Tour de France
Stage 4: Amiens Métropole - Rouen
France
Tuesday 08 July 2025
173 km
Evenepoel moves up on Tour de France GC

Remco Evenepoel did a great effort in the closing part of Tuesday’s nervous stage in Normandie, shutting some dangerous moves and staying with the small group that fought for victory in Rouen, which helped him gain a spectacular twelve places in the general classification ahead of the race’s first individual time trial.
Amiens – home of a stunning Gothic cathedral built two centuries before the Fall of Constantinople, around the time that Marco Polo travelled through Asia along the Silk Road – hosted the start of stage four, which took the peloton to Rouen, the city of Jacques Anquetil. Born in a suburb of Rouen, the Frenchman had a career that stretched over 16 years and became a legend of the sport, having built an impressive palmares that featured a total of eight Grand Tours, Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the Hour Record.
The capital of Normandie, Rouen returned at Le Tour for the first time since 2012, with a much different finale than the previous one, when the sprinters took center stage. Now, back-to-back short and steep hills made for an explosive last 20 kilometers, gradually whittling down the peloton and leaving only some 20-odd riders at the front. The race exploded on the 14% gradients of the final classified climbs, where two riders took off; behind, Remco Evenepoel was the one who took an incredibly long pull in order to make up ground and join them, which he did on the descent.
Others soon followed, making it a ten-man group for the uphill battle in Rouen. Soudal Quick-Step’s leader took seventh on the line – his first top ten of this edition – as Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) sprinted to victory. Thanks to this strong result, the Belgian is ninth overall after four days at Le Tour, less than a minute from the yellow jersey wearer.
“The final 20 kilometers were incredibly hectic, but we were always at the front, and I must thank Max Schachmann for that, because he did a great job keeping me there. The whole team was solid today and we can be content with the way things played out. Now it’s time to recover and see what I can do in the time trial”, Evenepoel said at the finish.
Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images
Race details
1 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
3:50:29 |
2 |
Mathieu van der Poel Alpecin - Deceuninck |
0:00 |
3 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
0:00 |
4 |
Oscar Onley Team Picnic PostNL |
0:00 |
5 |
Romain Grégoire Groupama - FDJ |
0:00 |
6 |
João Almeida UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
0:00 |
7 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:03 |
8 |
Matteo Jorgenson Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
0:03 |
9 |
Mattias Skjelmose Jensen Lidl - Trek |
0:07 |
10 |
Kévin Vauquelin |
0:10 |
57 |
Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step |
3:31 |
78 |
Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step |
6:31 |
93 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
9:02 |
134 |
Tim Merlier
Soudal Quick-Step |
15:12 |
135 |
Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal Quick-Step |
15:12 |
174 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step |
15:46 |
177 |
Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step |
15:56 |
1 |
Mathieu van der Poel Alpecin - Deceuninck |
16:46:00 |
2 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
0:00 |
3 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
0:08 |
4 |
Matteo Jorgenson Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
0:19 |
5 |
Kévin Vauquelin |
0:26 |
6 |
Enric Mas Nicolau Movistar Team |
0:48 |
7 |
Oscar Onley Team Picnic PostNL |
0:55 |
8 |
João Almeida UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
0:55 |
9 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:58 |
10 |
Mattias Skjelmose Jensen Lidl - Trek |
1:02 |
58 |
Pascal Eenkhoorn
Soudal Quick-Step |
9:29 |
65 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
11:26 |
116 |
Maximilian Schachmann
Soudal Quick-Step |
21:07 |
129 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step |
23:25 |
151 |
Tim Merlier
Soudal Quick-Step |
26:54 |
152 |
Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step |
26:55 |
163 |
Bert Van Lerberghe
Soudal Quick-Step |
27:31 |
1 |
Jonathan Milan Lidl - Trek |
92 pt |
2 |
Biniam Girmay Hailu Intermarché - Wanty |
87 pt |
3 |
Mathieu van der Poel Alpecin - Deceuninck |
80 pt |
4 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
80 pt |
5 |
Tim Merlier
Soudal Quick-Step |
72 pt |
6 |
Anthony Turgis Team TotalEnergies |
57 pt |
7 |
Søren Wærenskjold Uno-X Mobility |
46 pt |
8 |
Paul Penhoët Groupama - FDJ |
43 pt |
9 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
40 pt |
10 |
Romain Grégoire Groupama - FDJ |
34 pt |
20 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
17 pt |
49 |
Mattia Cattaneo
Soudal Quick-Step |
6 pt |
66 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
2 pt |
1 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
5 pt |
2 |
Tim Wellens UAE Team Emirates - XRG |
5 pt |
3 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
3 pt |
4 |
Lenny Martinez Bahrain - Victorious |
2 pt |
5 |
Benjamin Thomas Cofidis |
2 pt |
6 |
Kévin Vauquelin |
1 pt |
7 |
Anders Halland Johannessen Uno-X Mobility |
1 pt |
8 |
Kasper Asgreen EF Education - EasyPost |
1 pt |
9 |
Andreas Leknessund Uno-X Mobility |
1 pt |
1 |
Kévin Vauquelin |
16:46:26 |
2 |
Oscar Onley Team Picnic PostNL |
0:29 |
3 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:32 |
4 |
Mattias Skjelmose Jensen Lidl - Trek |
0:36 |
5 |
Joseph Blackmore Israel - Premier Tech |
1:15 |
6 |
Jenno Berckmoes Lotto |
1:23 |
7 |
Florian Lipowitz Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe |
1:23 |
8 |
Carlos Rodríguez Cano INEOS Grenadiers |
1:39 |
9 |
Ben Healy EF Education - EasyPost |
3:51 |
10 |
Bastien Tronchon Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team |
4:55 |
15 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
11:00 |
41 |
Valentin Paret-Peintre
Soudal Quick-Step |
26:29 |
1 | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 50:19:52 |
2 | Groupama - FDJ | 0:44 |
3 | UAE Team Emirates - XRG | 1:34 |
4 | Cofidis | 3:54 |
5 | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | 4:41 |
6 | Team TotalEnergies | 5:05 |
7 | Array | 5:51 |
8 | EF Education - EasyPost | 6:47 |
9 | Team Jayco AlUla | 7:14 |
10 | Alpecin - Deceuninck | 8:06 |