Tour De France Unveils 2026 Route With Double Alpe D’huez For Men And Ventoux Debut For Women

The routes of nan 2026 men’s and women’s Tours de France, revealed successful Paris connected Thursday morning, will climax connected 2 of nan astir celebrated climbs successful world cycling, Alpe d’Huez and Mont Ventoux.

The mountains will big cardinal stages, pinch nan Ventoux featuring successful nan Tour de France Femmes for nan first clip and a double shape decorativeness to nan skis position astatine Alpe d’Huez providing nan pivotal infinitesimal successful nan 113th moving of nan men’s race.

The men’s Tour starts successful Barcelona connected 4 July pinch a uncommon squad clip proceedings complete 19km and spends 3 days successful north-east Spain earlier crossing nan Pyrenees into France, pinch a first climbing decorativeness to Les Angles.

The threat of pro-Palestinian protests, which overshadowed this year’s Vuelta a Espana and forced nan cancellation of nan last stage, during nan Grand Départ successful Catalunya successful July look to person receded, for now.

There are a number of acquainted shape towns – Pau, Bordeaux, Bergerac, Chambéry, Gap and Paris – and immoderate innovations, including a upland finish, heavy successful nan Pyrenees, to Gavarnie-Gèdre, and a first sojourn to nan fearsome climb of Plateau de Solaison.

On a way pinch much than 54,000m of vertical gain, location is nary uncertainty that nan showcase finale connected Alpe d’Huez, which will big nan finishes to stages 19 and 20, will beryllium nan cardinal infinitesimal of nan race.

The penultimate stage, 24 hours earlier nan peloton arrives successful Paris for a reprise of this year’s circuit astir Montmartre, has a monstrous 5,600m elevation summation and takes successful nan climbs of nan Croix de Fer, Télégraphe and Galibier, earlier nan 2nd haul to nan Alpe, via nan rugged and steep Col de Sarenne.

As nan men’s title focuses connected Alpe d’Huez, nan Tour de France Femmes makes different large measurement successful prestige, by moving to a caller slot successful nan calendar, a week aft nan men’s title ends, and breaking caller crushed pinch a firstvisit to Mont Ventoux.

The caller stand-alone day for nan Femmes reveals really quickly nan title has established itself and really celebrated it has become, peculiarly aft nan triumph of France’s Pauline Ferrand-Prévot this summer.

“We nary longer request men for nan Tour de France Femmes to exist,” said nan title director, Marion Rousse. “There’s nary request to person nan men’s title arsenic a level to motorboat nan women’s race. Now group are waiting to spot us.

“People person embraced america and we are fixed successful nan sporting landscape. The caller dates, abstracted to nan men, beryllium it.”

After a Grand Départ successful Switzerland, pinch stages successful Lausanne and to Geneva, nan title crosses to France for an individual clip proceedings to Dijon, earlier turning southbound done nan Rhone valleyand a penultimate shape to nan acme of nan “Giant of Provence”.

From nan Vaucluse, nan peloton heads towards nan Côte d’Azur for nan last stage, successful cardinal Nice, connected 9 August. The Femmes besides hits caller heights, pinch almost 19,000m of climbing successful 9 stages of racing.