variation of the Tour de France is nether way, with the three-week contention ending connected the Champs-Elysees successful Paris connected Sunday, 27 July.

The riders tackle six upland stages, including trips to the Pyrenees and Alps, during the gruelling 3,320km (2,063-mile) race.

There are besides 2 idiosyncratic clip trials, with the 2nd featuring the steep ascent up to the Altiport successful Peyragudes.

BBC Sport looks astatine each 21 stages of La Grande Boucle, analysing wherever it could beryllium won and lost.

This leafage volition beryllium updated passim the Tour with the victor and a little study pursuing each stage.

Winner: Jasper Philipsen

Report: Philipsen wins signifier 1 to assertion archetypal yellowish jersey

Jasper Philipsen was the archetypal rider to deterioration the yellowish jersey this twelvemonth - claiming the maillot jaune for the archetypal clip successful his career.

A sprint decorativeness was expected aft a level signifier opening and ending successful Lille, and Alpecin-Deceuninck's lead-out bid delivered the 27-year-old successful the cleanable presumption to assertion his 10th signifier win.

Crosswinds contributed to a chaotic opening day, which saw the peloton divided astir 17km from the finish, with astir of Philipsen's team-mates successful the pb group.

Winner: Mathieu van der Poel

Report: Van der Poel pips Pogacar successful signifier 2 sprint finish

Mathieu van der Poel edges retired Tadej Pogacar successful a sprint decorativeness to triumph signifier 2 of the Tour de France and assertion the leader's yellowish jersey.

The Dutch rider, who besides won the aforesaid signifier successful 2021, holds disconnected the three-time Tour champion connected the enactment aft surging to the beforehand with 500 metres to spell connected the longest signifier successful this year's race, a rolling 209.1km way from Lauwin-Planque to Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Winner: Tim Merlier

Report: Merlier pips Milan successful crash-marred signifier 3 of Tour

Tim Merlier pips Jonathan Milan connected the enactment successful a sprint decorativeness to triumph a crash-marred signifier 3 of the Tour de France.

The Belgian edges the Italian by the slenderest of margins with Germany's Phil Bauhaus successful 3rd connected a time erstwhile Mathieu van der Poel retains the contention leader's yellowish jersey and signifier 1 victor Jasper Philipsen is forced to abandon.

Winner: Tadej Pogacar

Report: Pogacar claims 100th triumph connected signifier 4 of Tour

Defending champion Tadej Pogacar outsprints Mathieu van der Poel and Jonas Vingegaard arsenic helium claims his 100th nonrecreational triumph connected signifier four. The effect leaves the Slovenian level connected clip with Dutch rider astatine the apical of the wide classification with Van der Poel retaining the leader's yellowish jersey connected count-back.

Winner: Remco Evenepoel

Report: Evenepoel wins signifier 5 arsenic Pogacar claims yellowish jersey

Remco Evenepoel wins the idiosyncratic clip proceedings connected signifier 5 of the Tour de France arsenic Tadej Pogacar takes the yellowish jersey from Mathieu van der Poel.

The Belgian rider averages 54kmh to decorativeness 16 seconds quicker than Slovenia's three-time champion Pogacar, with Italy's Edoardo Affini, third, 33 seconds back.

Meanwhile, Denmark's two-time victor Jonas Vingegaard has a time to forget, losing much than a infinitesimal to Pogacar successful the wide classification.

Winner: Ben Healy

Report: Healy claims archetypal Tour triumph arsenic Van der Poel regains lead

Ireland's Ben Healy produces a stunning solo onslaught to triumph his archetypal Tour signifier portion Mathieu van der Poel regains the yellowish jersey.

Healy and Van der Poel walk astir of the hilly signifier successful an eight-man breakaway earlier the EF Education-EasyPost rider goes wide with 42km remaining.

Van der Poel does capable to regain the contention pb by 1 2nd from Tadej Pogacar, who eased successful astatine the beforehand of the peloton with his main wide classification rivals.

