The 2013 Tour de France race route has been announced. The course has seven flat stages, five hilly ones and five mountain stages, four of which end with summit top finishes. The highlight of those will be a double ascent of the Alpe D’Huez in Stage 18, concluding with a mountain top finish. The other summit finishes are Ax 3 Domaines, Ventoux and Annecy-Semnoz in the penultimate stage.
Ten cities will be first-time hosts, and after the Stage 1 departure, the race will stay entirely within France’s borders. One interesting point is there will be no time bonuses for intermediate sprint or climbing checkpoints, only the actual stage finish time will apply.
Total purse is €2 million, with €450,000 going to the overall winner.
Full schedule, course map and links after the break…
2013 Tour de France Schedule & Stage Distances
- Stage 1 – June 29 – Porto-Vecchio to Bastia – 212km
- Stage 2 -June 30 – Bastia to Ajaccio – 154km
- Stage 3 -July 1 – Ajaccio to Calvi – 145km
- Stage 4 -July 2 – Nice to Nice – 25km (Team TT)
- Stage 5 -July 3 – Cagnes-sur-Mer to Marseille – 219km
- Stage 6 -July 4 – Aix-en-Provence to Montpellier – 176km
- Stage 7 -July 5 – Montpellier to Albi – 205km
- Stage 8 -July 6 – Castres to Ax 3 Domaines – 194km
- Stage 9 -July 7 – Saint-Girons to Bagn?res-de-Bigorre – 165km
- Rest Day -July 8 – Saint-Nazaire – Loire-Atlantique
- Stage 10 -July 9 – Saint-Gildas-des-Bois to Saint-Malo – 193km
- Stage 11 -July 10 – Avranches to Mont-Saint-Michel – 33km (Individual TT)
- Stage 12 -July 11 – Foug?res to Tours – 218km
- Stage 13 -July 12 – Tours to Saint-Amand-Montrond – 173km
- Stage 14 -July 13 – Saint-Pour?ain-sur-Sioule Lyon – 191km
- Stage 15 -July 14 – Givors to Mont Ventoux – 242km
- Rest Day -July 15 – Vaucluse
- Stage 16 -July 16 – Vaison-la-Romaine to Gap – 168km
- Stage 17 -July 17 – Embrun to Chorges – 32km (Individual TT)
- Stage 18 -July 18 – Gap to Alpe-d’Huez – 168km
- Stage 19 -July 19 – Bourg-d’Oisans to Le Grand-Bornand – 204km
- Stage 20 -July 20 – Annecy to Annecy-Semnoz – 125km
- Stage 21 -July 21 – Versailles to Paris Champs-Élysées – 118km
Want more detail? Check out the 2013 Tour de France Media Kit PDF with full stage elevation profiles and plenty of stage and event info to geek out on. Perfect bathroom reading.
