95 tour de france

1995 Tour de France

82nd edition: july 1 - july 23, 1995, results, stages with running gc, photos and video.

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Map of the 1995 Tour de France. The race started in Brittany's Saint-Brieuc

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1995 Tour de France quick facts

The 1995 Tour had 20 stages plus a prologue that totaled 3,635 kilometers.

It was ridden at an average speed of 39.193 km/hr.

There were 189 starters (21 9-member teams) and 115 classified finishers.

This was Miguel Indurain's fifth Tour victory, allowing him to join Anquetil, Merckx and Hinault in the 5-time Tour winner's club.

Indurain was the first racer to win five sequential Tours, a feat later exceeded by Lance Armstrong, who won seven Tours in a row.

Of course, now we know those seven Armstrong Tour victories were annuled because of Armstrong's doping.

1995 Tour de France complete final General Classification:

• Alex Zulle (ONCE) @ 4min 35sec
• Bjarne Riis (Gewiss-Ballan) @ 6min 47sec
• Laurent Jalaber t (ONCE) @ 8min 24sec
• Ivan Gotti (Gewiss-Ballan) @ 11min 34sec
• Melchior Mauri (ONCE) @ 15min 20sec
• Fernando Escartin (Festina) @ 15min 49sec
• Tony Rominger (Kelme) @ 16min 46sec
• Richard Virenque (Carrera Jeans) @ 17min 31sec
• Hernan Buenahora (Castorama) @ 18min 50sec
• Claudio Chiappucci (Carrera Jeans) @ 18min 55sec
• Laurent Madouas (Brescialat) @ 20min 37sec
• Marco Pantani (Gewiss-Ballan) @ 26min 20sec
• Paolo Lanfranchi (Motorola) @ 29min 41sec
• Bruno Cenghialta (Gewiss-Ballan) @ 29min 55sec
• Alvaro Mejia (TVM) @ 33min 40sec
• Bo Hamburger (Novell) @ 34min 40sec
• Viatcheslav Ekimov (Festina) @ 39min 51sec
• Laurent Dufaux (ONCE) @ 45min 55sec
• Erik Breukink (ONCE) @ 47min 27sec
• Vicente Aparicio (Banesto) @ 52min 54sec
• Jean-Cyril Robin (Festina) @ 56min 1sec
• Arsenio Gonzalez (Mapei) @ 56min 18sec
• Federico Muñoz (Kelme) @ 1hr 1min 3sec
• Vladimir Poulnikov (Telekom) @ 1hr 1min 31sec
• Massimo Podenzana (Brescialat) @ 1hr 1min 54sec
• Laudelino Cubino (Kelme) @ 1hr 2min 27sec
• Laurent Brochard (Festina) @ 1hr 2min 45sec
• Beat Zberg (Carrera) @ 1hr 7min 8sec
• Yvon Ledanois (Gan) @ 1hr 14min 4sec
• Johan Bruyneel (ONCE) @ 1hr 18min 14sec
• Oscar Pelliccioli (Polti) @ 1hr 20min 13sec
• Alberto Elli (MG-Technogym) @ 1hr 21min 34sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Chazal) @ 1hr 23min 11sec
• Herminio Diaz (ONCE) @ 1hr 23min 27sec
• Lance Armstrong (Motorola) @ 1hr 28min 6sec
• Georg Totschnig (Polti) @ 1hr 30min 47sec
• Udo Bölts (Telekom) @ 1hr 31min 16sec
• Andrea Tafi (Mapei) @ 1hr 36min 49sec
• Ramon Gonzalez (Banesto) @ 1hr 38min 4sec
• Ferard Rué (Banesto) @ 1hr 38min 11sec
• Enrico Zaina (Carrera) @ 1hr 38min 28sec
• Massimiliano Lelli (Mercatone Uno) @ 1hr 39min 43sec
• Andrea Peron (Motorola) @ 1hr 42min 18sec
• Eddy Bouwmans (Novell) @ 1hr 44min 9sec
• Zenon Jaskula (Aki-Gipiemme) @ 1hr 53min 46sec
• Maximilian Sciandri (MG-Technogym) @ 1hr 55min 10sec
• Franco Vona (MG-Technogym) @ 1hr 55min 35sec
