Le Tour de France 2012

The route

Running from Saturday June 30^th to Sunday July 22^th 2012, the 99^th 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 fi nishes.
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

The stages

Stage	Type	Date	Start and Finish	Distance
P	Prologue	Saturday 30 June	Liège > Liège	6.1 km
1	Plain	Sunday 1 July	Liège > Seraing	198 km
2	Plain	Monday 2 July	Visé > Tournai	207 km
3	Medium mountains	Tuesday 3 July	Orchies > Boulogne-sur-Mer	197 km
4	Plain	Wednesday 4 July	Abbeville > Rouen	214 km
5	Plain	Thursday 5 July	Rouen > Saint-Quentin	197 km
6	Plain	Friday 6 July	Épernay > Metz	210 km
7	Medium mountains	Saturday 7 July	Tomblaine > La Planche des Belles Filles	199 km
8	Medium mountains	Sunday 8 July	Belfort > Porrentruy	154 km
9	Individual time-trial	Monday 9 July	Arc-et-Senans > Besançon	38 km
10	High Mountains	Wednesday 11 July	Mâcon > Bellegarde-sur-Valserine	194 km
11	High Mountains	Thursday 12 July	Albertville > La Toussuire - Les Sybelles	140 km
12	Medium mountains	Friday 13 July	Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne > Annonay Davézieux	220 km
13	Plain	Saturday 14 July	Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux > Le Cap d’Agde	215 km
14	High Mountains	Sunday 15 July	Limoux > Foix	192 km
15	Plain	Monday 16 July	Samatan > Pau	160 km
16	High Mountains	Wednesday 18 July	Pau > Bagnères-de-Luchon	197 km
17	High Mountains	Thursday 19 July	Bagnères-de-Luchon > Peyragudes	144 km
18	Plain	Friday 20 July	Blagnac > Brive-la-Gaillarde	215 km
19	Individual time-trial	Saturday 21 July	Bonneval > Chartres	52 km
20	Plain	Sunday 22 July	Rambouillet > Paris Champs-Élysées	130 km

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