Tour de France 2026 Startlist: All 184 Riders, Teams, Contenders & Full Guide

Last Updated: June 21, 2026

La liste de départ du Tour de France 2026 comprend 23 équipes et 184 coureurs qui s'affronteront entre Barcelone et Paris, du 4 au 26 juillet. Ce document est la référence complète : tous les coureurs confirmés, tous les rôles au sein des équipes, les prétendants au classement général, les outsiders, les débutants, les pronostics pour les maillots et les prix. Il est mis à jour au fur et à mesure que les compositions des équipes sont finalisées avant la présentation des équipes le 1er juillet.

⚠ Breaking — June 17, 2026: Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) is OUT of the Tour de France after an elbow wound infection failed to heal in time. Visma confirmed his replacement will be announced June 23. This page updates as further changes are confirmed.

The preliminary startlist currently shows 111 confirmed riders across all 23 teams. Most squads have not submitted their full 8-rider roster yet. Final selections land June 23–24. The complete official startlist is confirmed at the team presentation in Barcelona on July 1.

What Is the Tour de France 2026 Startlist — and When Is It Final?

The Tour de France 2026 startlist is the official list of every rider confirmed to race the 113th edition of the event. It goes through two stages before the race begins.

Preliminary vs Final Startlist

The preliminary startlist is published by ASO months before the race. Teams submit the riders they intend to bring, but this is not legally binding. Riders can be added or removed right up to the roster deadline of June 23–24, 2026, when each team submits their official 8-rider selection. The final startlist is confirmed at the July 1 team presentation in Barcelona and becomes the legal document for the race.

What you are reading now is the preliminary list. 111 riders are confirmed as of June 20. The remaining 73 slots across 23 teams will be filled in the coming days.

How Riders Get Added or Removed

Teams make selection decisions based on form, fitness, and tactical role. An injury can remove a confirmed rider right up to race morning; the Van Aert situation is the live example. He was on the preliminary list, crashed in training, developed an elbow infection, and was withdrawn on June 17. Visma will name his replacement on June 23 when they submit the final roster.

• A DNS (Did Not Start) occurs when a rider is confirmed on the final list but does not appear at Stage 1.
• A DNF (Did Not Finish) occurs during the race — a crash, illness, or time cut.
• DSQ (Disqualified) is rare and requires a rule infringement. OTL (Outside Time Limit) removes a rider who finishes a stage more than a percentage above the winner’s time.

Race Numbers — Who Wears What

Race numbers are assigned by team ranking, with the defending champion’s team always receiving numbers 1–8. UAE Team Emirates-XRG holds those numbers in 2026. Tadej Pogačar wears number 1. Each team’s 8 riders receive consecutive numbers from their block, UAE run 1–8, Visma-Lease a Bike the next block, and so on through all 23 teams.

Where to Download the Official Startlist

The official PDF startlist is published by ASO on letour.fr before July 1. We maintain the most current preliminary version. This page tracks changes as they are confirmed.

Tour de France 2026 Startlist — Confirmed Withdrawals & Latest Changes

This section updates as news breaks. Check back daily through July 3.

Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) — CONFIRMED OUT

Van Aert crashed in training the week before the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the renamed Dauphiné, cycling’s traditional Tour warm-up race. An elbow wound that seemed manageable became serious when an infection developed during the race itself. He finished Stage 5, winning the sprint, then the situation worsened overnight. He spent a night in hospital, the medical team cleaned the wound again, and on June 17, Visma confirmed the decision: he will not be included in the Tour de France selection.

Van Aert issued a statement: “This is, of course, a big disappointment. The Tour de France is one of my main goals every year. Unfortunately, a crash during training has put a spanner in the works, and the injury to my elbow has worsened and has still not healed sufficiently. Together with the team, we have concluded that starting the Tour in top form is not feasible at this point.”

The impact on Visma-Lease a Bike is real and immediate. Van Aert handles the TTT motor role, the sprint stage positioning for Vingegaard through nervous flat days, the crosswind echelon control, and the mountain lead-out that sets up the final climb. He can also win stages himself; this was to be his eighth Tour and he was chasing an 11th career stage win. Losing that versatility before the race begins removes Visma’s safety net and forces their remaining seven riders to cover ground Van Aert would normally handle alone. His replacement will be announced June 23.

Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM) — RACING CONFIRMED

Seixas crashed during the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Decathlon CMA CGM have confirmed he is racing the Tour. His spring form, winner of La Flèche Wallonne and the Tour of the Basque Country, second at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, second at Strade Bianche, remains the strongest foundation of any first-time Tour rider in recent memory.
Status: confirmed, monitoring fitness ahead of July 4.

Tom Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5) — CONFIRMED, FORM QUESTION MARK

Pidcock’s 2026 season hit a serious obstacle at the Volta a Catalunya, where he went off a ravine in a crash. His recovery timeline raised questions about Tour readiness. He is confirmed on the Pinarello-Q36.5 startlist. His form approaching Barcelona remains the biggest unknown among the race’s stage-win contenders.

Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) — PEAK FORM CONFIRMED

Del Toro won the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes outright, two stage wins and the overall, ahead of Luke Tuckwell and Juan Ayuso. He arrives in Barcelona as Pogačar’s support rider but also as the clearest Plan B in the peloton if anything disrupts Pogačar’s race. His 2026 form is not the form of a lieutenant. It is the form of a leader.

This section updates as further roster changes are confirmed. Visma replacement announced June 23. All teams submit final rosters June 23–24.

Complete Tour de France 2026 Startlist — All 23 Teams & Confirmed Riders

Role tags: GC = general classification leader · Dom = domestique · Sprint = sprint specialist · Climb = climber/breakaway · TT = time trial specialist · All = all-rounder · ★ = team leader Riders marked TBC are expected additions before the July 1 deadline.

