The high-speed evolution of the Tour de France isn\u2019t slowing down.<\/p>\n
S\u00f8ren W\u00e6renskjold\u00a0just won the fastest road stage of the Tour de France in history.<\/p>\n
The hulking Norseman on Uno-X Mobility sprinted to first in Nevers on stage 11 of this year\u2019s race at an average of 50.9kph, or 31.6mph.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s warp-speed pace shatters the previous mark of 50.4kph set by Mario Cipollini in the eyebrow-raising times of 1999.<\/p>\n
Until now, the fastest stage of the post-EPO era was completed in 2025 when Tim Merlier blasted into Ch\u00e2teauroux.<\/p>\n
Rohan Dennis set the individual time trial speed record at 55.4kph when he won the 13.8km Tour de France TT in Utrecht, 2015.<\/p>\n
2026: The fastest Tour on record?<\/h2>\n
It felt inevitable that we\u2019d see the fastest ever road stage of the Tour this year.<\/p>\n
We even forecast before the grand d\u00e9part<\/em> that the average speed over the entire race would break a new record.<\/p>\n Developments in bike tech, the high-carb fueling \u201crevolution,\u201d and a generation of physiological phenoms have been accelerating the sport since the COVID shutdown.<\/p>\n And the conditions were prime for a fast pace on Wednesday\u2019s 11th stage.<\/p>\n The 161km course from Vichy to Nevers climbed little more than 1,100 meters, and the pack was pushed along by a hefty tailwind. A parcours loaded with wide, fast highways sped things along further.<\/p>\n The litmus test for the light-speed progression of the modern Tour de France will arrive when Tadej Poga\u010dar and Jonas Vingegaard roll into the Alps next week.<\/p>\n Expect these 7w\/kg super-climbers to ruin the climbing records of some of the most famous ascents in cycling history.<\/p>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france\/we-just-witnessed-the-fastest-ever-stage-of-the-tour-de-france\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2285596579-scaled.jpg”] Updated July 15, 2026 11:21AM The high-speed evolution of the Tour de France isn\u2019t slowing down. S\u00f8ren W\u00e6renskjold\u00a0just won the fastest road stage of the Tour de France in history. The hulking Norseman on Uno-X Mobility sprinted to first in Nevers on stage 11 of this year\u2019s race at an average of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-2045219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2045219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2045219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2045219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2045219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fastest ever Tour de France stages: Top-5<\/h2>\n
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