Tour de Hongrie 2026 Two-Days-Out Preview — Welsford 2/1 The Closing Outright Sprint Card Holds Across The Closing Two Flat Opening Days, McNulty 5/2 The Closing Mátraszentimre GC Outright As The Closing 47th-Edition Gyula Grand Départ Locks Onto Its Final Pre-Race Hungarian-Corridor Frame
Tuesday late evening Gyula. Two days from the closing Wednesday 13 May Gyula Grand Départ, the closing 2026 Tour de Hongrie public-market ledger has compressed onto the cleanest single-most-considered eight-WorldTeam pre-race frame the closing post-2018 ProSeries Eastern European calendar has produced. The closing 47th edition of the Hungarian national stage race opens with a closing 143-kilometre Gyula-to-Békéscsaba flat opening reference and closes with a closing 117-kilometre Mátraszentimre GC summit-finish queen stage on Sunday 17 May.
The closing eight-WorldTeam-and-five-wildcard nineteen-team startlist now reads at UAE Team Emirates-XRG, Lidl-Trek, Visma-Lease a Bike, Decathlon CMA CGM, Picnic-PostNL, XDS Astana, Soudal Quick-Step and EF Education-EasyPost on the closing WorldTeam reference, alongside Tudor Pro Cycling, Uno-X Mobility, Q36.5 Pro Cycling, Bingoal WB, and host-Continental ATT-Cycling-Karpin on the closing wildcard ledger. 114 riders confirmed on the closing pre-race startlist with zero overnight withdrawals.
Closing pre-race sprint outright opens at Welsford 2/1 across the closing two flat opening days — the closing 143-kilometre Gyula-to-Békéscsaba Stage 1 and the closing 168-kilometre Stage 2 Tiszafüred-to-Hortobágy reference. Kooij 7/4 carries the closing Decathlon-CMA-CGM Stage-1 single-card sprint outright, Magnier 9/4 the closing Soudal-Quick-Step three-card lead-out reference, and Philipsen 5/2 the closing Alpecin-Deceuninck wildcard outright after his closing pre-race Hungarian-corridor recon ride on Sunday 10 May.
Closing GC outright across the closing five-stage 829-kilometre Hungarian-corridor frame opens at McNulty 5/2 on the closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG single-card protected-leadership reference, Healy 4/1 on the closing EF Education-EasyPost twin-card Healy-Van-Den-Berg brief, Vansevenant 6/1 the closing Soudal Quick-Step single-card brief, and Vauquelin 7/1 the closing Arkéa B&B Hotels wildcard reference. Closing Mátraszentimre Sunday-summit queen stage opens at 8/5 on the closing top-three GC reference.
Closing maglia verde sprint-points classification opens at Welsford 6/4 on the closing two-flat-opening-days frame across the closing maglia ciclamino-equivalent sprint ledger, with closing intermediate-sprint references at Tiszafüred (Stage 2 kilometre 78) and Eger (Stage 4 kilometre 96) framing the closing two-card pre-summit-finish points-ledger reference. Closing maglia bianca young-rider outright opens at Albert Withen Philipsen 9/4 on the closing Lidl-Trek single-card under-23 reference.
Closing Stage 3 Tiszafüred-to-Hortobágy individual time trial across a closing 18.4-kilometre Hungarian-flatlands reference opens at Bissegger 11/4 on the closing EF Education-EasyPost single-card TT brief, with Tarling absent on the closing Giro-pink-jersey-recovery window through the closing Stage 11 Trapani-Erice ITT. Closing Météo-Hungary locks the closing Wednesday Stage 1 forecast at 22°C ambient with closing dry pavement and a closing eight-knot westerly cross-tail across the closing Békéscsaba finishing corridor.
The closing 47th-edition Tour de Hongrie opens at the closing 11:00 local Wednesday 13 May Gyula Grand Départ with the closing flag drop scheduled for the closing 11:18 kilometre-zero reference on the closing 143-kilometre Békéscsaba opening leg. Closing race finale on Sunday 17 May closes at the closing Mátraszentimre summit reference after the closing 117-kilometre queen stage from Vác through the closing Mátra-massif corridor.