Having already won the sprint on the Champs-Élysées in 2021, the Belgian rider now has his second success on the most beautiful avenue in the world. Slovenian Tadej Pogačar, winner of the Tour de France, took fourth place in a final stage disrupted by rain.
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After three weeks of intense effort, Wout van Art won the final and 21st stage of the Tour de France solo in 3 hours, 7 minutes and 30 seconds.
The Belgian was the first to cross the finish line on the Champs-Élysées, ahead of the Yellow Jersey winner Tadej Pogačar of the men's 2025 edition of the cycling competition.
For this final stage of the 132.2-kilometre Tour, the riders started in Mantes-la-Ville and made three passes over the Butte Montmartre, the emblematic site of the 2024 Olympics, for a 1.1-kilometre climb with an average gradient of 5.9%. They crossed the finish line on the world's most famous avenue, the Champs-Elysées.
Tadej Pogačar wins his fourth Grande Boucle
With rain threatening the finale of stage 21, the Tour de France organisers froze the general classification times with 50.3 kilometres to go in order to protect the riders.
Tadej Pogačar, the 26-year-old Slovenian rider from UAE Team Emirates XRG, won his fourth Grande Boucle, having already won in 2020, 2021 and 2024, thus confirming his status as a cycling legend. He finished almost 4 and a half minutes ahead of his direct rivals.
Jonas Vingegaard, who was very strong in the mountains but fell behind in the first time trial and the stage to Hautacam, took second place and Florian Lipowitz was third on the podium.