1974 Tour de France

April 2019 May 2019 1974 Tour de France Route of the 1974 Tour de France.png Route of the 1974 Tour de France 360px Map of France with the route of the 1974 Tour de France 27 June – 21 July 1974 22 + Prologue, including four split stages 4098 km 116h 16' 58" Eddy Merckx BEL Molteni 1974 yellow Raymond Poulidor FRA Gan–Mercier Vicente López Carril ESP 1945 KAS 1974 Patrick Sercu BEL Brooklyn 1974 green Domingo Perurena ESP 1945 KAS 1974 Barry Hoban GBR Mercier 1974 Eddy Merckx BEL Molteni 1974 white KAS 1974 Mercier 1974 Eddy Merckx BEL Molteni 1974 1973 1975 The 1974 Tour de France was the 61st edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 27 June and 21 July, with 22 stages covering a distance of 4098 km 0 on. Eddy Merckx was attempting to win his fifth Tour de France in as many races. In 1974 the tour made its first visit to the United Kingdom, with a circuit stage on the Plympton By-pass, near Plymouth, England. The race was won by favourite Eddy Merckx, who thus at that point had won all five Tours that he had entered, and had equalled Jacques Anquetil in Tour victories. While he won the race by a comfortable margin, he was not as overwhelmingly dominant as he had been in his previous victories with eight riders finishing within 20:00, two riders within 10:00 and his two top competitors in Luis Ocaña and Joop Zoetemelk absent from the race. Despite other riders finishing closer in the overall standings, Merckx still won an astonishing eight stages. He also won the combination classification. Fellow Belgian Patrick Sercu won the points classification, while Spanish Domingo Perurena won the mountains classification. Teams List of teams and cyclists in the 1974 Tour de France The 1974 Tour de France had 13 teams, with 10 cyclists each.The history of the Tour de France – Year 1974 – The starters http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1974/partants.html Tour de France Amaury Sport Organisation 2 April 2020 3 April 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200403104428/http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1974/partants.html dead The teams entering the race were: 20em Molteni 1974 Bic 1974 Peugeot 1974 KAS 1974 Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 Mercier 1974 La Casera–Peña Bahamontes Merlin Plage–Shimano–Flandria Brooklyn 1974 Jobo 1974 Flandria 1974 Frisol 1974 Pre-race favourites Eddy Merckx, who had been absent in 1973 after winning four Tours in a row, was present again.http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1974.php Mémoire du cyclisme 61ème Tour de France 1974 fr https://web.archive.org/web/20120629200322/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1974.php 29 June 2012 26 September 2016 dead Merckx had not been as dominant in the spring as in other years; it was his first year as a professional cyclist in which he did not win a spring classic.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 He did win the 1974 Giro d'Italia and the Tour de Suisse, but after winning the latter he required surgery on the perineum, five days before the 1974 Tour started.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 Notable absents were Ocaña and Zoetemelk. Zoetemelk was injured during the Midi Libre and was in hospital with life-threatening meningitis. Between 1970 and 1986 this would be the only Tour Zoetemelk would not start and finish, and would be the only Tour until 1983 that he was not in the top ten. Ocaña had crashed in the Tour de l'Aude, gone home and was fired by his team for not communicating. Bernard Thévenet, who was considered a potential winner, had crashed several times in the 1974 Vuelta a España. He did start in the Tour, but was not yet back at his former level.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 Route and stages The 1974 Tour de France started on 27 June, and had two rest days, in Aix-les-Bains and Colomiers.Augendre 2016 65 The highest point of elevation in the race was 2556 m ft on at the summit tunnel of the Col du Galibier mountain pass on stage 11.Augendre 2016 177–178Ronde van Frankrijk Tour de France https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010849894:mpeg21:p013 de Volkskrant 26 June 1974 13 nl Delpher + Stage characteristics and winnersAugendre 2016 65http://www.cvccbike.com/tour/top_ten.html#1974 Tour de France GC top ten Arian Zwegers CVCC 17 May 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20080516071832/http://www.cvccbike.com/tour/top_ten.html 16 May 2008 dead The history of the Tour de France – Year 1974 – The stage winners