Finally, Chris Froome has announced that the 2025 racing season was his last as a pro racer, drawing a close to a 19-year career which saw him win seven Grand Tours, including four editions of the Tour de France between 2013 and 2017.

The British rider, who turned 41 in May, spent the latter part of his career at Israel-Premier Tech, with his final years on the bike derailed by serious crashes in 2019 and this year. However, it was during an 11-year stint at British squad Sky/Ineos where he scored the biggest achievements of his career.

Froome burst onto the scene from nowhere in 2011, where a back-and-forth GC battle with Juan José Cobo launched him as a Grand Tour contender. He’d win his first Tour de France two years later, beating Nairo Quintana by 4:20 following a dominant ride which saw him win three stages and hold the yellow jersey for 13 days.

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As Froome’s career officially comes to a close, the last of that 2013 line-up to formally retire, we’re taking a look back at the Sky team which supported him to that first Tour de France victory – what have they done since 2013 and where are they now?

Chris Froome

The main man of the team, Froome took over leadership at the 2013 Tour de France, having finished runner-up to teammate Bradley Wiggins the previous summer.

Froome finished a solid second place behind Wiggins in 2012 at 3:21 down, while along the way, a brief and unplanned attack on stage 11 threatened to upset the Team Sky hierarchy. In 2013, with Wiggins targeting the Giro d’Italia, Froome had sole leadership of the Tour squad.

He’d go on to win the race in style, winning stages at Ax-3 Domaines, Mont Ventoux and the final time trial en route to taking his first yellow jersey. He crashed out of the race on stage 5 the next summer, but would go on to win three in a row between 2015 and 2017.

Froome would add to his tally with three Critérium du Dauphiné victories and two Tour de Romandie wins before 2016, while he also won the 2017 Vuelta a España and a memorable 2018 Giro d’Italia with a final weekend solo raid over the Colle delle Finestre.

That Giro, plus a podium at the 2018 Tour, marked the end of his Grand Tour-contending career, with a serious crash at the 2019 Dauphiné ending his season and threatening his career. He moved to Israel-Premier Tech two years later, riding the remainder of his career at the team but never managing to recapture the form that propelled him to Grand Tour success.

His final career outing came at the Tour de Pologne last August before his final season was brought to a premature end by another serious crash while out training in September.

Only one other rider from the 2013 Tour line-up still raced into 2025, with Froome the very last to retire.

Edvald Boasson Hagen

Norwegian racer Boasson Hagen was once touted as the next versatile superstar of cycling, winning races including the Eneco Tour, Gent-Wevelgem, Tour of Britain and a stage of the Giro d’Italia before his 23rd birthday.

Following his two-year stint at HTC-Highroad, he moved to Sky in 2010, adding more big results, including two stages of the 2011 Tour de France and a silver medal at the 2012 Road World Championships.

He was an all-round star who could win sprints, short time trials and solo, but never quite broke through to become the dominant force he once threatened to grow into.

He was part of the 2013 Tour de France for almost two weeks, taking four top-five placings during the opening week before crashing and breaking his shoulder on stage 12. He’d last another season at Sky before switching to Dimension Data and then TotalEnergies.

Boasson Hagen won his last race, number 81, on stage 1 of the Dauphiné in 2019, though he’d race on until one last season with Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale in 2024.

Now retired, Boasson Hagen lives back in Norway with his family, welcoming a son, Filip, in 2025. He’s worked representing Norwegian road bike brand Gekko and also led a LeBlanq cycling tour in Norway last year.

Peter Kennaugh

Peter Kennaugh, one of several Manx racers in the peloton during the 2010s, raced with Sky between 2010 and 2017 before moving to Bora-Hansgrohe for the final two years of his career.

A world record holder and gold medallist on the track with Great Britain’s team pursuit squad, Kennaugh balanced track racing with his road career. He took part in seven Grand Tours during his time with Sky, racing in both the 2013 and 2015 Tours de France.

Kennaugh supported Froome to two of his four Tour victories, though he was forced out of the 2015 race due to illness on stage 16 to Gap. As well as playing a support role on the biggest stage, he also scored several big wins during his career, including two stages of the Critérium du Dauphiné, the 2016 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, and two British road titles.

After retiring at the end of the 2019 season, Kennaugh worked for ITV4, co-presenting the British broadcaster’s Tour de France coverage. He began work as a directeur sportif with Trinity Racing in 2022, working with the development squad until 2024. In 2025, he took up the same role with WorldTour squad XDS-Astana and is working with them in 2026 too.

For the Tour this year, he will be back on the road as Ned Boulting and David Millar take their podcast on tour following the lost of ITV4’s coverage.

Vasil Kiryienka

Belarusian powerhouse Vasil Kiryienka raced for 13 years in the professional peloton, spending six years across Tinkoff, Caisse d’Epargne, and Movistar before joining the Sky set-up in 2013, where he spent the remainder of his career.

His debut season at Sky was a successful one, though he didn’t make it to the end of the Tour, finishing outside the time limit in the Pyrenees on stage 9. He assisted the team to a third place in the early team time trial and then went on to win a Vuelta a España stage at Peña Cabarga later in the year.

A strong time triallist, Kiryienka’s biggest career achievement came at the 2015 Road World Championships, where he took home the rainbow jersey in the discipline. He was also a workhorse on the road, completing 20 Grand Tours, including aiding Froome to victories at the 2016 and 2017 Tours, plus the 2018 Giro d’Italia.

Kiryienka missed the start of the 2019 season after being diagnosed with a ‘cardiac anomaly’ in March, but returned to competition in April. He raced on to the Vuelta a España and World Championships at the end of the year, but called time on his career at the end of the year due to cardiac issues.

