Cormet de Roselend
Mountain pass — 1,968 m
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- 15Grand Tour days on this road
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- 7stages we hold the route for
- Years covered
- 1979–2025first to most recent
- Sides raced
- 2directions in the record
A wild, exposed pass between Beaufort and Bourg-Saint-Maurice, climbing past the Lac de Roselend to 1,968 m. From Beaufort it is 20.3 km at 6%; the fast, technical descent to Bourg-Saint-Maurice has decided more than one Tour. First raced in 1979.
The record
Raced here
7 of 15 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.
- 2025
- 2023
Tour de France · Stage 17
Won by Felix Gall
Beaufort (north-west)
Gall was first over the Cormet and soloed to win at Courchevel — the brutal day Tadej Pogačar cracked and conceded the Tour to Jonas Vingegaard.
- 2021
Tour de France · Stage 9
Won by Ben O'Connor
Beaufort (north-west)
O'Connor went clear over the Cormet and soloed to Tignes, leaping to second overall; Nairo Quintana led the favourites over the summit behind.
- 2020
- 2018
- 2009
- 2007
- 2005
Stage 10 · first to the top: Laurent Brochard (FRA)
- 2002
Stage 17 · first to the top: Mario Aerts (BEL)
- 1996
Stage 7 · Chambéry → Les Arcs
Won by Luc Leblanc (FRA)
In freezing rain, race leader Stéphane Heulot abandoned in the yellow jersey on the Cormet, and Johan Bruyneel flew off the road on the descent but climbed back up unhurt. Leblanc won at Les Arcs while Evgeni Berzin took over the lead — Bjarne Riis would claim yellow days later on his way to overall victory.
- 1995
Stage 9 · first to the top: Alex Zülle (SUI)
- 1992
Stage 13 · first to the top: Claudio Chiappucci (ITA)
- 1987
Stage 22 · first to the top: Mathieu Hermans (NED)
- 1984
Stage 19 · first to the top: Francis Castaing (FRA)
- 1979
Stage 16 · first to the top: Henk Lubberding (NED)
Often ridden with
A Grand Tour stage rarely settles for one col. Cormet de Roselend has shared a day's racing with each of these roads.