TOUR DE FRANCE 2022. The Tour de France 2022 officially begins this Friday, July 1 in the streets of Copenhagen. Find the latest information!
Let’s go for the Tour de France 2022 which officially begins this Friday July 1st from Copenhagen in Denmark with an individual time trial! For this very first stage, the very first runner will set off from 4 p.m. while the very last runner will leave at 6:55 p.m. for a final arrival scheduled around 7:10 p.m. This stage, in the streets of Copenhagen, does not present any particular difficulty with a flat and fast course which should not cause big gaps in the general classification. As Christian Prudhomme, director of the Tour de France, explains, “a handful of turns gives the course its technicality, but will not deprive the most powerful rider of the first Yellow Jersey.” The profile of this first stage of the Tour de France:
This yellow jersey precisely, the Italian Filippo Gana hopes to conquer it and is clearly the number 1 favorite for this first stage of the Tour de France. World champion in the time trial, winner of the national title a few days ago, the Italian was beaten only once this season on a time trial, it was against the Swiss of the Education First team Stefan Bissegger. The Swiss will be one of the opponents of the Ineos runner just like his compatriot Stefan Kung. If he is mainly aiming for the green jersey of best sprinter, Wout van Aert will compete in this first time trial and could also win the very first yellow jersey of this Tour de France 2022. Finally, we cannot forget the main favorites of the Tour . Tadej PogacarPrimoz Roglic or Jonas Vingegaard are all good riders on this specific exercise and can also claim victory.
The start times of all the riders of this 1st stage of the Tour de France have been revealed, here are those of the main favorites for the general classification and the stage victory. In general, the latter will leave early in this first stage. “By tradition, we say the best for the end. There, they will leave at the start, by strategy, because three or four seconds can make the difference” explained Benjamin Thomas for Ouest France. “The strategy is to start a good rider first in order to have a reference time, a leader in second and a rider in third.”
- 16:07 – BISSEGGER Stefan EFE
- 16:11 – VAN DER POEL Mathieu ADC
- 16:12 – GAUDU David GFC
- 16:14 – THOMAS Benjamin COF
- 16:15 – MAS Enric MOV
- 16:19 – MARTINEZ Daniel IGD
- 16:20 – ROGLIC Primoz TJV
- 16:28 – QUINTANA Nairo ARK
- 16:32 – BARDET Romain DSM
- 16:34 – KÜNG Stefan GFC
- 16:36 – MARTIN Guillaume COF
- 16:39 – VLASOV Aleksandr BOH
- 16:40 – O’CONNOR Ben ACT
- 16:41 – THOMAS Geraint IGD
- 16:42 – VINGEGAARD Jonas TJV
- 16:51 – GUERREIRO Ruben EFE
- 16:56 – PINOT Thibaut GFC
- 17:03 – GANNA Filippo IGD
- 17:04 – VAN AERT Wout TJV
- 17:05 – POGACAR Tadej UAD
- 17:22 – ASGREEN Kasper QST
- 17:35 – URAN Rigoberto EFE
- 18:14 – FROOME Chris IPT
- 18:36 – FUGLSANG Jakob IPT
The route of the Tour de France 2022 was unveiled on Thursday October 14, 2021, by Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Grande Boucle. After the Grand Départ in Denmark, the peloton enters the national territory via the Nord department, with in particular a stage comprising cobbled sections, before heading for the East of the country (La Planche des Belles Filles), then the Alps (with an arrival atAlpe d’Huez), a passage through Lozère (Mende), the Pyrenees, and a time trial in Rocamadour the day before the finish in Paris.
Here is the map of this 109th edition of the Tour de France cyclist, which therefore gives pride of place to the North and East of the country, as well as to the Pyrenees:
The Tour de France traditionally takes place in the first three weeks of July. Only the 2020 edition deviated from the rule, the epidemic of coronavirus having forced the organizers to postpone the race in September. For the 2022 edition, departure abroad obliges, the departure will not take place on a Saturday but on a Friday, the July 1, 2022. Arrival will be judged the Sunday July 24, 2022.
