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Famous roadAlps (Savoie), France

Col de l'Iseran

Mountain pass — 2,764 m, highest paved pass in the Alps

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Days recorded
8Grand Tour days on this road
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2stages we hold the route for
Years covered
1938–2019first to most recent
Sides raced
2directions in the record

The highest paved pass in the Alps at 2,764 m, between Val-d'Isère and Bonneval-sur-Arc. Rarely visited, always decisive.

The record

Raced here

2 of 8 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. 2019

    Tour de France · Stage 19

    Won by Egan Bernal

    Bonneval-sur-Arc (Maurienne, south)

    stage neutralised — Egan Bernal attacked alone over the Iseran to drop Julian Alaphilippe — then a freak hailstorm and landslide blocked the road ahead and the stage was stopped. Times were taken at the Iseran summit, putting Bernal in yellow; he became the first Colombian Tour winner two days later.

  2. 2007

    Tour de France · Stage 9

    Won by Mauricio Soler

    Val-d'Isère (north)

  3. 1992

    Stage 13 · first to the top: Claudio Chiappucci (ITA)

  4. 1963

    Stage 16 · first to the top: Fernando Manzaneque (ESP)

  5. 1959

    Stage 18 · first to the top: Adolf Christian (AUT)

  6. 1949

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Giuseppe Tacca (FRA)

  7. 1939

    Stage 16b · first to the top: Sylvère Maes (BEL)

  8. 1938

    Stage 15 · Briançon → Aix-les-Bains

    Won by Gino Bartali (ITA)

    Early crossing years of the Iseran came in the era of Bartali, who dominated the mountains and won the 1938 Tour.

Often ridden with

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