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1987 Tour de France

74th edition: july 1 to july 26 , 1987, results, stages with running gc, map, photos, video and history.

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1987 Tour de France map

Plato's dialogue Phaedo is available as an audiobook here .

1987 Tour quick facts:

4,321.1 kilometers, average Speed: 36.645 km/hr

Eight different owners of the Yellow Jersey, nine changes of leader.

207 starters, 135 finishers.

From stage 19, where Roche took the lead after Jean-François Bernard punctured, the 1987 Tour was a nail-biter with Pedro Delgado and Stephen Roche being well-balanced opponents.

Winner Roche had already won the Giro that year and went on to become World Champion.

Only Eddy Merckx in 1974 had performed that triple. No one has since.

1987 Tour de France complete final General Classification

• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 40sec
• Jean François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 2min 13sec
• Charly Mottet (Système U) @ 6min 40sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 9min 32sec
• Fabio Parra (Cafe de Colombia) @ 16min 53sec
• Laurent Fignon (Système U) @ 18min 24sec
• Anselmo Fuerte (BH) @ 18min 33sec
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) @ 21min 49sec
• Marino Lajaretta (Caja Rural) @ 26min 13sec
• Claude Criquielion (Hitachi-Marc) @ 30min 32sec
• Federico Echave (BH) @ 31min 6sec
• Martin Alonso (Cafe de Colombia) @ 36min 55sec
• Gerhard Zadrobilek (Supermercati Brianzoli) @ 40min 35sec
• Luciano Loro (Del Tongo) @ 43min 52sec
• Andrew Hampsten (7-Eleven) @ 44min 7sec
• Jean-René Bernaudeau (Fagor) @ 47min 16sec
• Rafael Acevedo (Cafe de Colombia) @ 50min 33sec
• Robert Millar (Panasonic) @ 50min 47sec
• Denis Roux (Z) @ 52min 13sec
• Erik Breukink (Panasonic) @ 53min 35sec
• Pedro Muñoz (Fagor) @ 59min 27sec
• Eric Caritoux (Fagor) @ 1hr 5min 33sec
• Omar Pablo Hernandez (Ryalcao-Postobon) @ 1hr 14min 10sec
• Eduardo Chozas (Teka) @ 1hr 14min 59sec
• Beat Breu (Joker) @ 1hr 20min 2sec
• Phil Anderson (Panasonic) @ 1hr 20min 43sec
• Gilles Sanders (KAS) @ 1hr 20min 57sec
• Jesper Skibby (Roland-Skala) @ 1hr 21min 13sec
• Eddy Schepers (Carrera) @ 1hr 22min 13sec
• Guido Van Calster (BH) @ 1hr 26min 47sec
• Gilles Mas (RM) @ 1hr 26min 48sec
• Jean-Claude Bagot (Fagor) @ 1hr 27min 16sec
• Martial Gayant (Système U) @ 1hr 29min 17sec
• José Salvador Sanchis (Caja Rural) @ 1hr 30min 6sec
• Juan Carlos Castillo (Cafe de Colombia) @ 1hr 33min 1sec
• Bruno Cornillet (Z) @ 1hr 33min 37sec
• Robert Forest (Fagor) @ 1hr 35min 4sec
• Dag Otto Lauritzen (7-Eleven) @ 1hr 35min 52sec
• Christophe Lavainne (Système U) @ 1hr 36min 12sec
• Jokin Mujika (Caja Rural) @ 1hr 36min 15sec
• Jérôme Simon (Z) @ 1hr 36min 25sec
• José Luis Laguia (PDM) @ 1hr 38min 27sec
• Marco Antonio Leon (Cafe de Colombia) @ 1hr 29min 40sec
• Peter Stevenhaagen (PDM) @ 1hr 41min 50sec
• Julio-César Cadena (Cafe de Colombia) @ 1hr 44min 11sec
• Marc Madiot (Système U) @ 1hr 46min 46sec
• Gert-Jan Theunisse (PDM) @ 1hr 53min 5sec
• Rolf Gölz (Superconfex) @ 1hr 54min 24sec
• Jean-Claude Leclercq (Toshiba) @ 1hr 54min 40sec
• Fabian Fuchs (Hitachi-Marc) @ 1hr 55min 11sec
• Roque de la Cruz (Caja Rural) @ 1hr 55min 36sec
• Pascal Simon (Z) @ 1hr 58min 19sec
• Dominique Garde (Toshiba) @ 1hr 59min 4sec
• Silvano Contini (Del Tongo) @ 1hr 59min 15sec
• Eric Van Lancker (Panasonic) @ 1hr 59min 46sec
• Bernard Gavillet (Système U) @ 2hr 0min 18sec
• Enrique Aja (Teka) @ 2hr 0min 48sec
• Charly Berard (Toshiba) @ 2hr 1min 31sec
• Bernard Vallet (RMO) @ 2hr 4min 39sec
• Guy Nulens (Panasonic) @ 2hr 5min 46sec
• Kim Andersen (Toshiba) @ 2hr 5min 48sec
• Nestor Oswaldo Mora (Ryalcao-Postobon) @ 2hr 6min 7sec
• Acácio da Silva (KAS) @ 2hr 13min 27sec
• Martin Early (Fagor) @ 2hr 14min 22sec
• Philippe Bouvatier (BH) @ 2hr 15min 50sec
• Pascal Poisson (Système U) @ 2hr 16min 5sec
• Jørgen V. Pedersen (Carrera) @ 2hr 16min 45sec
• Argemiro Bohoquez (Cafe de Colombia) @ 2hr 18min 55sec
• Adrian Timmis (ANC-Halfords) @ 2hr 19min 21sec
• Jos Haex (Hitachi-Marc) @ 2hr 20min 49sec
• Régis Clère (Teka) @ 2hr 21min 21sec
• Yvon Madiot (Système U) @ 2hr 21min 57sec
• Steve Bauer (Toshiba) @ 2hr 24min 41sec
• François Lemarchand (Fagor) @ 2hr 26min 57sec
• Jean-Philippe Vandenbrande (Hitachi-Marc) @ 2hr 28min 58sec
• Jean-François Rault (RMO) @ 2hr 30min 6sec
• Jesus Rodriguez (Teka) @ 2hr 30min 8sec
• Marc Gomez (Reynolds) @ 2hr 31min 0sec
• Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (Z) @ 2hr 31min 21sec
• Alessandro Pozzi (Del Tongo) @ 2hr 31min 48sec
• Ron Kiefel (7-Eleven) @ 2hr 33min 34sec
• Julián Gorospe (Reynolds) @ 2hr 36min 11sec
• Teun van Vliet (Panasonic) @ 2hr 39min 11sec
• Erich Mächler (Carrera) @ 2hr 40min 1sec
• Alfred Achermann (KAS) @ 2hr 41min 36sec
• Thierry Marie (Système U) @ 2hr 42min 1sec
• Jeff Pierce (7-Eleven) @ 2hr 42min 22sec
• Gerrie Knetemann (PDM) @ 2hr 43min 7sec
• Raimund Dietzen (Teka) @ 2hr 43min 19sec
• Theo De Rooy (Panasonic) @ 2hr 43min 19sec
• Frédéric Brun (Z) @ 2hr 44min 32sec
• Stefan Morjean (Hitachi-Marc) @ 2hr 47min 55sec
• Malcom Eliotti (ANC-Halfords) @ 2hr 48min 39sec
• Henk Lubberding (Panasonic) @ 2hr 51min 8sec
• Ludo Peeters (Superconfex) @ 2hr 52min 45sec
• Miguel Indurain (Reynolds) @ 2hr 53min 11sec
• Jonathan Boyer (7-Eleven) @ 2hr 53min 47sec
• Jörg Müller (PDM) @ 2hr 54min 4sec
• Celestino Prieto (KAS) @ 2hr 55min 2sec
• Cristóbal Pérez (Cafe de Colombia) @ 2hr 58min 20sec
• Giancarlo Perini (Carrera) @ 2hr 58min 38sec
• Kvetoslav Palov (ANC-Halfords) @ 2hr 59min 4sec
• Luc Roosen (Superconfex) @ 2hr 59min 30sec
• Adrie van der Poel (PDM) @ 2hr 59min 44sec
• Peter Hilse (Teka) @ 3hr 1min 26sec
• Roland Le Clerc (Caja Rural) @ 3hr 3min 4sec
• Jesús Hernández (Reynolds) @ 3hr 4min 9sec
• Massimo Ghirotto (Carrera) @ 3hr 4min 57sec
• Brian Holm (Roland-Skala) @ 3hr 8min 13sec
• Davide Cassani (Carrera) @ 3hr 10min 33sec
• Guido Winterberg (Toshiba) @ 3hr 12min 26sec
• José Luis Navarro (BH) @ 3hr 12min 38sec
• Pascal Jules (Caja Rural) @ 3hr 12min 47sec
• Michel Dernies (Joker) @ 3hr 12min 53sec
• Rudy Patry (Roland-Skala) @ 3hr 14min 45sec
• Francisco-José Antequera (BH) @ 3hr 16min 13sec
• Manuel Jorge Dominguez (BH) @ 3hr 16min 38sec
• Guido Bontempi (Carrera) @ 3hr 16min 41sec
• Maurizio Piovani (Del Tongo) @ 3hr 18min 57sec
• Jan Wynants (Hitachi-Marc) @ 3hr 19min 19sec
• Herman Frison (Roland-Skala) @ 3hr 19min 37sec
• André Chappuis (RMO) @ 3hr 21min 18sec
• Jelle Nijdam (Superconfex) @ 3hr 21min 18sec
• Patrick Verschueren (Roland-Skala) @ 3hr 23min 5sec
• Willem Van Eynde (Joker) @ 3hr 23min 40sec
• Gerrit Solleveld (Superconfex) @ 3hr 24min 21sec
• Carlos Hernández (Teka) @ 3hr 24min 41sec
• Stefano Allocchio (Supermarcati Brianzoli) @ 3hr 32min 56sec
• Jean-Paul van Poppel (Superconfex) @ 3hr 36min 5sec
• Jan Goessens (Joker) @ 3hr 36min 30sec
• Josef Lieckens (Joker) @ 3hr 49min 48sec
• Guy Gallopin (ANC-Hlafords) @ 4hr 3min 13sec
• Jean-Louis Gauthier (Z) @ 4hr 5min 18sec
• Mathieu Hermans (Caja Rural) @ 4hr 23min 30sec

