2025 UAE Tour (WorldTour),
United Arab Emirates

7th Edition: February 17 - 23, 2025
Complete results

UAE Tour podium history | 2024 edition | Race organizer's preview | Start list
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5 | Stage 6

2025 UAE Tour map

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Saturday, February 22: Stage 6, Abu Dhabi Cycle Club - Abu Dhabi Breakwater, 165 km

Stage 6 map & profile

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Weather at Abu Dhabi at 9:00 AM, local time: 22C (72F), fair, with the wind from the north at 8 km/hr (5 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain. By 1:00 the temperature is forecast to climb to 25C (77F).

The stage: A stage around the city of Abu Dhabi. Starting at the Abu Dhabi Cycle Club, the route passes through Khalifa City, Yas Island, and returns to Abu Dhabi via Saadiyat Island. The route crosses Al Maryah Island, Al Reem Island, and Yifenah Island, with a key passage at Qasr Al Hosn. The final approach leads from south to north, concluding at Abu Dhabi Breakwater in a likely sprint finish.

Final kilometers: The last 5 km are on a wide road with large half-curves leading to the finish line on tarmac.

The race:

 

Results:

 

GC after stage 6:

 

Stage 6 map & profile:

Stage 6 map

Stage 6 profile

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Friday, February 21: Stage 5, American University in Dubai - Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, 160 km

Tim Merlier wins UAE Tour stage five. Photo: Dario Berlingheri/Getty Images

Stage 5 map & profile:

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Weather at the race city of Dubai at 8:50 AM, local time: 24C (75F), fair, with the wind from the east at 8 km/hr (5 mph). There is a 1% chance of rain. The temperature is forecast to climb to 28C (82F) by 1:00 PM.

The stage: A stage in Dubai. The race will leave the city in the direction of the desert, passing the classic sites of these stages such as the Al Qudra Cycletrack and the Meydan Racecourse. It then reaches the Dubai Safari Park. The entire route winds along very wide and essentially straight, roads interspersed with roundabouts that have a very large radius and are well paved.

Final kilometers: The finale is on a wide avenue, with a 700 m straight.

The race: Here's the race organizer's stage five summary:

Tim Merlier extends his UAE Tour record by securing his sixth victory in the fastest-ever stage (48.571 km/h) of the One and Only UCI WorldTour race in the Middle East. It was once again Tadej Pogacar who shook the things up. The Red Jersey, along with Black Jersey holder Djordje Djuric and defending champion Lennart Van Eetvelt, joined an early-stage breakaway that animated the first part of the race.

Red jersey Tadej Pogacar leads the early break.

Thanks to the Intermediate Sprints, Pogacar and Van Eetvelt gained 3” over their GC competitors. With 39 km to go, the peloton reeled in the breakaway, setting the stage for a sprinter showdown. After a crash little over 3 km to go, the final sprint battle was between Merlier and Green Jersey holder Milan. This time it was the European Champion who had the best, while Malucelli edged out his compatriot with a last-second bike throw to claim second place.

Speaking in the press conference, the stage winner Tim Merlier said: “I was thinking during the race that maybe I could win the fastest ever stage of the UAE Tour. This is a WorldTour race so it’s a very important one for all of us. Yesterday there were several moves in the wind, then I couldn’t find any slipstream anymore, I had to pass two riders to choose my moment and I saw Jonathan Milan was already starting his sprint. I was lacking a bit of speed. Today, I was coming back from a pee stop when Tadej Pogacar attacked and we started pulling then we asked help from other teams. The guys did a very good job to bring it back. I’m very satisfied with today’s victory”.

Tadej Pogacar retains the GC leader's red jersey.

The Red Jersey Tadej Pogacar said: ““It was not the plan to extend my lead throughout time bonuses today but the move happened in a funny moment just like last year at Volta Catalunya when Domen [Novak] came with me to the front but today, other guys followed as well and it turned out to be a breakaway. We just sort of commit but we tried not to spend too much. It was a good day out, trying to keep the breakaway alive. We finished the stage much faster because of that. In the finale, my team-mates tried to make a bubble around me behind the sprinters’ teams, just to stay safe. For 90% of the peloton, it was a comfortable day on the road”.

The Green Jersey Jonathan Milan said: “It was a difficult finale and [team-mate] Simone [Consonni] crashed, quite far away from the end. But he was feeling good so we tried to move together. It just happens that in the last kilometres sometimes you miss each other, it’s important to learn from a situation like today’s and to keep pushing and looking for other victories. Tomorrow we have another good stage. I’m looking forward to it although I’m starting to feel the heat but I still have good legs. Congratulations to Tim Merlier for his win today. He did a nice sprint”.

STATISTICS

• Today’s stage was run at 48.751 kph, the new record for a road stage of the UAE Tour, beating the Al Mirfa stage of 2021, won by Mathieu Van der Poel at 46.771 kph.
• Tim Merlier recorded his 53rd professional win, the 3rd this year after stages 1 and 3 at the AlUla Tour.
• Matteo Malucelli (2nd) posted his first career top-3 in a World Tour race. Up to now he had recorded 41 podiums in Professional races, but not at World Tour level.
• Team Soudal-Quick Step, in its various denominations, is the first one with 10 stages won at the UAE Tour, leaving UAE Team Emirates at 9.

Complete results:

Sergio Higuita (XDS Astana) did not start.

There were two crashes in the final three kilometers of the stage.

160 kilometers raced at an average speed of 48.752 km/hr

1	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	3hr 16min 55sec
2	Matteo Malucelli	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
3	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
4	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
5	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
6	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
7	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
8	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
9	Elmar Reinders	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
10	Luka Mezgec	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
11	Arvid de Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
12	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
13	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
14	Lionel Taminiaux	Lotto	s.t.
15	Steffen De Schuyteneer	Lotto	s.t.
16	Enrico Zanoncello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
17	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
18	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
19	Niklas Behrens	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
20	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
21	Filippo Fiorelli	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
22	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
23	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
24	Alessandro Pinarello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
25	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
26	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
27	Reuben Thompson	Lotto	s.t.
28	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
29	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
30	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
31	Lorenzo Quartucci	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
32	Lorenzo Conforti	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
33	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
34	Einer Rubio	Movistar Team	s.t.
35	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
36	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
37	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
38	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
39	Anton Palzer	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
40	Niklas Märkl	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
41	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
42	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
43	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
44	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
45	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
46	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
47	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
48	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto	s.t.
49	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
50	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
51	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
52	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
53	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
54	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
55	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
56	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
57	Florian Vermeersch	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
58	Kristian Sbaragli	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
59	Max van der Meulen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
60	Tosh Van der Sande	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
61	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
62	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
63	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
64	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
65	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
66	Roberto Gonzalez	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
67	Logan Currie	Lotto	@ 50sec
68	Daniel McLay	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	@ 0sec
69	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	0:58
70	Haoyu Su	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
71	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
72	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	@ 0sec
73	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	@ 0sec
74	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	0:58
75	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
76	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	@ 0sec
77	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:58
78	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
79	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
80	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
81	Robbe Ghys	Alpecin-Deceuninck	@ 0sec
82	William Barta	Movistar Team	0:58
83	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
84	Arthur Kluckers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
85	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	@ 0sec
86	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	0:58
87	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
88	Alexander Krieger	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
89	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
90	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	1:21
91	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	@ 0sec
92	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	1:21
93	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
94	Chris Froome	Israel-Premier Tech	1:38
95	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	@ 0sec
96	Federico Biagini	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	1:38
97	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto	s.t.
98	Jan Hirt	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
99	Filippo Fortin	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	@ 0sec
100	Manuele Tarozzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	1:38
101	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	1:51
102	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	2:22
103	Paul Seixas	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
104	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
105	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
106	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	2:30
107	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
108	Dusan Rajovic	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
109	Djordje Djuric	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
110	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
111	Lars Craps	Lotto	2:37
112	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	2:43
113	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	2:47
114	Gerben Kuypers	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
115	Robert Donaldson	Team Jayco-AlUla	3:04
116	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
117	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:12
118	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
119	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	@ 0sec
120	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	3:12
121	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	@ 0sec
122	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	3:41
123	Carlos Samudio	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	3:46
124	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:56
125	Gerben Thijssen	Intermarché-Wanty	@ 0sec
126	Victor Langellotti	INEOS Grenadiers	4:12
127	Dylan Groenewegen	Team Jayco-AlUla	@ 0sec
128	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	@ 0sec
129	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar Team	@ 0sec
130	Davide Cimolai	Movistar Team	@ 0sec
131	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	4:12
132	Mattia Pinazzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	@ 0sec
133	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	5:42

