Tour de France 2023 - 16th stage | Tuesday, 18 July | Passy - Combloux | 22.4 kilometres (individual time trial)
Rolf Aldag's assessment of the 16th stage of the 2023 Tour de France: Calculating and climbing
Yesterday's rest day was also important in terms of decision-making. Those who are behind in the classification and can hardly achieve their own goals can rethink. For such riders with climbing qualities, today should be about building in a recovery session and preparing for attacks on the two remaining mountain stages. A stage win is certainly a good alternative plan for this select group of riders.
The teams of the podium contenders have been busy planning for some time. However, their main focus is on the question of what equipment they will be racing with. The individual time trial is atypical and therefore fits well into a tour that is pushed to the maximum on many days. It's uphill from the start, followed by a speed section and a 6.5 kilometre climb before the finish line. I firmly assume that the favourites for the yellow jersey will also have to switch from the time trial bike to the climbing bike at the ideal point.
Something can always go wrong when changing. That's why it's essential to change at a suitably steep point, because that's where the speed advantage is lost. Ultimately, it's also about maths: the weight and efficiency of the time trial bike are in relation to the possible loss of time when changing bikes.
Schedule, TV coverage & live stream of the 16th stage of the Tour de France 2023
- Start first rider: approx. 13:05, finish last rider: approx. 17:36
- Average journey time: 36 minutes
- TV broadcast: ARD - from 14:10, Eurosport - from 12:55
- Live stream: ARD one, sportschau.de, GCN+, Discovery+, Eurosport
Tour de France 2023 - Time trial 16th stage start times - the starting order
- 13:05:00 Michael Morkov (Soudal - Quick Step)
- 13:06:00 Cees Bol (Astana Qazaqstan Team)
- 13:07:00 Yevgeniy Fedorov (Astana Qazaqstan Team)
- 13:08:00 Frederik Frison (Lotto-Dstny)
- 13:09:00 Axel Zingle (Cofidis)
- 13:10:00 Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain-Victorious)
- 13:11:00 Alexander Edmondson (Team DSM-Firmenich)
- 13:12:00 Sam Welsford (Team DSM- Firmenich)
- 13:13:00 John Degenkolb (Team DSM-Firmenich)
- 13.14:00 Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe)
- 13:15:00 Alexis Renard (Cofidis)
- 13:16:00 Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jayco-AlUla)
- 13:17:00 Adrien Petit (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty)
- 13:18:00 Sören Wærenskjold (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team)
- 13:19:30 Nils Eekhoff (Team DSM-Firmenich)
- 13:21:00 Jasper De Buyst (Lotto-Dstny)
- 13:22:30 Gianni Moscon (Astana Qazaqstan Team)
- 13:24:00 Elmar Reinders (Team Jayco-AlUla)
- 13:25:30 Laurent Pichon (Arkea-Samsic)
- 13:27:00 Dries Devenyns (Soudal - Quick Step)
- 13:28:30 Luca Mozzato (Arkea-Samsic)
- 13:30:00 Florian Vermeersch (Lotto-Dstny)
- 13:31:30 Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team)
- 13:33:00 Mikkel Bjerg (UAE Team Emirates)
- 13:34:30 Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies)
- 13:36:00 Tim Declercq (Soudal - Quick Step)
- 13:37:30 Olivier Le Gac (Groupama-FDJ)
- 13:39:00 Jenthe Biermans (Arkea-Samsic)
- 13:40:30 Luke Durbridge (Team Jayco-AlUla)
- 13:42:00 Michael Gogl (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
- 13:43:30 Nikias Arndt (Bahrain-Victorious)
- 13:45:00 Guillaume Boivin (Israel-Premier Tech)
- 13:46:30 Biniam Girmay (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty)
- 13:48:00 Sören Kragh Andersen (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
- 13:49:30 Christopher Juul-Jensen (Team Jayco-AlUla)
- 13:51:00 Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
- 13:52:30 Luka Mezgec (Team Jayco-AlUla)
- 13:54:00 Danny van Poppel (Bora-Hansgrohe)
