La Planche des Belles Filles
Summit finish — up to 24% on the 'Super Planche'
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- 6Grand Tour days on this road
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- 6stages we hold the route for
- Years covered
- 2012–2022first to most recent
- Approach
- Oneone side on record
The Vosges ski station that became the modern Tour's favourite early-mountain test: short, vicious, ending on a 20%+ ramp — extended to a gravel 'Super Planche' finish in recent years.
The climb
The climb, from the foot.
The record
Raced here
6 of 6 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.
- 2022
Tour de France · Stage 7
Won by Tadej Pogačar
Pogačar edged Vingegaard on the gravel wall in a preview of their three-week duel — one Vingegaard would ultimately win.
- 2020
Tour de France · Stage 20
Won by Tadej Pogačar
The most dramatic time trial in decades: Pogačar demolished Primož Roglič's 57-second lead on the penultimate day, taking stage, yellow, polka-dot and white jerseys aged 21. Roglič's slumped shoulders on the ramp became the image of the race.
- 2019
Tour de France · Stage 6
Won by Dylan Teuns
First use of the extended gravel finish. Teuns won from the break while Giulio Ciccone took yellow; behind, the GC contenders traded their first blows.
- 2017
Tour de France · Stage 5
Won by Fabio Aru
- 2014
Tour de France · Stage 10
Won by Vincenzo Nibali
On the day Alberto Contador crashed out, Nibali won on the Planche and re-took yellow for good.
- 2012
Tour de France · Stage 7
Won by Chris Froome
The climb's Tour debut: Froome won his first Tour stage and Bradley Wiggins took a yellow jersey he would keep all the way to Paris.
Often ridden with
A Grand Tour stage rarely settles for one col. La Planche des Belles Filles has shared a day's racing with each of these roads.