UAE Team Emirates-XRG

WorldTeam

United Arab Emirates

★

GC leader

Tadej Pogačar

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
POGAČAR Tadej	GC ★	Four-time Tour winner. Chasing record-equalling fifth.
DEL TORO Isaac	GC / Dom	Won Tour Auvergne 2026. Tour debut. UAE’s Plan B.
MCNULTY Brandon	Dom	One of the best mountain domestiques in the race.
YATES Adam	Dom	Sacrifices GC ambition to pace Pogačar every July.
WELLENS Tim	Dom / All	Crosswind specialist and all-terrain support.
VERMEERSCH Florian	Dom	Protects UAE through sprint stages and nervous days.
POLITT Nils	Dom	Flat stage protection. Crosswind threat.
TBC	—	Final slot to be confirmed June 23–24.

UAE arrive with the deepest squad in the race. The TTT is theirs to lose. The mountains are Pogačar’s to control. The only scenario where this squad struggles is one involving bad luck, a crash, illness, or the kind of day the race simply cannot be planned for.

Team Visma — Lease a Bike

WorldTeam

Netherlands

★

GC leader

Jonas Vingegaard

⚠️ Major change: Wout van Aert OUT — replacement announced June 23

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
VINGEGAARD Jonas	GC ★	2026 Giro winner. Chasing third Tour title.
JORGENSON Matteo	GC / Dom	Expanded role post‑Van Aert. Could race GC freedom.
KUSS Sepp	Dom	Guarded two yellow jerseys. Mountain specialist.
CAMPENAERTS Victor	TT / Dom	Hour record holder. TTT engine.
ARMIRAIL Bruno	Dom	Flat stage and transition day protection.
TULETT Ben	Dom	Young British support rider growing into Grand Tour role.
AFFINI Edoardo	TT / Dom	Strong time trialist who adds depth to Stage 16 ambitions.
TBC	—	Van Aert replacement — announced June 23.

The Van Aert withdrawal changes the tactical picture entirely. Vingegaard won the Giro. The fitness is there. But the infrastructure around him is smaller than it was 14 days ago. Jorgenson now carries more tactical responsibility than originally planned.

Red Bull — BORA — hansgrohe

WorldTeam

Germany

★

GC leaders

Remco Evenepoel ★ + Florian Lipowitz ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
EVENEPOEL Remco	GC ★	Olympic ITT champion. 68 days without racing pre‑Tour.
LIPOWITZ Florian	GC ★	4th on 2025 Tour debut. Serious podium threat.
CATTANEO Mattia	TT / Dom	Drives Evenepoel to the base of every final climb.
VAN GILS Maxim	All	Versatile. Stage threat on punchy mountain finishes.
HINDLEY Jai	Dom / Climb	Grand Tour experience. Mountain support.
MARTÍNEZ Daniel Felipe	Dom	Strong climber. Stage winner in previous Tours.
DENZ Nico	Dom	Flat and transition stage protection.
VAN DIJKE Mick	Dom	Developing domestique. Stage 1 TTT strength.
MEEUS Jordi	Sprint	Sprint option on flat stages before the mountains begin.
MOSCON Gianni	Dom	Experience. Physical presence on tough days.
TRATNIK Jan	Dom	Reliable support across all terrain.

More confirmed riders than any other team, Red Bull has submitted early and gone deep. Two genuine GC leaders give rivals two threats to track simultaneously. Evenepoel has been altitude training in Sierra Nevada for 68 days. He arrives in Barcelona fresh, rested, and pointed at Stage 1 and Stage 16.

Lidl — Trek

WorldTeam

Germany

★

GC leaders

Juan Ayuso ★ + Mattias Skjelmose ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
AYUSO Juan	GC ★	First Tour as undisputed leader post‑UAE move.
SKJELMOSE Mattias	GC ★	Versatile. Stage wins and GC potential.
PEDERSEN Mads	Sprint / Punch	Punchy sprint stages and medium‑mountain finishes.
CICCONE Giulio	Climb / Break	Breakaway stage hunter. KOM points threat.
VACEK Mathias	Dom	Young Czech support rider.
SIMMONS Quinn	Dom	American power. Domestic support on hard days.
KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren	Dom	The quiet engine that makes Ayuso’s attacks possible.

Lidl-Trek arrive with real options. Ayuso’s move from UAE means he leads his own race for the first time at the Tour. Skjelmose adds a second card. Pedersen can win sprint stages that pure sprinters can’t get over the climbs. The team direction depends entirely on the first mountain stage; whoever sits better after the Pyrenees gets the leadership.

Decathlon CMA CGM Team

WorldTeam

France

★

GC leader

Paul Seixas ★ (Tour debut)

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
SEIXAS Paul	GC ★	19. Tour debut. France’s biggest GC hope in a generation.
KOOIJ Olav	Sprint	One of the fastest pure sprinters in the peloton.
BENOOT Tiesj	Dom / All	All-terrain support. Crosswind specialist.
BISSEGGER Stefan	TT / Dom	Strong time trialist. Stage 16 support.
HOOLE Daan	Dom	Flat stage protection. TTT work.
TBC	—	3 slots to be confirmed June 23–24.

Seixas is the name on every French lip from Lyon to Paris. At 19, he won La Flèche Wallonne and the Tour of the Basque Country in the same spring. His Dauphiné crash slowed the build-up but the team confirmed his Tour start. Kooij’s sprint speed means Decathlon can race flat stages without sitting entirely defensively, protecting Seixas’s energy for the mountains.

Netcompany INEOS

WorldTeam

Great Britain

★

GC leaders

Carlos Rodríguez + Kévin Vauquelin

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
GANNA Filippo	TT ★	Among the best time trialists in the world. Stage 16 target.
RODRÍGUEZ Carlos	GC	Consistent top‑10 finisher. Lacks TT edge for podium.
VAUQUELIN Kévin	GC / Climb	7th at 2025 Tour. French climber with genuine ambition.
KWIATKOWSKI Michał	Dom / All	Reads the race better than most people in the team car.
GODON Dorian	Dom / Climb	French climbing support. Stage freedom on breakaway days.
ARENSMAN Thymen	Dom / Climb	Grand Tour climbing experience. Mountain support.

INEOS are not the team they were in the Froome-Thomas-Bernal era. They are building around a different kind of depth — multiple stage-win options, strong time trial capability through Ganna, and GC presence through Rodríguez and Vauquelin. The yellow jersey is not the target. A stage win, a top-5, and the development of Vauquelin into a future GC contender are.