Winner: Tadej Pogacar

Report: Pogacar wins signifier 7 to regain contention lead

Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar regains the contention pb from Mathieu van der Poel, who is inactive suffering aft a gruelling time connected Thursday.

Stage 7 has the aforesaid decorativeness arsenic it did successful 2021, erstwhile Van der Poel claimed his archetypal signifier triumph connected the iconic Mur-de-Bretagne climb.

But the Dutch rider is incapable to situation Pogacar present arsenic the three-time victor edges retired Jonas Vingegaard successful a sprint for the line, with British rider Oscar Onley completing the podium.

Winner: Jonathan Milan

Italy's Milan wins signifier 8 pursuing a clump sprint.

Lidl Trek's Milan bushed Wout van Aert of Visma-Lease a Bike connected the level 171.4km signifier into Laval's Espace Mayenne.

Milan, 24, waited patiently successful the wheels of Mathieu van der Poel and Kaden Groves, some of Alpecin-Deceuninck, successful the last 200 metres earlier utilizing his immense powerfulness to motorboat himself towards the enactment - with lone Van Aert capable to cling connected behind.

Australian Groves finishes third.

Winner: Tim Merlier

Report: Merlier wins sprint decorativeness arsenic Van der Poel denied epic breakaway triumph

Tim Merlier wins signifier 9 of the Tour de France successful a sprint decorativeness aft Mathieu van der Poel's hopes of an audacious breakaway triumph are dashed wrong the last kilometre.

Van der Poel and his Alpecin-Deceuninck team-mate Jonas Rickaert attacked astatine the commencement of the 174.1km tally from Chinon to Chateauroux and the Dutch erstwhile satellite champion produced a gutsy effort that conscionable fell abbreviated of delivering his 2nd triumph successful this year's race.

Winner: Simon Yates

Report: Yates wins signifier 10 connected Bastille Day arsenic Ireland's Healy takes yellow

Britain's Simon Yates takes signifier 10 of the Tour de France connected Bastille Day arsenic Ben Healy becomes the archetypal Irish rider to assertion the yellowish jersey since Stephen Roche won the contention successful 1987.

Yates, who claimed his 2nd Grand Tour triumph astatine the Giro d'Italia successful June, is portion of a long-range breakaway and times his onslaught superbly connected the last ascent of the 165.3km signifier to clasp disconnected Thymen Arensman.

Winner: Jonas Abrahamsen

Report: Pogacar crashes but nary clip nonaccomplishment arsenic Abrahamsen wins

Jonas Abrahamsen holds connected for his archetypal signifier triumph connected the Tour aft being portion of a long-range breakaway.

Back successful the peloton, Tadej Pogacar went down 4km from the enactment but was allowed to retrieve arsenic his main wide classification rivals Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel sportingly waited for him to drawback up.

Pogacar, therefore, remained 29 seconds down Ben Healy arsenic determination was nary alteration successful the apical 10 of the wide standings.

Winner: Tadej Pogacar

Report: Pogacar wins connected acme decorativeness to regain Tour lead

Tadej Pogacar regained the wide pb arsenic helium stormed to triumph connected the archetypal acme decorativeness and archetypal existent upland signifier of this year's Tour.

The Slovenian showed nary sick effects from his autumn the erstwhile time arsenic helium attacked aboriginal connected the Hautacam - this year's archetypal hors categorie ascent - and continued to agelong his lead, much than doubling his vantage implicit main rival Jonas Vingegaard.

As the contention moved into the Pyrenees mountains, breakaway specializer Ben Healy struggled successful the vigor connected the last climbs and mislaid much than 13 minutes, arsenic good arsenic the yellowish jersey.

Winner: Tadej Pogacar

Report: Imperious Pogacar wins clip proceedings to widen lead

Tadej Pogacar wins the upland clip way to assertion his 4th signifier triumph of the Tour.

He completes the way 36 seconds faster than his main rival Jonas Vingegaard to summation his wide pb to 4 minutes 7 seconds.

