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.
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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