2025 Tour de France Stage 5 Report: Remco Evenepoel won the first time trial stage of the 2025 Tour de France. The World time trial champion beat Tadej Pogačar over the 33 flat kilometres. The Slovenian did take the yellow jersey. The biggest loser of the day was Jonas Vingegaard, who lost almost a minute and a half. There hadn’t been any big gaps yet in this Tour de France, making this time trial the first form guide for the big names, but the favourite for the day, World time trial champion Remco Evenepoel was the best.
Top TT for the World champion, Remco Evenepoel
Race director, Christian Prudhomme: “Caen will be celebrating its millennium in 2025, but it will be seconds and minutes that matter when it comes to deciding a time trial that is likely to mark a real turning point in the 112th Tour de France. Most of the course will be on wide, completely flat roads that demand a great deal of power. The strongest rouleurs should be right in their element.”
Stage 5 profile
The 33-km individual time trial set around Caen on day 5 of the Tour de France 2025 saw Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) dominate the field. In line with his maiden victory last year in Gevrey-Chambertin, the Belgian star claimed a second stage win in the Tour, thus becoming the third rider to dominate ITTs in different editions of the Tour as the reigning world champion. Second on the day (+16 seconds), Pogačar took the Maillot Jaune as the new overall leader of the race, 42 seconds ahead of Evenepoel. With yet another strong performance at home, Normandy’s Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) completes the GC top-3 (+59 seconds) ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), who finished 13th on the day and now trails by 1:13, while Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) dropped down to the 6th position (+1:28) after his three days with the Maillot Jaune.
The fans were out for the TT
The withdrawal of Emilien Jeannière (TotalEnergies) and Jasper De Buyst (Lotto) reduces the number of riders in the Tour to 179, but spectators in Caen are still treated to a clash of champions at the start of the programme for the first time trial (33km) of the 2025 edition.
Affini held the top time
Affini sets the tone
Kazakhstan and Asian champion Yegueniy Fedorov had just enough time to set a first reference, rapidly beaten by Pablo Castrillo. The Spanish rider is then overtaken by the youngest rider in the peloton, none other than his Movistar teammate Ivan Romeo, who is also the U23 ITT world champion.
Top favourite for the stage, World TT champion Evenepoel, pushed Affini off the ‘Hot Seat’
His time seemed under threat from Luke Plapp, who beat him at all the intermediate time checkpoints, but the Australian champion faltered in the final stretch. It was quite the opposite for European champion Edoardo Affini, who put in a stunning performance, finishing 30 seconds ahead of his Spanish rival with an average speed of 53.2 km/h.
Vingegaard kept himself in contention, but lost over a minute on Evenepoel
Evenepoel ups the ante
The ITT French champion Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) delivers a very strong finish but he is 2 seconds shy of claiming the hot seat. Then, nobody comes close to Affini’s time until the best GC contenders set off a couple of hours later.
The intensity picked up with the arrival of Florian Lipowitz, stronger than his leader and former Olympic champion Primoz Roglič (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe). But it was the World champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) who really upped the ante, relegating Affini to 33 seconds behind with an average speed of 54.0 km/h.
Pogačar rode a very strong time trial to lose only 16 seconds to Evenepoel and took the yellow jersey
Pogacar in yellow
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Emirates-XRG) was the closest to the Belgian star (+16 seconds), which earned him the Maillot Jaune, on top of the green and polka dot jerseys, with a lead of 42 seconds on Evenepoel.
A brave fight by Van der Poel
Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) completes the GC top-3 (+59 seconds) ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), who finished 13th on the day and now trails by 1:13, while Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) drops down to the 6th position (+1:28) after his three days with the Maillot Jaune.
Tomorrow’s stage 6 is from Bayeux to Vire Normandie with a 700-metre-long 10% haul to the finish line
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Tour de France Stage 5 Result:
1. Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal-Quick-Step in 36:42
2. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Emirates XRG at 0:16
3. Edoardo Affini (Ita) Visma | Lease a Bike at 0:33
4. Bruno Armirail (Fra) Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale at 0:35
5. Kévin Vauquelin (Fra) Arkéa-B&B Hotels at 0:49
6. Florian Lipowitz (Ger) Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe at 0:58
7. Ivan Romeo Abad (Spa) Movistar at 1:02
8. João Almeida (Por) UAE Emirates XRG at 1:14
9. Luke Plapp (Aus) Jayco AlUla at 1:17
10. Pablo Castrillo Zapater (Spa) Movistar at 1:18.
Tour de France Overall After Stage 5:
1. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Emirates XRG in 17:22:58
2. Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal Quick-Step at 0:42
3. Kévin Vauquelin (Fra) Arkéa-B&B Hotels at 0:59
4. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma | Lease a Bike at 1:13
5. Matteo Jorgenson (USA) Visma | Lease a Bike at 1:22
6. Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Deceuninck at 1:28
7. João Almeida (Por) UAE Emirates XRG at 1:53
8. Primož Roglič (Slo) Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe at 2:30
9. Florian Lipowitz (Ger) Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe at 2:31
10. Mattias Skjelmose (Den) Lidl-Trek at 2:32.
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