Points (Green Jersey):

• Stephen Roche (Carrera): 247
• Pedro Delgado (PDM): 228
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba): 201
• Josef Lieckens (Joker): 195

King of the Mountains (Climber's Polka Dot Jersey)

• Anselmo Fuerte (BH): 314
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven): 277
• Pedro Delgado (PDM): 224
• Fabio Enrique Parra (Cafe de Colombia): 180

Team Classification:

• Système U 346hr 44min 2sec
• Cafe de Colombia @ 38min 20sec
• BH @ 56min 2sec
• Fagor @ 1hr 7min 54sec
• Toshiba @ 1hr 28min 54sec

Team Points:

• Système U: 1,790 points
• 7-Eleven: 1,821
• Panasonic: 1,863

Performance (Combination) competition:

• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba): 72 points
• Laurent Fignon (Système U): 70
• Stephen Roche (Carrera): 69
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia): 65
• Anselo Fuerte (BH): 65

Best New Rider:

• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven)
• Erik Breukink (Panasonic) @ 31min 46sec
• Gilles Sanders (KAS): 59min 8sec
• Jesper Skibby (Roland-Skala) @ 59min 24sec
• José Salvador Sanchis (Caja Rural) @ 1hr 8min 17sec

Catch competition:

• Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (Z): 249 points
• Jean-Paul van Poppel (Superconfex): 178
• Régis Clère (Teka): 142
• Martin Early (Fagor): 100
• Teun van Vliet (Panasonic): 70

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Prologue, Wednesday, July 1: Berlin - Berlin Individual Time Trial, 6.1 kilometers.

• Jelle Nijdam (Superconfex): 7min 6sec
• Lech Piasecki (Del Tongo) @ 3sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 7sec
• Guido Bontempi (Carrera) s.t.
• Milan Jurco (Brianzoli) @ 8sec
• Dietrich Thurau (Roland) s.t.
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 9sec
• Miguel Indurain (Reynolds) @ 10sec
• Thierry Marie (Système U) s.t.
• Czeslaw Lang (Del Tongo) @ 11sec

General Classification: No time bonus, so the GC placings and times are the same as for the stage

Stage 1, Thursday, July 2: Berlin - Berlin, 105.5 kilometers.

• Nico Verhoeven (Superconfex): 2hr 11min 33sec
• Giovanni Bottoia (Brianzoli) s.t.
• Patrick Verschueren (Roland) s.t.
• Jerome Simon (Peugeot) s.t.
• Theo De Rooy (Panasonic) s.t.
• Lech Piasecki (Del Tongo) s.t.
• Jörg Muller (PDM) @ 2sec
• Rudy Patry (Roland) @ 5sec
• Michel Vermote (RMO) @ 23sec
• Bruno Wojtinek (Z) s.t.

General Classification:

• Lech Piasecki (Del Tongo) 2hr 18min 42sec
• Patrick Verschueren (Roland) @ 18sec
• Jelle Nijdam (Super Confex) @ 20sec
• Guido Bontempi (Carrera) @ 21sec
• Jerome Simon (Peugeot) @ 23sec
• Jean-Claude Colotti (RMO) s.t.
• Giovanni Bottoia (Brianzoli) @ 25sec
• Dietrich Thurau (Roland) @ 26sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 27sec
• Peter Stevehaagen (PDM) s.t.

Stage 2, Thursday, July 2: Berlin 40.5 kilometer Team Time Trial.

• Carrera: 44min 50sec
• Del Tongo @ 8sec
• Panasonic @ 27sec
• Toshiba @ 36sec
• Système U @ 37sec
• Peugeot @ 1min
• PDM @ 1min 1sec
• Roland-Skala @ 1min 6sec
• 7-Eleven-Hoonved
• Superconfex @ 1min 24sec
• Lech Piasecki (Del Tongo): 3hr 3min 40sec
• Guido Bontempi (Carrera) @ 13sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 19sec
• Erich Maechler (Carrera) @ 25sec
• Czeslaw Lang (Del Tongo) @ 31sec
• Giancarlo Perini (Carrera) @ 34sec
• Jorgen Pedersen (Carrera) @ 38sec
• Giuseppe Saronni (Del Tongo) @ 42sec
• Silvano Contini (Del Tongo) @ 43sec
• Massimo Ghirotto (Carrera) @ 46sec

Stage 3, Saturday, July 4: Karlsruhe - Stuttgart, 219 kilometers.

• Acacio Da Silva (KAS): 5hr 27min 35sec
• Erich Maecher (Carrera) @ 2sec
• Jorg Muller (PDM) @ 9sec
• Dag-Otto Lauretzen (7-Eleven) @ 14sec
• Jean-Claude Leclercq (Toshiba) @ 48sec
• Federico Echave (BH) s.t.
• Guy Nulens (Panasonic) s.t.
• Bruno Cornillet (Z) s.t.
• Eric Carritoux (Fagor) s.t.
• Erich Maechler (Carrera): 8hr 31min 42sec
• Jorg Muller (PDM) @ 44sec
• Giancarlo Perini (Carrera) @ 55sec
• Acacio Da Silva (KAS) @ 1min 35sec
• Charly Mottet (Système U) @ 1min 36sec
• Guy Nulens (Panasonic) @ 1min 38sec
• Dietrich Thurau (Roland) @ 1min 45sec
• Yvon Madiot (Système U) @ 1min 49sec
• Dag-Otto Lauritzen (7-Eleven) @ 1min 50sec
• Jean-Claude Leclercq (Toshiba) @ 1min 55sec

Stage 4, Sunday, July 5: Stuttgart - Pforzheim, 79 km.

• Herman Frison (Roland): 1hr 49min 23sec
• Jean-Paul Van Poppel (Superconfex) @ 1min 28sec
• Stefano Allocchio (Brianzoli) s.t.
• Phil Anderson (Panasonic) s.t.
• Davis Phinney (7-Eleven) s.t.
• Johan Capiot (Roland) s.t.
• Jozef Lieckens (Roland) s.t.
• Sean Kelly (KAS) s.t.
• Michel Vermote (RMO) s.t.
• Erich Maechler (Carrera): 10hr 22min 33sec
• Yvon Madiot (Système U) @ 1mn 49sec

Stage 5, Sunday, July 5: Pforzheim - Strasbourg, 112.5 km.

• Marc Sergeant (Joker): 2hr 32min 29sec
• Bruno Wojtinek (Peugeot) @ 13sec
• Roberto Amadio (Brianzoli) s.t.
• Martial Gayant (Système U) s.t.
• Jean-Paul van Poppel (Superconfex) s.t.
• Rudy Dhaenens (Hitachi) s.t.
• Jean-Philippe Vandenbrande (Hitachi) s.t.
• Erich Maechler (Carrera): 12hr 55min 15sec
• Charly Mottet (Systeme U) @ 1min 36sec

Stage 6, Monday, July 6: Strasbourg - Epinal, 169 kilometers.

• Christophe Lavainne (Système U): 4hr 12min 57sec
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) @ 1min 34sec
• Manuel-Jorge Dominguez (BH) @ 2min 34sec
• Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (Peugeot) s.t.
• Jean-Claude Bagot (Fagor) s.t.
• Niki Ruttiman (Toshiba) s.t.
• Hendrik Devos (Hitachi) s.t.
• Bernard Vallet (RMO) s.t.
• Gérardo Moncada (Ryalcao) s.t.
• Jean-Paul van Poppel (Superconfex) @ 2min 37sec
• Erich Maechler (Carrera): 17hr 10min 49sec
• Christophe Lavainne (Système U) @ 36sec

Stage 7, Tuesday, July 7: Epinal - Troyes, 211 kilometers. Guido Bontempi won the sprint, but was relegated to last place after a positive dope test.