• Jesper Skibby (TVM) @ 1hr 55min 43sec
• Leonardo Sierra (Carrera) @ 1hr 56min 17sec
• Gabriele Colombo (Gewiss-Ballan) @ 1hr 57min 14sec
• Maarten Den Bakker (TVM) @ 1hr 58min 25sec
• Gianni Bugno (MG-Technogym) @ 1hr 58min 47sec
• Andrea Ferrigato (Telekom) @ 2hr 4min 51sec
• Didier Rous (Gan) @ 2hr 7min 39sec
• Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (Novell) @ 2hr 8min 55sec
• Carmelo Miranda (Banesto) @ 2hr 8min 57sec
• Rolf Aldag (Telekom) @ 2hr 13min 41sec
• François Simon (Castorama) @ 2hr 15min 16sec
• Neil Stephens (ONCE) @ 2hr 16min 1sec
• Miguel Arroyo (Chazal) @ 2hr 19min 6sec
• Armand De Las Cuevas (Castorama) @ 2hr 19min 23sec
• Gilles Bouvard (Chazal) @ 2hr 24min 18sec
• Stephen Hiodge (Festina) @ 2hr 28min 17sec
• Alberto Volpi (Gewiss-Ballan) @ 2hr 28min 43sec
• Jens Heppner (Telekom) @ 2hr 30min 47sec
• Rolf Järmann (MG-Technogym) @ 2hr 32min 14sec
• Fabian Jeker (Festina) @ 2hr 38min 21sec
• José Ramon Uriarte (Banesto) @ 2hr 38min 22sec
• Erik Dekker (Novell) @ 2hr 38min 22sec
• Andrei Tchmil (Lotto) @ 2hr 39min 2sec
• Massimo Donati (Mercatone Uno) @ 2hr 40min 4sec
• Johan Museeuw (Mapei) @ 2hr 41min 54sec
• Serhiy Itchakov (Polti) @ 2hr 42min 7sec
• Arturas Kasputis (Chazal) @ 2hr 45min 50sec
• Jim Van De Laer (TVM) @ 2hr 45min 52sec
• Francesco Frattini (Geweiss-Ballan) @ 2hr 46min 11sec
• Marino Alonso (Banesto) @ 2hr 47min 25sec
• Dario Bottaro (Gewiss-Ballan) @ 2hr 47min 26sec
• Thomas Davy (Banesto) @ 2hr 49min 17sec
• Davide Perona (Lampre) @ 2hr 51min 34sec
• Frankie Andreu (Motorola) @ 2hr 52min 15sec
• Alessio Galletti (Lampre) @ 2hr 52min 22sec
• Marcello Siboni (Carrera) @ 2hr 53min 16sec
• Marco Milesi (Brescialat) @ 2hr 54min 10sec
• Flavio Vanzella (MG-Technogym) s.t.
• Giancarlo Perini (Brescialat) @ 2hr 54min 18sec
• Wilfried Peeters (Mapei) @ 2hr 54min 18sec
• Guido Bontempi (Gewiss-Ballan) @ 2hr 55min 28sec
• Erik Zabel (Telekom) @ 2hr 56min 48sec
• Arvis Piziks (Novell) @ 2hr 57min 55sec
• François Lemarchand (Gan) @ 2hr 58min 26sec
• José Angel Vidal (Kelme) @ 2hr 58min 26sec
• Thierry Marie (Castorama) @ 2hr 58min 54sec
• Aitor Garmendia (Banesto) @ 2hr 59min 43sec
• Alexander Gontchenkov (Lampre) @ 3hr 0min 25sec
• Frans Massen (Novell) @ 3hr 1min 43sec
• Mario Scirea (Polti) @ 3hr 1min 55sec
• Mauro Bettin (Ski-Gipiemme) @ 3hr 4min 0sec
• Nicola Loda (MG-Technogym) @ 3hr 4min 45sec
• Steve Bauer (Motorola) @ 3hr 5min 33sec
• Rossano Brasi (Polti) @ 3hr 6min 23sec
• Giovanni Lombardi (Polti) @ 3hr 6min 40sec
• Gilles Talmant (Castorama) @ 3hr 7min 19sec
• Peter Farazijn (Lotto) @ 3hr 9min 32sec
• Stefano Colagé (Telekom) @ 3hr 10min 4sec
• Gian-Matteo Fagnini (Mercatone Uno) @ 3hr 12min 11sec
• Giovanni Fidanza (Polti) @ 3hr 12min 20sec
• Stephen Swart (Motorola) @ 3hr 14min 15sec
• Gianluca Gorini (Aki-Gipiemme) @ 3hr 14min 20sec
• Marco Serpellini (Lampre) @ 3hr 16min 5sec
• Davide Cassani (MG-Technogym) @ 3hr 16min 51sec
• Bart Voskamp (TVM) @ 3hr 17min 41sec
• Eros Poli (Mercatone Uno) @ 3hr 21min 26sec
• Bruno Cornillet (Chazal) @ 3hr 36min 26sec