 

GC after stage 5:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Points classification leader: Jonathan Milan (Ldl-Trek)
• Best young rider: Joshua Tarling (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Intermediate sprint classification leader: Djordje Djuric (Solution Tech-Vini Fantini)
• Teams classification leader: Movistar

672.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.881 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	15hr 40min 34sec
2	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	@ 21sec
3	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	0:27
4	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	0:28
5	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:36
6	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	0:37
7	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	0:38
8	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto	s.t.
9	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	0:41
10	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	0:44
11	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	0:56
12	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:15
13	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	1:17
14	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
15	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:21
16	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	1:24
17	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	1:24
18	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	1:28
19	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:37
20	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	1:40
21	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	1:46
22	Einer Rubio	Movistar Team	2:04
23	Alessandro Pinarello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	2:17
24	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	2:29
25	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	2:30
26	Paul Seixas	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:16
27	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	3:24
28	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	3:29
29	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:34
30	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	3:45
31	Reuben Thompson	Lotto	3:47
32	Roberto Gonzalez	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	3:57
33	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	4:03
34	Anton Palzer	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	4:04
35	Jan Hirt	Israel-Premier Tech	4:35
36	Lorenzo Quartucci	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	4:54
37	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4:57
38	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	5:24
39	Victor Langellotti	INEOS Grenadiers	5:31
40	William Barta	Movistar Team	5:59
41	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	6:56
42	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	7:03
43	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	8:00
44	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	8:06
45	Max van der Meulen	Bahrain Victorious	8:20
46	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	8:22
47	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	9:21
48	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	9:30
49	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	9:48
50	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	11:27
51	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	12:26
52	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	12:39
53	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	12:48
54	Lars Craps	Lotto	s.t.
55	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	13:06
56	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	13:17
57	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	13:29
58	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	13:30
59	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	13:38
60	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	13:59
61	Gerben Kuypers	Intermarché-Wanty	14:01
62	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	14:03
63	Tosh Van der Sande	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	14:32
64	Robbe Ghys	Alpecin-Deceuninck	14:35
65	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	14:38
66	Steffen De Schuyteneer	Lotto	14:49
67	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	14:52
68	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	14:59
69	Kristian Sbaragli	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	14:59
70	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	15:14
71	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	15:19
72	Niklas Märkl	Team Picnic PostNL	15:51
73	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	16:04
74	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	16:41
75	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:06
76	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	17:07
77	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:16
78	Chris Froome	Israel-Premier Tech	17:23
79	Niklas Behrens	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	17:28
80	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	17:31
81	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	17:32
82	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	17:34
83	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	17:53
84	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	17:54
85	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	17:55
86	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	17:59
87	Logan Currie	Lotto	s.t.
88	Florian Vermeersch	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	18:04
89	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	18:14
90	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	18:25
91	Enrico Zanoncello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	18:32
92	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	18:34
93	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	18:35
94	Robert Donaldson	Team Jayco-AlUla	18:38
95	Mattia Pinazzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	18:40
96	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	18:42
97	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	18:44
98	Haoyu Su	XDS Astana Team	18:50
99	Dylan Groenewegen	Team Jayco-AlUla	18:56
100	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	19:11
101	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar Team	19:17
102	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	19:21
103	Daniel McLay	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	19:22
104	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	19:51
105	Elmar Reinders	Team Jayco-AlUla	19:51
106	Dusan Rajovic	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	20:08
107	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto	20:17
108	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	20:23
109	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	20:26
110	Arthur Kluckers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	20:27
111	Luka Mezgec	Team Jayco-AlUla	20:43
112	Davide Cimolai	Movistar Team	20:44
113	Gerben Thijssen	Intermarché-Wanty	21:06
114	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	21:21
115	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	21:24
116	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	21:29
117	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	21:38
118	Filippo Fortin	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	21:39
119	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	22:04
120	Lionel Taminiaux	Lotto	22:22
121	Manuele Tarozzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	23:40
122	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	24:00
123	Carlos Samudio	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	24:17
124	Filippo Fiorelli	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	24:25
125	Lorenzo Conforti	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	26:23
126	Arvid de Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	27:11
127	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	27:14
128	Federico Biagini	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	27:36
129	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	27:48
130	Matteo Malucelli	XDS Astana Team	29:19
131	Alexander Krieger	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	29:55
132	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	31:54
133	Djordje Djuric	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	35:25

 

Stage 5 map & profile:

Stage 5 map

Stage 5 profile

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Thursday, February 20: Stage 4, Taqa/Fujairah Qidfa Beach - Umm Al Quwain, 181 km

Stage 4 map & profile

Lidl-Trek's Jonathan Milan gets his second stage with this UAE Tour. Photo: Sprint Cycling

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Weather at the finish city of Umm Al Quwain at 9:00 AM, local time: 20C (68F), fair, with the wind from the southeast at 3 km/hr (2 mph). There is a 3% chance of rain, rising to 8% at 2:00 PM. The temperature is projected to climb to 25C (77F) by 1:00 PM.

The stage: Starting in Fujairah Qidfa Beach to reach Umm Al Quwain, the stage crosses the desert areas on the edge of the Hajar Mountains. It touches the largest number of Emirates of all the stages. After Masafi, the desert route diverges from the direct highway, mostly following wide, well-paved and straight roads leading to the final sprint in Umm al Quwain. Wind and occasional sand might be determining factors.
Final kilometers: The final km is on a wide avenue.

The stage finish from a distance. Photo: Sprint Cycling

The race: Speaking seconds after the stage finish, the stage winner Jonathan Milan said: “I think I started sprinting a bit too early. At the end, this throw of the bike made the difference in my favour on the photo-finish. I’m really happy with the result. I was looking forward to this. Echelons always make races more interesting. They are important ahead of the classics to get used to how to move. We were always inside [the first group], we were ready for them. We moved in a perfect way today. It’s easier with this team to deliver this kind of result. It hurt the legs and made a bit of a selection. We’re here to win as much as possible”.

Here's the race organizer's stage four report:

Umm Al Quwain, 20 February 2025 – After winning the opening stage, Jonathan Milan doubles his tally with a photo-finish victory in stage 4 of the UAE Tour. The Lidl-Trek sprinter launched his sprint early and held off a late comeback from Belgian rivals Merlier and Philipsen, securing his third win of the season.

The TAQA Stage saw a chaotic finale, with the peloton splitting multiple times due to the fierce winds—though never catching Red Jersey wearer Tadej Pogačar off guard. The Slovenian remains firmly in control of the general classification, while the Green Jersey now belongs to Jonathan Milan, and the Black Jersey is taken over by Dorde Duric.

The peloton speeds across the desert. Sprint Cycling photo

Speaking in the press conference, the stage winner Jonathan Milan said: “I saw Tim Merlier coming very fast, then I waited for the photo finish and I eventually was told that I won but I didn’t know. In my first years as a pro, I wasn’t so successful because I had to gain experience first, learn how to move. Step by step, I got there. Today’s stage gives me a lot of confidence for Milano-Sanremo considering the level of the sprinters at the UAE Tour but Milano-Sanremo has a different finale. We knew there was a high chance of echelons with the wind there was today, but we were always ready and always in the front group”.

Tadej Pogacar will start stage five in the red GC leader's jersey. Sprint Cycling photo

The Red Jersey Tadej Pogacar said: “My aim in the echelons was staying safe and not losing time. In the echelons, you have fun if you are in the front group and you don’t if you are behind. It wasn’t our initiative, we followed the moves. I’m always up for action anyway. I enjoyed it today. The team did an amazing job staying in the front when it was important. It was hard but we had some fun. I thought it would be safer to have a sprint in a reduced group. Some people think we have easy stages at the UAE Tour but so far, there has been some action every day. It also makes it a good preparation race for the classics”.

STATISTICS

• Jonathan Milan records his 2nd win at the UAE Tour, becoming the most successful Italian rider in this race.
• 19th professional win for Jonathan Milan, already the 3rd this year. Last year he finished the season with 11 wins, with only one as early as February.
• Jonathan Milan joins Sam Bennett (2021), Jasper Philipsen (2022), Tadej Pogacar (2022) and Tim Merlier (2023): the only riders who scored 2 wins in one edition at the UAE Tour. The record is just one win away: Merlier won 3 times last year.
• 12th leader’s jersey at the UAE Tour for Tadej Pogacar, which equals the sum of his two closest rivals: 7 by Primoz Roglic and 5 by Remco Evenepoel.