http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1974/vainqueurs.html Tour de France Amaury Sport Organisation 2 April 2020 3 April 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200403003400/http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1974/vainqueurs.html dead Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner P 27 June Brest 7 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Individual time trial Eddy Merckx BEL 1 28 June Brest to Saint-Pol-de-Léon 144 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Ercole Gualazzini ITA 2 29 June Plymouth (United Kingdom) 164 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Henk Poppe NED 3 30 June Morlaix to Saint-Malo 190 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Patrick Sercu BEL 4 1 July Saint-Malo to Caen 184 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Patrick Sercu BEL 5 2 July Caen to Dieppe 165 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Ronald de Witte BEL 6a 3 July Dieppe to Harelbeke (Belgium) 239 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Jean-Luc Molinéris FRA 6b Harelbeke (Belgium) 9 km mi on alt=|link=Team time trial|20px Team time trial ITA Molteni 1974 7 4 July Mons (Belgium) to Châlons-sur-Marne 221 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Eddy Merckx BEL 8a 5 July Châlons-sur-Marne to Chaumont 136 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Cyrille Guimard FRA 8b Chaumont to Besançon 152 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Patrick Sercu BEL 9 6 July Besançon to Gaillard 241 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Eddy Merckx BEL 10 7 July Gaillard to Aix-les-Bains 131 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Eddy Merckx BEL 11 8 July Aix-les-Bains to Serre Chevalier 199 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Vicente López Carril ESP 1945 9 July Aix-les-Bains Rest day 12 10 July Savines-le-Lac to Orange 231 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Jos Spruyt BEL 13 11 July Avignon to Montpellier 126 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Barry Hoban GBR 14 12 July Lodève to Colomiers 249 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Jean-Pierre Genet FRA 13 July Colomiers Rest day 15 14 July Colomiers to La Seu d'Urgell (Spain) 225 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Eddy Merckx BEL 16 15 July La Seu d'Urgell to Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d'Adet 209 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Raymond Poulidor FRA 17 16 July Saint-Lary-Soulan to La Mongie 119 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Jean-Pierre Danguillaume FRA 18 17 July Bagnères-de-Bigorre to Pau 141 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Jean-Pierre Danguillaume FRA 19a 18 July Pau to Bordeaux 196 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Francis Campaner FRA 19b Bordeaux 12 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Individual time trial Eddy Merckx BEL 20 19 July Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie to Nantes 120 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Gerard Vianen NED 21a 20 July Vouvray to Orléans 113 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Eddy Merckx BEL 21b Orléans 37 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Individual time trial Michel Pollentier BEL 22 21 July Orléans to Paris 146 km mi on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Eddy Merckx BEL Total 4098 km 0 onAugendre 2016 109 Race overview thumb|upright|Eddy Merckx (pictured in 1973), winner of the general classification, his fifth Merckx won the prologue, with his teammate Joseph Bruyère in third place. In the first stage, Bruyère was part of a breakaway, and became the new leader.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 The second stage was in Plymouth, the first time that the Tour de France visited England.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-28090246 Tour de France: The disastrous 1974 Plymouth stage 3 July 2014 3 July 2014 BBC News The riders did not like the experiment, as the British immigration officials made the cyclists wait for a long time when entering the country and again when returning to France.