Portet-d’Aspet
Col de Portet d’Aspet is is a Cat 2 climb in Haute-Garonne. The summit is 1069 metres altitude. It is situated on the D618 road between Aspet, Haute Garonne to the west and Saint-Girons, Ariége in the east. The climb is short but very steep on the western side. It was in the first mountain stage in 1910 Tour de France.
Col de Portet d’Aspet
Climb Col de Portet d’Aspet
Cat 2 from Audressein (Ariège), the climb is 18.14 km @ 3.1%, gaining 557 metres. Road D618. The climb proper starts at St. Lary, 5.9 km from the summit @ 6.8%, with the steepest sections at 10.6% near the summit.
Cat 2 from Aspet (Haute-Garonne), the climb is 14.31 km @ 4.2%, gaining 594 metres. Road D618. The climb really starts at the D618/D44 junction (also the start of the climb to the Col de Menté), 4.4 km @ 9.6%, with several sections up to 18%.
Fabio Casartelli
It was on the descent here, just 100m above the D618/D44 junction that Olympic Champion Fabio Casartelli was killed in a fall in the 1995 Tour de France. There is a memorial to Casartelli 100m further up.
The accident happened on July 18, 1995 during the fifteenth stage from Saint-Girons to Cambasque. Casartelli sustained heavy facial and head injuries and lost consciousness. He died in the helicopter on the way to hospital.
Tour de France
1910 : Lapize
1911 : Duboc
1912 : Defraye
1913 : Engel
1914 : J. Alavoine
1919 : (neutralisé)
1920 : Lambot
1921 : Goethals
1922 : Alavoine, H. Barthélémy
1923 : H. et F. Pélissier
1924 : Beeckmann
1925 : Bottecchia
1926 : Beeckmann
1927 : Frantz
1928 : A.Magne
1929 : Delannoy
1930 : Binda
1931 : A. Magne
1932 : Barral
1933 : Schepers
1934 : Vignoli
1935 : F. Vervaecke
1936 : Ducazeaux
1937 : Berrendero
1938 : Bartali
1947 : Bourlon
1951 : Bartali
1956 : Gaul
1957 : Stolker
1958 : Bahamontes
1960 : J. Planckaert
1962 : Bahamontes, Poulidor
1963 : Bahamontes
1964 : J. Jimenez
1965 : J. Jimenez
1966 : J. Jimenez
1967 : F. Manzaneque
1969 : Delisle
1971 : Fuente
1972 : C. Raymond
1973 : R. Martin
1984 : De Rooy
1988 : Rooks
1995 : Virenque
1997 : Brochard
1998 : Elli
2001 : L. Roux
2002 : L. Jalabert
2003 : Virenque
2004 : Chavanel
2005 : E. Dekker
2007 : Lefèvre
2010 : Voeckler
2011 : Delage
2013 :Â Jeannesson
2014 :Â Thomas Voeckler