Stage 4 gets started. Photo: Sprint Cycling

Complete results:

181 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.688 km/hr

1	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	4hr 3min 1sec
2	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
3	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
4	Daniel McLay	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
5	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar Team	s.t.
6	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
7	Dylan Groenewegen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
8	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
9	Steffen De Schuyteneer	Lotto	s.t.
10	Gerben Thijssen	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
11	Arvid de Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
12	Dusan Rajovic	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
13	Enrico Zanoncello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
14	Matteo Malucelli	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
15	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
16	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
17	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
18	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
19	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
20	Mattia Pinazzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
21	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	s.t.
22	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
23	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
24	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
25	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
26	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
27	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
28	Niklas Behrens	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
29	Victor Langellotti	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
30	Niklas Märkl	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
31	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
32	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
33	Lorenzo Conforti	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
34	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
35	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
36	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
37	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
38	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
39	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
40	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
41	Florian Vermeersch	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
42	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto	s.t.
43	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
44	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
45	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
46	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
47	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
48	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
49	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
50	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
51	Luka Mezgec	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
52	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
53	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
54	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
55	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
56	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
57	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
58	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
59	Alessandro Pinarello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
60	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
61	Roberto Gonzalez	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
62	Einer Rubio	Movistar Team	s.t.
63	Tosh Van der Sande	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
64	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
65	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
66	Paul Seixas	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
67	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
68	Reuben Thompson	Lotto	s.t.
69	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
70	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
71	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
72	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
73	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
74	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
75	Davide Cimolai	Movistar Team	s.t.
76	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
77	Jan Hirt	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
78	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
79	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
80	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
81	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
82	Elmar Reinders	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
83	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	@ 15sec
84	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	0:21
85	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
86	Filippo Fortin	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
87	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
88	Lars Craps	Lotto	s.t.
89	Robbe Ghys	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
90	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
91	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	0:38
92	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
93	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:48
94	Robert Donaldson	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
95	Alexander Krieger	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:57
96	Anton Palzer	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	1:10
97	Lorenzo Quartucci	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	1:17
98	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
99	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	1:27
100	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
101	Chris Froome	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
102	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:41
103	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:52
104	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	2:00
105	Logan Currie	Lotto	2:18
106	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
107	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	2:52
108	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
109	William Barta	Movistar Team	s.t.
110	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	3:32
111	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	4:01
112	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	4:15
113	Haoyu Su	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
114	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
115	Kristian Sbaragli	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
116	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
117	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto	s.t.
118	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
119	Filippo Fiorelli	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
120	Manuele Tarozzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
121	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
122	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
123	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
124	Federico Biagini	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
125	Max van der Meulen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
126	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
127	Arthur Kluckers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
128	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
129	Lionel Taminiaux	Lotto	s.t.
130	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
131	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
132	Gerben Kuypers	Intermarché-Wanty	5:11
133	Carlos Samudio	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	5:21
134	Djordje Djuric	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.

 

GC after stage 4:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Points classification leader: Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek)
• Best young rider: Joshua Tarling (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Sprint classification leader: Dorde Duric (Solution Tech-Vini Fantini)
• Teams classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

512.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.323 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	12hr 23min 42sec
2	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	@ 18sec
3	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	0:23
4	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	0:24
5	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	0:25
6	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:33
7	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	0:34
8	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	0:35
9	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	0:38
10	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto	s.t.
11	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:39
12	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	0:41
13	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	0:45
14	Paul Seixas	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:51
15	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	0:53
16	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:12
17	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	1:14
18	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
19	Victor Langellotti	INEOS Grenadiers	1:17
20	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:18
21	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	1:21
22	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	1:25
23	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:34
24	Einer Rubio	Movistar Team	2:01
25	Alessandro Pinarello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	2:14
26	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	2:26
27	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	2:27
28	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	2:28
29	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	2:33
30	Jan Hirt	Israel-Premier Tech	2:54
31	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	3:09
32	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	3:21
33	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	3:42
34	Reuben Thompson	Lotto	3:44
35	Roberto Gonzalez	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	3:54
36	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	4:00
37	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
38	Anton Palzer	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	4:01
39	Lorenzo Quartucci	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	4:51
40	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4:54
41	William Barta	Movistar Team	4:58
42	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	5:55
43	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	6:02
44	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	6:28
45	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	7:23
46	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	7:57
47	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	8:03
48	Max van der Meulen	Bahrain Victorious	8:17
49	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	8:20
50	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	8:54
51	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	9:27
52	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	9:34
53	Lars Craps	Lotto	10:08
54	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	11:00
55	Gerben Kuypers	Intermarché-Wanty	11:11
56	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	11:30
57	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	11:31
58	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	11:38
59	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	12:23
60	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	12:35
61	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	12:45
62	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	13:03
63	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	13:14
64	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	13:26
65	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	13:27
66	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	13:35
67	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	13:51
68	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	14:00
69	Tosh Van der Sande	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	14:29
70	Robbe Ghys	Alpecin-Deceuninck	14:32
71	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	14:42
72	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
73	Steffen De Schuyteneer	Lotto	14:46
74	Kristian Sbaragli	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	14:56
75	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	15:01
76	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	15:10
77	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	15:28
78	Robert Donaldson	Team Jayco-AlUla	15:31
79	Chris Froome	Israel-Premier Tech	15:42
80	Niklas Märkl	Team Picnic PostNL	15:48
81	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	16:01
82	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	16:42
83	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:03
84	Logan Currie	Lotto	17:06
85	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:13
86	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	17:14
87	Niklas Behrens	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	17:25
88	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	17:28
89	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	17:34
90	Dusan Rajovic	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	17:35
91	Haoyu Su	XDS Astana Team	17:49
92	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	17:50
93	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	17:51
94	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	17:52
95	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	18:01
96	Florian Vermeersch	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
97	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	18:06
98	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	18:23
99	Enrico Zanoncello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	18:29
100	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	18:31
101	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto	18:36
102	Mattia Pinazzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	18:37
103	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	18:39
104	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	18:41
105	Dylan Groenewegen	Team Jayco-AlUla	18:53
106	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	19:08
107	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar Team	19:14
108	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	19:18
109	Daniel McLay	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	19:19
110	Arthur Kluckers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	19:26
111	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	19:48
112	Elmar Reinders	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
113	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	20:20
114	Carlos Samudio	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	20:28
115	Luka Mezgec	Team Jayco-AlUla	20:40
116	Davide Cimolai	Movistar Team	20:41
117	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	21:03
118	Gerben Thijssen	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
119	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	21:18
120	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	21:21
121	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	21:27
122	Filippo Fortin	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	21:36
123	Manuele Tarozzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	22:01
124	Lionel Taminiaux	Lotto	22:19
125	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	23:59
126	Filippo Fiorelli	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	24:22
127	Federico Biagini	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	25:55
128	Lorenzo Conforti	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	26:20
129	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	26:24
130	Arvid de Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	27:08
131	Alexander Krieger	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	28:54
132	Matteo Malucelli	XDS Astana Team	29:22
133	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	31:51
134	Djordje Djuric	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	32:55

 

Stage 4 map & profile:

Stage 4 map

Stage 4 profile

 

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Wednesday, February 19: Stage 3, Ras Khaimah - Jebel Jais, 181 km

Stage 3 map & profile

Tadej Pogacar wins the stage and is the new GC leader.

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Weather at Jebel Jais at 9:00 AM local time: 16C (61F), sunny, with the wind from the southwest at 6 km/hr (4 mph). No rain is forecast. The temperature is forecast to climb to 18C (64F) by 1:00 PM.

The stage: The first of the two mountain stages of this UAE Tour. The stage is divided into two distinct parts. The first one approaches the final mountain by undulating through the desert, while the last one features approximately 20 km of continuous climbing all the way to the finish. Starting in Ras al Khaimah, the race reaches Al Marjan Island and returns to the desert. After the Ras al Khaimah airport, the race heads straight for Jais Mountain. The final climb is approximately 20 km long with a constant 5% gradient, with slightly higher gradients around 7% in the last 2 km.

Final kilometers
The final climb winds through hairpin bends on a very wide roadway. Gradients are mainly around 4-5% in the first part and 5-7% in the second one, peaking at 9% around 2 km from the finish. The finish is on straight asphalt roads.

