Col de Portet-d'Aspet
Mountain pass — 1,069 m
Show it on the map- Days recorded
- 36Grand Tour days on this road
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- 9stages we hold the route for
- Years covered
- 1910–2024first to most recent
- Sides raced
- 2directions in the record
A small pass with a long shadow. The D618 links the Ger valley to the Bouigane in the Couserans: 5.9 km at 6.8% from Saint-Lary on the Ariège side, and a 4.4 km wall at 9.6% from Pont de l'Oule on the Haute-Garonne side. It is the descent that made its name — narrow, steep and unforgiving. Raymond Poulidor crashed into a ravine here in 1973, Fabio Casartelli was killed on it in 1995, and Philippe Gilbert went over a parapet on it in 2018. A memorial stone stands at the spot where Casartelli fell, on the road down towards Aspet.
The record
Raced here
9 of 36 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.
- 2024
- 2021
- 2018
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2011
- 2010
- 2007
- 2005
Stage 15 · first to the top: Erik Dekker (NED)
- 2004
Stage 13 · first to the top: Sylvain Chavanel (FRA)
- 2003
Stage 14 · first to the top: Richard Virenque (FRA)
- 2002
Stage 12 · first to the top: Laurent Jalabert (FRA)
- 2001
Stage 13 · first to the top: Laurent Roux (FRA)
- 1998
Stage 11 · Luchon → Plateau de Beille
Won by Marco Pantani (ITA)
One of the crossings from the west, up the steep Aspet wall: Alberto Elli led over the Portet-d'Aspet early in the stage, and Marco Pantani won at Plateau de Beille with Jan Ullrich still in yellow.
- 1997
Stage 10 · first to the top: Laurent Brochard (FRA)
- 1995
Stage 15 · Saint-Girons → Cauterets
Won by Richard Virenque (FRA)
Richard Virenque was first over the Portet-d'Aspet and went on to win in Cauterets — but the day belongs to Fabio Casartelli, who crashed on the descent, suffered severe head injuries and died on the way to hospital. The next stage, Tarbes to Pau, was ridden non-competitively in his memory.
- 1988
Stage 15 · first to the top: Steven Rooks (NED)
- 1984
Stage 11 · first to the top: Theo de Rooij (NED)
- 1973
Stage 13 · Bourg-Madame → Luchon
Won by Luis Ocaña (ESP)
Raymond Martin led over the Portet-d'Aspet; on the descent Raymond Poulidor went off the road into a ravine, took a serious blow to the head and was pulled out with the help of race director Jacques Goddet. He abandoned the Tour. Luis Ocaña, on his way to overall victory, won the stage in Luchon.
- 1972
Stage 9 · first to the top: Christian Raymond (FRA)
- 1971
Stage 14 · first to the top: José Manuel Fuente (ESP)
- 1969
Stage 16 · first to the top: Raymond Delisle (FRA)
- 1967
Stage 16 · first to the top: Fernando Manzanèque (ESP)
- 1966
Stage 12 · first to the top: Julio Jiménez (ESP)
- 1965
Stage 10 · first to the top: Julio Jiménez (ESP)
- 1964
Stage 15 · first to the top: Julio Jiménez (ESP)
- 1963
Stage 12 · first to the top: Federico Bahamontes (ESP)
- 1962
Stage 14 · first to the top: Federico Bahamontes (ESP)
- 1960
Stage 12 · first to the top: Joseph Planckaert (BEL)
- 1958
Stage 15 · first to the top: Federico Bahamontes (ESP)
- 1957
Stage 17 · first to the top: Michel Stolker (NED)
- 1956
Stage 13 · first to the top: Charly Gaul (LUX)
- 1951
Stage 15 · first to the top: Gino Bartali (ITA)
- 1947
Stage 14 · Carcassonne → Luchon
Won by Albert Bourlon (FRA)
Albert Bourlon attacked from the gun and stayed away all 253 km — still the longest solo escape in the Tour since the Second World War. He took the Col de Port and the Portet-d'Aspet on his own on the way to Luchon.
- 1910
Stage 9 · Perpignan → Luchon
Won by Octave Lapize (FRA)
The Tour's first day in the Pyrenees, 289 km over the Col de Port, the Portet-d'Aspet and the Col des Ares. Octave Lapize led the race over the Portet-d'Aspet and won the stage in Luchon by 18 minutes; two days later, on the Aubisque, he called the organisers assassins.
Often ridden with
A Grand Tour stage rarely settles for one col. Col de Portet-d'Aspet has shared a day's racing with each of these roads.