Tour de France 2025 - 13th stage: Voigt's preview: Ultimate test in the mountain time trial

Stage 13 | Friday, 18 July 2025 | Loudenvielle - Peyragudes | 10.9 kilometres | 650 vertical metres

Jens Voigt's assessment of the 13th stage

The stage from Loudenvielle up to Peyragudes will be the ultimate test for everyone. The second individual time trial is coming up. Such an almost pure mountain time trial is very rare in the Tour. Triumph and shattered dreams are very close together today. After the start, it's three kilometres along the valley and then into the mountain, up the road to the Col de Peyresourde and then on to the finish at the Altiport Peyragudes at an altitude of 1580 metres. The climb has an average gradient of 7.9 per cent over 8 kilometres.

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It's going to be really, really difficult for the riders. Many of them will be grateful that the time limit in individual time trials has been set by the UCI at 25 per cent (an increase on the winner's time, editor's note). The reason: nobody wants 30 sprinters at the back to be kicked out of the time limit because the classification riders at the front were so fast. On the flat, you can make the time limit in a time trial with 80 per cent power, but on the climbs everyone has to pedal hard. And in the end, there are only two or three riders who could win a stage like that: Pogačar, Vingegaard, Evenepoel. There is also a 1st category mountain classification at the finish line - there are points for the mountain jersey. For the fans, this is the best stage to watch from the roadside, as all the riders pass one by one at what feels like walking pace. Behind them is a support car with the racer's nameplate.

Schedule, TV coverage & live stream of the 13th stage of the Tour de France 2025

• Start first rider: 13:10
• Start last rider: 17:05
• TV broadcast: ARD 14:10-17:30, Eurosport 1 13:00-17:30
• Live stream: sportschau.de, Discovery Plus (fee required)
• All stages of the Tour de France 2025 at a glance

Highlights of the 13th stage

• 13:10: The first starter should now roll off the ramp in the Allée Laurent Brochard at the earliest - depending on the number of participants still in the race
• 17:05: The man in yellow starts last. The gap between the best riders at the start is two minutes. The race time is calculated at 26 minutes. The start list is available at www.letour.fr

TOUR expert Jens Voigt

Nobody in the German-speaking world knows the Tour de France better: Jens Voigt competed in the most important cycling race as a professional a total of 17 times between 1998 and 2014. Only the Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel, the current record holder, has managed one more participation. Voigt knows the race from the perspective of the winner and the tireless helper in the team. He won two stages himself and wore the yellow jersey for one day each in 2001 and 2005. In 2010, as a team-mate in Team Saxo Bank, he accompanied Luxembourg's Andy Schleck to his overall victory (after the doping disqualification of Alberto Contador, who initially came first; editor's note). The 53-year-old Berliner currently works as a brand ambassador for the bike manufacturer Trek and as a pundit for the Eurosport channel.

For TOUR readers, the former pro gives his predictions for the course of the 21 stages, points out difficulties and things worth seeing. For each day's stage, he gives a tip on what role the course could play in the final standings in the individual classifications in Paris. If three of the jerseys are coloured, this means that this day could be decisive for this classification - i.e. overall classification (yellow), sprint/points classification (green) and classification of the best climber (red dotted jersey). We also give you the broadcast times of the TV channels in Germany (ARD and Eurosport) and their live streams - plus tips on when it might be particularly worth tuning in.