• Manuel-Jorge Dominguez (BH) 5hr 8min 17sec
• Jean-Paul Van Poppel (Super Confex) s.t.
• Jos Liekens (Joker) s.t.
• Mathieu Hermans (Caja Rural) s.t.
• Malcom Elliott (ANC) s.t.
• Erich Maechler (Carrera): 22hr 19min 6sec
• Christophe Lavainne (Systeme U) @ 36sec
• Giancarlo Perini (Carrera) @ 1min 16sec

Stage 8, Wednesday, July 8: Troyes - Epinay sous Sénart, 205.5 kilometers

• Jean-Paul Van Poppel (Super Confex) 5hr 23min 53sec
• Bruno Wojtinek (Peugeot) s.t.
• Jozef Liekens (Joker) s.t.
• Stefano Allochio (Brianzoli) s.t.
• Manuel-Jorge Dominguez (BH) s.t.
• Teun Van Vliet (Panasonic) s.t.
• Frank Hoste (Fagor) s.t.
• Erich Maechler (Carrera): 27hr 42min 59sec

Stage 9, Thursday, July 9: Orléans - Rénáze, 260 kilometers

• Adrie Van der Poel (PDM): 7hr 5min 54sec
• Ludo Peeters (Super Confex) s.t.
• Dominique Garde (Toshiba) s.t.
• Guido Bontempi (Carrera) @ 1min 21sec
• Guido Van Calster (BH) s.t.
• Pascal Poisson (Système U) s.t.
• Steven Rooks (PDM) s.t.
• Erich Maechler (Carrera): 34hr 50min 25sec
• Ludo Peeters (Super Confex) @ 58sec
• Giancarlo Perini (Carrera) @ 1min16sec
• Guy Nulens (Panasonic) @ 1min 27sec
• Acasio Da Silva (KAS) @ 1min 35sec

Stage 10, Friday, July 10: Saumur - Futuroscope Individual Time Trial, 87.5 kilometers.

• Stephen Roche (Carrera): 1hr 58min 11sec
• Charly Mottet (System U) @ 42sec
• Jesper Skibby (Roland) @ 53sec
• Marc Madiot (Systeme U) @ 1min 9sec
• Didi Thurau (Roland) @ 1min 20sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 1min 24sec
• Peter Stevenhaagen (PDM) @ 1min 55sec
• Dag-Otto Lauritzen (7-Eleven) @ 2min 11sec
• Jorg Muller (PDM) @ 2min 24sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 2min 29sec
• Charly Mottet (Système U): 36hr 50min 54sec
• Didi Thurau (Roland) @ 47sec
• Jorg Muller (PDM) @ 50sec
• Erich Maechler (Carrera) @ 1min 6sec
• Dag-Otto Lauritzen (7-Eleven) @ 1min 43sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 3min 23sec
• Bruno Cornillet (Peugeot) @ 4min 31sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 5min 31sec
• Acacio Da Silva (KAS) @ 5mi 38sec
• Jesper Skibby (Roland) @ 5min 45sec

Stage 11, Saturday, July 11: Futuroscope (Poitiers) - Chaumeil, 255 kilometers

• Martial Gayant (Systeme U): 7hr 6min 55sec
• Laudelino Cubino (BH) @ 38sec
• Kim Andersen (Toshiba) @ 1min 38sec
• Gilles Mas (RMO) @ 1min 44sec
• Massimo Ghirotto (Carrera) @ 3min 27sec
• Peter Hilse (Tea) s.t.
• Marc Sergeant (Joker) @ 3min 30sec
• Heinz Imboden (Toshiba) @ 3min 34sec
• Jan Nevens (Joker) @ 3min 52sec
• Stefano Allochio (Brianzoli) @ 4min 30sec
• Martial Gayant (Systeme U) 44hr 8min 29sec
• Charly Mottet (Systeme U) @ 22sec
• Didi Thurau (Roland) @ 1min 9sec
• Jorg Muller (PDM) @ 1min 12sec
• Dag-Otto Lauritzen (7-Eleven) @ 2min 5sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 3min 45sec
• Marc Sergeant (Joker) @ 4min 11sec
• Bruno Cornillet (Peugeot) @ 4min 53sec
• Erich Maechler (Carrera) @ 5min 5sec
• Kim Andersen (Toshiba) @ 5min 52sec

Stage 12, Sunday, July 12: Brive - Bordeaux, 228 kilometers.

• Davis Phinney (7-Eleven) 5hr 46min 21sec
• Malcom Elliot (ANC) s.t.
• Jean-Philippe Vendenbrande (Hitachi) s.t.
• Marc Sergeant (Joker) s.t.
• Christophe Lavainne (Système U) s.t.
• Fran Hoste (Fagor) s.t.
• Herman Frison (Roland) s.t.
• Jozef Lieckens (Joker) s.t.
• Martial Gayant (Systeme U): 49hr 54min 50sec

Stage 13, Monday, July 13: Bayonne - Pau, 219 kilometers

• Erik Breukink (Panasonic) 6hr 19min 56sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 6sec
• Pablo Wilches (Ryalco) @ 11sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 13sec
• Eric Van Lancker (Panasonic) @ 3min 45sec
• José-Luis Laguia (PDM) s.t.
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) s.t.
• Thierry Claveyrolat (RMO) s.t.
• Claude Criquielion (Hitachi) s.t.
• Niki Ruttiman (Tochiba) s.t.
• Charly Mottet (Systeme U): 56hr 18min 53sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 1min 52sec
• Erik Breukink (Panasonic) @ 4min 42sec
• Marc Madiot (Systeme U) @ 5min 55sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 6min 24sec
• Federico Echave (BH) @ 6min 37sec
• Robert Millar (Panasonic) @ 6min 45sec
• Urs Zimmermann (Carrera) @ 7min 13sec
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) @ 7min 50sec

Stage 14, Tuesday, July 14: Pau - Luz Ardiden, 166 kilometers

• Dag-Otto Lauritzen (7-Eleven) 5hr 14min 28sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 7sec
• Andy Hampsten (7-Eleven) @ 53sec
• Pablo Wilches (Ryalco) @ 59sec
• Anselmo Fuerte (BH) @ 1min 28sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 1min 30sec
• Robert Millar (Panasonic) s.t.
• Fabio Parra (Cafe de Colombia) s.t.
• Stephen Roche (Carrara) @ 1min 36sec
• Charly Mottet (Systeme U): 61hr 36min 54sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 1min 13sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 1min 26sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 4min 21sec
• Robert Millar (Panasonic) @ 4min 42sec
• Pablo Wilches (Ryalcao) @ 5min 42sec
• Urs Zimmermann (Carrera) @ 7m in 29sec
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) @ 8min 18sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 8min 34sec
• Andy Hampsten (7-Eleven) @ 8min 44sec

Stage 15, Wednesday, July 15: Tarbes - Blagnac, 164 kilometers.

• Rolf Gölz (Superconfex): 3hr 57min 59sec
• Roland Le Clerc (Caja Rural) s.t.
• Martin Earley (Fagor) @ 4sec
• Phil Anderson (Panasonic) @ 11min 47sec
• Peter Stevenhaagen (PDM) s.t.
• Gerrie Knetemann (PDM) s.t.
• Andy Hampsten (7-Eleven) s.t.
• Jos Haex (Hitachi) s.t.
• Jean-René Bernaudeau (Fagor) s.t.
• Charly Mottet (Système U): 65hr 46min 40sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 2min 20sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 2min 33sec
• Robert Millar (Panasonic) @ 5min 49sec
• Pablo Wilches (Ryalcao) @ 6min 49sec
• Urs Zimmermann (Carrera) @ 8min 36sec

Stage 16, Thursday, July 16: Blagnac - Millau, 216.5 kilometers

• Régis Clère (Teka): 5hr 58min 21sec
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) @ 14min 13sec
• Jean-Francois Bernard (Toshiba) @ 14min 14sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 14min 16sec
• Andy Hampsten (7-Eleven) @ 14min 18sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 14min 39sec
• Anselmo Fuerte (BH) s.t.
• Beat Breu (Joker) @ 14min 52sec
• Fabio Parra (Cafe de Colombia) @ 14min 55sec
• Charly Mottet (Système U): 72hr 24sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 1min 11sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 3min 16sec
• Robert Millar (Panasonic) @ 5min 40sec
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) @ 7min 8sec
• Andy Hampsten (7-Eleven) @ 7min 39sec
• Pablo Wilches (Ryalcao) @ 7min 40sec
• Luis Herrara (Cafe de Colombia) @ 7min 50sec
• Urs Zimmermann (Carrera) @ 9min 27sec

Stage 17, Friday, July 17: Millau - Avignon, 239 kilometers.

