Col du Tourmalet
Mountain pass — 2,115 m
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- 89Grand Tour days on this road
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- 18stages we hold the route for
- Years covered
- 1910–2026first to most recent
- Sides raced
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The most-used mountain in Tour history — crossed nearly 90 times since 1910. The giant of the Pyrenees links Luz-Saint-Sauveur and Sainte-Marie-de-Campan over 2,115 m.
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
18 of 89 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.
- 2026
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
- 2021
- 2019
Tour de France · Stage 14
Won by Thibaut Pinot
Luz-Saint-Sauveur (west)
Pinot out-kicked the yellow jersey group at the summit for an emotional French win, with Julian Alaphilippe defending yellow ahead of the GC favourites.
- 2018
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
Tour de France · Stage 17
Won by Andy Schleck
Luz-Saint-Sauveur (west)
A summit finish in thick fog to mark the centenary of the Pyrenees. Schleck and Alberto Contador rode elbow to elbow the whole climb; Schleck took the stage, Contador kept yellow (a result later voided by Contador's doping case).
- 2009
- 2008
- 2006
Stage 11 · first to the top: David de la Fuente (ESP)
- 2003
Stage 15 · first to the top: Sylvain Chavanel (FRA)
- 2001
Stage 14 · first to the top: Sven Montgomery (SUI)
- 1999
Stage 16 · first to the top: Alberto Elli (ITA)
- 1998
Stage 10 · first to the top: Alberto Elli (ITA)
- 1997
Stage 9 · first to the top: Javier Pascual-Rodriguez (ESP)
- 1995
Stage 15 · first to the top: Richard Virenque (FRA)
- 1994
Stage 12 · first to the top: Richard Virenque (FRA)
- 1993
Stage 17 · first to the top: Tony Rominger (SUI)
- 1991
Stage 13 · first to the top: Claudio Chiappucci (ITA)
- 1990
Stage 16 · first to the top: Miguel Martinez-Torres (ESP)
- 1989
Stage 10 · first to the top: Robert Millar (GBR)
- 1988
Stage 15 · first to the top: Laudelino Cubino (ESP)
- 1986
Stage 13 · first to the top: Dominique Arnaud (FRA)
- 1985
Stage 17 · first to the top: Pello Ruiz-Cabestany (ESP)
- 1983
Stage 10 · first to the top: Patrocinio Jimenez (COL)
- 1980
Stage 13 · first to the top: Raymond Martin (FRA)
- 1978
Stage 11 · first to the top: Michel Pollentier (BEL)
- 1977
Stage 2 · first to the top: Lucien Van Impe (BEL)
- 1976
Stage 15 · first to the top: Francisco Galdós (ESP)
- 1975
Stage 11 · first to the top: Lucien Van Impe (BEL)
- 1974
Stage 18 · first to the top: Gonzalo Aja (ESP)
- 1973
Stage 14 · first to the top: Bernard Thévenet (FRA)
- 1972
Stage 8 · first to the top: Roger Swerts (BEL)
- 1971
Stage 16 · first to the top: Lucien Van Impe (BEL)
- 1970
Stage 19 · first to the top: Andrés Gandarias (ESP)
- 1969
Stage 17 · first to the top: Eddy Merckx (BEL)
- 1968
Stage 8 · first to the top: Jean-Pierre Ducasse (FRA)
- 1967
Stage 17 · first to the top: Julio Jiménez (ESP)
- 1965
Stage 9 · first to the top: Julio Jiménez (ESP)
- 1964
Stage 16 · first to the top: Julio Jiménez (ESP) Bahamontes (ESP)
- 1963
Stage 10 · first to the top: Raymond Poulidor (FRA) Bahamontes (ESP)