The race: Speaking seconds after the stage finish, the stage winner and new Red Jersey Tadej Pogacar said: “It feels amazing to get the first win of the year, finally back racing and super happy with a victory after three days. It was hard for the guys to control the race because it was a long stage. We got no help whatsoever until the final climb. We executed the plan very well. Everybody in the team deserves the victory. We asked Ineos if they wanted to pay honor to the jersey but Rune [Herregodts] was left pulling all day. Lotto helped us a bit and we tried to do the climb at our pace. It’s special to win in the UAE with the rainbow jersey. Part of me was hoping that Joshua Tarling would hold on to the bunch and retain the red jersey but I’ll be more than happy to wear the race leader’s jersey tomorrow. The GC is not over though. In three flat stages, you never know what can happen here. Tomorrow we’ll only past half way into the race”.

Here's the race organizer's stage three report:

Jebel Jais, 19 February 2025 – Tadej Pogačar claims his first victory of 2025 at Jebel Jais, outpowering his rivals in an uphill sprint launched from the front in the last 300 meters. The Slovenian, now tied with Tim Merlier at five stage wins in the UAE Tour, perfectly executed his team’s strategy, as they controlled most of the final climb. An attack by Felix Gall at 1,500 meters from the finish put Red Jersey Joshua Tarling in trouble, but the UAE Team Emirates – XRG responded immediately, with an impressive Jay Vine setting up Pogačar. In the general classification, the Slovenian now leads with an 18-second advantage over Tarling, who retained the White Jersey, and 23 seconds over Castrillo.

The peloton on its way to the Jebel Jais climb. Photo: Sprint Cycling Agency

Speaking in the press conference, the stage winner and new Red Jersey Tadej Pogacar said: “Everybody watching this race knows that Jebel Jais is windy. It meant the guys pulling were suffering quite a lot but when you’re in the bunch, it’s not like that. Today’s race was no science fiction. I was hoping for Joshua Tarling to stay closer and keep the red jersey so I would have continued racing in the rainbow jersey.

Pogacar starts throwing some high heat. Photo: Sprint Cycling Agency

"At the end I’m happy to lead the race but we also know that Jebel Jais isn’t very suitable for making differences. Every year we hear that this is a sprint of the GC riders. It’s easier to have bigger gaps in steeper climbs, not only for me but in general. It’s great that my parents finally have a chance to come here and watch this race. They’re enjoying it and I also enjoyed to see them on the start line and know that they’d be here at the finish. Today is a confirmation that my winter training has been good. But I already had that feeling yesterday. It’s a motivation booster”.

Tadej Pogacar can sit up and celebrate his victory. Photo: Sprint Cycling Agency

The White Jersey Joshua Tarling said: “I’m satisfied with how it went. It was quite a smooth pace the whole way up so I’ve settled into a rhythm until Decathlon-AG2R started to really ramp it so with one and half kilometre to get, I was a bit off the back but I some left to keep the pace uphill. We a nice few safe stages and I’ll head into the last day the same way we did today for me and Carlos [Rodriguez]”.

STATISTICS

• 5th stage win at the UAE Tour for Tadej Pogacar, equalling Tim Merlier for the record.
• Tadej Pogacar recorded his 89th professional win, the first this season. His wait for a win was 130 days: since he won Il Lombardia last October.
• Only 2 riders won stages at the UAE Tour wearing the Rainbow Jersey: Alejandro Valverde in Jebel Hafeet in 2019 and Tadej Pogacar in Jebel Jais this year.
• Oscar Onley posted his 2nd season podium. He was 2nd, like in the 5th stage of the Tour Down Under in Willunga Hill.

Complete results:

Sean Quinn (EF Education-EasyPost) did not start.

181 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.338 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	4hr 36min 4sec
2	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
3	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
4	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto	s.t.
5	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
6	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
7	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	@ 4sec
8	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
9	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
10	Paul Seixas	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
11	Victor Langellotti	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
12	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
13	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
14	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	0:07
15	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
16	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
17	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	0:10
18	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:20
19	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
20	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
21	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	0:26
22	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	0:28
23	Einer Rubio	Movistar Team	0:31
24	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	0:33
25	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
26	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	0:42
27	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	0:44
28	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	0:50
29	Alessandro Pinarello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	0:52
30	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:56
31	William Barta	Movistar Team	1:02
32	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	1:08
33	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	1:13
34	Anton Palzer	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	1:18
35	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	1:19
36	Jan Hirt	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
37	Lorenzo Quartucci	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	1:24
38	Roberto Gonzalez	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	2:00
39	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
40	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
41	Reuben Thompson	Lotto	s.t.
42	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
43	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
44	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	2:19
45	Max van der Meulen	Bahrain Victorious	2:26
46	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	2:43
47	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	3:01
48	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	3:40
49	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	4:14
50	Lars Craps	Lotto	4:16
51	Gerben Kuypers	Intermarché-Wanty	4:35
52	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
53	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
54	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:42
55	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	5:53
56	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	6:08
57	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	6:48
58	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
59	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	8:15
60	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
61	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	8:15
62	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
63	Kristian Sbaragli	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
64	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	9:31
65	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto	10:15
66	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
67	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	10:17
68	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
69	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
70	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
71	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
72	Robbe Ghys	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
73	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
74	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
75	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
76	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
77	Tosh Van der Sande	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	10:51
78	Haoyu Su	XDS Astana Team	10:53
79	Logan Currie	Lotto	10:58
80	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
81	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
82	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
83	Chris Froome	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
84	Robert Donaldson	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
85	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	11:41
86	Carlos Samudio	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	11:55
87	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	12:44
88	Thomas Gloag	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	12:49
89	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
90	Steffen De Schuyteneer	Lotto	13:07
91	Niklas Märkl	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
92	Arthur Kluckers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	14:35
93	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	15:07
94	Manuele Tarozzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	15:10
95	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	15:38
96	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
97	Enrico Zanoncello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
98	Filippo Fiorelli	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
99	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	15:40
100	Dusan Rajovic	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
101	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
102	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
103	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	15:49
104	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
105	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
106	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
107	Gerben Thijssen	Intermarché-Wanty	15:55
108	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	15:57
109	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
110	Florian Vermeersch	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
111	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
112	Filippo Fortin	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
113	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar Team	s.t.
114	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
115	Davide Cimolai	Movistar Team	s.t.
116	Mattia Pinazzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
117	Elmar Reinders	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
118	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
119	Dylan Groenewegen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
120	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
121	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
122	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
123	Luka Mezgec	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
124	Niklas Behrens	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
125	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
126	Daniel McLay	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
127	Lionel Taminiaux	Lotto	s.t.
128	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	17:31
129	Federico Biagini	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
130	Matteo Malucelli	XDS Astana Team	22:39
131	Djordje Djuric	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
132	Arvid de Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
133	Lorenzo Conforti	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
134	Alexander Krieger	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
135	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	23:16

 

GC after stage 3:

• GC leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Points classification leader: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
• Best young rider: Joshua Tarling (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Teams classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

