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Chartres - Tours, 211.6 km

Matteo Trentin wins Paris-Tours for the third time. Sprint Cycling photo
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Weather at the finish city of Tours at 3:00 PM, local time: 20C (68F), sunny, with the wind from the northeast at 18 km/hr (11 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.
Ascents:
Plus, a total of 10 kilometers of gravel roads, called "Chemins de Vigne"
The race: Here's the organizer's race summary:
The 119th edition of Paris-Tours produced an enthralling finale as Matteo Trentin (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) took the victory, with Christophe Laporte (Visma|Lease a Bike) and Albert Philipsen (Lidl-Trek) in second and third places respectively.
The experienced Italian rider won a dramatic sprint to claim his third Paris-Tours victory after 2015 and 2017. At 36 years of age Trentin therefore equalled the record for most wins in the event - joining Erik Zabel, Guido Reybrouck, Paul Maye and Gustaaf Danneels in the circle of triple winners - proving too strong for his rivals on Boulevard Beranger in the centre of Tours.
The top five was rounded out by Paul Lapeira (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) and Thibaud Gruel (Groupama-FDJ) who had been clear in a breakaway in the final kilometres but were caught by a counter attack inside the last kilometer on the streets of Tours.

155 riders are given their official start. ASO photo
Early attackers make the break
Shortly after midday in the Chartres sunshine, the 155 riders in the peloton headed towards the start, beginning a 7.3 km neutralized parade, with the official start given at 12.16pm. Noah Knight (Cofidis), Jartthijs De Vries (Unibet Tietema Rockets), Kenny Molly (Van Rysel Roubaix) and Johan Jacobs (Groupama-FDJ) went on the early attack, with Jordan Labrosse (Décathlon AG2R La Mondiale) and Jonas Rutsch (Intermarché-Wanty) joining them at km 23, to make it a six-man breakaway.

30 kilometers into the race a 6-man break is 1min 45sec up the road. ASO photo
Six down to five
At km 80 the six-rider lead group held a 2’15” gap over the chasing peloton, but shortly before km 100 British rider Knight withdrew from the race having been left behind by the breakaway. After two hours of racing, Jacobs, De Vries, Molly, Labrosse and Rutsch were traveling at an average speed of 49.75 km/h, the five leaders holding a 3'30" advantage over an accelerating peloton. However, by km 111 the breakaway were only 2'05" ahead of the leaders of the peloton, which had been split by a fierce acceleration at the front of the pack.
Back together
The peloton soon regrouped and the gap was 1'36" to the leaders as the ‘difficulties’ commenced at km 142.3 on the Cangey climb (1.1 km at 3.4%), whilst a puncture for Labrosse meant he fell behind the leading quartet. The race heated up over the unpaved sectors but the peloton remained compact with 54 km to go, the front quartet then leading by only 38 seconds. De Vries accelerated on the climb of Goguenne (0.7 km at 7.7%), getting away in the front briefly, with Jacobs following. But the last two survivors of the breakaway were caught by the peloton at the entrance to the unpaved Sector 7, the Grosse Pierre trail, 48.5 kilometers from the finish.

Dusty work: Thibaud Gruel & Paul Lapeira on the 6th vineyard road with the peloton just behind them.
Lapeira and Gruel move ahead
Paul Lapeira (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) and Thibaud Gruel (Groupama – FDJ) then broke away from the bunch with 35km remaining, gaining a lead of over 20 seconds, which was reeled back to just seven seconds before the pair pulled away again. Lapeira and Gruel led by 35” with 22km to go, but a strong counter attack was launched with 17 km remaining by Christophe Laporte (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), Albert Withen Philipsen (Lidl – Trek), Stefan Bissegger (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team), Matteo Trentin (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) and Mathias Vacek (Lidl – Trek).
Vacek could not stay with the counter-attack and those four riders were ultimately able to reach Lapeira and Gruel in the final kilometre, with Trentin proving the strongest in front of the fans at roadside on the new final straight of a revised finish in Tours.

Matteo Trentin wins Paris-Tours for the third time.
Complete results:
Fastest Paris-Tour ever.
