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Tour de France 2022 route and stages – Schedule, key dates and predictions in battle for yellow jersey

Updated 29/06/2022 at 18:43 GMT

The biggest bike race in the world begins on July 1 in Copenhagen. Every one of the 21 stages of the 2022 Tour de France will be important but, in determining who stands on the podium in Paris wearing the famous maillot jaune, some will surely be more important than others. Nick Christian selects a magnificent seven, when you won't want to miss a minute of the action on Eurosport and discovery+.

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2022 - THE ROUTE

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2022 - KEY STAGES

Stage 1, july 1: copenhagen - copenhagen (13.2km, itt).

Stage 5, July 6: Lille - Wallers-Arenberg (153.7km, cobbles)

Stage 7, July 8: Tomblaine to La Super Planche des Belles Filles (176.3km, mountains)

Stage 11, July 13: Albertville to Col de Granon (151.7km, mountains)

Stage 14, July 16: Saint-Etienne - Mende (192.5km, hills)

Stage 18, July 21: Lourdes - Hautacam (143.2km, mountains)

Stage 20, July 23: Lacapelle-Marival - Rocamadour (40.7km, ITT)

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Tour de France 2022: Preview, schedule and riders to watch

As Tadej Pogacar goes for a hat-trick of victories, here's everything you need to know about this year's edition of Le Tour, which starts on 1 July in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The second Grand Tour of the 2022 men's road cycling season, the 109th Tour de France , begins on Friday 1 July in Copenhagen, Denmark, and will end as usual in Paris on Sunday 24 July.

Tokyo 2020 medallists Tadej Pogacar , Primoz Roglic and Wout van Aert headline the race that will cover a total of over 3,300km across 21 stages. There are five summit finishes, two time trials and six flat stages.

Slovenia's Pogacar is looking to claim the winner's yellow jersey for the third consecutive year, matching a feat most recently achieved by four-time champion Chris Froome (2015, 2016, 2017).

Following a postponement from last year due to a schedule clash with the Euro 2020 football tournament, Denmark will become the 10th country to host the Grand Depart. The 2022 route will also go into Belgium (Stage 6) and Switzerland (Stages 8 and 9), making it the first time since 2017 that four different countries feature in the same edition.

Some 176 riders will take part, eight for each of the 22 teams. That's one fewer team than in the 2021 edition.

The last day of the men's Grand Boucle will coincide with the start of the historic eight-stage inaugural Tour de France Femmes , which replaces the La Course one-day women's race.

Below you can find everything you need to know about one of the world's most gruelling endurance events this year.

Tour de France 2022 General Classification men to watch

Tadej Pogacar: The Olympic road race bronze medallist comes into the 2022 Grand Boucle as the overwhelming favourite. The Slovenian has won every stage race he has taken part in this season (UAE Tour, Tirreno-Adriatico, Tour of Slovenia) and is going for a hat-trick of victories on the Tour at just 23 years of age.

Primoz Roglic: The Tokyo 2020 time trial gold medallist came agonisingly close to the GC win in 2020, while he had to abandon the race last year following a crash. The former ski jumper seems to have recovered from a knee injury that affected the first part of his season and is fresh from an overall win at the Criterium du Dauphine.

Daniel Martinez: With 2019 winner Egan Bernal still recovering from a horrific training accident, his fellow Colombian is ready to be the leader of Ineos Grenadiers after taking the Tour of the Basque Country this spring. The British team has won seven of the Tour's last 10 editions and Martinez could share the leadership with 2018 champion Geraint Thomas , who recently won the Tour de Suisse.

Jonas Vingegaard : The 25-year-old Dane finished as a surprise runner-up in 2021, and this season with two second places at the Tirreno-Adriatico and Dauphine has shown he's ready to step up if his Jumbo-Visma teammate Roglic is not fully fit.

Aleksandr Vlasov: Following Jai Hindley 's success at the Giro d'Italia, Bora-Hansgrohe's hopes of winning their second Grand Tour this year lie on the shoulders of the Russian rider riding under a neutral flag. Vlasov took impressive overall victories at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and Tour de Romandie, but he was forced to abandon the Tour of Suisse for Covid when he was leader.

Other key riders at Tour de France 2022

Green jersey.

Last year's points competition winner Mark Cavendish hasn't been selected by his team Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl (he's been named as a first-reserve rider) and that means that the 37-year-old Manxman will have to wait before being able to surpass the legendary Eddy Merckx for number of stage wins (both are tied on 34).

