Running from Saturday June 30th to Sunday July 22th 2012, the 99th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,479 kilometres. These stages have the following profiles: • 9 flat stages • 4 medium mountain stages - one with a summit finish • 5 mountain stages - two with a summit finish • 2 individual time-trial stages... More »
Running from Saturday June 30th to Sunday July 22th 2012, the 99th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,479 kilometres.
These stages have the following profiles:
• 9 flat stages
• 4 medium mountain stages - one with a summit finish
• 5 mountain stages - two with a summit finish
• 2 individual time-trial stages
• 1 prologue
• 2 rest days
Distinctive aspects of the race
The 2012 Tour de France will have 25 mountain level two, level one or highest level mountain passes or summit finishes.
They will be divided up geographically in the following way:
• 1 in the Vosges
• 3 in the Jura
• 4 in the Swiss Jura
• 6 in the Alps
• 11 in the Pyrenees
9 new stage towns
Abbeville, Annonay Davézieux, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, La Planche des Belles Filles, Peyragudes, Porrentruy, Samatan, Tomblaine, Visé
Prologue – Liège – Liège
STAGE 1 – Liège – Seraing
STAGE 2 – Vise – Tournai
STAGE 3 – Orchies – Boulogne-sur-Mer
STAGE 4 – Abbeville – Rouen
STAGE 5 – Rouen – Saint-Quentin
STAGE 6 – Épernay – Metz
STAGE 7 – Tomblaine – La Planche des Belles Filles
STAGE 8 – Belfort - Porrentruy
STAGE 9 – Arc-et-Senans - Besançon
STAGE 10 - Macon – Bellegarde-sur-Valserine
STAGE 11 – Albertville – Fontcouverte-la-Toussuire/Les Sybelles
STAGE 12 – Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Annonay/Davezieux
STAGE 13 – Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux – Cap d’Agde
STAGE 14 – Limoux – Foix
STAGE 15 – Samatan – Pau
STAGE 16 – Pau – Bagnères-de-Luchon
STAGE 17 – Bagnères-de-Luchon – Peyagudes
STAGE 18 – Blagnac – Brive-la-Gaillarde
STAGE 19 – Bonneval - Chartres
STAGE 20 – Rambouillet – Paris (Champs-Élysées)
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