Bib #10264 · GB · M8

Gary HUGHES

12:51:09

Finish time

12,576 / 12,733

Overall

Where you finished

Pool	Place	Of
Overall	12,576	12,733
Men	11,928	12,071
M8	606	617

What it took

Pool	Winner	Median
Overall	5:20:20+7:30:49	9:55:19+2:55:50
Men	5:20:20+7:30:49	9:53:09+2:58:00
M8	7:06:21+5:44:48	10:47:19+2:03:50

Winner and median are over classified finishers only. The gap is what you add to their time to get yours: + means you were that much slower, − that much faster.

The fun ranking

The 5th fastest Gary of 7. The quickest one did 9:44:17, the median Gary 12:25:44.

See the whole Gary ranking →

Among classified finishers only, ties sharing a place. Not an official classification — no timekeeper has ever scored this.

Also rode L'Étape du Tour Femmes 2026name match

DNS

One of the 1,586 riders who entered both Étapes this year — see the doublé analysis.

Room to improve: your biggest relative loss vs. the M8 median was on Col du Galibier — 36:36 slower.

Your AI ride analysis

The stage breaks down into a few strong stretches and one clear soft spot. You clawed back real time on Start → Pied de la Croix de Fer, finishing 3 seconds quicker than the M8 median there. Your clearest gap came on Col du Galibier, where you were about 37 minutes slower than the M8 median. If there's one place to focus training before your next event, it's pacing discipline specifically for longer sustained climbs — that's where you lost the most ground on Col du Galibier.

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Watch the ride 🎬

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Rider move along the real course profile, positions interpolated between the timing mats from their split times.

Gary HUGHES moving along the real course at their own recorded splits. Between two timing mats the dot is interpolated, so it glides where the rider may well have been suffering.

Race position along the course

Climbs & segments

Segment	Time	Rank	Top %	vs median
Start → Pied de la Croix de FerFlat / valley	29:57	9,378	65%	+1:21
Col de la Croix de FerClimb	2:19:29	13,039	92%	+23:56
Descente + vallée de la MaurienneFlat / valley	1:46:46	11,550	83%	+18:51
Col du TélégrapheClimb	1:28:35	12,338	89%	+19:48
Télégraphe → Pied du Galibier (Valloire)Flat / valley	16:51	9,608	71%	+3:25
Col du GalibierClimb	2:43:24	12,137	97%	+47:59
Descente du GalibierDescent	1:10:28	10,604	85%	+13:21
Col de SarenneClimb	2:05:20	12,266	98%	+40:40
Descente Sarenne → Alpe d’HuezDescent	30:19	12,059	96%	+8:38
Classement grimpeur (Croix de Fer + Télégraphe + Galibier)Combined	6:31:28	12,258	98%	+1h32
Classement descendeur (2 descentes cumulées)Combined	1:40:47	11,127	90%	+21:15

“Top %” = segment rank as a share of riders timed on that segment. “vs median” = time ahead of (green) or behind (red) the median rider.

How you compare, climb by climb

Segment	You	Stage winner	M8 leader	GC avg / median	M8 avg / median
Start → Pied de la Croix de Fer	29:57	Hugo VALADIER 20:51	Philippe ROCHEDY 21:08	28:36 / 28:36	29:57 / 30:00
Col de la Croix de Fer	2:19:29	Simon COMBES 1:05:13	Xavier REDOIS 1:22:15	1:55:29 / 1:55:33	2:05:20 / 2:04:23
Descente + vallée de la Maurienne	1:46:46	Antoine BERGER 52:00	Philippe ROCHEDY 1:00:19	1:28:54 / 1:27:55	1:35:28 / 1:35:20
Col du Télégraphe	1:28:35	Luca CAVALLO 33:04	Xavier REDOIS 42:54	1:10:11 / 1:08:47	1:18:15 / 1:17:04
Télégraphe → Pied du Galibier (Valloire)	16:51	Robin BOURDIER 7:46	Grégoire BRINDEL 8:56	15:48 / 13:26	17:36 / 15:25
Col du Galibier	2:43:24	Luca CAVALLO 50:25	Grégoire BRINDEL 1:15:34	1:56:29 / 1:55:25	2:07:52 / 2:06:48
Descente du Galibier	1:10:28	Thibaut CLÉMENT 34:38	Serge DE PREKER 38:31	58:21 / 57:07	59:44 / 59:27
Col de Sarenne	2:05:20	Luca CAVALLO 39:52	Xavier REDOIS 52:25	1:26:19 / 1:24:40	1:34:41 / 1:33:03
Descente Sarenne → Alpe d’Huez	30:19	Gustave BRUYER 3:39	Christian LAVIEILLE 15:23	22:12 / 21:41	23:50 / 23:31
Classement grimpeur (Croix de Fer + Télégraphe + Galibier)	6:31:28	Luca CAVALLO 2:28:49	Xavier REDOIS 3:22:09	4:57:35 / 4:58:50	5:23:24 / 5:24:21
Classement descendeur (2 descentes cumulées)	1:40:47	Thibaut CLÉMENT 47:15	Serge DE PREKER 54:37	1:20:41 / 1:19:32	1:23:28 / 1:23:16

“Stage winner” = fastest rider on that segment, field-wide. “GC” = the whole classified field. Rows with no result for this rider (missed timing mat) are omitted here — see the table above for why.

Checkpoint splits

Checkpoint	Km	Time	Rank	vs median
START	0	0:00	—
Pied de Col de la Croix de Fer	14.8	29:57	9,167	+1:21
Col de la Croix de Fer	38.5	2:49:26	12,454	+25:11
Pied de Col du Télégraphe	80.1	4:36:12	12,273	+43:24
Col du Télégraphe	92	6:04:47	12,461	+1h02
Pied de Col du Galibier	97.3	6:21:38	11,598	+1h02
Tunnel du Galibier	114.6	8:54:53	13,430	+1h49
Activation Canyon	115	8:56:17	12,048	+1h53
Col du Galibier	115.6	9:05:02	12,700	+1h56
Pied de Col de Sarenne	140.2	10:15:30	12,493	+2h07
Col de Sarenne	161	12:20:50	12,359	+2h45
FINISH	170	12:51:09	12,576	+2h55

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