Participants Tour Down Under 2026 | Brennan, O'Connor, Narváez... Traditional opener draws top names
CyclingFriday, 02 January 2026 at 12:40
2026, here we are! To us, it feels like only a week ago when Tadej Pogacar won Il Lombardia, but it's been almost two months since the last road race of 2025. The new year starts once again with the traditional opener in Australia, and IDL Pro Cycling will take you through the starting list of the Tour Down Under!
We're going to start again! It feels to us like just a week ago Tadej Pogacar won the Tour of Lombardy, but it's been almost two months since the last road race of 2025. The new year traditionally begins in Australia, and In the Leader's Jersey lists the participants!
Participants (and associated ambitions) Tour Down Under 2026
- UAE Team Emirates - XRG (Jhonatan Narváez and Jay Vine)
- Alpecin-Premier Tech (Jensen Plowright and Tim Marsman)
- Bahrain-Victorious (Santiago Buitrago and Edoardo Zambanini)
- Decathlon CMA CGM (Tobias Lund Andresen and Nicolas Prodhomme)
- EF Education - EasyPost (Jardi Christiaan van der Lee and Luke Lamperti)
- Groupama - FDJ United (Guillaume Martin and Kevin Geniets)
- INEOS Grenadiers (Sam Watson and Sam Welsford)
- Lidl-Trek (Andrea Bagioli and Tim Torn Teutenberg)
- Lotto-Intermarché (Lennert Van Eetvelt and Taco van der Hoorn)
- Movistar (Javier Romo and Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda)
- NSN Cycling Team (Corbin Strong and Ethan Vernon)
- Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe (Finn Fisher-Black and Danny van Poppel)
- Soudal Quick-Step (Alberto Dainese and Filippo Zana)
- Jayco AlUla (Ben O'Connor and Luke Plapp)
- Picnic PostNL (Casper van Uden and Matt Dinham)
- Visma | Lease a Bike (Matthew Brennan and Filippo Fiorelli)
- Uno-X Mobility (Andreas Kron and Erlend Blikra)
- XDS Astana (Simone Velasco and Darren van Bekkum)
- Tudor Pro Cycling (Marco Brenner and Maikel Zijlaard)
- ARA Australian Cycling Team (Damien Howson and Chris Harper)
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- Those events are mental rest for him. Fun, without expectations. *Sagan lost his abilities because he gained weight and got lazy. Pogi will likely retire before that has a chance at happening.Veganpotter14-12-2025
- Ah, the consequences of riding for Israel.Veganpotter11-12-2025
- Pidcock could follow everyone but Pogi while finishing 3rd. No second place rider this season😃Veganpotter16-11-2025
- Now the Palestinian protestors can stop their whining. Trump came to the rescue. So they can now STFU and go back to waving the rainbow flags.raufus15-10-2025
- Cracked the code lol. If it was that easy to 'crack the code' jonny Vegas would be charging up the Kwaremont giving Pog a dose of his medicine. Evenepoel can't match pog on a climb and neither can mvdp. Anything with a half difficult climb and Pog smashes the field. Even on flat(ish)parcours like Roubaix it came down to a mistake and crash by pog to definitively crown mvdp. MSR is the only one that Pog probably won't win.kevpt10-10-2025
- We've seen this movie before. I think Pogacar is doping.DeadBlow10-10-2025
- 👍Bea08-10-2025
- 👌🏻Bea08-10-2025
- What the data doesn't show is how much of an effect drafting had for evenepoel. Pogacar went with del toro at 100km whilst Evenepoel was still in the bunch. Despite the bike changes he still had a lot of assistance getting back to the bunch. Pogacar then rode 60km solo whilst evenepoel rode with Healy/Skjelmose until going solo in thd last 10-15km. Thats ~20% less power / energy requirements for 45-50km. Apples and oranges...kevpt30-09-2025
- 👏👏Bea24-09-2025
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