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Famous roadAlps (Isère), France

Col de Sarenne

Mountain pass — 1,999 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
2013–2013first to most recent
Approach
Oneone side on record

A wild, narrow balcony road behind Alpe d'Huez, with no guardrails and a dramatic descent. Used only once by the Tour — to make history.

The climb

The climb, from the foot.

The record

Raced here

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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. 2013

    Stage 18 · Gap → Alpe d'Huez

    Won by Christophe Riblon (FRA)

    For the Tour's first-ever double ascent of Alpe d'Huez, the Col de Sarenne linked the two climbs. Tejay van Garderen led over the summit but faltered on the descent, where Riblon briefly slid off the road before recovering to win at the top of the Alpe.

Elsewhere in the Alps

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