Isola 2000
Summit finish — ski resort, 2,024 m
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- Years covered
- 1993–2024first to most recent
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- Oneone side on record
A purpose-built ski station high above the Tinée valley, reached by 16.1 km at 7.1% from the village of Isola — with the road running on to the 2,351 m Col de la Lombarde on the Italian border. The Tour has finished here twice, 31 years apart, and the Lombarde road has carried races between France and Italy: the 2008 Tour dropped through the resort from Italy, and the 2016 Giro climbed through it on the day Vincenzo Nibali attacked on the Lombarde to snatch the maglia rosa from Esteban Chaves.
The climb
The climb, from the foot.
The record
Raced here
0 of 3 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
Stage 19 · Embrun → Isola 2000
Won by Tadej Pogačar (SLO)
The first summit finish here since 1993, over the Tour's highest-ever road: Richard Carapaz crested the 2,802 m Bonette first from the break, then Pogačar attacked from the yellow-jersey group 10 km from the line, caught last survivor Matteo Jorgenson 2 km out and won by 21 seconds on his way to the Giro–Tour double.
- 2008
Stage 16 · Cuneo → Jausiers
Won by Cyril Dessel (FRA)
The Tour's first crossing of the Col de la Lombarde, from the Italian side: Stefan Schumacher led over the border pass and the race dropped through Isola 2000 to the Tinée valley before climbing the Bonette, where John-Lee Augustyn crested first and then famously slid down the scree on the descent. Dessel won in Jausiers.
- 1993
Stage 11 · Serre Chevalier → Isola 2000
Won by Tony Rominger (SUI)
Isola 2000's Tour debut. Robert Millar led over the 2,802 m Bonette, and Rominger — winner at Serre Chevalier the day before — attacked again; Miguel Induráin refused to be dropped, but Rominger beat him to the line for a second straight mountain-stage win. Rominger took the polka-dot jersey to Paris, Induráin the yellow.
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.