Alpecin — Premier Tech

WorldTeam

Belgium

★

Stage leaders

Mathieu van der Poel ★ + Jasper Philipsen ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
VAN DER POEL Mathieu	All ★	Stage wins on punchy and circuit finishes. No GC interest.
PHILIPSEN Jasper	Sprint ★	One of the best pure sprinters in the race.
GROVES Kaden	Sprint	Second sprint option. Wins when Philipsen can’t lead.
VERSTRYNGE Emiel	Dom / Climb	Domestique who can survive into mountains.
RICKAERT Jonas	Dom	Flat stage and transition protection.
TBC	—	3 slots to be confirmed.

Alpecin arrive without GC ambition and with maximum stage-win intent. Van der Poel on the Stage 1 TTT circuit — with Montjuïc’s ramps suiting his power and acceleration — is a genuine threat from the gun. Philipsen is the race’s most complete pure sprinter. On flat days, Alpecin win.

Bahrain Victorious

WorldTeam

Bahrain

★

GC leader: Antonio Tiberi · KOM: Lenny Martinez ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
TIBERI Antonio	GC	Tour debut. Italian climber. Giro 2026 experience.
MARTINEZ Lenny	KOM ★ / Climb	Best polka dot jersey contender in the race.
MOHORIČ Matej	All / Stage	Descending specialist. Long-range breakaway threat.
BILBAO Pello	Dom / Climb	Climbing support and stage freedom on hard days.
TBC	—	4 slots to be confirmed.

Bahrain switched from Merida/White to Bianchi for 2026, the biggest equipment change in the peloton this year. Martinez is the KOM favourite. Tiberi carries the GC flag on his Tour debut. Mohorič on a long descent after a mountain stage is one of the most dangerous riders in any peloton.

EF Education — EasyPost

WorldTeam

United States

★

Stage leaders

Ben Healy ★ + Richard Carapaz

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
HEALY Ben	Break ★ / Stage	Yellow jersey days in 2025. Longest solo range in the race.
CARAPAZ Richard	GC / Stage	2019 Giro winner. Grand Tour experience unmatched.
ASGREEN Kasper	Dom / All	All-terrain classics support.
HONORÉ Mikkel	Dom / Climb	Mountain support. Replaces Baudin on updated list.
TBC	—	4 slots to be confirmed.

EF are the race’s chaos specialists. When the peloton miscalculates a breakaway on a hard stage, Healy is the name that appears at the front. He can stay alone for longer than almost anyone. Combined with Carapaz’s Grand Tour reading of a race, EF are dangerous on any day the favourites are watching each other instead of the road ahead.

Groupama — FDJ United

WorldTeam

France

★

GC leader: David Gaudu · Stage: Romain Grégoire ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
GAUDU David	GC	French GC option. Top-10 realistic on the right Tour.
GRÉGOIRE Romain	Break ★ / Stage	21. Tour debut. Breakaway specialist with big upside.
MARTIN Guillaume	Break / Climb	Climber and writer. Breakaway threat on mountain stages.
TBC	—	5 slots to be confirmed.

Grégoire is the name to add alongside Seixas in the French story of 2026. Two young French riders on Tour debut — Grégoire for stage wins and Seixas for the GC. FDJ give Grégoire the freedom to hunt stages from the break while Gaudu protects GC position.

Team Jayco AlUla

WorldTeam

Australia

★

GC leader: Ben O’Connor · Stage: Michael Matthews ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
MATTHEWS Michael	Sprint / Punch ★	Wins medium-mountain stages where pure sprinters can’t follow.
PLAPP Luke	Dom / GC	Best young Australian stage racer currently active.
ACKERMANN Pascal	Sprint	Pure sprint speed on flat days.
O’CONNOR Ben	GC	Top-10 GC finisher in previous Tours.
SCHMID Mauro	Dom / Climb	Swiss climbing support.
TBC	—	3 slots to be confirmed.

Lotto Intermarché

WorldTeam

Belgium

★

Sprint: Arnaud De Lie ★ · GC: Lennert Van Eetvelt

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
DE LIE Arnaud	Sprint ★	One of the most powerful sprinters in the race.
VAN EETVELT Lennert	GC / Climb	Young Belgian climber with uncapped potential.
ZIMMERMANN Georg	Break / Climb	Breakaway specialist. Stage threat on medium-mountain days.
TBC	—	5 slots to be confirmed.

Movistar Team

WorldTeam

Spain

★

GC leader

Cian Uijtdebroeks ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
UIJTDEBROEKS Cian	GC ★	21. Spanish team at Spanish start. Mountain ability confirmed.
ROMEO Iván	Dom / Climb	Young Spanish climbing talent.
RUBIO Einer	Dom / Climb	Colombian climber. Mountain support.
CASTRILLO Pablo	Dom	Flat and transition protection.
ADRIÀ Roger	Dom	Young Catalan rider. Home start at Barcelona.
TBC	—	3 slots to be confirmed.

Movistar’s Spanish identity makes the Barcelona Grand Départ personal. Uijtdebroeks leads a team that punches above budget on mountain stages. The tactical freedom Movistar give their leaders, compared to the rigid structure of UAE or Visma, can produce surprising results when the race fragments.

NSN Cycling Team

WorldTeam

Switzerland

★

Sprint leader

Biniam Girmay ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
GIRMAY Biniam	Sprint ★	First African to win Tour stages. Scott bikes.
STEWART Jake	Dom	Sprint support and stage protection.
TBC	—	6 slots to be confirmed.

Team Picnic PostNL

WorldTeam

Netherlands

★

Sprint leader

Pavel Bittner ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
BITTNER Pavel	Sprint ★	Czech sprinter targeting flat stage wins.
BARGUIL Warren	Break / Climb	2017 polka dot jersey. Breakaway legend.
VAN DEN BROEK Frank	Dom	Dutch workhorse support.
TBC	—	5 slots to be confirmed.