Here is the list of the stages of this Tour de France 2022 of cycling, which will connect Copenhagen to Paris:
- July 1: 1st stage Copenhagen – Copenhagen, 13 km (individual time trial)
- July 2: 2nd stage Roskilde (Denmark) – Nyborg (Denmark), 199 km
- July 3: 3rd stage Vejle (Denmark) – Sönderborg (Denmark), 182 km
- July 4: transfer
- July 5: 4th stage Dunkirk – Calais, 172 km
- July 6: 5th stage Lille Métropole – Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, 155 km
- July 7: 6th stage Binche (Belgium) – Longwy, 220 km
- July 8: 7th stage Tomblaine – La super Planche des Belles Filles, 176 km
- July 9: 8th stage Dole – Lausanne (Switzerland), 184 km
- July 10: 9th stage Aigle (Switzerland) – Châtel, 183 km
- July 11: rest in Morzine
- July 12: 10th stage Morzine – Megève, 148 km
- July 13: 11th stage Albertville – Col du Granon, 149 km
- July 14: 12th stage Briançon – Alpe d’Huez, 166 km
- July 15: 13th stage Bourg d’Oisans – Saint-Etienne, 193 km
- July 16: 14th stage Saint-Etienne – Mende, 195 km
- July 17: 15th stage Rodez – Carcassonne, 200 km
- July 18: rest in Carcassonne
- July 19: 16th stage Carcassonne – Foix, 179 km
- July 20: 17th stage Saint-Gaudens – Peyragudes, 130 km
- July 21: 18th stage Lourdes – Hautacam, 143 km
- July 22: 19th stage Castelnau-Magnoac – Cahors, 189 km
- July 23: 20th stage Lacapelle-Marival – Rocamadour, 40 km (individual time trial)
- July 24: 21st stage Paris La Défense Arena – Paris Champs-Elysées, 112 km
Discover as the teams announce, the official startlist of this Tour de France 2022:
- AG2R Citroën (France) : Geoffrey Bouchard, Mikaël Chérel, Benoit Cosnefroy, Stan Dewulf, Bob Jungels, Oliver Naesen, Ben O’Connor, Aurélien Paret-Peintre.
- Alpecin-Fenix (Belgium) : Silvan Dillier, Michael Gogl, Alexander Krieger, Jasper PhilipsenEdward Planckaert, Kristian Sbaragli, Mathieu van der Poel, Guillaume Van Keirsbulck.
- Arkéa-Samsic (France) : Warren Barguil, Maxime Bouet, Amaury Capiot, Hugo Hofstetter, Matis Louvel, Nairo Quintana, Lukasz Owsian, Connor Swift.
- Astana Qazaqstan (Kazakhstan) : Aleksandr Riabushenko, Joe Dombrowski, Fabio Felline, Dmitriy Gruzdev, Alexey Lutsenko, Gianni Moscon, Simone Velasco, Andrey Zeits.
- Bahrain Victorious (Bahrain) : Damiano Caruso, Kamil Gradek, Jack Haig, Luis Leon Sanchez, Matej Mohoric, Dylan Teuns, Jan Tratnik, Fred Wright.
- B&B Hotels-KTM (France) : Cyril Barthe, Franck Bonnamour, Alexis Gougeard, Jérémy Lecroq, Cyril Lemoine, Luca Mozzato, Pierre Rolland, Sebastian Schönberger.
- BikeExchange Jayco (Australia) : Jack Bauer, Luke Durbridge, Dylan Groenewegen, Amund Grondahl Jansen, Christopher Juul-Jensen, Michael Matthews, Luka Mezgec, Nick Schultz.
