From there it’s a long, steady drag up the wide roads of the Col du Lauteret (2,058m), before a right-turn onto the early slopes of the imposing Galibier (2,642m). The 2019 Tour de France was the 106th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three Grand Tours.The 3,365.8 km (2,091 mi)-long race consisted of 21 stages, starting in the Belgian capital of Brussels on 6 July, before moving throughout France and concluding on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 28 July. There’s a short, sharp climb around 17km from the finish, but it shouldn’t pose an issue for even the most flat track of bullies. A total of 176 riders from 22 teams participated in the race. Km 76: Michael Schär (BMC) won the intermediate sprint. The summit of the final climb, the 6.1 percent Côte des Cinq Châteaux, arrives just under the 20km to go mark, then there’s a fast descent followed by a long, straight and flat run-in to Colmar. It will depend on how the race pans out, because the route does favour a breakaway. Photo: ASO/Pauline Ballet, Sunday, July 21: Stage 15, Limoux - Foix Prat d'Albis, 185 km, Complete stage 15 results, stage story, photos, stage map & profile, Simon Yates wins again. After the (failed) experiment of the ultra-short 65km Pyrenean stage last year, Christian Prudhomme has reverted back to what used to constitute a short mountain stage with this finish on the Tourmalet. You can unsubscribe at any time. Stage 6 of the Tour de France was the first real test for the GC contenders, with seven categorized climbs and the first mountain top finish on La Planche Des Belles Filles—with a twist. 128 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.709 km/hr, 3,365.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.576 km/hr. Tour de France average speed (last 11 editions) 2009, Alberto Contador: 40.03km/h 2010, Andy Schleck: 39.59km/h 2011, Cadel Evans: 39.79km/h 2012, … This is it. Tour de France 2019: route and stage analysis. This Paris procession, where the yellow jersey isn’t attacked at any point in the stage, is a long-held tradition, but it turns what should be a showpiece occasion into a bit of a damp squib. A freewheeling attitude towards cake is the popular theory, however. The 6th edition of La Course by the Tour de France will be organised in Pau, on a route specially designed for punchers. Such stages, however, remain totally valid in the context of a three-week Grand Tour. 4, Final GC leader: Egan Bernal (Team INEOS), Mountains classification leader: Romain Bardet (Ag2r), Points classification leader: Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe), Best young rider: Egan Bernal (Team INEOS), GC leader: Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step), Mountains classification leader: Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal), Points classification leader: Peter Sagan (Broa-hansgrohe), Team classification leader: Trek-Segafredo, Points classificaton leader: Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe), Best young rider: Enric Mas (Deceuninck-Quick Step), Best young rider: Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo), Team classification leader: Trek-Segafedo, Team Classification leader: Trek-Segafredo, GC leader: Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo), Best young rider: Giulio Ciccone (Trek Segafredo), Best young rider: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Mountains classification leader: Time Wellens (Lottto-Soudal), Mountains classification leader: Greg Van Avermaet (CCC Team), Points classification leader: Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma), Best young rider: Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Best young rider: Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal), Team classification leader: (Jumbo-Visma). Riders of the 2019 Etape du Tour will have ridden this route six days earlier, the majority in twice the time as the predicted four hours of today’s winner, putting their efforts into some perspective. There’s nothing particular sinister about the 7.5 percent average gradient of the 12.9km Iseran, besides the toughest kilometre (10.2) being its penultimate. Julian Alaphilippe wins while wearing yellow. The Colombians tend to fare best, given their altitudinal heritage. From the summit, there’s a 15km descent into the popular ski resort of Val d’Isere, then a further drop before a final ascent through the various towns of neighbouring Tignes, finishing at 2,113m – the fifth time in two days that the race has broken 2,000m. Celebrations include military parades in Paris and families getting together around the country. In this figure, I show the speed with which the winner completed each grand tour (Vuelta a Espana, Giro d'Italia and Tour de France) over the period 1903-2019. Egan Bernal won the 106th edition of the Tour de France ahead of Geraint Thomas and Steven Kruijswijk. Nîmes is a city of 150,000 people, sandwiched inland between the larger coastal cities of Montpellier and Marseille. After all, it’s been 34 long years – Chris Froome was two months old! It also gives the main contenders a much-needed breather, after – and before – more rigorous challenges. Schleck would win the stage (or rather gifted from Contador) with his opponent content with his overall lead. Team Ineos led the peloton as they entered Paris for the grand finale in front of the most prestigious monuments and the Champs-Elysées. Below are a few stats to remember for next time your friends ask ‘what is the top speed in the Tour de France?’ Jeremy Roy later showed that he had managed to set a high speed of 127kph/79mph on the descent of the Cote de la Comella, while Marcus Burghardt of BMC took the bragging rights managing to aero-tuck his way to 130.7kph/81.2mph. Egan Bernal just after the stage. Even on flat land, a Tour de France pro’s average speed needs to be way up there in order to stay in the race. What a way for mountain stages to bow out too. On its last visit in 2017, it hosted its first-ever summit finish (Warren Barguil winning to complete his remarkable Tour), but today the race continues, following a familiar route down to Briançon, France’s highest city. Thanks! The time gaps come the close of play won’t be huge, but in the context of the modern Tour significant enough, and Christian Prudhomme will be hoping it leaves things delicately poised, with a generous helping of mountains still to come for the climbing specialists. Thibaut Pinot takes a brilliant win at the Tourmalet. Whoever ends up wearing yellow today it’ll be a good one to win, for the maillot jaune celebrates its centenary in 2019. Rather, it’s the towering altitude this late in the race that will be of most concern to the GC contenders. In fact, it’s usually about double that of an average rider. It will be rendered especially dynamic by the presence of the Côte d’Esquillot slope, an ideal springboard for the most explosive riders. You’d be hard-pressed to bet against one of the fast men taking the first yellow jersey. Here are our live updates: 145 riders gently started the 2018 Tour's final stage at 4:23. Billed as the highest Tour de France in history, the race begins decidedly low with this loop in Brussels (elevation: 13m). Here's the organizer's 2019 Tour summary: The details of the 106th edition of the Tour de France, which will start on Saturday 6th July from Brussels, were unveiled this morning at the Palais des Congrès convention centre in Paris, in the presence of the five times winners Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain, who were invited to launch the celebration of the Yellow Jersey’s centenary. Photo: ASO/Alex Broadway, Thursday, July 11: Stage 6, Mulhouse - La Planche des Belles Filles, 160.5 km, Complete stage 6 results, stage story, photos, map & profile. There is spectacle in the final sprint on the Champs-Élysées – a bucket list victory for all the top sprinters – and the recently introduced evening finish has added atmosphere into the final, but for many the race has already finished the day before. The fastest lines would have been really important to maintain speed using the least possible power. Other Races Sure, there are no showpiece famous cols or summit finishes – that can wait for the final two Saturdays – but the stage’s near 4,000m of vertical is the equal of many mountain stages. Yellow jersey holder Egan Bernal had his taste of Champagne at the back of the peloton in front of the cameras as per tradition. Photo: ASO/Alex Broadway, Complete stage 16 results, stage story, photos, stage map & profile, Caleb Ewan is the day's fastest man. //-->, Tour de France The route skirts the western edge of Lyon through the Monts du Lyonnais, low altitude mountains in the eastern foothills of the Massif Central, the vast mountain range in southern, central France that spans 15 percent of the country. Friday, July 19: Stage 13, Pau 27.2 km individual time trial, Complete stage 13 results, stage story, photos, stage map & profile. Slowest Tour de France: 24.1km/h. After a flat and fast opening 4km, the route loops round the Watermael-Boitsfort suburb before bisecting the opening of the course with 10km remaining. The final chance for the yellow jersey to hold their nerve, for his challengers to deliver a telling blow, for the also rans to salvage their race and for the remaining sprinters to simply survive one more day of toil before Paris. Aside from a stage in Nimes, it’s mountains and time trials from here until Paris, so if a sprinter hasn’t notched a win by Toulouse, their number might be up. It’s heralded as the ‘Rome of France’ , the ‘most Roman’ city outside of Italy and it’s easy to see why with its marvellous amphitheatre, the Arena of Nîmes. For long stretches, nothing much may seemingly happen. Food That’s not quite the fastest ever TTT average speed: Orica GreenEDGE (now … Jumbo-Visma knows they have just won the stage and kept the yellow jersey for another day. The last debutant to win three stages at the Tour was Peter Sagan in 2012. For example, in the points classification in the Tour de France, the maillot vert (green jersey) is won by the race's most consistent sprinter. Cat. Its Avenue de Champagne, filled with champagne houses and cellars, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that stretches for almost a kilometre. He has just won the Tour de France. At the Tour de France, the most current successful recipient of this honor is Slovak sprinter Peter Sagan, who has won seven Tour de France green jerseys (2012–2016, 2018-2019). Caleb Ewan got faster as the Tour progressed. It’s one of the steeper summit finishes and is tougher this