Tour de France stage 16 LIVE – Mattia Cattaneo in the TT hot seat as the GC favourites start their rides
The Tour's only solo time trial covers 26.1km to Thonon-les-Bains
Ayuso a minute down there, still.
Skjelmose quickest at the third checkpoint, too, 39 seconds up on Cattaneo.
Evenepoel by far the quickest at the top of the climb.
A time of 15:42 puts him 56 seconds up on Skjelmose.
Del Toro reaches the top of the climb matching Seixas' time, 10 seconds down.
Pidcock fourth at the third checkpoint.
Seixas is third, 10 seconds down on Skjelmose, at the top of the climb.
Lipowitz second, five seconds behind Skjelmose, at the top of the climb.
Paul Seixas out on course.
Ayuso a minute down on Skjelmose at the top of the climb.
Meanwhile, Pogačar is second at the first checkpoint, seven seconds behind Evenepoel.
8:08 for Evenepoel at the first checkpoint, 22 seconds quicker than anyone else.
Skjelmose quickest, 27 seconds quicker than Castrillo, at the top of the climb.
Del Toro quickest at the first checkpoint, equal with Skjelmose.
Seixas third at the first checkpoint, three seconds off Skjelmose.
And Pidcock is second at the top of the climb, a second slower than Castrillo.
Lipowitz second at the first checkpoint, three seconds behind Skjelmose.
And now Tadej Pogačar starts with a five-minute cushion over Evenepoel.
Ayuso seventh, 26 seconds down at the first checkpoint.
The Belgian has 25 time trial wins in his career.
World time trial champion Remco Evenepoel is off.
Mattias Skjelmose beats Pidcock by 15 seconds at the first checkpoint!
Isaac del Toro goes. He's defending the white jersey.
Just three riders left to start.
Paul Seixas has started.
Tom Pidcock goes quickest at the first checkpoint. That's surprising. 8:45 for him, a second quicker than Großschartner.
Florian Lipowitz next.
Juan Ayuso the next to start.
McNulty seventh at the top of the climb.
After Pidcock, Lenny Martinez starts his ride.
Castrillo comes to the line in fourth place, 17 seconds down on Cattaneo.
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Jordan Jegat in 10th overall just set off.
Tom Pidcock is about to start.
Jorgenson sixth, half a second behind Großschartner.
Großschartner crosses the line in fifth, 25 seconds down and only a second behind Ganna.
Arensman out on course.
Castrillo fifth at the third checkpoint, a further 10 seconds adrift.
Arenman second there, a second behind Cattaneo.
Matteo Jorgenson fifth at the third checkpoint as Adam Yates sets off.
Großschartner four seconds down on Cattaneo at the third checkpoint.
Spanish time trial champion Pablo Castrillo is flying so far.
17:06 for Castrillo at the top, seven seconds up on Großschartner and 13 up on Arensman.
Latest riders at the top of the climb: Pablo Castillo first, Thymen Arensman third, Derek Gee-West fourth
Brandon McNulty starts his ride all OK after his earlier crash.
Arensman fourth at the first checkpoint, Pablo Castrillo second there.
Felix Großschartner top at the first two checkpoints. He's a second up on Cattaneo at the top of the climb.
Now we're into the GC top 30 out on course.
Cattaneo goes 13 seconds quicker at the finish with a time of 34:01.
Mattia Cattaneo beats Bruno Armirail's time at the line!
He flies past Mathias Vacek into the final 1.5km.
The Italian has won time trials at the Tour de Pologne and Tour of Luxembourg before.
Cattaneo coming towards the final 3km now.
Thymen Arensman sets off to start his ride later than scheduled.
Cattaneo still top at the third checkpoint, eight seconds up on Armirail.
KOM leader Valentin Paret-Peintre during his ride.
And he crosses the line in eighth place as Kévin Vauquelin sets off.
Aurélien Paret-Peintre fifth at the third checkpoint.
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Now Cattaneo goes quickest at the top of the climb, 10 seconds quicker than Armirail.
Mattia Cattaneo has started out fast with a third place at the first checkpoint.
Aurélien Paret-Peintre is fifth at the top of the climb.
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Seventh with a time of 35:08 for Costiou at the finish.
Valentin Paret-Peintre is eighth at the first checkpoint.
Costiou and Damiano Caruso (10th at the third checkpoint) both going well at the moment.
Ewen Costiou is having a good ride. He's sixth, sixth, and seventh at the three checkpoints.
Van der Poel and Campenaerts are closing in on the finish but neither are troubling the top of the standings.
88 riders have finished their rides now with Nils Politt crossing the line in 17th.
Bruno Armirail during his leaderboard-topping ride.
Now it's Armirail, Tarling, Ganna at the top of the standings.
