The decisive moments of the 2015 Tour de France are set to take place at Alpe d’Huez after the route of the 102nd edition of the race was unveiled in Paris.
The Tour, which begins in Utrecht, Holland on 4 July, concludes in Paris on 26 July, after travelling through Holland and Belgium, continuing to commemorate the first world war in northern France and then travelling to north-western France.
There is a long transfer to the Pyrenees, but the decisive moments will take place in the Alps. The penultimate stage will conclude with the ascent to Alpe d’Huez, with its fabled 21 hairpin bends, before the ceremonial finish in Paris.
Tour route 2015
4 July Stage 1 – Utrecht, 14km (individual time trial)
5 July Stage 2 – Utrecht to Zélande, 166km
6 July Stage 3 – Anvers to Huy, 154km
7 July Stage 4 – Seraing to Cambrai, 221km
8 July Stage 5 – Arras to Amiens, 189km
9 July Stage 6 – Abbeville to Le Havre, 191km
10 July Stage 7 – Livarot to Fougères, 190km
11 July Stage 8 – Rennes to Mûr-de-Bretagne, 179km
12 July Stage 9 – Vannes to Plumelec, 28km (team time trial)
13 July Rest day in Pau
14 July Stage 10 – Tarbes to La Pierre St Martin, 167km
15 July Stage 11 – Pau to Cauterets-Vallée de St Savin, 188km
16 July Stage 12 – Lannemezan to Plateau de Beille, 195km
17 July Stage 13 – Muret to Rodez, 200km
18 July Stage 14 – Rodez to Mende, 178km
19 July Stage 15 – Mende to Valence, 182km
20 July Stage 16 – Bourg de Péage to Gap, 201km
21 July Rest day in Gap
22 July Stage 17 – Dignes les Bains to Pra Loup, 161km
23 July Stage 18 – Gap to St Jean de Maurienne, 185km
24 July Stage 19 – St Jean de Maurienne to La Toussuire Les Sybelles, 138km
25 July Stage 20 – Modane Valfrejus to Alpe d’Huez, 110km
26 July Stage 21 – Sèvres to Paris Champs Elysées, 107km
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