Tour de France

Dates: August 29 to September 20, 2020
Stages: 21
Grand Départ: Nice, France
Finish: Paris, France
TV coverage (UK): Eurosport, ITV4

Key info: Tour de France 2020 route | Tour de France start list | Tour de France TV guide | Past winners | Jerseys

Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal on the final podium of the Tour de France (Photo: Yuzuru SUNADA)

The 2020 Tour de France route kicks off with a Grand Départ in Nice, a familiar stomping ground for the many pros who live in the area, including Chris Froome.

The race this year has been postponed to August 29, finishing on September 20, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Opening with two tough, hilly stages in the south of the country, the 107th edition of the Tour will then head back up to the west of France.

The race will then spend some time in the west of the country with some tricky climbing stages, before travelling down to the first high mountain range of the race in the Pyrenees.

The 2020 Tour will then work it’s way from the east coast and through the centre of the country, before taking on climbs in the Jura, Alps and Vosges mountains, with a final time trial up to the top La Planche des Belles Filles.

The race will then take to its traditional finish in Paris along the Champs-Élysées.

This year’s edition will eight mountain stages with four summit finishes, nine flat stages, three hilly stages and one TT.

Tour de France 2020 classifications

The standard classifications and jerseys will once again feature: yellow jersey for the overall classification, polka-dots for the mountains classification, green for the points classification and white for the best young rider classification.

A combativity prize will be awarded to the most aggressive rider each day, while a super-combativity prize will be awarded to a rider at the end of the Tour.

Bonus seconds will once again be distributed on the finish line with 10, six and three seconds available to each of the first three across the line on each stage.

The final jerseys podium of the 2019 Tour de France (Sunada)

Tour de France 2020 teams and riders

We’ll certainly see all the 2020 WorldTour teams at the Tour de France, though it is still unclear how many teams that will be. The organiser will still be able to invite wildcard teams to fill the remaining places.

Defending champion Egan Bernal (Team Ineos) will return alongside 2018 winner Geraint Thomas, who wants another clear run at the Tour.

Chris Froome also hopes to be at the start, if his recover allowed following his horrific crash suffered at the Critérium du Dauphiné last summer.

Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) will return to try and win an eighth green jersey having taken a record seventh in 2019.

French riders will also try to finally break their 35-year duck at the race, with Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) left with unfinished business following his abandonment on stage 19 of the most recent race.

Romain Bardet (Ag2r La Mondiale) will be attending the Tour this year after originally focus on the Giro before the postponement. The Frenchman has had a disappointing few seasons of Grand Tour racing.

Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) will also be racing but has consistently said he won’t try for the general classification in 2020.

Tour de France 2020 on TV

You’ll be able to catch the race live on Eurosport, ITV and S4C – and each channel will have an evening highlights package, too.

Tour de France 2020 route