Tim Wellens: 2026 team, palmarès and profile

Team (2026): UAE Team Emirates XRG
Nationality: Belgium
Born: 10 May 1991, Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Profile: Puncheur and attacker in one-day races and short stage races
Pro since: 2012
Previous teams: Lotto–Belisol / Lotto–Soudal (2012–2022)

Facts checked on 20 October 2026. Every fact has a source, listed at the bottom of this page.

2026 season

16 February 2026Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior1st Source
1 March 2026Kuurne–Brussels–KuurneDid not finish after a crash (fractured collarbone) Source
26 June 2026Belgian National Time Trial Championships2nd Source
26 July 2026Tour de FranceFinished (74th overall) in the team that won with Tadej Pogačar Source
6 September 2026Tour of Britain1st overall Source
27 September 2026CRO Race3rd overall Source

Palmarès

2015Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal1st Source
2016Tour de Pologne1st overall (stage 5 win, sprints and mountains classifications) Source
2016Giro d'Italia, stage 61st Source
2017Tour of Guangxi1st overall Source
2018Vuelta a Andalucía1st overall Source
2020Vuelta a España2 stage wins Source
2024Belgian National Time Trial Championships1st (national champion) Source
2024Renewi Tour (Benelux Tour)1st overall (record fourth win, after 2014, 2015 and 2023) Source
2025Belgian National Road Race Championships1st (national champion) Source
2025Tour de France, stage 15 (Muret – Carcassonne)1st Source

Biography

Tim Wellens is a Belgian road cyclist who rides for UAE Team Emirates XRG. He was born on 10 May 1991 in Sint-Truiden and comes from a cycling family: his father Leo and his uncles Paul and Johan Wellens all raced as professionals in the 1970s and 1980s. He rode as a junior for the Avia team and then for the Davo–Lotto development team, and turned professional in the middle of the 2012 season with Lotto–Belisol.

He stayed with the Lotto team for more than ten years. He won the Eneco Tour, now the Benelux Tour, in 2014 and 2015, and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal in 2015. In 2016 he won the final stage of Paris–Nice, stage 6 of the Giro d’Italia at Roccaraso, and the Tour de Pologne, where his solo win into Zakopane in driving rain gave him a lead of more than four minutes. He won the first Tour of Guangxi in 2017, the Vuelta a Andalucía and a second Giro stage in 2018, and led the mountains classification of the 2019 Tour de France until stage 17. At his first Vuelta a España, in 2020, he won two stages. He also won the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana in Mallorca four times.

Wellens joined UAE Team Emirates in 2023. A crash at that year’s Tour of Flanders broke his collarbone in four places and kept him out of the Tour de France, but he won the Benelux Tour for a third time. In 2024 he became Belgian time trial champion, rode the Tour de France for Tadej Pogačar and won the Benelux Tour a fourth time, a record. In 2025 he won the Belgian road race title and stage 15 of the Tour de France into Carcassonne.

In 2026 he won the Clásica Jaén in February, then broke his collarbone in a crash at Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne. He came back to ride the Tour de France for Pogačar’s winning team, was second in the Belgian time trial championship, won the Tour of Britain in September and finished third at the CRO Race.