This page covers Antonio Tiberi'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.
Antonio Tiberi turned 2026 into the breakthrough that Bahrain Victorious had been waiting for. After an early-season tune-up at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (4th overall), the 22-year-old Italian delivered the result of his career at the UAE Tour in February: a savage solo attack on the new Jebel Mobrah summit finish gave him the Stage 3 win — his first WorldTour victory — and the red jersey, with Evenepoel cracking behind. He held it deep into the final day to take 2nd overall, narrowly denied the GC by a fast finale. He carried that form into the Italian spring, finishing 3rd at the Trofeo Laigueglia behind a solo Buitrago to complete a Bahrain podium double. The rest of the spring was a heavier WorldTour grind — Tirreno-Adriatico, Itzulia Basque Country — without a headline result, and at the Tour de Suisse in June he rode as a stage-hunter rather than a GC card, getting into a Stage 3 chase group that was reeled in before the storm-lashed finale and finishing well down on GC. With his UAE Tour breakthrough banked, the back half of the season points toward a Tour de France debut as Bahrain's protected climber.
Tiberi and Bahrain Victorious place ninth as a team at +0:46, putting the Italian GC hopeful at +47'' individually — a significant deficit that will need to be recovered in the mountains. Bahrain's TTT performance was workmanlike rather than exceptional.
Made it into a chasing group on the move after the Wildhaus climb, alongside the dropped Kwiatkowski, Verstrynge, Vlasov and Schachmann, but the chasers were swept up by the peloton before the storm-lashed finale and Tiberi finished in the bunch.