TOUR·KINETIC

Bahrain Victorious · 2026 Tour de France
GC leader (Tour debut, top-10 target)
Antonio Tiberi

Italy's next big general-classification hope finally makes his Tour de France debut at 25, with the team openly targeting a top-ten in Paris.

Antonio Tiberi paper-collage portrait in the 2026 Bahrain Victorious kit

Italy's next big general-classification hope finally makes his Tour de France debut at 25, with the team openly targeting a top-ten in Paris. A junior time-trial world champion who blossomed into a Giro top-five rider, Tiberi combines a strong chrono with steady high-mountain climbing — exactly the profile this Barcelona-starting, TTT-opening Tour rewards.

Palmarès

  • 5th overall + best young rider, Giro d'Italia (2024)
  • Junior time trial world champion (2019)
  • Tour de Luxembourg overall winner (2024)
  • 3rd overall Tirreno–Adriatico (2025)
  • 2nd overall UAE Tour (2026)
Cut-out factHe won his 2019 junior world time-trial title despite a crank snapping before the first corner, forcing a frantic bike change.

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Lenny Martinez, Phil Bauhaus, Damiano Caruso, Kamil Gradek, Robert Stannard, Matej Mohorič, Vlad Van Mechelen — see the full Bahrain Victorious team page.

Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: filip bossuyt from Kortrijk, Belgium, license: CC BY 2.0. A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.