The 2024 Tour de France was the 111th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Florence, Italy, on 29 June, and finished in Nice, France, on 21 July. The race did not finish in (or near) Paris for the first time since its inception, owing to preparations for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Tadej Pogačar, who placed second in 2023, was the overall winner of the general classification, his third victory after 2020 and 2021. He won six stages, including all of the last three. Pogačar's team, UAE Team Emirates, also won the team classification. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike) and tour debutant Remco Evenepoel (Soudal–Quick-Step), finished second and third overall respectively.
The race began with three stages in Italy before entering France. The first two stages were won by French riders. Romain Bardet narrowly won the opening stage from a breakaway with team-mate Frank van den Broek, five seconds ahead of the peloton, to earn the first yellow jersey. Kévin Vauquelin then won the second stage, with Pogačar claiming the race lead. After Stage 3, Pogačar relinquished the race lead to Richard Carapaz for one stage, but then won Stage 4 from Pinerolo (Italy) to Valloire, to regain the yellow jersey. He remained in yellow all the way to the finish in Nice, winning a further five stages along the way including the final time trial. Sprinters Biniam Girmay and Jasper Philipsen both won three stages each. Pogačar became the first rider to win both the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in the same year since Marco Pantani in 1998, and finished six minutes and 17 seconds ahead of two-time winner Vingegaard.[1]
Girmay won the points classification; Carapaz won the mountains classification as well as the overall combativity award; and Evenepoel also won the young rider classification.
Mark Cavendish won the fifth stage, his 35th stage victory at the Tour de France, breaking the record of 34 stage wins held by Eddy Merckx since 1975.[2][3]
22 teams took part in the race. All 18 UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited. They were joined by 4 UCI ProTeams: the two highest placed UCI ProTeams in 2023 (Lotto–Dstny and Israel–Premier Tech), along with Uno-X Mobility and Team TotalEnergies who were selected by Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), the organisers of the Tour.[4] The teams were announced on 18 January 2024.[4]
UCI WorldTeams
UCI ProTeams
Italy hosted the Grand Départ for the first time.[5][6] 2024 is the 100th anniversary of the first Italian victory in the Tour, won by Ottavio Bottecchia in 1924.[5] The route also visited the microstate of San Marino, making it the 14th country to be visited by a Tour stage.[5] The race did not finish in Paris, owing to preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which start on 26 July. Instead, the tour finished in Nice with an individual time trial—the last time a time trial was the final stage in the Tour was in 1989.[7][8]
In October 2023, Christian Prudhomme announced the full route.[9] The route was described as "tough" by riders, with particular concern for the gravel tracks on stage 9 and limited opportunities for sprinters.[10]