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 Merckx collected bonus time in the sprints, and in the fourth stage took back the leading position in the general classification, with Gerben Karstens in second place. Karstens was also doing well in the points classification, and felt Merckx and Patrick Sercu, the leaders in the general and points classification, were helping each other.Merckx and Sercu were in different teams, but were good friend, and in winters rode together in six-day racing. Karstens was angry and after the finish quickly went away, but forgot that he had to go to the doping control. For this, he was given ten minutes penalty time, and thus he lost his second place in the general classification.McGann McGann 2008 81–88http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1974_4.php Mémoire du cyclisme 61ème Tour de France 1974 - 4ème étape fr https://web.archive.org/web/20120403111749/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1974_4.php 3 April 2012 26 September 2016 dead Karstens complained to the jury, and other cyclists threatened with a strike, so the jury removed the penalty after the fifth stage. Thanks to bonification seconds in that stage, Karstens took the leading position after that stage.McGann McGann 2008 81–88http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1974_5.php Mémoire du cyclisme 61ème Tour de France 1974 - 5ème étape fr https://web.archive.org/web/20120403111755/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1974_5.php 3 April 2012 26 September 2016 dead It was still close in the top of the general classification. Patrick Sercu became the new leader after the first part of the sixth stage, but Karstens regained the lead after the second part of the sixth stage, a team time trial won by Merckx's team, Molteni. Merckx won the seventh stage, and became the next leader. The Alps were the first serious mountains to be seen, in stage nine. Merckx won the stage, but the surprise of the day was Raymond Poulidor, who at 38 years old was still able to escape during the toughest part of the stage. This also happened in the tenth stage: Poulidor joined the crucial escape, but could not beat Merckx in the final sprint.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 In the tenth stage, the hardest Alpine stage, Vicente López Carril from the KAS team stayed away. Merckx was in the next group, together with Francisco Galdós and Gonzalo Aja, also from the KAS team. Aja was in third place in the general classification, so Merckx was unable to chase López Carril without helping his rival Aja.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 The next stages did not change the general classification. In the fifteenth stage, the Pyrenées were encountered. There was a crash that took down Galdós, now in sixth place in the general classification, and he had to leave the race.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 The Tour was in Spain at that point, and Basque separatist placed bombs on press and team cars. There was violence around France, Andorra and in Corsica from unrelated protests including from farmers and other angry nationalists and in some areas people hung dead pigs from street lamps. The bombings in the Pyrenees took place in the middle of the night in Lourdes where thirteen vacant buses and two parked cars where destroyed. Then a few hours later at Saint-Lary-Soulan several vehicles associated with the Tour de France were targeted and blown up. No one was in them at the time. Leaflets were distributed threatening the fascist government of Spain and telling Spanish riders to leave the race.From the archive, 17 July 1974: Tour de France in danger The Guardian Paul Webster 17 July 2015 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/17/tour-de-france-france-bombs-anarchists-farmers-corsica live https://web.archive.org/web/20150728124356/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/17/tour-de-france-france-bombs-anarchists-farmers-corsica 28 July 2015 Other acts of violence against the Tour included many trees being cut down to block the route, which had to be dealt with and removed. Nobody was hurt, but cyclists were scared: Spanish champion López Carril did not wear his national champion's jersey, afraid to become a target because of the Spanish flag on it.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 In the sixteenth stage, with an uphill finish, Poulidor won, his first Tour stage victory since 1965. Merckx finished in fourth place, losing time to Poulidor, López Carril and Pollentier.McGann McGann 2008 81–88http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1974_16.php Mémoire du cyclisme 61ème Tour de France 1974 - 16ème étape fr https://web.archive.org/web/20110804032409/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1974_16.php 4 August 2011 26 September 2016 dead In the seventeenth stage, Poulidor again won time, finishing second after Jean-Pierre Danguillaume, and jumped to the third place in the general classification, behind Merckx and López Carril.