This page covers Alex Baudin's 2026 season race-by-race, including results, roles, key moments, and incidents for each race. Each entry is a spoiler for the corresponding race. Read no further if you intend to watch any of them unspoiled.
Alex Baudin's 2026 spring at EF Education-EasyPost was the quiet build the team has spent two seasons engineering. Sixth at La Flèche Wallonne — same time as Skjelmose, in the front group through the Mur de Huy on a day Seixas exploded clear at 200 m — was the season's first major top-10 statement and a clear validation of the Ardennes-targeted bet. Liège-Bastogne-Liège covered him in the closing climbs without a podium ride. The pattern through the rest of the Classics block: ridden as EF's Ardennes leader on the days that suit, secondary support on the rest. The Tour de France in July will be the year's bigger test for whether Baudin's GC profile resolves at WorldTour scale.
The split that caught the GC group ended Baudin's spell in yellow — he lost +4:47 and dropped out of overall contention after leading for five days.
Baudin again came home safely with the peloton, four seconds behind the breakaway, to keep the yellow jersey through the race's first half.
A quiet day in the bunch for the race leader. Baudin let the breakaway go and finished safely in the peloton to keep the yellow jersey on a stage where no GC time was at stake.
Baudin's stage-1 solo from the breakaway won him both the stage and five days in the yellow jersey before the stage-6 split ended his lead. The standout result of his season to date and a high-visibility week for EF.
Baudin played the breakaway perfectly, getting into the day's move and outlasting his fellow escapees on the closing hills. Reaching Saint-Ismier alone gave him both the stage and the first yellow jersey — a result he would defend deep into the week.
Sixth in the front group, same time as Skjelmose. EF's quietly-targeted Ardennes long-shot, on a day where the favourite happened to be 19 years old. A top-10 statement.