Soudal Quick-Step

WorldTeam

Belgium

★

Leaders: Mikel Landa (GC) · Valentin Paret-Peintre (Stage) · Tim Merlier (Sprint) ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
PARET-PEINTRE Valentin	Stage ★ / Climb	Mountain stage hunter. Breakaway threat.
LANDA Mikel	GC	Basque climber. Multiple Grand Tour podiums, never won.
MERLIER Tim	Sprint ★	Pure sprint speed. Wins on flat days.
STUYVEN Jasper	Dom / All	All-terrain classics experience. Crosswind control.
VAN WILDER Ilan	Dom / Climb	Young Belgian climbing support.
VERVAEKE Louis	Dom	Mountain protection.
VAN BAARLE Dylan	Dom / All	All-terrain versatility. Transition stage control.
VAN LERBERGHE Bert	Dom	Flat stage motor. TTT contribution.

Post-Evenepoel, the Soudal question becomes tactical. No single protected leader changes how the team races, they now hunt stages from multiple angles rather than building everything around one jersey. Merlier on flat days, Paret-Peintre on mountain stages, Landa when the GC race opens up.

Uno-X Mobility

WorldTeam

Norway

★

GC leader

Tobias Halland Johannessen ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland	GC ★	6th at 2025 Tour debut. Dark horse for top 5.
CORT Magnus	Stage / Sprint	Wins medium-mountain stages and breakaway bunch kicks.
KRON Andreas	Dom / Climb	Climbing support. Stage freedom on hard days.
TBC	—	5 slots including Waerenskjold (sprint support) and Traeen TBC.

XDS Astana Team

WorldTeam

Kazakhstan

★

Leaders: Sergio Higuita (GC) · Lorenzo Fortunato (KOM) ★

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
TEUNISSEN Mike	Dom / All	Dutch all-rounder. TTT strength and transition control.
HIGUITA Sergio	GC / Climb ★	Colombian climber targeting top 10.
TEJADA Harold	Dom / Climb	Mountain support. Stage freedom.
FORTUNATO Lorenzo	KOM / Climb	Polka dot jersey threat in the mountains.
TBC	—	4 slots to be confirmed.

Tudor Pro Cycling Team
(ProTeam — automatic, 1st ranked 2025)

ProTeam

Switzerland

★

Leaders: Stefan Küng ★ (TT) + Julian Alaphilippe ★ (Stage)

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
ALAPHILIPPE Julian	Stage ★ / Punch	34. Two World titles. Hunting one more stage win.
KÜNG Stefan	TT ★	World TT champion. Stage 16 ITT top contender.
STORER Michael	Break / Climb	Australian breakaway specialist. Stage threat.
TRENTIN Matteo	Dom / All	All-terrain experience.
PLUIMERS Rick	Dom	Young Dutch support rider.
TBC	—	3 slots to be confirmed.

Tudor are not at the Tour to make up numbers. Küng on the Stage 16 ITT is one of the event’s most compelling individual matchups — World TT champion against Evenepoel, Ganna, and Campenaerts on a 26 km course by Lake Geneva. Alaphilippe on Montjuïc in Stage 2 is the other one to watch from day two.

Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
(ProTeam — automatic, 2nd ranked 2025)

ProTeam

Switzerland

★

Leader: Tom Pidcock ★ (Tour debut)

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
PIDCOCK Tom	Stage ★	Olympic MTB champion. Tour debut. Crash concerns easing.
WRIGHT Fred	Dom / All	British all-rounder. Strong breakaway rider.
HERMANS Quinten	Dom / Climb	Belgian climber. Mountain stage support.
TBC	—	5 slots to be confirmed.

Pidcock on a mountain stage with 60 km remaining and a splintered peloton is one of the race’s genuine wildcard moments. He does not need the perfect setup. He needs a gap, a descent, and the legs that made him an Olympic champion. After a disrupted build-up, the question is whether he arrives at Stage 3 in the Pyrenees at race weight and race fitness. If he does, expect him in a break.

Cofidis
(ProTeam — automatic, 3rd ranked 2025)

ProTeam

France
30th consecutive Tour de France

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
IZAGIRRE Ion	Stage ★ / Climb	Basque climber. Stage threat on hard days.
BUCHMANN Emanuel	GC	German climber. Quiet top-10 potential.
ARANBURU Alex	Stage / Punch	Punchy finishes and classics-style stages.
KIRSCH Alex	Dom	Luxembourg domestique. Flat stage protection.
FRETIN Milan	Dom	Young French support.
CARR Simon	Dom / Climb	British climbing support. Mountain days.
PAGE Hugo	Dom	French all-rounder.
ALLEGAERT Piet	Dom / All	Belgian classics support. Transition stages.
BIERMANS Jenthe	Dom	Belgian domestique. Flat and transition days.
THOMAS Benjamin	Dom	French veteran. Tour debut in Cofidis’s 30th.

Thirty consecutive Tours. No ProTeam comes close to that number. Cofidis also carries the tech story of the race, Campagnolo Super Record 13, the new 13-speed drivetrain, makes its Grand Tour debut on Cofidis bikes in 2026. The most experienced team in the ProTeam category racing on the newest groupset technology.

TotalEnergies
(ProTeam — wildcard)

ProTeam

France

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
JEGAT Jordan	Stage / Break	French breakaway specialist.
TBC	—	7 slots to be confirmed June 23–24.

Caja Rural — Seguros RGA
(ProTeam — wildcard, Tour debut)

ProTeam

Spain — Tour debut

Confirmed Rider	Role	Note
MOLENAAR Alex	Stage	Dutch rider. Tour debut as part of team’s first-ever start.
TBC	—	7 slots to be confirmed June 23–24.

Caja Rural’s first Tour de France. Founded in 2000, they have built steadily through Spanish domestic cycling to reach this moment. The wildcard made sense, a Spanish team at a Spanish start in Barcelona. On every stage in Spain, they will have the loudest crowd support of any team in the race.

Tour de France 2026 GC Contenders — Who Can Win the Yellow Jersey?

Tier 1 — The Favourites

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)

Four Tour titles. The TDF 2026 route, with its double Alpe d’Huez finale and 54,450 metres of climbing, suits him perfectly. His spring was commanding: four Classics wins from five races, losing only to Van Aert at Paris-Roubaix. The Tour de Suisse is his only warm-up race before Barcelona. He arrives focused, rested, and pointed at a fifth title that would put him alongside Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault, and Indurain.

Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike)

He won the 2026 Giro d’Italia on May 31. The Giro-Tour double attempt is among the rarest and hardest achievements in professional cycling. He has not raced since, training at altitude in Tignes. Van Aert’s absence changes his race — the support infrastructure is thinner, the tactical options fewer. But Vingegaard without Van Aert is still the only rider to have beaten Pogačar twice at the Tour. He does not need the perfect setup. He just needs his legs.

Tier 2 — Podium Challengers

Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)

68 days without racing before Barcelona. Altitude work in Sierra Nevada. The preparation is unconventional for a Tour de France. Stage 1 and Stage 16 are his windows — if he gains 90 seconds in the ITT and holds his own in the mountains, the final podium becomes possible. The question is whether the Alps, in week three, take what the TT gave back.

Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)

4th on his 2025 Tour debut. Not talked about enough. His presence as co-leader means every mountain stage carries two Red Bull threats instead of one. If Evenepoel cracks on Alpe d’Huez, Lipowitz inherits leadership of the race’s best domestique squad.

Juan Ayuso (Lidl-Trek)

His first Tour without Pogačar watching over him. Won Algarve overall, wore yellow at Paris-Nice before a crash. The move from UAE was exactly this, the chance to find out how good he is when the team is built around his race, not someone else’s. The Pyrenees in week one will give the first answer.

Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM)

19 years old. Tour debut. France’s best GC hope since Thibaut Pinot’s peak years. He is not here to survive three weeks. He is here to race. Decathlon have built the squad around his ambition, not around protecting him. Whether a 19-year-old can manage the psychology of three weeks as a GC leader at his first Tour is the race’s most compelling human question.

Tier 3 — Dark Horses

See the dedicated section below.

Tour de France 2026 Dark Horses — Who Can Spring a GC Surprise?

Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility)

6th at the 2025 Tour on his debut. 3rd at Itzulia 2026. 2nd at Milano-Torino. At 26, the Norwegian has stopped being a promising talent and started being a reliable result. He finished close to Seixas and Lipowitz in the Basque Country, not ahead of them, but not far behind. Cyclingnews ranked him as one of the most underrated GC options heading into July. Uno-X are in their first WorldTour season. If their leader delivers a top-5 in July, they validate everything.

Kévin Vauquelin (Netcompany INEOS)

7th at the 2025 Tour de France. French climber. The strongest French GC option after Seixas. INEOS give him space on mountain stages rather than chaining him to Rodríguez’s wheel. On a day when Pogačar and Vingegaard are watching each other rather than the road, Vauquelin can take 30 seconds. Enough of those and a top-5 is within reach.

Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost)

He wore yellow at the 2025 Tour. Not for a day or two, for meaningful stretches. His ability to stay alone off the front of a mountain stage for longer than almost anyone in the race creates scenarios that don’t appear in any tactical plan. EF’s approach is always controlled chaos. Healy is the chaos.

Cian Uijtdebroeks (Movistar Team)

21 years old. Spanish team at a Spanish start. His climbing has been confirmed at the highest level. Movistar’s tactical freedom, compared to the rigid structure of the top-three squads, gives him room to race instinctively. In a Tour where the favourites neutralise each other, a rider racing without a fixed script can find gaps.

Carlos Rodríguez (Netcompany INEOS)

Top-10 Tour finisher consistently. Lacks the TT edge to challenge the top three directly but reads mountain stages better than his ranking suggests. In a race disrupted by crashes or illness, his consistency becomes a weapon. He is always there. He never disappears. Sometimes that is enough.

Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)

UAE’s Plan B is better than most teams’ Plan A. Del Toro won the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in June. If Pogačar has a problem, any problem, the squad already has a second GC rider who has been racing in peak form for six weeks. That is not a conventional dark horse. That is a locked loaded option the UAE hold in reserve.

Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike)

Post-Van Aert, Jorgenson’s role expands. He proved in 2024–2025 that he can race for GC when given freedom. Visma may give him that freedom earlier than originally planned. On a mountain stage where Vingegaard is already in control, Jorgenson attacking for the stage changes the tactical picture entirely and accumulates time bonuses that matter across three weeks.

Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto Intermarché)

Young Belgian climber with potential that no one has yet put a ceiling on. Lotto give him stage freedom on mountain days. His Dauphiné 2025 result flagged him as a coming force. In 2026, he is confirmed, motivated, and on a team that will not hold him back.

Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious)

Tour debut at 23. Giro 2026 gave him three-week racing confidence. Italian climber who sat close to the leaders on hard Giro stages without cracking. Bahrain built their Tour roster around his GC ambitions. A quiet top-8 is realistic. A top-5 is possible if the race breaks the right way.

Tom Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5)

Not a GC dark horse, a stage dark horse with a real chance. On any summit finish where the GC leaders have emptied themselves and no one is watching the move that goes with 5 km remaining, Pidcock is the name to fear. He attacks the way no other rider in this race does. The crash recovery question is the only variable.

Tour de France 2026 Riders by Speciality

Sprint Stage Hunters — Green Jersey Battle

The 2026 route includes seven sprint stages: 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 17, and 21. The green jersey goes to the rider who accumulates the most points across sprint stages and intermediate sprints throughout the race.

Pure sprinters (wins Stage 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 17, 21): Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin) is the green jersey favourite. He has the speed, the team, and the experience. Biniam Girmay (NSN) is the main challenger, one of the fastest riders in the world, the first African to win Tour stages, and highly motivated. Tim Merlier (Soudal) provides a third elite option. Arnaud De Lie (Lotto) is raw power. Olav Kooij (Decathlon) adds pace from a GC team that needs sprint stage neutrality.

Punchy sprint finishers (wins Stage 2, and selected hilly days): Mads Pedersen, Michael Matthews, Julian Alaphilippe, Matej Mohorič, and Magnus Cort win the stages that end on short climbs or circuits where the pure sprinters cannot survive the final kilometre’s gradient.

