The 2023 Tour returns to Puy de Dome, ascends the Tourmalet and will have a single time trial

The next Tour de Francewhich will be disputed from July 1 to 23, 2023, will leave Bilbaowill return 35 years later to the Puy de Dome, will climb the mythical Tourmalet and will only have one time trial, 22 kilometers in Combloux, as announced by the organizers this Thursday at its official presentation in Paris.

SECOND EXIT IN EUSKADI

The Grand Depart of the Tour will take place for the second time in Euskadi, after the one in San Sebastian in 1992, and for the twenty-fifth time outside French territory. After the first three stages on the other side of the Pyrenees, in Bilbao, Vitoria-Gasteiz – San Sebastianthe most ‘marathon’ of 2023, with 209 kilometers, and that of Amorebieta-Etxano ending in Baionathe rest of the Tour will run without leaving France.

His 21 stages, 8 will be flat profile and conducive to breakaways or arrivals at the sprint; 4, mid-mountain Y eight, high mountainwith 4 arrivals high in Cauterets-Cambasque, Puy-de-Domewhich did not appear on the layout since 1988, Grand Colombier Y Saint Gervais Mont Blanc.

The climbers will have their options in the days in the Pyrenees, where they climb the Aspin Y Tourmalet In the sixth stage, the Massif Centralthe swearthe Alps and the Vosges. The Col de la Loze, with its 2,304 meters, will be the highest point of the next edition.

Instead, the specialists against the clock will only have one time trial in the ‘Tour du Guggenheim’, in the sixteenth stage, in the Alps between Passy and Combloux, 22 kilometers through steep terrain.

The day before the arrival on the Champs-Élysées, the day that ends at Le Markstein Fellering, with 133 kilometers on the route meter, includes ascents to the Ballon d’Alsace, Col de la Croix des Moinats and Grosse Pierre, Petit Ballon and Platzerwasel to try to turn the yellow jersey upside down.

STAGES OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE 2023

Stage 1 (July 1): Bilbao – Bilbao (182 km)

Stage 2 (July 2): Vitoria – San Sebastián (209 km)

Stage 3 (July 3): Amorebieta – Bayonne (185 km)

Stage 4 (July 4): Dax – Nogaro (182 km)

Stage 5 (July 5): Pau – Laruns (165 km)

Stage 6 (July 6): Tarbes – Cauterets (145 km)

Stage 7 (July 7): Mont-de-Marsan – Bordeaux (170 km)

Stage 8 (July 8): Libourne – Limoges (201 km)

Stage 9 (July 9): Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat – Puy de Dôme (184 km)

July 10: Rest in Clermont Ferrand

Stage 10 (July 11): Vulcania – Issoire (167 km)

Stage 11 (July 12): Clermont Ferrand – Moulins (180 km)

Stage 12 (July 13): Roanne – Belleville-en-Boeaujolais (169 km)

Stage 13 (July 14): Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne – Grand Colombier (138 km)

Stage 14 (July 15): Annemasse – Morzine (152 km)

Stage 15 (July 16): Les Gets – Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc (180 km)

July 17: Rest at Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc

Stage 16 (July 18): Passy – Combloux (CRI) (22 km)

Stage 17 (July 19): Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc – Courchevel (166 km)

Stage 18 (July 20): Moûtiers – Bourg-en-Bresse (186 km)

Stage 19 (July 21): Moirans-en-Montagne – Poligny (173 km)

Stage 20 (July 22): Belfort – Le Markstein (133 km)

Stage 21 (July 23 and 3): Saint-Quintin-en-Yvelines – Paris (115 km)

WOMEN’S TOUR: EL TOURMALET, PENULTIMATE GOAL

For its part, the second edition of the women’s Tour will be held from July 23 to 30 over 956 kilometers between Clermont-Ferrand and Pau, with a penultimate stage with the finish line in the mythical ascent to the Tourmalet after uploading the Aspinas revealed by the director of the Women’s Tour, marion rousse.

The women’s Tour, which will cross the Massif Central and the Pyrenees and will have a marathon day of 177 kilometers between Cahors and Rodez in the fourth stage, will conclude with a 22-kilometre time trial starting and finishing in Pau, where Van Vleuten will try to revalidate the jersey yellow of this 2022.