331.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 39.690 km/hr

1	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	8hr 20min 41sec
2	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	@ 18sec
3	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	0:23
4	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	0:24
5	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	0:26
6	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:33
7	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	0:34
8	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	0:35
9	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	0:38
10	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto	s.t.
11	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:39
12	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	0:41
13	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	0:45
14	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	0:50
15	Paul Seixas	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:51
16	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	0:53
17	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:12
18	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	1:14
19	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
20	Victor Langellotti	INEOS Grenadiers	1:17
21	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:18
22	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	1:21
23	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	1:25
24	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:34
25	Einer Rubio	Movistar Team	2:01
26	William Barta	Movistar Team	2:06
27	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	2:13
28	Alessandro Pinarello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	2:14
29	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	2:26
30	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	2:27
31	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	2:28
32	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	2:33
33	Anton Palzer	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	2:51
34	Jan Hirt	Israel-Premier Tech	2:54
35	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	3:08
36	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	3:09
37	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	3:21
38	Lorenzo Quartucci	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	3:36
39	Reuben Thompson	Lotto	3:44
40	Roberto Gonzalez	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	3:54
41	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	4:00
42	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
43	Max van der Meulen	Bahrain Victorious	4:02
44	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4:54
45	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	5:55
46	Gerben Kuypers	Intermarché-Wanty	6:00
47	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	6:02
48	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	6:30
49	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	6:45
50	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	7:15
51	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	7:23
52	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	8:03
53	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	8:20
54	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
55	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	8:54
56	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	9:27
57	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	9:34
58	Lars Craps	Lotto	9:47
59	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	10:14
60	Kristian Sbaragli	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	10:41
61	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	11:00
62	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	11:38
63	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	12:23
64	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	12:42
65	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	12:45
66	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	12:57
67	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	13:01
68	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	13:03
69	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	13:12
70	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	13:14
71	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	13:19
72	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	13:26
73	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	13:30
74	Thomas Gloag	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	13:32
75	Haoyu Su	XDS Astana Team	13:34
76	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	14:00
77	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	14:08
78	Robbe Ghys	Alpecin-Deceuninck	14:11
79	Chris Froome	Israel-Premier Tech	14:15
80	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	14:21
81	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto	14:21
82	Tosh Van der Sande	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	14:29
83	Robert Donaldson	Team Jayco-AlUla	14:43
84	Steffen De Schuyteneer	Lotto	14:46
85	Logan Currie	Lotto	14:48
86	Carlos Samudio	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	15:07
87	Arthur Kluckers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	15:11
88	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	15:28
89	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	15:40
90	Niklas Märkl	Team Picnic PostNL	15:48
91	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	16:00
92	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	16:25
93	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	16:52
94	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	17:07
95	Niklas Behrens	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	17:25
96	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	17:28
97	Dusan Rajovic	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	17:35
98	Manuele Tarozzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	17:47
99	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	17:50
100	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	17:51
101	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	18:01
102	Florian Vermeersch	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
103	Lionel Taminiaux	Lotto	18:04
104	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	18:12
105	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	18:26
106	Enrico Zanoncello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	18:29
107	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	18:31
108	Mattia Pinazzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	18:37
109	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	18:39
110	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	18:40
111	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	18:41
112	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	18:45
113	Dylan Groenewegen	Team Jayco-AlUla	18:53
114	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	19:08
115	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar Team	19:14
116	Daniel McLay	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	19:19
117	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	19:27
118	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	19:44
119	Elmar Reinders	Team Jayco-AlUla	19:48
120	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	20:00
121	Filippo Fiorelli	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	20:07
122	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	20:20
123	Luka Mezgec	Team Jayco-AlUla	20:40
124	Davide Cimolai	Movistar Team	20:41
125	Gerben Thijssen	Intermarché-Wanty	21:03
126	Filippo Fortin	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	21:15
127	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	21:21
128	Federico Biagini	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	21:40
129	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	22:09
130	Lorenzo Conforti	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	26:20
131	Arvid de Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	27:08
132	Djordje Djuric	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	27:40
133	Alexander Krieger	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	27:57
134	Matteo Malucelli	XDS Astana Team	29:22
135	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	30:10

 

Stage 3 map & profile:

Stage 3 map

Stage 3 profile

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Tuesday, February 18: Stage 2, Al Hudayriyat Island 12.2 km individual time trial

Joshua Tarling wins the time trial and becomes the new GC leader. Photo: Sprint Cycling

Stage 2 map & profile

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Weather at the Al Hudayriyat Island race site at 8:40 AM, local time: 23C (73F), fair, with the wind from the north at 8 km/hr (5 mph). There is a 3% chance of rain. The temperature is forecast to climb to 24C (76F) at 1:00 PM.

The stage: Stage 2 is an Individual Time Trial that takes place entirely inside Al Hudayriyat Island. The route is very fast and features only a few right-angle bends and two U-turns. The road is perfectly flat, wide and with sweeping turns, which will allow the riders to maintain very high speeds (wind permitting).

Final kilometers: Wide curves, wide road, excellent pavement. The finish line is on asphalt.

The race: Team Visma | Lease a bike riders Olav Kooij and Julien Vermote are both ill and did not start the stage. Sebastian Molano (UAE Team Emirates) crashed near the end of stage one and also did not start.

Joshua Tarling on his way to winning the stage.

Here is the race organizer's stage two report:

Al Hudayriyat Island, 18 February 2025 – Joshua Tarling confirmed his status as main favorite, setting a record speed for the UAE Tour at 56.671 km/h and becoming the youngest rider to wear the Red Jersey. The British champion covered the 12.2 km of the Tudor ITT in a time of 12’55”, beating Stefan Bissegger by 13” and Tadej Pogacar by 18”. Further back among the GC contenders, Pello Bilbao finished at 39”, Giulio Ciccone at 42”, Carlos Rodriguez at 43”, Alexey Lutsenko at 45”, and defending champion Lennert Van Eetvelt at 46”. Behind them the former Red Jersey Jonathan Milan, who finished at 1’13”. Tomorrow, the Ras Al Khaimah-Jebel Jais will represent the first big chance for the climbers.

Speaking seconds after the stage finish, the stage winner and new Red Jersey Joshua Tarling said: “From the end of last year I kept having bad luck and coming second to Remco [Evenepoel] in the TTs. So I needed this, so badly. I had a good winter. I went to the Teide with the team. I got confidence for today. The first part was very windy with a headwind then a long crosswind section. The first part was the hardest then I got my respite with the corners towards the end. It was kind of two halves. 56.6km/h, that was cool! Now that I have the confidence back, I’m excited for tomorrow’s hard stage, the coming weekend and the rest of the season”.

And Speaking in the press conference, the stage winner and Red Jersey Joshua Tarling said: “I had a bit of a bumpy end of last season, I just needed to regain confidence and it’s exciting to be here for that. It was a mix of bad luck and competing against guys like Remco [Evenepoel] and [Filippo] Ganna. After the Olympics, I was struggling a bit at la Vuelta. I did my first altitude training camp at the Teide to prepare for today’s time trial. I had more chances to beat Tadej [Pogacar] on a flat course like this. I used a 68×11 gear. I’m not going to let the jersey go easy tomorrow. Carlos [Rodriguez] is a better climber than me, and obviously there’s Tadej, but I’ll try to hold on as long as I can. The season looks pretty good this year”.

STATISTICS

• At 56.671 kph, Joshua Tarling set the new record for a TT at the UAE Tour, beating the 55,929 kph of Filippo Ganna on stage 2, 2021.
• Joshua Tarling turned 21 three days ago: he becomes the second-youngest winner at the UAE Tour after Mathias Vacek (19 years 8 months 13 days, Dubai 2022), the youngest from the UK.
• 4th stage win for the UK at the UAE Tour after stage 3 2020 (Adam Yates), stage 2 2022 (Mark Cavendish), stage 7 2023 (Adam Yates).
• At 21 years and 3 days, Joshua Tarling is the youngest ever leader in the history of UAE Tour, beating Luke Plapp (22 years 63 days, stage 2, 2023).

Joshua Tarling will start stage three in the GC leader's red jersey.

Complete results:

12.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 56.671 km/hr

1	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	12min 55sec
2	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	@ 13sec
3	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:18
4	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:21
5	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	0:24
6	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	0:27
7	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	0:28
8	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	0:39
9	Florian Vermeersch	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
10	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	0:40
11	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:41
12	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	0:42
13	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
14	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	0:43
15	Arthur Kluckers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:44
16	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	0:45
17	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto	0:46
18	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
19	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
20	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
21	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	0:47
22	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	0:49
23	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
24	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	0:50
25	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
26	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:51
27	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
28	Thomas Gloag	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
29	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	0:54
30	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	0:55
31	Paul Seixas	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
32	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
33	Logan Currie	Lotto	0:59
34	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
35	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	1:01
36	Steffen De Schuyteneer	Lotto	s.t.
37	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:02
38	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
39	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	1:03
40	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:06
41	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:07
42	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
43	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	1:09
44	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
45	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	1:10
46	William Barta	Movistar Team	1:12
47	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	1:13
48	Gerben Kuypers	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
49	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
50	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	1:14
51	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto	1:15
52	Elmar Reinders	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
53	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
54	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
55	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:16
56	Niklas Behrens	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:18
57	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	1:20
58	Victor Langellotti	INEOS Grenadiers	1:21
59	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
60	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
61	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	1:22
62	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	1:26
63	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
64	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	1:27
65	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
66	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	1:28
67	Dusan Rajovic	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
68	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	1:29
69	Alessandro Pinarello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	1:30
70	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	1:32
71	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
72	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	1:33
73	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
74	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
75	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	1:36
76	Dylan Groenewegen	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
77	Einer Rubio	Movistar Team	1:38
78	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	1:39
79	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
80	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	1:40
81	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
82	Anton Palzer	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	1:41
83	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
84	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
85	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
86	Jan Hirt	Israel-Premier Tech	1:43
87	Luka Mezgec	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
88	Daniel McLay	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:44
89	Max van der Meulen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
90	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	1:45
91	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
92	Carlos Samudio	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	1:46
93	Robert Donaldson	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:47
94	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	1:48
95	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:49
96	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
97	Lars Craps	Lotto	1:50
98	Reuben Thompson	Lotto	1:52
99	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	1:54
100	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	1:58
101	Tosh Van der Sande	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	2:00
102	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
103	Alexander Krieger	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:01
104	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	2:02
105	Roberto Gonzalez	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
106	Lorenzo Quartucci	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
107	Haoyu Su	XDS Astana Team	2:03
108	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
109	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	2:04
110	Manuele Tarozzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	2:06
111	Niklas Märkl	Team Picnic PostNL	2:07
112	Chris Froome	Israel-Premier Tech	2:08
113	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	2:09
114	Lorenzo Conforti	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	2:11
115	Enrico Zanoncello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	2:13
116	Djordje Djuric	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
117	Lionel Taminiaux	Lotto	2:15
118	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:16
119	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
120	Kristian Sbaragli	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
121	Gerben Thijssen	Intermarché-Wanty	2:17
122	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	2:19
123	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	2:23
124	Robbe Ghys	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:24
125	Filippo Fiorelli	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	2:25
126	Davide Cimolai	Movistar Team	s.t.
127	Filippo Fortin	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	2:27
128	Arvid de Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:29
129	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	2:31
130	Mattia Pinazzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	2:32
131	Federico Biagini	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	2:37
132	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:40
133	Matteo Malucelli	XDS Astana Team	2:46
134	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:47
135	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar Team	2:50
136	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	3:13

