2 : POGACAR EQUALS DARRIGADE
Another win for Tadej Pogacar ! By raising his arms in triumph at Les Angles this Monday, the Slovenian (UAE Team Emirates – XRG) claimed his 22nd Tour de France stage win. The two-time world champion has now equaled Frenchman André Darrigade, moving up to fifth place on the list of the most prolific stage winners in the history of the Grande Boucle. Pogacar, who also claimed the 122nd victory of his career, had never won this early in the Tour before. In both 2024 and 2025, he had waited until the fourth stage, respectively in Valloire and Rouen, to secure his first win.
6 : A HISTORIC BACK-TO-BACK FOR UAE
Following Isaac del Toro’s victory on Sunday in the hills above Barcelona, Tadej Pogacar secured a second consecutive win for UAE Team Emirates – XRG, a feat the team had previously achieved five times. However, this particular double is unprecedented, as the earlier instances were all achieved by Pogacar himself. The Slovenian had set the pace in 2021 by claiming the 17th and 18th stages, at the Col du Portet and Luz-Ardiden respectively.
0 : IN THE SAME SECOND !
In a rare occurrence since the introduction of time bonuses at stage finishes and during the race, the top two riders in the general classification, Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, are perfectly tied ! The two favorites were separated based on the sum of their placings in the first two road stages, as the hundredths of a second from the team time trial were not taken into account. Curiously, a similar situation had also occurred after stage 4 of the 2025 Tour : Mathieu van der Poel was in the Yellow Jersey ahead of... Tadej Pogacar.
55 : A GROWING COLLECTION OF LIONS
Thanks to his victory, Tadej Pogacar leads the general classification for the 55th time in his career. The four-time Tour winner moves within four days of Britain’s Chris Froome, who holds the fourth-highest number of Yellow Jerseys in the race's history. At the same time, the Slovenian extends his collection of the Tour’s distinctive jerseys, bringing his total to 160. In addition to the 55 Yellow Jerseys, Pogacar has claimed 3 green jerseys, 27 polka-dot jerseys, and 75 white jerseys.
16 : AN EVER MORE HISTORICAL DUEL
Their duel adds another chapter to the history of the Tour. For the 16th time, Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard have claimed the top two spots in a stage. And if the final general classification is included, the total rises to 21 ! It is a record dominated by the Slovenian (16 victories to 5) and one that keeps growing, more than doubling the total of the next-best duo, François Faber and Gustave Garrigou (9 stages and 1 general classification).
1 : SO YOUNG
After finishing fourth in Les Angles, Paul Seixas became the first rider under the age of 20, since the 1937 edition, to secure two consecutive top-10 finishes. Having placed ninth the previous day in Barcelona, the Decathlon–CMA CGM rider from Lyon could now equal the record held by Dutchman Danny van Poppel, who is the only 19-year-old to have finished in the top ten of a stage three times. It was in 2013.
160 : BAUDIN BAGS THE POLKA-DOT JERSEY
Impressive in the breakaway between Granollers and Les Angles, Alex Baudin scored 12 points in the mountains classification, taking the polka-dot jersey from Dutchman Alex Molenaar. The EF Education–EasyPost climber, who became the 160th rider to wear the jersey introduced in 1975, is also the first Frenchman to wear it since Lenny Martinez in the 2025 edition.
1794 : TOWARDS THE SUMMITS
The Tour is already in the mountains. By finishing for the first time at Les Angles, 1 794 meters above sea level, the Grande Boucle never set a finish line at such an altitude this early in the race since… 47 years ! We have to go back to the third day of the 1979 edition, when the Tour stopped at Superbagnères, at an altitude of 1 804 meters, also in the Pyrenees. That day, Bernard Hinault won an uphill time trial starting from Bagnères-de-Luchon, lower down in the valley.
