The 2023 Tour de France will be the 110th edition of the

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

. It will start in

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, Spain on 1 July and end with the final stage at

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on 23 July.

Teams

22 teams are scheduled to take part in the race. All 18

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have been automatically invited. They were joined by 4 UCI ProTeams - the two highest placed UCI ProTeams in 2022 (

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and

Team TotalEnergies Team TotalEnergies () is a professional road bicycle racing team that competes as a UCI ProTeam in UCI Continental Circuits races, and UCI World Tour races when invited as a ''wild card'' entry. In previous years, the team was known as Brioches L ...

), along with Uno-X Pro Cycling Team and Israel–Premier Tech who were selected by Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), the organisers of the Tour. The teams were announced on 4 January 2023. UCI WorldTeams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UCI ProTeams * * * *

Route and stages

In January 2022,

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announced that the Basque Country in Spain would host the '' Grand Départ'', with the first stage in

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. In October 2022, the full route was announced by

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. The Tour will return to the

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for the first time since

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, and only of time trials are on the route — the shortest amount since the 2015 edition.

Race overview

Classification leadership

References

External links

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