- 13:55:30 Rasmus Tiller (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team)
- 13:57:00 Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates)
- 13:58:30 Andrey Amador (EF Education EasyPost)
- 14:00:00 Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek)
- 14:01:30 Dion Smith (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty)
- 14:03:00 Jonas Rickaert (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
- 14:04:30 Alex Kirsch (Lidl-Trek)
- 14:06:00 Yves Lampaert (Soudal - Quick Step)
- 14:07:30 Remi Cavagna (Soudal - Quick Step)
- 14:09:00 Vegard Stake Laengen (UAE Team Emirates)
- 14:10:30 Fred Wright (Bahrain-Victorious)
- 14:12:00 Quinten Hermans (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
- 14:13:30 Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
- 14:15:00 Simon Clarke (Israel-Premier Tech)
- 14:16:30 Benoit Cosnefroy (AG2R-Citroën Team)
- 14:18:00 Bryan Coquard (Cofidis)
- 14:19:30 Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies)
- 14:21:00 Anthon Charmig (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team)
- 14:22:30 Mike Teunissen (Intermarche- Circus-Wanty)
- 14:24:00 Edvald Boasson-Hagen (TotalEnergies)
- 14:25:30 Corbin Strong (Israel-Premier Tech)
- 14:27:00 Daniel Oss (TotalEnergies)
- 14:28:30 Torstein Træen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team)
- 14:30:00 Magnus Cort Nielsen (EF Education EasyPost)
- 14:31:30 Kasper Asgreen (Soudal - Quick Step)
- 14:33:00 Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-visma)
- 14:34:30 Nathan van Hooydonck (Jumbo-Visma)
- 14:36:00 Valentin Ferron (TotalEnergies)
- 14:37:30 Alberto Bettiol (EF Education EasyPost)
- 14:39:00 Victor Lafay (Cofidis)
- 14:40:30 Simon Guglielmi (Arkea-Samsic)
- 14:42:00 Nans Peters (AG2R-Citroën Team)
- 14:43:30 Marco Haller (Bora-Hansgrohe)
- 14:45:00 Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team)
- 14:46:30 Stan Dewulf (AG2R-Citroën Team)
- 14:48:00 Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto-Dstny)
- 14:49:30 Oliver Naesen (AG2R-Citroën Team)
- 14:51:00 Rui Costa (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty)
- 14:52:30 Tony Gallopin (Lidl-Trek)
- 14:54:00 Lawson Craddock (Team Jayco-AlUla)
- 14:55:30 Patrick Konrad (Bora-Hansgrohe)
- 14:57:00 Rigoberto Uran (EF Education EasyPost)
- 14:58:30 Lilian Calmejane (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty)
- 15:00:00 Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies)
- 15:01:30 Lars van den Berg (Groupama-FDJ)
- 15:03:00 Anthony Perez (Cofidis)
- 15:04:30 Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek)
- 15:06:00 Kevin Vermaerke (Team DSM-Firmenich)
- 15:07:30 Matej Mohoric (Bahrain-Victorious)
- 15:09:00 Matthew Dinham (Team DSM-Firmenich)
- 15:10:30 Juan Pedro Lopez Perez (Lidl-Trek)
- 15:12:00 Quentin Pacher (Groupama-FDJ)
- 15:13:30 Anthony Delaplace (Arkea-Samsic)
- 15:15:00 Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe)
- 15:16:30 Omar Fraile (Ineos Grenadiers)
- 15:18:00 Georg Zimmermann (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty)
- 15:19:30 Matis Louvel (Arkea-Samsic)
- 15:21:00 Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
- 15:22:30 Neilson Powless (EF Education EasyPost)
- 15:24:00 Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates)
- 15:25:30 Nicholas Schultz (Israel-Premier Tech)
- 15:27:00 Simon Geschke (Cofidis)
- 15:28:30 Clement Champoussin (AG2R-Citroën Team)
- 15:30:00 Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny)
- 15:31:30 Maxim Van Gils (Lotto-Dstny)
- 15:33:00 Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ)
- 15:34:30 Jonas Gregaard (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team)
- 15:36:00 Nelson Oliveira (Movistar)
- 15:37:30 Aurelien Paret-Peintre (AG2R-Citroën Team)
- 15:39:00 Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers)
- 15:40:30 Alex Aranburu (Movistar)
- 15:42:00 Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar)
