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On July 27, 2025, the final stage of the Tour will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the finish on the Champs-Élysées, with an unprecedented passage over the Butte Montmartre. A nod to the 2024 Games… and a new challenge for the riders.
The riders of the 2025 Tour de France are in for a minor revolution. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first finish on the Champs-Élysées, the peloton will not be content with a series of laps of honor on the world's most beautiful avenue. This year, the final stage will climb the Butte Montmartre three times before heading back down to the Champs. An unprecedented climb in the history of the Tour, which promises to spice up this 21st stage, usually designed for sprinters.
Montmartre, like a remake of the Olympics
The peloton assaults Butte Montmartre
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In the windows and along the roadside, the public turned out in droves to watch the cycling road race.
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Guillaume Bontemps / Ville de Paris
Supporters at the road race.
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Guillaume Bontemps / Ville de Paris;
In the midst of the excitement, the champions took the opportunity to commune with the public.
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Guillaume Bontemps / Ville de Paris
Spectators at the Olympic Games still remember: the climb up rue Lepic and the passage in front of the Sacré-Coeur electrified the Olympic races. So it was only logical that the Tour should follow in their footsteps, by including this demanding and spectacular passage in its final circuit. The last classified climb of the 2025 Tour, the 68th, could provide an ideal launching pad for those wishing to break away from the peloton… There will be just six kilometers left to resist the return of the chasers after the3rd and final passage.
With its cobblestones, tight bends and the popular atmosphere that can already be imagined at the summit, Montmartre could transform this usually staid finale into a true Parisian classic. It's enough to shake up the hegemony of the sprinters, even if they're not totally out of the picture.
The route
Route of the last stage of the Tour de France from Mantes-La-Ville to the Champs-Elysées
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ASO
View of the slope of the Butte Montmarte hill
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50 years of Champs-Élysées
On July 20, 1975, Walter Godefroot led the way on the cobblestones of Paris. Since then, the last stage of the Tour on the Champs-Élysées has become a tradition, and above all a Holy Grail for sprinters. Mark Cavendish, four-time winner on the avenue (2009 to 2012), is the most emblematic example. But in 2025, this mythical straight will be preceded by an unprecedented sequence: a triple ascent of the Butte, which could reshuffle the cards for the finish.
A popular and educational festival
On July 27, Paris will be vibrating to the rhythm of cycling. As the curtain rises, 50 young Parisian cyclists will don yellow T-shirts and parade along the route, before taking their seats in a dedicated grandstand. And a few weeks earlier, on June 19, no fewer than 2025 Parisian schoolchildren will take part in the Dictée du Tour, 150 of them in the salons of the Hôtel de Ville, in the presence of Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme. It's the perfect way to combine cycling and learning, pen and bicycle.
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