The Belgian team will be led by Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen , who is hoping to take advantage of the sprint opportunities. Australian Caleb Ewan of Lotto-Soudal and Netherlands' Dylan Groenewegen of the Team Bike Exchange-Jayco also fancy their chances.

The course includes several hilly stages and that might favour puncheurs such as record seven-time green jersey winner Peter Sagan , who recently was back to winning ways at the Tour de Suisse before withdrawing due to a positive Covid test. The three-time world champion made a quick recovery to take his eighth Slovakian national title.

Other contenders for the green jersey will be multi-talented riders Mathieu van der Poel , who wore the leader's pink jersey at the Giro for the first three stages, and Wout van Aert , who took the points classification at both the Criterium du Dauphine and Paris-Nice this season.

Polka dot jersey

Pogacar secured the king of the mountains classification at the last two editions, and in the history of the Tour only four riders have won it more than twice (the record belongs to Richard Virenque with seven).

The Slovenian talisman will probably be challenged by some of the other GC contenders (Roglic, Vlasov, Vingegaard), as well as by Frenchmen Thibaut Pinot , who recently took the queen stage of the Tour de Suisse, and 2019 polka dot winner Romain Bardet , who was forced to leave the last Giro after suffering from stomach issues.

Tour 2022 route and important stages

The 2022 Tour de France begins with a technical 13km time trial along the streets of Copenhagen that will suit the discipline's specialists such as double reigning world champion Filippo Ganna , Stefan Bissegger of Switzerland (EF Education-EasyPost) and two-time world medallist Van Aert.

After two further stages in Denmark, the race will resume in France on Tuesday 5 July and a day later on Stage 5 cobbles will make their return for the first time since 2018. Week one is highlighted by the summit finish on the Super Planche des Belles Filles, with the following two stages foraying into Switzerland, including a finish at the Olympic Stadium in Lausanne .

During the second week the peloton heads deeper into the Alps with two straight gruelling mountain stages. On stage 11 the riders will climb the Col du Telegraphe and Col du Galibier (the highest point of the race at 2,642m) before finishing on the top of the Col du Granon; stage 12 on Bastille Day will be equally testing and will feature a summit finish on the Alpe d'Huez for the first time in five years.

The Tour will then move across the Massif Central towards the Pyrenees with the final rest day in Carcassonne. Two more back-to-back summit finishes on stage 17 (Peyragudes) and 18 (Hautacam) will offer the final chance to specialist climbers to gain ground in the GC before a 40km time trial on stage 20.

The final stage ending in Paris will see sprinters lock horns for one last time on this edition along the Champs-Elysees.

Day-by-day route of 2022 Tour de France

Fri 1 July: Stage 1 – Copenhagen-Copenhagen (time trial, 13.2 km)

Sat 2 July: Stage 2 – Roskilde-Nyborg (202.5 km)

Sun 3 July: Stage 3 – Vejle-Sonderborg (182 km)

Mon 4 July: Transfer Day

Tue 5 July: Stage 4 – Dunkerque-Calais (171.5 km)

Wed 6 July: Stage 5 – Lille Metropole-Arenburg Porte du Hainaut (157 km)

Thu 7 July: Stage 6 – Binche-Longwhy (220km)

Fri 8 July: Stage 7 – Tomblaine-La Super Planche de Belle Filles (176.5 km)

Sat 9 July: Stage 8 – Dole-Lausanne (186.5km)

Sunday 10 July: Stage 9 – Aigle-Chatel les Portes du Soleil (193km)

Monday 11 July: Rest Day

Tuesday 12 July: Stage 10 – Morzine Les Portes du Soleil-Megeve (148.5km)

Wednesday 13 July: Stage 11 – Albertville-Col du Granon Serre Chevalier (152km)

Thursday 14 July: Stage 12 – Briancon-Alpe d’Huez (165.5km)

Friday 15 July: Stage 13 – Le Bourg d’Oisans-Saint Etienne (193km)

Saturday 16 July: Stage 14 – Saint Etienne-Mende (192.5km)

Sunday 17 July: Stage 15 – Rodez-Carcassonne (202.5km)

Monday 18 July: Rest Day

Tuesday 19 July: Stage 16 – Carcassonne-Foix (178,5km)

Wednesday 20 July: Stage 17 – Saint-Gaudens-Peyragudes (130km)

Thursday 21 July: Stage 18 – Lourdes-Hautacam (143.5km)

Friday 22 July: Stage 19 – Castelnau-Magnoac – Cahors (188.5km)

Saturday 23 July: Stage 20 – Lacapelle-Marival - Rocamadour (time trial, 40.7km)

Sunday 24 July: Stage 21 – Paris La Defence Arena – Paris Champs Elysees (116km)

How to watch the 2022 Tour de France

The race will be shown live in 190 countries and here is a list of the official broadcast partners across different territories.