• Jean-Paul Van Poppel (Super Confex) 6hr 17min 44sec
• Ron Kiefel (7-Eleven) s.t.
• Steve Bauer (Toshiba) s.t.
• Charly Mottet (Systeme U): 78hr 18min 8sec
• Pablo Wilches (Ryalcao) @ 8min 54sec

Stage 18, Sunday, July 19: Carpentras - Mont Ventoux Individual Time Trial, 36.5 kilometers.

• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) 1hr 19min 44sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 1min 39sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 1min 51sec
• Fabio Parra (Cafe de Colombia) @ 2min 4sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 2min 19sec
• Martial Gayant (Systéme U) @ 2min 52sec
• Rafael Acevedo (Cafe de Colombia) @ 3min 5sec
• Denis Roux (Z) @ 3min 34sec
• Charly Mottet (Système U) @ 3min 58sec
• Pablo Wilches (Ryalcao) @ 4min 18sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba): 79hr 39min 3sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 2min 34sec
• Charly Mottet (Systeme U) @ 2min 47sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 3min 56sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 8min 18sec
• Robert Millar (Panasonic) @ 9min 43sec
• Fabio Parra (Cafe de Colombia) @ 11min 15sec
• Pablo Wilches (Ryalcao) @ 12min 1sec
• Andy Hampsten (7-Eleven) @ 12min 40sec
• Urs Zimmermann (Carrera) @ 14min 26sec

Stage 19, Monday, July 20: Valreas - Villard de Lans, 185 kilometers.

• Pedro Delgado (PDM): 4hr 53min 34sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 3sec
• Marino Lajaretta (Caja Rural) @ 31sec
• Anselmo Fuerte (BH) @ s.t.
• Charly Mottet (Systeme U) s.t.
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 1min 6sec
• Alfred Achermann (KAS) @ 2min 8sec
• Laurent Fignon (Système U) s.t.
• Stephen Roche (Carrera): 84hr 35min 14sec
• Charly Mottet (Système U) @ 41sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 1min 19sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 1min 39sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 6min 47sec
• Fabio Parra (Cafe de Colombia) @ 12min 54sec
• Pablo Wilches (Ryalcao) @ 13min 40sec
• Andy Hampsten (7-Eleven) @ 14min 19sec
• Marino Lejarreta (Caja Rural) @ 14min 49sec
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) @ 15min 9sec

Stage 20, Tuesday, July 21: Villard de Lans - L'Alpe d'Huez , 201 kilometers

• Federico Echave: 5hr 52min 11sec
• Anselmo Fuerte (BH) @ 1min 32sec
• Christophe Lavainne (Système U) @ 2min 12sec
• Martin Ramirez (Cafe de Colombia)@ 3min
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 3min 19sec
• Laurent Fignon (Système U) @ 3min 25sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 3min 44sec
• Claude Criquielion (Hitachi) @ 4min 23sec
• Gerhard Zadrobilek (Brianzoli) @ 4min 43sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM): 90hr 32min 20sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 25sec
• Jean-Francois Bernard (Toshiba) @ 2min 2sec
• Charly Mottet (Système U) @ 2min 12sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 5min 3sec
• Fabio Parra (Cafe de Colombia) @ 13min 12sec
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) @ 15min 16sec
• Laurent Fignon (Système U) @ 15min 41sec
• Anselmo Fuerte (BH) @ 15min 54sec
• Marino Lejaretta (Caja Rural) @ 17min 3sec

Stage 21, Wednesday, July 22: Bourg d'Oisans - La Plagne, 185.5 kilometers

• Laurent Fignon (Système U): 6hr 7min 5sec
• Fabio Parra (Cafe de Colombia) @ 39sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 57sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 1min 1sec
• Denis Roux (Z) @ 1min 5sec
• Luciano Loro (Del Tongo) @ 1min 14sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 1min 44sec
• Charly Mottet (Système U) @ 1min 57sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 3min 3sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM): 96hr 40min 30sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 39 sec
• Charly Mottet (Systeme U) @ 3min 12sec
• Jean-Francois Bernard (Toshiba) @ 4min 8sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 5min 50sec
• Laurent Fignon (Système U) @ 14min 44sec
• Anselmo Fuerte (BH) @ 14min 57sec
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) @ 18min 36sec
• Claude Criquielion (Hitachi) @ 24min 11sec

Stage 22, Thursday, July 23: La Plagne - Morzine, 186 kilometers.

• Eduardo Chozas (Teka): 6hr 13min 48sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 43sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 1min 1sec
• Marino Lejarreta (Caja Rural) @ 1min 10sec
• Eddy Schepers (Carrera) s.t.
• Omar Hernandez (Ryalcao) @ 2min 24sec
• Laurent Fignon (Système U) @ 2min 25sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM): 102hr 55min 19sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 21sec
• Jean-Francois Bernard (Toshiba) @ 4min 18sec
• Charly Mottet (Systeme U) @ 5min 54sec
• Luis Herrera (Cafe de Colombia) @ 7min 14sec
• Fabio Parra (Cafe de Colombia) @ 13min 4sec
• Laurent Fignon (Système U) @ 16min 8sec
• Anselmo Fuerte (BH) @ 16min 21sec
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) @ 21min 21sec
• Marino Lejarreta (Caja Rural) @ 25min 50sec

Stage 23, Friday, July 24: St. Julien en Genevois - Dijon, 224.5 kilometers

• Régis Clère (Teka): 6hr 41min 22sec
• Jean-Claude Leclercq (Toshiba) @ 3sec
• Alfred Achermann (KAS) s.t.
• Henk Lubberding (Panasonic) s.t.
• Eric Van Lancker (Panasonic) s.t.
• Rudy Patry (Patry) s.t.
• Fréderic Brun (Z) s.t.
• Jean-Paul Van Poppel @ 2min 56sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM): 109hr 39min 37sec
• Charly Mottet (Système U) @ 5min 54sec

Stage 24, Saturday, July 25: Dijon - Dijon Individual Time Trial, 38 kilometers.

• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) 48min 17sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera) @ 1min 44sec
• Marino Lajaretta (Caja Rural) @ 2mmin 28sec
• Jesper Skibby (Roland) @ 2min 30sec
• Raul Alcala (7-Eleven) @ 2min 23sec
• Pedro Delgado (PDM) @ 2min 45sec
• Miguel Indurain (Reynolds) @ 2min 35sec
• Charly Mottet (Système U) @ 2min 51sec
• Peter Stevenhaagen (PDM) @ 2min 55sec
• Erik Breukink (Panasonic) @ 2min 58sec
• Stephen Roche (Carrera): 110hr 29min 59sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba) @ 2min 13sec
• Marino Lejarreta (Caja Rural) @ 26min 13sec

Stage 25 (Final Stage), Sunday July 26: Créteil - Paris, 192 kilometers.

• Jeff Pierce (7-Eleven) 4hr 57min 26sec
• Steve Bauer (Toshiba) @ 1sec
• Wim Van Eynde (Joker) @ 5sec
• Peter Stevenhaagen (PDM) @ 7sec
• Adrie Van der Poel (PDM) @ 11sec
• Acacio Da Silva (KAS) s.t.
• Jean-Paul Van Poppel (Superconfex) @ 17sec

Complete Final 1987 Tour de France General Classification

The Story of the 1987 Tour de France

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On March 17, Félix Lévitan found his office locked. The problem was said to be the finances involved with a proposed American race. Emilion Amaury, owner of L'Équipe and the Tour, had turned the management of his organization to his son Philippe. Lévitan could no longer call upon the friendship of Emilion Amaury to protect him. Lévitan was sacked and replaced by an interim manager Jean-François Naquet-Radiguet, who lasted only a year.

LeMond was turkey hunting and was accidentally shot by his brother-in-law. That April 20, 40 shotgun pellets tore into his body. He lost 3/4 of his blood and his right lung collapsed. 30 of the pellets could not be removed because of their location, including pellets in his heart lining, liver, small intestine and diaphragm. The short-term consequences of the accident were that LeMond could not return in 1987 to contest the Tour. The long-term effects on LeMond were even greater. The lead in his body left him damaged goods. Even though we will see him return in later years for wonderful victories, he was never the same and eventually had to retire with mitochondrial myopathy. This disorder interferes with the cell's basic ability to produce energy.

Hinault, seeing that he could no longer ride at the top, retired. He rode his last race in November of 1986.

So who was there? Laurent Fignon was still working on finding his old form. That spring he did rather well with a third in both Paris–Nice and the Vuelta a España and several other top-10 placings.

Jean-François Bernard, out from under the shadow of LeMond and Hinault, was expected to do very well. His team, Toshiba-La Vie Claire was a superb formation with Steve Bauer, Kim Andersen and Niki Ruttimann there to back him up.

Pedro Delgado had been showing promise in previous Tours. His team, PDM, was one of the finest in the world. He would have such sterling riders as Gerrie Knetemann, Gert-Jan Theunisse and Steven Rooks helping him. Delgado's spring was an easy, low-key lead-in to the Tour with no notable wins.

Andy Hampsten, with a fourth in the 1986 Tour under his belt and now riding for 7-Eleven, should have been licking his chops at the mountainous 1987 Tour.