Mountain Specialists — Polka Dot Jersey Battle

The polka dot jersey rewards the first rider over the categorised climbs throughout the race. Summit finishes score double points. A dedicated KOM hunter who gets into breakaways every mountain stage can win this classification even while finishing 30 minutes behind the GC leaders.

Polka dot contenders: Lenny Martinez (Bahrain) is the clear favourite; his climbing profile suits the aggressive KOM hunting style. Lorenzo Fortunato (Astana) is the other dedicated option. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) et Warren Barguil (Picnic PostNL) target KOM points from breakaways. Magnus Cort (Uno-X) takes points on the medium mountain stages in the race’s middle week.

Time Trial Specialists — Stage 16 (26km, Lake Geneva)

Stage 16 is the race’s only individual time trial, 26 km from Évian-les-Bains to Thonon-les-Bains. The first 9 km climb steadily from the lake before a fast, flat finish into Thonon. It is short enough to limit the gaps but long enough to matter.

Stage 16 contenders: Stefan Küng (Tudor), World TT champion. Filippo Ganna (INEOS), multiple World TT titles. Remco Evenepoel, Olympic ITT champion. Victor Campenaerts, Hour record holder. Stefan Bissegger (Decathlon). Edoardo Affini (Visma).

Evenepoel can gain 60–90 seconds on Pogačar over 26 km. He cannot gain 3 minutes. The time trial shapes the final week’s narrative but does not decide the Tour alone.

All-Rounders — The Race-Shaping Riders

Mathieu van der Poel, Michael Matthews, Matej Mohorič, Michał Kwiatkowski, Dylan Van Baarle, Jasper Stuyven, Matteo Jorgenson (expanded role post-Van Aert), and Wout van Aert’s replacement (TBC June 23). These riders do not appear on the final podium. They decide which teams control the race on the days that look flat on paper but end up shaping the GC.

White Jersey Contenders — Best U25 Rider

The white jersey goes to the best-placed rider in the GC who was born on or after January 1, 2002, making them 24 or younger at the race start. Confirmed eligible riders: Paul Seixas (born 2006 — if he finishes top 10 GC, the white jersey is his), Isaac del Toro (born 2003), Cian Uijtdebroeks (born 2003), Kévin Vauquelin (born 2000 — not eligible), Florian Lipowitz (born 2000 — not eligible). The white jersey likely comes down to Seixas vs del Toro.

Tour de France 2026 Riders by Nationality

🇧🇪 Belgium — Most Watched Peloton, Van Aert’s Shadow

Confirmed Belgians in the 2026 startlist:

1. 🇧🇪 Remco Evenepoel – Belgian
2. 🇧🇪 Jasper Philipsen – Belgian
3. 🇧🇪 Arnaud De Lie – Belgian
4. 🇧🇪 Tiesj Benoot – Belgian
5. 🇧🇪 Jasper Stuyven – Belgian
6. 🇧🇪 Bert Van Lerberghe – Belgian
7. 🇧🇪 Ilan Van Wilder – Belgian
8. 🇧🇪 Maxim Van Gils – Belgian
9. 🇧🇪 Emiel Verstrynge – Belgian
10. 🇧🇪 Gianni Vermeersch – Belgian
11. 🇧🇪 Victor Campenaerts – Belgian
12. 🇧🇪 Lennert Van Eetvelt – Belgian
13. 🇧🇪 Jenthe Biermans – Belgian
14. 🇧🇪 Pieter Allegaert – Belgian
15. ??? (Van Aert’s replacement – TBC) – 🇧🇪 Belgian (expected)

Belgium produces more WorldTour riders than any other nation per capita, and 2026 puts them at the centre of the race’s biggest pre-race story. Van Aert’s withdrawal casts a shadow over every Belgian name in the peloton.

🇫🇷 France — Seixas Carries a Nation

The French riders confirmed:

1. 🇫🇷 Paul Seixas – French
2. 🇫🇷 David Gaudu – French
3. 🇫🇷 Kévin Vauquelin – French
4. 🇫🇷 Romain Grégoire – French
5. 🇫🇷 Guillaume Martin – French
6. 🇫🇷 Bruno Armirail – French
7. 🇫🇷 Dorian Godon – French
8. 🇫🇷 Warren Barguil – French
9. 🇫🇷 Valentin Paret-Peintre – French
10. 🇫🇷 Hugo Page – French
11. 🇫🇷 Elian Jegat – French
12. 🇫🇷 Milan Fretin – French
13. 🇫🇷 Thomas Bonnet – French
14. Lenny Martinez – 🇫🇷 French / 🇪🇸 Spanish (dual nationality – competes under French licence)

France has not had a genuine Tour GC contender since Thibaut Pinot. Seixas changes that. At 19, he is the first French rider in years who the country believes can genuinely race for yellow, not just for a stage win or a top-10 finish. The emotion around his Tour debut will be unlike anything French cycling has experienced since Pinot’s mountain moments.

🇳🇱 Netherlands — Sprint and Classics Power

French-born racing Dutch team

1. 🇳🇱 Mathieu van der Poel – Dutch
2. 🇳🇱 Olav Kooij – Dutch
3. 🇳🇱 Frank van den Broek – Dutch
4. 🇫🇷 Bruno Armirail – French
5. 🇳🇱 Dylan van Baarle – Dutch
6. 🇳🇱 Frank van den Broek – Dutch

The Netherlands punches well above its size in WorldTour cycling and concentrates that talent on sprint and classics-style stages. Van der Poel may be the rider who decides the outcome of Stage 1’s individual time component on the Montjuïc circuit.

🇩🇰 Denmark — Two Champions, One Race

1. 🇩🇰 Jonas Vingegaard – Danish
2. 🇩🇰 Mads Pedersen – Danish
3. 🇩🇰 Søren Kragh Andersen – Danish
4. 🇩🇰 Mikkel Honoré – Danish
5. 🇩🇰 Magnus Cort – Danish
6. 🇩🇰 Kasper Asgreen – Danish

Denmark’s two most prominent riders in the race occupy opposite ends of the terrain spectrum, Vingegaard targets the overall title in the mountains while Pedersen hunts the sprint and punchy stage wins. Small nation, enormous cycling footprint.

