Tour de France 2024: Favourites

Tour de France 2024: Favouritesfoto: Cor VosHaving won six stages, GC winner Tadej Pogacar was the most successful stage hunter of the 2024 Tour de France. Jasper Philipsen and Biniam Girmay both took three wins. The other stages were won by individual riders.

Read about the pre-race favourites or click on the links in underneath scheme for our prognosis regarding the individual stages. Obviously, all these articles were written before the start of the race(s).

Tour de France 2024 – stages

start – finish km type
1 29-6 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 1 Climbers for yellow 206.0 hills
2 30-6 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 2 Enter the hilly specialists 198.7 hills
3 1-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 3 For fast men #1 230.5 flat
4 2-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 4 GC battle on the Galibier 139.6 mountains
5 3-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 5 For fast men #2 177.4 flat
6 4-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 6 For fast men #3 163.5 flat
7 5-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 7 ITT masters step up 25.3 ITT
8 6-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 8 For fast men #4 183.4 hills
9 7-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 9 Strade Bianche à la Tour 199.0 gravel
8-7 rustdag
10 9-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 10 For fast men #5 187.3 flat
11 10-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 11 Onslaught in Massif Central 211.0 hills
12 11-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 12 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 11 For fast men #6 203.6 hills
13 12-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 13 For fast men #7 165.3 hills
14 13-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 14 Attackers in the Pyrenees 151.9 mountains
15 14-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 15 GC riders in the Pyrenees 197.7 mountains
15-7 rest day
16 16-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 16 For fast men #8 188.6 flat
17 17-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 17 Breakaway day 177.8 hills
18 18-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 18 Attackers in the Alps 179.5 hills
19 19-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 19 Demolishers in the Alps #1 144.6 mountains
20 20-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 20 Attackers in the Alps 132.8 mountains
21 21-7 Tour de France 2024 favourites stage 21 ITT for climbers 33.7 ITT

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Tour de France 2024 Favourites stage 2: Enter the hilly specialists

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Tour de France 2024 Favourites stage 3: For fast men #1

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Tour de France 2024 Favourites stage 4: GC clash on the Galibier

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