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Famous roadAlps (Haute-Savoie), France

Col de Joux Plane

Mountain pass — 1,691 m

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Days recorded
13Grand Tour days on this road
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2stages we hold the route for
Years covered
1978–2023first to most recent
Approach
Oneone side on record

A brutally irregular climb from Samoëns — 11.7 km at 8.5% with no respite — cresting above Morzine, into which it always descends. Short but savage, it has repeatedly been the launchpad or graveyard of Tour ambitions in the final Alpine stage.

The climb

The climb, from the foot.

The record

Raced here

2 of 13 open on the map

Every Grand Tour day recorded on this road, newest first. The ones we hold the route for open on the map with that stage selected; the rest are the archive’s own account, most of them from before route data existed.

  1. 2023

    Tour de France · Stage 14

    Won by Carlos Rodriguez

  2. 2016

    Tour de France · Stage 20

    Won by Jon Izagirre

    Jarlinson Pantano led over the Joux Plane; Izagirre then attacked on the wet, technical descent to Morzine to win the final Alpine stage.

  3. 2006

    Stage 17 · Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne → Morzine

    Won by Floyd Landis (USA)

    Landis produced a legendary long-range solo over the Joux Plane and other cols to resurrect his Tour, a ride later erased when he was disqualified for a positive doping test.

  4. 2000

    Stage 16 · Courchevel → Morzine

    Won by Richard Virenque (FRA)

    The Joux Plane's most famous day: Lance Armstrong suffered a rare 'jour sans', cracking on the climb and losing over a minute to Jan Ullrich while barely holding yellow. Virenque took the stage in Morzine.

  5. 1997

    Stage 15 · first to the top: Marco Pantani (ITA)

  6. 1991

    Stage 18 · first to the top: Thierry Claveyrolat (FRA)

  7. 1987

    Stage 22 · first to the top: Eduardo Chozas (ESP)

  8. 1984

    Stage 19 · first to the top: Ángel Arroyo (ESP)

  9. 1983

    Stage 18 · first to the top: Jacques Michaud (FRA)

  10. 1982

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Peter Winnen (NLD)

  11. 1981

    Stage 18 · first to the top: Robert Alban (FRA)

  12. 1980

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Mariano Martínez (FRA)

  13. 1978

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Christian Seznec (FRA)

Often ridden with

A Grand Tour stage rarely settles for one col. Col de Joux Plane has shared a day's racing with each of these roads.