Tour de France 2026 Stage 9 takes place on Sunday, July 12, covering 185.5 km from Malemort to Ussel through the Corr\u00e8ze department, with nine categorised climbs and roughly 3,400 metres of total elevation gain. It is the last stage before the Tour’s first rest day, and it asks for something different from the riders than any stage before it, not one defining mountain, but nine of them, back to back, with no flat kilometre to recover in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both Malemort and Ussel are hosting the Tour de France for the first time in the race’s history. Neither town needed to manufacture drama to earn its place on the route; the Corr\u00e8ze’s rolling, relentless terrain does that on its own. This is the kind of stage that rarely makes a highlight reel built around one moment, but often decides who arrives at the rest day with something left in the legs and who doesn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n