Brandon McNulty has secured overall victory at the 2025
Tour de Luxembourg. On a frantic final day of the race, Romain Gregoire took victory ahead of Ben Healy after the pair had been part of a late attack together.
A lively finale to the Tour de Luxembourg unfolded as an opening two-man split — Enzo Paleni (Groupama - FDJ) and Mats Wenzel (Equipo Kern Pharma) — promptly attracted company and morphed into a dangerous break. The escape eventually featured experienced names such as Tao Geoghegan Hart, Stefan Bissegger, Thibaut Guernalec, Max Walker, Casper Pedersen and others, giving the move plenty of firepower and pedigree. At its largest, the group carved out a healthy margin, only for the race to turn ugly for the attackers as the peloton progressively tightened the screws.
Teams with GC interest were never idle. Groupama - FDJ, Tudor Pro Cycling Team and Wagner Bazin alternated at the front of the bunch, and the tempo on the Côte de Nommern and later the approach to the Côte de Kautenbach stretched the race out and reduced the break’s buffer. Vertical metres were stacking up — the parcours had already eaten well over a quarter of the day’s climbing — and riders began to show the kind of fatigue that makes late attacks much more believable than earlier bravado.
By the time there were roughly 30 kilometres to go, the gap had been whittled down to around a minute as the peloton closed ranks and set the stage for a proper finale. With 20km to go, Wenzel, the last remaining survivor of the day's break, had company at the front in the form of a counter-attacking Ben Healy and Romain Gregoire. By 10km to go, Healy and Gregoire had accelerated again, leaving Wenzel behind.
With Wenzel dispatched and the peloton more than a minute down going into the last 3km, it became a two-man battle for the stage win. In that fight for victory it was then Romain Gregoire who took the spoils, continuing his fine form of late, with Healy having to settle for 2nd. In terms of the GC though, overall victory was Brandon McNulty's.