{"id":12011,"date":"2025-07-21T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12011\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:44:08","slug":"tim-wellens-claims-maiden-tour-de-france-victory-on-stage-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12011\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Wellens claims maiden Tour de France victory on stage 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/7vfFfzavgdjbG2T7eba77f.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"620\" height=\"470\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/7vfFfzavgdjbG2T7eba77f.jpg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"Tim Wellens wins stage 15 Tour de France 2025\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tim Wellens etched his name into cycling history by securing his first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/2025-tour-de-france-live-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tour de France<\/a> stage win on stage 15, a 169.3km hilly route from Muret to Carcassonne. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider, known for his tireless support of team leader Tadej Pogacar, seized his moment to shine with a masterful solo breakaway, completing a coveted Grand Tour stage win trifecta, having previously triumphed at the Giro d\u2019Italia and Vuelta a Espana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stage, featuring three categorized climbs, was tailor-made for breakaway specialists. Wellens, freed from his domestique duties, joined a strong lead group including Michael Storer, Quinn Simmons, and Victor Campenaerts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sensing his opportunity on the final climb, the Pas du Sant, the 34-year-old Belgian launched a decisive attack with 43km to go, powering away on the descent and building an unassailable lead. He crossed the finish line in Carcassonne 1 minute 28 seconds ahead of Campenaerts, with Julian Alaphilippe taking third after mistakenly celebrating, unaware of the riders ahead due to a broken radio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a very special victory,\u201d Wellens said. \u201cEverybody knows the Tour de France, but not many win it. I felt super good today and knew I had to go solo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stage was not without drama. An early crash disrupted the peloton, delaying GC contenders like Jonas Vingegaard and Florian Lipowitz, while Alaphilippe soldiered on with a dislocated shoulder.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Only Tim enjoyed that win more than Tadej \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p>Tim Wellens wins Stage 15 of the Tour de France with a powerful solo ride after working tirelessly for team leader Tadej Poga\u010dar.<br \/>_____________<br \/>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TDF2025?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TDF2025<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z0mMRYQaA1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/z0mMRYQaA1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Velon CC (@VelonCC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VelonCC\/status\/1946954789608157241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Wellens etched his name into cycling history by securing his first-ever Tour de France stage win on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-12011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}