Stephen Roche, who played such a large, but perhaps unintentional part in LeMond's 1985 famous ride to Luz-Ardiden, was having a wonderful year. Roche's racing had been up and down. A crash in the Paris Six-Day started the series of never-ending knee problems and attempts to surgically correct them. In 1987 his knee was holding together. Coming to the 1987 Tour he had already won the Tour of Romandie and the Giro d'Italia. He took second in Liège–Bastogne–Liège (he says that if he had been more tactically astute, he would have won it, "I rode like an amateur that day.") and fourth in Paris–Nice.

The 1987 Tour was designed to be tough. It was, in Roche's words, "one of the most mountainous since the war," with a record 26 stages, counting the Prologue. The Prologue was held in West Berlin. Europe was still divided between East and West and would remain so until the autumn of 1989. Dutchman Jelle Nijdam won the prologue, but several of the Tour contenders, showing their form, were hot on his heels.

The Tour slowly made its way across Germany and moved into France when stage 5 ended in Strasbourg. The Yellow Jersey had already changed hands a few times as the sprinters enjoyed their stint in the Tour. The high speeds caused the large (209 starters) and nervous peloton to suffer repeated crashes. The Europeans blamed a lot of the crashes on the Colombians, whom the Euros considered poor bike handlers. At one point in stage 10, after a Belgian hit a Colombian in the head with a water bottle, a couple of other Colombians went after him and started a fight.

By the time of the stage 10 87.5-kilometer individual time trial from Saumur to Futuroscope, the first real test of the Tour, the only rider in the top 15 with any real hope for a high General Classification was Systeme U's Charly Mottet. The others had been riding quietly in the pack, trying to stay out of trouble while the big rouleurs and sprinters gained time bonuses that moved them up to the front of the leader's list. The time trial sorted things out. Roche won it with Mottet second at 42 seconds. That put Mottet in Yellow.

The General Classification at this point:

Stage 13 was the first day in the Pyrenees. The contenders stayed together all the way to Pau even with 4 highly rated climbs. The day was so hot the tar on the road melted. Worse, there was an attack on the descent of the second category Bargargui. The high speeds and hard braking in the corners melted the glue holding the tires to the rims. Some riders rolled the tires off their rims, others had their tires explode from the heat build-up, causing several crashes. The stage removed the non-climbers from the top of the roster of the General Classification:

Stage 14 with the Aubisque, the Marie-Blanque and a finish at Luz-Ardiden, caused no real change to the General Classification.

The Tour headed towards the Massif Central. Stage 18's individual time trial up Mount Ventoux promised to shake things up and it did not disappoint. Jean-François Bernard rode the ride of his life. Never before had he risen to such heights and never again would he perform at such an extraordinary level. Bernard won the stage and the Yellow Jersey. Look at some of the times of his competition to get an idea of how well the Frenchman rode the 36.9-kilometer time trial:

The General Classification situation:

It seemed so beautiful for Bernard, the chosen heir of Hinault and the great hope of French cycling. He had a good lead and was climbing and time trialing well. He turned out to be a far better rider than his opposition had supposed. He should have been able to keep the Yellow all the way to Paris. But fate knocked on the door. The next day was a mountainous stage and with the Tour a Wild West wide-open shootout, he was not going to be allowed to keep the lead without mounting a serious defense.

Near the top of the first real climb, Bernard flatted and was unable to get his bike serviced before the other racers had disappeared up the mountains.

Bernard's luck didn't get any better. Mottet and his Systeme U teammates had hatched a plan to attack Bernard in that day's feed zone. They packed extra food to carry them through the long day. For insurance, Mottet told Roche about the plan to make sure there would be enough horsepower to keep Bernard and his tough La Vie Claire team at bay. Mottet knew the area and saw that the feed zone was just after a very narrow bridge, which would really slow the peloton. Things happened exactly as Mottet predicted. Bernard, who had been chasing to get back on terms with the leaders after his flat tire was forced to a stop at one point when the peloton slowed upon reaching the bridge. Mottet, Delgado and Roche were already up the road and putting real time between themselves and the furiously chasing Bernard.

Bernard was never able to rejoin the leaders and came in 4 minutes, 16 seconds after Delgado and Roche. Roche was now in yellow with Mottet only 41 seconds behind and Delgado stalking him at 1 minute, 19 seconds. Delgado and Roche had dropped Mottet, who had planned the day's skullduggery in the first place.

But wait, this gets better.

Stage 20 was another tough alpine stage that finished with the first category Cote de Laffrey and the Hors Category L'Alpe d'Huez. The final climb up the Alpe had the riders coming in one at a time. Federico Echave won the stage. The first real General Classification rider to finish was Laurent Fignon who was finally starting to get his legs. Fignon rolled in sixth, 3 minutes, 25 seconds after Echave. Delgado was next, 20 seconds later. Roche was fifteenth that day at 5 minutes, 28 seconds. Delgado now took the Yellow and Roche was 25 seconds behind. Spain was so transfixed with the excitement of Delgado's struggle with Roche for the lead that the Spanish parliament suspended its deliberations so that the members could watch the stage.

The next day was finer still. The giant mountains kept coming at the riders like mosquitoes on a hot Louisiana night. Stage 21 went from Bourg d'Oisans up to La Plagne, 185.5 kilometers of pure effort. Along the way were the Galibier, the Madeleine and the final climb to La Plagne, all Hors Category climbs. Now Roche wasn't a climber, as he has said over and over in many interviews. He was like so many truly fine racers, capable of putting out so much power that he not only had absolute power to time-trial and ride the flats well, he possessed superb relative power, or as we usually say, a good strength to weight ratio. That ratio allowed him to handle the mountains well. Yet he knew the specialist climbers like Delgado could give him trouble on their own turf.

Fignon launched a hard attack and won the stage. But the real drama was Roche's story. In the November, 2003 Cycle Sport magazine he gave an interview about that fateful day:

"I had the Jersey at Villard-de-Lans [stage 19, won by Delgado]. But Delgado took it back from me the next day at the summit of L'Alpe d'Huez [stage 20, related just above]. I was not a climber like him. Between the descent of the Galibier and the foot of the Madeleine [stage 21, the stage we are discussing] I attacked because he was isolated. I passed him and rejoined the group ahead. Afterwards I climbed the Madeleine alone. Delgado and his teammates caught me again at the foot of La Plagne. I said to myself, 'What am I going to do? If I stay with him he'll kill me. I'll never get to the top.' I let him go and conceded 1'10", 1'15".

"But he didn't trust himself. And 4 kilometers from the line, I attacked at top speed. I gave it everything I had. And I got to within a few seconds of him. Psychologically, that was my most beautiful victory."

After his titanic effort to bring Delgado back, Roche collapsed at the finish and needed oxygen. He was taken to a hospital but was found to be perfectly fine.

The General Classification now, after Roche was penalized 10 seconds for taking an illegal feed:

The next day, the last one in the Alps finishing at Morzine, Roche was able to take another 18 seconds out of Delgado. The Spaniard was tiring. They were now only 21 seconds apart. Roche felt confident that his superior time-trialing abilities would give him the Yellow in the final time trial.

So it came down to the penultimate stage, a 38-kilometer time trial, the "race of truth" at Dijon. Bernard's results let us know that this would have been an even more interesting race, if that were even possible, if he had not had that unfortunate flat.

The stage results:

The Yellow Jersey was Roche's. And with only the final stage into Paris left, it was his to keep.

That last stage into Paris had a big surprise in store for the 7-Eleven team. Jeff Pierce won the stage in a solo victory with Steve Bauer only 1 second behind him.

In that same interview in Cycle Sport , Roche said some kind words that reflected well on both Roche and Delgado.

"The memory of the Tour de France that will stay with me all my life is when I retook the jersey in Dijon. I went through the ceremony and then on the Jacques Chancel TV program Delgado was already in the middle of doing his interview. I arrived on the set and Delgado got up. He embraced me. Chancel said to him 'Less than an hour ago he took the Yellow Jersey from you and now you embrace him?' Delgado replied, 'I have had 4,500 kilometers in which to win the jersey, and I couldn't do it.' It was beautiful when he said that."

This was a fantastic Tour with eight different men wearing the Yellow Jersey, a record.

The final 1987 Tour de France General Classification:

Climbers' Competition:

Points Competition:

That year Roche won the Giro, the Tour and went on to win the World Championship. Only one other rider in the history of the sport, Eddy Merckx, has been able to win all 3 in a single year.

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The year of the Irish: Remembering Stephen Roche's triumph at the 1987 Tour de France

The latest of our trips down memory lane, as the 2023 Tour de France nears, sees us look back at the 74th edition of the race as Stephen Roche brought the luck of the Irish to take Yellow in one of the most memorable battles of all time.

The 1987 Tour de France, the 74th edition of the world's most prestigious cycling race, provided fans with exhilarating moments and an intense competition between two formidable rivals. Irish cyclist Stephen Roche emerged as the ultimate victor, securing his place in history as the first and only Irish rider to conquer the Tour de France.

