The Tour's organiser publishes on letour.fr and aso.fr, and both refused our research requests, so nothing here was read on an organiser page. The 2026 result comes from news reports that agree with one another. Much of the detail, and every result from 2022 to 2025, comes from Wikipedia, which we treat as a secondary source and name each time we rely on it.
Status on 22 October 2026
The 2026 Tour is finished. It ran from 4 to 26 July 2026 over 21 stages and 3,245 km, starting in Barcelona, Spain, and opened with a team time trial won by Visma-Lease a Bike (Wikipedia, secondary).
2026: Pogacar's fifth Tour
Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia, UAE Team Emirates XRG) won the 2026 Tour in 73h 56' 26", his fifth title (Euronews, 26 July 2026; Wikipedia). Euronews points out that five wins put him level with the four other riders who have won the Tour five times: Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain.
| Place, 2026 | Rider | Team | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia) | UAE Team Emirates XRG | 73h 56' 26" |
| 2 | Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) | Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe | 6' 26" |
| 3 | Isaac del Toro (Mexico) | UAE Team Emirates XRG | 9' 42" |
| 4 | Paul Seixas (France) | Decathlon CMA CGM | 11' 56" |
| 5 | Lenny Martinez (France) | Bahrain Victorious | 13' 02" |
The names and the second-place gap come from Euronews and Wikipedia; the gaps for third to fifth come from Wikipedia alone.
The 2026 jerseys
| Classification, 2026 | Winner | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Overall (yellow) | Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) | Euronews; Wikipedia |
| Points (green) | Mads Pedersen (Denmark, Lidl-Trek) | Cycling Up To Date; Wikipedia |
| Mountains (polka dot) | Richard Carapaz (Ecuador, EF Education-EasyPost) | Cycling Up To Date; Wikipedia |
| Best young rider (white) | Isaac del Toro (Mexico, UAE Team Emirates XRG), third overall on his first Tour | Cycling Up To Date; Wikipedia |
| Team | Lidl-Trek | Wikipedia; Cycling Up To Date (search summary) |
| Overall combativity | Richard Carapaz | Cycling Up To Date; Wikipedia |
Stage winners
Wikipedia lists five stage wins for Pogacar (stages 3, 6, 10, 14 and 19), three for Tim Merlier (7, 8 and 12), and two each for Evenepoel (15 and the stage 16 time trial), Carapaz (18 and 20) and Mathieu van der Poel (9 and 21).
Shortened stages and riders who left
- Stage 9 was shortened by 30.9 km because of a heatwave warning. Only Wikipedia records this among the sources we found.
- Stage 21 in Paris on Sunday 26 July was cut from 133 km to 89 km. Euronews reported the cut as due to wildfires in south-west France, with security forces redeployed, and said the three climbs of Montmartre were kept. Van der Poel won on the Champs-Elysees ahead of Jasper Philipsen and Pedersen. The general classification times were taken before the Montmartre laps, so the stage did not change the standings (tour-magazin.de, via search summary; Wikipedia).
- Withdrawals: Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) crashed on stage 15 and left the race, and Florian Lipowitz crashed in the stage 16 time trial and also left. Of 184 starters, 158 finished. These come from Wikipedia and were not confirmed elsewhere.
Winners and podiums, 2022 to 2026
| Year | Dates and route | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 to 26 July, from Barcelona | Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG), 73h 56' 26" | Remco Evenepoel, 6' 26" | Isaac del Toro, 9' 42" |
| 2025 | 5 to 27 July, from Lille | Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG), his fourth title | Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), 4' 24" | Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), about 11 minutes |
| 2024 | 29 June to 21 July, Florence to Nice (not Paris) | Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), 83h 38' 56" | Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), 6' 17" | Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick-Step), 9' 18" |
| 2023 | 1 to 23 July, Bilbao to the Champs-Elysees | Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark, Jumbo-Visma), 82h 05' 42" | Tadej Pogacar, 7' 29" | Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates), 10' 56" |
| 2022 | 1 to 24 July, from Copenhagen | Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), 79h 33' 20" | Tadej Pogacar, 2' 43" | Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers), 7' 22" |
2026 from Euronews and Wikipedia; 2022 to 2025 from Wikipedia (secondary).
Jersey winners, 2022 to 2026
| Year | Points (green) | Mountains (polka dot) | Young rider (white) | Team | Combativity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Mads Pedersen | Richard Carapaz | Isaac del Toro | Lidl-Trek | Richard Carapaz |
| 2025 | Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) | Tadej Pogacar | Florian Lipowitz | Visma-Lease a Bike | Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) |
| 2024 | Biniam Girmay (Intermarche-Wanty) | Richard Carapaz | Remco Evenepoel | UAE Team Emirates | Richard Carapaz |
| 2023 | Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) | Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) | Tadej Pogacar | Jumbo-Visma | Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny) |
| 2022 | Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) | Jonas Vingegaard | Tadej Pogacar | INEOS Grenadiers | Wout van Aert |
2026 from Cycling Up To Date and Wikipedia; 2022 to 2025 from Wikipedia (secondary).
The jerseys and the young rider's age
The L'Etape series, which is linked to the Tour's organiser, dates the yellow jersey for the overall leader to 1919, the green points jersey to 1953 and the red polka-dot mountains jersey to 1975, and says the white jersey for the best young rider was reintroduced in 1975. The first yellow jersey is disputed: search summaries of press histories, which we could not open, report that Philippe Thys said in a 1956 interview that he had been offered a yellow jersey in 1913, while the same summaries give 1919 as the official first. The age limit is worded differently by source. L'Etape says riders aged 25 or under; a 2011 blog post, seen in search, said under 25. We could not check the current Tour regulations because letour.fr was unreachable.
The UCI rules every Grand Tour follows
The UCI's road rules set the frame; the jersey colours belong to the organiser. In UCI Regulations Part 2, Road Races, in the version on 1 July 2025: article 2.6.007 says a Grand Tour lasts between 15 and 23 days, counting rest days; article 2.6.011 caps its length at 3,500 km; article 2.6.012 requires two rest days spread evenly; article 2.2.003 sets eight riders per team in Grand Tours; and article 2.2.002 caps the field in men's Grand Tours at 184 riders. Part 2 has been amended since that version, and those later changes were not read. How classifications, time bonuses and the 3 km rule work is on stage races and jerseys.
Where to watch
No organiser list of Tour broadcasters could be read, for the same reason as above, so we do not name any. What we could read for other races is on watching cycling.
Sources
- Euronews, Tour de France 2026: fifth title for Tadej Pogacar, Van der Poel wins on the Champs-Elysees (26 July 2026)
- Cycling Up To Date, Tour de France 2026 final classifications (2026)
- tour-magazin.de, Tour de France stage 21 report (2026, search summary)
- Wikipedia, 2026 Tour de France (secondary)
- Wikipedia, 2025 Tour de France (secondary)
- Wikipedia, 2024 Tour de France (secondary)
- Wikipedia, 2023 Tour de France (secondary)
- Wikipedia, 2022 Tour de France (secondary)
- L'Etape series (ASO), the colourful history behind the Tour de France jerseys (undated)
- Blog post on the yellow jersey (2011, search summary)
- Rouleur, the yellow jersey at the Tour de France: a brief history (search summary)
- UCI Cycling Regulations Part 2, Road Races (version on 1 July 2025)