Vingegaard Takes Tour De France Lead as Visma Win Opening Stage
- On Saturday, July 4, 2026, Jonas Vingegaard and his Visma-Lease a Bike team won the 19.6km opening team time trial in Barcelona, claiming the yellow jersey at the Tour de France.
- Cycling's elite Tour de France race kicked off in Spain on Saturday as reigning champion Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates began his quest for a record-equaling fifth title.
- Vingegaard finished eight seconds faster than Filippo Ganna for Netcompany Ineos, while Pogacar took third place, 12sec behind after the final 800-metre uphill drag to the finish.
- This victory marks Vingegaard's first yellow jersey since 2023, while teenage French prodigy Paul Seixas achieved an impressive sixth-place debut for his Decathlon CMA CGM team.
- Stages 19 and 20 culminate at the famed Alpe d'Huez climb in the Alps, just 24 hours before the 21st and final stage ending on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
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Everything would revolve around tactics in the new team time trial format, where individual finishing times count. And that just happens to be the event...
The team time trial that kicked off the Tour de France in Barcelona turned into a duel between individual riders – and not between teams – due to new rules. The winner: Jonas Vingegaard, who claimed his first yellow jersey in three years.
BARCELONA (SPAGNA) (ITALPRESS) The Visma Team of Jonas Vingegaard wins the Barcelona Tour Team, the first stage of the Tour de France 2026. The Danish champion is the fastest to complete the 19.6 kilometers of route on the streets of the Catalan metropolis with arrival on Montjuic, closing his test in 21'47' in front of the Netcompany Ineos Cycling Team of the fresh Italian champion Filippo Ganna, the second fastest of day only 8′ from the winne…
Jonas Vingegaard is eleven seconds faster than his great rival Tadej Pogacar.
The challenger dissociates slightly surprising title defender Tadej Pogacar on the first stage of the tour. The German team Red Bull shows the pitfalls of the strategy of relying on two captains.
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