There were 126 cyclists who started the 1926 Tour de France; 82 of them were touriste-routiers, cyclists who did not have the support from a team. The other 44 cyclists started the race in teams; some teams only had two cyclists. The two teams with favourites were Automoto and Alcyon. The Automoto team had Ottavio Bottecchia, the winner of the last two editions of the race, and Lucien Buysse, the runner-up of the previous edition. The Alcyon team had Bartolomeo Aymo and Nicolas Frantz, third and fourth in 1925. They also had Adelin Benoit, and the Tour organisation thought that the battle would be between Bottecchia and Benoit.
Cyclists
By team
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By starting number
| No. | Starting number worn by the rider during the Tour |
| Pos. | Position in the general classification |
| DNF | Denotes a rider who did not finish |
By nationality
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References
- "20ème Tour de France 1926" (in French). Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 24 November 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- McGann, Bill; Mcgann, Carol (2006). The Story of the Tour De France Volume 1:1903-1964. Dog Ear Publishing. pp. 80–84. ISBN 1-59858-180-5. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ^ ""20ème Tour de France 1926". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012.
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