Valentin Paret-Peintre winner at Mont Ventoux, the prestige success of a French climber on the Tour

Mount Ventoux. Meanwhile, the summit of which is a mineral desert suspended between heaven and earth, is a hard to cook. Tuesday, July 22, he gave in to the audacity of a 24-year-old young man: Valentin Paret-Peintre. The French climber won during the 16th^e Step in the 2025 Tour. between Montpellier and Mont Ventoux (Vaucluse), by ahead of Ben Healy (EF Education-Easypost) to the sprint. “It’s extraordinaryreacted the tricolor runner of the Belgian Sudal-Quick Step team after the race. I said to myself: “It’s a victory in the Ventoux, you can’t let go”! It is a mythical ascent, where a lot has happened and which radiates internationally. Incredible, I find it hard to achieve. »»

In the final ramp. the Haut-Savoyard, novice on the big loop, responded with composure to the attack on the Irishman, already winner of the 10^e stage. Valentin Paret-Peintre first conceded. then put himself in the wheel of Healy and, a hundred meters higher, left him behind him, tearing up by the slope. “I really had trouble overtaking it, but I had to do it”he said. He is the first tricolor to raise his arms during this 112^e Tour edition. Since Richard Virenque, in 2002, no Frenchman had lifted their arms at the top of the “Géant de Provence”.

You have 76.53% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.