Tour de France 2025 LIVE: Stage 5 route and updates as yellow jersey contenders chase time trial glory

1) Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), in 3:50:29

2) Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)

3) Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike)

4) Oscar Onley (Picnic PostNL)

5) Romain Gregoire (Groupama-FDJ)

6) Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), all at same time

7) Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), +3”

8) Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), +3”

9) Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), +7”

10) Kevin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels), +10”

In the hometown of the Tour’s first five-time winner Jacques Anquetil, Pogacar took a stride to what he hopes will be his fourth title with a show of strength on another classics-style stage, beating Van der Poel and his great rival Jonas Vingegaard in an uphill sprint.

It was Pogacar’s 18th career Tour stage win and one that put him on the same time as Van der Poel – who retains yellow on countback – with Vingegaard eight seconds back going into Wednesday’s time trial. Pogacar, 26, became the fourth youngest rider to reach 100 professional wins.

Hello and welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of stage five of the Tour de France!

We’re against the clock today as the riders tackle 33km starting and finishing in Caen.

It’s flat, fast, and ideal for the Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel… could he haul back his 58-second time defict and take yellow today?