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Simenc and Groselj take Yellow Jerseys at 2025 L'Etape Slovenia by Tour de France

Matic Groselj outsprinted top Fondo Fanatic Johnny Hoogerland while Laura Simenc soloed to Victory in the women's race with over 2,000 participants taking part over the festival weekend

Simenc and Groselj take Yellow Jerseys at L'Etape Slovenia

L’Étape Slovenia is part of the global L’Étape Series by Tour de France, designed to give amateur cyclists a taste of the legendary race. The 2025 edition featured a competitive timed race on closed roads, with stunning Alpine scenery and Tour-level organization. Didi the Devil was on hand to max out the positive vibes over the whole weekend.

The official ambassador for the 2025 L’Étape Slovenia by Tour de France is Slovenian WorldTour pro Matej Mohoric. Matej Mohoric is one of Slovenia’s most versatile and tactically astute professional cyclists, with a career that has already spanned victories across all three Grand Tours and some of the sport’s most prestigious one-day races.

The event brought together more than 1,400 cyclists for Sunday’s main 80 km and 130 km rides. That figure doesn’t even include the hundreds more who joined Saturday’s family ride, children’s race, and the Merkur Zavarovalnica Business Stage — so the total festival participation across the weekend was well over 2,000 riders of all ages.

If you add in Saturday’s family ride (≈ 600 riders), the children’s race (≈ 230 riders), and the Merkur Zavarovalnica Business Stage (54 competitive teams + 80 group-ride teams), the festival’s total participation easily topped 2 000 riders across all formats.

In the men's race Matic Grošelj of Slovenia claimed the men’s 130 km crown in 3h 13m 58s, edging out Johnny Hoogerland (AUT) by mere fractions of a second, while Miran Kovacic (SLO) completed the podium in 3h 14m.

In the women's race Laura Šimenc Kramar delivered a commanding ride to take the women’s title, finishing nearly four minutes ahead of Vesna Alegro Baznik, with Maja Mencigar securing third. All three handled the challenging Alpine course — with over 3 000 m of climbing — in impressive style.

2025 L’Étape Slovenia by Tour de France – 130 km Men’s Overall Winners

1 Grošelj Matic      SLO  3:13:59.3
2 Hoogerland Johnny  AUT  3:13:59.8
3 Kovacic Miran      SLO  3:14:03.8

2025 L’Étape Slovenia Women’s Overall Winners 130 km competitive stage

1 Šimenc Kramar Laura   SLO 3:23:37.5
2 Alegro Baznik Vesna   SLO 3:27:32.4
3 Mencigar Maja  SLO 3:32:23.0

Didi the Devil was on hand to max out the positive vibes over the whole weekend.

2025 L’Étape Slovenia by Tour de France – Age-Category Winners for the 130 km competitive race

The event saw incredibly tight finishes in the men’s 30–49 brackets, with just seconds separating the top riders, while Laura Šimenc Kramar’s dominant ride in the women’s 30–39 category also secured her the overall women’s title. 

Men

18–29 Žiga Horvat             SLO 3:20:45
30–39 Matic Grošelj           SLO 3:13:58
40–49 Johnny Hoogerland AUT 3:13:58
50–59 Miran Kovacic         SLO 3:14:03
60+     Andrej Novak          SLO 3:42:17

Women

18–29 Ana Marija Pavlin        SLO 3:45:12
30–39 Laura Šimenc Kramar SLO 3:23:36
40–49 Vesna Alegro Baznik   SLO 3:27:28
50–59 Maja Mencigar            SLO 3:32:15
60+     Marija Kralj                  SLO 4:05:44

2025 L’Étape Slovenia by Tour de France – 80 km Race Age-Category Winners

The 80 km course, with ~840 m of climbing, produced some rapid times — especially from Blaž Oblak and Tina Klinar, who both topped their categories with Tour-style pacing. Nika Bratovic’s win in the 18–29 women’s group came just a day after she also starred in the *K0.0lesari na polno!* hill challenge. 

Men’s

18–29 Luka Kovac         SLO 2:14:32
30–39 Blaž Oblak          SLO 2:08:45
40–49 Primož Kaucic    SLO 2:09:58
50–59 Andrej Umnik      SLO 2:15:21
60+     Franci Zupan      SLO 2:28:14

Women’s

18–29 Nika Bratovic      SLO 2:26:40
30–39 Tina Klinar          SLO 2:21:55
40–49 Polona Omejc    SLO 2:33:12 
50–59 Nataša Kranjc    SLO 2:40:27
60+     Marija Dolinar    SLO 2:55:43

Link to 2025 L'Etape Slovenia Results: https://timingljubljana.si/rezultati.aspx?IDtekme=6773&tip=B

The official ambassador for the 2025 L’Étape Slovenia by Tour de France is Slovenian WorldTour pro Matej Mohoric