🇬🇧 Great Britain — Deepest GC Country in the Peloton

1. 🇬🇧 Tom Pidcock – British
2. 🇬🇧 Fred Wright – British
3. 🇬🇧 Carr Simon – British
4. 🇬🇧 Adam Yates – British
5. 🇬🇧 Ben Tulett – British
6. 🇬🇧 Jack Stewart – British

Analysis published earlier in 2026 ranked Great Britain first globally for GC contenders across the WorldTour, with 50% more top-20 GC-ranked riders than second-place Slovenia. Pidcock’s Tour debut is the British storyline, an Olympic champion making his first appearance at cycling’s biggest race.

🇪🇸 Spain — Home Start Energy

1. 🇪🇸 Juan Ayuso – Spanish
2. 🇪🇸 Mikel Landa – Spanish
3. 🇨🇴 Einer Rubio – Colombian
4. 🇪🇸 Pablo Castrillo – Spanish
5. 🇪🇸 Roger Adrià – Spanish
6. 🇪🇸 Iván Romeo – Spanish
7. 🇪🇸 Alex Aranburu – Spanish
8. 🇪🇸 Ion Izagirre – Spanish
9. 🇪🇸 Pello Bilbao – Spanish
10. 🇪🇸 Carlos Rodriguez – Spanish

Movistar, a Spanish team with a Spanish GC leader in Uijtdebroeks, plus Caja Rural’s wildcard debut — Spain has not had this volume of emotional investment in a Tour start in years. Every stage on Spanish soil in the first two days will feel like a home race for half the peloton.

Colombia and Latin America — Climbing Strength

1. 🇨🇴 Daniel Felipe Martínez – Colombian
2. 🇨🇴 Harold Tejada – Colombian
3. 🇨🇴 Sergio Higuita – Colombian
4. 🇨🇴 Einer Rubio – Colombian
5. 🇪🇨 Richard Carapaz – Ecuadorian
6. 🇲🇽 Isaac del Toro – Mexican

Latin American climbing talent has reshaped Grand Tour racing over the past decade — and 2026 continues that trend, with del Toro arriving as one of the race’s most in-form riders.

Eritrea — Girmay Making History

• 🇪🇷 Biniam Girmay – Eritrean

Girmay made history at the 2022 Tour de France as the first African rider to win a stage. He returns in 2026 as NSN’s centrepiece and one of the fastest sprinters in the peloton. His story extends beyond cycling into something larger — the representation of a continent in the world’s biggest bike race.

Other Nations Represented

🇮🇹 Italy

1. 🇮🇹 Filippo Ganna – Italian
2. 🇮🇹 Antonio Tiberi – Italian
3. 🇮🇹 Giulio Ciccone – Italian
4. 🇮🇹 Lorenzo Fortunato – Italian
5. 🇮🇹 Gianni Moscon – Italian
6. 🇮🇹 Mattia Cattaneo – Italian
7. 🇮🇹 Edoardo Affini – Italian

🇸🇮 Slovenia

1. 🇸🇮 Tadej Pogačar –Slovenian
2. 🇸🇮 Matej Mohorič – Slovenian
3. 🇸🇮 Jan Tratnik – Slovenian

🇦🇺 Australia

1. 🇦🇺 Michael Matthews – Australian
2. 🇦🇺 Jay Hindley – Australian
3. 🇦🇺 Lucas Plapp – Australian (often referred to as Luke Plapp)
4. 🇦🇺 Michael Storer – Australian
5. 🇦🇺 Kaden Groves – Australian

🇺🇸 United States

1. 🇺🇸 Brandon McNulty – American
2. 🇺🇸 Quinn Simmons – American
3. 🇺🇸 Sepp Kuss – American

Norway: Johannessen, Cort (Danish — races for Uno-X).
Switzerland: Küng, Bissegger. Poland: Kwiatkowski.
Czech Republic: Bittner, Vacek.
Luxembourg: Kirsch. Rwanda: — (Girmay races for Eritrea).

Full nationality confirmation for all 184 riders will be published with the final startlist July 1.

Tour de France 2026 Debutants — Riders Making Their Grand Boucle Debut

Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM)

19 years old. Won La Flèche Wallonne and the Tour of the Basque Country in the same spring. Second at Strade Bianche and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. No French rider has arrived at their Tour debut with results like these since — arguably — the sport has existed. He crashed at the Dauphiné but is confirmed racing. France has waited years for this moment. Seixas arrives carrying the weight of a nation’s hope at an age when most riders are still learning what a Grand Tour feels like.

Tom Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5)

Olympic mountain bike gold. Strade Bianche winner. A rider who has spent his career proving he belongs at the very top of the sport in every format except a Grand Tour. His Tour debut comes on a ProTeam that exists, in large part, because of him. The crash at Volta a Catalunya added a question mark. His mountain ability, when healthy, is not in question. The Tour’s mountain stages from week two onwards are where the answer arrives.

Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious)

23 years old. Italian climber who built his Grand Tour understanding through the 2026 Giro. He stayed near the leaders on hard mountain stages without cracking. Bahrain took that Giro experience and pointed it at the Tour. A quiet top-8 would make him one of the most successful Tour debutants in recent seasons. He has the legs for it.

Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ United)

21 years old. Breakaway specialist with the engine to bridge gaps that open up on hard mountain days and the finishing speed to convert them. His Tour debut alongside Gaudu gives FDJ two different race options simultaneously. France watches Seixas for the GC. FDJ fans watch Grégoire for the stage wins.

Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)

Technically a Tour debutant — this is his first start. In terms of form and racing readiness, he arrives as one of the top riders in the peloton. Winning the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes as Pogačar’s supposed warm-up ride says everything about where del Toro is in his development. 22 years old. Mexican. The first Mexican rider with genuine Tour de France GC ambitions.

Caja Rural-Seguros RGA (Team debut)

Not just individual debutants — an entire team making their first Tour start. Founded in 2000, racing the Tour for the first time in 2026. Alex Molenaar leads the confirmed riders. Every stage is new territory. Every morning they sign on is the fulfilment of 26 years of work.

The Super Domestiques — The Riders Who Decide the Tour Without Winning It

The best-known names in professional cycling win races. The people who make those wins possible are rarely talked about until they stop making them possible.