Belgium – RTBF

Czech Republic – Ceska Televise

Europe – Eurosport

France – France TV Sport and Eurosport France

Germany – ARD

Italy – RAI Sport

Ireland – TG4

Luxembourg – RTL

The Netherlands – NOS

Norway – TV2

Portugal – RTP

Slovakia – RTVS

Slovenia – RTV SLOVENIJA

Spain – RTVE

Switzerland – SRG SSR

The United Kingdom – ITV

Wales – S4C

Canada – Flobikes

Colombia – Caracol TV

Latin America and Caribbean – ESPN

South America – TV5 Monde

The United States of America – NBC Sports and TV5 Monde

Asia Pacific

Australia – SBS

China – CCTV and Zhibo TV

Japan – J Sports

New Zealand – Sky Sports

Southeast Asia – Eurosport and GCN

Middle East and Africa

The Middle East and North Africa – BeIN Sports and TV5 Monde

Sub-Saharan Africa – Supersport and TV5 Monde

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Tour de France 2022 start list: Tadej Pogačar, Primož Roglič and Wout Van Aert all line up for the 109th edition

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The 2022 Tour de France begins on Friday 1 July, with 176 riders taking to the start line at the Grand Départ in Denmark before finishing, as usual, on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on Sunday 24 July. 

Reigning champion, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) is returning to try and win the title for the third successive year over the 21 days of racing to Paris, but he and his team will face a tough battle for the Maillot Jaune. 

His compatriot Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) is expected to provide him the most difficult test at the Grand Tour, with Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), and Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers) ready and waiting for any opportunities in the general classification. 

Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers), Tour winner from 2018, also lines up, but he will likely ride for his teammates rather than making an attempt at the yellow jersey himself, despite recently winning the Tour de Suisse. After twice finishing second at the Tour de France before, and once in third, Nairo Quintana (Arkéa Samsic) is no doubt desperate to stand on the top step of the podium this time around, though his chances in doing so look slim.

Chris Froome (Israel-Premier Tech) is starting at the 2022 Tour de France, and while a GC challenge is extremely unlikely, the four-time Tour winner will still believe he can produce consistently over the three weeks.

Romain Bardet (Team DSM) perhaps offers France's greatest opportunity at a home win, though he has previously stated stage wins are the main goal at this Tour, rather than the overall victory. 

Plenty of other riders are aiming for stage wins and the different jerseys on offer, too. Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) will resume battle in France. While the latter has claimed he is only targeting stage wins, rather than the points classification, it is likely he will still have to beat Van Aert on a few occasions to achieve that goal.  

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Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl are placing their sprint hopes on Fabio Jakobsen, opting not to bring Mark Cavendish into the fold - a stage win for the Manxman would give him the most stage wins in Tour history, allowing him to overtake Eddy Merckx as the pair both sit on 34. 

Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies) and Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) also join Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) in lining up for the Grands Départs in Denmark, adding their names to an already stellar start list of some of cycling's biggest names.

The full start list for the 2022 Tour de France is below.

Tour de France 2022 start list

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1. POGAČAR Tadej 2. BENNETT George 3. BJERG Mikkel 4. LAENGEN Vegard Stake 5. MAJKA Rafał 6. MCNULTY Brandon 7. SOLER Marc 8. HIRSCHI Marc 

Jumbo-Visma

11. ROGLIČ Primož 12. BENOOT Tiesj 13. KRUIJSWIJK Steven 14. KUSS Sepp 15. LAPORTE Christophe 16. VAN AERT Wout 17. VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan 18. VINGEGAARD Jonas

Ineos Grenadiers

21. THOMAS Geraint 22. MARTÍNEZ Daniel Felipe 23. CASTROVIEJO Jonathan 24. GANNA Filippo 25. PIDCOCK Thomas 26. ROWE Luke 27. VAN BAARLE Dylan 28. YATES Adam  

AG2R Citroën

31. O'CONNOR Ben 32. BOUCHARD Geoffrey 33. CHEREL Mikael 34. COSNEFROY Benoît 35. DEWULF Stan 36. JUNGELS Bob 37. NAESEN Oliver   38. PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien

