2025 Tour de France to include Montmartre on final stage

The 2025 Tour de France will make three circuits of the historic Paris district of Montmartre on its last stage in what organisers say will add a competitive finale to the world's greatest bike race.

The new format of the final stage is unlikely to affect who wins the 21-day race but does away with the traditional parade-like final stage.

Following the 16.8km stretch around Montmartre, the peloton then heads to the Champs-Elysees where it will complete three circuits and end with a mass sprint in the shadow of the Arc de Triomphe.

Around half a million spectators gathered for the 2024 Paris Olympics cycling road races, sparking a clamour for the Tour to include Montmartre in its route.

The 2025 edition of the Tour de France marks the 50th anniversary of its first finale on the Champs-Elysees, traditionally considered Paris's most chic shopping road, in 1975.