Defending champion Tadej Pogacar has stamped his authority on the 2025 Tour de France, wrestling back the yellow jersey from previous leader Ben Healy and demolishing all his rivals on stage 12 of the race.<\/p>\n
Stage 12 saw the first real mountain test of the Tour and Pogacar – despite suffering a late crash in the closing kilometres of stage 11 – passed with flying colours, powering away from his rivals on the lower slopes of the infamous hors-categorie Hautacam. <\/p>\n
He put even more time into closest challenger Jonas Vingegaard, who was further weakened by his key mountain lieutenants Matteo Jorgenson, Sepp Kuss, and Simon Yates all enduring bad days at the office in the opening Pyrenean stage. <\/p>\n
Pogacar won his third stage of this Tour – having already won stages four and seven – at the summit finish and moved back into yellow after spending spells in the race lead during the opening week. <\/p>\n
Ireland\u2019s Healy, who moved into the race lead with an audacious breakaway raid on stage 10, was dropped early on stage 12 and fell down to xxth. <\/p>\n
Here is how the riders stand in each classification after stage 12 of the Tour de France.<\/p>\n
Pogacar dedicated his stage 12 win to 19-year-old cyclist Samuele Privitera, who died after a fall in a race on Wednesday (AP)Stage 12 results<\/p>\n
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), in 4:21:19Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), +2\u201910\u201dFlorian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), +2\u201923\u201dTobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility), +3\u201900\u201dOscar Onley (Picnic PostNL), +3\u201900\u201dKevin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels), +3\u201933\u201dRemco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), +3\u201935\u201dFelix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), +4\u201902\u201dPrimoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), +4\u201908\u201dCristian Rodriguez (Arkea – B&B Hotels) +7\u201926\u201dGeneral classification<\/p>\n
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), in 45:22:51Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), +3\u201931\u201dRemco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), +4’45\u201d Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), +5\u201934\u201dKevin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels), +5’40\u201d Oscar Onley (Picnic PostNL), +6\u201905\u201dPrimoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), +7\u201930\u201d Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility), +7\u201944\u201d Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), +9\u201921\u201dMatteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), +12’12\u201d Points classification<\/p>\n
Jonathan\u202fMilan (Lidl\u2011Trek) 231 ptsTadej\u202fPogacar (UAE Team Emirates) 163Mathieu\u202fvan\u202fder\u202fPoel (Alpecin\u2011Deceuninck) 156Biniam\u202fGirmay (Intermarch\u00e9\u2011Wanty) 154Tim\u202fMerlier (Soudal Quick\u2011Step) 150King of the mountains (KOM) classification<\/p>\n
Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) 27 ptsBen Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) 16 pts Michael Woods (Israel-PremierTech) 11 ptsTim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates XRG) 8 ptsThymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) 8 ptsYoung riders\u2019 classification<\/p>\n
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) in 45:27:36Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +49\u201dKevin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels) +55\u201dOscar Onley (Team Picnic PostNL) +1\u201920\u201dBen Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) +8\u201934\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Defending champion Tadej Pogacar has stamped his authority on the 2025 Tour de France, wrestling back the yellow jersey from previous leader Ben Healy and demolishing all his rivals on stage 12 of the race. Stage 12 saw the first real mountain test of the Tour and Pogacar – despite suffering a late crash in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n