Results Lidl Deutschland Tour 2025 | Brennan excels with two sprint victories, Waerenskjold overall winner
CyclingSunday, 24 August 2025 at 18:25
Just like the Renewi Tour in the Netherlands, the Lidl Deutschland Tour will start in Germany on Wednesday, gaining popularity year after year since its return in 2018. In 2025, the stage race of our eastern neighbors can once again count on a strong field of participants, and IDLProCycling.com shows you what to expect.
Due to all the doping scandals in cycling, the highly regarded Tour of Germany came to an end in 2008, making Linus Gerdemann – then the country's most remarkable talent – the last winner for ten years. In 2018, the tour returned to the calendar in a smaller form, immediately producing a great winner in Matej Mohoric.
Last year, the victory went to Mads Pedersen of Lidl-Trek, who won stages together (!) with his teammate Jonathan Milan. This was no coincidence: before the 2024 race, the stage race welcomed Lidl as its new main sponsor, with which it wants to take a new step forward together with A.S.O.
Latest winners Lidl Deutschland Tour
2024 Mads Pedersen
2023 Ilan Van Wilder
2022 Adam Yates
2021 Nils Politt
2020 Canceled
2019 Jasper Stuyven
2018 Matej Mohoric
2023 Ilan Van Wilder
2022 Adam Yates
2021 Nils Politt
2019 Jasper Stuyven
2018 Matej Mohoric
Lidl Deutschland Tour 2025: Course, favorites stage wins and times
Prologue, Wednesday, Aug. 20: Essen - Essen (3.1 km)
The race starts with a 3-kilometer prologue at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein in Essen. The flat but technically challenging course promises to be an exciting battle, with high speeds and minor time differences.
Winner
Soren Waerenskjold (Uno-X Mobility)
Soren Waerenskjold (Uno-X Mobility)
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Stage 1, Thursday, Aug. 21: Essen - Herford (197.0 km)
The first stage is from Essen to Herford. Over 197 kilometers, the riders will have to climb 1,200 meters, and you know what that means: usually, this is a piece of cake for the fast guys in the peloton.
Winner
Matthew Brennan (Visma | Lease a Bike)
Matthew Brennan (Visma | Lease a Bike)
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Stage 2, Friday, Aug. 22: Herford - Arnsberg (189 km)
On day three, the peloton heads into the Sauerland, where, after almost 190 kilometers of cycling, the finish line is in Arnsberg. In the second half of the stage, there are several short hills on the program, which could cause problems for the less skilled climbers.
Winner
Jhonatan Narváez (UAE Team Emirates - XRG)
Jhonatan Narváez (UAE Team Emirates - XRG)
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Stage 3, Saturday, Aug. 24: Arnsberg - Kassel (184.0 km)
You can't tell from the course, but this is the queen stage of this Lidl Deutschland Tour. Between Arnsberg and Kassel, there are 3,000 meters of elevation gain to be conquered, spread evenly over the 184-kilometer stage.
Winner
Søren Waerenskjold (Uno-X Mobility)
Søren Waerenskjold (Uno-X Mobility)
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Stage 4, Sunday, Aug. 25: Halle - Magdeburg (168 km)
The Lidl Deutschland Tour concludes on Sunday with a flat stage. With only 800 meters of elevation gain over more than 160 kilometers, this should be perfect for the sprinters.
Winner
Matthew Brennan (Visma | Lease a Bike)
Matthew Brennan (Visma | Lease a Bike)
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Final classification Lidl Deutschland Tour 2025
Søren Waerenskjold succeeded in taking the first step toward his final classification in the prologue, which he won. He lost the leader's jersey to Danny van Poppel the following day, but regained it in the second stage with a third-place finish. In the third stage, he won his second stage after Van Poppel was disqualified, after which the Norwegian rider from Uno-X's lead was never in danger in the final stage.
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Latest Comments
- What the data doesn't show is how much of an effect drafting had for evenepoel. Pogacar went with del toro at 100km whilst Evenepoel was still in the bunch. Despite the bike changes he still had a lot of assistance getting back to the bunch. Pogacar then rode 60km solo whilst evenepoel rode with Healy/Skjelmose until going solo in thd last 10-15km. Thats ~20% less power / energy requirements for 45-50km. Apples and oranges...kevpt30-09-2025
- 👏👏Bea24-09-2025
- Agreed! As we all know now, Juan Ayuso will be on another team. But it was sweet to see him win the stages at La Vuelta. I do love the drama of cycling admittedly but its clear to see the talent of winners of stages in a Grand Tourryhw2814fq921-09-2025
- Pogacar has no competition he has won everything, I cant imagine even being him in that position!! Crazy. I am sure he has some back up plan for how he wants to spend his retirement years at age 30 onward. Does he like beer? Plenty of innovation in brewing. And you don't have to be super social. Chapeau/Cheers whatever you like Tadej you will do.ryhw2814fq921-09-2025
- Plus its confirmed that the Philadelphia Cycling Classic up the Manayunk Wall is back for 2026! hooray for thatryhw2814fq918-09-2025
- This is a dumb question but still why doesn't the UCI consider a grand tour in the USA in the future. We have the desolate/scary back roads in Pennsylvania and Virginia, just like in France with loads of rural land and hills. Plus the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and the Cascade/Olympic Mountains in Washington State. I'm sure it'll never happen but honestly people in PA/NJ/NY/VT/NH would love it. We are already sports fans, what is another sport to learn. I am forever optimistic about cycling in the US.ryhw2814fq918-09-2025
- Zonneveld makes some excellent points.The sponsorship model is broken and companies like Verizon who have multi billion dollar with a B ad budgets need to be involved again.
Brucegel17-09-2025 - Roger Vlaeminck says Mads is not a good rider? Where is the headline saying you don't even have to be a good rider to win the World Road Championship says Roger Vlaeminck, who never won it!!? Perhaps his aging mind needs to think about what the heck he's saying.packfiller7103-09-2025
- Wow, there is so much criticism of the UAE XRG riders. Why so much criticism is being leveled solely at the riders is baffling. The UAE XRG management deserves a good amount of the criticism aimed at the team, as a whole. They have not managed the talent they have at all. They failed miserably to properly handle young Isaac del Toro on that penultimate day of the Giro. And they have not handled Juan Ayuso well either. If they didn't have Tadej Pogacar in their roster, we might not be talking about them as winners, at all. So many think that Ayuso has shown that he is not a "team" player at all. Does anybody think that he might be thinking about his own future at this point? That he might want to feel like the team has his back, when they load the pressure onto him? And Joao is not a team leader. That burden might be laid on him by the management, but they need to properly support that assignment, not make it a contentious situation, within the team. And then how management has conducted themselves throughout this parting of ways between themselves and Ayuso has been totally indiscreet. And yet people want to pile onto Ayuso when he tells the truth about the manner that this is all soap opera is developing. He wants out. He shouldn't be getting so much negative criticism for that. It's a situation that has soured. Yes he has a contract, but he is not the first, nor will he be the last that wants to get out of a relationship that just isn't working anymore. And DeCauwer seems to have very vague reasons for criticizing Almeida. He does realize that Jonas is the second best Grand Tour rider of this current generation, so it should be no shame that Joao is behind him in the standings. Riders are giving their all in an extremely difficult sport that stretches them, often beyond their limits. Now many are wanting to send them to Behavioral School as well? The criticism ought to mellow out, or it ought to simply be ignored, as nothing more than blah, blah, blah, not worth the headlines it gets
reemmo002-09-2025 - In 5yrs, Pogi will be a top Twitch streamer living on baked goods while Urska is still racing.Veganpotter11-08-2025
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