Sepp Kuss (Visma-Lease a Bike) won the 2023 Vuelta a España when Visma asked him to. He then handed that career-defining victory aside to protect Vingegaard at subsequent Tours. Post-Van Aert, Kuss’s role expands in ways that will be tested earlier than expected. He is the rider who determines how deep into the mountain stages Vingegaard can maintain speed.

Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) is one of the best GC riders never to have won a Grand Tour in his own right. Every July, he sacrifices his own ambitions to pace Pogačar. In any other team, he is a Tour podium candidate. At UAE, he is the second man up the road who sets the tempo before standing aside. That choice defines the squad’s dominance.

Victor Campenaerts (Visma-Lease a Bike) holds the Hour Record — the purest measure of sustained speed in cycling. As a team time trial engine he is invaluable, and as a flat stage motor he covers the ground Van Aert no longer can. He will be used differently in 2026 than originally planned.

Mattia Cattaneo (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) is the human bridge between the flat finish of each day’s rolling kilometres and the final climb where Evenepoel takes over. Without Cattaneo controlling the pace through the final valley, Evenepoel reaches the climb with less in reserve.

Michał Kwiatkowski (Netcompany INEOS) has been reading Grand Tour races from inside the peloton since 2012. He won the World Championships in 2014. Now he reads the race so his teammates do not have to — a role that cannot be replicated by raw climbing power.

Søren Kragh Andersen (Lidl-Trek) — the quiet engine behind Ayuso. He does not appear in any GC conversation. He appears at the front of the peloton on the day that matters, setting a tempo Ayuso can follow and rivals cannot.

Tour de France 2026 Stage Predictions — Which Rider Wins Which Stage?

Stage 20 is the queen stage — Galibier at 2,642 m, Col de Sarenne, then Alpe d’Huez. 5,600 metres of climbing in a single day. If the Tour is still undecided at the base of that final climb, what happens in the next 13.9 km at 8% average gradient will be one of the most watched moments in cycling’s recent history.

Tour de France 2026 Jersey Contenders — All Four Classifications

Yellow Jersey (GC) — Maillot Jaune

Favourite: Tadej Pogačar (UAE) Challenger: Jonas Vingegaard (Visma) Dark horses: Evenepoel, Lipowitz, Ayuso, Seixas

The yellow jersey goes to the rider with the lowest cumulative time after all 21 stages. Time bonuses are awarded at summit finishes (10, 6, 4 seconds for the first three) and intermediate sprint points (3, 2, 1 seconds). The Stage 1 TTT sets the first GC order before a mountain has been climbed.

Green Jersey (Points) — Maillot Vert

Favourite: Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin) Challengers: Biniam Girmay (NSN), Tim Merlier (Soudal), Arnaud De Lie (Lotto)

Points are awarded at each stage finish and at designated intermediate sprint locations. Sprint stage wins carry the most points. The green jersey battle in 2026 is a three-way fight between Philipsen’s experience, Girmay’s speed, and Merlier’s positioning — with De Lie’s raw power capable of winning any sprint on the right day.

Polka Dot Jersey (KOM) — Maillot à Pois

Favourite: Lenny Martinez (Bahrain) Challengers: Lorenzo Fortunato (Astana), Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), Warren Barguil (Picnic PostNL), Magnus Cort (Uno-X)

The polka dot jersey rewards the first rider over each categorised climb. There are 30 categorised climbs in the 2026 route. A dedicated KOM hunter who gets into the right breakaways on mountain stages can accumulate enough points to win this classification without ever threatening the GC. Martinez is the favourite, his climbing profile and team freedom make him the most likely daily points leader in the mountains.

White Jersey (Best U25) — Maillot Blanc

Favourite: Paul Seixas (Decathlon) or Isaac del Toro (UAE) Eligibility: Born on or after January 1, 2002

The white jersey goes to the highest-placed GC rider born on or after January 1, 2002. Seixas (born 2006) and del Toro (born 2003) are the two contenders. Seixas races as a GC leader; if his GC result is strong, the white jersey follows automatically. Del Toro’s role as Pogačar’s support rider means his GC result depends on when and whether UAE give him individual freedom. Seixas is the favourite to wear white in Paris.

Tour de France 2026 Prize Money — What Every Rider Competes For

The €500,000 GC prize represents approximately 6% of Pogačar’s base annual salary of €8 million. Prize money is not why WorldTour riders race the Tour de France. EF Education-EasyPost generated €98 million in media value during the 2025 Tour after Ben Healy wore yellow. That is the real prize, the commercial visibility that justifies €10–50 million annual sponsorship investments. Every stage win is worth far more in brand exposure than the €11,000 it pays on the day.

What This Startlist Means for the Race — Tactical Implications

The Van Aert withdrawal is the defining pre-race storyline. It does not remove Visma from the GC fight, Vingegaard won the Giro without Van Aert’s help. But it changes the shape of 21 stages. The TTT on Stage 1 loses its most powerful motor. The sprint stage positioning, those nervous hours in a 184-rider peloton on flat roads before the mountains arrive, loses its most experienced handler. The mountain lead-out that sets up Vingegaard for a solo attack loses the rider who can drive harder than anyone at the base of a final climb.

Del Toro’s form shifts the UAE dynamic in the opposite direction. They arrived in 2025 with Pogačar and support. They arrive in 2026 with Pogačar and a Plan B who just won a WorldTour stage race. Rivals must track two UAE riders on mountain stages rather than one.

Red Bull’s double GC leadership, Evenepoel and Lipowitz confirmed simultaneously, forces every other GC team into a positioning problem. You cannot follow both riders when they go in different directions on a mountain stage. One will get away. That is the tactical design.

Caja Rural’s first Tour start adds something less quantifiable: a team racing with nothing to lose on a stage that might not be watched as carefully as it should be. Breakaway specialists from new teams have won more stages than pre-race favourites expect. Caja Rural will try something every day they can.

Tour de France 2026 Startlist — FAQs

Last updated: June 20, 2026. This page updates daily as rosters are finalised. Final startlist confirmed July 1, 2026 — team presentation, Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona, 18:00 CEST.