Startlist Tour de Romandie 2026 | Riders: Tadej Pogacar, Primoz Roglic, Florian Lipwotiz, Oscar Onley and more
CyclingTuesday, 21 April 2026 at 21:30
The 2026 Tour de Romandie will take place from the 28th of April to the 3rd of May and will make for Tadej Pogacar's debut in a stage-race this year. The Swiss race provides the final big test ahead of the Giro d'Italia whilst also following the spring classics, a period where many are looking to save their campaign. We take a look at its startlist.
The race was first held in 1947 with Belgian Désiré Keteleer taking the first win. Taking part in the French part of Switzerland, it is a race that has had a very international list of winners, from several generations and also different types of riders. But many of the greats have marked their name on it such as Eddy Merckx, Bernard Thévenet, Bernard Hinault, Stephen Roche and Laurent Jalabert.
Alrrady this century we've had Cadel Evans, Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome use Romandie ahead of their maiden Tour de France wins; whilst huge names such as Nairo Quintana, Richie Porte, Primoz Roglic and Geraint Thomas have also won the GC on what is considered to be one of the seven big non Grand-Tour stage-races.
Adam Yates won it in 2023, Carlos Rodríguez in 2024; and in 2025 it was João Almeida who won the race on the final day after dethroning Lenny Martínez from the yellow jersey.
Download the startlist in A4. Tadej Pogacar is going to take part in the Swiss race, leading UAE Team Emirates - XRG and headlining the event. Soudal - Quick-Step will have Valentin Paret-Peintre; Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe is having Florian Lipowitz, Primoz Roglic and Daniel Martínez; INEOS Grenadiers has Oscar Onley; Whilst Bahrain - Victorious have Antonio Tiberi and Lenny Martínez lined up to lead the team.
Startlist Tour de Romandie 2026
| XDS Astana Team | ||
| Fortunato, Lorenzo | ||
| Higuita, Sergio | ||
| Kajamini, Florian | ||
| Kuzmin, Anton | ||
| Rodríguez, Cristian | ||
| Schrettl, Marco | ||
| Toneatti, Davide | ||
| Movistar Team | ||
| Arcas, Jorge | ||
| Castrillo, Pablo | ||
| Cepeda, Jefferson Alveiro | ||
| Maciejuk, Filip | ||
| Novák, Pavel | ||
| Serrano, Gonzalo | ||
| Torres, Albert | ||
| Groupama - FDJ United | ||
| Berthet, Clément | ||
| Cavagna, Rémi | ||
| Decomble, Maxime | ||
| Germani, Lorenzo | ||
| Kench, Josh | ||
| Rochas, Rémy | ||
| UAE Team Emirates XRG | ||
| Bjerg, Mikkel | ||
| Grossschartner, Felix | ||
| Novak, Domen | ||
| Oliveira, Ivo | ||
| Pogačar, Tadej | ||
| Sivakov, Pavel | ||
| Vermaerke, Kevin | ||
| Soudal - Quick-Step | ||
| Cras, Steff | ||
| Hayter, Ethan | ||
| Lecerf, Junior | ||
| Paret-Peintre, Valentin | ||
| Pedersen, Casper | ||
| Vansevenant, Mauri | ||
| Vervaeke, Louis | ||
| Team Visma - Lease a Bike | ||
| Graat, Tijmen | ||
| Huising, Menno | ||
| Kruijswijk, Steven | ||
| Mattio, Pietro | ||
| Nordhagen, Jørgen | ||
| Schiffer, Anton | ||
| Zingle, Axel | ||
| Team Picnic PostNL | ||
| Broek, Frank van den | ||
| Corkery, Dillon | ||
| Haquin, Henri-François | ||
| Jong, Timo de | ||
| Knox, James | ||
| Peace, Oliver | ||
| EF Education - EasyPost | ||
| Beloki, Markel | ||
| Lee, Jardi van der | ||
| Leonard, Michael | ||
| Nerurkar, Lukas | ||
| Shaw, James | ||
| Steinhauser, Georg | ||
| Sweeny, Harry | ||
| Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe | ||
| Cattaneo, Mattia | ||
| Lipowitz, Florian | ||
| Martínez, Daniel | ||
| Roglič, Primož | ||
| Tratnik, Jan | ||
| Tuckwell, Luke | ||
| INEOS Grenadiers | ||
| August, AJ | ||
| Godon, Dorian | ||
| Jungels, Bob | ||
| Kwiatkowski, Michal | ||
| Langellotti, Victor | ||
| Onley, Oscar | ||
| Plus, Laurens De | ||
| Team Jayco AlUla | ||
| Conca, Filippo | ||
| De Pretto, Davide | ||
| Gamper, Patrick | ||
| Hellemose, Asbjørn | ||
| McKenzie, Hamish | ||
| Plapp, Luke | ||
| Schmid, Mauro | ||
| Lidl - Trek | ||
| Bernard, Julien | ||
| Konrad, Patrick | ||
| Mosca, Jacopo | ||
| Oomen, Sam | ||
| Skujiņš, Toms | ||
| Söderqvist, Jakob | ||
| Withen Philipsen, Albert | ||
| NSN Cycling Team | ||
| Bennett, George | ||
| Côté, Pier-André | ||
| Frigo, Marco | ||
| Lutsenko, Alexey | ||
| Raisberg, Nadav | ||
| Tricht, Floris Van | ||
| Bahrain Victorious | ||
| Arndt, Nikias | ||
| Caruso, Damiano | ||
| Gradek, Kamil | ||
| Martinez, Lenny | ||
| Mechelen, Vlad Van | ||
| Stannard, Robert | ||
| Tiberi, Antonio | ||
| Tudor Pro Cycling Team | ||
| Brenner, Marco | ||
| Donzé, Robin | ||
| Lienhard, Fabian | ||
| Suter, Joel | ||
| Thalmann, Roland | ||
| Voisard, Yannis | ||
| Wirtgen, Luc |
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