211.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 49.051 km/hr
| 1 | Matteo Trentin | Tudor Pro Cycling | 4hr 18min 50sec |
| 2 | Christophe Laporte | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 3 | Albert Withen Philipsen | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 4 | Paul Lapeira | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 5 | Thibaud Gruel | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 6 | Stefan Bissegger | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale | @ 3sec |
| 7 | Mathias Vacek | Lidl-Trek | 0:19 |
| 8 | Dorian Godon | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale | 0:23 |
| 9 | Jasper Stuyven | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 10 | Alessandro Covi | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | s.t. |
| 11 | Nils Eekhoff | Team Picnic PostNL | s.t. |
| 12 | Valentin Madouas | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 13 | Hugo Page | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
| 14 | Lukas Kubis | Unibet Tietema Rockets | s.t. |
| 15 | Carl-Frederik Bevort | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 16 | Sandy Dujardin | Team TotalEnergies | s.t. |
| 17 | Johan Jacobs | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 18 | Noa Isidore | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 19 | Corbin Strong | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 20 | Olivier Le Gac | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 21 | Nicolas Breuillard | St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 | s.t. |
| 22 | Mikkel Bjerg | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | s.t. |
| 23 | Dries De Bondt | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 24 | Riley Sheehan | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 25 | Jordan Labrosse | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale | 0:36 |
| 26 | Matis Louvel | Israel-Premier Tech | 0:47 |
| 27 | Rick Pluimers | Tudor Pro Cycling | 1:48 |
| 28 | Florian Sénéchal | Arkea-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
| 29 | Florian Dauphin | Team TotalEnergies | s.t. |
| 30 | Tim Torn Teutenberg | Lidl-Trek | 2:55 |
| 31 | Jonas Abrahamsen | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 32 | Axel Huens | Unibet Tietema Rockets | s.t. |
| 33 | Erik Resell | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 34 | Marius Mayrhofer | Tudor Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 35 | Clément Russo | Groupama-FDJ | 3:00 |
| 36 | Mike Teunissen | XDS Astana Team | 3:02 |
| 37 | Ben Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 38 | Anders Skaarseth | Uno-X Mobility | 3:21 |
| 39 | Simon Goossens | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
| 40 | Guillaume Boivin | Israel-Premier Tech | 3:22 |
| 41 | Ben Turner | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 42 | Hartthijs de Vries | Unibet Tietema Rockets | s.t. |
| 43 | Matys Grisel | Lotto | s.t. |
| 44 | Damien Touzé | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 45 | Daniel Lima | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 46 | Daniel Årnes | Van Rysel-Roubaix | s.t. |
| 47 | Joris Delbove | Team TotalEnergies | 3:25 |
| 48 | Matthias Schwarzbacher | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | s.t. |
| 49 | Alan Riou | St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 | 4:19 |
| 50 | Théo Delacroix | St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 | s.t. |
| 51 | Héctor Álvarez | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 52 | Joshua Tarling | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 53 | Stefan Küng | Groupama-FDJ | 4:57 |
| 54 | Lenaic Langella | CIC-U-Nantes | s.t. |
| 55 | John Degenkolb | Team Picnic PostNL | s.t. |
| 56 | Cyril Barthe | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 57 | Alex Kirsch | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 58 | Timo Roosen | Team Picnic PostNL | s.t. |
| 59 | Taco van der Hoorn | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
| 60 | Lucas Bénéteau | St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 | s.t. |
| 61 | Joris Chaussinand | CIC-U-Nantes | s.t. |
| 62 | Huub Artz | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
