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Famous roadAlps (Haute-Savoie), France

Col de la Croix Fry

Mountain pass — 1,467 m

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Days recorded
6Grand Tour days on this road
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3stages we hold the route for
Years covered
1994–2023first to most recent
Sides raced
2directions in the record

A quiet balcony pass above La Clusaz, climbed from Thônes and Manigod in the west or from La Clusaz in the north-east. Regularly used as a launchpad on the run-in to Le Grand-Bornand, it has featured half a dozen times since 1994.

The record

Raced here

3 of 6 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 15

    Won by Wout Poels

    Thônes / Manigod (west)

    Giulio Ciccone was first over the Croix Fry in his fight for the mountains jersey; Poels soloed clear later in the stage to win at Saint-Gervais.

  2. 2018

    Tour de France · Stage 10

    Won by Julian Alaphilippe

    Thônes / Manigod (west)

    Rudy Molard led the breakaway over the Croix Fry early on; up the road Alaphilippe went on to take his first Tour stage win and the polka-dot jersey in Le Grand-Bornand.

  3. 2013

    Tour de France · Stage 19

    Won by Rui Costa

    Thônes / Manigod (west)

    Rui Costa was first over the Croix Fry and held on to win his second stage of the race in Le Grand-Bornand, while Chris Froome managed the yellow jersey behind.

  4. 2004

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Floyd Landis (USA)

  5. 1997

    Stage 15 · first to the top: Laurent Jalabert (FRA)

  6. 1994

    Stage 18 · first to the top: Piotr Ugrumov (LAT)

Often ridden with

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