 

GC after stage 2:

• GC leader: Joshua Tarling (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Points classification leader: Joshua Tarling (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Best young rider: Joshua Tarling (INEOS Grenadiers)
• Intermediate sprint classification leader: Manuele Tarozzi (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè)
• Teams classification leader: INEOS Grenadiers

150.2 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 40.146 km/hr

1	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	3hr 44min 29sec
2	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	@ 13sec
3	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:18
4	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	0:21
5	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	0:27
6	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	0:28
7	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	0:34
8	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	0:39
9	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:41
10	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	0:42
11	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
12	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	0:43
13	Arthur Kluckers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	0:44
14	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	0:45
15	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto	0:46
16	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
17	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	0:47
18	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	0:49
19	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:51
20	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
21	Thomas Gloag	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
22	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	0:54
23	Paul Seixas	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:55
24	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
25	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	1:02
26	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	1:03
27	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	1:06
28	William Barta	Movistar Team	1:12
29	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	1:15
30	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	1:16
31	Victor Langellotti	INEOS Grenadiers	1:21
32	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	1:26
33	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
34	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	1:27
35	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	1:29
36	Alessandro Pinarello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	1:30
37	Gerben Kuypers	Intermarché-Wanty	1:33
38	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
39	Niklas Behrens	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	1:36
40	Einer Rubio	Movistar Team	1:38
41	Anton Palzer	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	1:41
42	Jan Hirt	Israel-Premier Tech	1:43
43	Max van der Meulen	Bahrain Victorious	1:44
44	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	1:45
45	Steffen De Schuyteneer	Lotto	1:47
46	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	1:49
47	Reuben Thompson	Lotto	1:52
48	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	1:53
49	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	1:54
50	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	1:56
51	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	1:58
52	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	2:01
53	Roberto Gonzalez	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	2:02
54	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	2:03
55	Dusan Rajovic	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
56	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	2:04
57	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
58	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	2:08
59	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
60	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	2:12
61	Florian Vermeersch	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
62	Lionel Taminiaux	Lotto	2:15
63	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	2:19
64	Lorenzo Quartucci	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	2:20
65	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	2:23
66	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	2:27
67	Kristian Sbaragli	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	2:34
68	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	2:35
69	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	2:36
70	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
71	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	2:47
72	Mattia Pinazzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	2:48
73	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
74	Manuele Tarozzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
75	Niklas Märkl	Team Picnic PostNL	2:49
76	Haoyu Su	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
77	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	2:54
78	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	2:56
79	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
80	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	2:58
81	Enrico Zanoncello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	2:59
82	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
83	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	3:00
84	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	3:02
85	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
86	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	3:03
87	Dylan Groenewegen	Team Jayco-AlUla	3:04
88	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	3:05
89	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	3:19
90	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
91	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	3:21
92	Carlos Samudio	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	3:24
93	Chris Froome	Israel-Premier Tech	3:25
94	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar Team	s.t.
95	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:29
96	Daniel McLay	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	3:30
97	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	3:31
98	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	3:32
99	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	3:34
100	Tosh Van der Sande	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	3:46
101	Lorenzo Conforti	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	3:49
102	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
103	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	3:51
104	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	3:53
105	Robert Donaldson	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
106	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	3:55
107	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	3:56
108	Logan Currie	Lotto	3:58
109	Elmar Reinders	Team Jayco-AlUla	3:59
110	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
111	Robbe Ghys	Alpecin-Deceuninck	4:02
112	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	4:11
113	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	4:12
114	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
115	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto	4:14
116	Federico Biagini	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	4:19
117	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	4:31
118	Filippo Fiorelli	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	4:37
119	Arvid de Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
120	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	4:38
121	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	4:40
122	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	4:46
123	Luka Mezgec	Team Jayco-AlUla	4:51
124	Davide Cimolai	Movistar Team	4:52
125	Djordje Djuric	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	5:12
126	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	5:15
127	Gerben Thijssen	Intermarché-Wanty	5:16
128	Filippo Fortin	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	5:26
129	Alexander Krieger	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
130	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	5:31
131	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	5:32
132	Lars Craps	Lotto	5:39
133	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	6:20
134	Matteo Malucelli	XDS Astana Team	6:51
135	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	7:01
136	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	7:02

 

Stage 2 map & profile:

Stage 2 map

Stage 2 profile

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Monday, February 17: Stage 1, Shams Solar Power Station Madinat Zayed -  Liwa Palace, 138 km

Jonathan Milan wins stage one. Photo: Sprint Cycling

Stage 1 map & profile

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Weather at the finish city of Liwa at 9:00 AM, local time: 22C (72F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the east at 18 km/hr (11 mph). The temperature is forecast to climb to 29C (85F) at 1:00 PM.

There is a 1% chance of rain, growing to 24% at 4:00 PM.

The stage: The desert stage. The first part (north-south direction) is about 45 km long, on wide, straight roads. After reaching Liwa, the race enters an area of very pronounced dunes, which make up most of the stage. A series of ups and downs leads to Moreeb Dune, where the race will take two laps of the Moreeb Dune cycle path (18.1 km each lap), marked by rather steep climbs and descents with double digit gradients. It then returns to Liwa for the finish. The stage is on wide, straight roads with good pavement.

Final kilometers: The stage finale features a wide bend on a roundabout. The home straight is all uphill, around 5%.

The peloton speeds across the desert.

The race: Here's the race organizer's stage one report:

First UAE Tour victory for the Lidl-Trek sprinter, who also claims the Red Jersey as the overall leader ahead of Philipsen – later relegated from 2nd to 52nd – and Fisher-Black. Tomorrow, a battle against the clock awaits on Al Hudayriyat Island.

Liwa Palace, 17 February 2025 – Jonathan Milan claims victory on the challenging finish at Liwa Palace, securing his first-ever win at the UAE Tour and wearing the Red Jersey as the overall leader for the first time. The Lidl-Trek rider, who had already won a stage at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana earlier this season, timed his sprint perfectly to edge out Jasper Philipsen – later relegated to 52nd place for irregular sprinting – and Finn Fisher-Black in a thrilling finale.

With this victory, Milan also takes the lead in both the Green Jersey and White Jersey classifications, while the Black Jersey for intermediate sprints goes to Manuele Tarozzi, the last breakaway rider to be caught by the peloton. Tomorrow, the individual time trial on Al Hudayriyat Island will serve as the first real test for the GC contenders.

Stage one gets started. Photo: Sprint Cycling

The pack approaches the line. Photo: Getty Sport

Complete results:

• Chris Harper (Jayco AlUla) did not start.
• Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was relegated from 2nd to 52nd.

