Remco Evenepoel delivered a stunning victory Sunday at the Tour de France on a brutal day that ended with two-time champion Jonas Vingegaard crashing out.<\/p>\n
Evenepoel hit the red kite on the HC Plateau de Solaison climb with UAE\u2019s Tadej Poga\u010dar and Isaac del Toro in a dramatic stage that shook up the 2026 Tour.<\/p>\n
After marking two attacks from Del Toro, Evenepoel countered and Poga\u010dar did not come around him as the Belgian star won his first Tour mountain stage of his career.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard\u2019s exit vaulted him into second overall, and he also dropped podium challengers Florian Lipowitz, Juan Ayuso, and Paul Seixas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a hell of a day. I am racing with the best rider ever, and he\u2019s been doing a hell of a climb to win the stage with Isaac. For me it\u2019s a big step forward to follow this pace,\u201d Evenepoel said. \u201cI always get so many critics that I cannot survive steep climbs. It feels amazing. It means a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a massive breakthrough for Evenepoel, who won a road stage at the Tour for the first time.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard\u2019s exit will have major implications in the race for the yellow jersey with one left still to go.<\/p>\n
Evenepoel bounces into second, and Del Toro moved ahead of Seixas into third and the white jersey.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard crashes out of Tour de France<\/h2>\n
Vingegaard hit the deck coming out of a traffic circle with about 20km to go as speed built toward the base of the final climb.<\/p>\n
The two-time Tour winner clutched his shoulder and it was obvious that he was not going to be able to continue. Other riders also went down, including Isaac del Toro, but when doctors put a brace on the Dane\u2019s shoulder, his Tour was over.<\/p>\n
His brutal exit turned the Tour upside down, and the implications will play out for the final week of the 2026 Tour.<\/p>\n
There was still a stage to finish.<\/p>\n
Riders up the road from an early break battled it out for the win on the final climb. Quinn Simmons was about 20 seconds clear of a chase group that includes Adam Yates and Tom Pidcock with 8km to go.<\/p>\n
The GC group seemed stunned by Vingegaard\u2019s exit and did not immediately take up the chase.<\/p>\n
Simmons succumbs to Poga\u010dar<\/h2>\n
Behind, UAE\u2019s Yates could not keep pace for the win, so Poga\u010dar went to the front to set a rhythm for Del Toro up the hors-categorie<\/em> climb.<\/p>\n That split the remaining GC group, with Del Toro and Evenepoel hanging tough on Poga\u010dar\u2019s wheel, and Seixas, Ayuso, and Lipowitz getting gapped.<\/p>\n Simmons put up a brave fight, but an advantage of nearly a minute shrank to zero within two kilometers, and the U.S. national champion was reeled in at about 5km to go. He later linked up with Lidl-Trek teammate Ayuso to try to limit the losses in the never-ending climb.<\/p>\n Yates took a few pulls for Poga\u010dar and Del Toro, with Evenepoel hanging on with 4.5km to go. His stage win and resulting time bonus sees him end the day second overall, five minutes behind Poga\u010dar.<\/p>\n The latter congratulated Evenepoel for his win, and said that UAE had aimed to take the stage. \u201cWe tried with Isaac. It\u2019s his climb! But he also had a bit of pain from his crash and he lost a little bit of confidence for the final,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnyway, it\u2019s a good day for Isaac today, he can be happy. I think he is in the white jersey and good in the GC.\u201d<\/p>\n Del Toro is third overall, 5:58 back. Seixas is now fourth at 6:23.<\/p>\n The peloton enjoys its second and final rest day Monday. The Tour\u2019s lone individual time trial is slated for Tuesday, with Evenepoel in position to win the stage and stake a claim for the final podium.<\/p>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france\/tour-de-france-stage-15-evenepoel-stuns-with-mountain-victory-after-vingegaard-crashes-out\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2286145126.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated July 19, 2026 11:52AM Remco Evenepoel delivered a stunning victory Sunday at the Tour de France on a brutal day that ended with two-time champion Jonas Vingegaard crashing out. Evenepoel hit the red kite on the HC Plateau de Solaison climb with UAE\u2019s Tadej Poga\u010dar and Isaac del Toro […]<\/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-2051324","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\/2051324","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=2051324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tour de France Stage 15 results<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n