Results Tour de France 2026 stage 15 - Remco Evenepoel beats Tadej Pogacar on Plateau de Solaison as Jonas Vingegaard crashes out of the Tour de France

Stage 15 of the Tour de France was the most eventful of the race thus far. Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar underwent doping tests in the middle of the night; Vingegaard crashed and withdrew from the Tour; and on the brutal climb to the Plateau de Solaison it was Remco Evenepoel himself who took the stage win ahead of Tadej Pogacar and Isaac del Toro.

The stage had a flat start and once again, the sprinters took up the action. Jasper Philipsen reduced the green jersey lead of Mads Pedersen by another 5 points, and the fight for the breakaway would begin afterwards. Lacking the big climbs early on, the fight was intense and spread out through many kilometers.

In the end it was Tom Pidcock who headlined the breakaway group once again, helped by teammate Brent van Moer. The likes of Tobias Johannessen, Thymen Arensman, Quinn Simmons, Egan Bernal, Adam Yates, Ilan van Wilder and other climbers. A quality group of around two dozen riders, including two Team Visma | Lease a Bike riders.

Behind, Visma itself began the chase, not letting the gap grow beyond two minutes but instead, to keep the pressure on. Overnight, Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar had doping tests at 2 and 5am respectively. Pogacar had spoken about sleeping only four hours, and the Dutch team looked to have the intention of testing the yellow jersey.

On the 11% Col de la Croisette, Davide Piganzoli and Matteo Jorgenson worked in the peloton to thin down the group to only a few dozen riders; linking up with Victor Campenaerts and Bruno Armirail who had been in the breakaway and then hit the front themselves. Quinn Simmons crossed the climb in the head of the race isolated, with a group including Tom Pidcock and Ilan van Wilder following closely behind.

The race stabilized with a gap of around 2 minutes, but the entire stage and race changed with 20 kilometers to go. The pressure was on in the peloton with Visma setting a very high pace, but in a technical section Jonas Vingegaard crashed. The Danish rider immediately looked in pain, and his withdrawal from the race was confirmed shortly after, with a suspected fractured collarbone.

Visma left the front of the race and suddenly, Tadej Pogacar's overall win looked cemented. Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe continued chasing the Tom Pidcock-led breakaway and set the pace in the peloton over the start of the 11-kilometer long Plateau de Solaison.

Quinn Simmons took the head of the race once again, chased behind by Tadej Pogacar who began setting the pace in the GC group with Isaac del Toro on his wheel. Remco Evenepoel was the only rider able to follow the duo; with Paul Seixas, Florian Lipowitz and Juan Ayuso dropped and chasing from behind.

The trio caught Simmons with 5.5 kilometers to go. Del Toro attacked twice insider the final kilometer of the stage, but was unable to drop Remco Evenepoel. In the final sprint Del Toro was the one to lead, and Evenepoel then took over. It looked unclear whether Pogacar did not have the legs or opted not to overtake the Belgian, but ultimately sprinted to his first stage win at the Tour outside of the time trials.