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Roche's main contender for the yellow jersey was Spanish cyclist Pedro Delgado , who represented the PDM team. Throughout the Tour, Delgado held the coveted yellow jersey as the overall leader, presenting a formidable challenge for Roche. The battle between these two riders would define the outcome of the 1987 Tour de France.

The turning point of the Tour came during the penultimate stage, which featured an individual time trial. Roche, representing the Carrera team, delivered a stellar performance, surpassing expectations and narrowing the gap between himself and Delgado. In a breathtaking display of determination and skill, Roche managed to overturn a significant deficit, ultimately winning the Tour by a mere 40 seconds.

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No Tour de France is complete without the iconic climb up Alpe d'Huez. During stage 18 of the 1987 edition, Roche encountered mechanical issues while ascending the challenging mountain. Undeterred by the setback, he displayed true grit and borrowed a bike from a supportive spectator to continue the race. Roche's determination and resilience limited his time loss and kept him firmly in contention for the Maillot Jaune.

Stage 19 of the 1987 Tour de France was marred by controversy. The mountain time trial up the Col du Granon was shortened due to adverse weather conditions, including heavy rain and fog. Several riders, including Roche, protested the decision and refused to continue racing. Consequently, the stage results were nullified, adding an element of controversy to an already gripping Tour.

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In addition to Roche's overall victory, other notable achievements emerged from the 1987 Tour de France. Jean-Paul van Poppel from the Netherlands, representing the Superconfex team, claimed the green jersey for the best sprinter. Luis Herrera from Colombia, riding for the Café de Colombia team, secured the polka dot jersey for the best climber. The white jersey for the best young rider was awarded to Raúl Alcalá from Mexico, competing for the PDM team.

The 1987 Tour de France will forever be etched in cycling history as the year Stephen Roche overcame tremendous odds to secure a memorable victory. His battle with Pedro Delgado, the thrilling Alpe d'Huez drama, and the controversy surrounding stage 19 contributed to the race's enduring legacy. Roche's triumph marked a significant milestone for Ireland, and for himself, as he added the Tour de France to the Giro d'Italia he had won earlier that year before later adding the World Championship. His remarkable achievement continues to inspire cyclists and fans alike.

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1987, Part Nine: We’ll always have Paris

The 1987 Tour enters it’s final weekend. The Tour Féminin likewise draws to a close. Twenty-five years on, how should 1987 be remembered today?

The 1987 Tour de France’s final transition stage saw the peloton tackling the 225 kilometres from St Julien en Genevois to Dijon. The riders took things easy until an eight man break got away thirty-some kilometres out from home, containing Panasonic’s Henk Lubberding (architect of the attack) and his team-mate Eric van Lanker along with Jean Claude Leclercq (Toshiba), Frédéric Brun (Z), Régis Clère (Teka), Alfred Achermann (Kas), Rudy Patry (Roland) and Gerrie Knetemann (PDM). In the final kilo Clère, ever the escape artist, managed to break free of his brothers in arms and held on by three seconds to take the stage. For Teka it was back-to-back stage and for Clère it was a second stage victory, following Millau. Superconfex’s Jean-Paul van Poppel won the bunch sprint, nearly three minutes back, the whole peloton rolling home together, Fagor’s Sean Yates bringing up the rear. Van Poppel was back in green. Temporarily.

In the women’s Tour, France’s Jeannie Longo held onto her near three minute lead in the GC over Italy’s Maria Canins. The Soviet rider Alla Jakovleva won the ninety-five kilometre stage from Lons le Saunier, beating the Finn Tea Vikstedt-Nyman in a two-up sprint for the line.

Dijon is famous not just for its mustard but also for being where James Joyce’s Ulysses was first printed. Okay, maybe not famous for that, but well known in certain circles. The sort of circles where people actually read Ulysses . My sort of circles. So it’s famous in my mind for that anyway. The convoluted point being that Ulysses is supposed to afford me an opportunity to compare Stephan Daedulus and Stephan Roche and draw an analogy between Leopold Bloom’s odyssey through Dublin’s streets with the Tour’s odyssey through the towns and villages of France. But come on, do I have to do all the hard work around here? You’ve got the raw materials, work it out in your own heads this time.

The real point is that on this final weekend of the 1987 Tour Dijon was taken over by tricolour-waving U2-singing Guinness-drinking converts to the cycling cause: the Irish were having a grand time discovering the grand buckle. There’s an interview William Fotheringham did with Jeff Connor in 2004, included in Fotheringham’s Roule Britannia , in which Connor talked of the Irish fans at the Tour in 1987. They were, he said:

generic sports fans [who] just follow anything Irish, anywhere around the world, dressed in green. Apart from one guy, Oliver McQuaid, the ones I met at the end of the 1987 Tour had no idea about cycling: I found myself the expert. I’ve watched sport in Ireland – football at Lansdowne Road, Michelle de Bruin – and panning around the crowd I notice they are the same people. Even now [seventeen years on] I go to Lansdowne Road and see one or two familiar faces from that Tour.”

That Oliver McQuaid guy, by the way, is – in case you’re wondering – one of the clan McQuaid. Son of Jim. Brother of our glorious leader, Pat. A former teammate of Roche’s, at the 1979 Rás, where Roche, McQuaid and Alan McCormack acted less like a team and more like three individual riders each trying to beat the other to crap and claim the overall glory. Here he is again, from toward the end of Connor’s Wide-Eyed and Legless :

By the time the Tour arrived in Dijon the Republic of Ireland had cottoned on to the fact that one of their most famous sons was about to win cycling’s greatest prize. The ancient Burgundy city was awash with tricolours and Irish accents. Most had arrived without accommodation and a large group, including Oliver McQuaid, a member of a famous Irish cycling family, had solved the problem by drinking all night in the bar of the ANC hotel close to the railway station in Dijon.”

There is much truth in Connor’s comments about the travelling Irish fans at the 1987 Tour. We are a nation of sporting gad-flies. We discovered boxing through Barry McGuigan – and will rediscover it at the 2012 Olympics through Katie Taylor – and we discovered football through Jack’s Army, the fans who followed the football team through European and World Cup campaigns when Jack Charlton came along. Michelle de Bruin (née Smith) turned us into a nation of swim fans. Eddie Irvine made us love Formula One. We dally with rugby in Triple Crown years or when Munster or Leinster do well in the Heineken Cup. These days we’re a nation of golfers after the successes of Rory McIllroy, Pádraig Harrington, Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell. Wherever there’s an Irish man or Irish woman doing well in the sporting world, you’ll find an army of tricolour-waving U2-singing Guinness-drinking Irish sports fans cheering them along.

And this is the way sport is everywhere. Americans discovered the Tour de France through Greg LeMond, the 7-Eleven team and Lance Armstrong. The British discovered it through Robert Millar, Sean Yates, Chris Boardman, David Millar and now Team Sky. The Spanish re-discovered it through Pedro Delgado and Miguel Induráin. And the Colombians discovered it through Luis Herrera and Fabio Parra. At times, this constant influx of new fans, cheering along only on the basis of a rider’s passport, can become a bit tedious. It’s not that they don’t know the history of the sport. None of us did when we first found cycling. The history is important but you don’t have to know it if you don’t want to. Where it all becomes tedious is when the fans turn into jingoistic pains in the arse.

For the Irish fans in Dijon, the Tour was as good as Roche’s. The geansaí buí would be on Roche’s shoulders at the end of the penultimate stage’s time trial. Hell, everyone knew that. But shit could still happen. No one wanted it too – well, maybe the Spanish did, deep down, who wouldn’t in their shoes? – but everyone knew that all it would take would be a puncture or a crash to end Roche’s hopes and leave the yellow jersey with Delgado.

Delgado (l) and Roche (r) time-trialling in Dijon

All through the Tour – well, since Delgado emerged as Roche’s key rival – everyone had figured on the Irish rider being good for at least a minute over the Spaniard in the final time trial. In the end he was better than that. By four seconds. Sixty-four seconds separated them on the timesheet, Delgado crossing the finish line in Dijon four minutes and one second after Roche did. Three minutes after Roche had rolled down the start ramp Delgado had set out on his time trial. At the half-way mark he was a minute fourteen down on Roche and only clawed back thirteen seconds in the final kilometres as Roche started to take the corners cautiously. Roche was in yellow by forty seconds. And also green: the maillot vert once more switched back from Van Poppel to him.

Jean-François Bernard

The other race – for the stage win – went to Jean-François Bernard who led at every time check. His minute forty-four advantage over Roche (who finished second) on the stage reduced his final deficit in the maillot jaune to just two thirteen, encouraging him to claim that, had it not been for the four minutes plus he lost on the road to Villard de Lans – when the big boys ganged up on him and ran away when he punctured – he would have won the Tour. Coulda, woulda, shoulda. If it wasn’t for the minute PDM lost in the team time trial would Delgado have won the Tour? Roche’s take (in My Road to Victory ) was this:

“I could say that Bernard was five minutes down at the summit of the Aubisque on the second Pyrenean stage and if he was considered a real threat at that time, he would never have got back. Bernard must forget about criticising others and making excuses for himself. He should pay attention to the fact that at the end of the season there were not many riders who wanted to ride in his team. He must mature.”