Climbers Competition:

Points Competition:

Team Classification:

• ONCE: 278hr 29min 35sec
• Gewiss-Ballan @ 13min 23sec
• Mapei @ 55min 53sec
• Marco Pantani (Carrera) 93hr 11min 19sec
• Bo Hamburger (TVM) @ 8min 29sec
• Beat Zberg (Carrera) @ 40min 48sec

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1995 Tour de France stage results with running GC

Prologue: Saturday, July 1, St. Brieuc 7.3 km Individual Time Trial. Stage and GC times are the same.

Stage 1: Sunday, July 2, Dinan - Lannion, 233.5 km

GC after Stage 1:

Stage 2: Monday, July 3, Perros Guirrec - Vitré, 235.5 km

GC after stage 2:

Stage 3: Tuesday, July 4, Mayenne - Alençon 67 km Team Time Trial

GC after Stage 3:

Stage 4: Wednesday, July 5, Alençon - Le Havre, 162 km

GC after Stage 4:

Stage 5: Thursday, July 6, Fécamp - Dunkerque, 261 km

GC after Stage 5:

Stage 6: Friday, July 7, Dunkerque - Charleroi, 202 km

GC after stage 6:

Stage 7: Saturday, July 8, Charleroi - Liège, 203 km

GC after Stage 7:

Stage 8: Sunday, July 9, Huy - Seraing 54 km Individual Time Trial

GC after Stage 8:

Stage 9: Tuesday, July 11, Le Grand Bornand - La Plagne, 160 km.

GC after Stage 9:

Stage 10: Wednesday, July 12, Aime La Plagne - L'Alpe d'Huez, 162.5 km

GC after stage 10:

Stage 11: Thursday, July 13, Bourg d'Oisons - St. Etienne, 199 km

GC after Stage 11:

Stage 12: Friday, July 14, St. Etienne - Mende, 222.5 km

GC after Stage 12:

Stage 13: Saturday, July 15, Mende - Revel, 245 km

GC after Stage 13:

Stage 14: Sunday, July 16, St. Orens de Gameville - Guzet Neige, 164 km.

GC after stage 14:

Stage 15: Tuesday, July 18, St. Girons - Cauterets, 206 km.

Richard Virenque was first to the top of all 6 passes.

Fabio Casartelli died after crashing on the descent of the Portet d'Aspet.

GC after stage 15:

Stage 16: Wednesday, July 19, Tarbes - Pau, 229 km

The stage was neutralized in homage to Fabio Casartelli, who died during stage 15.

Stage 17: Pau - Bordeaux, 246 km.

GC after Stage 17:

Stage 18: Friday, July 21, Montpon Ménestérol - Limoges, 166.5 km

GC after Stage 18:

Stage 19: Saturday, July 22, Lac de Vassivière 46.5 km Individual Time Trial

GC after Stage 19:

20th and Final Stage: Sunday, July 23, St. Geneviève des Bois - Paris (Champs Elysées)

Complete Final 1995 Tour de France GC after Stage 20

1995 Tour de France photos:

Video of Stage 10 with Pantani's record ride to the top of l'Alpe d'Huez

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• Date: 11 July 1995
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• Avg. speed winner: 35.407 km/h
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
• Distance: 166 km
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• ProfileScore: 561
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“The Greatest Tour de France Climber of All Time” Has Died at Age 95

Federico Bahamontes , known as the “Eagle of Toledo”, was the first Spanish rider ever to win the Tour de France.

Federico Bahamontes, who was the first Spanish rider ever to win the Tour de France, died Tuesday at the age of 95.

“It is with deep sorrow that we mourn the loss of Federico Martin Bahamontes, the Eagle of Toledo, a benchmark in sport who has taken the name of our city to the very top,” Toledo’s mayor Carlos Velázquez said in a statement following Bahamontes’s death. “Adopted son of the city of Toledo, admired and loved, Fede has thrilled us with his extraordinary climbs. His bicycle shop, in our Plaza de la Magdalena, has been a place of pilgrimage for all fans … Thanks to him we all won the Tour.”

Federico Bahmontes was born in 1928 in the central Spanish province of Toledo. That geography would earn him the nickname “The Eagle of Toledo” later in his career.

Due to the Spanish civil war, Bahmontes’s family spent much of the mid-1930s fleeing from their hometown of Santo Domingo-Claudilla to Madrid and then, eventually, to the village of Villarubbia de Santiago.