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 Danguillaume also won the eighteenth stage, the last mountain stage. The favourites stayed together with Merckx, and at that point Merckx was more or less certain of the victory, with two time trials remaining, in which he normally would gain time on the others.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 Poulidor battled with López-Carril for the second place. After the time trial in the second part of stage 21, Poulidor captured the second place by just one second. Surprisingly, Merckx was in second place in that time trial, beaten by Michel Pollentier.McGann McGann 2008 81–88 In the last stage, Poulidor increased the margin to López Carril to five seconds due to bonus seconds in an intermediate sprint. At the finish of that last, Sercu finished first in a sprint, but he had blocked the way of Gustaaf Van Roosbroeck, so the jury decided to set him back, and the second rider to finish (Merckx) was declared winner of the stage. Normally, a rider penalized for blocking another rider during a sprint would be set back to the last place of the group that he finished in, but that would have meant that Sercu would have not only lost the stage victory to Merckx, but also the points classification. The jury then declared that only three riders were really sprinting for the stage victory, so Sercu would be set back to the third place; this enabled him to keep his victory in the points classification by 13 points.http://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19740722&id=GVA-19740722-01020004 Ongelukkige refleks kost Patrick Sercu nog bijna de groene trui Unlucky reflex almost costs Patrick Sercu the green jersey 22 July 1974 Concentra Gazet van Antwerpen nl André Putzeijs 20 Doping Cyrille Guimard, who had won the first part of stage eight, tested positive for piperidinehttp://www.dopage.com/cas-dopage/tombes-au-champs-dhonneur-81-105-11-770.html Tombés au champs d'honneur Dopage.com Magazine Sport & Vie July 2003 fr 30 March 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20071213011439/http://www.dopage.com/cas-dopage/tombes-au-champs-dhonneur-81-105-11-770.html 13 December 2007 after stage thirteen.https://leiden.courant.nu/issue/LD/1974-07-18/edition/0/page/13 Guimard positief 18 July 1974 Regionaal archief leiden Leidsche Courant 13 Three other cyclists tested positive:Claude Tollet, for amphetamine; Daniel Ducreux, for piperidine; Carlos Melero, for piperidine. Classification leadership and minor prizes There were several classifications in the 1974 Tour de France, three of them awarding jerseys to their leaders.Nauright Parrish 2012 452–455 The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour.Nauright Parrish 2012 452–453 Additionally, there was a points classification, where cyclists got points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey.Nauright Parrish 2012 453–454 There was also a mountains classification. The organisation had categorised some climbs as either first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, but was not identified with a jersey in 1974.Nauright Parrish 2012 454 Another classification was the combination classification. This classification was calculated as a combination of the other classifications, its leader wore the white jersey.Nauright Parrish 2012 454–455 The fifth individual classification was the intermediate sprints classification. This classification had similar rules as the points classification, but only points were awarded on intermediate sprints. In 1974, this classification had no associated jersey.Nauright Parrish 2012 455 For the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that led this classification were identified by yellow caps.Nauright Parrish 2012 455 There was also a team points classification. Cyclists received points according to their finishing position on each stage, with the first rider receiving one point. The first three finishers of each team had their points combined, and the team with the fewest points led the classification. The riders of the team leading this classification wore green caps.Nauright Parrish 2012 455 In addition, there was a combativity award, in which a jury composed of journalists gave points after certain stages to the cyclist they considered most combative. The split stages each had a combined winner.van den Akker 2018 211–216 At the conclusion of the Tour, Eddy Merckx won the overall super-combativity award, also decided by journalists.Augendre 2016 65 The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given to the first rider