TOUR·KINETIC

Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe · 2026 Tour de France
Rouleur – engine room and breakaway threat
Nico Denz

The big German rouleur is the heart of Red Bull's 'engine room', tasked with controlling the flat and dragging his leaders through the wind.

Nico Denz paper-collage portrait in the 2026 Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe kit

The big German rouleur is the heart of Red Bull's 'engine room', tasked with controlling the flat and dragging his leaders through the wind. Denz is also one of the peloton's savviest breakaway artists, with three Giro stage wins to prove it. Cheerful, loud and utterly dependable, he is the glue of this Tour squad on home-sponsor duty.

Palmarès

  • Giro d'Italia stage winner x2, stages 12 & 14 (2023)
  • Giro d'Italia stage 18 winner (2025)
  • Tour de Suisse stage winner (2022)
  • German national road race championships 2nd (2023)
Cut-out factAt the 2023 Giro he won two stages from breakaways in the space of three days — after eight years as a pro without a Grand Tour stage win.

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Remco Evenepoel, Florian Lipowitz, Mattia Cattaneo, Maxim Van Gils, Jai Hindley, Jan Tratnik, Tim van Dijke — see the full Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe team page.

Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Joost Pauwels, license: CC0. A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.