Tour de France
Stage 2: Lauwin-Planque - Boulogne-sur-Mer
France
Sunday 06 July 2025
212 km
Le Tour: Evenepoel in the thick of the action

A pulsating finale at the end of the second day brought in the mix the puncheurs, but more importantly, the general classification men. Côte du Haut Pichot, Côte de Saint-Étienne-au-Mont and Côte d’Outreau were the three small classified climbs where the race exploded, the furious tempo pushed at the front thinning out the peloton at first before leaving a group of six alone in the lead.
Having been brought in a good position and protected there by his Soudal Quick-Step teammates just as things became nervous and many teams started fighting for positioning, Remco Evenepoel responded with ease to the accelerations and made it into the leading group. On the descent, they were joined by others, which soon led to more attacks, the Olympic Champion being among those who responded to one of these accelerations, keeping everything together as the reduced bunch tackled the short climb to the finish.
The day’s winner emerged following an uphill sprint, where Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) prevailed, moving into the yellow jersey. Remco concluded the 209.1km stage in the same time and made a huge jump in the standings, where he is now just a couple of seconds from the top ten ahead of Monday’s flat stage to Dunkerque, where the sprinters should return in the spotlight.
“We did a great job as a team today! I had four guys with me on the steepest climb of the day and I’m happy I got over this hectic stage. The feeling was good on this stage and this is something that gives me more confidence after what happened on the first day. We’ll continue to take it day by day and stay focused”, Evenepoel said at the finish.
Photo credit: ©Dario Belingheri / Getty Images
Race details
1 |
Mathieu van der Poel Alpecin - Deceuninck |
4:45:41 |
2 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
0:00 |
3 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
0:00 |
4 |
Romain Grégoire Groupama - FDJ |
0:00 |
5 |
Julian Alaphilippe Tudor Pro Cycling Team |
0:00 |
6 |
Oscar Onley Team Picnic PostNL |
0:00 |
7 |
Aurélien Paret-Peintre Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team |
0:00 |
8 |
Kévin Vauquelin |
0:00 |
9 |
Simone Velasco XDS Astana Team |
0:00 |
10 |
Jenno Berckmoes Lotto |
0:00 |
17 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:00 |
55 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:29 |
102 |
Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step |
5:03 |
104 |
Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step |
5:25 |
109 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step |
5:35 |
121 |
Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step |
7:49 |
159 |
Tim Merlier
Soudal Quick-Step |
10:57 |
161 |
Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal Quick-Step |
10:57 |
1 |
Mathieu van der Poel Alpecin - Deceuninck |
8:38:42 |
2 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
0:04 |
3 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
0:06 |
4 |
Kévin Vauquelin |
0:10 |
5 |
Matteo Jorgenson Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
0:10 |
6 |
Enric Mas Nicolau Movistar Team |
0:10 |
7 |
Jasper Philipsen Alpecin - Deceuninck |
0:31 |
8 |
Joseph Blackmore Israel - Premier Tech |
0:41 |
9 |
Tobias Halland Johannessen Uno-X Mobility |
0:41 |
10 |
Ben O'Connor Team Jayco AlUla |
0:41 |
18 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:49 |
43 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
2:18 |
77 |
Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step |
5:52 |
95 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step |
7:33 |
126 |
Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step |
10:53 |
139 |
Tim Merlier
Soudal Quick-Step |
11:46 |
151 |
Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal Quick-Step |
12:13 |
168 |
Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step |
14:30 |
1 |
Jasper Philipsen Alpecin - Deceuninck |
71 pt |
2 |
Biniam Girmay Hailu Intermarché - Wanty |
54 pt |
3 |
Mathieu van der Poel Alpecin - Deceuninck |
50 pt |
4 |
Anthony Turgis Team TotalEnergies |
36 pt |
5 |
Jonathan Milan Lidl - Trek |
31 pt |
6 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
30 pt |
7 |
Paul Penhoët Groupama - FDJ |
26 pt |
8 |
Bryan Coquard Cofidis |
23 pt |
9 |
Yevgeniy Fedorov XDS Astana Team |
20 pt |
10 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
20 pt |
19 |
Tim Merlier
Soudal Quick-Step |
13 pt |
33 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step |
6 pt |
35 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
5 pt |
45 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
2 pt |
1 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
3 pt |
2 |
Tim Wellens UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
2 pt |
3 |
Benjamin Thomas Cofidis |
2 pt |
4 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
2 pt |
5 |
Kévin Vauquelin |
1 pt |
6 |
Andreas Leknessund Uno-X Mobility |
1 pt |
1 |
Kévin Vauquelin |
8:38:52 |
2 |
Joseph Blackmore Israel - Premier Tech |
0:31 |
3 |
Mattias Skjelmose Jensen Lidl - Trek |
0:39 |
4 |
Oscar Onley Team Picnic PostNL |
0:39 |
5 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:39 |
6 |
Florian Lipowitz Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe |
0:39 |
7 |
Jenno Berckmoes Lotto |
0:39 |
8 |
Carlos Rodríguez Cano INEOS Grenadiers |
1:10 |
9 |
Samuel Watson INEOS Grenadiers |
1:29 |
10 |
Ben Healy EF Education - EasyPost |
2:08 |
11 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
2:08 |
33 |
Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step |
10:43 |
1 | Groupama - FDJ | 25:56:36 |
2 | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 0:31 |
3 | Alpecin - Deceuninck | 2:00 |
4 | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | 2:08 |
5 | Array | 2:20 |
6 | Team TotalEnergies | 2:20 |
7 | Cofidis | 2:20 |
8 | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | 2:28 |
9 | Team Jayco AlUla | 2:51 |
10 | EF Education - EasyPost | 2:58 |