The 2020 Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge was the second edition of the

Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge The Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge is a professional road bicycle racing, cycle road race first held in 2019, which takes place between Vaison-la-Romaine and Mont Ventoux. The event was classified by the UCI as category 1.1 event on the UCI Eu ...

road cycling one day race. It was held on 6 August as a category 1.1 event on the

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. The race, which started in

Vaison-la-Romaine Vaison-la-Romaine (; ) is a town in the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region in southeastern France. Vaison-la-Romaine is famous for its rich Roman ruins and mediaeval town and ca ...

and finished at the summit of

Mont Ventoux Mont Ventoux (; ) is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, located some northeast of Carpentras, Vaucluse. On the north side, the mountain borders the department of Drôme. At , it is the highest mountain in the region and h ...

, was won by Aleksandr Vlasov of , while defending champion

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of finished in ninth.

Teams

Eighteen teams participated in the race, which consisted of six

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s, nine

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s, and three

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Teams. Each team entered seven riders except for and , which each entered six, meaning the race began with a peloton of 124 riders. Of these riders, 70 finished, while a further 4 riders finished over the time limit. UCI WorldTeams * * * * * * UCI ProTeams * * * * * * * * * UCI Continental Teams * * *

Results

References

2020 Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge The 2020 Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge was the second edition of the Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge road cycling one day race. It was held on 6 August as a category 1.1 event on the 2020 UCI Europe Tour. The race, which started in Vaison-l ...

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