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2026 Tour de France: Stage 10 Results

  • Ron 

Tadej Pogačar soared to a solo stage victory in Stage 10 of the 2026 Tour de France on Bastille Day. It was stage victory number three for Pogačar at this year’s race, with the -XRG man extending his lead in the general classification with the stage 10 win. The win also marks his third win on Bastille Day.

French attackers and their global rivals gave it their all on the many ascents of the day, Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) being the last to be reeled in, but nobody could resist when Pogacar attacked on the penultimate ascent of the day, Col de Pertus. He eventually took his 24th Tour stage win with a gap of 32 seconds to Remco Evenepoel (-Bora-Hansgrohe). Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM) rounds out the day’s top 3 and moves into the overall top 5 as Isaac del Toro (UAE Emirates-XRG) lost ground in the finale.

Pogačar’s advantage over the second-placed Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a ) now stands at over three and a half minutes, with the two-time eyeing up a record-equalling fifth Tour de France crown. His latest stage victory was another owed to the tremendous work of his teammates in the mountains.

After the rest day, the faced a brutal stage 10 with no less than 3,800 metres of elevation packed in 166.6 km of racing from Aurillac to Le Lioran. There were seven categorised ascents on tap today.

Alex Kirsch () attacked as soon as the flag drops. After an early bike swap for Mads Pedersen, Lidl-Trek start pulling the bunch to ensure their Danish star had a go at the intermediate sprint in Lacapelle-del-Fraisse (km 25.5).

Right after the sprint, Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech) put the hammer down, with teammate Ramses Debruyne and many more attackers in his wake. Attacks and counter-attacks flew. Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility) went hard at km 45 and initiated the decisive move. A dozen riders followed the Norwegian all-rounder, a dozen more bridged the gap in successive waves, and a 31-man breakaway eventually emerged at the front.

UAE Emirates-XRG rapidly moved to the front positions of the bunch to ensure the gap never got higher than 1’25” reached halfway through the stage. At that point, the breakaway has already exploded, because of the pressure applied by and the lack of collaboration at the front.

Javier Romo () and Harold Tejada (XDS Astana) led the way in front of chasers such as Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost), Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal Quick-Step), Alex Baudin (EF Education-EasyPost), and Ramses Debruyne. Romo went solo on the climb to Col de la Griffoul (cat. 2, summit at km 97.3).

The Spaniard was first atop that climb, as well as Col de Prat de Bouc (cat. 3, km 103.8) and Côte de Murat (cat. 3, km 118.8). He was reeled in after 36 kilometres alone at the front, at the bottom of the climb up Puy Mary – Pas de Peyrol (cat. 1, km 135.7).

Immediately after, Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) set off. The Ecuadorian climber rapidly opened a gap of 40 seconds. Decathlon CMA CGM moved to the front of the 20-man GC group towards the summit.

Carapaz pushed his advantage on the downhill. His lead was up to 1 minute at the bottom of the penultimate climb of the day, Col de Pertus (cat. 1, km 152.1). Visma-Lease a Bike upped the ante with Davide Piganzoli. But they couldn’t react when Pogacar attacked one kilometre from the summit.  The Slovenian flew past Carapaz and opened a gap of 20 seconds to a group with Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel and Paul Seixas, while Isaac del Toro struggles.

Pogacar keeps pushing on the Col de Font de Cère ascent and eventually takes his 24th Tour stage win with a gap of 32 seconds to Remco Evenepoel ( Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), who steps on the overall podium instead of Del Toro (8th on the day, +1’31”). The Mexican youngster drops down to seventh place in the overall standings, also behind Juan Ayuso (+4’22”), Paul Seixas (+4’35”), and Florian Lipowitz (+4’44”).

In taking his third win of the race and extending his lead in the general classification, Pogačar has earned himself a 60th Yellow . That marker will be celebrated by the UAE Team Emirates-XRG man on Wednesday.

Pogačar: “Today was an incredible day, the team did a super good job. We targeted this stage since a long time ago, and it also happens that two years ago Jonas beat me in the sprint fair and square. Today I had similar legs in the finish – completely destroyed!.

“I enjoyed the day and in the final I didn’t know I was going to win until the final kilometre. Then I remembered it was Bastille Day and tried to honour the Yellow Jersey. Thansk to all the fans that came today to the road, it was an amazing atmosphere.”

“Today we were trying new radios, and because there were so many fans, I couldn’t hear anything. In the last 10km, I didn’t know what the gap was, or who was doing what. All I had in my mind was to keep on pushing until the top.

“I think so far the Tour was perfect for me and the team. It suited us really well, today, for example, the perfect climbs for each rider in the team so everyone could do their job. I could finish it off, and Isaac did a super good job as well. He is a fighter, and now he is there fighting for a top spot.”

2026 Tour de France 2026: Stage 10 Brief Results

  1. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 3:58:08
  2. Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) +32″
  3. Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM) +34″

2026 Tour de France:  General Classification After Stage 10:

  1. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 36:15:02
  2.  Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) +3:36
  3. Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) +4:06

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