2022 Tour de France route: stage profiles, previews, start, finish times

A stage-by-stage look at the 2022 Tour de France route with profiles, previews and estimated start and finish times (all times Eastern) …

Stage 1/July 1: Copenhagen-Copenhagen (8.2 miles) Individual Time Trial Start: 10 a.m. Estimated Finish: 1:10 p.m.Quick Preview: The Grant Départ is held in Denmark for the first time with the first three stages being held there. Watch out for Italian Filippo Ganna, who won the last two world titles in the time trial.

Stage 2/July 2: Roskilde-Nyborg (125 miles) Flat Start: 6:15 a.m. Estimated Finish: 10:59 a.m.Quick Preview: The first sprinters’ stage. With Mark Cavendish not selected for the Tour, look for Peter Sagan to began his bid for a record-extending eighth green jersey title.

Stage 3/July 3: Vejle-Sonderborg (113 miles)Flat Start: 7:05 a.m. Estimated Finish: 11:12 a.m.Quick Preview: The last “flat” category stage until stage 13 and the last stage in Denmark before the rest day and a move to France.

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Stage 4/July 5: Dunkirk-Calais (106 miles) Hilly Start: 7:15 a.m. Estimated Finish: 11:14 a.m.Quick Preview: The Tour visits Dunkirk, site of the largest evacuation in military history during World War II, for the first time in 15 years.

Stage 5/July 6: Lille Metropole-Arenberg Porte Du Hainaut (95 miles)Hilly Start: 7:35 a.m. Estimated Finish: 11:20 a.m.Quick Preview: The Tour returns to the famed cobblestones of Paris-Roubaix for the first time in four years. There are 11 sections totaling about 12 miles. As the saying goes, you can’t win the Tour on the cobblestones, but you can lose it.

Stage 6/July 7: Binche-Longwy (136 miles)Hilly Start: 6:05 a.m. Estimated Finish: 11:15 a.m.Quick Preview: The first uphill finish of the Tour on a stage that includes