Double pack for Tadej Pogačar! After winning La Flèche Wallonne, the 26-year-old Slovenian also wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2025. 35 kilometres from the finish, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) pulled away from the competition on the Côte de La Redoute and was unstoppable from then on. He quickly extended his lead to over a minute and then defended the gap seemingly effortlessly. In the final metres, he even had time to slow down a little and celebrate. Once again, he steamrollered his fellow competitors with playful ease and seemingly without any problems.

Behind Pogačar, a chasing duo of Ben Healy (EF Education - Easy Post) and Giulio Ciccone (Lidl - Trek) formed on the final climb. The latter secured second place in the final sprint, while Healy had to settle for third place. Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) dropped back 14 kilometres from the finish and played no part in the finale.

Pogačar crowns outstanding spring

With his victory at Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2025, Pogačar crowned an outstanding classics campaign. He won four of the seven one-day races he took part in and finished on the podium in each of them. After the Tour of Flanders, this is the second cycling monument he has secured in 2025. "Pogi" also won La Flèche Wallonne and Strade Bianche. Victory in Liège not only marks the end of Pogačar's classics season, it is also the last Belgian classic at World Tour level this season.

"I'm delighted to finish the first part of the season like this. The season has gone very well so far, which makes me really happy. I'm now looking forward to returning home for now." - Tadej Pogačar in the winner interview

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Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2025 - Results

How Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2025 went

The 252 kilometre-long cycling monument started in Liège shortly after ten o'clock in sunny conditions. It took just over 20 kilometres for a breakaway group to form. Ten riders around Hannes Wilksch (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), Stan Van Tricht (Alpecin - Deceuninck), Jack Haig (Bahrain - Victorious) and Eduardo Sepúlveda (Lotto) broke away from the peloton. Shortly afterwards, two more riders attacked, who soon caught up with the leading group: Johan Meens (Wagner Bazin WB) and Mathis Le Berre (Arkéa - B&B Hotels). From then on, the leading group was made up of twelve riders.

The UAE Team Emirates - XRG in the person of Vegard Stake Laengen was largely responsible for the chase, and Soudal Quick-Step was also seen at the front of the peloton at times. The peloton gave the breakaway a maximum of six minutes.

Jungels causes a stir

With 132 kilometres to go, Bob Jungels (INEOS Grenadiers) attacked on the Baraque de Fraiture climb. He managed to break away from the peloton and, together with his team-mate Tobias Foss, took up the chase towards the leading group. Alarm bells immediately started ringing in the peloton. Several teams joined forces to increase the pace in the peloton. UAE Team Emirates -XRG in particular increased the speed. The breakaway's lead then quickly dwindled.

With 85 kilometres to go, the first riders in the breakaway had problems, while a little later the INEOS duo was caught again. At this point, the decimated leading group had less than a minute's lead. Jack Haig proved to be in the best form in this group and was able to break away on his own. Together with Mathis Le Berre, Eduardo Sepúlveda, Rayan Boulahoite (Team TotalEnergies) and Sakarias Koller Løland (Uno-X Mobility), he was then caught - mainly because the UAE Team Emirates - XRG had done its job very dutifully.

UAE Team Emirates - XRG controlled

The peloton was now complete again. The race became restless again, the pace extremely high. More and more riders could no longer keep up due to the high speeds and dropped out of the peloton, in which UAE Team Emirates - XRG continued to dictate the pace.

Pogačar attacks decisively

35 kilometres before the finish at the Côte de La Redoute, Tadej Pogačar launched an attack. The Slovenian stepped up the pace, which no other rider was able to match. There was an immediate gap to the dominator. A chasing quartet then formed behind him. Thomas Pidcock (Q 36.5 Pro Cycling Team), Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), Giulio Ciccone (Lidl - Trek) and Ben Healy (EF Education - Easy Post) took up the chase. However, it quickly became clear that the quartet would not have any real chances in the battle for the stage win - Pogačar's lead quickly grew to one minute. Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) was not in the fight for the top places. The Belgian was unable to break away with the chasing group and was in the peloton at the time.

Evenepoel weakens

On the last climb of the race, the Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons, Ciccone and Healy broke away from the chasing group, while Pidcock and Alaphilippe were quickly swallowed up by the approaching peloton around Michael Matthews (Team Jayco-AlUla) and Axel Laurance (INEOS Grenadiers). At the same time, Evenepoel had to let go on the climb. This meant that the Belgian's chance of a top ten finish was gone.

There was little action at the front. Pogačar managed his lead and crossed the finish line over a minute ahead. The Healy-Ciccone duo had also successfully defended themselves against the ever-closer peloton. In the duel on the finishing straight, Ciccone was just ahead of the Irishman. Simone Velasco (XDS Astana Team) won the bunch sprint for a place in a group of around 25 riders ahead of Thibau Nys (Lidl - Trek).