The 2021 Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge was the third 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
Road cycling is the most widespread form of cycling in which cyclists ride on paved roadways. It includes recreational, racing, commuting, and utility cycling. As users of the road, road cyclists are generally expected to obey the same laws a ...
one-day race
The classic cycle races are the most prestigious one-day professional road cycling races in the international calendar. Some of these events date back to the 19th century. They are normally held at roughly the same time each year. The five most ...
, which was a category
1.1 event on the
2021 UCI Europe Tour
The 2021 UCI Europe Tour was the 17th season of the UCI Europe Tour. The season began on 24 January 2021 with the Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969 – Gran Premio Valencia and ended on 24 October 2021 with the Ronde van Drenthe.
Throughout t ...
. After the 2020 edition was postponed to August due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, the race returned to its usual mid-June time slot.
The long race in the southeastern French province of
Provence
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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 featured two ascents 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 ...
, with the race finishing at the summit of the second ascent. The first ascent took the eastern route from
Sault, while the second ascent took the southern route from
Bédoin
Bédoin (; ) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
Geography
Located at the base of Mont Ventoux, it is the starting point of one of the three routes to the summit of the mount ...
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Teams
Seven of the nineteen
UCI WorldTeam
A UCI WorldTeam (2015–present), previously UCI ProTeam (2005–2014), is the term used by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to name a cycling team of the highest category in professional road bicycle racing, road cycling, the UCI World Tou ...
s, eight
UCI ProTeams, and five
UCI Continental
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teams made up the twenty teams that participated in the race. All but six teams entered a full squad of seven riders: , , and each entered six riders, while , , and each entered five riders.
With one late non-starter from , there were 130 riders who started the race, from which 86 finished.
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Result
References
2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
2021 UCI Europe Tour
June 2021 sports events in France
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