Guillaume Martin makes it 2 wins in 2 days at Tour du Jura 2025, denying breakaway hero Odd Christian Eiking on dramatic final climb

After no wins for three years, Guillaume Martin has taken his second victory in as many days at Tour du Jura 2025, denying a massive breakaway effort from Odd Christian Eiking in a thrilling finale on the Mont Poupet.

On the opening climb of the day, 4 riders got free of the peloton to form the early break: Tim Rex (Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development), Odd Christian Eiking (Unibet Tietema Rockets), Jaakko Hänninen (Nice Métropole Côte d'Azur) and Jan Sommer (MYVELO Pro Cycling Team), with David Delgado (Burgos Burpellet BH) counter-attacking shortly after in an attempt to make it 5 riders at the front. As they entered the punchy final 60km of the circuit, the breaks hopes looked good - leading the peloton by more than four minutes.

As the breakaway broke up on the climbs, it was Rex and Eiking that proved strongest. And they were looking really strong too, working well together and still three minutes clear at 30km to go. By 20km to go though, that gap had dropped to 2:12, with the win very much back in the balance. Sensing the time gap dropping though, Eiking attacked Rex, moving clear solo.

By the time he started the penultimate climb, Eiking had the front of the race all to himself- 40 seconds clear of Rex with the peloton still 1:50 back. The bunch were far from giving up though. They caught Rex on the penultimate and were hunting down Eiking. With 6km to go, the time gap dropped under the one minute mark for the first time. As he began the 4km climb to the line, Eiking's lead was just 47 seconds. Heartbreakingly for Eiking it wasn't enough as the attacks from behind caught him inside the final 2km.

From there, the fight for victory came down to a battle between Frenchman as Clement Berthet and Guillaume Martin went head to the head on the upper slopes. And for the second day running it was Martin that triumphed, continuing a fine run of form for the Groupama - FDJ man.