The first rider to drop out was Michele Gazzoli. Mark Cavendish’s domestique was overcome by the heat in the 1st stage. Then two Pedersens left the Tour de France after crashes. Casper went down in the finale of the 3rd stage, and Mads crashed two days later. He dragged himself through two more stages before he decided to stops his efforts.
Aleksands Vlasov didn’t make it past the first rest day either. He left the Tour with an ankle fracture after the gravel race on day nine.
Podium contender Primoz Roglic crashed in the finale of stage 12. The Slovenian reached the finish, but he was unable to continue the Tour de France.
DNF in stage 1
195 Michele Gazzoli (ita – Astana Qazaqstan Team)
DNS in stage 4
76 Casper Pedersen (den – Soudal-QuickStep)
DNS in stage 8
45 Mads Pedersen (den – Lidl-Trek)
DNS in stage 10
88 Aleksandr Vlasov (rus – Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
DNS in stage 11
42 Tim Declercq (bel – Lidl-Trek)
DNF in stage 11
146 Ion Izagirre (spa – Cofidis)
147 Alexis Renard (fra – Cofidis)
OTL in stage 11
68 Fred Wright (gbr – Bahrain Victorious)
DNS in stage 12
197 Michael Mørkøv (den – Astana Qazaqstan Team)
DNF in stage 12
61 Pello Bilbao (spa – Bahrain Victorious)
185 Fabio Jakobsen (nld – Team dsm-firmenich PostNL)
OTL in stage 12
104 Søren Kragh Andersen (den – Alpecin-Deceuninck)
107 Jonas Rickaert (bel – Alpecin-Deceuninck)
194 Yevgeniy Fedorov (kaz – Astana Qazaqstan Team)
DNS in stage 13
81 Primoz Roglic (slo – Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe)
145 Jesús Herrada (fra – Cofidis)
DNS in stage 14
36 Tom Pidcock (gbr) – INEOS Grenadiers)
133 Guillaume Boivin (can) – Israel – Premier Tech)
DNF in stage 14
78 Louis Vervaeke (bel – Soudal-QuickStep)
112 Alberto Bettiol (ita – EF Education-EasyPost)
162 Amaury Capiot (fra) – Arkéa-B&B Hotels)
DNF in stage 15
177 Gerben Thijssen (bel – Intermarché-Wanty)
OTL in stage 15
188 Bram Welten (nld – Team dsm-firmenich PostNL)
DNS in stage 16
24 Chris Harper (aus – Team Jayco AlUla)
126 Maxim Van Gils (bel – Lotto Dstny)
DNS in stage 17
28 Elmar Reinders (nld – Team Jayco AlUla)
63 Phil Bauhaus (ger – Bahrain Victorious)
DNF in stage 17
53 Sam Bennett (irl – Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale)
154 Fernando Gaviria (col – Movistar)
196 Alexey Lutsenko (kaz – Astana Qazaqstan Team)
DNS in stage 19
94 Stefan Küng (swi) – Groupama-FDJ)
138 Jake Stewart (gbr) – Israel-Premier Tech)
DNF in stage 19
184 Nils Eekhoff (nld) – Team dsm-firmenich PostNL)
OTL in stage 19
164 Arnaud Démare (fra – Arkéa – B&B Hotels)
In 2023, the Tour de France peloton also featured 176 riders, 26 of whom did not reach the finish in Paris.
Two GC contenders were the first riders to abandon the race. Enric Mas and Richard Carapaz crashed in the same corner of a descent in the first stage. The Olympic champion remounted and reached the finish with a knee injury, which forced him to pull out the following morning. Mas did not continue due to a fractured scapula, making him the first rider to abandon the 2023 Tour de France.
Mark Cavendish hit the deck in stage 8 and pulled out with a shoulder injury.