This Sunday, February 1, 2026, the 2026 French cycling season will kick off. And as usual, it is the Grand Prix de Marseille La Marseillaise 2026 —now in its 48th edition— that will play this role. Part of the FDJ United Series, the new name for the Coupe de France, this race will also kick off this French one-day race calendar (which this year consists of 14 races).

Find out all the details of the course here, including the schedule, race profile, detailed map on OpenStreetMap and Google Earth and the list of starters with their bib numbers.

The map has been available in the velowire app for a week already!

As has been the case since the Tour de France 2025, the map for the 2026 Grand Prix de Marseille La Marseillaise has been available in the velowire app on mobile or tablet for a week now already. This will now be the case for all cycling race maps: you will find them first in the velowire app!

What's more, in the velowire app, you can view the map in full screen, locate yourself on the map thanks to the location indicator, and even track your movements on the map in relation to the route by activating GPS tracking.

Download the velowire app from the app stores:
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The route of the 2026 Marseille Grand Prix La Marseillaise on OpenStreetMap, the time schedule and the race profile

Compared to last year, the route has been revised in a few places, notably the start and finish of the race, and the removal of the small detour via La Ciotat and the climb up the Route des Crêtes.

This year, the riders will start at Château Gombert, northeast of Marseille, and will join the usual La Marseillaise route at Gréasque.

From there, they will head towards Fuveau, then Peynier and Trets, where they will begin the first challenge of the day, the climb up the Pas de la Couelle (7.7 km at 3.6%). The descent takes them to Saint-Zacharie, and they then continue towards Nans-les-Pins and Plan d'Aups, where they begin the climb up the famous Col de l'Espigoulier (3.5 km at 3.5%). After a winding descent, they will arrive in Gémenos and head towards Cuges-les-Pins for a short stretch in the Var before returning to Roquefort-la-Bedoule.

They then cut straight through Cassis before heading quickly towards Marseille, where they push further than last year when the finish line was at the Luminy Campus, to return to the usual finish line at the Orange Vélodrome.

Below you will find the schedule, profile, and OpenStreetMap map of the route for the 2026 Grand Prix de Marseille La Marseillaise. Click on the images to enlarge them.

The route of the 2026 Marseille La Marseillaise Grand Prix in Google Earth

Would you prefer to see the route of the 2026 Marseille La Marseillaise Grand Prix in Google Earth and perhaps take a virtual flight over the route? You can do all this by downloading the KML file below and opening it in Google Earth:

>> Download the route of the 2026 Marseille La Marseillaise Grand Prix in Google Earth (KML file, 672 KB)

The list of starters for the 2026 Marseille La Marseillaise Grand Prix

135 riders are expected to start the 2026 Marseille La Marseillaise Grand Prix, representing 20 teams (including 4 UCI WorldTeams: Alpecin-Premier Tech, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, Groupama-FDJ United, and Lotto-Intermarché*), 10 UCI ProTeams: Cofidis, Solution Tech Nippo Rali, MBH Bank CSB Telecom Fort, Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, Unibet Rose Rockets, TotalEnergies, Euskaltel-Euskadi, Equipo Kern Pharma, Burgos-Burpellet-BH and Team Polti VisitMalta, and 6 Continental teams) and 22 nationalities (54 French, 20 Spanish, 14 Belgian and Italian, 6 Swiss, 5 Dutch, etc.).

Click below to see the full list of starters for the 2026 Grand Prix de Marseille La Marseillaise:

The list of starters for the 2026 Marseille La Marseillaise Grand Prix

* Lotto-Intermarché is racing in France (and Poland and Portugal) with a reversed jersey, showing Intermarché as the main sponsor.

door Thomas Vergouwen
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