The Dane Jonas Vingegaard, from the Visma-Lease a bike team, won the yellow jersey on Saturday during the first stage of the Tour de France. For this 113th edition, the competition began in Barcelona, ​​Spain, with a team time trial.

Published on: 07/04/2026 - 7:32 p.m. Modified on: 07/05/2026 - 03:50

Jonas Vingegaard won the first stage of the 113th edition of the Tour de France from Barcelona on Saturday July 4. He put on the yellow jersey after the victory of his team Visma-Lease a bike in the team time trial.

Thanks to the finish of its leader, the Dutch team won the time trial with 8 seconds ahead of the Netcompany Ineos team led by the Italian Filippo Ganna, while the Frenchman Kévin Vauquelin had a puncture, as well as 12 seconds over the UAE team of Tadej Pogacar, the outgoing double winner.

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Paul Seixas, who like most of the leaders finished alone the work, finished 39 seconds behind with his Decathlon CMA CGM team during this time trial where the times were taken individually from each rider for the general classification.

Juan Ayuso's Lidl-Trek finished fourth, 16 seconds behind, just ahead of the Red Bull Bora team, 19 seconds behind, with Remco Evenepoel finishing alone, ahead of Florian Lipowitz.

Thanks to this success, Jonas Vingegaard returns to the yellow jersey that he last wore on the Champs-Élysées in Paris after winning his second and last Tour de France in July 2023.

Very sharp, the Dane took off over the last bump leading to the finish line in front of the Olympic stadium, at the top of Montjuic hill, after a 19.6 km course covered in just 21 minutes and 47 seconds.

Puncture for Kévin Vauquelin

The Visma team had already won the previous team time trial on the Tour program, in 2019 in Brussels.

On Saturday, she beat Netcompany Ineos, who was favorite in this time. But the British team had to change plans along the way after losing Kévin Vauquelin, who was designated leader and could have claimed the yellow jersey but suffered a rear wheel puncture halfway through.

Paul Seixas made a solid impression on the final climb where he easily let go of his teammate Matthew Riccitello to lead his team to a good fifth place.

Tadej Pogacar also appeared very strong with a dazzling final climb where he outran his Mexican lieutenant, Isaac del Toro, to console himself with the polka dot jersey of best climber, since he achieved the best time on this final climb.

With AFP

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