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Tour de France 2026 stage 5 preview - Sprinters target push into Pau as first opportunity at podium in first week

Pau France Tour Tour de France Jasper Philipsen
PAU, FRANCE - JULY 12: (L-R) Stage winner Jasper Philipsen of Belgium and Team Alpecin - Deceuninck, Wout Van Aert of Belgium and Team Visma | Lease a Bike, Pascal Ackermann of Germany and Team Israel - Premier Tech and Biniam Girmay of Eritrea and Team Intermarche - Wanty - Green Sprint Jersey sprint at finish line during the 111th Tour de France 2024, Stage 13 a 165.3km stage from Agen to Pau / #UCIWT / on July 12, 2024 in Pau, France. (Photo by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images).
  • Stage 5: Lannemezan - Pau
  • Date: July 8, 2026
  • Distance: 158.3km
  • Start time: 14:05 CET
  • Finish time: 17:46 CET

Starting in the Hautes-Pyrénées village of Lannemezan for a sixth time, the Tour de France offers a straightforward affair across 158.3km to Pau for stage 5. It's set up for a charge among the sprinters, who have yet found flat territory to flash their speed. In fact, only twice in the last three decades, 2015 and 1992, has the Tour made it past stage 4 without a bunch sprint.

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