Category: Cycling

• Belgian rider wins his third stage of 2025 race

• Jonas Vingegaard adds four seconds to overall lead

Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen sprinted clear at the end of stage 19 to seal his third win at this year’s Vuelta a España on Friday while Jonas Vingegaard added four seconds to his overall advantage over Joño Almeida.

After 160km of relatively flat riding in west central Spain, Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Philipsen burst to the front near the finish and never looked like being caught. Denmark’s Mads Pedersen was the first to make his move but could not hold off Philipsen and he crossed the line in second place with Venezuela’s Orluis Aular third.

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• Italian wins 12.2km time trial with time of 13 minutes

• Almeida closes gap on overall leader Vingegaard

Filippo Ganna tore through the final third of Thursday’s shortened individual time trial to win stage 18 of the Vuelta a España in Valladolid, and third-placed João Almeida gained 10 seconds on the overall leader, Jonas Vingegaard.

Ganna, the Italian time-trial specialist, repeated his success of two years ago in the same city but had an agonisingly long wait after the Ineos Grenadiers rider was fifth out of the gate, setting a time of 13 minutes.

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• Colombian outsprints Landa; Vingegaard retains lead

• Stage shortened by 8km after protesters blocked road

Pro-Palestinian protesters continue to disrupt the Vuelta a España, with stage 16 ending on Tuesday 8km before the scheduled finish at ­Castro de ­Herville because of protests close to the line. The Colombian rider Egan Bernal won the stage, with Jonas Vingegaard retaining the overall race lead.

“We have a big protest at three kilometres before the line. We will decide the stage winner and take times at eight kilometres before the line,” the race directors announced on Radio Vuelta.

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• Colombian outsprints Landa; Vingegaard retains lead

• Stage shortened by 8km after protesters blocked road

Pro-Palestinian protesters continue to disrupt the Vuelta a España, with stage 16 ending on Tuesday 8km before the scheduled finish at ­Castro de ­Herville because of protests close to the line. The Colombian rider Egan Bernal won the stage, with Jonas Vingegaard retaining the overall race lead.

“We have a big protest at three kilometres before the line. We will decide the stage winner and take times at eight kilometres before the line,” the race directors announced on Radio Vuelta.

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• Welshman ends 19-season racing career in Cardiff

• Romain Grégoire secures Tour of Britain victory

Under sombre skies, Geraint Thomas raced into Cardiff to a hometown hero’s welcome after a 19-season racing career came to an end at the final stage of the 2025 Tour of Britain.

A groundbreaking career founded in south Wales ended in south Wales, with the 39-year-old Olympic gold medallist and Tour de France winner buoyed by a sea of emotion from fans, well-wishers and old friends.

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• Belgian wins in photo finish to keep sprint leader’s jersey

• Vingegaard retains 48-second lead over Almeida

The Belgian cyclist Mads Pedersen sprinted to victory in stage 15 of the Vuelta a España on Sunday as Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard retained the overall lead in the 167.8km ride from Vegadeo.

Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), the points classification leader, attacked in the last two kilometres, beating Orluis Aular (Movistar) and Marco Frigo (Israel Premier Tech) in a photo finish at Monforte de Lemos.

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• Wednesday’s stage disrupted by pro-Palestinians

• Team to wear monogram-branded kit for rest of race

The Israel-Premier Tech team have removed their full name from riders’ jerseys for the rest of the Vuelta a España after pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the finish on stage 11 on Wednesday.

The stage ended without a winner after organisers decided to take the time at three kilometres before the line as police struggled to contain hundreds of Palestinian flag-waving protesters in Bilbao. The Israel-Premier Tech team were also stopped on the road by a group holding Palestinian flags during last week’s team time trial in Figueres.

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• Portuguese rider wins stage 13 after brutal climb

• Britain’s Tom Pidcock holds on to third spot overall

Portugal’s João Almeida held off race leader Jonas Vingegaardat the top of the brutal summit finish of Angliru to win stage 13 of the Vuelta a España on Friday.

The top two in the general classification battled it out for the stage win, leaving the rest behind in the final 5km. Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) did all the work on the climb and stayed ahead of Visma-Lease a Bike’s Vingegaard in the sprint to the line.

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• Stage passes without incident after abandonment

• Jonas Vingegaard retains overall race lead

Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) outsprinted his Spanish compatriot Javier Romo (Movistar) to win stage 12 of the Vuelta a España, his second stage win of this year’s race, with Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) retaining the overall lead.

Palestine flags were in evidence again after protests had brought Wednesday’s stage to a premature end but the race passed without serious incident, while the Israel-Premier Tech team have said pulling out of this year’s Vuelta would “set a dangerous precedent in the sport of cycling” in reaction to the incidents on stage 11.

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• Pro-Palestinian protests have disrupted race in Spain

• Thursday sees 12th stage of 21-stage Tour take place

The Israel-Premier Tech team have said pulling out of this year’s Vuelta a España would “set a dangerous precedent in the sport of cycling” after pro-Palestinian protests disrupted the 11th stage of the race on Wednesday.

There was no winner declared on Wednesday’s stage due to protesters at the finish line in Bilbao. Israel-Premier Tech were also the target of protests during the team time-trial last week and there have been suggestions that some members of the peloton would like the team to withdraw from the race.

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• Tour de France winner sustained a pericardial rupture

• Kooij wins opening stage of 2025 men’s Tour of Britain

Chris Froome suffered a life-threatening injury to his heart in the training crash in France last week that left him hospitalised with a broken back and broken ribs. The four-time Tour de France winner also sustained a pericardial rupture, a tear to the sac that surrounds the heart, in the crash.

“It was obviously a lot more serious than some broken bones,” his wife, Michelle Froome, told the Times. “He’s fine, but it’s going to be a long recovery process. He won’t be riding a bike for a while.”

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Former Tour de France winner will ride his last race in the Tour of Britain, ending in his hometown of Cardiff

Geraint Thomas will close his long and illustrious racing career with a farewell appearance in the 2025 men’s Tour of Britain, which begins in Suffolk on Tuesday.

Six days of racing will take a high-quality peloton from the eastern town of Woodbridge, to the mouth of the Severn, for a final cele­bratory stage next Sunday in Cardiff, which will provide a fitting climax to the Welshman’s career.

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• Dane cuts nearly two minutes off gap to leader Træen

• Tom Pidcock and João Almeida finish second and third

The twice Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard won stage nine of the Vuelta a España with a solo attack on the climactic climb to Valdezcaray on Sunday, shaving nearly two minutes off the gap to the overall leader Torstein Træen, who is ahead by 37 seconds.

Visma-Lease a Bike’s Vingegaard dominated the 13.2km category one climb at the end of the 195.5km ride from Alfaro to the Valdezcaray ski resort and although Tom Pidcock and João Almeida tried to chase, they finished 24sec off the pace.

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• Jasper Philipsen pips Viviani and Vernon in photo-finish

• Torstein Træen retains overall lead from Vingegaard

Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen sprinted to victory in stage eight of the Vuelta a España, edging Elia Viviani and Ethan Vernon in a photo-finish as Torstein Træen retained the red jersey.

Viviani’s Lotto teammates tried to lead him out in the last 1,000m of the 163km flat ride from Monzón to Zaragoza, but Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Philipsen, who had also won the first stage, pushed in the final moments to steal the victory.

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