UAE Tour 2025 - the most important facts in brief
- 17.02. - 23.02.
- 7 stages
- 2 mountain stages
- 1 individual time trial
- 4 flat stages
- 1013.2 kilometres
- Around 3500 metres in altitude
- Last year's winner: Lennert van Eetvelt (Lotto-Dstny/Belgium)
Jebel Jais and Jebel Hafeet - many cycling fans will be familiar with these two mountains by now. They will once again be part of the UAE Tour in 2025 and are likely to decide the outcome of the race on stages three and seven. There is also an individual time trial that awaits the riders on the second day and possible wind edges on the ride through the desert.
UAE Tour 2025 - the route at a glance
1013.2 kilometres have to be covered in the UAE Tour 2025. This makes the desert tour just as long as in previous years. A total of around 3,500 metres in altitude await, most of which will be covered in the two mountain finishes at Jebel Jais and Jebel Hafeet.
Stage 1 | Monday, 17 February 2025 | Madinat Zayed Shams Solar Park - Liwa Palace | 138 kilometres
It's off into the desert right at the start. The first 45 kilometres or so in a southerly direction could provide the first windy stretches. The favourites should be wide awake here. After reaching Liwa, the peloton enters an area with very pronounced dunes, which characterise large parts of the stage. It's up and down to the Moreeb dune, where the riders complete two laps of the Moreeb dune cycle path (18.1 kilometres per lap) with short climbs and descents with double-digit gradients. The riders then return to Liwa, where the race ends. The finishing straight climbs at five per cent. This could make the legs of one or two sprinters too sore.
Stage 2 | Tuesday, 18 February 2025 | Al Hudayriyat Island | 12.2 kilometres (individual time trial)
As in the previous year, stage 2 is an individual time trial held on the island of Al Hudayriyat. The course is something for rouleurs and only has a few right-angled bends and two U-turns. The gaps between the favourites should be in the seconds range.
Stage 3 | Wednesday, 19 February 2025 | Ras al Khaimah - Jebel Jais | 179 kilometres
The first of two mountain top finishes of the UAE Tour awaits on the third day. The peloton takes on around 140 kilometres of almost flat roads to climb the ascent towards Jebel Jais. Many riders are familiar with the finish from previous events. Jebel Jais is a classic roller climb - around 20 kilometres with an average gradient of around 5 per cent. Serious attacks can only be expected on the last two kilometres, which are somewhat steeper at 7 per cent.
Stage 4 | Thursday, 20 February 2025 | Fujairah Qidfa Beach - Umm al Quwain | 181 kilometres
After the climbers can let off steam on the third day, the 4th stage should be something for the sprinters again. The day begins for the riders in Fujairah Qidfa Beach and leads to Umm Al Quwain through desert areas on the edge of the Hajar Mountains. Wind edges and sand on the road, which can cause defects, could have an impact on the race.
Stage 5 | Friday, 21 February 2025 | American University Dubai - Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University | 160 kilometres
A stage that leads through Dubai and is once again something for the sprinters. The race initially leaves the city in the direction of the desert. It passes the classic sights such as the Meydan Racecourse. After the detour into the desert, the route leads the peloton past the Dubai Safari Park towards the finish. Although there are a few roundabouts in the finale, these should be easy for the peloton to negotiate.
Stage 6 | Saturday, 22 February 2025 | Abu Dhabi Cycling Club - Abu Dhabi Breakwater | 167 kilometres
On the seventh day of the UAE Tour 2025, the riders will be travelling around the city of Abu Dhabi. The route leads over numerous small islands and ends at the Abu Dhabi Breakwater. Anything other than a bunch sprint would be a big surprise.
Stage 7 | Sunday, 23 February 2025 | Al Ain Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium - Jebel Hafeet | 176 kilometres
The big finish comes at the end. As in 2024, the UAE Tour ends on Jebel Hafeet with a mountain finish. The race takes a 160-kilometre flat approach towards the final climb. The last ten kilometres or so are uphill at 8 to 9 per cent. The steepest part is three kilometres before the finish at 11 per cent. Shortly before the finish, there is another short descent before we find out who will succeed Lennert van Eetvelt, who won the UAE Tour 2024.
UAE Tour 2025: TV broadcast & live stream
The first five stages can be seen in Germany on free-to-air TV on Eurosport 1, stages six and seven on Eurosport 2, and there will also be a paid live stream of the race on Discovery Plus on all days.
