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Tour de France stage 16 2025 profile<\/p>\nWith a flat stage before Mont Ventoux, it was expected to have some fireworks and huge climbing performances with Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Poga\u010dar battling at the start of the third week.<\/p>\n
Tour de France stage 16 2025 profile<\/p>\n
For the second mountain stage in a row, UAE Emirates could not control the breakaway and let a huge group get away and fight for the victory, with Tadej Poga\u010dar not able to contest for a stage victory to get closer to Mark Cavendish\u2019s stage win record. The breakaway had a massive gap, with Thymen Arensman, Ben Healy, Santiago Buitrago, Enric Mas, Ilan Van Wilder, Valentin Paret-Peintre, and other strong riders fighting for the stage win, with Paret-Peintre outsprinting Healy as he did with Adam Yates on Jabal Al Akhdhar earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Oscar Onley spent 2610 kilojoules for 3:10h at 14.04 kj\/kg\/h before Ventoux in a GC group. Despite being a flat stage, it was not Jebel Hafeet easy, as there were winds and break formation, but for Tour de France standards, it was an easy day. Jonas Vingegaard and Visma | Lease a Bike tried to test Poga\u010dar\u2019s legs with the Dane attacking early in the climb with around 9 km to go. Vingegaard attacked closer to the top after Victor Campenaerts paced as a satellite rider from the breakaway, but Poga\u010dar stayed on his wheel. Later, Poga\u010dar tested Vingegaard\u2019s legs but was not successful.<\/p>\n
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Mont Ventoux \u2013 France \u2013 cycling \u2013 cyclisme \u2013 radsport \u2013 wielrennen \u2013 Campenaerts Victor (BEL \/ Team Visma | Lease a Bike) \u2013 Vingegaard Jonas (DEN \/ Team Visma | Lease a Bike) \u2013 Pogacar Tadej (SLO \/ UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG) pictured during stage-16 from Montpellier to Mont Ventoux (171.5km) \u2013 TdFr 2025 \u2013 22-07-2025 Photo: Pool Bernard Papon\/Cor Vos \u00a9 2025<\/p>\n
Despite an inconsistent pace and multiple attacks, the Mont Ventoux record was destroyed. Vingegaard did Ventoux with 6.52 \u1d49W\/Kg for 54:32 min. Poga\u010dar was two seconds faster with 6.44 \u1d49W\/Kg as he did not spend that much time in the wind. It was an exceptional performance and the best long climbing performance ever. Similar to the mountain time trial on stage 13, Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d performed at a high level on an easy road stage with 6.35 \u1d49W\/Kg for 55:38 min, with his teammate Florian Lipowitz finishing close and improving his podium positions in GC. Even Lipowitz and Rogli\u010d were faster than the previous Mont Ventoux record, which was owned by Iban Mayo, who did it in 6.35 \u1d49W\/Kg for 55:51 min in the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 ITT in 2004, while the fastest road race effort was by Marco Pantani in 1994 when he did it in 57:33 min with 6.16 \u1d49W\/Kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a flat stage before Mont Ventoux, it was expected to have some fireworks and huge climbing performances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-17374","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\/17374","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=17374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}