Cycling data project · Cross-race analysis
Le doublé: the 1,586 riders who entered both Étapes du Tour 2026
Eighteen days apart, amateurs got two Tour de France stages of their own: Alpe d’Huez on July 19 (171.5 km) and Mont Ventoux on August 6 (111.7 km). Matching the two startlists by name finds 1,586 riders who entered both — and 1,065 who made it to the top of both mountains.
The doublés at the front
Both races were won — twice — by riders doing the double.
Victoria Stansfield was the first woman up Alpe d’Huez (6:19:12, 120th overall) — then the first woman up the Ventoux too (3:36:03, 28th overall). Two women’s classifications, two wins, eighteen days apart.
Did Ventoux winner Thibaut Clément also ride the hommes Étape? He did — 2nd on Alpe d’Huez in 5:24:31, before winning the Ventoux edition outright — which makes him the fastest doublé of the year (8:38:08 combined).
Does riding both wear you down?
Not visibly — the opposite. In each race, the doublé group finished at a higher rate than the field around them: 76.3% vs 73.0% of entrants classified on Alpe d’Huez, 81.4% vs 79.9% on the Ventoux — where their DNF rate (2.6%) was less than half the whole field’s (6.0%). Riders who sign up for two mountain Étapes in three weeks tend to be the ones who finish them.
| Population | Entrants | Classified | DNF | DNS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Étape du Tour (Alpe d'Huez) · July 19 | |||||
| Doublé riders | 1,586 | 1,210 (76.3%) | 129 (8.1%) | 228 (14.4%) | |
| Whole field | 17,439 | 12,733 (73.0%) | 1,750 (10.0%) | 2,732 (15.7%) | |
| L'Étape du Tour Femmes (Mont Ventoux) · August 6 | |||||
| Doublé riders | 1,586 | 1,291 (81.4%) | 41 (2.6%) | 254 (16.0%) | |
| Whole field | 12,128 | 9,696 (79.9%) | 731 (6.0%) | 1,701 (14.0%) | |
One rider, two mountains
Every rider classified in both races (1,065 riders): Alpe d’Huez time across, Ventoux time up. The cloud hugs a line — your July time predicts your August time — and the median rider’s Ventoux day took 56% as long as their Alpe d’Huez day, on a course 65% of the distance.
Careful comparing the two axes directly: the hommes race was ranked on chip time (individual start clock), the femmes race on gun time (each wave’s start clock) — gun times include the wait between a wave’s gun and the start line.
The fastest doublés
Lowest combined time across both races, among riders classified in both.
Biggest jumps up the classification
Largest improvement in overall rank from Alpe d’Huez to the Ventoux. Because a giant leap is exactly what a cross-race homonym looks like, this table only ranks pairs whose time ratio sits in a plausible band around the doublé median (34 implausible pairs excluded — probable namesakes, see the caveats below).
| Rider | Alpe d’Huez rank | Ventoux rank | Places gained |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sophie DUPREF | 11,795 | 1,597 | −10,198 |
| Samuel ERNOUX | 12,470 | 3,444 | −9,026 |
| Andrew KENNEDY | 12,057 | 3,089 | −8,968 |
| Florian GUEX | 11,296 | 2,568 | −8,728 |
| Gary KELLY | 12,265 | 3,746 | −8,519 |
The two fields aren’t the same size (12,733 classified on Alpe d’Huez vs 9,696 on the Ventoux), so ranks aren’t perfectly comparable across races.
How the matching works — and where it can be wrong
Name matching, not bib matching. The two races have separate bibs and rider IDs, so riders are matched by normalized full name (accents stripped, case and spacing ignored). Anonymous entries are excluded.
26 ambiguous names dropped. A name only counts as a match if it appears exactly once in each startlist; names with homonyms inside either race were discarded.
Cross-race homonyms remain possible. Two different people — one per race — sharing a name would be wrongly paired. That’s the most likely explanation for the wildest rank swings above.
Chip vs gun time. The Alpe d’Huez ranking is chip time; the Ventoux ranking is gun time (wave start clock). Combined times mix the two bases, so treat small gaps between riders as indicative.
L’Étape du Tour 2026 explorer L’Étape du Tour Femmes 2026 explorer
Dataset generated from the two races’ official timing data (snapshot 2026-08-08). Matched riders get an “Also rode” card on their rider pages in both explorers.