Tadej Pogacar wins 2026 Tour de France, ties five-title record

Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates XRG won the 2026 Tour de France on Sunday, claiming a fifth overall title and tying the race’s all-time record in one of cycling’s most important achievements.

Official final classifications for the 113th Tour de France showed Pogacar finished in 73 hours, 56 minutes, 26 seconds. Remco Evenepoel of Red Bull - BORA - Hansgrohe was second overall, 6 minutes, 26 seconds behind, and Isaac Del Toro of UAE Team Emirates XRG was third at 9 minutes, 42 seconds back.

The victory put Pogacar alongside Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain as the only riders to win the Tour de France five times. Pogacar’s previous overall wins came in 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025, and his latest title confirmed his place in that small group of record-holders.

This year’s win was built on control as much as speed. Pogacar won five stages during the three-week race, and the decisive blow came on Stage 19, when he won atop Alpe d’Huez and stretched his advantage to what contemporary coverage described as a commanding, effectively race-clinching lead. After that victory, Pogacar said, “It’s very cool to win up here.”

UAE Team Emirates XRG also left the race with a broader team success. Del Toro, who finished third overall, won the young rider classification, earning the white jersey awarded to the top finisher among the race’s best young contenders. That gave the team the overall winner, the white-jersey winner and two spots on the final podium.

The other major classification winners also underscored the depth of the race. Mads Pedersen won the points classification, taking the green jersey typically associated with sprint consistency, while Richard Carapaz won the mountains classification and the polka-dot jersey awarded to the best climber.

Pogacar did not need a dramatic final-day turnaround to secure the title. He entered Paris with a substantial advantage over Evenepoel, and the official results confirmed a clear winning margin of more than six minutes. That gap reflected how firmly he had taken control by the closing mountain stages, especially with his Alpe d’Huez victory.

Organizers and Paris police also adjusted the final stage into Paris because major wildfires in France required the redeployment of some security and emergency resources. But the change did not alter the central result: Pogacar finished the Tour in yellow for the fifth time, matching a record that had stood with only four names attached to it.