Will the sprinters make it to the Champs-Élysées? Tour de France 2025 final stage places Montmartre climb 6km from the finish

ASO confirms punchy race finale with three ascents of the Butte Montmartre

Remco Evenepoel
Remco Evenepoel climbs the Butte de Montmartre in the men's Olympic road race last August
(Image credit: SWpix.com)

The Tour de France peloton will summit the Butte Montmartre three times on the final stage in Paris this July, the final time just 6km from the line, the race organiser [ASO] revealed on Wednesday.

Speculation grew earlier this year that a major alteration for the final stage in Paris, which traditionally finishes on the Champs-Élysées, was being discussed by race officials, with the ASO confirming last week that a change would definitely take place.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.

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