Yates Wins Tour De France’s First Mountainous Stage and Healy Takes Yellow Jersey
MASSIF CENTRAL, FRANCE, JUL 14 – Ben Healy earned the yellow jersey after consistent performance including a stage win, while Simon Yates secured his third career Tour de France stage victory on a challenging mountain route.
On Monday, July 14, 2025, Simon Yates of Britain won the 10th stage of the Tour de France, a 165.3-kilometer mountain route in Mont-Dore, France.
Yates timed a solo attack on the final climb to Puy de Sancy, following a strategic breakaway and team plan to force a gap from rivals.
Irish cyclist Ben Healy, who previously won Stage Six solo, finished third on Stage 10 and took the Yellow Jersey with a 29-second lead over defending champion Tadej Pogacar.
Yates described the stage as “insanely tough” and praised teammates Harry Sweeny and Alex Baudin, while Healy earned the most combative rider award for initiating moves on the 10th stage.
With the first rest day on Tuesday, Healy leads the general classification, becoming the first Irish rider to wear the Yellow Jersey since Stephen Roche in 1987, ahead of Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel.
The Britishman Simon Yates took the victory on the 10th stage of the Tour de France from a runaway group on Monday. Third on the French National Day was the Irishman Ben Healy, the Tadej Pogacar thus the yellow jersey of the overall leader. Healy (EF) is now 29 seconds ahead of the defending champion, who reached the finish as a ninth with more than four minutes behind. Felix Gall drove another 20 seconds behind Pogacar than 17th over the finish…
The first mountain stage did not bring the expected fireworks. Simon Yates took Visma's first victory of the year, Ben Healy took Ireland's yellow jersey after 38 years.
In the tenth enlivened stage with arrival on the Massif Central, shake in the ranking inflicted by an escape to five. Irish Ben Healy rips the yellow jersey at Pogacar; tomorrow rest
The British Simon Yates won the tenth leg of the Tour de France at Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy, after which Irishman Ben Healy, also present in the final getaway, snatched the yellow leotard from Tadej Pogacar. The Slovenian crossed the finish line from the hand of his greatest rival, Jonas Vingegaard, almost five minutes after Yates. A month and a half after winning the Giro de Italia, the 32-year climber escaped at the final ascent to achieve his t…