TOUR·KINETIC

Netcompany INEOS · 2026 Tour de France
GC co-leader / climber
Thymen Arensman

The tall Dutch climber is the form GC rider in the team after an agonising fourth at the 2026 Giro, where he missed the podium only in the final week.

Thymen Arensman paper-collage portrait in the 2026 Netcompany INEOS kit

The tall Dutch climber is the form GC rider in the team after an agonising fourth at the 2026 Giro, where he missed the podium only in the final week. His two Alpine and Pyrenean stage wins at last year's Tour proved he can beat the very best uphill on his day. Now he gets his own shot at leading a Grand Tour bid from day one.

Palmarès

  • Two Tour de France mountain stage wins (2025, incl. La Plagne)
  • 4th Giro d'Italia GC (2026)
  • Vuelta a España stage winner (2022, Sierra Nevada)
  • 6th Giro d'Italia GC (2023)
Cut-out factAt the 2026 Giro, Egan Bernal buried himself on the Carì ascent to pace Arensman towards the podium, saying simply: 'He deserves it.'

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Egan Bernal, Tobias Foss, Filippo Ganna, Dorian Godon, Michał Kwiatkowski, Joshua Tarling, Kévin Vauquelin — see the full Netcompany INEOS team page.

Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Hoebele, license: CC BY-SA 4.0. A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.