Bernard, it should be said, was not the kind of rider Roche liked. After Bernard Tapie, the Toshiba team principle, had given him a Porsche for winning a stage in the 1986 Tour Roche made a catty comment about young riders driving Porsches without ever having won anything of great import. Sadly, when Bernard mentioned this comment to Roche the Dubliner claimed not to know that Bernard had a Porsche and a wonderful opportunity for handbags at dawn was missed.

Two riders failed to take the start that day in Dijon: Maarten Ducrot (Superconfex) and Sean Yates (Fagor). Like Roberto Amadio, Jean-René Bernadeau, Erik Breukink, Guido Bontempi, Herman Frison, Marc Madiot, Allan Peiper and Maurizio Piovani, Yates is still Touring and is a part of the 2012 Tour’s contingent of directeurs sportif .

And then it was the last day of the 1987 Tour de France. In the northern Parisian suburb of Créteil the remaining 135 riders in the seventy-fourth Tour prepared themselves for the final day’s racing. In nearby Chaveille the remaining seventy-odd riders in the fourth Tour Fémin prepared similarly. In Créteil Stephen Roche smiled for the cameras in his yellow jersey. In Chaveille it was Jeannie Longo who was smiling for the cameramen.

France was happy. A French-speaking Irishman with a Parisian wife and a house in Paris’s suburbs was about to win the Tour de France while Longo was about to finally win the Tour Féminin for France (the first win, in 1984, had gone to America’s Marianne Martin while Maria Canin’s had taken the next two victories for Italy). Jean-François Bernard and Charly Mottet may have missed out on the maillot jaune but Bernard had confirmed himself as a champion time trialist and Mottet had shown himself to be one of the coming men of French cycling. If they could both improve their climbing, the future was bright. And Laurent Fignon, despite his dismal efforts in the Tour’s five time trials, had shown flashes of what he used to be with that win on La Plagne. It wouldn’t be long before the French were top dogs in cycling once more.

The final stage of the Tour is a promenade. Not an easy day, the riders have to ride and they do go balls out once they hit the finishing circuit on the Champs Elysées. But, in some ways, it’s a little bit like a critérium, the handover between the Tour de France proper and the Shadow Tour – the post-Tour critérium circuit – that used to follow the grande boucle (and still does, but in a much reduced format). Not since 1968 had the yellow jersey changed hands on the final day of the Tour and many people were talking of 1968: Herman van Springel had beaten by Jan Janssen in the tightest Tour ever, just thirty-eight seconds separating first and second. Now Roche looked set to defeat Delgado by a similar margin, forty seconds.

To spice up the final day’s racing there was the question of the green jersey. Carrera held it. Superconfex wanted it. And Panasonic would do everything in their power to stop that happening. Cyrille Guimard may have disliked Bernard Tapie but Panasonic’s bossman, Peter Post, really seemed to hate Superconfex’s boss, Jan Raas. At stake for the two were bragging rights, who was the top dog in Dutch cycling. Raas and Post duked it out at every opportunity for those rights. A fight between the two on the road to Paris could see Roche suffer collateral damage. So he did a deal: on the Sunday morning he approached Van Poppel and promised to finish outside of the points on the Champs Elysées in return for the Superconfex boys keeping the race together. Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth Van Poppel agreed. The green jersey was as good as his before the sprint had even begun. Roche now had his own team, the Del Tongos and Superconfex looking out for him on the run-in to Paris. Such is the way this cycling game is played.

For the 7-Elevens Paris was their last hurrah in the Tour (Jim Ochowicz’s boys wouldn’t win another Tour stage until the Motorola years rolled round). They already had Raúl Alcalá had in the white jersey of the best young rider (as well as the memory of his eight stages in the polka-dot jersey) and they had two stage wins under their wheels Davis Phinney in Bordeaux and Dag-Otto Lauritzen on Luz Ardiden). Which was a jersey and a stage win better than their début Tour the year before ( and they’d managed to not make total arses of themselves in the team time trial).

On the Champs Elysées Jeff Pierce made it three stages for the Slurpees. At the end of the circuits of the cobbled central-Parisian thoroughfare Pierce was away with a group of about a dozen riders. An estimated half-a-million fans thronged the pavements from the Arc de Triomphe to the Tuileries gardens, cheering the riders home. Pierce had gone clear two laps earlier when he and three others slipped off the front of the peloton . It was all attack and counter attack as the break tried to stay clear of the chasing peloton and win the biggest sprint prize in the race. Pierce made his move just as an attack had been brought back and went away on his own. Steve Bauer (Toshiba) started bridging across to him and Pierce chose to back off the pace gently. Then, as soon as Bauer bridged the gap, he opened up the throttle again and flew. One second was all he had over Bauer at the end. It was more than he needed.

The remnants of the break filled the next six placings and then, in the bunch sprint, it was a Superconfex-Panasonic head-to-head, Van Poppel pipping Phil Anderson to the post. Peter Post’s boys went home with just one stage win (Erik Breukink in Pau) compared to the four stages (Jelle Nijdam in the prologue, Nico Verhoeven in the opening stage, Rolf Gölz in Blagnac and Van Poppel in Avignon) as well as the maillot vert won by Jan Raas’s boys. Advantage Raas in the game of bragging rights.

The 1987 podium – Roche, Delgado, Bernard with Tour Féminin winner Jeannie Longo in the foreground

Roche, almost true to his word, rolled home in twenty-ninth, arms thrown wide, Massimo Ghirotto riding shot-gun and keeping his team leader safe, Fagor’s Martin Earley a couple of bike lengths behind him. On the final podium in Paris the Irish Taoiseach – our prime minister – hugged Roche. Charlie Haughey was one of the cutest whoors in Irish politics (a despicable game played by cute whoors) and had flown to Paris to make sure that everyone back home knew that Roche’s victory was down to his party’s policies (screw the economy and force as many to emigrate as possible): a vote for Fianna Fáil was a vote for the future of Irish cycling (more emigration). It was hilarious to watch (especially for someone like me who grew up in a Labour household).

What’s even more hilarious – for me, anyway – is listening to those who claim that Lance Armstrong somehow sullied the podium on the Champs Elysées by waving an American flag from it. But never had Bill Clinton or George Bush flown to Paris to hug their hero in his moment of triumph. Can you imagine the response if they did? Or if David Cameron was on hand to welcome home a British Tour winner and remind the people of the UK that it was a Tory PM who had opened up the Lottery’s purse strings and given birth to Britain’s cycling renaissance? But Haughey could get away with it because no one outside of Ireland knew who he was.

In the other tour, the Tour Féminin, the USSR’s Tamara Poliakova slipped away for a solo victory, her second stage win in the race. Longo was home safe in the bunch and kept her maillot jaune . Maria Canins had to settle for the consolation prize of the mountains jersey. Australia’s Elisabeth Hepple was the best placed of the English-speaking riders, in fifteenth. In all twenty-five English speaking riders finished the race (Liz Chapman the best American in twenty-third, Clare Greenwood the best Briton, in twenty-fourth, Kelly-Ann Way the best Canadian in thirty-fifth). Given the presence of so many English-speakers in the race it’s somewhat surprising that so little has been told about the Tour Féminin. Hopefully the new renaissance of cycling in the English-speaking world will encourage some of those riders to share their stories of the other Tour de France.

Sadly, for women’s cycling, the departure of Félix Lévitan from the Société du Tour de France helped seal the fate of the Tour Féminin. The Société du Tour continued with the race for another couple of years (both won by Longo, with Canins second) but then cut it free. For a couple of years there was no race, then it returned, only to get into trouble with the newly created Amaury Sport Organisation. And then it died again.

So how did the pundits do, how finally fared the dozen riders identified before the start of the 1987 Tour as being the men to watch? Not bad is the answer to that question. The first seven riders in the final GC were all on that list of the dozen pre-race favourites:

How had the individual teams fared?

The Italian Supermacati squad and the Colombian Ryalco outfit were, by a country mile, the worst performing teams at the Tour. Whether ANC were better or worse than Reynolds depends, I suppose, upon what store you place on the lanterne rouge .

In one of the post-Tour guides I have, the following comment appears in connection with the British team that tried:

It was suggested within the team that twenty years would be necessary to prepare a British team fully for the Tour. Such talk is both irresponsible and nonsensical. It is irresponsible because it hardly does anything for team morale; and it is nonsensical because it is patently untrue.”  

History, alas, shows that the twenty years estimate was optimistic: no British team – bossed by British directeurs and with a core of British riders – started the Tour again until Team Sky came along in 2010. No one in the Sky set-up appreciates comparisons with the team that Tony Capper built. Like the ghost of Tom Simpson the ghost of ANC is something British cycling has spent a long time trying to exorcise. But maybe – just maybe – they could find some way to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of ANC’s Tour. Maybe the guys at Sky could help the rehabilitation of the memory of a team that failed, pay a lasting tribute to the little team that tried. Maybe it is time for the British to finally win the Tour. America, Ireland and Australia have all produced Tour winners for English-speaking fans, isn’t it about time the British joined the club?