- Bora-Hansgrohe (Germany) : Felix Großschartner, Marco Haller, Patrick Konrad, Lennard Kämna, Nils Politt, Danny van Poppel, Max Schachmann and Aleksandr Vlasov.
- Cofidis (France) : Pierre-Luc Périchon, Simon Geschke, Ion Izagirre, Victor Lafay, Guillaume Martin, Anthony Perez, Benjamin Thomas, Max Walscheid.
- DSM (Netherlands) : Romain Bardet, Alberto Dainese, John Degenkolb, Nils Eekhoff, Chris Hamilton, Andreas Leknessund, Martin Tusveld, Kevin Vermaerke.
- EF Education – EasyPost (US) : Alberto Bettiol, Stefan Bissegger, Magnus Cort Nielsen, Owain Doull, Ruben Guerreiro, Neilson Powless, Jonas Rutsch, Rigoberto Uran.
- Groupama-FDJ (France) : Antoine Duchesne, david gauduKevin Geniets, Stefan Küng, Olivier Le Gac, Valentin Madouas, Thibaut Pinot, Michael Storer.
- Ineos Grenadiers (United Kingdom) : Jonathan Castroviejo, Filippo Ganna, Daniel Martinez, Tom Pidcock, Luke Rowe, Geraint Thomas, Dylan van Baarle, Adam Yates.
- Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Materials (Belgium) : Sven Erik Bystrom, Kobe Goossens, Alexander Kristoff, Louis Meintjes, Andrea Pasqualon, Adrien Petit, Taco van der Hoorn, Georg Zimmermann.
- Israel-Premier Tech (Israel) : Hugo Houle, Simon Clarke, Jakob Fuglsang, Chris Froome (quadruple winner), Michael Woods, Guy Niv, Guillaume Boivin and Krists Neilands.
- Jumbo-Visma (Netherlands) : Tiesj Benoot (BEL), Steven Kruijswijk (NED), Sepp Kuss (USA), Christophe Laporte (FRA), Primoz Roglic (SLO), Wout Van Aert (BEL), Nathan Van Hooydonck (NED), Jonas Vingegaard (DAN).
- Lotto-Soudal (Belgium) : Caleb Ewan, Frederik Frison, Philippe Gilbert, Reinardt Janse van Rensburg, Andreas Kron, Brent Van Moer, Florian Vermeersch, Tim Wellens.
- Movistar (Spain) : Imanol Erviti, Gorka Izagirre, Matteo Jorgenson, Enric Mas, Gregor Mühlberger, Nelson Oliveira, Albert Torres, Carlos Verona.
- Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl (Belgium) : Kasper Asgreen, Andrea Bagioli, Mattia Cattaneo, Florian Sénéchal, Mikkel Honoré, Fabio JakobsenYves Lampaert, Michael Morkov.
- TotalEnergies (France) : Maciej Bodnar, Mathieu Burgaudeau, Pierre Latour, Daniel Oss, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Peter SaganAnthony Turgis, Alexis Vuillermoz.
- Trek-Segafredo (USA) : Giulio Ciccone, Tony Gallopin, Alex Kirsch, Bauke Mollema, Mads Pedersen, Quinn Simmons, Toms Skujins, Jasper Stuyven.
- UAE Emirates (United Arab Emirates) : George Bennett, Mikkel Bjerg, Vegard Stake Laengen, Rafal Majka, Brandon McNulty, Tadej Pogacar, Marc Soler, Marc Hirschi.
Find the winners of the Tour de France for the past 15 years:
2021: Tadej Pogacar
2020: Tadej Pogacar
2019: Egan Bernal
2018: Geraint Thomas
2017: Chris Froome
2016: Chris Froome
2015: Chris Froome
2014: Vincenzo Nibal
2013: Chris Froome
2012: Bradley Wiggins
2011: Cadel Evans
2010: Andy Schlek
2009: Alberto Contador
2008: Carlos Saster
2007: Alberto Contador
2006: Oscar Perreiro Sio