Tour of the Basque Country 2026
Edition 65 of the Tour of the Basque Country - or, Itzulia Basque Country - starts today and is set to finish on Saturday. The contest in northern Spain is a feast for climbers and puncheurs, as the Basque Country is famous for its steep hills and mountains. This year's route features 16,291 metres of climbing over 809.6 kilometres. Today's opener is an ITT for climbers and puncheurs.
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Tour of the Basque Country 2026 Route stage 1: Bilbao - Bilbao
Monday 6 April – The Tour of the Basque Country opens with an ITT for punchers. Immediately after the start, the riders tackle a 2.4-kilometre climb, and the race finishes on a 470-metre ramp at 9.2%. Over 13.9 kilometres, the route features an elevation gain of 240 metres.
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Tour of the Basque Country 2026: Route
The Tour of the Basque Country starts this coming Monday and finishes on Saturday 11 April. The riders face plenty of climbing, often at brutal gradients, but there are no long finishing climbs. Instead, the finish line is placed several times on punchy uphill ramps. Over six days, the riders tackle 16,291 metres of climbing on an 809.6-kilometre route.
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Tour of the Basque Country 2026: Riders
The firepower in the Basque Country is impressive. Isaac del Toro, Juan Ayuso, Paul Seixas, Primoz Roglic, Ben Healy, Mattias Skjelmose and Tobias Halland Johannessen are among the riders fighting for the GC. Who else is riding the race locally known as the Itzulia Basque Country?
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Cycling Calendar 2026
Throughout the year, Cyclingstage.com covers the races we are passionate about – including the Giro d’Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, but there's so much more… Please take a look at our 2026 cycling calendar!
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Paris - Roubaix 2026: Route
Sunday, 12 April – Also known as the ‘Hell of the North’, Paris–Roubaix is one of the oldest and most challenging one-day races, with riders having to endure a daunting gauntlet of cobbled sectors before finishing in the Roubaix Velodrome. This year’s route covers 258.3 kilometres, with all thirty cobbled sectors concentrated in the final 165 kilometres.
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Tour of the Basque Country 2026 Route stage 2: Pamplona - Cuevas de Mendukilo
Tuesday 7 April – The 2nd stage of the Tour of the Basque Country covers 164.1 kilometres from Pamplona to the Caves of Mendukilo. With 19.5 kilometres to go, they crest a 9.5-kilometre climb at 7.7%, before descending towards a rolling finishing climb of 3.5 kilometres. The route totals an elevation gain of 3,268 metres.
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