Wout Van Aert triumphs in Paris, pulling away from Tadej Pogacar to win his fourth Tour de France
On the Montmartre, tackled three times in the last stage of the Tour de France, Wout Van Aert managed to do what his captain Jonas Vingegaard has never managed to do in this Grande Boucle: detach Tadej Pogacar.
The Belgian from Team Visma Lease a Bike, who arrived at the last climb of the mountain where the Sacred Heart Basilica is in the lead together with Pogacar, Davide Ballerini, Matteo Jorgenson, Matej Mohoric and Matteo Trentin, first resisted the UAE Team Emirates’ Slovenian’s spurt and then inexorably detached him.
Van Aert arrived in splendid solitude under a deluge on the Champs-Élysées, where the Tour returned after the Olympic year of absence at the end of 132.3 kilometers starting in Mantes-La-Ville. Second at 19 seconds was Ballerini (KDS Astana Team), third was Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious).
But what mattered for Pogacar was his fourth victory in the world’s most important stage race after those in 2020, 2021 and 2024. The Slovenian in the final standings is ahead of Vingegaard and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s German Florian Lipowitz, who were left behind Pogacar today along with all the other GC men.