- 1962
Stage 17 · first to the top: Federico Bahamontes (ESP)
- 1961
Stage 17 · first to the top: Marcel Queheille (FRA)
- 1960
Stage 11 · first to the top: Kurt Gimmi (SUI)
- 1959
Stage 10 · first to the top: Armand Desmet (BEL)
- 1957
Stage 18 · first to the top: José Manuel Ribeiro da Silva (POR)
- 1955
Stage 18 · first to the top: Miguel Poblet (ESP)
- 1954
Stage 12 · first to the top: Federico Bahamontes (ESP)
- 1953
Stage 11 · first to the top: Jean Robic (FRA)
- 1952
Stage 18 · first to the top: Fausto Coppi (ITA)
- 1951
Stage 14 · first to the top: Jean Diederich (LUX)
- 1950
Stage 11 · first to the top: Kléber Piot (FRA)
- 1949
Stage 11 · first to the top: Fausto Coppi (ITA)
- 1948
Stage 8 · first to the top: Jean Robic (FRA)
- 1947
Stage 15 · first to the top: Jean Robic (FRA)
- 1939
Stage 9 · first to the top: Edward Vissers (BEL)
- 1938
Stage 8 · first to the top: Gino Bartali (ITA)
- 1937
Stage 15 · first to the top: Julián Berrendero (ESP)
- 1936
Stage 16 · first to the top: Sylvère Maes (BEL)
- 1935
Stage 15 · first to the top: Sylvère Maes (BEL)
- 1934
Stage 15 · first to the top: René Vietto (FRA)
- 1933
Stage 18 · first to the top: Vicente Trueba (ESP)
- 1932
Stage 5 · first to the top: Benoît Fauré (FRA)
- 1931
Stage 9 · first to the top: Jef Demuysere (BEL)
- 1930
Stage 9 · first to the top: Benoît Fauré (FRA)
- 1929
Stage 9 · first to the top: Victor Fontan (FRA)
- 1928
Stage 9 · first to the top: Camille Van de Casteele (BEL)
- 1927
Stage 11 · first to the top: Nicolas Frantz (LUX)
- 1926
Stage 10 · first to the top: Odiel Taillieu (BEL)
- 1925
Stage 8 · first to the top: Omer Huyse (BEL)
- 1924
Stage 6 · first to the top: Ottavio Bottecchia (ITA)
- 1923
Stage 6 · first to the top: Robert Jacquinot (FRA)
- 1921
Stage 6 · first to the top: Hector Heusghem (BEL)
- 1920
Stage 6 · first to the top: Firmin Lambot (BEL)
- 1919
Stage 6 · first to the top: Honore Barthelemy (FRA)
- 1914
Stage 6 · first to the top: Firmin Lambot (BEL)
- 1913
Stage 6 · Bayonne → Luchon
Won by Philippe Thys (BEL)
Race leader Eugène Christophe broke his forks descending the Tourmalet, walked 10 km to Sainte-Marie-de-Campan and forged the repair himself at the village smithy — then was penalised because a boy worked the bellows. One of the Tour's founding legends.
- 1912
Stage 10 · first to the top: Odile Defraye (BEL)
- 1911
Stage 10 · first to the top: Paul Duboc (FRA)
- 1910
Stage 10 · Luchon → Bayonne
Won by Octave Lapize (FRA)
The first crossing of the high Pyrenees. Lapize pushed his bike over the unpaved pass and famously shouted 'Vous êtes des assassins!' ('You are murderers!') at the organisers — then won the stage and, later, the Tour.
Often ridden with
A Grand Tour stage rarely settles for one col. Col du Tourmalet has shared a day's racing with each of these roads.
- Col d'AspinHautes-PyrénéesRidden together on 9 stages
- Col d'Aubisque & Col du SoulorPyrénées-AtlantiquesRidden together on 4 stages
- Col de PeyresourdeHaute-Garonne/Hautes-PyrénéesRidden together on 4 stages
- HautacamHautes-PyrénéesRidden together on 2 stages
- Luz ArdidenHautes-PyrénéesRidden together on 2 stages
- SuperbagnèresHaute-GaronneRidden together once