Tadej Pogacar Victorious After Fourth Tour de France Victory
Four-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar celebrates in Paris after his historic win. Image: Team UAE Emirates
Tadej Pogacar has won his 4th Tour de France, finishing the final stage in Paris more than four minutes ahead of long-time rival Jonas Vingegaard.
The current World Champion, it was Pogacar’s second back-to-back TDF victory, now winning in 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025. Vingegaard won in 2022 and 2023, and again was hot on his wheel at this year’s showdown, the Slovenian just being too strong for his Danish counterpart.
In winning his fourth Tour, Pogacar was victorious on four stages, taking his overall total to 53 TDF stages in the Yellow Jersey.
“I am just speechless … to win a fourth Tour de France and finish six years in a row on the podium, this one feels especially amazing,” said Pogacar in Paris.
“I think it all started with how we started to ride with the team. We had a great atmosphere, great team, great spirit. We went fighting from day one, and then after stage 5 and Mûr-de-Bretagne, I knew that I had good legs to compete for the victory. We just kept on fighting, and then I think the second week was the decisive moment.”
Pogacar said the team used that second-week advantage to ride a more comfortable third week.
The latest high point of arguably his most prolific year, in 2025 Pogacar has also won Strade Bianche, the Tour of Flanders, Liege-Bastogne-Liege … and finished second to Mathieu Van der Poel at Paris-Roubaix.
Another Pog Versus Vingegaard Showdown In Spain?
Pogacar is yet to confirm whether he’ll ride the year’s final Grand Tour, the Vuelta. If he does, fans are in for yet another high-stakes showdown with Jonas Vingegaard saying he is riding the Spanish race.
“Myself and Jonas [Vingegaard] talked in the neutral zone about how much has changed in the last five years of us racing against each other,” he continued.
“We raised each other’s level much higher, and we pushed ourselves to the limit to try to beat each other. I must say that battling against Jonas was again a tough experience, but I must say respect to him, and a big congratulations on his fight.”
26yo Pogacar concluded by saying “It was an incredible race … now it’s time to celebrate.”
2025 Tour de France Top 10
1. Tadej Pogačar (SLO) – UAE Team Emirates-XRG – 73:54:59
2. Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) – Visma-Lease a Bike – +00:04:24
3. Florian Lipowitz (GER) – Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe – +00:11:00
4. Oscar Onley (GBR) – Picnic PostNL – +00:12:12
5. Felix Gall (AUT) – Decathlon AG2R la Mondiale – +00:17:12
6. Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR) – Uno-X Mobility – +00:20:14
7. Kévin Vauquelin (FRA) – Arkéa-B&B Hotels – +00:22:35
8. Primož Roglič (SLO) – Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe – +00:25:30
9. Ben Healy (IRL) – EF Education-EasyPost – +00:28:02
10. Jordan Jegat (FRA) – TotalEnergies – +00:32:42
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