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Stage 19 of the Tour de France 2023 is a 172.8km flat stage from Moirans-en-Montagne to Poligny.
Christian Prudhomme says the route tours the lakes of the Jura but avoids the mountains. The final straight is 8km long, making it 'a gigantic launchpad'.
Jasper Philipsen will be confident of adding to his tally of stage wins. Can any of the other sprinters beat him? Or will the Côte d'Ivory dislodge Philipsen and open the door for Mads Pedersen to win from a reduced bunch?
These are video highlights of Stage 19 Tour de France 2023.
This is the Stage 19 TDF 2023 Blog.
Race Details | Poll | Map & Profile | Timings | Videos | Food & Drink | Route Notes | Favourites
| Date | Friday 21st July 2023 |
|---|---|
| Stage classification | Flat |
| Distance | 172.8km |
| Intermediate sprint | Ney |
| Climbs | Côte du Bois de Lionge (Cat. 4) Côte d'Ivory (Cat. 3) |
This is a poll where you can vote for some of the main contenders to win Stage 19.
This is a map of the route of Stage 19, Tour de France 2023.
This is a zoom-able map of the route of Stage 19 of the 2023 Tour de France.
This is the profile of Stage 19 Tour de France 2023.
| Caravan | Fast Schedule | Slow Schedule | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start Time (départ fictif) | 1115 |
1315 |
1315 |
| Start time (départ réel) |
1130 |
1330 |
1330 |
| Côte du Bois de Lionge Climb | 1203 |
1400 |
1403 |
| Côte d'Ivory Climb | 1452 |
1635 |
1652 |
| Finish Line Poligny (172.8km) | 1531 |
1711 |
1731 |
This video shows the route of Stage 19 of the 2023 Tour de France.
Poligny is known as la capitale du Comté, and much of the region's output of Comté cheese is aged in the town's cellars.
You might want to taste a local Jura wine, but equally it's only a hop, skip and a jump to the Burgundy wine region. Nuits-St-Georges is one of the prestige Burgundy wines.
Nuits-Saint-Georges is usually red wine made from Pinot Noir grapes. The nose features rose and liquorice. Young wines have aromas of cherry, strawberry and blackcurrant, and mature wines smell of leather, truffles and prunes.
Stage 19 starts in Moirans-en-Montagne (départ fictif).
Moirans-en-Montagne is a village in the Jura département, with a population of 2,227. It is close to the Lac de Vouglans, a lake made by damming the river Ain at the Barrage de Vouglans.
Moirans was founded in the C12th, when the Abbot of Saint-Claude built a château here as a residence, and the village grew up around it. The château was destroyed by the French army in 1637.
Moirans-en-Montagne is known for making wooden toys. There's a toy museum.
There are some cross-country ski pistes around Moirans.
The last time the Tour de France started in Moirans-en-Montagne was on Stage 16 of the 2016 Tour de France. Some of the route was similar that day, but the stage finish was in Bern. Tony Martin spent 173km out front with Julian Alaphilippe, but their breakaway did not succeed and Peter Sagan won.
Stage 19 leaves Moirans-en-Montagne heading north on the D470 to Charchilla. The départ réel is after Charchilla, on the Plateau de Sapey.
The road crosses the Lac de Vouglans on the Pont de la Pyle to La Tour-du-Meix and Orgelet.
Next the race heads south along the opposite shore of the lake, passing by the Plage de Bellecin and through the village of Onoz (oh yes!).
The riders take the D3 up past the Belvédère du Chatelet and through the Bois de Lionge. This is the first categorised climb of the day, the Côte du Bois de Lionge.
The Côte du Bois de Lionge is 1.9km at an average 5.7%. The top of the climb is at a height of 686m and comes after 23.7km of racing.
The descent is to Arinthod.
Now the stage goes north on the D80 via Fétigny and Sarrogna to Orgelet, then on to Pont-de-Poitte.
The route continues to Châtillon and past a runway for micro-lights and gliders to Doucier.
Doucier is in the Vallée du Hérission (Valley of the Hedgehog). There are waterfalls higher up the Hérisson river, les Cascades du Hérisson.
The race passes close to the Lac Chalain.
Still heading north, Stage 19 takes in Mont-sur-Monnet and Loulle.
1,500 dinosaur footprints were found near Loulle in 2004, with the footprints dating from the Jurassic period 155 million years ago. The rock is limestone, and there are limestone pavements at Loulle, known as lapiaz in French.
Loulle has 21 tracks of herbivore dinosaurs (sauropods) and 6 tracks of carnivore dinosaurs (theropods).
Beyond Loulle is Ney, location of the day's intermediate sprint. It comes after 97.7km raced.
Next the race reaches Champagnole.
Champagnole is a town of 7,901 people, about half-way between Geneva and Dijon. It is overlooked by a hill called Mont Rivel (805m), which once had a Medieval château on it.
Champagnole used to be an industrial town, with steel and aluminium made here until the 1990s, as well as toy trains. The economy has since gone off the rails (or declined, at least).
Champagnole is twinned with Dunkinfield (UK).
Next the race heads west to Crotenay, past the Aérodrome Champagnole Crotenay, and north to Valempoulières. This is uphill (to 655m), but not enough to be an official climb.
There's a descent to Pont d'Héry.
Stage 19 continues north, still downhill, to Chaux-Champagny and Salins-les-Bains. Salins-les-Bains hosted the finish of Stage 5 of the 2023 Dauphiné.
From Salins the race circles round to Marnoz and Pretin, then climbs the Côte d'Ivory - which also featured on Stage 5 of the Dauphiné.
The Côte d'Ivory climb is 2.3km at 5.9%. The summit is at a height of 602m after 144.7km of racing.
Stage 19 then descends to Arbois and heads west to Aumont.
Then it's on the D905 Route de Genève/Route de Dole heading through Tourmont to Poligny. This is the dead-straight final 8km to the finish at Poligny.
The last kilometre is uphill, with a gradient of 2.6%.
The finish line is on the Route de Dole near the junction with the Rue Roger Thirode, in the magical surroundings of an edge-of-town industrial estate.
Poligny is a town of 4,000 people in the Jura département.
Limestone cliffs rise to the east and south. In the cliffs to the east is a cave called le Trou de la Lune; on the cliffs to the south is a big cross, la Croix du Dan.
One of Napoléon's generals, Jean-Pierre Travot, was born in Poligny.
Poligny is la capitale du Comté - the capital of Comté cheese, since a third of the region's output is aged in the town's cellars.
This is probably a day for the sprinters, possibly the sprinter with the best lead-out. Often Soudal-Quick-Step have the strongest of the teams going for stage wins, so I thought the winner could be Fabio Jakobsen - but he has now abandoned the Tour.
Jasper Philipsen has proved to the best sprinter so far and is the favourite.
Who could challenge him? Possibly Dylan Groenewegen, Mads Pedersen or Biniam Girmay.
An alternative scenario is that Philipsen is dislodged on the Côte d'Ivory, and a sprint from a reduced peloton is won by Mads Pedersen.
Finally, a breakaway could make it all the way, in which case the winner is unpredictable.
Who do you think will win Stage 19?
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