In the wake of the war, the country was under food rationing orders. This led Bahamontes to buy his first bike at the age of eighteen in order to transport and sell food illegally between towns and villages.

Soon after, in July 1947, he entered his first bike race, finishing second.

Bahamontes spent the next half decade racing as an amateur, which allowed him to earn more than his black-market food trade.

In 1953, Bahamontes entered his first professional race, the Vuelta a Asturias. After winning the opening stage, Bahamontes finished the race in twenty-first place out of a field of sixty-nine racers.

That same year, Bahamontes won the King of the Mountains classification in the Volta a Catalunya, which, as the Vuelta a España was not run between 1950 and 1955, was the country’s biggest race at the time.

He competed in his first Tour de France the following summer, initially declining an invite to the race on the grounds that he didn’t have any luggage. He won that year’s KOM classification and finished the race twenty-fifth overall.

In 1959, Bahamontes won the Tour de France, becoming the race’s first-ever Spanish yellow jersey.

However, over his career, the Eagle of Toledo was best known for his climbing acumen. He won the Tour de France’s KOM jersey a total of six times (1954, ’58, ’59, ’62, ’63, and ’64), the Giro’s KOM in 1956, and Vuelta’s KOM in 1957, where he also finished second overall.

Following his retirement in 1965, Bahamontes returned to Toledo to run a bicycle shop.

In 2013, in celebration of the Tour’s hundredth anniversary, French newspaper L’Equipe named Bahamontes the greatest Tour de France climber of all time.

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CYCLING; Italian Rider Dies After High-Speed Crash

By Samuel Abt

• July 19, 1995

Fabio Casartelli, a 24-year-old Italian bicycle racer who was the reigning Olympic road race champion, was killed in the Tour de France today when he crashed on a steep and sinuous descent in the mountains and fractured his skull.

While Casartelli was being flown by helicopter to a hospital in Tarbes, his heart stopped three times. He was revived by doctors aboard the craft after the first two attacks, but they were unsuccessful after the third and he could not be helped at the hospital either.

Casartelli was not wearing a helmet, according to Reuters and The Associated Press. This is not unusual, since the overwhelming majority of the riders do not wear helmets on hot days, as this was. Nevertheless, it is sure to renew debate over whether protective headgear should be mandatory in major professional bicycle races.

"'It's an issue that will come to the forefront again," said Alfredo Martini, head of the Italian national cycling team. "It's time to deal with this issue seriously."

The death of the rider for the Motorola team was the third in the history of the Tour de France and the first since 1967. Tom Simpson, a British rider, died that July of heat asphyxiation, complicated by amphetamines, while climbing Mont Ventoux. In 1935, Francesco Cepeda of Spain died after a fall in a ravine. The Tour began in 1903.

Casartelli, the winner of the gold medal in the 1992 Olympic road race in Barcelona, Spain, would have turned 25 on Aug. 16. He was married and had a 4-month-old son.

He crashed on the descent from the Portet d'Aspet Pass, the first of six climbs in the Pyrenees. As riders approached speeds of 55 miles an hour, several of them, including Casartelli, failed to negotiate a curve. Casartelli then flew into the air and appeared to smash his skull into one of the low, concrete blocks lining the road high above a valley.

"It was a fairly fast descent," said the French rider Francois Simon, who was behind Casartelli. "At a certain point, there was a longer curve than the others. Casartelli couldn't make the turn. I think it was his back wheel which hit the side, and he flew in the air."

Television replays showed Casartelli lying on his right side in a fetal position, a stream of blood pouring from his head.

Casartelli began the race wearing a standard team cap made of cloth. The use of more substantive headgear is not mandatory in professional races in Europe except in Belgium and England, and even there, the helmets are strips of leather known as "hairnets," rather than more resistant hardshell gear. Headgear is also mandatory in the United States and Australia.

Despite the obvious dangers, few professional riders in the Tour de France wear helmets on hot days in the mountains, as this one was, protesting that for comfort's sake they prefer cloth caps or bare heads. Only about 5 percent would wear them in these conditions, compared with 75 percent on cooler days during flat stages.

When international officials tried to make helmets mandatory early in the 1990's, the riders protested and threatened to strike. The officials backed off.

The Motorola team announced this evening that it would continue to race in the Tour, and race officials said a moment of silence would be observed at the start of Wednesday's stage, which begins in Tarbes.

Three other riders were badly injured in the same crash today, and four others dropped out from exhaustion.

