Tadej Pogacar won the 2026 Tour de France in Paris on Sunday, finishing the three-week race in 73 hours 56 minutes 26 seconds and taking a fifth title that equals the record held by Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain. The official classification puts Remco Evenepoel second at 6 minutes 26 seconds and Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates XRG team-mate Isaac Del Toro third at 9 minutes 42 seconds. Pogacar is 27, won five stages, and wore the yellow jersey every day from stage six.
The subsidiary classifications went to Mads Pedersen in green, Richard Carapaz in the polka-dot jersey of the mountains competition with 156 points, and Del Toro in white as best young rider. Lidl-Trek won the team classification and Carapaz was judged the most combative rider. Mathieu van der Poel took the final stage on the Champs-Elysees, holding off the chasing peloton after attacking over Montmartre in company with Pogacar.
The official results table carries two columns the race reports generally skip: bonus seconds and penalties. Pogacar collected 1 minute 2 seconds of bonuses over the three weeks against Evenepoel’s 26 seconds, so on riding time alone the winning margin would be 5 minutes 50 seconds rather than 6:26 — the intermediate sprints and summit bonuses account for 36 seconds of the gap. Carapaz picked up 28 seconds in bonuses; Tom Pidcock and Sepp Kuss carried penalties of 20 seconds and a full minute respectively.
Sunday’s finale was 43.8 kilometres shorter than planned, cut from 132.5 to 88.7 kilometres because security staff assigned to the race were redeployed to the Gironde department, where the wildfires we reported on this weekend have forced about 250,000 people from their homes. General classification times were taken before the first competitive passage of Montmartre, so Pogacar finished with exactly the margin he had held after stage 20 and the racing in Paris counted only for the stage.