{"id":851712,"date":"2026-08-11T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851712\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:38:09","slug":"2026-vuelta-a-espana-start-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851712\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a start list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Giro d&#8217;Italia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/tour-de-france\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tour de France<\/a> have come and gone, which means there is only one Grand Tour left in 2026: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/vuelta-a-espana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a>. The Spanish stage race begins on August 22, and IDL Pro Cycling will be keeping track of the (confirmed) participants throughout the race.<\/p>\n<p>While the start lists for the Giro d&#8217;Italia and the Tour de France are usually announced fairly early, that\u2019s often not the case for the Vuelta. Many riders have already completed a Grand Tour, so it\u2019s often a case of team&#8217;s making last-minute decisions.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Vuelta will begin in Monaco on August 22 with an individual time trial. Over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/2026-vuelta-a-espana-a-spanish-playground-style-course-for-wout-van-aert-tadej-pogacar-and-mads-pedersen\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the course of the three weeks<\/a>, riders will, of course, have to tackle the usual elevation gain, though the finish will not be in Madrid this time. Due to the Formula 1 street race in the Spanish capital, Granada will host the final stage.The top favorite is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/tadej-pogacar\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadej Pogacar<\/a>, whose team, UAE Emirates-XRG, was the first to announce its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uaeteamemirates.com\/uae-team-emirates-xrg-unveil-squad-for-vuelta-a-espana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eight-rider roster<\/a>. The Slovenian, who has a chance to complete his Grand Tour trilogy, will be supported by riders including Joao Almeida, Jay Vine, and Kevin Vermaerke.Confirmed team and leaders for the 2026 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a 2026 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a start list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Giro d&#8217;Italia and Tour de France have come and gone, which means there is only one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,57970,85,6494,19805,39562],"class_list":["post-851712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-previews","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg","tag-vuelta-a-espana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}