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Tour de Suisse stage 7 2025 profile<\/p>\nStage 7 of the 2025 Tour de Suisse featured a fierce GC battle as Jo\u00e3o Almeida pushed to close the gap to leader Kevin Vauquelin.<\/p>\n
Tour de Suisse stage 7 2025 profile<\/p>\n
Jo\u00e3o Almeida and UAE Team Emirates were once again chasing the leader\u2019s jersey at the Tour de Suisse. On Stage 5, the Portuguese climber rode aggressively, with only Oscar Onley able to follow him on the final climb, ultimately winning the stage with a performance of 6.8 \u1d49W\/kg for 19:02 on Santa Maria. That effort moved Almeida up to third in the general classification, just 39 seconds behind Kevin Vauquelin.<\/p>\n
Stage 7 presented another opportunity, with the racing pace remaining high throughout. By the final climb, Onley had expended 4219 kilojoules over 4:28 hours at a rate of 15.89 kj\/kg\/h. The penultimate climb was also hard, ridden at 6.6 \u1d49W\/kg for 14 minutes. Felix Gall was the most aggressive, attacking multiple times and gaining a gap on the final ascent before being caught in the final kilometer.<\/p>\n
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Emmetten \u2013 Suisse \u2013 cycling \u2013 cyclisme \u2013 radsport \u2013 wielrennen \u2013 Van Den Broek Frank (NED) of Team Picnic PostNL leading the escape pack pictured during Tour de Suisse 2025 stage 7 from Neuhausen am Rheinfall to Emmetten (207.3km) 21\/06\/2025 \u2013 Photo: Vincent Kalut\/PN\/Cor Vos \u00a9 2025<\/p>\n
On the final climb to Emmetten (3.58 km at 8.8%), Almeida set the pace, aiming to drop both Alaphilippe and Vauquelin. Alaphilippe was dropped shortly before the finish, while Vauquelin remained with Onley, Almeida, and Gall until the closing meters. Vauquelin launched his sprint early but was passed by Onley and Almeida. <\/p>\n
On Emmetten, Almeida produced 7.23 \u1d49W\/kg for 9:32. Gall, having attacked and faced more wind exposure, did 7.2 \u1d49W\/kg, while Vauquelin, Onley and Alaphilippe were between 7.06 and 7.10 \u1d49W\/kg.<\/p>\n
Vauquelin retained the leader\u2019s jersey with a 33-second margin over Almeida heading into the final stage, a decisive mountain time trial. It is a perfect opportunity for Almeida to secure his third WorldTour GC victory of the season, while Vauquelin could become the first Frenchman to win a WorldTour stage race since Christophe Moreau triumphed at the 2007 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, a reminder of how rare French GC success has been in the past two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 7 of the 2025 Tour de Suisse featured a fierce GC battle as Jo\u00e3o Almeida pushed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-203531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114723552390698163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}