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Starting from Bagnères-de-Luchon (east), the Col de Peyresourde is 13.8km (8.6mi) long. Over this distance, the climb is 949m (3,114ft) (an average gradient of 6.9%). The steepest sections are 11.7%.[2] No mountain pass cycling milestones for cyclists are placed on this side of the climb. Only close to Bagnères-de-Luchon and 3 kilometres from the summit signposts inform about the overall climb.
Starting from Armenteule (west), the climb is 8.3km (5.2mi) long. Over this distance, the climb is 629m (2,064ft) (an average gradient of 7.6%).[3] On this side mountain pass cycling milestones for cyclists are placed every kilometre. They indicate the current height, the distance to the summit, and the average slope in the following passage.
View on the last two kilometres in the climb from Armenteule
Sign at the summit showing that the pass is on the border of the department of Haute-Garonne and Hautes-Pyrénées
Tour de France
The Col de Peyresourde was first used in the Tour de France in 1910 and has appeared frequently since.[4] The leader over the summit in 1910 was Octave Lapize.[5]
In 2007, the Tour de France crossed the Col de Peyresourde on stage 15, joining the climb at Saint-Aventin (5.5km from Bagnères de Luchon) after descending from the Port de Balès. This stage was selected for the 2007 L'Étape du Tour, in which amateur and club riders ride over a full stage of the tour.
The col was crossed twice in the 2012 Tour de France, firstly on Stage 16
from Pau to Bagnères-de-Luchon, when it was ranked a Category 1 climb,[6] and again on the following day, when it was unranked, with the stage continuing on to the ski station at nearby Peyragudes.[7] It was used again in the 2016 Tour de France on Stage 8, from Pau to Bagnères-de-Luchon, which saw eventual race winner Chris Froome make a daring descent attack from the top of the Col that caught many of his main rivals off guard, resulting in a solo stage victory.