138 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.137 km/hr

1	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	3hr 31min 34sec
2	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
3	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
4	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto	s.t.
5	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
6	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
7	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
8	Lionel Taminiaux	Lotto	s.t.
9	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
10	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
11	Thomas Gloag	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
12	Victor Langellotti	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
13	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
14	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
15	Alessandro Pinarello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
16	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
17	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
18	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
19	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
20	Roberto Gonzalez	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
21	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
22	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
23	Anton Palzer	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
24	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
25	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
26	Paul Seixas	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
27	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
28	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
29	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
30	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
31	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
32	Einer Rubio	Movistar Team	s.t.
33	Arthur Kluckers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
34	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
35	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
36	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
37	Reuben Thompson	Lotto	s.t.
38	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
39	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
40	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
41	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
42	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
43	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
44	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
45	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
46	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
47	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
48	Jan Hirt	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
49	William Barta	Movistar Team	s.t.
50	Max van der Meulen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
51	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
52	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
53	Mattia Pinazzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	@ 16sec
54	Niklas Behrens	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:18
55	Lorenzo Quartucci	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
56	Kristian Sbaragli	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
57	Gerben Kuypers	Intermarché-Wanty	0:20
58	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	0:25
59	Dusan Rajovic	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	0:35
60	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar Team	s.t.
61	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
62	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:40
63	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	0:42
64	Niklas Märkl	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
65	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	0:46
66	Steffen De Schuyteneer	Lotto	s.t.
67	Enrico Zanoncello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
68	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
69	Haoyu Su	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
70	Manuele Tarozzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
71	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
72	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	1:13
73	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
74	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
75	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
76	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	1:15
77	Chris Froome	Israel-Premier Tech	1:17
78	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
79	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
80	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	1:23
81	Dylan Groenewegen	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:28
82	Florian Vermeersch	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:33
83	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
84	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
85	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	1:38
86	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
87	Robbe Ghys	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
88	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
89	Lorenzo Conforti	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
90	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	1:42
91	Carlos Samudio	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
92	Federico Biagini	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	1:46
93	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
94	Tosh Van der Sande	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
95	Daniel McLay	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
96	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
97	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	1:57
98	Robert Donaldson	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:06
99	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	2:08
100	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
101	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
102	Arvid de Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
103	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	2:12
104	Filippo Fiorelli	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
105	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
106	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
107	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
108	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
109	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	2:19
110	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
111	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
112	Davide Cimolai	Movistar Team	2:27
113	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	2:32
114	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
115	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:44
116	Elmar Reinders	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
117	Djordje Djuric	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	2:59
118	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
119	Filippo Fortin	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
120	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
121	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto	s.t.
122	Logan Currie	Lotto	s.t.
123	Gerben Thijssen	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
124	Luka Mezgec	Team Jayco-AlUla	3:08
125	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	3:10
126	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
127	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
128	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
129	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
130	Alexander Krieger	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	3:25
131	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:40
132	Lars Craps	Lotto	3:49
133	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	3:51
134	Matteo Malucelli	XDS Astana Team	4:05
135	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4:15
136	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	6:00
137	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	7:43
138	Julien Vermote	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	14:12
139	Olav Kooij	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.

 

GC after stage 1:

• GC leader: Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek)
• Points classification leader: Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek)
• Best young rider: Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek)
• Teams classification leader: Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe

1	Jonathan Milan	Lidl-Trek	3hr 31min 24sec
2	Finn Fisher-Black	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	@ 4sec
3	Tobias Lund Andresen	Team Picnic PostNL	0:06
4	Lennert Van Eetvelt	Lotto	0:10
5	Oscar Onley	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
6	Aaron Gate	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
7	Harold Tejada	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
8	Lionel Taminiaux	Lotto	s.t.
9	Phil Bauhaus	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
10	Tadej Pogacar	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
11	Thomas Gloag	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
12	Victor Langellotti	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
13	Ben Zwiehoff	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
14	Giulio Ciccone	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
15	Alessandro Pinarello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
16	Danny van Poppel	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
17	Patrick Konrad	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
18	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
19	Pablo Castrillo	Movistar Team	s.t.
20	Roberto Gonzalez	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
21	Kobe Goossens	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
22	Florian Kajamini	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
23	Anton Palzer	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
24	Torstein Træen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
25	Alexey Lutsenko	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
26	Paul Seixas	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
27	Georg Steinhauser	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
28	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
29	Iván Romeo	Movistar Team	s.t.
30	Esteban Chaves	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
31	Sergio Higuita	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
32	Einer Rubio	Movistar Team	s.t.
33	Arthur Kluckers	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
34	Carlos Rodriguez	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
35	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
36	Gijs Van Hoecke	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
37	Reuben Thompson	Lotto	s.t.
38	Bart Lemmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
39	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
40	Junior Lecerf	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
41	Felix Gall	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
42	Joshua Tarling	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
43	Rainer Kepplinger	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
44	Stefan Bissegger	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
45	Kevin Colleoni	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
46	Michael Storer	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
47	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
48	Jan Hirt	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
49	William Barta	Movistar Team	s.t.
50	Max van der Meulen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
51	Bruno Armirail	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
52	Jasper Philipsen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
53	Mattia Pinazzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	0:26
54	Niklas Behrens	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	0:28
55	Lorenzo Quartucci	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
56	Kristian Sbaragli	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
57	Gerben Kuypers	Intermarché-Wanty	0:30
58	Sean Quinn	EF Education-EasyPost	0:35
59	Dusan Rajovic	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	0:45
60	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar Team	s.t.
61	Geoffrey Bouchard	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
62	Gianluca Pollefliet	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	0:50
63	Tim Merlier	Soudal Quick-Step	0:52
64	Niklas Märkl	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
65	Manuele Tarozzi	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
66	Alastair Mackellar	EF Education-EasyPost	0:56
67	Steffen De Schuyteneer	Lotto	s.t.
68	Enrico Zanoncello	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
69	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
70	Haoyu Su	XDS Astana Team	s.t.
71	Sam Welsford	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	s.t.
72	Pascal Eenkhoorn	Soudal Quick-Step	1:23
73	Casper Pedersen	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
74	Timo Kielich	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
75	Hannes Wilksch	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
76	Ryan Mullen	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	1:25
77	Chris Froome	Israel-Premier Tech	1:27
78	Oded Kogut	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
79	Nadav Raisberg	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
80	Ide Schelling	XDS Astana Team	1:33
81	Dylan Groenewegen	Team Jayco-AlUla	1:38
82	Florian Vermeersch	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	1:43
83	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.
84	Bert Van Lerberghe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
85	Edward Theuns	Lidl-Trek	1:48
86	Simone Consonni	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
87	Robbe Ghys	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
88	Pier-André Côté	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
89	Lorenzo Conforti	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
90	Carlos Samudio	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
91	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	1:52
92	Federico Biagini	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
93	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	1:56
94	Tosh Van der Sande	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
95	Daniel McLay	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.
96	Jack Rootkin-Gray	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
97	Filip Maciejuk	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe	2:07
98	Robert Donaldson	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:16
99	Fabio Jakobsen	Team Picnic PostNL	2:18
100	Jonas Rickaert	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:18
101	Maikel Zijlaard	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
102	Arvid de Kleijn	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
103	Alex Edmondson	Team Picnic PostNL	2:22
104	Filippo Fiorelli	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè	s.t.
105	Max Walscheid	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
106	Silvan Dillier	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
107	Daan Hoole	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
108	Mikkel Bjerg	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
109	Manlio Moro	Movistar Team	2:29
110	Jardi Van Der Lee	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
111	Daniel Skerl	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
112	Davide Cimolai	Movistar Team	2:37
113	Ayco Bastiaens	Soudal Quick-Step	2:42
114	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
115	Luke Durbridge	Team Jayco-AlUla	2:54
116	Elmar Reinders	Team Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
117	Djordje Djuric	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	3:09
118	Domen Novak	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	s.t.
119	Filippo Fortin	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini	s.t.
120	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier	Lidl-Trek	s.t.
121	Jonas Gregaard	Lotto	s.t.
122	Logan Currie	Lotto	s.t.
123	Gerben Thijssen	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
124	Luka Mezgec	Team Jayco-AlUla	3:18
125	Rune Herregodts	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	3:20
126	Adrien Petit	Intermarché-Wanty	s.t.
127	Enzo Leijnse	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
128	Johan Price-Pejtersen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
129	Julius van den Berg	Team Picnic PostNL	s.t.
130	Alexander Krieger	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	3:35
131	Ramses Debruyne	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:50
132	Lars Craps	Lotto	3:59
133	Kim Heiduk	INEOS Grenadiers	4:01
134	Matteo Malucelli	XDS Astana Team	4:15
135	Sebastian Kolze Changizi	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	4:25
136	Michael Leonard	INEOS Grenadiers	6:10
137	Sebastian Molano	UAE Team Emirates-XRG	7:53
138	Julien Vermote	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	14:22
139	Olav Kooij	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	s.t.

 

Stage 1 map & profile:

Stage 1 map

Stage 1 profile

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The race organizer posted this preview to the 2025 UAE Tour:

The one and only UCI World Tour race in the Middle East kicks off tomorrow with the Desert Stage. Grand finale on Sunday in Jebel Hafeet. Great anticipation for the season debut of world champion and two-time winner Tadej Pogačar and for the 2024 champion Lennert Van Eetvelt. Jasper Philipsen, Tim Merlier, Jonathan Milan, and Olav Kooij headline the list of world class sprinters.

