Vuelta Ciclista a Lanzarote 2026: the entry list and where to watch it

The third Vuelta Ciclista a Lanzarote was ridden on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 October 2026: 189 kilometres organised by Club La Santa, split into two stages that cross all seven municipalities on the island. Start with what it is not. It is not a race. Only three climbs are timed. The rest is ridden in a group, with regrouping points and with feed stations turned into fan zones.

310 of the 431 riders entered completed both stages. Omar Fraile put the three timed climbs together in 48:59.28 and Sara Reimondo closed the women’s race in 55:54.02, with the top four of the general classification inside 44 seconds; the classifications are in the results and report. What follows is the entry list the event started from, the route climb by climb and how the weekend was laid out.

That format changes who signs up, and the entry list showed it.

Who entered: 431 riders, seven in ten over 40

As of 22 September there were 431 riders entered, eleven more than on the 21st and thirty-seven more than on 12 September. Of those, 384 were doing both stages, 25 had entered the second stage only and 22 the first only.

The age picture explains a lot about this event: 306 of the 431 were 40 or older, seven in ten. The biggest age group by some distance was Master 40 with 143 entries, then Master 50 with 102, Master 30 with 79 and Master 60 with 61. At the other end there were 33 elite riders, seven under 23, three juniors and three cadets, who could only ride the second stage. There were 83 women, 19 % of the list.

They came from 23 countries. Spain accounted for 288, and behind it the United Kingdom with 51, Germany with 15, Ireland with 11, Italy with 10 and Colombia with 9.

Read that number with the previous edition next to it: entries closed on 29 September, and in 2025 the organisers announced more than 600 riders from 25 countries, so the third edition came in well below that. Between 12 and 22 September the list grew by thirty-seven, and the two stage lists of the weekend ended up holding 460 race numbers.

What the 2025 clocks left behind

In the combined classification of the three timed climbs, the fastest man in 2025 was Daniel Kierok (C.D. Mountainride) with 46:31. Behind him came Laurens Verluyten with 47:46 and Daniel Ocaña Rodríguez with 47:51, so the podium fitted inside a minute and twenty seconds.

Among the women, the fastest time was Anne Haug, entered with Club La Santa, in 52:45. Natalia Hackett was second with 58:16 and Sara Reimondo third with 1:02:29.

Neither of the two fastest riders of 2025 was on the 2026 entry list. Two others from those podiums were: Sara Reimondo, entered for both stages, and Laurens Verluyten, who this time rode only the second, the one containing the Femés and Timanfaya climbs. With that format, the best combined time is decided among those who ride both days.

The list also held two names from road racing: Luis Pasamontes, entered with The League of Gregarious, and Omar Fraile, with Mendiz Mendi, the Basque cycling school that the rider of that name gave his name to in 2018. The organisers announced no guest riders for this edition, so that was what the entry list said, not an announcement from the event.

Where it is decided

Stage 1, Saturday, 115 km from Club La Santa to Puerto del Carmen. The climb that shapes the weekend comes past halfway: the timed ascent from Haría to the Mirador del Río, 8.5 km and 310 metres, on the road up the Risco de Famara. The fastest time there in 2025 was 16:54 for men and 19:32 for women, which is between 27 and 32 kilometres per hour uphill.

Then comes the Guayo Rodríguez regrouping at the Castillo de San José, and after it a charity section: the tighter the group rides, the larger the donation the organisers make to a local association. After that, La Geria and the descent of Hoya Limpia to the Plaza de Las Naciones.

Stage 2, Sunday, 74 km back to Club La Santa, with two timed sections: Las Casitas to Femés, 5.3 km and 170 metres, and Timanfaya to Mancha Blanca, 12.7 km and 220 metres at an average of 3 %.

These are long, steady drags, not walls. What decides them is not the gradient: it is the wind on the straights across the lava field, and arriving at the second morning in one piece.

Where it is worth watching from

The organisers did not publish 2026 maps or fan zones. The 2025 ones give a fair idea of how the two days are spread out, because the route is the same: on the Saturday there were spectator zones at the Club La Santa stadium from 07:30 to 09:00, in Teguise from 08:30 to 10:30, in the Haría town square from 09:00 to 11:00, at the Castillo de San José from 11:00 to 13:00 and at the Plaza de Las Naciones from 12:30 to 14:30. On the Sunday, in Puerto del Carmen from 07:30 to 09:00, in Yaiza from 09:30 to 11:30 and at Club La Santa from 10:30 to 13:00.

If you want to watch actual racing rather than a parade, the two places are the Haría climb on Saturday morning and the Timanfaya road on Sunday mid-morning: those are the sections where every rider is on the clock.

On the roads, in 2025 there were rolling road closures in Tinajo, Teguise, Haría, Arrecife, San Bartolomé and Tías on the Saturday, and in Tías, Yaiza and Tinajo on the Sunday, each lasting one to three hours. The organisers publish that traffic summary a few days before each edition, and it goes on the event page when it is out.

How the weekend was organised

The start was at 08:30 on both days, race numbers were handed out on Friday 2 October, from 15:30 to 19:30, at the Club La Santa stadium, and the briefings were held on Wednesday 30 September, in English at 16:00 and in Spanish at 16:30.

How the entry worked, for reference on what the format asks of a rider:

• Two-stage entry at 130 EUR until 22 September, 170 EUR from 23 September; one stage, 70 and 90 EUR.
• Entries closed on 29 September at 23:59 CET, which is 22:59 in the Canaries.
• Canary Islands residents had 10 % off.
• Anyone entering from 24 August onwards did not get the jersey included.
• Teams were of four riders and the captain had to confirm the line-up before 28 September.

So waiting until the last week cost 40 EUR more for both stages and 20 EUR for one.

The full event page, with the compulsory kit, the age groups and the organiser’s contact details, is at Lanzarote Cycling Tour, and it is where the next edition’s dates and conditions will appear.