Paris - Nice 2025: Storer wins Queen Stage from breakaway, Jorgenson retains lead

fotobureau Cor VosMichael Storer drops his fellow attacker Mauro Schmid with 2.5 kilometres to go. The Australian solos to victory, while Matteo Jorgenson retains the overall lead. With Mattias Skjelmose abandoning, Thymen Arensman moves up to third place, while Florian Lipowitz remains in second place. (Slideshow route/profile)

Results 7th stage 2025 Paris-Nice 2025

1. Michael Storer (aus)
2. Mauro Schmid (swi) + 0.20
3. Georg Steinhauser (ger) + 0.30
4. Iván Romeo (spa) + 0.45
5. Jordan Jegat (fra) + 0.50
6. Felix Gall (aut) + 0.57
7. Lenny Martinez (fra) + 1.04
8. Felix Lipowitz (ger) + 1.11
9. Clément Champoussin (fra) + 1.14
10. Mads Pedersen (den) s.t.

12. Matteo Jorgenson (usa) s.t.
13. Thymen Arensman (nld) s.t.

GC after stage 7
1. Matteo Jorgenson (usa)
2. Florian Lipowitz (ger) + 0.37
3. Thymen Arensman (nld) + 1.20
4. Michael Storer (aus) + 2.25
5. João Almeida (por) + 2.40
6. Magnus Sheffield (usa) + 2.54
7. Brandon McNulty (usa) + 3.05
8. Clément Champoussin (fra) + 3.22
9. Tobias Foss (nor) + 3.28
10. Harold Tejada (col) + 3.36

Race report
Right from the start, Kelland O'Brien, Jakub Otruba, Mauro Schmid, Fred Wright, Marco Haller, Michael Storer, Pierre Thierry, Andreas Leknessund, Rasmus Tiller, Clément Izquierdo, Anthony Perez, Alexandre Delettre, and Jordan Jegat go on the attack. They don’t get it for free, and the gap remains small. This inspires Neilson Powless, Bruno Armirail, Stefan Küng, Julian Alaphilippe, Iván Romeo, Joshua Tarling, and Georg Steinhauser to jump across to the lead group.

Following some reshuffling, a lead group of fifteen riders - O'Brien, Schmid, Wright, Storer, Izquierdo, Perez, Delettre, Jegat, Powless, Armirail, Küng, Alaphilippe, Romeo, Tarling, Steinhauser - reach the Côte d'Aspremont with a 40-second advantage over the peloton. The gap widens to 3 minutes.

Third in the general classification, Mattias Skjelmose, crashes hard with just over 50 kilometres to go and is forced to abandon.

The lead group tackles the climb to the line with a 2 minutes advantage.

With 3 kilometres to the summit, only Storer and Schmid remain, when an acceleration by the Australian proves too much for the Swiss rider. That's the decisive move and Storer solos to triumph.

Matteo Jorgenson remains in yellow, although Florian Lipowitz gains back 3 seconds with a strong finish.

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