The broadcast times on Eurosport
- 1st stage, 17.02. | 11:45-14:00 (Eurosport 1)
- Stage 2, 18/02 | 10:50-12:45 (Eurosport 1)
- 3rd stage, 19.02. | 11:50-13:30 (Eurosport 1)
- Stage 4, 20/02 | 11:50-13:30 (Eurosport 1)
- 5th stage, 21.02. | 12:00-13:30 (Eurosport 1)
- Stage 6, 22/02 | 11:50-13:30 (Eurosport 2)
- 7th stage, 23.02. | 11:20-13:15 (Eurosport 2)
Start list: Participants of the UAE Tour 2025
- 1 Lennert van Eetvelt
- 2 Lars Craps
- 3 Logan Currie
- 4 Steffen De Schuyteneer
- 5 Lionel Taminiaux
- 6 Reuben Thompson
- 7 Jonas Gregaard
- 11 Jasper Philipsen
- 12 Ramses Debruyne
- 13 Silvan Dillier
- 14 Seal Ghys
- 15 Timo Kielich
- 16 Johan Price-Pejtersen
- 17 Jonas Rickaert
- 21 Pello Bilbao
- 22 Rainer Kepplinger
- 23 Daniel Skerl
- 24 Phil Bauhaus
- 25 Andrea Pasqualon
- 26 Torstein Træen
- 27 Max van der Meulen
- 31 Bruno Armirail
- 32 Stefan Bissegger
- 33 Geoffrey Bouchard
- 34 Felix Gall
- 35 Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen
- 36 Gianluca Pollefliet
- 37 Paul Seixas
- 41 Esteban Chaves
- 42 Hugh Carthy
- 43 Alastair Mackellar
- 44 Sean Quinn
- 45 Jack Rootkin-Gray
- 46 Georg Steinhauser
- 47 Jardi Christiaan van der Lee
- 51 Joshua Tarling
- 52 Jonathan Castroviejo
- 53 Kim Heiduk
- 54 Victor Langellotti
- 55 Michael Leonhard
- 56 Carlos Rodríguez
- 57 Ben Swift
- 61 Gerben Kuypers
- 62 Kevin Colleoni
- 63 Kobe Goossens
- 64 Simone Petilli
- 65 Adrien Petit
- 66 Gerben Thijssen
- 67 Gijs Van Hoecke
- 71 Chris Froome
- 72 Pier-André Côté
- 73 Jan Hirt
- 74 Oded Kogut
- 75 Alexey Lutsenko
- 76 Nadav Raisberg
- 77 Matthew Riccitello
- 81 Giulio Ciccone
- 82 Simone Consonni
- 83 Amanuel Ghebreigzhabier
- 84 Daan Hoole
- 85 Patrick Konrad
- 86 Jonathan Milan
- 87 Edward Theuns
- 91 One Rubio
- 92 Will Barta
- 93 Pablo Castrillo
- 94 Davide Cimolai
- 95 Fernando Gaviria
- 96 Manlio Moro
- 97 Iván Romeo
- 101 Finn Fisher-Black
- 102 Filip Maciejuk
- 103 Ryan Mullen
- 104 Anton Palzer
- 105 Danny van Poppel
- 106 Sam Welsford
- 107 Ben Zwiehoff
- 111 Kristian Sbaragli
- 112 Đorđe Đurić
- 113 Filippo Fortin
- 114 Roberto Carlos González
- 115 Lorenzo Quartucci
- 116 Dušan Rajović
- 117 Carlos Samudio
- 121 Tim Merlier
- 122 Ayco Bastiaens
- 123 Josef Černý
- 124 Pascal Eenkhoorn
- 125 Junior Lecerf
- 126 Casper Pedersen
- 127 Bert Van Lerberghe
- 131 Dylan Groenewegen
- 132 Robert Donaldson
- 133 Luke Durbridge
- 134 Chris Harper
- 135 Luka Mezgec
- 136 Elmar Reinders
- 137 Max Walscheid
- 141 Fabio Jakobsen
- 142 Tobias Lund Andresen
- 143 Alex Edmondson
- 144 Enzo Leijnse
- 145 Niklas Märkl
- 146 Oscar Onley
- 147 Julius van den Berg
- 151 Olav Kooij
- 152 Niklas Behrens
- 153 Thomas Gloag
- 154 Bart Lemmen
- 155 Daniel McLay
- 156 Tosh Van der Sande
- 157 Julien Vermote
- 161 Michael Storer
- 162 Sebastian Kolze Changizi
- 163 Arvid de Kleijn
- 164 Arthur Kluckers
- 165 Alexander Krieger
- 166 Hannes Wilksch
- 167 Maikel Zijlaard
- 171 Tadej Pogačar
- 172 Mikkel Bjerg
- 173 Rune Herregodts
- 174 Juan Sebastián Molano
- 175 Domen Novak
- 176 Florian Vermeersch
- 177 Jay Vine
- 181 Filippo Fiorelli
- 182 Federico Biagini
- 183 Lorenzo Conforti
- 184 Alessandro Pinarello
- 185 Mattia Pinazzi
- 186 Manuele Tarozzi
- 187 Enrico Zanoncello
- 191 Sergio Higuita
- 192 Aaron Gate
- 193 Florian Samuel Kajamini
- 194 Matteo Malucelli
- 195 Ide Schelling
- 196 Haoyu Su
- 197 Harold Tejada
