Col de la Madeleine
Mountain pass — 2,000 m
Show it on the map- Days recorded
- 29Grand Tour days on this road
- Open on the map
- 7stages we hold the route for
- Years covered
- 1969–2025first to most recent
- Sides raced
- 3directions in the record
A 25 km giant linking the Maurienne and Tarentaise valleys, crossed nearly 30 times — long, hot and merciless, usually softening the race before a summit finish elsewhere.
The climb
One trace for the whole road, up one side and down the other. No separate profile per side is recorded.
The record
Raced here
7 of 29 open on the mapEvery 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.
- 2025
Tour de France women's · Stage 8
Won by Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
La Chambre via Montgellafrey (south-west)
Tour de France · Stage 18
Won by Ben Alexander O'Connor
La Chambre via Saint-François-Longchamp (south)
- 2020
Tour de France · Stage 17
Won by Miguel Ángel López
La Chambre via Montgellafrey (south-west)
The Madeleine served as the giant lead-in to the Tour's new highest paved finish at the Col de la Loze.
- 2018
- 2013
- 2012
- 2010
Tour de France · Stage 9
Won by Sandy Casar
La Léchère (Tarentaise, north)
Over the Madeleine, Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador distanced everyone and Cadel Evans cracked, ending his yellow jersey defence; Casar took the stage from the break.
- 2005
Stage 11 · first to the top: Santiago Botero (COL)
- 2004
Stage 17 · first to the top: Gilberto Simoni (ITA)
- 2002
Stage 16 · first to the top: Michael Boogerd (NED)
- 2001
Stage 10 · first to the top: Laurent Roux (FRA)
- 2000
Stage 15 · first to the top: Massimiliano Lelli (ITA)
- 1998
Stage 16 · first to the top: Jan Ullrich (GER)
- 1997
Stage 14 · first to the top: Richard Virenque (FRA)
- 1996
Stage 7 · first to the top: Richard Virenque (FRA)
- 1995
Stage 10 · first to the top: Richard Virenque (FRA)
- 1994
Stage 17 · first to the top: Piotr Ugrumov (LAT)
- 1990
Stage 11 · first to the top: Thierry Claveyrolat (FRA)
- 1988
Stage 12 · first to the top: Henri Abadie (FRA)
- 1987
Stage 21 · first to the top: Anselmo Fuerte (ESP)
- 1984
Stage 18 · first to the top: Pedro Delgado (ESP)
- 1983
Stage 18 · first to the top: Lucien Van Impe (BEL)
- 1981
Stage 19 · first to the top: Lucien Van Impe (BEL)
- 1980
Stage 17 · first to the top: Mariano Martínez (FRA)
- 1979
Stage 17 · first to the top: Lucien Van Impe (BEL)
- 1977
Stage 17 · first to the top: André Chalmel (FRA)
- 1975
Stage 17 · first to the top: Francisco Galdós (ESP)
- 1973
Stage 8 · first to the top: Jean-Pierre Danguillaume (FRA)
- 1969
Stage 10 · Thonon-les-Bains → Chamonix
Won by Eddy Merckx (BEL)
The Madeleine's Tour debut came during Merckx's crushing first Tour, which he won by nearly 18 minutes along with every other major jersey.
Often ridden with
A Grand Tour stage rarely settles for one col. Col de la Madeleine has shared a day's racing with each of these roads.