year, bolstered by the addition of a dirt road in the final kilometre that’s 20 percent at the very top. Soon after, the 9.3km Mur de Péguère gets steep – and narrow – towards its summit, with its final 3.5km between 11 and 13 percent. The average speed of the winning team was a whopping 57.2 kilometers per hour. From Moutiers at 539m, Val Thorens sits at 2,365m (once again, we’re over 2000m) and when you take into account the four sections of descent you’re looking at, all done, 2,000m of elevation gain. Perhaps. The Tour de France 1919, which witnessed a return to cycling after four years of world war, in fact set off the day after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and symbolically emerged from the gloom, guided by the light of the first Yellow Jersey awarded to Eugène Christophe on the morning of the Grenoble to Geneva stage. Beranrd Hinault congratulates Julian Alaphilppe for winning the combativity prize. It’s a mere speed bump for a Tour peloton, however, and a large bunch will have it all to play for on the flat finish. The last debutant to win three stages at the Tour was Peter Sagan in 2012. On leaving Belgium, the battle between sprinters could continue in the Champagne and Lorraine regions, but climbing skills will soon be called upon among those hoping to get their hands on the Yellow Jersey, who now are used to vigorously testing themselves against each other at La Planche des Belles Filles. 155 riders took the start of stage 21 in Rambouillet. Following that there’s also the Ballon d’Alsace (1,178m), a climb used sparingly since WWII, climbed from its eastern side in Sewen. Team time trials are infrequent and hard to predict. The fastest ever average speed for a stage of the Tour is 50.4kph, Mario Cipollini taking the honours that day. At last year’s race, BMC Racing prevailed, though its demise and reemergence as a lesser-funded outfit, CCC, will mean it won’t begin as favourites. The winner (Geraint Thomas) received €500,000 while every rider that participated in the Tour at least went home with €400 in addition to their salaries. It’s for that reason why the sprinters’ teams will be eyeing up today, though you can’t discount a breakaway going the distance. The Col de Peyresourde brings up the curtain on the Pyrenees. Cycling Plus Features Editor and tireless domestique John has been putting in a shift for the magazine for seven years. google_ad_width = 728; There are four in the final 30km, bisecting the Montagne de Reims natural park, which is home to much of the region’s Champagne production. La Course by the Tour de France: pride of place for the ladies in Pau, Five years after the creation of La Course by the Tour de France, which brought together the world’s leading women cyclists in Paris in 2014, the women’s elite pack will do battle on the time-trial route in Pau. That average speed is absolutely insane: 35.54mph. This will be the 81st time the Tourmalet has featured in the race – more than any other climb – but it’s just the third summit finish (the lack of infrastructure at the top makes it problematic). By entering your details, you are agreeing to BikeRadar terms and conditions and privacy policy. Photo Galleries, Glossary, Terms, Lists The final GC podium, from left: Geraint Thomas (2nd), Egan Bernal & Steven Kruijswijk (3rd), Saturday, July 27: Stage 20: Albertville - Val Thorens, 59.5 km, Complete stage 20 results, stage story, photos, stage map & profile. The jersey was introduced during the 1919 addition by race director Henri Desgrange, to better distinguish the race leader (yellow was the colour that the race’s sponsor, the newspaper L’Auto-Vélo, was printed on). The climb from the east in Ancizan, which is the route the race takes this year, is tree lined but it opens up beautifully towards the 1,569m summit and continues throughout its peach of a descent. Stuff We Like, Rider Histories The meat in today’s sandwich, however, is the mammoth climb up to the Val Thorens ski resort, the fifth and final summit finish of the 2019 Tour de France. The route goes higher than the previous stage, breaking 1,000m on the Côte des Guillaumanches, but it’s shorter and not nearly as difficult. There’s no more stressful a week in cycling than the opening week of the Tour de France and the riders will welcome the downtime of the first rest day in Albi. The Vosges are a low mountain range, but race director Christian Prudhomme is testing riders early in the race, taking them over – via the 1st category climb to Le Markstein ski station – the highest point of the region in the Grand Ballon (1,336m). But it’s the end of today’s stage, once we’re well into northern France and east of Paris, that’ll cause the most problems. google_ad_client = "ca-pub-2062310126166513"; Mountains classification leader Romain Bardet in his polka-dot jersey can be seen in the background. How much this is done to favour home favourite Romain Bardet, a rider who often ships large amounts of time in races against the clock, and how much is to benefit the race as a whole, we don’t know, but we do know that the French would dearly love a homegrown winner. It’s got a small chance of staying away. There have never been as few solo time trial kilometres as there have been in recent Tours de France (2015’s 14km being the all-time low). Bravo! The last time they