Tour de France 2025: Stage 10 recap, with Simon Yates winning and Ben Healy taking the yellow jersey

British rider Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike) climbs the Puy de Sancy in Mont-Dore during the tenth stage of the Tour de France in Puy-de-Dôme on July 14, 2025. ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP

For the tenth stage of the 2025 Tour de France, a demanding route between Ennezat and Le Mont-Dore (Puy-de-Dôme), the British rider Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a bike) finally won the title on Monday, July 14. In the spotlight but ultimately demoted in the final climbs, the French riders present in the initial breakaway can thank Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), whose polka-dot jersey, painfully lost, came to save the national holiday.

Irishman Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost), who had already won the sixth stage, finished third, but dethroned Tadej Pogacar in the general classification.

What to remember

A breakaway from start to finish, a yellow jersey reclaimed from the shoulders of Tadej Pogacar, but no second stage victory in this 2025 Tour de France. Irishman Ben Healy once again demonstrated his panache and audacity, which earned him the prize for fighter of the day, and a new status in the peloton.

The first mountain stage of this ^112th edition offered a prime playground for the adventurers, who took advantage of the opportunity to break away from the opening kilometers. Riding the climbs – eight in total – a solid group of 30 riders – including a lively Lenny Martinez and a lively Julian Alaphilippe – managed to distance themselves from the peloton and the leaders, before gradually fading away.

Reduced over the 165.3 kilometers of elevation gain, the breakaway thinned out from its French contingent, closing in on Simon Yates and Ben Healy. At the end of a final climb, the Col de la Croix Saint-Robert (5.1 kilometers at 6.4%), the Briton, winner earlier in the season of the Giro d'Italia, finally went it alone, to secure his third career victory in the Tour de Italy. Third on the day, the Irishman took the yellow jersey of leader of the general classification, now 29 seconds ahead of Tadej Pogacar.

That's the number of days since a French victory in the Tour de France on Bastille Day. While the occasion is rare, the most recent was in 2017, when Warren Barguil won the sprint in Foix, Ariège.

"Now we're going to try to keep it as long as possible, but with Tadej, it's going to be complicated..." admitted Lenny Martinez, who is not very confident about keeping his best climber's jersey. The 22-year-old French rider collected a lot of points on Monday, with the aim of donning the same jersey as his grandfather, Mariano Martinez, who brought it to the Champs-Élysées during the 1978 Tour de France.

The appearance of the massifs, the movement among the wearers of the various distinctive tunics, and a breakaway taking shape: all the elements were in place Monday in Puy-de-Dôme for a memorable spectacle. But the absence of the leaders, and an apathetic peloton, relegated this stage to a "B" on our sporting rating scale ranging from "A" to "E."