France's brightest climbing hope is a third-generation racer with a featherweight build and a taste for the steepest roads. After leaving Groupama-FDJ for Bahrain Victorious in 2025, Martinez has stacked up WorldTour wins from Paris-Nice to the Dauphiné, and he arrives in Barcelona openly gunning for a mountain stage and the polka-dot jersey his grandfather once wore to Paris.
Palmarès
- Youngest-ever Vuelta a España race leader, aged 20 (2023)
- Critérium du Dauphiné stage 8 winner (2025)
- Paris–Nice stage winner (2025, 2026)
- Trofeo Laigueglia winner (2024)
- Japan Cup winner (2025)
- 2nd overall + best young rider, Volta a Catalunya (2026)
Cut-out factHis grandfather Mariano Martinez won the Tour's polka-dot jersey in 1978 — the exact jersey Lenny is chasing — and Lenny turns 23 on 11 July, mid-race.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Phil Bauhaus, Damiano Caruso, Kamil Gradek, Robert Stannard, Matej Mohorič, Antonio Tiberi, Vlad Van Mechelen — see the full Bahrain Victorious team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: MFonzatti, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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