The 2026 Tour produced 21 stage results across sprints, mountains, a team time trial, an individual time trial and aggressive breakaways. Tadej Pogačar won the most stages with five, Tim Merlier won three, and Remco Evenepoel, Mathieu van der Poel and Richard Carapaz each won twice.
The edition also produced national milestones: Belgian riders won six stages, Slovenian riders five, and Evenepoel delivered Belgium's 500th Tour stage victory.
All 21 stage winners
| Stage | Route | Winner | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barcelona → Barcelona | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | Team time trial |
| 2 | Tarragona → Barcelona | Isaac del Toro | Road stage |
| 3 | Granollers → Les Angles | Tadej Pogačar | Mountain finish |
| 4 | Carcassonne → Foix | Mads Pedersen | Breakaway / rolling |
| 5 | Lannemezan → Pau | Olav Kooij | Sprint |
| 6 | Pau → Gavarnie-Gèdre | Tadej Pogačar | High mountains |
| 7 | Hagetmau → Bordeaux | Tim Merlier | Sprint |
| 8 | Périgueux → Bergerac | Tim Merlier | Sprint |
| 9 | Malemort → Ussel | Mathieu van der Poel | Hilly / shortened |
| 10 | Aurillac → Le Lioran | Tadej Pogačar | Hilly / mountain |
| 11 | Vichy → Nevers | Søren Wærenskjold | Road stage |
| 12 | Circuit Nevers Magny-Cours → Chalon-sur-Saône | Tim Merlier | Sprint |
| 13 | Dole → Belfort | Mauro Schmid | Road stage |
| 14 | Mulhouse → Le Markstein Fellering | Tadej Pogačar | Mountain |
| 15 | Champagnole → Plateau de Solaison | Remco Evenepoel | Mountain finish |
| 16 | Évian-les-Bains → Thonon-les-Bains | Remco Evenepoel | 26.1 km ITT |
| 17 | Chambéry → Voiron | Jasper Philipsen | Road stage |
| 18 | Voiron → Orcières-Merlette | Richard Carapaz | Mountain |
| 19 | Gap → Alpe d’Huez | Tadej Pogačar | Mountain |
| 20 | Le Bourg d’Oisans → Alpe d’Huez | Richard Carapaz | Queen stage |
| 21 | Thoiry → Paris Champs-Élysées | Mathieu van der Poel | Finale / shortened |
Pogačar was the most prolific stage winner
Pogačar won five times: Les Angles, Gavarnie-Gèdre, Le Lioran, Le Markstein and the first Alpe d’Huez finish. That lifted his career Tour stage total to 26, past André Leducq’s 25 and within two of Bernard Hinault’s 28.
Belgium’s six wins
Belgian riders collected six stages. Tim Merlier won three sprints, Remco Evenepoel won twice and Jasper Philipsen won once. Evenepoel’s Stage 15 victory was Belgium’s 500th Tour stage win, and his time-trial win on 21 July was the country’s tenth Tour stage victory on its national day.
Two-win riders
Mathieu van der Poel won in Ussel and again in Paris. Richard Carapaz won at Orcières-Merlette and on the second Alpe d’Huez stage. Their victories came through aggressive racing rather than a repeatable bunch-sprint formula.
What the distribution says about the race
The 21 stages rewarded team time-trial strength, pure sprinting, mountain climbing, individual time-trial ability and attacks. That variety is why a stage-winner archive is more useful when it shows stage character rather than listing names alone.
Stage-win totals by rider
| Rider / team | Wins | Stages |
|---|---|---|
| Tadej Pogačar | 5 | 3, 6, 10, 14, 19 |
| Tim Merlier | 3 | 7, 8, 12 |
| Remco Evenepoel | 2 | 15, 16 |
| Mathieu van der Poel | 2 | 9, 21 |
| Richard Carapaz | 2 | 18, 20 |
| Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 1 | 1 team time trial |
| Isaac del Toro | 1 | 2 |
| Mads Pedersen | 1 | 4 |
| Olav Kooij | 1 | 5 |
| Søren Wærenskjold | 1 | 11 |
| Mauro Schmid | 1 | 13 |
| Jasper Philipsen | 1 | 17 |
The corrected Stage 12 route is Circuit Nevers Magny-Cours → Chalon-sur-Saône. That detail matters because stage archives become reference material and small route errors are easy to propagate across other sites.
More than half the stages went to two nations
A.S.O.'s post-race recap highlights a striking national split: Belgian riders won six stages and Slovenian riders, all through Pogačar, won five. Together that is 11 of the 21 stage wins.
Belgium's six came from Merlier (three), Evenepoel (two) and Philipsen (one). Evenepoel's Stage 15 win was Belgium's 500th Tour stage victory.
No French, Italian or Spanish stage winner
The 2026 Tour also produced a rare absence. A.S.O. notes that France did not win a stage for only the third time in Tour history, after 1926 and 1999. More remarkably, it was the first time across 302 editions of the three men's Grand Tours that riders from France, Italy and Spain all failed to win a stage in the same Tour edition.
Two route changes affect the stage archive
Stage 9 was shortened because of an extreme heat alert in Corrèze. Stage 21 was shortened because wildfires required security personnel to be redeployed. The stage-winner table should preserve the official final routes/distances rather than the distances printed in pre-race previews.
Correct route naming matters in a reference table
Stage 12 began at Circuit Nevers Magny-Cours and finished in Chalon-sur-Saône, where Merlier took his third win. Stage 21's final route was also materially different from the pre-race plan after the wildfire-related shortening. These details are worth preserving because stage tables are often reused as quick-reference sources.
The spread of winner types
The winner list includes a team time trial, pure sprinters, GC climbers, breakaway specialists and a time-trial champion. That spread makes the 2026 Tour a useful comparison point when the 2027 route is announced: counting stage types can show whether the new race appears more sprint-heavy, more mountainous or more time-trial focused.