Dante Rezze, a Frenchman with the Aki team, went off the road and into a ravine, fracturing his left leg. Dirk Baldinger, a German with Polti, also fractured his left leg but, like Casartelli, did not hurtle off the road. Less seriously injured was Juan Cesar Aguirre, a Colombian with Kelme, although he had to withdraw from the race.

Rezze and Baldinger were both taken by ambulance to the town of St. Gaudens.

Tour doctors quickly examined Casartelli and determined that he had major injuries. Dr. Gerard Nicolet, one of the Tour's four doctors, and Dr. Massimo Testa, the Motorola team's doctor, accompanied the rider and tried to save him on the helicopter.

"I arrived 10 seconds after the fall," said Dr. Gerard Porte, the tour's chief doctor. "I could tell it was a serious injury. Casartelli had cuts that were bleeding badly. We did everything in the best conditions and as fast as we could. But he had very serious cuts, and when there's such heavy bleeding you know it was very powerful impact."

The accident occurred at Kilometer 34 (Mile 31) of the 206-kilometer-long (128 miles) stage in sunny and hot weather. Travelers with the Tour were warned beforehand that the descent was especially dangerous because of its many short curves and steep grades.

Casartelli crashed at 11:48 A.M. and his death was announced on the Tour's internal radio at 2:39 P.M. by Jean-Marie Leblanc, the director of the race. Since the news was heard by all 21 team directors and their deputies in their cars, it must have been passed along to the riders.

In today's stage from St. Girons in the lowlands to Cauterets atop a peak, Richard Virenque sped away early, held off all chasers easily and coasted over the finish line in a remarkably fresh state.

For more than a week, Virenque has been wearing the polka dot jersey of the Tour de France's best climber and explaining over and over again why he has not been the Tour's best climber. The closest he has come to that was when he bumped into Marco Pantani, the Italian rocket.

When Virenque donned the polka dot jersey this time, he could do it without embarrassment. Pantani, first up the mountain at Alpe d'Huez and Guzet-Neige, fell apart today and was still laboring to the finish when Virenque was leaving for the television studio.

Virenque won the equivalent stage in the Pyrenees last year and went on to keep the title of king of the mountains while finishing fifth in the Tour.

The Frenchman was timed in 6 hours 20 minutes 48 seconds today, an average of 32.4 kilometers an hour (20 m.p.h.). Virenque finished 1:17 ahead of Claudio Chiappucci, an Italian with Carrera. Third, 1:18 behind, was the Colombian revelation, Hernan Buenahora of the Kelme team. He finished second and fourth in recent stages of the three-week Tour, which ends Sunday in Paris.

When it does, Miguel Indurain, who maintained the overall lead, can look back on this stage as the day he almost certainly won his fifth successive Tour. Holding off all his main rivals, he finished sixth, 2:34 behind the winner, the same time as his shadow, the second-placed Alex Zulle, a Swiss with ONCE.

But when many people look back on this Tour, unfortunately they will remember it with sadness, for the death of Casartelli.

In his first year with Motorola, Casartelli rode previously for the Ariostea and GB-MG teams in Italy. He turned professional in 1993 and won a stage of the Settimana Bergamasca and three times finished second in stages of the Tour of Switzerland.

Last year, he was inactive because of a knee injury and corrective surgery. He had been racing well this season and was one of the last riders to be named to Motorola's Tour team, where his role was that of a domestique, a support rider.

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Federico bahamontes, spain’s first tour de france winner, dies at 95, the 'eagle of toledo' won six king of the mountains jerseys and one yellow jersey as he raced during cycling's 'golden era' of the 1950s and 1960s..

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Federico Bahamontes, the pure climber who became the first rider from Spain to win the Tour de France , died Tuesday. He was 95.

Born in 1928, the “Eagle of Toledo” raced against some of the peloton’s biggest names in the Tour golden era of the 1950s and 1960s.

He won the 1959 Tour de France, the first by a Spanish rider. A natural born climber, he won 11 grand tour stages across his prolific career, and won King of the Mountains jersey in all three grand tours.

Bahamontes grew up during Spain’s Civil War, and turned pro in 1953.

A keen climber, Bahamontes often targeted the climber’s jersey, winning the title six times at the Tour, which stood as a longtime record. At 95, he was the oldest living Tour winner.

Bahamontes also won seven Tour stages, three stages at the Vuelta a España, as well as the climber’s title in 1957 and 1958, and one stage at the Giro d’Italia, with the climber’s jersey in 1958.

He also finished second in the 1957 Vuelta, and second in the 1963 Tour, and third in 1964.

