Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men 2025 Stage 5

September 6, 2025 The race has been patiently waiting and building for today, the Queen stage of the Tour of Britain. After a relatively long transfer, the riders arrived in Wales for 134KM of racing from Pontypool to the The Tumble. The course is made up of two loops with the larger one coming first. The climbs of Llangwm and Itton Hill come early and are both around 4KM long at 4%. The course rolls through Monmouth and Abergavenny along the banks of the River Usk before arriving on the smaller circuit to tackle the first of two summits of The Tumble, a 5.5KM climb at just over 7%. A long descent down takes the race back into the start town of Pontypool with 36KM to go. The intermediate sprint comes 10KM later with generally flat roads to Llanfoist for the climb to the finish atop The Tumble. After a difficult start, nine riders got away over the top of Llangwm including Finlay Tarling of Israel-Premier Tech, Victor Vercouillie of Flanders Baloise, Frederik Frison of Q36.5, Henrik Pedersen of Uno-X Mobility, Noa Isidore of Decathlon AG2R, Axel Huens of Unibet-Tietema Rockets, Baptiste Veistroffer of Lotto, Rafael Reis of Anicolor-Tien21, and Patrick Boje Frydkjær of Lidl-Trek. They stayed together into the first passage of The Tumble but things began to split up. Over the top, only Reis, Isidore, Frison, and Frydkjær remained with 40KM still to race. In the peloton, Remco Evenepoel of Soudal Quickstep stretched out the bunch but Groupama-FDJ got control as race leaders and brought everyone together over the top. The break was swallowed up on the way back around to The Tumble but a counter attack went with Hartthijs De Vries of Unibet-Tietema Rockets and Siebe Deweirdt of Flanders Baloise. They built a lead of 1 minute by the intermediate sprint at 27KM to go but were caught as the peloton were drag racing into the bottom of the climb. Ineos did the early pace setting with Groupama-FDJ. Nearer to the top, a few moves tried to break clear from Andrew August of Ineos and Pavel Sivakov of UAE-XRG. The latter got a gap with Oscar Onley of Picni-PostNL but it was all brought back by Ilan Van Wilder of Soudal Quickstep resulting in a GC group sprint. Pello Bilbao of Bahrain Victorious started the lead out for Afonso Eulálio but Evenepoel snuck in between the two for the perfect position. Evenepoel opened his sprint long at 200M with Thomas Gloag of Visma-Lease a Bike glued to his wheel. Evenepoel had the power to hold everyone off though the line to take the victory. Gloag finished second with Onley in third. Romain Grégoire took fifth place on the same time as Evenepoel which was good enough to retain his GC lead. Courtesy of the bonus seconds, Evenepoel moved up to second overall at 2 seconds with Julian Alaphilippe of Tudor Pro Cycling still in third at 4 seconds.