PREVIEW | Tour de l'Avenir 2023 stage 6 - Summit finish at Col de la Loze

Preview stage 6. From the 20th to the 27th of August takes place the Tour de l'Avenir. More commonly known as the under-23 Tour de France, the race will see 9 stages throughout France where the best U23 riders of all specialties will come together to reveal many of the stars of the future.

The race enters the Alps on the sixth day of racing and every rider will take a beating. It is just about the roughest introduction one could expect. A short day on the bike with only 65 kilometers, but 23 of those (over a third) will be the final climb alone, it is the Col de la Loze. A recent yet already mythical Tour the France climb, it summits at 2300 meters of altitude, averages 7.3% but features an incredibly hard final third with gradients going over 20% on several occasions.

*** Matthew Riccittello, Johannes Kulset
** Santaigo Umba, Jan Christen
* Francesco Busatto, Archie Ryan, Isaac del Toro, Hannes Wilksch

Pick: Matthew Riccitello