THE STAGES
STAGE 8
MÂCON > SAINT-ÉTIENNE
Saturday 13 July • 200km • Hilly
ASSEMBLY 12:05 at Quai Lamartine NEUTRAL START 12:10 at Quai Lamartine
ACTUAL START 12:25 at D89, 7.3km from assembly point
12:10
12:25
12:32
12:37
10:46
12:45
10:51
12:50
10:55
10:59
11:08
11:15
11:17
11:23
11:31
12:53
12:57
13:06
13:13
13:15
13:20
13:28
11:49
13:45
11:54
12:10
12:22
12:31
12:40
12:43
13:06
13:15
13:50
13:50
14:05
14:16
14:24
14:34
14:36
14:58
15:06
15:39
14:02
15:51
14:13
14:28
14:34
14:42
16:01
16:15
16:21
16:28
14:58
15:04
15:05
16:44
16:49
16:50
15:26
17:10
15:32
15:37
15:44
17:16
17:21
17:27
43,5
51 56
71 82 89
103,5 115
66 78,5 84,5
97
5
22 33
8,5 17 28,5
10:10
10:25
10:32
10:38
Peloton
SAÔNE-ET-LOIRE (71)
Neutral start
VC
Mâcon
Actual start
200
0
D89
Mâcon
195
5
Crêches-sur-Saône (D89-D31)
191.5 8.5
D186 Le Plâtre Durand (Saint-Amour-Bellevue)
RHÔNE (69)
186
14
D68
Chénas
SAÔNE-ET-LOIRE (71)
183
17
Romanèche-Thorins (D266-D186)
RHÔNE (69)
180.5 19.5
C6
Lancié (C6-C10-D119 E-D86)
178
22
D9
Villié-Morgon (D9-D18-D9)
171.5 28.5
D602 Régnié-Durette (D602-D9)
167
33
D337 Cercié-en-Beaujolais
Sprint
166
34
D68
Saint-Lager (D68-D68 E)
162
38
D68 E Odenas (D68 E-D43)
156.5 43.5
D133 Le Perréon (D133-D88)
de la Croix Montmain (737 m) Cat. 2
149
51
D88 E Col
(D88 E-D44)
144
56
D44
Lamure-sur-Azergues (D44-D385)
134
66
Chamelet (D385-D82)
129
71
Col de la Croix de Thel (650 m) Cat. 2
121.5 78.5
Valsonne (D82-D313)
115.5 84.5
D56 E1 Col de la Croix Paquet (598 m) Cat. 2
114
86
Tarare (D56 E1-D56-D107-D8-N7-D38) (entrée)
103
97
Côte d'Affoux
Cat. 3
96.5 103.5 D4
Villechenève
72
128
Courzieu (D50-VC)
Côte de la Croix de Part (738 m) Cat. 2
67
133
(VC-D25)
57.5 142.5 D25
Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière (D25-D489-D61-D4)
51.5 148.5 D4
Côte d'Aveize (778 m)
Cat. 2
46
154
Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise (D4-D2 E-D2-D4-D71)
40.5 159.5 D71
Coise (D71-VC-D601-D71)
LOIRE (42)
29.5 170.5 D23
Saint-Christo-en-Jarez (D23-D6)
26
174
D6
Col de La Gachet (D6-D2)
25
175
D2
Le Terrier (Valfleury) (D2-D106)
Cat. 3
12.5 187.5
Côte de La Jaillère (VC-D3)
/ Bonus
8.5
191.5 D23
La Guithardière (Saint-Héand)
4.5
195.5 D11
L'Étrat
0
200
Saint-Étienne
Arrival
Bloody finish: Bernard Hinault broke his nose
when he fell in Saint-Étienne in 1985. He still
completed the stage and went on to win his fifth
Tour de France title that year.
Caravan
Completed
There’s not much respite: here we are again
with a medium mountain stage ahead of us.
We went looking for every imaginable hill
we could find between Mâcon and Saint-
Étienne. Some are longish climbs of 6-7km,
others shorter at 2-3km, but averaging 10%!
They’ll make it hard enough to ensure that
there’s no guarantee of a puncheur being
in the mix at the finish because we’ll be at
the limit of what a non-climber can cope
with. And if the GC leaders decide to take
advantage of all of these ramps, it could
result in an intense day, and even one where
there’s considerable upheaval.
TIMETABLE
To ride
THIS WILL BE HARD WORK!
KILOMETRES
133 142,5 154 166
187,5
128
148,5 159,5 170,5 182
196
FINISH LINE Rue Claude Verney Carron, at the end of a final straight of 800m (350m in sight). Width: 6.5m.
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