The route for the 2023 men's Tour de France was released on Thursday.
The Tour will start in Spain for a hilly first two stages before it crosses the Spanish border into France during Stage 3. It’s a favorable route for the climbers with four mountaintop finishes scheduled—something that should make for another great duel between 2021 winner Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia and 2022 winner Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark. Some key climbs include the Puy de Dôme on Stage 9 and the Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc on Stage 15.
There’s just one individual time trial set, a 22km race against the clock which will open up the final week of racing on Stage 16. The riders will cover 3,404 kilometers (2,115 miles) in total over the 21 stages.
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It all gets started on July 1 and runs through July 23 just in time for the Tour de France Femmes to begin on the same day that the men ride into the Champs-Élysées.
Here are the stages for the 2023 Tour de France:
- Stage 1: July 1 - Hilly - Bilbao to Bilbao - 182km
- Stage 2: July 2 - Hilly - Vitoria-Gasteiz to Saint-Sébastien - 209km
- Stage 3: July 3 - Flat - Amborebieta-Etxano to Bayonne - 185km
- Stage 4: July 4 - Flat - Dax to Nogaro - 182km
- Stage 5: July 5 - Mountain - Pau to Laruns - 165km
- Stage 6: July 6 - Mountain - Tarbes to Cauterets-Cambasque - 145km
- Stage 7: July 7 - Flat - Mont-De-Marsan to Bordeaux - 170km
- Stage 8: July 8 - Hilly - Libourne to Limoges - 201km
- Stage 9: July 9 - Mountain - Saint-Léonard-De-Noblat to Puy de Dôme - 184km
- July 10 - Rest Day
- Stage 10: July 11 - Hilly - Vulcania to Issoire - 167km
- Stage 11: July 12 - Flat - Clermont-Ferrand to Moulins - 180km
- Stage 12: July 13 - Hilly - Roanne to Belleville-en-Beaujolais - 169km
- Stage 13: July 14 - Mountain - Châtillon-Sur-Chalaronne to Grand Colombie - 138km
- Stage 14: July 15 - Mountain - Annemasse to Morzine Les Portes Du Soleil - 152km
- Stage 15: July 16 - Mountain - Les Gets Les Portes Du Soleil to Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc - 180km
- July 17 - Rest Day
- Stage 16: July 18 - Individual Time Trial - Passy to Combloux - 22km
- Stage 17: July 19 - Mountain - Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc to Courchevel - 166km
- Stage 18: July 20 - Hilly - Moûtiers to Bourg-En-Bresse - 186km
- Stage 19: July 21 - Flat - Moirans-en-Montagne to Poligny - 173km
- Stage 20: July 22 - Mountain - Belfort to Le Markstein Fellering - 133km
- Stage 21: July 23 - Flat - Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines to Paris Champs-Élysées - 115km
Dan is a writer and editor living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and before coming to Runner’s World and Bicycling was an editor at MileSplit. He competed in cross country and track and field collegiately at DeSales University.