And what of the Irish? What of their twenty-fifth anniversary dreams? The dream is as it was that day on the Champs Elysées: another victory. We’ve waited twenty-five years, which is two less than the French have endured since they last won their own race, so I guess we can’t really complain. But at least the French have had the consolation of days in yellow and stage wins. Stephen Roche never again wore another maillot jaune after that one presented to him on the Champs Elysées in 1987. No Irish rider has. Kelly did bring home another green jersey (his fourth) in 1989 (along with a red one, for the intermediate Catch sprints). And the only stage wins since 1987 came from Martin Earley in 1989 and Stephen Roche in 1992. One day in yellow in memory of times past is clearly too much to ask to mark twenty-five years. Is a stage win too too much?

Sources (throughout this series): Born to Ride , by Stephen Roche (with Peter Cossins), Yellow Jersey Press; Field of Fire , by Jeff Connor, Mainstream Publishing.

Also: Team 7-Eleven , by Geoff Drake ; The Happiness of Pursuit , by Davis Phinney (with Austin Murphy); We Were Young and Carefree , by Laurent Fignon (translated by William Fotheringham ); Wide-Eyed and Legless , by Jeff Connor ; The Tour is Won on the Alpe , by Jean-Paul Vespini (translated by David Herlihy); Kings of the Mountains , by Matt Rendell; In Search of Robert Millar and Slaying the Badger , both by Richard Moore ; A Rough Ride , by Paul Kimmage; A Peiper’s Tale , by Allan Peiper (with Chris Sidwells); My Road to Victory and The Agony and the Ecstasy , both by Stephen Roche (with David Walsh); Kelly , A Man for All Seasons and Inside the Tour de France , all three by David Walsh; Rule Britannia , by William Fotheringham ; Breaking the Chain , by Willy Voet (with Pierre Ballester, translated by William Fotheringham); The Sweat of the Gods , by Benjo Maso (translated by Michiel Horn), In High Gear , by Sam Abt; The Story of the Tour de France, Volume 2 , by Bill and Carol McGann.

Feargal MacKay is the resident book reviewer at Podium Cafe and an occasional contributor elsewhere. He can be found on twitter at @fmk_ROI .

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Ranking by points - 25 july 1987, mountains ranking - 25 july 1987, prologue - berlin ouest, 6.1 km - 1 july 1987, stage 1 - berlin - berlin, 105.5 km - 2 july 1987, stage 2 - berlin, 40.5 km - 2 july 1987, stage 3 - karlsruhe - stuttgart, 219 km - 3 july 1987, stage 4 - stuttgart - pforzheim, 79 km - 4 july 1987, stage 5 - pforzheim - strasbourg, 112.5 km - 5 july 1987, stage 6 - strasbourg - epinal, 179 km - 6 july 1987, stage 7 - epinal - troyes, 211 km - 7 july 1987, stage 8 - troyes - epinay sous sénart, 205.5 km - 8 july 1987, stage 9 - orléans - rénazé, 260 km - 9 july 1987, stage 10 - saumur - futuroscope, 87.5 km - 10 july 1987, stage 11 - poitiers - chaumeil, 255 km - 11 july 1987, stage 12 - brive - bordeaux, 228 km - 12 july 1987, stage 13 - bayonne - pau, 219 km - 13 july 1987, stage 14 - pau - luz ardiden, 166 km - 14 july 1987, stage 15 - tarbes - blagnac, 164 km - 15 july 1987, stage 16 - blagnac - millau/le cade, 216.5 km - 16 july 1987, stage 17 - millau - avignon, 239 km - 17 july 1987, stage 18 - carpentras - bédoin - mont ventoux, 36.5 km - 18 july 1987, stage 19 - valréas - villard de lans, 185 km - 19 july 1987, stage 20 - villard de lans - l'alpe d'huez, 201 km - 20 july 1987, stage 21 - bourg d'oisans - la plagne, 185.5 km - 21 july 1987, stage 22 - la plagne - morzine, 186 km - 22 july 1987, stage 23 - st julien en genevois - dijon, 224.5 km - 23 july 1987, stage 24 - dijon - dijon, 38 km - 24 july 1987, stage 25 - créteil - paris/champs elysées, 192 km - 25 july 1987, tour de france - archives.

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• 59 VAN DER POEL Adrie
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• 77 HERNÁNDEZ Jesús
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• 92 CAMARGO Luis Alberto * (DNF #17)
• 93 CHAPARRO Arsenio (DNF #11)
• 94 HERNANDEZ Omar
• 95 JARAMILLO Carlos Mario (DNF #20)
• 96 MONCADA Gerardo (DSQ #21)
• 97 MORA Néstor Oswaldo
• 98 MORALES Pedro Saúl * (DNF #13)
• 99 VARGAS Óscar de Jesús * (DNF #20)
• 101 ESNAULT Patrice (DNF #19)
• 102 CHAPPUIS André
• 103 CLAVEYROLAT Thierry (DNF #19)
• 104 COLOTTI Jean-Claude (DNF #16)
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• 123 BERNAUDEAU Jean-René
• 124 CARITOUX Éric
• 125 EARLEY Martin
• 126 FOREST Robert
• 127 HOSTE Frank (DNF #13)
• 128 LEMARCHAND Francois
• 129 YATES Sean (DNS #24)
• 131 HERRERA Luis Alberto
• 132 ACEVEDO Rafael Antonio
• 133 BOHÓRQUEZ Argemiro
• 134 CADENA Julio César
• 135 CASTILLO Juan Carlos *
• 136 LEÓN Marco Antonio
• 137 PARRA Fabio Enrique
• 138 PÉREZ Cristóbal
• 139 RAMIREZ Martin Alonso
• 141 DUCROT Maarten (DNS #23)
• 142 GÖLZ Rolf
• 143 JAKOBS Gert * (DNF #19)
• 144 NIJDAM Jelle
• 145 PEETERS Ludo
• 146 ROOSEN Luc *
• 147 SOLLEVELD Gerrit
• 148 VAN POPPEL Jean-Paul
• 149 VERHOEVEN Nico (OTL #14)
• 151 ANDERSON Phil
• 152 BREUKINK Erik *
• 153 DE ROOIJ Theo
• 154 LUBBERDING Henk
• 155 MILLAR Robert
• 156 NULENS Guy
• 157 PEIPER Allan (DNF #21)
• 158 VAN LANCKER Eric
• 159 VAN VLIET Teun
• 161 SARONNI Giuseppe (DNF #13)
• 162 CONTINI Silvano
• 163 LANG Czesław (DNF #13)
• 164 LORO Luciano
• 165 PIASECKI Lech (DNF #7)
• 166 PIOVANI Maurizio
• 167 POZZI Alessandro
• 168 SARONNI Alberto (DNF #13)
• 169 VANOTTI Ennio (DSQ #21)
• 171 KELLY Sean (DNF #12)
• 172 ACHERMANN Alfred
• 173 DA SILVA Acácio
• 174 GASTÓN Iñaki (DNF #13)
• 175 JOHO Stephan (OTL #3)
• 176 LUKIN Luis Javier (DNF #14)
• 177 MURGUIALDAY Javier (DNF #7)
• 178 PRIETO Celestino
• 179 SANDERS Gilles *
• 181 SERGEANT Marc (DNF #19)
• 182 BREU Beat
• 183 DERNIES Michel
• 184 GOESSENS Jan
• 185 LIECKENS Jozef
• 186 NEVENS Jan (DNF #20)
• 187 ROES Peter * (DNF #14)
• 188 VAN DE VIJVER Frank (DNF #13)
• 189 VAN EYNDE Wim
• 191 HAMPSTEN Andrew
• 192 ALCALÁ Raúl *
• 193 BOYER Jonathan
• 194 BRADLEY Jeff (DNF #11)
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• 196 LAURITZEN Dag-Otto
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• 199 ROLL Bob (DNF #11)
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• 207 HOLM SØRENSEN Brian
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• 211 ALGERI Vittorio (DNF #14)
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• 213 AMADIO Roberto (DNF #14)
• 214 BOTTOIA Giovanni Paolo (OTL #14)
• 215 CORTI Claudio (DNS #11)
• 216 GIULIANI Stefano (DNF #1)
• 217 JURČO Milan (DNF #19)
• 218 MONTANI Dario (DNF #19)
• 219 ZADROBILEK Gerhard
• 221 ELLIOTT Malcolm
• 222 CHESNEAU Bernard (OTL #3)
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• 224 JONES Graham (DNF #6)
• 225 PALOV Kvetoslav
• 226 SUTTON Shane (DNF #13)
• 227 SWART Steve * (DNF #19)
• 228 TIMMIS Adrian *
• 229 WATSON Paul (DNF #6)
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