The 2021 Tour de France ran from Saturday, June 26 until Sunday, July 18. Here, you can find the full route for 2021’s Tour, with the courses, distances and stage types.
The Tour de France, first run in 1903, is known as the biggest race in world cycling and is one of the three grand tours, alongside the Vuelta a Espana and Giro d’Italia. The grand tours are the only races allowed to go for three weeks’ duration and are the most prestigious tours on the calendar.
The 2021 Tour de France was won by Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar – his second straight title. Pogacar also repeated as the winner of the Mountains and Youth classifications. Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard finished second and Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz rounded out the podium. Mark Cavendish of Great Britain took out the points classification and equalled Eddy Merckx’s stage wins record in the process.
Australia’s Brendan O’Connor finished fourth on his Tour de France debut.
Cadel Evans’ victory in 2011 is the only time an Australian has been named the Tour de France’s general classification winner. Australia has won the points classification five times, however, with Robbie McEwen doing so three times.
Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Stage Type |
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1 | Sat Jun 26 | Brest to Landerneau | 187km | Hilly |
2 | Sun Jun 27 | Perros-Guirec to Mûr-de-Bretagne | 182km | Medium-mountain |
3 | Mon Jun 28 | Lorient to Pontivy | 182km | Flat |
4 | Tue Jun 29 | Redon to Fougères | 152km | Flat |
5 | Wed Jun 30 | Changé to Laval | 27km | Individual time trial |
6 | Thu Jul 1 | Tours to Châteauroux | 144km | Flat |
7 | Fri Jul 2 | Vierzon to Le Creusot | 248km | Medium-mountain |
8 | Sat Jul 3 | Oyonnax to Le Grand-Bornand | 151km | Mountain |
9 | Sun Jul 4 | Cluses to Tignes | 145km | Mountain |
Mon Jul 5 | Rest day | |||
10 | Tue Jul 6 | Albertville to Valence | 186km | Flat |
11 | Wed Jul 7 | Sorgues to Malaucène | 199km | Mountain |
12 | Thu Jul 8 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to Nîmes | 161km | Flat |
13 | Fri Jul 9 | Nîmes to Carcassonne | 220km | Flat |
14 | Sat Jul 10 | Carcassonne to Quillan | 184km | Medium-mountain |
15 | Sun Jul 11 | Céret to Andorra la Vella (Andorra) | 192km | Mountain |
Mon Jul 12 | Rest day | |||
16 | Tue Jul 13 | El Pas de la Casa (Andorra) to Saint-Gaudens | 169km | Medium-mountain |
17 | Wed Jul 14 | Muret to Saint-Lary-Soulan | 178km | Mountain |
18 | Thu Jul 15 | Pau to Luz Ardiden | 130km | Mountain |
19 | Fri Jul 16 | Mourenx to Libourne | 203km | Flat |
20 | Sat Jul 17 | Libourne to Saint-Émilion | 31km | Individual time trial |
21 | Sun Jul 18 | Chatou to Paris, Champs-Élysées | 112km | Flat |