Col de Joux Plane

Mountain pass in France

Col de Joux Plane

Col de Joux Plane (el. 1691 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Alps in Haute-Savoie, France, linking Morzine with Samoëns. The climb has been featured several times in the Tour de France cycling race.

Climb details

Starting from Samoëns, the Col de Joux Plane is 11.7 km long with an average percentage of 8.5% and a maximum gradient of 10%.
Starting from Morzine, the Col de Joux Plane is 10.9 km long with an average percentage of 6.5% and a maximum gradient of 11%.

Tour de France

Col de Joux Plane has been used a total of 13 times by the Tour de France since its debut in 1978.^[1]

Year	Stage	Category	Start	Finish	Leader at the summit
1978	17	1	Grenoble	Morzine	Christian Seznec (FRA)
1981	17	1	Serre-Chevalier	Morzine	Mariano Martínez (FRA)
1981	18	HC	Thonon-les-Bains	Morzine	Robert Alban (FRA)
1982	17	1	Bourg-d'Oisans	Morzine	Peter Winnen (NLD)
1983	18	1	L'Alpe d'Huez	Morzine	Jacques Michaud (FRA)
1984	19	1	La Plagne	Morzine	Ángel Arroyo (ESP)
1987	22	HC	La Plagne	Morzine	Eduardo Chozas (ESP)
1991	18	HC	Bourg-d'Oisans	Morzine	Thierry Claveyrolat (FRA)
1997	15	HC	Courchevel	Morzine	Marco Pantani (ITA)
2000	16	HC	Courchevel	Morzine	Richard Virenque (FRA)
2006	17	HC	Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne	Morzine	~~Floyd Landis~~ (USA) ^{[n 1]}
2016	20	HC	Megève	Morzine	Jarlinson Pantano (COL)
2023	14	HC	Annemasse	Morzine	Carlos Rodriguez (ESP)

Notes

^ Landis was disqualified from the 2006 Tour de France as a result of a urine sample on stage 17 that was positive for banned synthetic testosterone as well as a ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone nearly three times the limit allowed by World Anti-Doping Agency rules.^[2]