Results Tour of Switzerland 2025 | Almeida skillfully makes up 3.22 in 8 days of tough racing
CyclingSunday, 22 June 2025 at 17:42
With the Critérium du Dauphiné behind us, we’ve already seen the key preparation race for the Tour de France, but the Tour de Suisse is still well worth watching. These days, many of the biggest stars skip the Alpine race due to tighter scheduling, which opens the door for other riders to shine in the lead-up to the Tour. IDLProCycling.com brings you up to speed!
No Jonas Vingegaard, Tadej Pogacar, or Remco Evenepoel in Switzerland this year. In 2025, many riders still choose to go to altitude training after the Critérium du Dauphiné, and with the Tour de Suisse starting just one week later, it’s much harder to fit both into the schedule.
Egan Bernal remains the last rider to win both the Tour de Suisse and the Tour de France in the same year, back in 2019, and that’s unlikely to change this year. Defending champion Adam Yates won’t be racing, but last year’s runner-up João Almeida, currently in impressive form, will be there.
Most recent winners Tour of Switzerland
2024 Adam Yates
2023 Mattias Skjelmose
2022 Geraint Thomas
2021 Richard Carapaz
2020 Not ridden
2019 Egan Bernal
2018 Richie Porte
2017 Simon Spilak
2016 Miguel Angel Lopez
2015 Simon Spilak
2023 Mattias Skjelmose
2022 Geraint Thomas
2021 Richard Carapaz
2019 Egan Bernal
2018 Richie Porte
2017 Simon Spilak
2016 Miguel Angel Lopez
2015 Simon Spilak
Tour of Switzerland 2025: Course, weather and times
Stage 1, Sunday, June 15: Küssnacht - Küssnacht (129.4 km)
The Tour of Switzerland kicks off with a short 129-kilometer stage that focuses on the Michaelskreuzstrasse. This 3.9-kilometer climb, at 9.0 percent average, must be conquered both at the beginning and at the end of the stage.
Winner
Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ)
Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ)
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Stage 2, Monday, June 16: Aarau - Schwarzsee (177.0 km)
Stage two is also one for the punchy types, although we do not reach the steep gradients of day one. The last thirty kilometers are purely uphill, with a false flat profile, except for the last five hundred meters.
Winner
Vincenzo Albanese (EF Education-EasyPost)
Vincenzo Albanese (EF Education-EasyPost)
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Stage 3, Tuesday, June 17: Aarau - Heiden (195.6 km)
Stage three of the Tour of Switzerland features even more elevation gain than the previous days: a total of 2,881 meters. The bulk of that comes in the final forty kilometers, where the climbs come in rapid succession. The final 3.4 kilometers average a 5.3% incline.
Winner
Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek)
Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek)
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Stage 4, Wednesday, June 18: Heiden - Piuro (193.2 km)
In stage four, the riders head into Italy, but to get there, they first have to cross the Splügen Pass (8.9 km at 7%, reaching 2,117 meters in elevation). This is the only major obstacle of the day after about 100 kilometers, although the final kilometers also rise gradually with a false flat incline.
Winner
Joao Almeida (UAE Emirates-XRG)
Joao Almeida (UAE Emirates-XRG)
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Stage 5, Thursday, June 19: La Punt - Santa Maria (183.5 km)
On day five, the Tour de Suisse organizers present the riders with a serious mountain stage. Starting from La Punt, the route includes 4,000 meters of elevation gain, finishing on the steep Castenada climb. This climb is 4.5 kilometers long at an average gradient of 10.0% and must be tackled twice in the final part of the stage.
Winner
Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL)
Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL)
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Stage 6, Friday, June 20: Chur - Neuhausen (186.7 km)
The sprinters who are still in the race get their first real opportunity in stage six. Although, in Switzerland, that's always relative, there are still over 2,000 meters of climbing to conquer. The first half of the stage includes two serious climbs.
Winner
Jordi Meeus (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
Jordi Meeus (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
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Stage 7, Saturday, June 21: Neuhausen - Emetten (207.3 km)
In stage seven, we will be back near where we started the race: Küssnacht. However, we finish in Emetten, on a 3.9 kilometer climb at eight percent. A chance for the breakaway, or will the GC contenders take over?
Winner
João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
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Stage 8, Sunday, June 22: Beckenried - Stockhütte (10.1 km, individual time trial)
To conclude the Tour of Switzerland, we will do the same as last year with an uphill time trial. This time we'll put another layer on top of the finish on day seven: from Emetten we'll add 5.3 kilometers at 9.8 percent average to the Stockhütte.
Winner
João Almeida
João Almeida
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- Maybe I was a bit disrespectful to Heiden. What he did was unique and exceptional but he wasn't the only one who combined those distances, nowadays it is just not possible and nobody competes in both distances. The same is true for cycling with for example the combination of Roubaix and de Tour de France. In Merckx era there were more riders who managed a top10 in both races than currently.Joostmehrtens19-06-2025
- Two old men shouting at pigeons in the park…JonS16-06-2025
- Out of touch old men hankering after their youth through rose tinted spectacles, their arrogance almost outshines their irrelevance. Turn the volume down, this modern stuff just isn't music like we used to sing...johnny20whales16-06-2025
- In talking speed skating, the days when Heiden did that, nobody else did that. And Eddy couldn't do the equivalent of the bike. His 200 on the velodrome was good, but not world competitive for gold. Heiden was in his own world on the ice, moreso than Eddy if we pretend Eric didn't have a very short career on the ice.Veganpotter16-06-2025
- They wouldn't have dropped HIM so easily.... the GOAT. They would have dropped the rest from that era easily thoughVeganpotter16-06-2025
- Merckx was able to win in a break away on a flat (sprinters) stage, what do you mean they did not drop that easily in his time. Vlaeminck won in the mountains and the classics, but now you need to specialise. The days that a Eric Heiden could win the sprint and the 10k and everything in between are long gone and cycljng is no differentJoostmehrtens16-06-2025
- Carsapaz and Del torro were not capable of chasing Yates. They paused and looked at each other because they didn't have it in them. Yates had kept his powder dry waiting for this stage and demolished both of them. They lost Yates won. Your second guessing is utter nonsense., if either felt they could close Yates down they would have , just like they did countless times for other riders. They blew up , Yates excelled.Uphillbilly05-06-2025
- Carapaz is full of it. He is absolutely irrelevant after a rant at del Toro. Isaac had no obligations to do anything for Carapaz. It should remind one of the saying that goes lke this: "If I jump off the bridge, are you going to jump too?" If Caapaz wanted to win the Giro he should have chased Yates with or without Isaac. And if del Toro could follow, then so be it. But it was Carapaz's choice to slow down and stare at Isaac. Isaac was on the radio at times and you can bet he was being told by the Team car to do just what he was doing. Did I like that he didn't set out after Yates himself, NO. But the 21 year old was probably being instructed to do what he did, otherwise you can bet we would have heard from UAE mgmt. that Isaac chose to ignore their orders. But what we did hear was they were happy with his result. Which I think was a terrible betrayal of their young rider, who I think was capable of more than that penultimate stage showed. The Giro finished on a truly sour note as far as I'm concerned, because it was not "raced" The most crucial stage of the whole 21 stage race was simply given away, playing games with the unwritten rules of bicycle racing. "Leaders jerseys responsibility" and all that nonsense. Just RACE! It was disgraceful.
reemmo004-06-2025 - Well this aged like fine milkGlyn31-05-2025
- This is just mean-spirited.agnessk29-05-2025