Also known as: teenage French sensation
French cyclist who became the youngest Tour de France starter since 1937, finishing fourth overall in 2026.
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The Namibian
Paul Seixas finished second in Strade Bianche
“World champion Tadej Pogacar won a record fourth Strade Bianche title as he made a triumphant start to his 2026 season on Saturday, with teenage French sensation Paul Seixas second.”
Pogacar begins season with dominant Strade Bianche winMexican Isaac Del Toro, 22, won the white jersey for best young rider at the Tour de France, narrowly edging 19-year-old French rider Paul Seixas to third place overall. Seixas became the youngest rider to start the Tour since 1937 and finished fourth, mounting a close challenge that saw just 24 seconds between them before the final alpine stage.
26 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Mexican Isaac Del Toro, 22, won the white jersey for best young rider at the Tour de France, narrowly edging 19-year-old French rider Paul Seixas to third place overall. Seixas became the youngest rider to start the Tour since 1937 and finished fourth, mounting a close challenge that saw just 24 seconds between them before the final alpine stage.
26 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar won stage 19 of the Tour de France on Friday with a record-breaking time of 35min 26sec on Alpe d'Huez, breaking Italian Marco Pantani's 31-year-old record and extending his overall race lead.
24 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel won the 26.1km individual time-trial stage 16 at the Tour de France, finishing 28 seconds ahead of Tadej Pogacar and cutting the reigning champion's overall lead to 4min 32sec. The victory marked Evenepoel's second successive stage win and came on Belgium's national day.
21 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel won the 15th stage of the Tour de France, outsprinting race leader Tadej Pogacar at the finish of an 11km climb. Vingegaard, who was second overall, crashed out 20km from the finish.
19 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar won the mountainous 14th stage of the Tour de France on Saturday, extending his overall lead to four and a half minutes over Jonas Vingegaard. It was Pogacar's fourth stage win in the 113th edition of the race and his 25th Tour stage victory since his 2020 debut.
18 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar won the mountainous sixth stage and reclaimed the race leader's yellow jersey, now leading Jonas Vingegaard by 2min 42sec. Pogacar achieved his 23rd Tour stage victory and broke the record for fastest time up the Tourmalet.
9 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Dutch 24-year-old Olav Kooij won the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday in a chaotic sprint finish after a crash five kilometres from the line disrupted teams' lead-out strategies. Norway's Torstein Traeen retained the yellow jersey despite being brought down in the crash.
8 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar won the third stage of the Tour de France to take the leader's yellow jersey from rival Jonas Vingegaard. The reigning champion and world champion finished two seconds ahead of Vingegaard and earned bonus seconds to overtake his six-second deficit from the start of the day.
6 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Mexican Isaac Del Toro won the second stage of the Tour de France in Barcelona on Sunday, ahead of reigning champion Tadej Pogacar, while Jonas Vingegaard maintained his overall lead.
5 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Jonas Vingegaard's Visma-Lease a Bike team won the opening team time-trial in Barcelona, giving the 29-year-old Dane the Tour de France yellow jersey. Vingegaard finished 8 seconds ahead of Filippo Ganna, with reigning champion Tadej Pogacar placing third.
4 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Teenage cyclist Paul Seixas's participation in the Tour de France has raised hopes of a first French victory in 41 years, since Bernard Hinault's 1985 triumph. France also faces long droughts in Paris-Roubaix (30 years since 1997) and Roland Garros men's tennis (since Yannick Noah in 1983).
30 June 2026 · The Namibian →
Tour de France favourites Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, and Paul Seixas are using different pre-Tour build-ups and have largely avoided racing each other this season, with Pogacar and Vingegaard — winners of the last six Tour editions — facing off only once since last year's race. The Tour begins July 4 in Barcelona.
4 June 2026 · The Namibian →
World champion Tadej Pogacar won Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Sunday, defeating teenage French rider Paul Seixas by 45 seconds with 14km remaining of the 260km race. The victory was Pogacar's fourth at La Doyenne and his third straight win in the classic.
26 April 2026 · The Namibian →
French cyclist Paul Seixas, 19, won the Tour of the Basque Country, becoming the youngest ever winner of a World Tour stage race—a year younger than Tadej Pogacar. August won the final stage, with Seixas finishing 2min 30sec ahead of Lipowitz in the general classification.
12 April 2026 · The Namibian →
World champion Tadej Pogacar won the Strade Bianche cycling race for a record fourth time with a dominant long-range attack 80 kilometres from the finish, making a triumphant start to his 2026 season. French teenager Paul Seixas finished second after being dropped by Pogacar on the Monte Sante Marie gravel section.
8 March 2026 · The Namibian →