After retiring in 1965, Bahamontes owned a bicycle and motorcycle shop in Toledo, Spain, and was named the best climber in the history of the Tour de France by a panel organized by L’Équipe in 2013.

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All 20 teams went into the Tour de France with great hopes. Some planned to win the Tour, others...

All 20 teams went into the Tour de France with great hopes. Some planned to win the Tour, others went for stage wins, and others were hoping merely to gain as much exposure as possible. How did they do? CSC-Saxo Bank and Columbia dominated the race in various ways, while other teams did little more than put in their daily kilometres. Cyclingnews' Susan Westemeyer takes a look back at the next ten teams' performances, in order of their start numbers.

For more, read part one of the Teams' review.

AG2R La Mondiale

AG2R was the most successful of the French teams. Captain Cyril Dessel won the first big Alpine stage, stage 16 into Jausiers. He was part of a larger breakaway group which got away early, and in the end, after two HC climbs, he won a three-man sprint It was a tremendous comeback for the French rider who wore the yellow jersey briefly in 2006 but missed most of the 2007 season with toxoplasmosis . Dessel ended up being only the fourth best finisher on the team in 28th place, with Stéphane Goubert being 21st. But both were eclipsed in the overall by Tadej Valjavec in 10th and Vladimir Efimkin in 11th. That was enough to give the team the second place rank in the overall team rankings – at 15 minutes behind winner CSC, they were the only team closer than an hour to the Danish team.

Mark out of 10: 7/10

Gerolsteiner

Things couldn't have gone better for the German team. Stefan Schumacher surprisingly won the first time trial and wore the leader's yellow jersey for two days. He attacked continually throughout the Tour and was frequently to be found ahead of the peloton, either in escape groups or alone. He topped it off by also winning the closing time trial , beating two-time World Champion Fabian Cancellara by 21 seconds. But the shaved-headed German wasn't the biggest success of the Tour for the team. That honour went to Bernhard Kohl. The Austrian went into the race with an eye on the GC, hoping to do better than his last year's 31st place. He succeeded beyond his dreams, standing on the podium in Paris as third overall. In addition, he took the polka-dot jersey of the King of the Mountains, which he held until the end, on the 15th stage – taking it over from team-mate Sebastian Lang, who had worn it for three days. It was an outstanding Tour for the German team which has traditionally done poorly in the race. Now they are lacking only one thing: a sponsor for the coming years...

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The French Professional Continental team's dreams came true when Romain Feillu took over the leader's yellow jersey in the third stage . The 24 year-old was part of an escape group which got away after only 2 kilometres and stayed away until the end. His second place finish in that stage catapulted him into the lead. He also took over the young rider's jersey, which he also wore for one day. Unfortunately, he didn't make it to Paris. After suffering through a stomach virus, he was one of three sick and injured riders who missed the 19th stage time cut. The biggest setback for the team came when veteran Christophe Moreau unexpectedly dropped out of the seventh stage .

The Dutch team had good results from its two captains, but not as good as hoped for. Denis Menchov managed to do everything well enough to consistently stay in fourth or fifth place overall, but he was never able to move up. Strong time trials helped him to maintain those positions, with the closing time trial moving him up to fourth place overall. His co-captain Oscar Freire took over the green jersey for the best sprinter in the eighth stage and he never gave it up. But in the sprints, he was often overshadowed by Columbia's speedy Mark Cavendish . It took him two weeks to take his fourth career win in Digne les Bains in the 14th stage . The team proclaimed itself satisfied with the end results, and it was surely an improvement over last year's debacle.

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The French team didn't win any stages but had its own modest successes. Thomas Voeckler, who wore the yellow jersey for 10 days in the 2004 Tour, this year won the mountain jersey in the first stage and held on to it for five stages. The team often appeared in escape groups –usually Voeckler – thus satisfying its French sponsor. Jerome Pineau finished third in the first stage and captain Pierrick Fédrigo was sixth in the 11th stage, for the team's only top ten finishes. Fédrigo was the best overall finisher, in 31st place.

Another team which wasn't able to live up to the expectations. Veteran Erik Zabel was hoping for his seventh green sprinter's jersey, but he hasn't won it since 2001 and didn't win it again this year. He was up to second place behind Oscar Freire, but fell to third on the final stage. Still, the 37 year-old finished the race for the 13th time and brought in his best overall finish, in 43rd place. The team's other captain was Christian Knees, who had most recently won the Tour of Bavaria. The 27 year-old fought his way up to 19th place in the ninth stage, but his young team was unable to support him in the high mountains. He jockeyed between 32d and 24th place, before finally settling into the 29th place, where he finished. One ray of hope for the team was Peter Velits, the Slovakian U-23 World Champion. In the 17th stage he got off in an early escape group and was the last of the original four to be caught, managing to stay away and crossing the Croix de Fer as a soloist before the CSC-led peloton chased him down. The team could also boast of being one of only three to arrive in Paris with nine riders.

