Tour de France 2024: the time trial final between Monaco and Nice
The launch pad for the 21st and final stage of the Tour de France 2024, contested in individual time trials, will be installed in Monaco, for a final explanation which will be judged in Nice. This will be Monaco’s seventh appearance on the Tour map, with the peloton’s previous visits spread between 1939 and 2009.
The Riviera in all its states! This is the program that is taking shape in 2024 for the final of the Tour de France, which will know its outcome for the first time far from Paris due to the final preparations for the Olympic Games in the capital. This exceptional relocation gives the opportunity to offer Tour riders and television viewers from all over the world another prestigious setting for the time trial on July 21, 2024, which will be drawn between Monaco and Nice.
Like Nice, Monaco has a long relationship with the Tour de France, which began in 1939 and continued in the 1950s and 1960s, when the Stade Louis II welcomed riders for an explanation on its cinder track, which no longer exists today. . Wim van Est, Raphaël Géminiani and Jacques Anquetil raged there long before they presented Thierry Henry, David Trézéguet or Kylian M’Bappé, but the last visit dates from the Grand Départ of 2009. That year Fabian Cancellara imposed himself on the inaugural time trial of a Tour de France won three weeks later by Alberto Contador, already in sight in the Principality (2nd). For the next meeting, it is perhaps here that the fate of the Yellow Jersey will be played out, during a final time trial. A first for 35 years and the LeMond-Fignon duel of 1989.
The stages of the Tour de France in Monaco
1939
Stage 12b: Saint-Raphaël-Monaco (121.5 km), victory for Maurice Archambaud (Fra)
Stage 13: Monaco-Monaco (101.5 km), Pierre Gallien (Fra)
Stage 14: Monaco-Digne (175 km), Pierre Clarec (Fra)
1952
Stage 12, Sestriere-Monaco (251 km), Jan Nolten (Hol)
Stage 13, Monaco-Aix-en-Provence (214 km), Raoul Rémy (Fra)
1953
Stage 16, Marseille-Monaco (236 km), Wim van Est (Hol)
Stage 17, Monaco-Gap (261 km), Wout Wagtmans (Hol)
1955
Stage 9, Briançon-Monaco (275 km), Raphaël Geminiani (Fra)
Stage 10, Monaco-Marseille (240 km), Lucien Lazaridès (Fra)
1964
Stage 9, Briançon-Monaco (239 km), Jacques Anquetil (Fra)
Stage 10, Monaco-Hyères (187.5 km), Jan Janssen (Hol)
2009
Stage 1, Monaco-Monaco (ind. time trial, 15.5 km), Fabian Cancellara (Sui)
Stage 2, Monaco-Brignoles (182 km), Mark Cavendish (Gbr)