2026 Paris-Nice Stage 5 Results & Recap
Stage 5 of the 2026 Paris-Nice is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Jonas Vingegaard (TVL) took his second consecutive victory and extended his overall lead to more than 3 minutes with a very impressive show of force through the Ardèche hills that led into the finish. The Dane attacked with 20k remaining, coming off the wheel of teammate Victor Campenaerts at the bottom of the super steep 1st-category ascent of the Côte de Saint Jean de Muzols.
As his rivals waited for his each other to respond, Vingegaard rapidly opened up a stage-winning gap and before too long it became a question of how big this would be at the line. In the end, it was two minutes, the biggest margin of victory for a solo rider since Thomas De Gendt won in the 2012 race.
Valentin Paret-Peintre (SOQ) broke away on the final climb and took second place, just ahead of an 8-rider group that comprised most of the other GC contenders and that was led in by Harald Tejada (XAT).
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