Bora-Hansgrohe

41. VLASOV Aleksandr 42. GROßSCHARTNER Felix 43. HALLER Marco 44. KÄMNA Lennard 45. KONRAD Patrick 46. POLITT Nils 47. SCHACHMANN Maximilian 48. VAN POPPEL Danny 

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51. JAKOBSEN Fabio 52. ASGREEN Kasper 53. BAGIOLI Andrea 54. CATTANEO Mattia 55. HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich 56. LAMPAERT Yves 57. MØRKØV Michael 58. SÉNÉCHAL Florian

61. MAS Enric 62. ERVITI Imanol 63. IZAGIRRE Gorka 64. JORGENSON Matteo   65. MÜHLBERGER Gregor 66. OLIVEIRA Nelson 67. TORRES Albert 68. VERONA Carlos 

71. MARTIN Guillaume 72. PERICHON Pierre-Luc 73. GESCHKE Simon 74. IZAGIRRE Ion 75. LAFAY Victor 76. PEREZ Anthony 77. THOMAS Benjamin 78. WALSCHEID Max

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Groupama-FDJ

91. GAUDU David 92. DUCHESNE Antoine 93. GENIETS Kevin 94. KÜNG Stefan 95. LE GAC Olivier 96. MADOUAS Valentin 97. PINOT Thibaut 98. STORER Michael  

Alpecin-Deceuninck

101. VAN DER POEL Mathieu 102. DILLIER Silvan 103. GOGL Michael 104. KRIEGER Alexander 105. PHILIPSEN Jasper 106. PLANCKAERT Edward 107. SBARAGLI Kristian 108. VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume    

111. BARDET Romain 112. DAINESE Alberto 113. DEGENKOLB John 114. EEKHOFF Nils 115. HAMILTON Chris 116. LEKNESSUND Andreas 117. TUSVELD Martin 118. VERMAEKE Kevin

Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux

121. KRISTOFF Alexander 122. BYSTRØM Sven Erik 123. GOOSSENS Kobe 124. MEINTJES Louis 125. PASQUALON Andrea 126. PETIT Adrien 127. VAN DER HOORN Taco 128. ZIMMERMANN Georg  

Astana Qazaqstan

131. LUTSENKO Alexey 132. RIABUSHENKO Aleksandr 133. DOMBROWSKI Joe 134. FELLINE Fabio 135. GRUZDEV Dmitriy 136. MOSCON Gianni 137. VELASCO Simone 138. ZEITS Andrey

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151. QUINTANA Nairo 152. BARGUIL Warren 153. BOUET Maxime 154. CAPIOT Amaury 155. HOFSTETTER Hugo 156. LOUVEL Matis 157. OWSIAN Łukasz 158. SWIFT Connor 

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TotalEnergies

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191. FROOME Chris 192. BOIVIN Guillaume 193. CLARKE Simon 194. FUGLSANG Jakob 195. NIV Guy 196. HOULE Hugo 197. NEILANDS Krists 198. WOODS Michael

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The final sprint of the Tour de France always takes place on Paris’ famous avenue. On 18 July, as it has every year since 1975, the last stage of the famous cycling race will end on the Champs-Élysées.

With 3,383 kilometres for the legs to tackle and some 403,000 pedal strokes over three weeks, taking part in the Tour de France is no easy task.

In view of the conclusion of the 21st and final stage of the Grand Boucle , the peloton will give it all they’ve got. Before parading in the capital, the riders will have sweated to climb the 30 passes of the 2021 race, rising in their saddles to pick up momentum and clenching their teeth in the vertiginous descents.

The Champs-Élysées in all its majesty

From Brittany to the Alps, from the Occitanie to the Pyrenees, the riders will have been so focused on their performance that they won’t have soaked up much of the photogenic landscapes of France, broadcast across 100 TV channels.

But by the end of the efforts, what a reward: the majestic Champs-Élysées, with the blue-white-red wake of the famous Patrouille de France fly-past. Nobody else has such a claim on the famous avenue except the French football team, winner of the World Cup in 2018.

Standing on the podium at the bottom of the famous Parisian avenue, with the setting sun at the Arc de Triomphe and Grande Arche de la Défense as a backdrop, the winner of the Tour will have – like all his fellow riders – accomplished the Parisian ritual.

Established in 1975, this involves riding up and down the Champs-Élysées eight times, totalling 1,910 legendary metres separating the obelisk of the Place de la Concorde from the star of the Place Charles-de-Gaulle.

