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Col d'Izoard

Mountain pass — 2,360 m, the Casse Déserte

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Days recorded
44Grand Tour days on this road
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5stages we hold the route for
Years covered
1922–2019first to most recent
Sides raced
2directions in the record

Famous for the Casse Déserte, a moonscape of scree and rock pinnacles just below the summit. The signature climb of Coppi and Bobet, with a memorial to both beside the road.

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

5 of 44 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 18

    Won by Nairo Quintana

    Casse Déserte / Guillestre (south)

  2. 2017

    Tour de France women's · Stage 1

    Won by Annemiek van Vleuten

    Casse Déserte / Guillestre (south)

    Tour de France · Stage 18

    Won by Warren Barguil

    Casse Déserte / Guillestre (south)

    The first-ever summit finish on the Izoard. Barguil, in the polka-dot jersey, dropped everyone on the Casse Déserte on Bastille week form; Chris Froome defended yellow to seal his fourth Tour.

  3. 2014

    Tour de France · Stage 14

    Won by Rafał Majka

    Briançon (north)

  4. 2011

    Tour de France · Stage 18

    Won by Andy Schleck

    Casse Déserte / Guillestre (south)

  5. 2007

    Stage 12 · first to the top: Danilo Di Luca (ITA)

  6. 2006

    Stage 15 · first to the top: Stefano Garzelli (ITA)

  7. 2003

    Stage 9 · first to the top: Aitor Garmendia (ESP)

  8. 2000

    Stage 14 · first to the top: Santiago Botero (COL)

    Stage 19 · first to the top: Francesco Casagrande (ITA)

  9. 1996

    Stage 14 · first to the top: Pascal Richard (SUI)

  10. 1994

    Stage 20 · first to the top: Marco Pantani (ITA)

  11. 1993

    Stage 11 · first to the top: Claudio Chiappucci (ITA)

  12. 1989

    Stage 16 · first to the top: Pascal Richard (SUI)

  13. 1986

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Eduardo Chozas (ESP)

  14. 1982

    Stage 21 · first to the top: Lucien Van Impe (BEL)

  15. 1976

    Stage 10 · first to the top: Lucien Van Impe (BEL)

  16. 1975

    Stage 16 · first to the top: Bernard Thévenet (FRA)

  17. 1973

    Stage 8 · first to the top: José Manuel Fuente (ESP)

  18. 1972

    Stage 13 · first to the top: Eddy Merckx (BEL)

  19. 1965

    Stage 16 · first to the top: Joaquim Galera (ESP)

  20. 1964

    Stage 20 · first to the top: Franco Bitossi (ITA)

  21. 1962

    Stage 18 · first to the top: Federico Bahamontes (ESP)

  22. 1960

    Stage 16 · first to the top: Imerio Massignan (ITA)

  23. 1958

    Stage 20 · first to the top: Federico Bahamontes (ESP)

  24. 1956

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Valentin Huot (FRA)

  25. 1954

    Stage 18 · first to the top: Louison Bobet (FRA)

  26. 1953

    Stage 18 · Gap → Briançon

    Won by Louison Bobet (FRA)

    Bobet soloed over the Casse Déserte in the tricolore jersey to set up the first of his three straight Tour wins.

  27. 1951

    Stage 20 · first to the top: Fausto Coppi (ITA)

  28. 1950

    Stage 18 · first to the top: Louison Bobet (FRA)

  29. 1949

    Stage 16 · Cannes → Briançon

    Won by Fausto Coppi (ITA)

    Coppi and Gino Bartali crossed the Izoard together, clear of the field, in one of the sport's iconic images. Bartali took the stage on his birthday; Coppi took the Tour — the first man to win Giro and Tour in the same year.

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Fausto Coppi (ITA)

  30. 1948

    Stage 13 · first to the top: Gino Bartali (ITA)

  31. 1947

    Stage 9 · first to the top: Jean Robic (FRA)

  32. 1939

    Stage 15 · first to the top: Sylvère Maes (BEL)

  33. 1938

    Stage 14 · first to the top: Gino Bartali (ITA)

  34. 1937

    Stage 9 · first to the top: Julian Berrendero (ESP)

  35. 1936

    Stage 9 · first to the top: Sylvère Maes (BEL)

  36. 1927

    Stage 16 · first to the top: Nicolas Frantz (LUX)

  37. 1926

    Stage 14 · first to the top: Bartolomeo Aymo (ITA)

  38. 1925

    Stage 13 · first to the top: Bartolomeo Aymo (ITA)

  39. 1924

    Stage 10 · first to the top: Nicolas Frantz (LUX)

  40. 1923

    Stage 10 · first to the top: Henri Pélissier (FRA)

  41. 1922

    Stage 10 · first to the top: Philippe Thijs (BEL)

Often ridden with

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