How To Watch Paris-Roubaix 2026 From Anywhere In The World: The Complete Global Broadcast And Streaming Guide For The Biggest Cycling Sunday Of The Spring
On Sunday 12 April 2026, four races will finish on the Vélodrome André-Pétrieux boards inside six and a half hours of live television. The junior men, the U23 men, the Paris-Roubaix men's peloton and the Paris-Roubaix Femmes will all complete their Hell of the North on the same afternoon, a scheduling quirk unique to the cobbled Monument and the reason Sunday is quietly the single biggest cycling broadcast day of any non-Grand Tour weekend in the year. If you are trying to watch from outside the race's traditional northern-European broadcast heartland, the list of where and how to find live pictures has become a little more complicated this year. Here is the complete rundown.
The men's race rolls off the Place du Général-de-Gaulle in Compiègne at 10:50 CEST and is scheduled to finish, if the bunch is under race control, at approximately 16:30 CEST. The Tadej Pogačar-versus-Mathieu van der Poel showdown headlines an edition that also carries the possibility of Wout van Aert finally breaking his Roubaix hoodoo, a cobble-learning Jonathan Milan debut, and a ten-weeks-back-from-a-fracture Mads Pedersen podium tilt. The women's race rolls from Denain at 14:35 CEST and is scheduled to reach the velodrome by 18:00 CEST, with Lotte Kopecky and Lorena Wiebes heading the start list in the absence of defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, who has already switched her focus to the Ardennes.
United Kingdom and Ireland: TNT Sports has the exclusive live rights for both the men's and women's races, with coverage beginning at 10:00 BST for the men and continuing unbroken through the afternoon. TNT's broadcast is also available through the Discovery+ standalone app and on HBO Max in UK households that already hold a combined subscription. Expect the usual TNT Sports cycling team — Adam Blythe, Robbie McEwen and the Belgian-voice commentator Carlton Kirby — on the call. The £30.99/month HBO Max tier is currently the most affordable UK streaming option for viewers without an existing satellite or cable subscription. BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra will carry men's race radio commentary from the Arenberg forest onwards, a free alternative for UK listeners outside the pay-TV ecosystem.
United States and Canada: NBC-owned Peacock holds exclusive live rights for the men's and women's races in the US, with coverage beginning at 04:00 ET for the men. Peacock's premium tier is currently the only reliable way to watch the full finale from the Arenberg to the velodrome in the American market; NBC Sports itself will air only a highlights package on Sunday evening. In Canada, FloBikes remains the home of live cycling with a monthly subscription of $39.99 or an annual plan at $203.88. FloBikes offers a rolling 14-day free trial that in previous years has been timed by cycling fans specifically to cover the Roubaix weekend.
Continental Europe: France Télévisions carries the men's and women's races live on France 3 and france.tv streaming, free at point of use for any viewer in France. In Belgium, VRT-Sporza broadcasts the men's race in Dutch and RTBF covers it in French, both free-to-air. The Netherlands gets NOS coverage from the Arenberg forest; Germany has ARD/Das Erste; Italy RAI Sport; and Spain Teledeporte, all free. Across the rest of Europe, Eurosport's pan-European feed carries both races on Discovery+ and HBO Max depending on territory. Eurosport Player has now been fully retired inside the European Union and replaced by the HBO Max cycling tier, which is currently the cheapest all-races-all-year option for most continental European viewers.
Australia, New Zealand and the rest of Asia-Pacific: SBS in Australia has live coverage of both races on its free-to-air channel, with the men's race kicking off at 18:50 AEST — the most comfortable time zone for any non-European market in the world. Sky Sport NZ has live rights in New Zealand via a subscription tier. Across the rest of Asia, GCN+ relaunched as part of HBO Max in 2025 and is the simplest live option in most major Asian markets. In Japan, J-Sports has live rights for both the men's and women's races. Fans in mainland China and Hong Kong will need to rely on HBO Max or the GCN+ app depending on territory.
The rolling schedule, all times CEST: junior men's race starts at 09:10, U23 men's race starts at 10:00, elite men's race starts at 10:50, and the Paris-Roubaix Femmes starts at 14:35. Expected finish times on the velodrome are 12:40 for the juniors, 14:15 for the U23s, 16:30 for the men and 18:00 for the women. For the first time this year, Eurosport and HBO Max will carry dedicated live coverage of the U23 men's finale — a 30-minute window between the end of the junior race and the arrival of the elite men on the Arenberg pavé — a welcome upgrade for anybody tracking the emerging cobbled specialists of 2028 and 2029.
One final note: every major broadcaster this year has confirmed there will be no live coverage of the opening 100 kilometres of either race. The cobbled Monument traditionally picks up live pictures at the entry to the Troisvilles sector, roughly two hours into the men's race, and the Wallers-Arenberg forest is the moment most viewers consider the race "properly" begun. If you are setting an alarm for the early hours to watch, most broadcasters' live studio coverage begins 15 minutes before the Arenberg entry — which, based on the projected average speed, will be shortly before 13:00 CEST for the men and shortly before 15:20 CEST for the women. Set a second alarm if you have to. For a race that is decided on cobbles, and for an edition that already carries the weight of a possible Van der Poel four-peat or a Pogačar historic Monument sweep, missing the Troisvilles-onwards window is the one thing no neutral cycling fan should do on Sunday afternoon.