Bruno Armirail: 2026 team, palmarès and profile

Team (2026): Team Visma | Lease a Bike
Nationality: France
Born: 11 April 1994, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France
Profile: Time trialist, rouleur and Grand Tour domestique
Pro since: 2015
Previous teams: Armée de Terre (2015–2016), FDJ (stagiaire) (2017), Groupama–FDJ (2018–2023), Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale (2024–2025)

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

2026 season

9 June 2026Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, stage 3 (team time trial)1st (with Visma | Lease a Bike) Source
25 June 2026French National Time Trial Championships2nd Source
4 July 2026Tour de France, stage 1 (team time trial)1st (with Visma | Lease a Bike) Source
21 July 2026Tour de France, stage 16 (individual time trial)8th Source
13 September 2026Vuelta a España60th overall Source
22 September 2026UCI Road World Championships – mixed team relay2nd (silver, with France) Source
6 October 2026European Championships – mixed team relay1st (gold, with France) Source
7 October 2026European Championships – individual time trial2nd Source

Palmarès

2022French National Time Trial Championships1st Source
2023Giro d'Italia16th overall; wore the pink jersey after stages 14 and 15 Source
2023UCI Road World Championships – mixed team relay2nd (silver, with France) Source
2023European Road Championships – mixed team relay1st (gold, with France) Source
2024French National Time Trial Championships1st Source
2025French National Time Trial Championships1st Source
2025Critérium du Dauphiné1st in the mountains classification Source
2025Tour of the Basque Country1st in the mountains classification Source
2025UCI Road World Championships – individual time trial8th Source

Biography

Bruno Armirail is a French road cyclist who rides for Team Visma | Lease a Bike. He was born on 11 April 1994 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, and stands 1.90 m tall. He is a rouleur and time trialist who can also climb.

He raced for AC Bagnères-de-Bigorre in 2013 and then joined the Armée de Terre team, with which he turned professional in 2015. After a stagiaire period with FDJ in 2017, he stayed with that team, later called Groupama–FDJ, from 2018 to 2023. He spent 2024 and 2025 at Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale and moved to Visma | Lease a Bike for 2026, on a contract that runs to 2027.

The time trial is his best-known event. He won the French national title in 2022, 2024 and 2025 and finished second in 2026, and he had already taken the national under-23 title in 2014. At the 2023 Giro d’Italia he wore the pink jersey for two days, after stages 14 and 15, and ended the race 16th overall. In 2025 he won the mountains classification at the Critérium du Dauphiné and at the Tour of the Basque Country, received the combativity award on stages 2 and 12 of the Tour de France, and placed 8th in the world time trial championship.

With the French mixed team relay squad he won the European title in 2023, 2025 and 2026 and the world silver medal in 2023, 2025 and 2026. In 2026 he also took silver in the European time trial championship in Ljubljana.

His first season with Visma brought two team time trial wins: stage 3 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on 9 June and the opening stage of the Tour de France in Barcelona on 4 July. He was 8th in the Tour’s stage 16 time trial and finished the Vuelta a España in 60th place overall. The team describes him as an experienced rider who supports his leaders in the Grand Tours and also collects good stage results of his own.