Puy de Dôme
Summit finish — volcano, 1,415 m
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- 3Grand Tour days on this road
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- 0stages we hold the route for
- Years covered
- 1964–2023first to most recent
- Approach
- Oneone side on record
The volcano above Clermont-Ferrand with a narrow spiral road to the top. Closed to the Tour for 35 years after 1988, it made a spectacular return in 2023 — with no spectators allowed on the final 4 km.
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.
- 2023
Stage 9 · Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat → Puy de Dôme
Won by Michael Woods (CAN)
The volcano's return after 35 years. Woods hunted down Matteo Jorgenson in the final kilometre of the eerily silent, closed road; behind, Pogačar took eight seconds out of Vingegaard.
- 1975
Stage 14 · Aurillac → Puy de Dôme
Won by Lucien Van Impe (BEL)
A spectator stepped out of the crowd and punched race leader Eddy Merckx in the kidney. Merckx finished the stage but was never the same that Tour — Bernard Thévenet ended his reign days later.
- 1964
Stage 20 · Brive → Puy de Dôme
Won by Julio Jiménez (ESP)
The most famous duel in Tour history: Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor rode shoulder-to-shoulder, literally leaning on each other, up the volcano. Poulidor finally cracked Anquetil but took too little time; Anquetil won his fifth Tour by 55 seconds.
Elsewhere in France
No Grand Tour day on record has taken this road and another of the atlas's famous climbs. These are its nearest neighbours.