Tour de France 2022 stage 21 preview - Final day for sprint glory
Sprinters take aim across 115.6km route for honors on Champs-Élysées


Stage 21: Paris La Défense Arena – Paris Champs-Élysées
Date: July 24, 2022
Distance: 115.6km
Stage timing: 16:30 - 19:34 CEST
Stage type: Flat
The final stage of the 2022 Tour de France starts in La Défense, circling the Grand Arche de la Défense in the neutralised section before heading on a 50-kilometre loop to the west of Paris that includes a final fourth-category climb. In the meantime, the Champs-Élysées will host the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.
The men's race enters the Champs-Élysées circuit after 59.5km and will complete eight full laps, including an intermediate sprint at the top of the famous boulevard, close to the Arc de Triomphe.
Will Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), clad in the green points jersey he has already secured, win his fourth stage of this year's race? Will fastmen Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) or Dylan Groenewegen (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) grab their second sprint victories of this Grand Tour? Or after 20 days of racing, will Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) or Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies) final emerge to take the top step of a stage podium?
After the usual breakaway attempts have been reeled in, the sprint trains will come to the fore on the final lap and prepare a sprint royal while the yellow jersey can celebrate his Tour victory.
Get The Leadout Newsletter
The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!
Lukas Knöfler started working in cycling communications in 2013 and has seen the inside of the scene from many angles. Having worked as press officer for teams and races and written for several online and print publications, he has been Cyclingnews’ Women’s WorldTour correspondent since 2018.
Latest on Cyclingnews
-
'It will be a long recovery' - Mikel Landa released from hospital to begin healing from fractured vertebra sustained in Giro d'Italia crash
'I would like to thank everybody for the messages of support and the love that I have received' says Soudal-QuickStep rider -
'Others called it quits, I carried on' – Paul Double on the resilient road from 'getting head kicked in' as a U23 to a Giro d'Italia debut at 28
British rider comes 'full circle' from days cutting teeth as a young racer in Italy to his first start at a Grand Tour -
A new Campagnolo groupset, three new helmets and a horde of time trial tech: All the Giro d'Italia tech from the Grande Partenza
All the tech we've found at the opening weekend of the Giro d'Italia 2025, including more photos of the 2025 Campagnolo Super Record Wireless groupset -
Modern cycling about 'watts and data' rather than strategy and improvisation, says Vincenzo Nibali
Two-time Giro d'Italia winner rates Giulio Ciccone as a potential podium finisher at this year's race