Fewer mountains, but steeper: this is how Tour boss Christian Prudhomme presents the course for the 104th edition of the Tour of France. It starts on 1 July 2017 with a 13-kilometre, flat individual time trial through Düsseldorf. The three-week tour ends on 23 July on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. There are a total of five fewer mountain classifications than last year, but many challenging routes in the mountains. Only a total of 36.5 kilometres are contested in the battle against the clock.
You can get a foretaste of the tour route in the official track video as 3D animation. We have put together an overview of all the stages for you below - altitude profile included.
The stages of the Tour de France 20171st stageSat, 1 JulyDüsseldorf - Düsseldorf (EZF)14 km2. StageSun, 2 JulyDüsseldorf - Liège / Belgium203.5 km3. StageMo, 3 JulyVerviers / Belgium - Longwy / France212.5 km4. StageTuesday, 4 JulyBad Mondorf / Luxembourg - Vittel207.5 km5. StageMi, 5 JulyVittel - La Planche des Belles Filles (BA)160.5 km6. StageThu, 6 JulyVesoul - Troyes216 km7. StageFr, 7 JulyTroyes - Nuits-Saint-Georges213.5 km8. StageSat, 8 JulyDole - Station des Rousses187.5 km9. StageSun, 9 JulyNantua - Chambéry181.5 kmMo, 10 JulyRest day10. StageTues, 11 JulyPériguex - Bergerac178 km11. StageMi, 12 JulyEymet - Pau203.5 km12th stageThu, 13 JulyPau - Peyragudes (BA)214.5 km13th stageFr, 14 JulySaint-Girons - Foix101 km14th stageSat, 15 JulBlagnac - Rodez181.5 km15th stageSun, 16 JulyLaissac-Sévérac l'Église - Le Puy-en-Velay189.5 kmMo, 17 JulyRest day16. StageTues, 18 JulyLe Puy-en-Velay - Romans-sur-Isère165 km17th stageMi, 19 JuiLa Mure - Serre-Chevalier183 km18th stageThu, 20 JulyBriançon - Col d'Izoard (BA)179.5 km19th stageFr, 21 JulyEmbrun - Salon-de-Provence222.5 km20th stageSat, 22 JulyMarseille - Marseille (EZF)22.5 km21. StageSun, 23 JulyMontgeron - Paris / Champs-Élysées103 km
Legend: EZF = individual time trial, BA = mountain finish
Total distance: 3,540 km
After the start in Düsseldorf, the second stage leads through the Neandertal valley via Mönchengladbach and Aachen to Liège in Belgium. The route continues to France via Luxembourg. On stage 5, there is already a tough mountain finish in the Vosges at the La Planche des Belles Filles ski station. Prudhomme is particularly focussed on the 9th stage in the French Jura, which is peppered with 4,600 metres of climbing. It is officially considered the queen stage and leads from Nantua via the Grand Colombier and the up to 22 per cent steep Mont du Chat to Chambéry.
After two stages in the Pyrenees, with a mountain finish in Peyragudes and a short but tough 101-kilometre climb to Foix, the decision will probably be made in the Alps: Stage 17 leads over the Croix-de-Fer, Télégraphe and the 2,642-metre-high Galibier passes to Serre-Chevalier. The following day, the route leads from Briançon over the Col de Vars to the Col d'Izoard. For the first time in the history of the Tour, a mountain finish will take place on the 2,360 metre high pass.
There is one last opportunity to make up seconds in the overall standings before the sprinters' finale in Paris. On the penultimate day of the Tour, a 22.5 kilometre individual time trial leads from the football stadium in Marseille through the city - with a climb of up to 17 per cent to the Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde church - and back to the stadium.
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