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2025 Tour de France

Tour de France 2025 Stage 9 Results: Another Sprint Win For Tim Merlier

Tour de France 2025 Stage 9 Results: Another Sprint Win For Tim Merlier

Tim Merlier won Stage 9 of the TDF 2025 at Chateauroux on Sunday after a heroic long-range escape from Mathieu van der Poel was caught in the final meters.

Jul 13, 2025 by AFP Report
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Tim Merlier won Stage 9 of the Tour de France 2025 at Chateauroux on Sunday after a heroic long-range escape from Mathieu van der Poel was caught in the final kilometer.

There was no change atop the overall standings, with Tadej Pogacar now holding a 54-second advantage over Remco Evenepoel in second with French starlet Kevin Vauquelin third.

This was a second Tour win for Soudal Quick-Step sprinter Merlier this year, who was first across the line on Stage 3 at Dunkirk.

Merlier was led in by team leader Evenepoel.

"It's mad, we are supposed to be helping him (Evenepoel) but he's helping us," said the 32-year-old Merlier. "I need to make it through the mountains now. I won't be any use to Remco there, but I want to help him in the other ones."

On a sun-drenched slog from the Chinon vineyards, Van der Poel and teammate Jonas Rickaert broke early and built up a lead of 5 minutes, 30 seconds on the flat roads to Chateauroux.

2025 Tour de France


Mathieu van der Poel Nearly Made It

Rickaert won the combativity award for accompanying Van der Poel to within 10 kilometers of the line, before slumping over his handlebars.

"I'm really happy," Van der Poel explained. "That was one of his (Rickaert) dreams, to win the combativity award, and that's why we went.

"In the end, we nearly made it, but we hadn't expected to get that far," he said of his 173-kilometer breakaway at an average speed on 49.9kph.

As with many heroic exploits, their epic escape was ultimately doomed to a gut-wrenching narrow failure.

But with his gung-ho all-in style, Van der Poel grew his Tour de France legend here, despite being caught with 700m to go, the plaudits will be both his and Merlier's.

"It's hard to not be able to finish it off, but we put on a good show," said the Dutch rider.

As Van der Poel was reeled in, it looked as though Jonathan Milan would win a second consecutive stage, but Merlier got ahead with 30 meters remaining. Milan finished second, with Arnaud De Lie completing the podium.

Road signs in honor of British cycling great Mark Cavendish had been placed at entry points to Chateauroux - reading Cavendish City - in homage to the now-retired 40-year-old, after he won three stages there in 2008, 2011 and 2021.

Tadej Pogacar Suffers Blow In Stage 9 Of Tour de France 2025

Pogacar's Tour de France defense took a hit Sunday, as his key teammate, Joao Almeida, threw in the towel two days after his nasty fall at the Mur de Bretagne, where he fractured a rib.

"It's a big loss, as he was in good shape," Pogacar said. "He's our hero. I was suffering today, so I understand how he must have felt. Every respect to him."

Stage 10 should shake up the race with eight classified climbs in the Massif Central on the July 14 French national holiday.

After finishing in the peloton Sunday, Pogacar already was looking ahead to Monday's mountainous 165.3-kilometer slog.

"Visma have a strong team for tomorrow, and I think Jonas (Vingegaard) will be ready," Pogacar said of his great Danish rival. "There will be attacks from the main contenders. It's up and down all day.

"I'm pretty confident in my team though. I'm looking forward to the hard stages."

Tour de France 2025 Stage 9 Results – Top 25

  1. Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) – 3:28:52 (B10)
  2. Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) – 3:28:52 (B6)
  3. Arnaud De Lie (Lotto) – 3:28:52 (B4)
  4. Pavel Bittner (Team Picnic PostNL) – 3:28:52
  5. Paul Penhoet (Groupama-FDJ) – 3:28:52
  6. Biniam Girmay (Intermarché - Wanty) – 3:28:52
  7. Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) – 3:28:52
  8. Jordi Meeus (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 3:28:52
  9. Søren Edvardsen-Fredheim (Uno-X Mobility) – 3:28:52
  10. Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) – 3:28:52
  11. Axel Renard (Cofidis) – 3:28:52
  12. Pascal Ackermann (Israel - Premier Tech) – 3:28:52
  13. Arnaud Démare (Arkea-B&B Hotels) – 3:28:52
  14. Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) – 3:28:52
  15. Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jayco AlUla) – 3:28:52
  16. Alberto Dainese (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) – 3:28:52
  17. Bastien Tronchon (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) – 3:28:52
  18. Matteo Trentin (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) – 3:28:52
  19. Danny van Poppel (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 3:28:52
  20. Cees Bol (XDS Astana Team) – 3:28:52
  21. Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) – 3:28:52
  22. Yevgeniy Fedorov (XDS Astana Team) – 3:28:52
  23. Iván García Cortina (Movistar Team) – 3:28:52
  24. Germain Martin Guyonnet (Groupama-FDJ) – 3:28:52
  25. Carlos Rodríguez (INEOS Grenadiers) – 3:28:52

Tour de France 2025 Overall Standings – Top 25 After Stage 9

  1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) – 33:17:22
  2. Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) – 33:18:16
  3. Kévin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels) – 33:18:33
  4. Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 33:18:39
  5. Matteo Jorgenson (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 33:18:56
  6. Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) – 33:19:08
  7. Oscar Onley (Team Picnic PostNL) – 33:20:11
  8. Felix Lipowitz (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 33:20:24
  9. Primož Roglič (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 33:20:28
  10. Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) – 33:21:05
  11. Ben Healy (EF Education - EasyPost) – 33:21:17
  12. Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) – 33:21:50
  13. Enric Mas (Movistar Team) – 33:21:57
  14. Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) – 33:22:11
  15. Carlos Rodríguez (INEOS Grenadiers) – 33:22:13
  16. Jordan Jegat (TotalEnergies) – 33:23:01
  17. Aurélien Paret-Peintre (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team) – 33:24:45
  18. Germain Martin Guyonnet (Groupama-FDJ) – 33:25:35
  19. Jhonatan Narváez (UAE Team Emirates XRG) – 33:25:50
  20. Emanuel Buchmann (Cofidis) – 33:25:57
  21. Tiesj Benoot (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 33:27:38
  22. Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) – 33:28:31
  23. Jarne Berckmoes (Lotto) – 33:29:02
  24. Xandro Meurisse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) – 33:31:44
  25. Ben O'Connor (Team Jayco AlUla) – 33:32:45

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