{"id":248513,"date":"2025-11-07T02:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248513\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T02:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:38:13","slug":"former-tour-de-france-winners-world-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248513\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tour de France winners, World Champions…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 season sees plenty of top riders and former stars hanging up their wheels and this includes former Grand Tour winners, World Champions and many of the 2010’s best sprinters. It is a list of 28 World Tour riders and 17 ProTeam riders, thus far, who have confirmed they are ending their careers.<\/p>\n

The biggest ‘star’ hanging up his wheels this season perhaps is Geraint Thomas<\/a>, winner of the 2018 season, long-standing member of INEOS Grenadiers and influential figure for over a decade now in the peloton. He ended his career at the Tour of Britain at home in Wales, an ideal finale. Other GC riders such as Romain Bardet<\/a>, Rafal Majka, Louis Meintjes have Michael Woods also raced for the final time as pros this season.In the field of the classics specialists Rui Costa<\/a> is retiring, the only former rainbow jersey to do it this year – although several silver and bronze medalists are also in this position. What is most notable is the list of sprinters retiring this year, struggling to keep up with the pace of the new generation who specialize in multiple terrains, not just the sprints. It is a golden list of fast men, many of which marked and dominated races in the 2010’s.<\/p>\n


\nAlexander Kristoff<\/a>, Elia Viviani<\/a>, Giacomo Nizzolo, Caleb Ewan, Arnaud D\u00e9mare (and his memorable leadout Dan McLay) all retired at the end of the year. Combined, these men have over 350 pro wins…\"Geraint<\/p>\n

Geraint Thomas has last raced at the Tour of Britain. @SWpix.com\u00a0<\/p>\n

World Tour riders retiring\u00a0NameTeamAge1\u00a0BOUCHARD GeoffreyDecathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team33y + 274d2\u00a0JANSSENS JimmyAlpecin – Deceuninck36y + 215d3\u00a0MEINTJES LouisIntermarch\u00e9 – Wanty33y + 313d4\u00a0PEREZ AnthonyCofidis34y + 253d5\u00a0FRAILE OmarINEOS Grenadiers35y + 167d6\u00a0MCLAY DanielTeam Visma | Lease a Bike33y + 362d7\u00a0DECLERCQ TimLidl – Trek36y + 285d8\u00a0THOMAS GeraintINEOS Grenadiers39y + 220d9\u00a0DE MARCHI AlessandroTeam Jayco AlUla39y + 226d10\u00a0DELAPLACE AnthonyArk\u00e9a – B&B Hotels36y + 111d11\u00a0VAN DER SANDE ToshTeam Visma | Lease a Bike35y + 33d12\u00a0MAJKA Rafa\u0142UAE Team Emirates – XRG36y + 110d13\u00a0SERRY PieterSoudal Quick-Step37y + 40d14\u00a0PETIT AdrienIntermarch\u00e9 – Wanty35y + 96d15\u00a0PUCCIO SalvatoreINEOS Grenadiers36y + 122d16\u00a0COSTA RuiEF Education – EasyPost39y + 87d17\u00a0D\u00c9MARE ArnaudArk\u00e9a – B&B Hotels34y + 127d18\u00a0CASTROVIEJO JonathanINEOS Grenadiers38y + 248d19\u00a0KOCH JonasRed Bull – BORA – hansgrohe32y + 189d20\u00a0PETILLI SimoneIntermarch\u00e9 – Wanty32y + 241d21\u00a0PETERS NansDecathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team31y + 294d22\u00a0GESBERT \u00c9lieArk\u00e9a – B&B Hotels30y + 183d23\u00a0GIBBONS RyanLidl – Trek31y + 140d24\u00a0SCHELLING IdeXDS Astana Team27y + 328d25\u00a0FIN\u00c9 EddyCofidis27y + 219d26\u00a0BARDET RomainTeam Picnic PostNL34y + 218d27\u00a0EWAN CalebINEOS Grenadiers30y + 299d28\u00a0VAN DEN BERG LarsGroupama – FDJ26y + 249d\"alexanderkristoff<\/p>\n

Victory number 97 for Alexander Kristoff at this year’s Vuelta a Andalucia. The Norwegian looked to reach 100, but ended his career at 98. @Sirotti<\/p>\n

ProTeam riders retiring\u00a0NameTeamAge1\u00a0LATOUR PierreTeam TotalEnergies32y + 80d2\u00a0SBARAGLI KristianTeam Solution Tech – Vini Fantini35y + 237d3\u00a0KRIEGER AlexanderTudor Pro Cycling Team34y + 33d4\u00a0BRAMBILLA GianlucaQ36.5 Pro Cycling Team38y + 131d5\u00a0SOUPE GeoffreyTeam TotalEnergies37y + 284d6\u00a0NIZZOLO GiacomoQ36.5 Pro Cycling Team36y + 335d7\u00a0KRISTOFF AlexanderUno-X Mobility38y + 179d8\u00a0VIVIANI EliaLotto36y + 327d9\u00a0VLIEGEN Lo\u00efcWagner Bazin WB32y + 11d10\u00a0WOODS MichaelIsrael – Premier Tech39y + 80d11\u00a0COLMAN AlexTeam Flanders – Baloise27y + 162d12\u00a0BALDACCINI DavideTeam Solution Tech – Vini Fantini27y + 223d13\u00a0MARTIN DavidBurgos Burpellet BH26y + 315d14\u00a0DEJAEGHER JasperTeam Flanders – Baloise24y + 342d15\u00a0ZUBELDIA UnaiEuskaltel – Euskadi22y + 177d16\u00a0BUDDING MartijnUnibet Tietema Rockets30y + 19d17\u00a0DE LA PARTE V\u00edctorEuskaltel – Euskadi38y + 258d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 season sees plenty of top riders and former stars hanging up their wheels and this includes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-248513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}