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Legend No. Starting number worn by the rider during the Tour Pos. Position in the general classification: Time Deficit to the winner of the general classification: Denotes riders born on or after 1 January 1999 eligible for the young rider classification
The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the best-known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]
L'Étape du Tour (French for 'stage of the Tour') is an organised mass participation cyclosportive event that allows amateur cyclists to race over the same route as a Tour de France stage. First held in 1993, and now organised by the ASO, in conjunction with Vélo Magazine , it takes place each July, normally on a Tour rest day.
Twenty-two teams are scheduled to take part in the 2023 Tour de France. [1] All 18 UCI WorldTeams have been automatically invited. They were joined by 4 UCI ProTeams - the two highest placed UCI ProTeams in 2022 (Lotto–Dstny and Team TotalEnergies), along with Uno-X Pro Cycling Team and Israel–Premier Tech who were selected by Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), the organisers of the Tour. [2]
Twenty-three teams participated in the 2021 Tour de France. All nineteen UCI WorldTeams were entitled and obliged to enter the race, and they were joined by four second-tier UCI ProTeams . Alpecin–Fenix , the best performing UCI ProTeam in 2020, received an automatic invitation, while the other three teams were selected by Amaury Sport ...
176 riders across 22 eight-member teams took part in the 2022 Tour de France. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Twenty-seven [ a ] nationalities took part, with the largest percentage being French (11% of the peloton). [ 3 ] 135 riders finished the event.
Pro cyclists racing the Tour de France or the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift put their bodies through a battle during every day, for three weeks straight (minus a couple of rest days). But ...
The first Tour de France was in 1903, but the first Dutch cyclists started only in 1936. [6] Already in that first year, Theo Middelkamp won a stage, [6] but it would take until 1951 before Wim van Est was the first Dutch cyclists to wear the yellow jersey. [7] Between 1989 and 2019, the yellow jersey has never been worn by a Dutch cyclist. [8]