The Col de Romme is a pass located in the French Alps, in the Haute-Savoie department, at an altitude of . The Romme ski resort is located nearby.

Cycling

Tour de France

The pass was ascended via the northern approach by cyclists in the

2009 Tour de France The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on 4 July in the principality of Monaco with a individual time trial which included a section of the Circuit de Monaco. The race visite ...

, in the 17th stage. Luxembourgish rider Fränk Schleck was first over the pass. In the

2018 Tour de France The 2018 Tour de France was the 105th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three Grand Tours. The -long race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 7 July in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, in western France, and concluding on 29 July with the ...

, Julian Alaphilippe summitted the pass first during Stage 10. On the 8th stage of the

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from Oyonnax to Le Grand-Bornand, after , Michael Woods was first over the pass.

Critérium du Dauphiné libéré

The pass was climbed during the

1992 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré The 1992 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré was the 44th edition of the cycle race and was held from 1 June to 8 June 1992. The race started in Charbonnières-les-Bains and finished in Villard-de-Lans. The race was won by Charly Mottet of the RMO t ...

. It was also on the programme for the 5th stage of the 2020 edition.

Profile of the ascension

The climb has an average gradient of 8.7 percent, over of climbing. Starting from

Cluses Cluses (; frp, Clluses) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. Citizens are known as ''Clusiens''. The commune is situated in the Arve Valley, on the river which bears the same n ...

, the first have an average gradient of more than 11 percent. Kilometres two to four vary between 8 and 9 percent, increasing to 13 percent at the end. The next kilometre, at 7.3 percent, passes through the village of Nancy-sur-Cluses. After this, the slope becomes steeper, with an average of almost 9.9 percent over the fifth and sixth kilometres. The last two kilometres switch from 9.3 to 7.5 percent before reaching the Romme ski resort.

References

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