A total of 6 regions and 32 departments will be travelled through. The rumours are that well head from the grand depart in belgium down through the champagne region and on to the mountains. It will then cross france towards roubaix where some pava. Second and third respectively were nairo quintana and the team katusha rider joaquim rodriguez. The route took in everything that makes cycling such an exciting sport cobbles, sprint stages, summit finish in alpe dhuez, dust road, explosive 65 kilometres stage in the pyrenees, hilly time trial. The tour consisted of twentyone stages and covered a total distance of 3,403. The route served three weeks of compelling racing on a wellbalanced parcours. By rights in 2019 it should be the pyrenees before the alps alternating each year which comes first but it would take a creative route to go all the way west and then return to the east looking at the 20 tour route, you can see how this worked when the grand depart was in corsica early pyrenean stages, a big restday transfer and a longer.
A total of 176 riders from 22 teams participated in the race. The history, strategies, and intrigue behind the worlds greatest bicycle race. The five mountain ranges of france will be on the menu of the. The race should then proceed south towards the pyrenees before a transfer to the alps for week 3 and finishing in paris on sunday 28th. The race should then proceed north to brittany, where it will use some of the dirt roads featured in trobro leon. The organisers of the tour, aso, release snippets of the route over time the first three stages have already been confirmed, but as time goes on. This years tour was very memorable and one of the best in recent years. The vosges mountains were included in the first week, the pyrenees in the second and the alps in the last week. The info on this page is just rumour, until the route is announced on 25th october 2018. After going over the top, a 20 km descent will give their. With the race route now live, we have carefully designed a unique lineup of tours.
A cyclists guide to riding the mountains of the tour. Cyclingnews is part of future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. The amateurs will face a 175 km course with an elevation gain of 3,600 m in the hinterland of nice. Were keeping track of these rumours and updating this post regularly, whenever we have anything new to report, so do keep checking back. Cobbles, gravel and the return of alpe dhuez ultra. It started on the island of corsica on 30 june and finished on the champselysees in paris on 21 july. There should also be an uphill finish on murdebretagne. On the last three editions of the race, the total was as follows. Todays intel come from newspaper le dauphine, which seems to confirm that stage 10 will in fact start in annecy after the first rest day in annecy and end in le grand bornand as we suspected, but it will also include a 1. Indeed, itll start with a visit of the north of france, with most probably a short excursion in belgium followed by a visit of the champagne region and a descent. This tdf is a mixed bag that favours the climbers more than. Our experience and relationship with the tour allow us to. The 3,351 km 2,082 milong race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 7 july in noirmoutierenlile, in western france, and concluding on 29 july with the champselysees stage in paris. The overall general classification was won by chris froome of team sky.
Posted on 14082018 08102018 were all excited about the 2019 tour route and what it has in store. Nice to sisteron upper provence sisteron to orcieresmerlette. Day one of the 20 tour is almost completely flat, lacking any categorised climbs and giving what tour organisers say will be amazingly the first chance since 1966 for a pure sprinter to take the jersey on the opening stage. The general advice on driving is only to drive if theres no alternative, avoid areas near the event route, plan ahead, consider retiming your journey, and allow.