Chris Froome retires, ending era of Tour de France dominance
Chris Froome ended a 20-year pro career after a 2025 crash, closing a run that brought four Tour de France titles and seven Grand Tours.
Chris Froome retired from professional cycling at 41. The British rider won the Tour de France four times, in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, and finished his career with seven Grand Tour victories in all, including the Giro d’Italia in 2018 and the Vuelta a España in 2011 and 2017.
He won all three Grand Tours, added Olympic bronze medals in the road time trial at London 2012 and Rio 2016, and claimed Britain’s first men’s world time-trial title in 2017.
A serious training crash in August 2025 left him with a pericardial rupture, a collapsed lung, five broken ribs and a spinal fracture. Froome had not raced since then, and his final competitive appearance came at the Tour de Pologne, where he placed 68th overall. The crash and its aftermath halted a late-career stretch that had already become uncertain after his contract with Israel-Premier Tech expired at the end of 2025.
Froome joined Israel-Premier Tech in 2021 after leaving Ineos Grenadiers. He confirmed the end of his career at a pre-Tour de France event for Škoda. Froome was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to British parents, and his career spanned more than two decades at the top level of the sport.
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