TOUR·KINETIC

TotalEnergies · 2026 Tour de France
Climber-domestique & breakaway stage hunter (Tour debut)
Joris Delbove

One of the most versatile riders in France, Delbove won the Tour de Langkawi on the road in 2025 and then the French cyclo-cross title in the mud in January 2026.

Joris Delbove paper-collage portrait in the 2026 TotalEnergies kit

One of the most versatile riders in France, Delbove won the Tour de Langkawi on the road in 2025 and then the French cyclo-cross title in the mud in January 2026. The man from Troyes makes his Grand Tour debut at this Tour as a climbing card and breakaway threat — and turns 26 mid-race.

Palmarès

  • Winner overall, Tour de Langkawi (2025)
  • French national cyclo-cross champion (2026)
  • Winner overall, Tour Alsace (2024)
  • Stage winner, Tour du Rwanda (2025)
  • 4th, Paris–Tours (2023)
Cut-out factHe is the reigning French cyclo-cross champion, and racing runs in the family: his father Jimmy and uncle Jérôme Delbove were both professional cyclists.

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Jordan Jegat, Nicolas Breuillard, Alexandre Delettre, Thibault Guernalec, Mathis Le Berre, Anthony Turgis, Mattéo Vercher — see the full TotalEnergies team page.

Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: c8.alamy.com, author: see source, license: see source. A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.