Date for 2025 Lidl Deutschland Tour set: Tour begins on August 20 in Essen
October, 4th, 2024
With the presentation of the 2025 calendar, the International Cycling Union (UCI) has also confirmed the date for next year's Lidl Deutschland Tour. The tour begins on Wednesday, August 20, with a prologue. Four stages will follow until the grand finale on August 24. In 2025, the race will again be part of the UCI ProSeries – the second-highest category in international cycling.
Essen will be the starting point for the 2025 Lidl Deutschland Tour. Germany's biggest cycling event will kick off next year with the prologue in the Ruhr metropolis. The stage will then lead across the grounds of the former Zeche Zollverein coal mine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The dates for the German races of the UCI WorldTour, which are organized by A.S.O.'s German subsidiary, have already been confirmed. Eschborn-Frankfurt remains at its traditional date of May 1, which falls on a Thursday in 2025. The BEMER Cyclassics in Hamburg will be held on the Sunday before the Lidl Deutschland Tour, August 17.
Pedersen gives Lidl-Trek the perfect tour / Organizers draw an all-round positive conclusion
25.8.2024
Five out of five plus two: Lidl-Trek completely swept the board at the Deutschland Tour 2024, winning all five stages as well as the overall classification and the best sprinter's jersey. Mads Pedersen set the final record for the perfect tour, winning the sprint of a small group in Saarbrücken after 182.7 kilometers. It was his second stage win in this tour.
Jonathan Milan took the other three stage wins for the team, securing the green jersey. The mountain jersey was defended by Jørgen Nordhagen (Visma |Lease a Bike), one of the youngest riders in the field. The 19-year-old is actually still riding for Visma's Continental team, but will only turn professional next year. "It was our goal to ride for the mountains jersey here, because we knew that we couldn't keep up with Lidl-Trek for everything else.Today I tried again with the stage.Because my sprint is not particularly good, I attacked again in the last kilometer.I'm satisfied," said the Norwegian, who moved up to seventh place in the overall standings by being part of the leading group.
Meanwhile, Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) defended the white jersey of the best young pro, although he had to let Danny van Poppel (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) pass him in the overall standings and thus finished third in the final standings. At the press conference after the race, he promised to return to the Lidl Deutschland Tour next year. "For the overall victory here, we would have had to win the stage today, and that's what we tried to do.In the end, we didn't stand a chance, but I think we put on a good show.It fits well here because we had a great week as riders.Everything was perfectly organized.As drivers, we always felt safe.And then there were all the people at the track.And we were lucky with the weather."
Johannessen only had bad luck with his opponent. He was no match for Mads Pedersen at his best. "We overperformed here.It will be a long time before a team wins all the stages of a tour again.Of course, it's all the better that it works out for us in our home race.I think we have done Lidl proud." It was also fitting that the Instagram followers of the Deutschland Tour had the last community jersey of the tour ready for a Lidl rider. The search was on for the best helper. And Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier was found. "Many people don't see what riders like Amanuel or Daan (Hoole) achieve, even though they ride at the front of the peloton all day.That's why it's nice that he has now been honored in this way.He didn't like it because he doesn't like being in the limelight, but we were still very happy for him," said Pedersen about his helper.