Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 2026
Visma | Lease a Bike won the team time trial at the Tour of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and Alex Baudin retained the yellow jersey. The next two stages feature hilly openings and flat finishes, before the riders face three consecutive mountain top finishes over the weekend. The Saturday and Sunday stages in particular are brutal.
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Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 2026: Visma | Lease a Bike wins TTT, Baudin holds on to yellow
The rolling team time trial on Stage 3 of the Tour of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes turns into a duel between Visma | Lease a Bike and Netcompany INEOS. The Dutch team proves 9 seconds quicker, while EF Education-EasyPost, led by yellow jersey Alex Baudin, takes third place. That leaves Baudin with just enough in hand to retain the overall lead.
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Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 2026 Route stage 3: Perreux - Perreux
Tuesday 9 June – With the Tour de France due to open with a team time trial in which every rider is awarded an individual time, the 3rd stage of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes serves as a useful dress rehearsal. The course is a rolling 28.4-kilometre circuit through the countryside around Perreux.
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Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 2026: Route
The Tour Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes serves up roughly 22,000 metres of elevation gain over 1,200 kilometres. in other words, there is a significant amount of climbing in store, with the weekend stages standing out as particularly brutal.
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Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 2026 Route stage 4: Le Puy-en-Velay - Montrond-les-Bains
Wednesday 10 June – At 167.4 kilometres, stage 4 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes takes the riders from Le Puy-en-Velay to Montrond-les-Bains. The route begins as a hilly affair before the riders descend towards a flat final run-in of around 35 kilometres.
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Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 2026 Route stage 5: Saint-Chamond - Villars-les-Dombes
Thursday 11 June – The 5th stage is the flattest of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The riders face a 195.8-kilometre journey from Saint-Chamond to the Parc des Oiseaux in Villars-les-Dombes, with all of the day's climbing packed into the first half of the route.
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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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