Gree-Tour of Guangxi 2025 Stage 6

October 19, 2025 There is just 134KM left of the Gree-Tour of Guangxi which also marks the final day of the 2025 road racing season. Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi region, hosts the start and finish of today's race which consists of five laps of a clockwise city circuit. The lap starts with a crossing of the Yong River before entering the Qingxiu Mountain Scenic area where the riders will find a steep 1.3KM climb which averages over 11%. The descent out of the park is more gradual and once at the Qingxiu Shan Golf Club, the last 13KM of the 27KM course is flat with another crossing of the Yong River before a likely sprint finish. Nans Peters and Ryan Gibbons were given a farewell by the rest of the peloton before the start of their final professional race as both are set to retire. Reuben Thompson of Lotto, Ewen Costiou and Léandre Lozouet of Arkéa-B&B Hotels, Clément Davy of Groupama-FDJ, and Nans Peters of Decathlon AG2R, who wanted one final hit-out in his career, got up the road to form the break of the day. With 60KM to go, they had 1 minute on the peloton led by race leaders Jayco AlUla as they approached the finish line for two laps to go. EF-Education EasyPost set a hard pace and cut the gap to 40 seconds by the top of the penultimate ascent. All five riders of the break were still together but EF-Education EasyPost were driving hard all the way back around to the finish line. Other teams came to front with 24KM to go and it was a drag race into the bottom of the climb. The gap was down to 30 seconds and when the bunch hit the climb, the group exploded. Second overall, Victor Lafay of Decathlon AG2R attacked and rode through the break, catching Costiou who was the last one out front. Behind, race leader Paul Double of Jayco AlUla was without teammates so all he could do to defend was to ride on the front. Lafay crested the top with groups splintered off everywhere in his wake. The problem for Lafay was the long flat road leading back to finish line. Groups came together to form a peloton of around 30 riders and with UAE-XRG pulling, Lafay was hauled back with 12KM to go. It was hard to see where the sprinters were but with 10KM to go on the impressive suspension bridge crossing the Yong for the last time, the Paul Magnier group made contact to make at least 60 riders at the front. Fausto Masnada of XDS-Astana tried to escape and got a handful of seconds but Soudal Quickstep closed it down. Resources were dwindling so XDS-Astana threw another punch with Anthon Charmig. This move temporarily broke Soudal Quickstep but Charmig was dragged back once again and the stage win would be come from a group sprint. Not a single team had their trains organized and under 1KM to go, positioning was a free for all. When a rider hit the front, they would pull for as long as they could and peel off to let the next rider through. The first move in the sprint came from Patrick Eddy of Picnic-PostNL but he went at 300M which was too long given the power still sitting in behind him. Right as Eddy started to fade, Paul Magnier of Soudal Quickstep popped out from fourth wheel and hit the wind at 200M. He was instantly clear of the rest but with 50M to go, Stanisław Aniołkowski of Cofidis made a big run with Paul Penhoët of Groupama-FDJ on his wheel. The pair pushed Magnier very close with Aniołkowski missing out on the win by half a wheel. Penhoët took third place but the story is really with Magnier. Today's win marks his nineteenth of the season and the fourteenth out of the last eighteen races to cap of a remarkable sophomore season. Paul Double of Jayco AlUla successfully defended his GC lead and goes out the winner overall by 15 seconds on an aggressive Victor Lafay of Decathlon AG2R and 16 seconds on Jhonatan Narváez of UAE-XRG.