Valentin Pare-peintre wins the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France 2025, the Montpellier-Mont Ventoux, of 171.5 kilometers. The French of the Soudal Quick Step completes a sensational feat, burning in the final shot, after the insidious climb that preceded the finish line, the Irish Ben Healy (EF Education Easy Post) and the Colombian Santiago Buratgo (Bahrain Victorious).
The Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates), despite the repeated attempts to attack the first of the rivals, or the Danish Jonas Vingegaard (Vistma Lease A Bike), remains firmly in the yellow jersey. After a maxi escape, only eleven men remain to try to play the stage success. Together with the three cyclists who make up the podium: Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious), Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenodiers), Simone Velasco (XDS Astana), Jonas Abrahamsen (one X Mobility), Enric Mas (Movistar), Ian Van Wilder (Soudal Quick Step), Matteo Trentin and Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor). Tomorrow the seventeenth stage, the Bollene-Valence, of 160.4 km. Today, meanwhile, the Great Boucle Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin Deceuninck) greeted the great Boucle, forced to retire due to pneumonia.