The final day of Tour de l’Avenir delivered very strong climbing performances from the top u23 stars.

Stage 6a

Tour de l’Avenir 2025 stage 6a profile

Before the start of stage 6a on Colle San Carlo the riders did a neutralized descent before it. The stage was not televised and it is unclear what exactly happened but the top GC riders finished together on the top of this climb with Paul Seixas, Pablo Torres, Jarno Widar, Maxime Decomble, Lorenzo Finn, Mateo Ramirez, Jorgen Nordhagen and Max Bock all climbing it in 6.10 ᵉW/Kg for 34:58 min. In the 2019 Giro d’Italia Richard Carapaz on this climb did 5.93 ᵉW/Kg for 36:01 min attacking Primož Roglič, Vincenzo Nibali and other GC riders.

The stage did not finish with Colle San Carlo but all the 8 riders finished in the first eight places with Jarno Widar taking a victory. Decomble defended his leader’s jersey before the final time trial after taking some time in the previous stage breakaway.

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Stage 6b

The last stage went up La Rosiere with riders doing a mountain time trial a few hours after the finish of stage 6a. With the GC being very close it would decide everything.

Tour de l’Avenir 2025 stage 6b profile

Without a surprise Paul Seixas did a strong performance on La Rosiere with 6.63 ᵉW/Kg for 24:16 min beating Nordhagen (6.47 ᵉW/Kg) by 28 seconds and Widar (6.45 ᵉW/Kg) by 33 seconds. Seixas was the most impressive on a fresh effort with fatigued legs from the previous stage. Seixas did 640 aslp and he is still 18 until the 24th of September, with the pressure of the whole France to deliver a Grand Tour victory for the first time since Laurent Jalabert’s 1995 La Vuelta win and the first Tour de France win since Bernard Hinault’s 1985 win.

Seixas became the second rider after Cian Uijtdebroeks to win Tour de l’Avenir in his first u23 year. Pablo Torres almost did it last year but finished second against Joe Blackmore. This year the competition was way stronger with Torres finishing fifth. Famous second year u23 prospects Widar and Nordhagen secured the podium in this strong edition of Tour de l’Avenir.

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