Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) thundered to sprint victory at a rain-affected edition of the EFGH Singapore Tour de France Criterium to wrap up a strong 2025 season that included the Tour de France green jersey.
Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) came in a close-fought second, ahead of Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who finished third in a hotly contested sprint.
The day’s earlier team time trial, held on the same 2.4km city circuit, was cancelled, such was the intensity of the rainstorm in the Southeast Asian city-state.
Singapore brings the storm
Once the heavy downpours, thunder and lightning had ceded, the 40-strong peloton rolled out on Connaught Drive alongside the Esplanade park and the country’s National Gallery in the heart of the city.
Attacks came thick and fast as the riders swept through Singapore’s CBD, especially from the pair of continental-level squads Team Singapore and ASC Monsters Indonesia.
At 2.4km long, the riders would tackle 25 laps of the course that took them across the Singapore river on two occasions, first the Anderson Bridge as they entered Downtown, and then the Esplanade Bridge with the backdrop of the iconic Marina Bay Sands hotel and the Esplanade theatre – both renowned for their unique architecture – making for a unique circuit race setting.
The first rider to make a move stick, though, was a Slovenian from UAE Team Emirates-XRG, just not the one who took the maillot jaune this summer, but instead experienced domestique Domen Novak was the one accelerating off the front of the peloton.
Further back down the bunch and the inclement weather was playing havoc for several riders as both Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) and Girmay suffered punctures.
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