And he does it! Bruno Armirail goes quickest with a time of 34:14, seven seconds up on Tarling.
Into the final kilometre...
He has a six-second lead heading into the final 2km.
He's racing into the final 3km now.
To date in his career, Armirail has three national title to his name plus a time trial at the 2023 Tour Poitou-Charentes.
Can he beat Tarling at the line?
He's top at the third checkpoint, too, 14 seconds up on Tarling.
Into the final 10km for the Frenchman.
Here's a look at Armirail.
Armirail flying down the descent at over 90kph.
A great ride for Armirail at the top of the climb. He beats Guernalec's time into second place there to go top with a time of 17:24.
Pedersen 20th at the top of the climb.
Van der Poel and Campenaerts have just set off.
The Briton has been in the hot seat as leader for two hours now.
Felix Engelhardt is ninth at the finish line with a time of 36:22, 2:01 down on Tarling.
Third place for Bruno Armiral at the first checkpoint. His time of 9:01 is nine seconds off Tarling's time there.
German time trial champion Nils Politt has just started.
Mathieu van der Poel and Victor Campenaerts will start their rides soon.
Mads Pedersen 28th through the first checkpoint.
Former triple French time trial champion Bruno Armirail is just setting off.
Damien Howson's 10th place at the top of the climb is the best of those out on course at the moment.
Nobody troubling the top of the leaderboards currently.
Kasper Asgreen and Luke Plapp among those starting out in recent minutes.
Thomas in eighth is the last rider within two minutes of Tarling's quickest time.
55 riders have finished now.
Eighth for Thomas at the finish with a time of 35:58, while Simone Velasco sets a time of 36:47 to go 10th.
Mads Pedersen is off. He's favourite to win the green jersey, should he reach Paris unharmed.
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Benjamin Thomas will finish soon. He was seventh at the third checkpoint.
Azparren finishes as seventh quickest with a time of 35:56.
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44 seconds slower than Tarling after he was quickest on top of the climb.
Guernalec crosses the line in fifth place with a time of 35:05.
Now Guernalec races to the line.
Mikel Azparren and Benjamin Thomas have both put in top-10 times at the first two checkpoints, but nothing challenging Tarling.
It looks as though it will be tough for anyone to beat Tarling's time before Remco Evenepoel heads out on course at 17:13 local time.
Other big names to have finished so far include Biniam Girmay, Julian Alaphilippe, and Michał Kwiatkowski.
Green jersey Mads Pedersen will be heading off in 10 minutes.
Guerlanec has fallen to fourth place at the third checkpoint. His time of 25:50 is 22 seconds off Tarling.
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Tarling is only fifth-quickest at the top of the climb.
Ganna, below, was second, just tenth of a second down on Guernalec.
Thibault Guernalec has gone quickest at the second checkpoint! The French rider has set a time of 17:43 there, 10 seconds quicker than Tarling.
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Only three riders under the 35-minutes barrier so far. Tarling and Ganna, as well as Huub Artz, who lies in third place with a time of 34:49.
Tarling on his ride earlier.
34:25 for Ganna at the finish to go second quickest.
But the Italian time trial champion falls just short of going quickest.
His Netcompany Ineos teammate Filippo Ganna is coming to the line now though!
His time of 34:21 is top of the standings so far.
Tarling is top of the standings at the moment.
Van den Berg quickest over the climb with a time of 19:36.
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8km to go for Gradek, who will finish first today.
Josh Tarling has just set off to start his ride. The British racer should be comfortably quickest of these early runners.
Seven riders through the first checkpoint after 4.8km currently and Julius van den Berg is the quickest with a time of 10:18
More sprinters, including Davide Ballerini, Phil Bauhaus, Milan Fretin are out.
There are three checkpoints today, including at the top of the day's climb, the Côte de Larringes, after 9.7km of racing.
Josh Tarling is the first top time trial rider to start. He'll head down the start ramp in 18 minutes.
Several more riders on course now, including Cees Bol and Olav Kooij.
Kamil Gradek has set off to start the stage.
Here we go!
13 minutes to go until the start of the stage.
Here's a look back at Sunday's stage 15 which saw Tadej Pogačar extend his lead as Jonas Vingegaard crashed out of second overall.
Under half an hour to go until the stage start now.
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The first rider down the start ramp to start the stage will be Kamil Gradek (Bahrain Victorious) at 13:00 local time.
Tadej Pogačar gets his effort underway at 17:15.
Here's the full list of the stage 16 time trial start times
Here's a look at the day's profile.
Today's stage gets underway at 13:00 local time, so that's in an hour and 20 minutes.
Check out the map of today's stage.
Today's stage is the only individual time trial of this year's Tour taking place on a 26.1km route between Evian-les-Bains and Thonon-les Bains.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 16 of the 2026 Tour de France!