- 15:43:30 Gregor Mühlberger (Movistar)
- 16:45:00 Hugo Houle (Israel-Premier Tech)
- 15:46:30 Ion Izagirre (Cofidis)
- 15:48:00 Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech)
- 15:49:30 Dylan van Baarle (Jumbo-Visma)
- 15:51:00 Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team)
- 15:52:30 Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan Team)
- 15:54:00 Kevin Geniets (Groupama-FDJ)
- 15:55:30 Christopher Hamilton (Team DSM-Firmenich)
- 15:57:00 Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech)
- 15:58:30 Jack Haig (Bahrain-Victorious)
- 16:00:00 Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal - Quick Step)
- 16:01:30 Dylan Teuns (Israel-Premier Tech)
- 16:03:00 Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek)
- 16:04:30 Gorka Izagirre (Movistar)
- 16:06:00 Egan Bernal (Ineos Greandiers)
- 16:07:30 Wout Poels (Bahrain-Victorious)
- 16:09:00 Tiesj Benoot (Jumbo-Visma)
- 16:10:30 Bob Jungels (Bora-Hansgrohe)
- 16:12:00 Harold Tejada (Astana Qazaqstan Team)
- 16:13:30 Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek)
- 16:15:00 Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies)
- 16:16:30 Warren Barguil (Arkea-Samsic)
- 16:18:00 Felix Großschartner (UAE Team Emirates)
- 16:19:30 Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)
- 16:21:00 Ben O'Connor (AG2R-Citroën Team)
- 16:22:30 Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ)
- 16:24:00 Clement Berthet (AG2R-Citroën Team)
- 16:25:30 Wilco Kelderman (Jumbo-Visma)
- 16:27:00 Chris Harper (Team Jayco-AlUla)
- 16:28:30 Rafal Majka (UAE Team Emirates)
- 16:30:00 Jonathan Castroviejo (Ineos Grenadiers)
- 16:32:00 Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe)
- 16:34:00 Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious)
- 16:36:00 Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ)
- 16:38:00 Thomas Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers)
- 16:40:00 Felix Gall (AG2R-Citroën Team)
- 16:42:00 Guillaume Martin (Cofidis)
- 16:44:00 David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ)
- 16:46:00 Simon Yates (Team Jayco-AlUla)
- 16:50:00 Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma)
- 16:52:00 Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe)
- 16:54:00 Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates)
- 16:56:00 Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers)
- 16:58:00 Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
- 17:00:00 Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma)
Our expert Rolf Aldag
As a professional cyclist, our expert Rolf Aldag rode the Tour de France ten times up to 2004; as manager and sporting director, he has led various top teams through France and will once again be in charge of the German team Bora-Hansgrohe as sporting director at the Tour de France this year. There are few people who can tell so vividly what can happen on the stages of a grand tour and within the peloton. For TOUR, the 54-year-old sports manager has once again scrutinised the elevation profiles and march tables of this year's Tour de France.
In his predictions, he names the teams and riders he sees at the front on each day, assesses the difficulties of the routes and says where he expects attacks and from whom. Will there be a bunch sprint? Will a breakaway group make it to the finish? Aldag also assesses for TOUR what role each stage plays for the classification jerseys: The more coloured jerseys our expert assigns to a stage, the greater their significance for the respective classification. The yellow jersey symbolises the weight of the stage in the overall classification, the green jersey stands for the importance of the best sprinter in the points classification and the red dotted jersey for the mountain classification, i.e. for the best climber. With these first-hand predictions, you can follow the TV broadcasts well informed and with profit!
