The Tour de France 2026 kicks off this Saturday, July 4, with the team time trial in Barcelona 🇪🇸 (see the detailed Tour de France route).

Twenty-three teams of eight riders each will form a peloton of 184 riders for this Tour de France 2026, with Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) naturally the top favorite, but the field also includes Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike), who has clearly shown he’s in top form by winning Paris-Nice, the Tour of Catalonia, and the [[Giro d’Italia]], as well as Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), who is making a fresh start with his new team and would like to put the bitter taste of the Tour de France 2025 behind him, when he withdrew on Stage 14. Also in the field is the young and promising Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM Team), though perhaps he should start by simply getting a feel for the Tour de France during his first appearance at age 19, before thinking about the general classification?

Statistics on the riders and teams participating in the 2026 Tour de France

To begin with, let’s first look at some statistics regarding the riders set to compete in the Tour de France 2026. The 184 riders represent 27 countries in this 113th edition of the Tour de France:

• for the first time since 1980, Belgium leads the nations’ ranking with 31 riders
• France, the host country, ranks second with 30 riders, and this is the first time since 2007 that it has not been in the lead
• the Netherlands rounds out the top three with 17 riders

The average age of the peloton is 29 years and 16 days, and the youngest rider, as mentioned above, is Paul Seixas, who is 19 years and 283 days old today. He is the youngest rider to compete since Adrien Cento in 1937 (19 years and 118 days).

There are 50 riders making their Tour de France debut, including Seixas (bringing the total number of riders to have started in the history of the Tour de France to 5,509).

41 riders are in contention for the white jersey as best young rider, reserved for riders born in 2001 or later.

The oldest rider in the peloton is Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Victorious), who will be making his 8th start at the age of 38 years and 265 days. But the riders with the most starts are Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Warren Barguil (Team Picnic PostNL), and Luke Durbridge (Team Jayco AlUla), who are each making their 12th appearance.

There will be three Yellow Jersey winners at the start: the riders who have won the last seven editions — Tadej Pogacar (2020, 2021, 2024, 2025), Jonas Vingegaard (2022, 2023), and Egan Bernal (2019).

Following last weekend’s national championships, 11 national road championship titles and 11 national time trial championship titles will be represented at the start, accounting for 20 different riders (Isaac del Toro (Mexico) and Mathias Vacek (Czech Republic) hold both titles for their respective countries).

Participating teams, riders, and jersey numbers

Here are the 23 teams competing in the Tour de France 2026 along with their riders and jersey numbers:

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UAE Team Emirates XRG

1/ Tadej POGACAR
2/ Isaac DEL TORO
3/ Felix GROSSSCHARTNER
4/ Brandon MCNULTY
5/ Nils POLITT
6/ Florian VERMEERSCH
7/ Tim WELLENS
8/ Adam YATES

Team Visma | Lease a Bike

11/ Jonas VINGEGAARD
12/ Edoardo AFFINI
13/ Bruno ARMIRAIL
14/ Victor CAMPENAERTS
15/ Per Strand HAGENES
16/ Matteo JORGENSON
17/ Sepp KUSS
18/ Davide PIGANZOLI

Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe

21/ Remco EVENEPOEL
22/ Mattia CATTANEO
23/ Nico DENZ
24/ Jai HINDLEY
25/ Florian LIPOWITZ
26/ Jan TRATNIK
27/ Tim VAN DIJKE
28/ Maxim VAN GILS

Lidl-Trek

31/ Juan AYUSO
32/ Derek JAMES GEE
33/ Mads PEDERSEN
34/ Quinn SIMMONS
35/ Mattias SKJELMOSE
36/ Toms SKUJINS
37/ Mathias VACEK
38/ Carlos VERONA

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EF Education-EasyPost

41/ Richard CARAPAZ
42/ Kasper ASGREEN
43/ Alex BAUDIN
44/ Ben HEALY
45/ Sean QUINN
46/ Georg STEINHAUSER
47/ Michael VALGREN
48/ Max WALKER

Decathlon CMA CGM Team

51/ Paul SEIXAS
52/ Tiesj BENOOT
53/ Cees BOL
54/ Daan HOOLE
55/ Olav KOOIJ
56/ Aurélien PARET PEINTRE
57/ Nicolas PRODHOMME
58/ Matthew RICCITELLO

XDS Astana Team

61/ Sergio HIGUITA
62/ Davide BALLERINI
63/ Aaron MURRAY GATE
64/ Max KANTER
65/ Harold TEJADA
66/ Mike TEUNISSEN
67/ Simone VELASCO
68/ Nicolya VINOKUROV

Bahrain Victorious

71/ Lenny MARTINEZ
72/ Phil BAUHAUS
73/ Damiano CARUSO
74/ Kamil GRADEK
75/ Matej MOHORIC
76/ Robert STANNARD
77/ Antonio TIBERI
78/ Vlad VAN MECHELEN

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NetCompany INEOS Cycling Team

81/ Egan BERNAL
82/ Thymen ARENSMAN
83/ Tobias FOSS
84/ Filippo GANNA
85/ Dorian GODON
86/ Michal KWIATKOWSKI
87/ Joshua TARLING
88/ Kévin VAUQUELIN

Soudal Quick-Step

91/ Tim MERLIER
92/ Pascal EENKHOORN
93/ Valentin PARET PEINTRE
94/ Jasper STUYVEN
95/ Dylan VAN BAARLE
96/ Bert VAN LERBERGHE
97/ Ilan VAN WILDER
98/ Louis VERVAEKE

Alpecin-Premier Tech

101/ Mathieu VAN DER POEL
102/ Ramses DEBRUYNE
103/ Silvan DILLIER
104/ Tim MARSMAN
105/ Jasper PHILIPSEN
106/ Edward PLANCKAERT
107/ Jonas RICKAERT
108/ Emiel VERSTRYNGE

