Race Atlas
Famous roadAlps (Hautes-Alpes), France

Les Orres

Summit finish — ski resort, 1,650 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
1973–1973first to most recent
Approach
Oneone side on record

A ski station above Embrun and the Lac de Serre-Ponçon, whose sole Tour summit finish came deep in one of the race's most one-sided editions.

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. 1973

    Stage 8 · Moûtiers → Les Orres

    Won by Luis Ocaña (ESP)

    Ocaña won at Les Orres — one of four mountain stages he took on his way to a crushing overall victory, more than fifteen minutes clear of Bernard Thévenet in a Tour raced without the absent Eddy Merckx.

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.