to pass the memorial to Tour founder Henri Desgrange near the summit of the Col du Galibier on stage 11. This prize was won by Vicente López Carril.McGann McGann 2008 368 +Classification leadership by stagehttp://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19740722&id=GVA-19740722-01019022 Tour panorama nl Gazet van Antwerpen 22 July 1974 19 https://web.archive.org/web/20190214182602/http://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19740722&id=GVA-19740722-01019022 14 February 2019 livevan den Akker Pieter Informatie over de Tour de France van 1974 Information about the Tour de France from 1974 http://www.tourdefrancestatistieken.nl/tour.php?jaar=1974 https://web.archive.org/web/20190304062036/http://www.tourdefrancestatistieken.nl/tour.php?jaar=1974 4 March 2019 nl TourDeFranceStatistieken.nl 2 March 2019 live Stage Stage winner General classification25px|alt=|link=General classification in the Tour de France Points classification25px|alt=|link=Points classification in the Tour de France Mountains classificationmountains-jersey No jersey was awarded to the leader of the mountains classification until a white jersey with red polka dots was introduced in 1975.Nauright Parrish 2012 454 Combination classification25px|alt=|link=Combination classification in the Tour de France Intermediate sprints classification Team classifications Combativity award By time By points P Eddy Merckx Eddy Merckx Eddy Merckx no award Eddy Merckx no award Molteni 1974 Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 no award 1 Ercole Gualazzini Joseph Bruyère Joseph Bruyère Lucien Van Impe Eddy Merckx Herman Van Springel 2 Henk Poppe Gerben Karstens no award 3 Patrick Sercu Patrick Sercu Willy Teirlinck Molteni 1974 Jean-Luc Molinéris 4 Patrick Sercu Eddy Merckx Domingo Perurena Frisol 1974 Brooklyn 1974 Gerrie Knetemann 5 Ronald De Witte Gerben Karstens Roger Pingeon 6a Jean-Luc Molinéris Patrick Sercu 6b Molteni 1974 Gerben Karstens Molteni 1974 7 Eddy Merckx Eddy Merckx Barry Hoban Herman Van Springel 8a Cyrille Guimard Mercier 1974 Jean-Pierre Danguillaume 8b Patrick Sercu 9 Eddy Merckx KAS 1974 Vicente López Carril 10 Eddy Merckx Raymond Poulidor 11 Vicente López Carril Vicente López Carril 12 Jos Spruyt Fedor den Hertog 13 Barry Hoban Michel Coroller 14 Jean-Pierre Genet Jean-Pierre Genet 15 Eddy Merckx Raymond Delisle 16 Raymond Poulidor Raymond Poulidor 17 Jean-Pierre Danguillaume Raymond Poulidor 18 Jean-Pierre Danguillaume Jean-Pierre Danguillaume 19a Francis Campaner Francis Campaner 19b Eddy Merckx 20 Gerard Vianen Gerard Vianen 21a Eddy Merckx Eddy Merckx 21b Michel Pollentier 22 Eddy Merckx Final Eddy Merckx Patrick Sercu Domingo Perurena Eddy Merckx Barry Hoban KAS 1974 Mercier 1974 Eddy Merckx Final standings Legend 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey. Denotes the winner of the general classification 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey. Denotes the winner of the points classification 20px|link=Combination classification in the Tour de France|alt=A white jersey. Denotes the winner of the combination classification General classification + Final general classification (1–10)The history of the Tour de France – Year 1974 – Stage 22 Orléans > Paris http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1974/2200/etape.html Tour de France Amaury Sport Organisation 2 April 2020 2 April 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200402221047/http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1974/2200/etape.html dead Rank Rider Team Time 1 Eddy Merckx BEL 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey. 20px|link=Combination classification in the Tour de France|alt=A white jersey. Molteni 1974 116h 16' 58" 2 Raymond Poulidor FRA Mercier 1974 + 8' 04" 3 Vicente López Carril ESP 1945 KAS 1974 + 8' 09" 4 Wladimiro Panizza ITA Brooklyn 1974 + 10' 59" 5 Gonzalo Aja ESP 1945 KAS 1974 + 11' 24" 6 Joaquim Agostinho POR Bic 1974 + 14' 24" 7 Michel Pollentier BEL Flandria 1974 + 16' 34" 8 Mariano Martínez FRA Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 + 18' 33" 9 Alain Santy FRA Mercier 1974 + 19' 55" 10 Herman Van Springel BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 + 24' 11" Final general classification (11–105) Rank Rider Team Time 11 Roger Pingeon FRA Jobo 1974 + 26' 50" 12 Raymond Delisle FRA Peugeot 1974 + 28' 59" 13 Jean-Pierre Danguillaume FRA Peugeot 1974 + 29' 43" 14 Juan Santiago Zurano ESP 1945 La Casera–Peña Bahamontes + 30' 20" 15 André Romero FRA Jobo 1974 + 31' 35" 16 Michel Perin FRA Mercier 1974 + 31' 57" 17 Miguel María Lasa ESP 1945 KAS 1974 + 