TOUR·KINETIC

NSN Cycling · 2026 Tour de France
Last-man lead-out / back-up sprinter
Jake Stewart

Girmay's trusted last man, Stewart announced himself with second place at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad as a 21-year-old neo-pro and grabbed a breakthrough WorldTour win at the 2025 Dauphiné.

Jake Stewart paper-collage portrait in the 2026 NSN Cycling kit

Girmay's trusted last man, Stewart announced himself with second place at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad as a 21-year-old neo-pro and grabbed a breakthrough WorldTour win at the 2025 Dauphiné. Quick enough to finish it off himself if the plan explodes, the Coventry fastman's day job in July is to surf the chaos and launch Bini at 200 metres. This is his third consecutive Tour start.

Palmarès

  • 2nd, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2021)
  • Stage 1, Tour de l'Ain (2022 and 2023)
  • Stage 5, Critérium du Dauphiné (2025)
  • Stage 5, Four Days of Dunkirk (2025)
Cut-out factHis full name is Thomas Jake Stewart — but he has always raced under his middle name.

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Biniam Girmay, Lewis Askey, George Bennett, Marco Frigo, Matis Louvel, Krists Neilands, Tom Van Asbroeck — see the full NSN Cycling 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.