Tour de France 2010 Route
Running from Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th 2010, the 97th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,600 kilometres.
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These stages have the following profiles:
* 1 prologue,
* 9 flat stages,
* 6 mountain stages and 3 summit finishes,
* 4 medium mountain stages,
* 1 individual time-trial stage (59 km).
Distinctive aspects of the race
- Le Tourmalet climbed twice
- Hint of the Classics and cobblestones
- 2 rest days
- 23 level 1, level 2 and highest level mountain passes
11 new stage towns
Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, Bourg-de-Péage, Bourg-lès-Valence, Gueugnon, Longjumeau, Pamiers, Pauillac, Sisteron, Station des Rousses, Tournus, Wanze (Belgium).
This 3rd stage, Wanze-Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, will include 7 cobbled sectors over a total distance of 13,2 kilometres, divided up as follows:
- 3 sectors over a total distance of 2,2 kilometres in Belgium,
- 4 sectors over a total distance of 11 kilometres in France.
The last five times that cobbled sectors were included on the Tour programme, the total number of kilometres was as follows:
1982: 16,9 km
1983: 28,4 km
1985: 10,5 km
1989: 8,5 km
2004: 3,9 km.
| Stage | Type | Date | Start and Finish | Distance |
| P | Prologue | Saturday 3 July | Rotterdam > Rotterdam | 8 km |
| 1 | Flat | Sunday 4 July | Rotterdam > Bruxelles | 224 km |
| 2 | Hilly | Monday 5 July | Bruxelles > Spa | 192 km |
| 3 | Flat | Tuesday 6 July | Wanze > Arenberg Porte du Hainaut | 207 km |
| 4 | Flat | Wednesday 7 July | Cambrai > Reims | 150 km |
| 5 | Flat | Thursday 8 July | Épernay > Montargis | 185 km |
| 6 | Flat | Friday 9 July | Montargis > Gueugnon | 225 km |
| 7 | Medium mountains | Saturday 10 July | Tournus > Station des Rousses | 161 km |
| 8 | High Mountains | Sunday 11 July | Station des Rousses > Morzine-Avoriaz | 189 km |
| R | Rest Day | Monday 12 July | Morzine-Avoriaz | |
| 9 | High Mountains | Tuesday 13 July | Morzine-Avoriaz > Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | 204 km |
| 10 | Medium mountains | Wednesday 14 July | Chambéry > Gap | 179 km |
| 11 | Flat | Thursday 15 July | Sisteron > Bourg-lès-Valence | 180 km |
| 12 | Hilly | Friday 16 July | Bourg-de-Péage > Mende | 210 km |
| 13 | Flat | Saturday 17 July | Rodez > Revel | 195 km |
| 14 | High Mountains | Sunday 18 July | Revel > Ax-3 Domaines | 184 km |
| 15 | High Mountains | Monday 19 July | Pamiers > Bagnères-de-Luchon | 187 km |
| 16 | High Mountains | Tuesday 20 July | Bagnères-de-Luchon > Pau | 196 km |
| R | Rest Day | Wednesday 21 July | Pau | |
| 17 | High Mountains | Thursday 22 July | Pau > Col du Tourmalet | 174 km |
| 18 | Flat | Friday 23 July | Salies-de-Béarn > Bordeaux | 190 km |
| 19 | Individual time-trial | Saturday 24 July | Bordeaux > Pauillac | 51 km |
| 20 | Flat | Sunday 25 July | Longjumeau > Paris Champs-Élysées | 105 km |
