14-07-2025
Ireland's Ben Healy storms into Tour de France yellow jersey on Bastille Day
Ireland's
Ben Healy
has claimed the
Tour de France
yellow jersey from Tour favourite Tadej Pogačar after a gruelling stage 10.
Healy, racing for EF Education-EasyPost, stuck with the leading group up to 3km from the line, at which point Simon Yates (Team Visma-Lease A Bike) powered on for the stage victory.
Healy finished the stage in third, 31 second back on Yates.
The 24-year-old is the first Irish man to wear the yellow jersey since Stephen Roche's Tour win in 1987, joining Seán Kelly (1983) and Shay Elliott.
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Healy was part of the leading group throughout the gruelling 165.3km stage from Ennezat to Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy, which included seven Category 2 climbs, after the day's breakaway formed almost immediately after the 8.3km rollout from Ennezat.
Healy was joined in the breakaway by fellow stage contenders Ben O'Connor and Yates, but also, crucially, his three ED Education-EasyPost team-mates, Neilson Powless, Harry Sweeny and Alex Baudin.
As the stage ticked on, Healy's support pealed off, Baudin the last to let up leaving the Irish rider to fight to the finish in the leaders group solo with 35km to go.
