The Lidl-Trek team has been very successful in the first half of the 2025 season and the team is looking to continue its winning streak on the roads of France in the Tour de France this July. The Tour will commence in the city of Lille on July 5 and the team is sending a strong roster to achieve its major ambitions in the race.

After his very successful spring campaign in spring classics and the Giro d’Italia, Danish sprint ace Mads Pedersen has been left at home in Switzerland to relax, recover and rebuild for this year’s Vuelta a Espana. Instead, the team is betting on Italian sprint powerhouse Jonathan Milan, who will be chasing stage victories in the mass sprint stage finishes of this year’s Tour.

24-year-old Milan recently finished seventh in the Italian national championships but has otherwise had a fruitful season with a stage victory at this year’s Criterium du Dauphine as well as a stage victory and a points classification win in Tirreno-Adriatico. The Italian rider also powered to stage victories in Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and the UAE Tour. 

Jonathan Milan will be chasing both stage victories and a points classification win in Tour de France 2025 and Lidl-Trek has largely built its Tour roster around the Italian fast man, who depends on a sprint lead-out train to secure his victories. Milan will be joined by Simone Consonni, Edward Theuns, and Jasper Stuyven in the stage finales.

It will be interesting to see how consistent the performances of Italian star Milan will be in the exhausting three-week race. Fellow sprinter and teammate Mads Pedersen is known for his great persistence, so an internal competition between the two stars is going on within the team.

USA National champion Quinn Simmons fought his way to a spot on the Tour team through strong performances in this year’s Tour de Suisse. The American rider even secured a stage victory in the race and his mission in Le Tour de France will be to deliver pull efforts in the stages and drag the team through the many flat stretches using his strong human diesel engine.

The Lidl-Trek team will also be having significant aspirations for the general classification of the 2025 Tour de France. Denmark’s Mattias Skjelmose is the team’s GC star and will be chasing and defending the team’s general classification ambitions on the roads of France. Skjelmose delivered a fine performance when he won this year’s Amstel Gold Race. He also managed to finish fifth in the GC of Itzulia Basque Country and was ranked third in the GC of this year’s Paris-Nice, before a stage 7 crash forced him to abandon the race. 

Skjelmose’s build-up to the Tour de France was progressing well, until the Dane suffered a serious stomach infection, which then hampered the Dane’s final preparations to the Tour – a race that is the main goal of his 2025 season. Skjelmose’s form may still be inhibited by his recent illness and the Dane may end up fighting for stage victories or a victory in the climber classification, but at least he managed to bounce back into form with a win in the recent Andorra MoraBanc Classica.

Toms Skujins will be assisting both Milan and Skjelmose in the race, while 22-year-old Thibau Nys will be racing his first Grand Tour with the sole purpose of aiding Skjelmose in the mountain territories of the Tour de France to improve the Dane’s chances of achieving a high spot in the general classification.

Team Lidl-Trek line-up for Tour de France 2025:

Mattias Skjelmose

Jonathan Milan

Toms Skujins

Quinn Simmons

Edward Theuns

Thibau Nys

Jasper Stuyven

Simone Consonni

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