Jonas Abrahamsen backs up Tour de France heroics with victory at Circuit Franco Belge 2025

Uno-X Mobility's Jonas Abrahamsen has taken victory at Circuit Franco Belge 2025 after a typically attacking and swashbuckling performance from the always eye-catching Norwegian talent.

Five riders got themselves up the road and into the day's early breakaway. Among them was Wagner Bazin WB's 23-year-old British rider Tom Portsmouth. With their time gap over the peloton already cut to around 45 seconds with 80km still to go however, the writing was on the wall early for the break. Heading into the final 40km of the day, almost all attackers had been caught, with only Jonathan Vervenne of the Soudal Quick-Step Devo Team dangling out front of the bunch.

With 36km to go, Vervenne was brought back by the chase, and with the racing fully ignited, an elite group of five broke free, led by Tour de France stage winner Jonas Abrahamsen, with Xandro Meurisse, Martin Tjotta, Sam Maisonobe and Johan Geens joining. By 20km to go, the attack was down to just three - Abrahamsen, Meurisse & Geens - with the advantage over the chase around 20 seconds.

At 10km to go, all that had changed was that Geens had been replaced in the front by a counter-attacking Fabio Christen. The lead trio still held around 20 seconds on the peloton though. Despite a counter-attack led by Dylan Teuns, it was still Abrahamsen, Meurisse and Christen who had the front of the race to themselves into the last 3km.

With the gap around 15 seconds into the punchy last kilometre, the trio couldn't afford to play too much cat and mouse, and with around 800 metres to go, the Teuns group made contact with the front. In a frantic finale, it was then Abrahamsen who kicked hardest to secure the win ahead of the fast-finishing Israel - Premier Tech sprinter Corbin Strong at the line.