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Famous roadAlps (Savoie), France

Les Arcs

Summit finish — ski resort, 1,800 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
1996–1996first to most recent
Approach
Oneone side on record

A Tarentaise ski resort climbed from Bourg-Saint-Maurice, host to a pivotal Tour summit finish on a freezing Alpine day in 1996.

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. 1996

    Stage 7 · Chambéry → Les Arcs

    Won by Luc Leblanc (FRA)

    In cold rain, race leader Stéphane Heulot abandoned in the yellow jersey on the Cormet de Roselend; Leblanc won the summit finish at Les Arcs while Evgeni Berzin inherited the lead — the day the eventual winner Bjarne Riis first showed his hand.

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.