Tour de France 2025 LIVE: Stage 15 route, standings & updates, with Wellens set for breakaway win

Summary

Stage 15 - Hilly, 169.3km, Muret to Carcassonne
Transitional stage before second rest day: stage guide
Tadej Pogacar leads race by more than four minutes
Pogacar's UAE team-mate Tim Wellens claims first stage win
Wellens attacked from eight-man breakaway
Mathieu van der Poel takes sprint to go second on points classification
General classification standings after stage 14
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Live Reporting

Written by Ben Collins & Josh Lobley

Postpublished at 16:11 British Summer Time

Julian Alaphilippe lunged for the line to get there before Wout van Aert and then held his arms aloft.
We've just got word that Tudor's French leader did in fact think he'd won the stage and declined an interview.
Tough one to take.
Wellens wins stage 15published at 16:04 British Summer Time
Breaking

Tim Wellens secures a breakaway win on stage 15 of the Tour de France.
It is the 34-year-old Belgian's first stage win on 'Le Grand Boucle' and his fifth Grand Tour win overall.
The yellow jersey group is still 4km from the line.
Image source, Reuters
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Tim Wellens gives high-fives to some of the crowd as he rides towards the line in Carcassone.
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Image source, EPA
Tim Wellens is now almost two minutes clear.
He's currently 53rd on the general classification standings, almost two hours behind race leader Tadej Pogacar.
Postpublished at 10km to go

Tim Wellens looks set to become the second UAE rider to win a stage on this year's Tour - after Tadej Pogacar, of course.
The Belgian's lead has now gone past one minute 30 seconds.
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Quinn Simmons tries to break free from the chase group but Tim Wellens now leads by one minute 27 seconds.
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Tim Wellens has won two stages at the Giro d'Italia and two at the Vuelta a Espana but he is yet to win in the world's biggest and best cycling race.
This would see the 34-year-old complete a Grand Tour treble and be his first Grand Tour win since 2020.
Wellens lead increasespublished at 25km to go

Carlos Rodriguez and Alexey Lutsenko have got back to the first chase group, taking it up to seven riders.
Tim Wellens is now clear by one minute 15 seconds.
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Tim Wellens' lead is now up to a minute, with five riders in the next group.
His UAE team-mate and race leader Tadej Pogacar is way back in the peloton, almost seven minutes adrift.
Wellens takes leadpublished at 40km to go

UAE's Tim Wellens has done a lot of work for race leader Tadej Pogacar so far on this Tour but now he wants to grab his own glory.
The Belgian road champion has burst out of that lead group and soon establishes a 20-second lead.
Image source, Getty Images
Postpublished at 44km to go

Warren Barguil, Alexey Lutsenko, Aleksandr Vlasov and Carlos Rodriguez have caught up with Tim Wellens, Michael Storer, Victor Campenaerts and Quinn Simmons to make it an eight-man breakaway.
Postpublished at 48km to go

Warren Barguil joins Alexey Lutsenko, Aleksandr Vlasov and Carlos Rodriguez, 20 seconds behind the leaders.
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Hilly, 169.3km, Muret to Carcassonne

The 166 remaining riders are now into the final 1,000km of this year's Tour - and the final 50km of today's stage.
The gap to the main bunch has grown to six minutes on the gradual descent to the finish in Carcassonne.
Polka-dot jersey - Storer takes final climbpublished at 52km to go

Michael Storer attacks inside the final kilometre of the ascent of the Pas du Sant to take the maximum mountain points:
1. Michael Storer (Aus/Tudor) - 5 points
2. Quinn Simmons (US/Lidl-Trek) - 3 pts
3. Victor Campenaerts (Bel/Visma-Lease a Bike) - 2 pts
4. Tim Wellens (UAE Emirates-XRG) - 1 pt
Image source, Getty Images
Postpublished at 53km to go

Michael Storer attacked from the bottom, followed by Quinn Simmons, but they're then joined by Victor Campeanaerts and Tim Wellens.
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The leaders are on to the final climb of the hard, a category two ascent up the Pas du Sant lasting 2.9km with an average gradient of 10.2%.
Warren Barguil and Aleskander Vlasov have now latched on to the lead group, taking it up to 10.
Postpublished at 58km to go

Image source, Reuters
Tudor's French leader Julian Alaphilippe took a tumble earlier but he's now among the chasers between the peloton and the lead group.
His team have just been on the radio, telling their riders: "Today is the best day for you guys. We have a big opportunity to win the stage."
Up ahead, Andreas Leknessund has joined the lead group.
Postpublished at 60km to go
Hilly, 169.3km, Muret to Carcassonne

Former Tour rider Romain Bardet on TNT Sports: "After the next climb it's almost all downhill to Carcassonne so the stage will be decided in that time."
On whether there will be a French winner today, he added: "I hope so but I've never seen this kind of scenario, the Tour de France being so open.
"The situation's never frozen, there is always movement. The guys have to stay sharp all day. So far the French riders have invested a lot in the start and I think it will get harder for them right now."
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Andreas Leknessund of Uno-X Mobility is still chasing the lead group and is now less than 20 seconds away.
Image source, Getty Images
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In that 25-man group, Carlos Rodriguez is the highest in the general classification standings.
After a good day for his Ineos Grenadiers team yesterday, the Spanish climber is now 10th overall, almost 23 minutes off Tadej Pogacar.