Though Primoz Roglic put in a strong effort that looked to push Tadej Pogacar out of the maillot jaune, Pogacar put in a strong performance to add to his lead in the 2025 Tour de France. Pogacar bested Vingegaard by 36″ and Roglic, an early leader, by 1’20”. He extends his lead in the Yellow Jersey to over four minutes ahead of Vingegaard.
Pogacar won here in 2022 as well.
Stage 13 of the 2025 Tour de France was an 11km uphill time trial. While most of the GC contenders pulled out their TT bikes and helmets for this one, most riders rode their regular bikes, and possibly took the chance to relax their legs a little bit.
Luke Plapp, who started early in the day, set the initial mark to beat and was on the podium until Roglic rolled down the ramp and started powering up the climb.
The focus then turned to Jonas Vingegaard, who bested Roglic by 44 seconds. But Pogacar, riding his regular bike and forgoing a TT helmet, powered to take the win.
With another victory at the Tour under his belt, Pogačar becomes the youngest rider in history to reach 21 Tour de France stage wins. The time trial victory also marked Pogačar’s 30th stage win in a Grand Tour, taking UAE Team Emirates-XRG to four stage wins in this Tour.
“Super Happy”
“[I am] super happy,” Pogacar told media after the stage. “This time trial was one big question mark right from December for me, and I wanted everything to be perfect. The team delivered, in the final moments, for everything to be on the top [level].
“I started the day good, I had an easy day in the morning, nice preparation and I was really targeting to do start to finish all out. I tried to smash as much as possible on the pedals, I almost blew up in the end but I saw the timer at the top and it gave me an extra push, because I saw that I was going to win.
“This was the biggest decision to make, which bike [to use] today. Obviously, we are racing on road bikes for the majority of the year, so in the end we did the calculations and if you cannot push on the TT bike as much on the road bike, then it was about the same time. I decided to be more comfortable, the way I was riding the last few stages, on the same bike. In the end, it worked out for me.
“I think already the first time gap today, I decided to go without radio because the tactic was all out from the beginning to the top. So I was just relying on the time checks, and I saw the first one [where] I was already five seconds in the green – this gave me motivation. The second one was a bit bigger, and then I knew that it was a good pace.
“At first, I was thinking not to blow up in the first part. I almost did in the end, but from 3km-2km to go, I took a deep breath, reset a little bit and dropped a little bit the power. I knew that the last kick was super super steep and I wanted to come to the last steep part with somewhat good legs.”
Stage 13 Brief Results:
- Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
- Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), +36”
- Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), +1’20”
- Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), +1’56”
- Luke Plapp (Jayco AlUla), +1’58”
General Classification After Stage 13:
- Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) @ 45h 45′ 51”
- Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), +4’07”
- Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), +7’24”
- Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) + 7’30”
- Oscar Onley (Team Picnic-PostNL) +8’11”
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