The Tour summits

The Tour Summits

The 2009 Tour de France will include a total of 20 mountain passes or summit finishes classified level 1, level 2 and highest level.
They are divided up as follows:

  • 7 in the Pyrenees
  • 3 in the Vosges
  • 9 in the Alps
  • 1 in the Pre-Alps

In the five previous editions of the race, the total was as follows: 22 in 2004, 23 in 2005, 22 in 2006 and 2007, 17 in 2008.

The Tour Summits