2025 Alula Tour

Tom Pidcock Wins AlUla Tour 2025 Overall

Tom Pidcock Wins AlUla Tour 2025 Overall

Tom Pidcock wins the 2025 AlUla Tour, securing his first victory with Q36.5. Teammate Matteo Moschetti also claims a stage win in a remarkable comeback.

Feb 1, 2025 by AFP Report
Tom Pidcock Wins AlUla Tour 2025 Overall

Double Olympic mountain bike champion Tom Pidcock won Saudi Arabia's Al-Ula Tour on Saturday in his first race since joining the Q36.5 team.


Pidcock's Breakthrough Victory

Pidcock quit Ineos in the offseason in an eyebrow-raising switch to the ambitious but second-tier outfit, and both the Yorkshireman and the Swiss team have reaped instant benefits.

"I did it at junior level but never at elite," said the 25-year-old after the five-day race, describing it as a career breakthrough.

"We won as a team. I know it's only a five-day race, but we didn't even know each other until December," said the sprightly Pidcock, who was disaffected in his time with British outfit Ineos despite winning a Tour de France stage at the iconic Alpe d'Huez.

A Unique Celebration

The diminutive all-rounder wore traditional Saudi men's headgear known as keffiyeh on the podium after camel racers had accompanied part of the bike race that started and ended at a camel racing center.

Pidcock took the lead on stage two, attacking on a steep slope and easing away from his rivals. He won again on stage four to extend that lead and was little troubled defending his jersey on the final flat run.

Pidcock also won the Strade Bianche and Amstel Gold one-day classics in 2023 and 2024 and defended his mountain bike Olympic gold at the Paris Games in July.

Q36.5 Doubles Up With Moschetti Win

The fifth stage itself was also won by a Q36.5 rider as Italian Matteo Moschetti outsprinted Dutch speedster Dylan Groenewegen.

Moschetti was knocked down by a truck in Milan last year and helicoptered to the hospital with fractures to his spine.