| 63 | Axel Mariault | CIC-U-Nantes | 5:01 |
| 64 | Ide Schelling | XDS Astana Team | 5:06 |
| 65 | Arnaud Démare | Arkea-B&B Hotels | 5:14 |
| 66 | Pierre Thierry | Arkea-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
| 67 | Fabien Doubey | Team TotalEnergies | 6:11 |
| 68 | Célestin Guillon | Van Rysel-Roubaix | s.t. |
| 69 | Andrea Mifsud | Nice Métropole-Côte d’Azur | s.t. |
| 70 | Olav Kooij | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 7:39 |
| 71 | Cees Bol | XDS Astana Team | s.t. |
| 72 | Alec Segaert | Lotto | 7:39 |
| 73 | Tom Van Asbroeck | Israel-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 74 | Jenthe Biermans | Arkea-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
| 75 | Victor Campenaerts | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 76 | Morne Van Niekerk | St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 | 8:20 |
| 77 | Nicolò Parisini | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | 8:43 |
| 78 | Frederik Frison | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 79 | Anthony Turgis | Team TotalEnergies | s.t. |
| 80 | Alexis Renard | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 81 | Abram Stockman | Unibet Tietema Rockets | s.t. |
| 82 | Lucas Boniface | Team TotalEnergies | s.t. |
| 83 | Vegard Stake Laengen | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | s.t. |
| 84 | Søren Wærenskjold | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 85 | António Morgado | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | s.t. |
| 86 | Edward Planckaert | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
| 87 | Tobias Lund Andresen | Team Picnic PostNL | s.t. |
| 88 | Antoine Hue | CIC-U-Nantes | s.t. |
| 89 | Laurenz Rex | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
| 90 | Similien Hamon | CIC-U-Nantes | 9:22 |
| 91 | Petr Kelemen | Tudor Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 92 | Matthew Fox | Lotto | s.t. |
| 93 | Maxime Jarnet | Van Rysel-Roubaix | s.t. |
| 94 | Rayan Boulahoite | Team TotalEnergies | s.t. |
| 95 | Kenny Molly | Van Rysel-Roubaix | s.t. |
| 96 | Andreas Stokbro | Unibet Tietema Rockets | s.t. |
| 97 | Menno Huising | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 98 | Jonas Rutsch | Intermarché-Wanty | s.t. |
| 99 | Brent Van Moer | Lotto | s.t. |
| 100 | Tomas Kopecky | Unibet Tietema Rockets | s.t. |
| 101 | Sebastian Kolze Changizi | Tudor Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 102 | William Blume Levy | Uno-X Mobility | s.t. |
| 103 | Robbe Ghys | Alpecin-Deceuninck | s.t. |
| 104 | Yaël Joalland | CIC-U-Nantes | s.t. |
| 105 | Timo de Jong | Team Picnic PostNL | s.t. |
| 106 | Oscar Chamberlain | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale | s.t. |
| 107 | Dylan van Baarle | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 11:24 |
| 108 | Rémi Lelandais | Arkea-B&B Hotels | s.t. |
| 109 | Baptiste Veistroffer | Lotto | s.t. |
| 110 | Mika Heming | Tudor Pro Cycling | s.t. |
| 111 | Arnaud De Lie | Lotto | 12:11 |
| 112 | Luca Giaimi | UAE Team Emirates-XRG | 14:14 |
| 113 | Alexander Konijn | Nice Métropole-Côte d’Azur | s.t. |
| 114 | Valentin Tabellion | Van Rysel-Roubaix | s.t. |
| 115 | Rémi Capron | Van Rysel-Roubaix | s.t. |
| 116 | Sébastien Grignard | Lotto | s.t. |
| 117 | Jonathan Castroviejo | INEOS Grenadiers | 15:28 |
| 118 | Rory Townsend | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | 15:31 |
| 119 | Julien Vermote | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | s.t. |
| 120 | Dylan Massa | Nice Métropole-Côte d’Azur | s.t. |
| 121 | Matteo Moschetti | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 122 | Ivan Smirnov | XDS Astana Team | 19:48 |
| 123 | Martin Pedersen | Lidl-Trek | s.t. |
| 124 | Omar Fraile | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 125 | Jahkim Carty | Nice Métropole-Côte d’Azur | s.t. |
| 126 | Jaakko Hänninen | Nice Métropole-Côte d’Azur | s.t. |
2024 Paris-Tours start list with back numbers, Oct 11, 2025:
| Team Visma | Lease a Bike | |
| 1 | Christophe Laporte |
| 2 | Matthew Brennan |
| 3 | Victor Campenaerts |
| 4 | Menno Huising |
| 5 | Olav Kooij |
| 6 | Dylan van Baarle |
| 7 | Julien Vermote |
| Lidl-Trek | |
