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Famous roadPyrenees (Hautes-Pyrénées), France

Luz Ardiden

Summit finish — 1,715 m

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Days recorded
11Grand Tour days on this road
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2stages we hold the route for
Years covered
1985–2021first to most recent
Approach
Oneone side on record

A ski-station finish above Luz-Saint-Sauveur, first used in 1985: 13 km of relentless hairpins that have staged some of the Tour's most dramatic moments.

The climb

The climb, from the foot.

The record

Raced here

2 of 11 open on the map

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. 2021

    Tour de France · Stage 18

    Won by Tadej Pogačar

    Pogačar won the summit sprint from Vingegaard and Carapaz to seal his second Tour at 22, adding the stage to his collection along with the polka-dot and white jerseys.

  2. 2011

    Tour de France · Stage 12

    Won by Samuel Sánchez

  3. 2003

    Stage 15 · Bagnères-de-Bigorre → Luz Ardiden

    Won by Lance Armstrong (USA)

    Armstrong caught a spectator's musette bag and crashed on the lower slopes, remounted, and attacked to win the stage — the pivotal moment of the closest of his (later-voided) Tour wins over Jan Ullrich.

  4. 2001

    Stage 14 · first to the top: Roberto Laiseka (ESP)

  5. 1995

    Stage 17 · first to the top: Laurent Jalabert

  6. 1994

    Stage 12 · first to the top: Richard Virenque (FRA)

  7. 1992

    Stage 9 · first to the top: Laudelino Cubino

  8. 1990

    Stage 16 · Blagnac → Luz Ardiden

    Won by Miguel Induráin (ESP)

    Induráin's first great Tour mountain win, beating Greg LeMond to the summit — a preview of the five straight Tours he would win from 1991.

  9. 1988

    Stage 15 · first to the top: Laudelino Cubino Gonzalez (ESP)

  10. 1987

    Stage 14 · first to the top: Dag Otto Lauritzen (NOR)

  11. 1985

    Stage 17 · Toulouse → Luz Ardiden

    Won by Pedro Delgado (ESP)

    The day of the great Hinault–LeMond controversy: LeMond, riding strongly, was ordered by his team to wait for injured leader Bernard Hinault. Hinault kept yellow and won his fifth Tour; LeMond was promised (and got) support the following year.

Often ridden with

A Grand Tour stage rarely settles for one col. Luz Ardiden has shared a day's racing with each of these roads.