The Tour de France might be over for another year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy some of the best moments and outlandish statistics from what is being described as one of the toughest Tours ever.
Setting off from Lille on 5 July, the 2025 edition pitted the peloton against 3,302km of flat, lumpy and mountainous terrain. Including some long post-stage transfers, it visited all four corners of France across its 21 days of racing.
Each stage of the Tour de France was attacked from the moment the start flag was waved – there were no easy days for the peloton. Even the usually ceremonial final stage in Paris featured three climbs of Montmartre in conditions so treacherous that the general classification times were neutralised.
There was only ever one likely outcome, though: Tadej Pogačar clinching his fourth yellow jersey, as he inches ever closer to emulating and ultimately outshining Eddy Merckx as the greatest of all time. But the Slovenian was just one of 184 riders to take to the start line of the 112th edition, which was a Tour de France that will live long in the memory.
From unlucky numbers to audacious attacks, here is the 2025 Tour de France in numbers.
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7.1
Tadej Pogačar showed he could dominate on all parcours as he collected four stage wins en route to his fourth yellow jersey, but the Slovenian’s performance in the second individual time trial highlighted his raw racing abilities.
Pogačar is estimated to have averaged 464 watts for the 10.9km uphill time trial, and with a race weight of 65kg, his watts-per-kilo figure was a mind-bending 7.1 for the 23-minute stage.
13
The 21 stages of the 2025 Tour de France were won by 13 different riders, with a new rider standing on the top step for the first six stages in a row.
From stage 7, Pogačar started to assert his stranglehold on the race, and the Slovenian would go on to win four stages. This takes the 26-year-old to 21 Tour de France stage wins – only 13 short of Sir Mark Cavendish’s record.
Other riders to win more than one stage were the sprinters Jonathan Milan and Tim Merlier, and climber Thymen Arensman, who each clinched two stages.
13 (again)
The unlucky number was also significant in the yellow jersey battle. Pogačar’s fourth maillot jaune never appeared in doubt, and he spent 13 days in the yellow jersey – the same as his 2021 win, albeit five fewer days than in 2024.
It was the first time he had ever relinquished his lead in the GC and still won the overall title, though, with Mathieu van der Poel and Ben Healy both spending time in yellow following Pog’s first taste after stage 5’s individual time trial.
24
The biggest peloton in the history of the Tour set off from the Lille Grand Depart, but it didn’t take long for the 184-strong startlist to start getting whittled down – Filippo Ganna was the first casualty only 50km into the race. In total, 24 riders abandoned during the 21 stages, including stage winners Jasper Philipsen, Mathieu van der Poel and Remco Evenepoel.
42.5
Ben Healy’s attack 42.5km from the Vire Normandie finish line saw him win stage 6, where he held an average weighted power of 317W.
The 24-year-old would light up the race on a number of occasions, propelling himself to the top of the GC after stage 10 and becoming the first Irishman to wear the yellow jersey since Stephen Roche in 1987. He battled it out with Valentin Paret-Peintre on the slopes of Mont Ventoux, riding to ninth in the overall and winning the super-combativity award.
42.8491
The 2025 Tour de France was ridden at a blistering average speed of 42.8491kph across its 3,302k route. This makes it the fastest-ever Tour de France, with the 2022 edition coming second at 42.1017kph.
50.013
50.013kph was the average speed of stage 9 winner Tim Merlier. This was the second-fastest Tour de France stage ever, 0.347km/h short of the fastest of all time, 1999’s stage 4.
The 174.1km stage from Chinon to Châteauroux will also be remembered for an audacious 173km attack from Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Mathieu van der Poel and Jonas Rickaert, with Van der Poel caught 600m from the line.
627,280
The Tour de France awards its riders €2.3 million, with cash prizes on offer for each stage’s results and overall results in the different category competitions.
Unsurprisingly, Tadej Pogačar came out on top of the prize money earnings, raking in 627,280 CHF (€672,644.89). However, it’s tradition for any winnings to be shared among the rest of the team, rewarding the domestiques for their hard work.