Despite losing different 2 minutes, Remco Evenepoel stays 3rd successful the wide classification portion British youngster Oscar Onley leapfrogs Kevin Vauquelin to fifth.

Winner: Thymen Arensman

Report: Evenepoel abandons contention arsenic Arensman wins signifier 14

Dutch debutant Thymen Arensman secures not lone his maiden signifier triumph but the archetypal connected this year's Tour for British squad Ineos Grenadiers.

The 25-year-old attacks connected the penultimate ascent and reaches the acme decorativeness conscionable implicit a infinitesimal earlier Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, with Pogacar marginally expanding his wide lead.

However, Remco Evenepoel, who was 3rd overall, struggles aboriginal connected the day's archetypal ascent - up the mighty Col du Tourmalet - and is forced to wantonness this year's race.

A transitional signifier arrives arsenic the contention heads from the Pyrenees towards the Alps, which looks suited to the strongman sprinters who tin header with immoderate climbing.

The likes of Wout van Aert and Biniam Girmay should presumption this a imaginable accidental triumph successful the medieval finishing municipality of Carcassonne.

Stage 16 is simply a level way until 1 of the astir legendary mountains successful Tour past comes into presumption astatine the extremity with the imaginable to crook the contention connected its head.

With nary categorised climbs each time earlier Mont Ventoux, and the intermediate sprint featuring 112km into the stage, it would beryllium nary astonishment if the peloton remains mostly intact until then.

In 2016, beardown winds meant the decorativeness was moved to Chalet Reynard halfway up the ascent arsenic Thomas de Gendt won from the breakaway and play unfolded connected the slopes down with the yellowish jersey, Chris Froome, initially moving up the upland aft a crash.

With 2 large Alpine tests inactive to travel the GC teams volition astir apt play 2nd fiddle to the sprint teams erstwhile it comes to trying to rein successful immoderate breakaways.

The past 3 winners of a Tour signifier successful Valence were Mark Cavendish (2021), Peter Sagan (2018), and Andre Greipel (2015) and the lone happening apt to forestall a clump sprint is the mistral winds that tin beryllium fierce successful the Rhone Valley.

This year's queen signifier comes with much than 5,500m of elevation crossed 171.5km of racing and 3 legendary climbs which makes it arguably the toughest tally of the full Tour.

All 3 ascents autumn nether the hors categorie, with the Col du Glandon, a 21.7km resistance with with sections astatine treble digits conscionable for starters.

The Col de la Madeleine, is shorter but steeper and the portion determination is simply a accelerated descent and the rises successful the roadworthy travel sharply again connected the monstrous Col de la Loze, a ascent of implicit 26km with gradients hitting 11% arsenic the Tour reaches it's highest point.

The past existent upland signifier represents the last accidental for those precocious successful the GC standings to marque a play for the yellowish jersey.

The way from Albertville to La Plagne covers astir 130km, and includes 5 leg-sapping ascents.

Plenty of points volition beryllium up for grabs again successful the contention for the the polka-dot jersey points disposable but this is truly a last-chance saloon successful presumption of the wide race.

Whoever is starring astatine extremity of the time volition beryllium confident, that barring an unforseen disaster, they volition beryllium stood atop the podium, draped successful yellowish connected the Champs-Elysees.

The penultimate signifier sees the contention snake implicit the hills of the Jura towards Pontarlier.

The rolling terrain should favour an escapee triumphing, portion the GC teams support their leaders.

The Tour returns to it's accepted Paris decorativeness aft relocating to Nice past twelvemonth owed to the Olympics.

However, it does truthful with a twist, fixed the cobbled ascent up to the Sacre-Cœur Basilica features 3 times successful a throwback to the roadworthy contention successful the 2024 Paris Games.

It's a 1,1km ascent astatine a gradient of 5.9% added to the archetypal finishing circuit successful the French superior designed to whittle down the tract earlier a high-speed decorativeness albeit perchance without immoderate of the axenic sprinters.