Since retiring, Kiryienka spent 2021 as a directeur sportif with Belarusian Continental squad BelAZ, though there’s precious little information about his whereabouts since then.

David López

Spanish racer David López was another rider who joined the team for the 2013 season, joining after a six-year stint at Movistar.

The Basque rider, who started his career at Euskaltel-Euskadi, was already a Vuelta a España stage winner, having won from the breakaway into Alcoi at the 2010 race.

He had 11 Grand Tours of experience under his belt before joining Sky, including six Vueltas, and he immediately slotted into the British team’s Tour selection. He worked as a domestique during the race, finishing 127th in Paris, and later went on to win a stage of the Eneco Tour and finish third at the Tour of Beijing.

López would race on with Sky for four further seasons, racing four more Grand Tours and supporting Froome to victory at the 2017 Vuelta.

He retired at the end of the 2018 season and now works as a sporting advisor at his home Grand Tour, the Vuelta, as well as working as a directeur sportif at the Catalan youth cycling club, CC Sant Boi.

Richie Porte

Australian all-rounder Richie Porte was a key member of the Sky squad during the team’s period of Tour de France domination, working alongside Wiggins and Froome as they won three Tours in four years.

He was often the last man in the mountains for the team leaders during those triumphs, setting the high pace that characterised the ‘Sky train’ when the road went uphill.

Porte didn’t win a Grand Tour himself during his 13-year pro career, his best finish being third place at the 2020 Tour de France with Trek-Segafredo. However, he was one of the most successful week-long stage racers of his generation, winning titles at Paris-Nice (twice), the Tour Down Under (twice), the Volta a Catalunya, Tour de Romandie, Critérium du Dauphiné, and Tour de Suisse.

After an initial two years with Saxo Bank, he spent four seasons at Sky before moving on to BMC and Trek to pursue his own leadership opportunities. He moved back to Ineos for the final two years of his career, bowing out at the 2022 Tour of Britain.

Porte moved back to Tasmania following his retirement from racing, helping his brother as a builder in the family trade. A former triathlete, he still swims and rides regularly, but doesn’t race competitively.

He often makes appearances with Rapha and at events like the Tour Down Under, as well as taking part in charity rides and events in Australia.

Kanstantin Siutsou

The second Belarusian in the Sky squad for 2013, Siutsou rode the fifth and final Tour de France of his career in 2013, with the race being the second Tour he rode as part of a winning team after the 2012 race.

Siutsou crashed out on stage 3 in 2012 as Wiggins soared to overall victory but he made it all the way to Paris in 2013, assisting Froome to the yellow jersey.

He was a former under-23 world champion and a mainstay at the Giro d’Italia during his career, finishing top 10 at the 2011 and 2016 races and winning a stage into Bergamo with a 15km solo attack in 2009.

Siutsou completed 17 Grand Tours during his racing career across stints at Barloworld, Columbia-HTC, Sky, Dimension Data, and Bahrain. His career came to an ignominious end, however, when he tested positive for EPO at the age of 36 in 2018.

He received a four-year ban from racing, effectively ending his career. After his suspension, Siutsou moved to Florida in the USA to work as a cycling coach.

Ian Stannard

Classics specialist Ian Stannard was a Sky lifer, having joined the team from ISD-Neri during its founding season in 2010 and sticking with the British squad until his retirement at the end of 2020.

Stannard was a gritty and battling competitor on the bike, making his name as a racer during the spring Classics. During his career, he scored podiums at Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, E3 Harelbeke, and Paris-Roubaix, but his biggest results came at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

He won the Belgian season opener twice in a row in 2014 and 2015, memorably outfoxing Etixx-QuickStep trio Niki Terpstra, Tom Boonen, and Stijn Vandenbergh at the latter edition.

Stannard rode 10 Grand Tours with Sky, helping Froome to victory at the Tour de France in 2013, 2015, and 2016 – his only three starts at the race – and at the 2017 Vuelta a España.

He was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 2020 and subsequently called time on his career at the end of the season. After hanging up his wheels, he moved into the team car as a directeur sportif for Trinity Racing. He stayed at the development squad for two seasons before moving on to the same role at Ineos Grenadiers in 2023, a role he remains in today.

Geraint Thomas

Froome aside, Geraint Thomas is the most famed and fêted rider on Sky’s 2013 Tour squad, having won a Tour de France himself five years later.

Back in 2013, however, there were few signs that the Welshman would end up one of the best stage racers of his generation. He was already a star on the track, having won multiple Olympic and world titles in the team pursuit, and was developing into a Classics challenger, too.

He assisted Froome all the way to Paris in his fourth Tour outing, and later showed his own developing climbing skills with 22nd place the next year, followed by two 15th places.

Thomas’ development as a GC rider followed, with wins at Paris-Nice and the Critérium du Dauphiné coming in 2016 and 2018 before he added to the Sky Tour tally with a yellow jersey of his own that same summer, beating Tom Dumoulin.

He’d rack up four more Grand Tour podiums through the remainder of his career, including second at the 2019 Tour behind teammate Egan Bernal and second at the 2023 Giro d’Italia. There’d also be wins at the Tour de Romandie and Tour de Suisse along the way.

Thomas’ final big result came at the 2024 Giro, where he placed third behind Tadej Pogačar and Dani Martínez. He retired at the end of 2025, hanging up his wheels after a final outing on home roads as the Tour of Britain drew to a close in Cardiff.

But he wasn’t out of the fold for long, taking up the role of Director of Racing at Ineos for 2026, where he is hoping to help the team return to their Grand Tour best, and success akin to the Chris Froome glory days.