{"id":190065,"date":"2025-06-16T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190065\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:16:10","slug":"first-team-line-up-for-2025-tour-de-france-unveiled-as-uno-x-mobility-vow-to-shape-the-stages-not-just-follow-wheels-without-kristoff-in-final-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190065\/","title":{"rendered":"First team line-up for 2025 Tour de France unveiled as Uno-X Mobility vow ‘to shape the stages, not just follow wheels’ without Kristoff in final season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first team roster for the 2025 Tour de France<\/a> has been unveiled, 19 days before the Grand D\u00e9part, with Uno-X Mobility heading into their third appearance in search of a stage win.<\/p>\n

Veteran Alexander Kristoff<\/a> hasn’t made the selection in his final season before retirement, with Omloop Nieuwsblad winner S\u00f8ren W\u00e6renskjold<\/a> operating as their selected sprinter, and 22-year-old Stian Fredheim as a second fast man.<\/p>\n

Team general manager Thor Hushovd described it as “the hardest selection we\u2019ve ever made”, with the eight-man lineup presented at Uno-X Denmark\u2019s headquarters in S\u00f8borg.<\/p>\n

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“Some very strong riders miss out \u2013 and that says a lot about how far we\u2019ve come as a team. Every year we raise the bar. We\u2019re still chasing the big one: a Tour stage win, and this team is made for that,” said Hushovd in a team release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Leaving out Alexander was incredibly tough. He absolutely deserved a final Tour appearance, and I\u2019m confident he would have delivered \u2013 just like he always does. But this year, we\u2019ve chosen S\u00f8ren W\u00e6renskjold as our main sprinter. He\u2019s shown he can win sprints against the very best.”<\/p>\n

The opening stage of this year’s race should be one for the sprinters, for the first time since 2020 in Nice, when Kristoff took victory riding for UAE Team Emirates.<\/p>\n

While the GC isn’t an announced goal for the Scandinavian team, twin brothers Anders and Tobias Halland Johannessen will start their first Tour together off the back of a GC win at the Tour of Slovenia and a fifth-place overall finish at the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n

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The former will be on debut in Lille on July 5, as will Fredheim and Markus Hoelgaard, with Jonas Abrahamsen, Magnus Cort and Andreas Leknessund completing the squad.<\/p>\n

“We want to be in the mix every day,” said Sports Director Gabriel Rasch.<\/p>\n

“This team is built to ride aggressively \u2013 to shape the stages, not just follow wheels. We have riders for every scenario: breakaways, climbs, sprints. From stage one to the final day in Paris, we\u2019ll be chasing results.”<\/p>\n

Uno-X Mobility’s confirmed 2025 Tour de France roster<\/p>\n