Race Atlas
Famous roadJura (Ain), France

Col de la Biche

Mountain pass — 1,325 m

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Days recorded
1Grand Tour days on this road
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0stages we hold the route for
Years covered
2017–2017first to most recent
Approach
Oneone side on record

A quiet, hard climb in the Bugey mountains of the southern Jura, above the Rhône. Used by the Tour just once, as the first act of a savage three-climb day.

The climb

The climb, from the foot.

The record

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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. 2017

    Stage 9 · Nantua → Chambéry

    Won by Rigoberto Urán (COL)

    Primož Roglič led over the Col de la Biche to open the brutal Jura 'trilogy' with the Grand Colombier and Mont du Chat. On a chaotic day — Chris Froome with a mechanical, Richie Porte crashing hard on the Chat descent — Urán edged Warren Barguil in a photo finish.

Elsewhere in the Jura

No Grand Tour day on record has taken this road and another of the atlas's famous climbs. These are its nearest neighbours.