Française des Jeux

The four-leaf clovers on their jerseys didn't bring this French team much luck. They made the occasional breakaway appearance, with the most successful being Jeremy Roy in the 19th stage . He joined Cofidis' Sylvain Chavanel in an escape and the peloton let them go. The two worked well together and stayed together until the end, but with 500 kilometres to go, Roy was unable to catch the more experienced rider and finished second. Sandy Casar finished surprisingly high, 14th overall.

Saunier Duval-Scott

The only thing "positive" about Saunier Duval's Tour was Riccardo Riccò's doping test. Things actually started out well for the yellow-clad team. Riccò was able to live up to his boasting by winning the sixth and ninth stages. However, he stands to lose both of those wins after the announcement that he had tested positive for an EPO product. He continued to protest his innocence, even spending a night in jail. Riccò had won the first Pyrenees stage, and the second was won by his team-mate Leonardo Piepoli – who like Riccò, was fired by the team. The team instantly withdrew from the Tour after the Riccò announcement, but that wasn't the end of the bad news. Sponsor Saunier Duval withdrew its support effective immediately. Co-sponsor Scott stepped in to fill the breach, at least until the end of the season.

The boys in red proudly brought home two stage wins but also the title for the most aggressive rider in the Tour. Samuel Dumoulin started things off by winning the second stage of the race. He was part of a very early escape group, which foiled the plans of the sprinters' teams by staying away to the end with a lead of over two minutes at the finish. The little Frenchman was ecstatic with his win, calling it "a fantastic experience." At the other end of the Tour, Sylvain Chavanel capped off a number of unsuccessful breakaways with a successful one, winning the 19th stage, He took off with Jeremy Roy of Française des Jeux, and was able to out-fox the younger rider at the finish. After being named the most aggressive rider for three stages, and being the race's "Escape King", he was awarded the final title in Paris. And, oh yes, in his spare time he managed to wear the polka-dot jersey for a day. The only down side for the team was losing Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Cofidis) in the first stage, when a musette bag tangled in a wheel and brought him down.

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It was a rewarding and relatively successful Tour debut for the American Professional Continental team. Christian Vande Velde just missed the podium, finishing fifth overall and only 3:05 behind winner Sastre. While the team didn't bring in any stage wins, it had several top placings. The team's biggest day and best chance was early on, when Will Frischkorn just missed out on a stage win, finishing second in a three-man sprint after a long successful breakaway . Time trial specialist David Millar finished third in the first time trial . But the man of the hour was the 31 year-old Vande Velde. An eighth place finish in the first time trial shot him up to sixth overall and two stages later he moved up to fourth. From there he seesawed between sixth and fifth, using a strong closing time trial to cement his fifth place overall.

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Bahamontes, the first Spaniard to win the Tour de France, dies at age 95

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MADRID (AP) — Federico Martín Bahamontes, the first Spaniard to win the Tour de France, died on Tuesday. He was 95.

Known as one of the pioneers of Spanish cycling, Bahamontes won the Tour de France in 1959. The expert climber also won several stages of the main Grand Tour race.

“It is with deep sadness that we learn of the passing of Federico Bahamontes,” the Tour de France said . “The Eagle of Toledo was the oldest Tour de France winner, the first Spanish winner, and a six-time winner of the Mountain classification. Our thoughts and hearts are with his family and friends in this difficult moment.”

The Spanish cycling federation announced Bahamontes’ death . The cause of death was not immediately given.

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The Birth of the Tour de France

By: Christopher Klein

Updated: May 8, 2023 | Original: June 28, 2013

On July 1, 1903, 60 men mounted their bicycles outside the Café au Reveil Matin in the Parisian suburb of Montgeron. The five-dozen riders were mostly French, with just a sprinkle of Belgians, Swiss, Germans and Italians. A third were professionals sponsored by bicycle manufacturers, the others were simply devotees of the sport. All 60 wheelmen, however, were united by the challenge of embarking on an unprecedented test of endurance—not to mention the 20,000 francs in prize money—in the inaugural Tour de France.

At 3:16 p.m., the cyclists turned the pedals of their bicycles and raced into the unknown.

