Col de la République
Year Stage Category Start Finish Leader at the summit
1997 13 3 Saint-Étienne L'Alpe d'Huez Richard Virenque ( FRA )
1978 10 3 Saint-Étienne Grenoble Jean-Jacques Fussien ( FRA )
1971 10 3 Saint-Étienne Grenoble Cyrille Guimard ( FRA )
1968 18 3 Saint-Étienne Grenoble Aurelio González ( ESP )
1966 19 2 Chamonix Saint-Étienne Ferdinand Bracke ( BEL )
1963 16 3 Saint-Étienne Grenoble Federico Bahamontes ( ESP )
1961 9 2 Saint-Étienne Grenoble Guy Ignolin ( FRA )
1959 17 2 Saint-Étienne Grenoble Federico Bahamontes ( ESP )
1956 19 2 Grenoble Saint-Étienne Stan Ockers ( BEL )
1954 17 2 Le Puy-en-Velay Lyon Robert Varnajo ( FRA )
1950 19 3 Briançon Saint-Étienne Raphaël Géminiani ( FRA )
1904 2 Lyon Marseille Antoine Fauré ( FRA )
1903 2 Lyon Marseille Hippolyte Aucouturier ( FRA )
Cycling -- Tour de France
The col has been used 13 times in the Tour de France , and the first rider to cross the summit on each occasion was : [ 16 ] [ 17 ]
The Col de la République or Col de Grand Bois () is a mountain pass in the Pilat massif within the Pilat Regional Natural Park in the Loire department of the Rhône-Alpes region in southern France. Located on the D1082 (ex-RN 82 ) in the commune of Saint-Genest-Malifaux, it connects Saint-Étienne with Annonay in the Rhône valley. The road was constructed in 1830 and the col has an altitude of 1,161 metres. It was the first climb on the first Tour de France in 1903, but was the scene of notorious violence in 1904 that involved fighting and officials firing gunshot warnings. It has been part of the route on 13 occasions.