TOUR·KINETIC

Bahrain Victorious · 2026 Tour de France
Breakaway specialist and stage hunter
Matej Mohorič

Cycling's mad-scientist of the breakaway, Mohorič pairs a huge engine with the sport's sharpest tactical brain and its most fearless descending.

Matej Mohorič paper-collage portrait in the 2026 Bahrain Victorious kit

Cycling's mad-scientist of the breakaway, Mohorič pairs a huge engine with the sport's sharpest tactical brain and its most fearless descending. Three times a Tour stage winner, the Slovenian will spend July sliding into every dangerous move, hunting the kind of long-range heist that made his name at Le Creusot, Libourne and Poligny.

Palmarès

  • 3× Tour de France stage winner (2021 ×2, 2023)
  • Milan–San Remo winner (2022)
  • UCI Gravel world champion (2023)
  • Junior (2012) and U23 (2013) road race world champion
  • Stage wins in all three Grand Tours
Cut-out factHe pioneered the now-banned 'supertuck' descending position and won the 2022 Milan–San Remo by bombing the Poggio descent with a mountain-bike-style dropper seatpost.

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Lenny Martinez, Phil Bauhaus, Damiano Caruso, Kamil Gradek, Robert Stannard, Antonio Tiberi, 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: Petar Milošević, license: CC BY-SA 4.0. A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.