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Seen from above, the spectacle of the peloton winding like a long ribbon decorated around the Arc de Triomphe is magical. From the pavements lining the route of this final sprint, the enthusiasm of the public pushes the riders on through the Quai des Tuileries, Place des Pyramides and Rue de Rivoli in Paris.

Will they take a look as they go past? Not sure. Almost lying on their handlebars, they traditionally take this last stage at a crazy pace, overlooking the cobblestones and prestigious landmarks around. Louis Vuitton, Guerlain, Ladurée and even, recently, the Galeries Lafayette, make up the exclusive backdrop of the peloton’s arrival on the Champs-Élysées.

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Stage 2 — Sunday, June 30 Cesenatico to Bologna Distance: 200.8 km (125 miles) Profile: Undulating stage

Stage 2: Echoes of the Ardennes classics will please the climbers

The Tour’s salute to 1998 winner Marco Pantani continues on stage 2 with a stage start in his hometown of Cesenatico. It covers 200.8km to Bologne and, like stage 1, has a number of uphills which should shake things up. All are short and steep, however, making it a different day in the saddle than 24 hours earlier.

Reminiscent of the Ardennes classics, albeit with fewer climbs, the stage is flat for the first 74km. The tone then shifts on the first of the day’s six climbs, the Côte de Monticino (2km at 7.5 percent). From there the riders descend for 10km before taking on the steepest and shortest ascent of the day, the Côte de Gallisterna.

While it is just 1.2km in length, it averages 12.8 percent and will favor explosive riders.

After descending into Imola a 42km interlude follows before the next two climbs, the Côte de Botteghino di Zocca and the Côte de Montecalvo. The second of these is both longer and steeper, with 2.7km at 7.7 percent proving a real platform for those who are either chasing yellow or a stage win.

From there 48km remains, with two laps of the finishing circuit subjecting the riders to the plus-10 percent slopes of the Côte de San Luca. The finish line isn’t far from there, making for a dramatic end to the stage and, very possibly, a new race leader.

The view of Tour de France race director Christian Prudhomme: “The passage across the Emilia-Romagna region is straightforward enough to begin with as it takes the peloton to Imola and its famous motor racing circuit. The final part of the stage, featuring the climb to the Sanctuary of San Luca (1.9km at 10.6 percent), the traditional finale of the Giro dell’Emilia, which will be tackled twice in the final 40km, offers fertile terrain for the peloton’s puncheurs.”

Tour de France 2022 - Start List

Uae team emirates.

• 1 Tadej Pogacar
• 2 George Bennett
• 3 Mikkel Bjerg
• 4 Vegard Stake Laengen
• 5 Rafał Majka
• 6 Brandon McNulty
• 7 Marc Soler
• 8 Marc Hirschi

Team Jumbo-Visma

• 11 Primoz Roglic
• 12 Tiesj Benoot
• 13 Steven Kruijswijk
• 14 Sepp Kuss
• 15 Christophe Laporte
• 16 Wout van Aert
• 17 Nathan Van Hooydonck
• 18 Jonas Vingegaard

Ineos Grenadiers

• 21 Geraint Thomas
• 22 Daniel Martínez
• 23 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas
• 24 Filippo Ganna
• 25 Tom Pidcock
• 26 Luke Rowe
• 27 Dylan van Baarle
• 28 Adam Yates

AG2R Citroën Team

• 31 Ben O'Connor
• 32 Geoffrey Bouchard
• 33 Mickael Cherel
• 34 Benoit Cosnefroy
• 35 Stan Dewulf
• 36 Bob Jungels
• 37 Oliver Naesen
• 38 Aurelien Paret-Peintre

Bora-Hansgrohe

• 41 Aleksandr Vlasov
• 42 Felix Großschartner
• 43 Marco Haller
• 44 Patrick Konrad
• 45 Lennard Kämna
• 46 Nils Politt
• 47 Maximilian Schachmann
• 48 Danny van Poppel

QuickStep-AlphaVinyl

• 51 Fabio Jakobsen
• 52 Kasper Asgreen
• 53 Andrea Bagioli
• 54 Mattia Cattaneo
• 55 Mikkel Frølich Honore
• 56 Yves Lampaert
• 57 Michael Mørkøv
• 58 Florian Sénéchal

