Tour de France Today: all you need to know about stage 5

The first of two individual time trials at this year’s Tour de France, and this is one for the specialists. Completely flat and wide roads will allow the riders to maximise their power output, and therefore, the strongest riders will thrive on a route of this nature.

33 kilometres is a long enough distance for the riders to build into their efforts, meaning that surprises are unlikely and the specialists should come to the fore.

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The Olympic and World time trial champion, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), comes into this stage as favourite and will be rueing the time he lost on the opening stage, as this was a major opportunity for the Belgian to move into the yellow jersey. 

He won the individual time-trial at the Critérium du Dauphiné ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike), Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), and with the absence of Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers), who crashed out on stage 1, it's likely that Evenepoel's GC rivals will be the closest challengers on this stage, whilst Mathieu van der Poel will try to keep the yellow jersey, which he holds on countback ahead of Pogačar.

Edoardo Affini, Wout van Aert (Visma | Lease a Bike), Mattia Cattaneo (Soudal Quick-Step), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) and Tobias Foss (Ineos Grenadiers) are other names to watch who could set the early benchmark.

Read our stage 5 preview for a full analysis.
Also have a look at the last 10 time trials where Evenepoel, Vingegaard and Pogačar went head-to-head.

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Stage 5 of the 2025 Tour de France will begin with the first rider starting at 13:10 (CET), and the last arrival is expected around 17:42 (CET). Full live coverage will be available from start to finish.

There are three intermediate checkpoints in stage 5's individual time trial. Here is where they are positioned on the course.

• Cambes-en-Plaine - 24.8km to go
• Thaon - 16.6km to go
• Gruchy - 8.2km to go

Here are the start times of some of the key riders for the stage and general classification. You can see the full starting order by clicking here. 

• Edoardo Affini - 13:49:00
• Wout van Aert - 15:58:30
• Primož Roglic - 16:36:00
• Remco Evenepoel - 16:44:00
• João Almeida - 16:46:00
• Kévin Vauquelin - 16:52:00
• Matteo Jorgenson - 16:54:00
• Jonas Vingegaard - 16:56:00
• Tadej Pogačar - 16:58:00
• Mathieu van der Poel - 17:00:00

All times in CET

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