Nothing like the Tour de France had ever been attempted before. Journalist Geo Lefevre had dreamt up the fanciful race as a stunt to boost the circulation of his struggling daily sports newspaper, L’Auto. Henri Desgrange, the director-editor of L’Auto and a former champion cyclist himself, loved the idea of turning France into one giant velodrome. They developed a 1,500-mile clockwise loop of the country running from Paris to Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Nantes before returning to the French capital. There were no Alpine climbs and only six stages—as opposed to the 21 stages in the 2013 Tour— but the distances covered in each of them were monstrous, an average of 250 miles. (No single stage in the 2013 Tour tops 150 miles.) Between one and three rest days were scheduled between stages for recovery.

The first stage of the epic race was particularly dastardly. The route from Paris to Lyon stretched nearly 300 miles. No doubt several of the riders who wheeled away from Paris worried not about winning the race—but surviving it.

Unlike today’s riders, the cyclists in 1903 rode over unpaved roads without helmets. They rode as individuals, not team members. Riders could receive no help. They could not glide in the slipstream of fellow riders or vehicles of any kind. They rode without support cars. Cyclists were responsible for making their own repairs. They even rode with spare tires and tubes wrapped around their torsos in case they developed flats.

And unlike modern-day riders, the cyclists in the 1903 Tour de France, forced to cover enormous swathes of land, spent much of the race riding through the night with moonlight the only guide and stars the only spectators. During the early morning hours of the first stage, race officials came across many competitors “riding like sleepwalkers.”

Hour after hour through the night, riders abandoned the race. One of the favorites, Hippolyte Aucouturier, quit after developing stomach cramps, perhaps from the swigs of red wine he took as an early 1900s version of a performance enhancer.

Twenty-three riders abandoned the first stage of the race, but the one man who barreled through the night faster than anyone else was another pre-race favorite, 32-year-old professional Maurice Garin. The mustachioed French national worked as a chimney sweep as a teenager before becoming one of France’s leading cyclists. Caked in mud, the diminutive Garin crossed the finish line in Lyon a little more than 17 hours after the start outside Paris. In spite of the race’s length, he won by only one minute.

“The Little Chimney Sweep” built his lead as the race progressed. By the fifth stage, Garin had a two-hour advantage. When his nearest competitor suffered two flat tires and fell asleep while resting on the side of the road, Garin captured the stage and the Tour was all but won.

The sixth and final stage, the race’s longest, began in Nantes at 9 p.m. on July 18, so that spectators could watch the riders arrive in Paris late the following afternoon. Garin strapped on a green armband to signify his position as race leader. (The famed yellow jersey worn by the race leader was not introduced until 1919.) A crowd of 20,000 in the Parc des Princes velodrome cheered as Garin won the stage and the first Tour de France. He bested butcher trainee Lucien Pothier by nearly three hours in what remains the greatest winning margin in the Tour’s history. Garin had spent more than 95 hours in the saddle and averaged 15 miles per hour. In all, 21 of the 60 riders completed the Tour, with the last-place rider more than 64 hours behind Garin.

For Desgrange, the race was an unqualified success. Newspaper circulation soared six-fold during the race. However, a chronic problem that would perpetually plague the Tour de France was already present in the inaugural race—cheating. The rule-breaking started in the very first stage when Jean Fischer illegally used a car to pace him. Another rider was disqualified in a subsequent stage for riding in a car’s slipstream.

That paled in comparison, however, to the nefarious activity the following year in the 1904 Tour de France. As Garin and a fellow rider pedaled through St. Etienne, fans of hometown rider Antoine Faure formed a human blockade and beat the men until Lefevre arrived and fired a pistol to break up the melee. Later in the race, fans protesting the disqualification of a local rider placed tacks and broken glass on the course. The riders acted a little better. They hitched rides in cars during the dark and illegally took help from outsiders. Garin himself was accused of illegally obtaining food during a portion of one stage. The race was so plagued by scandal that four months later Desgrange disqualified Garin and the three other top finishers. It, of course, wouldn’t be the last time a Tour winner was stripped of his title.

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Federico Bahamontes: Former Tour de France winner dies aged 95

Updated 08/08/2023 at 09:13 GMT

Federico Bahamontes, who became the first Spaniard to win the Tour de France in 1959, has died at the age of 95. Bahamontes is regarded as one of the finest climbers in cycling history and was the first rider to win the mountains jersey in all three Grand Tours. He just missed out on winning the Vuelta a Espana in 1957 and also came close to a second Tour title in 1963.

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