finished here, in 2010, Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck shadow-boxed their way to the summit, as Schleck attempted — and failed — to shake the stubborn Spaniard off his wheel. Training & Coaching Nancy has been a Tour de France staple since the third edition in 1905. Photo: ASO-Alex Broadway. /* bottom text banner, created 2/9/09 */ Crosswinds might be their only threat. It’s a climb, like the similarly interminable Col de la Croix de Fer, where the average gradient of 5.5 percent over its 33.4km doesn’t begin to do it justice. Despite having been a ‘proper’ road cyclist for the last decade, he still can’t work out what his main motivation for punishing all-day rides is. 986.6 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.437 km/hr, Wednesday, July 10: Stage 5, Saint Dié des Vosges - Colmar, 175.5 km, Complete stage 5 results, stage story, photos, stage map & profile, Tuesday, July 9: Stage 4, Reims - Nancy, 213.5 km, Complete stage 4 results, stage story, photos, stage map & profile. After being primed on the category 1 Col du Soulor, the race climbs the Tourmalet from the western Luz-Saint-Sauveur side; it’s the equal in terms of average gradient (7.4 percent) as the La Mongie side from the east, but it’s the lesser of the two in terms of satisfaction (this western side is preceded by a huge stretch of false flat in the valley from Argeles- Gazost). It’s the second time the Belgian capital has hosted the Grand Départ, the first being 1958, which was won by ace sprinter and Frenchman André Darrigade. The start of the second weekend of the Tour de France can only mean one thing: spectacle. Tomorrow’s stage actually sees the race go higher, over Europe’s highest pass (Col d’Iseran), but today has something unusual for the Tour – three increasingly higher climbs over the 2,000m mark. Jan Tratnik (Bahrain-Merida) and Nils Politt (Katusha-Alpecin) caught up with the two attackers. Read about the entire route of the 2019 Tour de France. Stage KM Avg. July 7, 2019. It’s Bastille Day, France’s national holiday. From the start, locally known as Saint-Dié, it’s not far, as the crow flies, to Colmar – another self-proclaimed wine capital of its region, but adding a huge loop to the north of the Vosges boosts its length. Lance Armstrong rode 3,592.5 … The horror crash which has sidelined four-time champion Chris Froome has left the race for the 2019 Tour de France wide open for a clutch of contenders, including home riders, to … The peloton spends a large chunk of time today on the flatter roads north of the hills ahead of the longer stuff of tomorrow. Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal) and Yoann Offredo (Wanty-Groupe Gobert) successively passed the côte de St-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse and the côte de Châteaufort in first position with the acceptance of the rest of the field. Team Ineos, including Geraint Thomas and Wout Poels, recce’d the new climb in May, which is said to have terrific, far-reaching views on a good day. It’s surely a day for the sprinters and there’ll be pressure to perform, given this year’s race is so backloaded with mountain stages. News & Opinion, Bike Tech Essays Km 36: The peloton rode 32.3 kilometers the first hour. This was a close one. 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Only the fans will have time to sample its many grandes marques – Champagne houses – as the peloton hot foots to Nancy. Built for the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958, it stands 102m tall and represents a single unit of iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. Here he wins the big one, the final stage in Paris. View full results of Stage 7 in Tour de France 2019 from Belfort to Chalon-sur-Saône over 230 kilometre. Hot on the heels of the novelty of a Tourmalet finish comes a totally new climb, on Prat d’Albis, for what is, with close to 5,000m of climbing, the toughest stage of this year’s Pyrenees sojourn. Earlier achievers Daryl Impey and Julian Alaphilippe, both stage winners, respectively led the pack with 3km to go and under the flamme rouge of the last kilometre at the service of Matteo Trentin and Elia Viviani but it was eventually Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data) to launch the sprint from far out. We’re into another major wine region, Alsace, on the edge of the Vosges mountains. It’s the sort of stage that the general classification contenders have little to gain, but plenty to lose. Egan Bernal was crowned as the first Colombian to win the Tour de France and the youngest in more than a century after safely negotiating the 21st and final stage into Paris Sunday. STAGE 7 RESULTS STAGE 7 RECAP Tour de France 2019 – 106th Edition – 7th stage – Dylan Groenewegen (NED – Team Jumbo – Visma) Photos: Bettini. Riders depart early from Belfort on the southern tip of the Vosges, navigating a route that features a lumpy first half and a flat second. //-->, 2018 Tour | 2020 Tour | Tour de France database | Start list | Teams presentation photos | List of stages | Organizer's route description The winner of today will no doubt be furnished with a magnum and they’ll deserve a glass at dinner, with a tough finish perfect for the faster riders with a penchant for climbs. 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