It's about time for these gents to race.

United Arab Emirates, 16 February 2025 – A total of 140 riders will line up tomorrow for the opening stage of the seventh edition of the UAE Tour, organized by the Abu Dhabi Sports Council. The one and only UCI WorldTour race in the Middle East will once again feature a star-studded field.

Among the many big names at the start, the most anticipated is Tadej Pogačar. The world champion, UCI ranking leader, and two-time UAE Tour winner (2021 and 2022) will make his season debut, facing off against defending champion Lennert Van Eetvelt, the breakout star of 2024 and winner on Jebel Hafeet. Other top contenders for the general classification include Pello Bilbao, Carlos Rodríguez, Alexey Lutsenko, Giulio Ciccone, and Einer Rubio.

There is also great excitement for the battle among the sprinters, as many of the world’s fastest finishers will compete in the multiple sprint opportunities throughout the race. Among them are Tim Merlier, the record holder with five stage wins, Jasper Philipsen and Dylan Groenewegen, both with two stage wins each, Olav Kooij, who claimed a stage victory in 2024, and Jonathan Milan, returning to the race after already securing a win early in the season. The list of top sprinters is completed by Fabio Jakobsen, Arvid De Kleijn, Phil Bauhaus, and Sam Welsford.

Tadej Pogacar: “It has always been a dream of mine to be the world champion. Finally I have the rainbow jersey, it feels unreal to ride every day with it and to come here in the home country of the team with this jersey is amazing. It’s great to be able to show it here. So far, I’ve started every single season with some doubts about my preparation. I hope my shape is good enough to compete at the highest level again. Fingers crossed that it’s like last year and the years before. As long as I’m eager and motivated to start the season, I’ll give my best. The time trial is important at the UAE Tour but I don’t think it’ll make a big difference, maybe a few seconds. It’s not long, so I believe the biggest gaps can open in echelons in the crosswinds”.

Lennert Van Eetvelt: “It’s a very nice feeling to come back and see name on the trophy as the defending champion. I have very good memory from winning the Jebel Hafeet stage and GC last year. It was awesome. It was a bit of a surprise and I’m glad to sit here alongside Tadej [Pogacar]. We never want to start a race for finishing second but when he starts, it’s hard to compete with him and being realistic, it’s a race for the second place”.

Tim Merlier: “It would be nice to make a hat trick with winning stage 1 once again. But the competition is very high with a lot of top sprinters on the start line. It looks from my first race that my legs are good and I’ll have some opportunities to try and win a stage here”.

Jasper Philipsen: “The UAE Tour is a really good race to start with because it lasts for one week and there’s a very competitive field of sprinters. This year in particular, it’s great to start here with a nice weather, one week before the opening weekend in Belgium. There won’t be many sprints before the first classics so it’s nice to test the sprinting legs here”.

Jonathan Milan: “The UAE Tour is an important race and a good one to start with. The level of the competitors is very high. I’ll be looking for a victory with the help of a strong team, I’m pretty confident”.

Pello Bilbao: “We all know the two classical climbs of the UAE Tour. They are single climbs at end of a stage. It’s kind of a test for all riders. This time around, we know how complicated it’ll be to fight for the victory but we’re here to give a good challenge. The only way to beat Tadej [Pogacar] would be to surprise him on a flat section but even that, we know it’ll be very difficult. Being short, the time trial might be important for the podium but not for the overall victory”.

THE OFFICIAL JERSEYS

The leader jerseys of the UAE Tour are provided by ALÉ, proud jersey partner of the leader jersey by ENIT and ITALIA.IT.

• Red Jersey, leader of the General Classification, sponsored by International Holding Company: IHC
• Green Jersey, leader of the Points Classification, sponsored by Mubadala
• White Jersey, Best Young Rider, sponsored by Nakheel
• Black Jersey, leader of the Intermediate Sprint Classification, sponsored by ALDAR

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Start list with back numbers, February 16, 2025

	Lotto
1	Lennert Van Eetvelt
2	Lars Craps
3	Logan Currie
4	Steffen De Schuyteneer
5	Lionel Taminiaux
6	Reuben Thompson
7	Jonas Gregaard
	Alpecin-Deceuninck
11	Jasper Philipsen
12	Ramses Debruyne
13	Silvan Dillier
14	Robbe Ghys
15	Timo Kielich
16	Johan Price-Pejtersen
17	Jonas Rickaert
	Bahrain Victorious
21	Pello Bilbao
22	Rainer Kepplinger
23	Daniel Skerl
24	Phil Bauhaus
25	Andrea Pasqualon
26	Torstein Træen
27	Max van der Meulen
	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale
31	Bruno Armirail
32	Stefan Bissegger
33	Geoffrey Bouchard
34	Felix Gall
35	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen
36	Gianluca Pollefliet
37	Paul Seixas
	EF Education-EasyPost
41	Esteban Chaves
42	Hugh Carthy
43	Alastair Mackellar
44	Sean Quinn
45	Jack Rootkin-Gray
46	Georg Steinhauser
47	Jardi Van Der Lee
	INEOS Grenadiers
51	Joshua Tarling
52	Jonathan Castroviejo
53	Kim Heiduk
54	Victor Langellotti
55	Michael Leonard
56	Carlos Rodriguez
57	Ben Swift
	Intermarché-Wanty
61	Gerben Kuypers
62	Kevin Colleoni
63	Kobe Goossens
64	Simone Petilli
65	Adrien Petit
66	Gerben Thijssen
67	Gijs Van Hoecke
	Israel-Premier Tech
71	Chris Froome
72	Pier-André Côté
73	Jan Hirt
74	Oded Kogut
75	Alexey Lutsenko
76	Nadav Raisberg
77	Matthew Riccitello
	Lidl-Trek
81	Giulio Ciccone
82	Simone Consonni
83	Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier
84	Daan Hoole
85	Patrick Konrad
86	Jonathan Milan
87	Edward Theuns
	Movistar Team
91	Einer Rubio
92	William Barta
93	Pablo Castrillo
94	Davide Cimolai
95	Fernando Gaviria
96	Manlio Moro
97	Iván Romeo
	Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe
101	Finn Fisher-Black
102	Filip Maciejuk
103	Ryan Mullen
104	Anton Palzer
105	Danny van Poppel
106	Sam Welsford
107	Ben Zwiehoff
	Solution Tech-Vini Fantini
111	Kristian Sbaragli
112	Djordje Djuric
113	Filippo Fortin
114	Roberto Gonzalez
115	Lorenzo Quartucci
116	Dusan Rajovic
117	Carlos Samudio
	Soudal Quick-Step
121	Tim Merlier
122	Ayco Bastiaens
123	Josef Cerný
124	Pascal Eenkhoorn
125	Junior Lecerf
126	Casper Pedersen
127	Bert Van Lerberghe
	Team Jayco-AlUla
131	Dylan Groenewegen
132	Robert Donaldson
133	Luke Durbridge
134	Chris Harper
135	Luka Mezgec
136	Elmar Reinders
137	Max Walscheid
	Team Picnic-PostNL
141	Fabio Jakobsen
142	Tobias Lund Andresen
143	Alex Edmondson
144	Enzo Leijnse
145	Niklas Märkl
146	Oscar Onley
147	Julius van den Berg
	Team Visma | Lease a Bike
151	Olav Kooij
152	Niklas Behrens
153	Thomas Gloag
154	Bart Lemmen
155	Daniel McLay
156	Tosh Van der Sande
157	Julien Vermote
	Tudor Pro Cycling Team
161	Michael Storer
162	Sebastian Kolze Changizi
163	Arvid de Kleijn
164	Arthur Kluckers
165	Alexander Krieger
166	Hannes Wilksch
167	Maikel Zijlaard
	UAE Team Emirates-XRG
171	Tadej Pogacar
172	Mikkel Bjerg
173	Rune Herregodts
174	Sebastian Molano
175	Domen Novak
176	Florian Vermeersch
177	Jay Vine
	VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè
181	Filippo Fiorelli
182	Federico Biagini
183	Lorenzo Conforti
184	Alessandro Pinarello
185	Mattia Pinazzi
186	Manuele Tarozzi
187	Enrico Zanoncello
	XDS Astana Team
191	Sergio Higuita
192	Aaron Gate
193	Florian Kajamini
194	Matteo Malucelli
195	Ide Schelling
196	Haoyu Su
197	Harold Tejada