Team Jayco AlUla

111/ Ben O’CONNOR
112/ Pascal ACKERMANN
113/ Luke DURBRIDGE
114/ Felix ENGELHARDT
115/ Michael MATTHEWS
116/ Kelland O’BRIEN
117/ Luke PLAPP
118/ Mauro SCHMID

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Uno-X Mobility

121/ Tobias JOHANNESSEN
122/ Jonas ABRAHAMSEN
123/ Anthon CHARMIG
124/ Magnus CORT NIELSEN
125/ Anders JOHANNESSEN
126/ Anders SKAARSETH
127/ Torstein TRÆEN
128/ Søren WAERENSKJOLD

NSN Cycling Team

131/ Biniam GIRMAY
132/ Lewis ASKEY
133/ George BENNETT
134/ Marco FRIGO
135/ Matis LOUVEL
136/ Krists NEILANDS
137/ Jake STEWART
138/ Tom VAN ASBROECK

Movistar Team

141/ Cian UIJTDEBROEKS
142/ Pablo CASTRILLO
143/ Jefferson CEPEDA
144/ Raul GARCIA
145/ Michel HEßMANN
146/ Nelson OLIVEIRA
147/ Javier ROMO
148/ Einer RUBIO

Lotto Intermarché

151/ Arnaud DE LIE
152/ Huub ARTZ
153/ Jenno BERCKMOES
154/ Lars CRAPS
155/ Liam SLOCK
156/ Lennert VAN EETVELT
157/ Baptiste VEISTROFFER
158/ Georg ZIMMERMANN

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Cofidis

161/ Ion IZAGIRRE
162/ Piet ALLEGAERT
163/ Alex ARANBURU
164/ Jenthe BIERMANS
165/ Milan FRETIN
166/ Alex KIRSCH
167/ Hugo PAGE
168/ Benjamin THOMAS

Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team

171/ Tom PIDCOCK
172/ Xabier AZPARREN IRURZUN
173/ Christopher HARPER
174/ Quinten HERMANS
175/ Damien CRAIG HOWSON
176/ Xandro MEURISSE
177/ Brent VAN MOER
178/ Fred WRIGHT

Groupama-FDJ United

181/ Romain GREGOIRE
182/ Clément BERTHET
183/ Clément BRAZ AFONSO
184/ Ewen COSTIOU
185/ Lorenzo GERMANI
186/ Guillaume MARTIN GUYONNET
187/ Quentin PACHER
188/ Clément RUSSO

Tudor Pro Cycling Team

191/ Julian ALAPHILIPPE
192/ Arvid DE KLEIJN
193/ Marco HALLER
194/ Marc HIRSCHI
195/ Rick PLUIMERS
196/ Michael STORER
197/ Matteo TRENTIN
198/ Yannis VOISARD

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TotalEnergies

201/ Jordan JEGAT
202/ Nicolas BREUILLARD
203/ Joris DELBOVE
204/ Alexandre DELETTRE
205/ Thibault GUERNALEC
206/ Mathis LE BERRE
207/ Anthony TURGIS
208/ Matteo VERCHER

Team Picnic PostNL

211/ Warren BARGUIL
212/ Frits BIESTERBOS
213/ Pavel BITTNER
214/ John DEGENKOLB
215/ Robbe DHONDT
216/ Niklas MÄRKL
217/ Julius VAN DEN BERG
218/ Frank VAN DEN BROEK

Caja Rural-Seguros RGA

221/ Fernando GAVIRIA
222/ Abel BALDERSTONE
223/ Sebastian BERWICK
224/ Alex MOLENAAR
225/ Joël NICOLAU
226/ Stefano OLDANI
227/ Jakub OTRUBA
228/ Jose FELIX PARRA

The starting order and times for the teams in the 2026 Tour de France team time trial in Barcelona

Here is the starting order and times for the first stage of the Tour de France 2026, a team time trial through the streets of Barcelona:

01 - 5:05 p.m. - CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA
02 - 5:10 p.m. - TEAM PICNIC POSTNL
03 - 5:15 p.m. - TOTALENERGIES
04 - 5:20 p.m. - TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM
05 - 5:25 p.m. - GROUPAMA-FDJ UNITED
06 - 5:30 p.m. - PINARELLO-Q36.5 PRO CYCLING TEAM
07 - 5:35 p.m. - COFIDIS
08 - 5:40 p.m. - LOTTO INTERMARCHE
09 - 5:45 p.m. - MOVISTAR TEAM
10 - 5:50 p.m. - NSN CYCLING TEAM
11 - 5:55 p.m. - UNO-X MOBILITY
12 - 6:00 p.m. - TEAM JAYCO ALULA
13 - 6:05 p.m. - ALPECIN-PREMIER TECH
14 - 6:10 p.m. - SOUDAL QUICK-STEP
15 - 6:15 p.m. - NETCOMPANY INEOS CYCLING TEAM
16 - 6:20 p.m. – BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS
17 - 6:25 p.m. – XDS ASTANA TEAM
18 - 6:30 p.m. - DECATHLON CMA CGM TEAM
19 - 6:35 p.m. - EF EDUCATION - EASYPOST
20 - 6:40 p.m. - LIDL-TREK
21 - 6:45 p.m. - RED BULL - BORA - HANSGROHE
22 - 6:50 p.m. - TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE
23 - 6:55 p.m. - UAE TEAM EMIRATES XRG

>> Download the starting order and schedule for the 2026 Tour de France team time trial

cover photo - © A.S.O./Morgan Bove

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