Col des Borderes (West side)

Distance: 6.49 km

Elevation Gain: 272 m

Elevation Loss: 192 m

Difficulty: 255 (Easy)

FIETS Index: 1.97 FIETS

Avg Grade: 7.23 %

Max cat climb: 3

Min elevation: 891 m

Max elevation: 1163 m

Ride Category: Climb

The Col des Bordères, in the Hautes-Pyrénées of France, links Arrens-Marsous, at the foot of the Col du Soulor, with the Val d’Estaing. Tour stages use it to drop from the Soulor towards the Argelès valley. Its finest day came in 1989. Miguel Indurain broke away on the stage from Pau, crossed five summits alone, the Bordères among them, and won at Cauterets. He took the climbers’ jersey that day, the only time in his career he wore it.

This ride starts in Arrens beside the chapel of Pouey-Laün, known as the “golden chapel”, on the Via Tolosana pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. It climbs to the col and descends into Estaing. In 2025 Bruno Armirail led the Tour over this side on the stage to Hautacam, which Tadej Pogacar won.

Rank	Rider	Date	Time	Power	W/kg	Speed
🥇	SmP	Oct 31, 2019	00:13:48	318 W	5.48 w/kg	28.08 km/h
🥈	Guillaume Babin	Oct 25, 2019	00:14:02	380 W	5.07 w/kg	27.61 km/h
🥉	Hugo Sánchez Perez	Oct 20, 2019	00:14:34	358 W	5.11 w/kg	26.60 km/h
4	Tom Smeets	Jan 02, 2018	00:14:37	358 W	4.90 w/kg	26.51 km/h
5	Tristan Kramers	Dec 27, 2017	00:15:08	333 W	4.56 w/kg	25.60 km/h
6	Christopher Epo	Jan 11, 2018	00:15:27	379 W	4.41 w/kg	25.08 km/h
7	Tigo Star	Oct 23, 2018	00:15:48	339 W	4.35 w/kg	24.52 km/h
8	Alan Gunner	Jul 31, 2018	00:16:25	298 W	4.12 w/kg	23.60 km/h
9	Martin Budd	Jan 03, 2018	00:16:28	305 W	4.26 w/kg	23.53 km/h
10	Mike Wood	Nov 12, 2019	00:16:44	311 W	4.15 w/kg	23.15 km/h

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