2020 Tour de l’Ardèche
Male Team 03 - 09 Sep

Tour de l'Ardèche

831 Kilometers 7 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Alicia González
  2. Alba Teruel
  3. Eider Merino
  4. Lourdes Oyarbide
  5. Paula Patiño
  6. Barbara Guarischi
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Timetable

Most stages will finish between 4.30 and 5.15pm CEST, except for the last two, which will end around 6.15pm (Tuesday 8th) and just before 4pm (Wednesday 9th).
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Bonus

There will not be any bonus seconds available, and so gaps at the finish will decide the GC outcome.
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Social Media

Regrettably, there's no live ticker nor an active Twitter profile by the organisers, through there is an official Facebook page. It usually is a race with very few live updates.

Stages

Analysis

01
Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche - Bourg-Saint-Andéol (90.3km)
03 September
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  1. 01 Mavi García Alé BTC Ljubljana 2h27'43"
  2. 02 Audrey Cordon Ragot Trek-Segafredo +5"
  3. 03 Alicia González Movistar Team "
  4. 09 Paula Patiño Movistar Team "
  5. 11 Eider Merino Movistar Team "
  6. 17 Barbara Guarischi Movistar Team +1'01"
  7. 27 Alba Teruel Movistar Team "
  8. 59 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team "
02
Saint-Georges-les-Bains - Font d'Urle (135.6km)
04 September
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  1. 01 Mavi García Alé BTC Ljubljana 4h28'54"
  2. 02 Anna Kiesenhofer Austria "
  3. 03 Lauren Stephens Team TIBCO – SVB +37"
  4. 05 Paula Patiño Movistar Team +4'05"
  5. 41 Alicia González Movistar Team +22'42"
  6. 59 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team +33'56"
  7. 64 Barbara Guarischi Movistar Team +35'52"
  8. 65 Alba Teruel Movistar Team "
  9. —  Eider Merino Movistar Team DNF
03
Avignon (113.4km)
05 September
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  1. 01 Audrey Cordon Ragot Trek-Segafredo 2h48'32"
  2. 02 Barbara Guarischi Movistar Team "
  3. 03 Chloe Hosking Rally Cycling "
  4. 09 Paula Patiño Movistar Team "
  5. 14 Alicia González Movistar Team +8"
  6. 50 Alba Teruel Movistar Team +53"
  7. 106 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team +5'50"
04
Meyrueis - Mont Lozère (133.6km)
06 September
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  1. 01 Kristen Faulkner Team TIBCO – SVB 4h00'45"
  2. 02 Lauren Stephens Team TIBCO – SVB +20"
  3. 03 Mavi García Alé BTC Ljubljana +22"
  4. 13 Paula Patiño Movistar Team +1'10"
  5. 52 Alicia González Movistar Team +4'46"
  6. 93 Barbara Guarischi Movistar Team +14'06"
  7. 94 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team "
  8. 95 Alba Teruel Movistar Team "
05
Pont du Gard - Ruoms (133.4km)
07 September
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  1. 01 Leigh Ann Ganzar Rally Cycling 3h42'30"
  2. 02 Lauren Stephens Team TIBCO – SVB "
  3. 03 Chloe Hosking Rally Cycling +1'14"
  4. 04 Barbara Guarischi Movistar Team "
  5. 28 Alicia González Movistar Team +1'19"
  6. 56 Alba Teruel Movistar Team +2'48"
  7. 78 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team +14'04"
  8. —  Paula Patiño Movistar Team DNS
06
Valréas - Rochemaure (137.9km)
08 September
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  1. 01 Pauline Allin Arkéa Samsic 3h54'38"
  2. 02 Heidi Franz Rally Cycling "
  3. 03 Alicia González Movistar Team +26"
  4. 55 Alba Teruel Movistar Team +4'53"
  5. 76 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team +12'41"
  6. —  Barbara Guarischi Movistar Team DNS
07
Savasse - Beauchastel (90.2km)
09 September
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  1. 01 Chloe Hosking Rally Cycling 2h19'51"
  2. 02 Alice Barnes Canyon-SRAM "
  3. 03 Katarzyna Wilkos Mat Atom "
  4. 13 Alicia González Movistar Team "
  5. 21 Alba Teruel Movistar Team "
  6. 83 Lourdes Oyarbide Movistar Team +1'28"

Analysis

After two years competing with its riders as part of the Spanish national team, the Movistar Team will be making in 2020 its debut in the Tour de l’Ardèche, one of the most demanding events in the entire women’s UCI calendar and a modest race, organised exclusively by volunteers, which has been able to remain in its September slot despite the pandemic.

The TCFIA, which will share roads with the Tour de France as the ‘Grande Boucle’ goes through the area on September 3rd, presents a more balanced route in its 18th edition. There will be several chances for the sprinters -the most feasible ones coming in Bourg-Saint-Andéol (Thursday 3rd) and Beauchastel (Wednesday 9th); the finishes in Avignon (Saturday 5th) and Ruoms (Monday 7th) feature climbs near the end- and the climbers won’t take center stage every single day, yet they will be the ones battling out for the final success.

Four climbs are included on the stage two route, Friday 4th: Limouches (HC), La Bataille (Cat-1), La Machine (Cat-1) and the finish at Font d’Urle after the Col de la Chau (Cat-2), in the toughest route of the week. Sunday 6th will include the most demanding finish, though, with the Mont Lozère (Cat-1) preceded by the Col de Tribes (Cat-2). Finally, as mountain showdown on Tuesday 8th, five categorized ascents, finishing up with Fontenelle (Cat-1) and a tough last slope in Rochemaure (Cat-2).