Movistar Team

• 61 Enric Mas
• 62 Imanol Erviti Ollo
• 63 Gorka Izagirre Insausti
• 64 Matteo Jorgenson
• 65 Gregor Mühlberger
• 66 Nelson Oliveira
• 67 Albert Torres
• 68 Carlos Verona Quintanilla
• 71 Guillaume Martin
• 72 Pierre-Luc Périchon
• 73 Simon Geschke
• 74 Ion Izagirre Insausti
• 75 Victor Lafay
• 76 Anthony Perez
• 77 Benjamin Thomas
• 78 Max Walscheid

Bahrain Victorious

• 81 Jack Haig
• 82 Damiano Caruso
• 83 Kamil Gradek
• 84 Matej Mohoric
• 85 Luis León Sánchez
• 86 Dylan Teuns
• 87 Jan Tratnik
• 88 Fred Wright

Groupama-FDJ

• 91 David Gaudu
• 92 Antoine Duchesne
• 93 Kevin Geniets
• 94 Stefan Kung
• 95 Olivier Le Gac
• 96 Valentin Madouas
• 97 Thibaut Pinot
• 98 Michael Storer

Alpecin-Deceuninck

• 101 Mathieu van der Poel
• 102 Silvan Dillier
• 103 Michael Gogl
• 104 Alexander Krieger
• 105 Jasper Philipsen
• 106 Edward Planckaert
• 107 Kristian Sbaragli
• 108 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
• 111 Romain Bardet
• 112 Alberto Dainese
• 113 John Degenkolb
• 114 Nils Eekhoff
• 115 Chris Hamilton
• 116 Andreas Leknessund
• 117 Casper Pedersen
• 118 Martijn Tusveld

Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux

• 121 Alexander Kristoff
• 122 Sven Erik Bystrøm
• 123 Kobe Goossens
• 124 Louis Meintjes
• 125 Andrea Pasqualon
• 126 Adrien Petit
• 127 Taco Van Der Hoorn
• 128 Georg Zimmermann

Astana Qazaqstan

• 131 Alexey Lutsenko
• 132 Alexandr Riabushenko
• 133 Joe Dombrowski
• 134 Fabio Felline
• 135 Dmitriy Gruzdev
• 136 Gianni Moscon
• 137 Simone Velasco
• 138 Andrey Zeits

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• 141 Rigoberto Urán
• 142 Ruben Guerreiro
• 143 Alberto Bettiol
• 144 Stefan Bissegger
• 145 Magnus Cort
• 146 Owain Doull
• 147 Neilson Powless
• 148 Jonas Rutsch

Team Arkéa-Samsic

• 151 Nairo Quintana
• 152 Warren Barguil
• 153 Maxime Bouet
• 154 Amaury Capiot
• 155 Hugo Hofstetter
• 156 Matis Louvel
• 157 Lukasz Owsian
• 158 Connor Swift

Lotto Soudal

• 161 Caleb Ewan
• 162 Frederik Frison
• 163 Philippe Gilbert
• 164 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg
• 165 Andreas Lorentz Kron
• 166 Brent Van Moer
• 167 Florian Vermeersch
• 168 Tim Wellens

Trek-Segafredo

• 171 Mads Pedersen
• 172 Giulio Ciccone
• 173 Tony Gallopin
• 174 Alex Kirsch
• 175 Bauke Mollema
• 176 Quinn Simmons
• 177 Toms Skujins
• 178 Jasper Stuyven

Team TotalEnergies

• 181 Peter Sagan
• 182 Edvald Boasson Hagen
• 183 Maciej Bodnar
• 184 Mathieu Burgaudeau
• 185 Pierre Latour
• 186 Daniel Oss
• 187 Anthony Turgis
• 188 Alexis Vuillermoz

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• 191 Christopher Froome
• 192 Guillaume Boivin
• 193 Simon Clarke
• 194 Jakob Fuglsang
• 195 Guy Niv
• 196 Hugo Houle
• 197 Krists Neilands
• 198 Michael Woods

Team BikeExchange-Jayco

• 201 Michael Matthews
• 202 Jack Bauer
• 203 Luke Durbridge
• 204 Dylan Groenewegen
• 205 Amund Grondahl Jansen
• 206 Christopher Juul Jensen
• 207 Luka Mezgec
• 208 Nick Schultz

B&B Hotels p/b KTM

• 211 Franck Bonnamour
• 212 Cyril Barthe
• 213 Alexis Gougeard
• 214 Jeremy Lecroq
• 215 Cyril Lemoine
• 216 Luca Mozzato
• 217 Pierre Rolland
• 218 Sebastian Schonberger

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