| 11 | Mathias Vacek |
| 12 | Héctor Álvarez |
| 13 | Alex Kirsch |
| 14 | Martin Pedersen |
| 15 | Albert Withen Philipsen |
| 16 | Jasper Stuyven |
| 17 | Tim Torn Teutenberg |
| Alpecin-Deceuninck | |
| 21 | Simon Dehairs |
| 22 | Silvan Dillier |
| 23 | Robbe Ghys |
| 24 | Simon Goossens |
| 25 | Edward Planckaert |
| 26 | Jonas Rickaert |
| 27 | Oscar Riesebeek |
| Lotto | |
| 31 | Arnaud De Lie |
| 32 | Matthew Fox |
| 33 | Sébastien Grignard |
| 34 | Matys Grisel |
| 35 | Alec Segaert |
| 36 | Brent Van Moer |
| 37 | Baptiste Veistroffer |
| Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale | |
| 41 | Dorian Godon |
| 42 | Stefan Bissegger |
| 43 | Oscar Chamberlain |
| 44 | Dries De Bondt |
| 45 | Noa Isidore |
| 46 | Jordan Labrosse |
| 47 | Paul Lapeira |
| UAE Team Emirates-XRG | |
| 51 | António Morgado |
| 52 | Mikkel Bjerg |
| 53 | Alessandro Covi |
| 54 | Luca Giaimi |
| 55 | Rune Herregodts |
| 56 | Vegard Stake Laengen |
| 57 | Matthias Schwarzbacher |
| Groupama-FDJ | |
| 61 | Valentin Madouas |
| 62 | Cyril Barthe |
| 63 | Thibaud Gruel |
| 64 | Johan Jacobs |
| 65 | Stefan Küng |
| 66 | Olivier Le Gac |
| 67 | Clément Russo |
| INEOS Grenadiers | |
| 71 | Ben Turner |
| 72 | Jonathan Castroviejo |
| 73 | Omar Fraile |
| 74 | Axel Laurance |
| 75 | Ben Swift |
| 76 | Joshua Tarling |
| Arkea-B&B Hotels | |
| 81 | Arnaud Démare |
| 82 | Jenthe Biermans |
| 83 | Rémi Lelandais |
| 84 | Florian Sénéchal |
| 85 | Pierre Thierry |
| XDS Astana Team | |
| 91 | Mike Teunissen |
| 92 | Davide Ballerini |
| 93 | Alberto Bettiol |
| 94 | Cees Bol |
| 95 | Ide Schelling |
| 96 | Ivan Smirnov |
| 97 | Gleb Syritsa |
| Cofidis | |
| 101 | Alexis Renard |
| 102 | Clement Izquierdo |
| 103 | Oliver Knight |
| 104 | Nolann Mahoudo |
| 105 | Jamie Meehan |
| 106 | Damien Touzé |
| Intermarché-Wanty | |
| 111 | Hugo Page |
| 112 | Huub Artz |
| 113 | Laurenz Rex |
| 114 | Jonas Rutsch |
| 115 | Gerben Thijssen |
| 116 | Taco van der Hoorn |
| 117 | Roel van Sintmaartensdijk |
| Uno-X Mobility | |
| 121 | Jonas Abrahamsen |
| 122 | Carl-Frederik Bevort |
| 123 | Stian Fredheim |
| 124 | William Blume Levy |
| 125 | Erik Resell |
| 126 | Anders Skaarseth |
| 127 | Søren Wærenskjold |
| Team Picnic PostNL | |
| 131 | John Degenkolb |
| 132 | Timo de Jong |
| 133 | Nils Eekhoff |
| 134 | Tobias Lund Andresen |
| 135 | Niklas Märkl |
| 136 | Timo Roosen |
| 137 | Julius van den Berg |
| Team TotalEnergies | |
| 141 | Anthony Turgis |
| 142 | Lucas Boniface |
| 143 | Rayan Boulahoite |
| 144 | Florian Dauphin |
| 145 | Joris Delbove |
| 146 | Fabien Doubey |
| 147 | Sandy Dujardin |
| Tudor Pro Cycling Team | |
| 151 | Matteo Trentin |
| 152 | Mika Heming |
| 153 | Petr Kelemen |
| 154 | Sebastian Kolze Changizi |
| 155 | Marius Mayrhofer |
| 156 | Aivaras Mikutis |
| 157 | Rick Pluimers |
| Israel-Premier Tech | |
| 161 | Riley Sheehan |
| 162 | Guillaume Boivin |
| 163 | Daniel Lima |
| 164 | Matis Louvel |
| 165 | Corbin Strong |
| 166 | Tom Van Asbroeck |
| Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | |
| 171 | Matteo Moschetti |
| 172 | Frederik Frison |
| 173 | Emils Liepins |
| 174 | Kamil Malecki |
| 175 | Nicolò Parisini |
| 176 | Rory Townsend |
| Unibet Tietema Rockets | |
| 181 | Lukas Kubis |
| 182 | Davide Bomboi |
| 183 | Hartthijs de Vries |
| 184 | Axel Huens |
| 185 | Tomas Kopecky |
| 186 | Andreas Stokbro Nielsen |
| 187 | Abram Stockman |
| St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 | |
| 191 | Lucas Bénéteau |
| 192 | Nicolas Breuillard |
| 193 | Théo Delacroix |
| 194 | Jérémy Lecroq |
| 195 | Alan Riou |
| 196 | Yohann Simon |
| 197 | Morne Van Niekerk |
| Van Rysel-Roubaix | |
| 201 | Maxime Jarnet |
| 202 | Daniel Årnes |
| 203 | Rémi Capron |
| 204 | Célestin Guillon |
| 205 | Kenny Molly |
| 206 | Emmanuel Morin |
| 207 | Valentin Tabellion |
| CIC-U-Nantes | |
| 211 | Yaël Joalland |
| 212 | Joris Chaussinand |
| 213 | Similien Hamon |
| 214 | Antoine Hue |
| 215 | Lenaic Langella |
| 216 | Axel Mariault |
| 217 | Mathias Sanlaville |
| Nice Métropole-Côte d'Azur | |
| 221 | Andrea Mifsud |
| 222 | Jahkim Carty |
| 223 | Carter Guichard |
| 224 | Jaakko Hänninen |
| 225 | Noah Knecht |
| 226 | Alexander Konijn |
| 227 | Dylan Massa |