32' 55" 18 Lucien Van Impe BEL Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 + 37' 35" 19 Andrês Oliva ESP 1945 La Casera–Peña Bahamontes + 37' 48" 20 Bernard Labourdette FRA Bic 1974 + 38' 02" 21 Joseph Bruyère BEL Molteni 1974 + 41' 31" 22 Edouard Janssens BEL Molteni 1974 + 44' 30" 23 Fausto Bertoglio ITA Brooklyn 1974 + 45' 43" 24 Willy Van Neste BEL Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 + 46' 50" 25 Ronald De Witte BEL Flandria 1974 + 47' 10" 26 Giancarlo Bellini ITA Brooklyn 1974 + 47' 46" 27 Fedor Iwan den Hertog NED Frisol 1974 + 50' 28" 28 José Catieau FRA Bic 1974 + 51' 11" 29 José Pesarrodona ESP 1945 KAS 1974 + 53' 44" 30 Georges Pintens BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 + 56' 43" 31 Joël Millard FRA Merlin Plage–Shimano–Flandria + 57' 08" 32 Ferdinand Julien FRA Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 + 1h 00' 06" 33 Roland Berland FRA Bic 1974 + 1h 01' 13" 34 Régis Ovion FRA Peugeot 1974 + 1h 05' 22" 35 Marc Lievens BEL Molteni 1974 + 1h 09' 16" 36 Victor Van Schil BEL Molteni 1974 + 1h 12' 37" 37 Barry Hoban GBR Mercier 1974 + 1h 13' 11" 38 Gerrie Knetemann NED Mercier 1974 + 1h 14' 15" 39 Francis Campaner FRA Jobo 1974 + 1h 16' 19" 40 Antonio Martos ESP 1945 KAS 1974 + 1h 18' 02" 41 Marc Demeyer BEL Flandria 1974 + 1h 18' 28" 42 Luis Zubero ESP 1945 KAS 1974 + 1h 19' 12" 43 Arturo Pecchielan ITA Brooklyn 1974 + 1h 19' 15" 44 Domingo Perurena ESP 1945 KAS 1974 + 1h 19' 18" 45 Jos Deschoenmaecker BEL Molteni 1974 + 1h 19' 36" 46 Jesús Manzaneque ESP 1945 La Casera–Peña Bahamontes + 1h 19' 54" 47 Jean-Claude Misac FRA Merlin Plage–Shimano–Flandria + 1h 23' 26" 48 Christian Blain FRA Jobo 1974 + 1h 23' 52" 49 Carlos Melero ESP 1945 KAS 1974 + 1h 25' 17" 50 Joseph Spruyt BEL Molteni 1974 + 1h 25' 41" 51 Sylvain Vasseur FRA Bic 1974 + 1h 26' 37" 52 Bernard Bourreau FRA Peugeot 1974 + 1h 27' 07" 53 Jan Van De Wiele BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 + 1h 28' 25" 54 Antonio Menéndez ESP 1945 KAS 1974 + 1h 30' 43" 55 André Dierickx BEL Merlin Plage–Shimano–Flandria + 1h 32' 18" 56 Gerard Vianen NED Mercier 1974 + 1h 36' 27" 57 Michael Wright GBR Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 + 1h 38' 11" 58 Ludo Delcroix BEL Molteni 1974 + 1h 38' 13" 59 André Mollet FRA Peugeot 1974 + 1h 38' 40" 60 José Luis Abilleira ESP 1945 La Casera–Peña Bahamontes + 1h 39' 12" 61 Gerben Karstens NED Bic 1974 + 1h 39' 19" 62 Dámaso Torres ESP 1945 La Casera–Peña Bahamontes + 1h 40' 11" 63 Gustaaf Van Roosbroeck BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 + 1h 41' 11" 64 Alain Nogues FRA Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 + 1h 42' 17" 65 Willy Teirlinck BEL Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 + 1h 47' 11" 66 Jos Huysmans BEL Molteni 1974 + 1h 49' 00" 67 Jean-Pierre Genet FRA Mercier 1974 + 1h 49' 02" 68 Jean-Jacques Sanquer FRA Merlin Plage–Shimano–Flandria + 1h 50' 29" 69 Valerio Lualdi ITA Brooklyn 1974 + 1h 51' 22" 70 Noël Vanclooster BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 + 1h 51' 24" 71 Guy Sibille FRA Peugeot 1974 + 1h 52' 44" 72 Gérard Moneyron FRA Merlin Plage–Shimano–Flandria + 1h 53' 52" 73 Wilfried Wesemael BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 + 1h 54' 09" 74 Charles Rouxel FRA Peugeot 1974 + 1h 54' 22" 75 Jacques Esclassan FRA Peugeot 1974 + 1h 56' 47" 76 Christian Raymond FRA Mercier 1974 + 1h 57' 36" 77 Daniel Rébillard FRA Merlin Plage–Shimano–Flandria + 1h 58' 03" 78 Wim Prinsen NED Frisol 1974 + 1h 58' 50" 79 Raymond Riotte FRA Peugeot 1974 + 1h 59' 51" 80 Jack Mourioux FRA Mercier 1974 + 2h 00' 06" 81 Alain Vasseur FRA Bic 1974 + 2h 01' 28" 82 Claude Magni FRA Jobo 1974 + 2h 06' 03" 83 Frans Mintjens BEL Molteni 1974 + 2h 06' 43" 84 Henk Prinsen NED Frisol 1974 + 2h 10' 09" 85 Jean-Pierre Guillemot FRA Jobo 1974 + 2h 12' 12" 86 Jacques Botherel FRA Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 + 2h 12' 37" 87 Robert Mintkiewicz FRA Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 + 2h 16' 05" 88 Ronny Vanmarcke BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 + 2h 17' 34" 89 Patrick Sercu BEL 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey. Brooklyn 1974 + 2h 18' 58" 90 Daniel Ducreux FRA Jobo 1974 + 2h 19' 20" 91 Gianni Di Lorenzo ITA Brooklyn 1974 + 2h 20' 52" 92 Bernard Croyet FRA Bic 1974 + 2h 23' 57" 93 Dirk Baert BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 + 2h 24' 45" 94 Fernando Plaza ESP 1945 La Casera–Peña Bahamontes + 2h 28' 19" 95 Michel Coroller FRA Merlin Plage–Shimano–Flandria + 2h 36' 59" 96 Arthur Van de Vyver BEL Flandria 1974 + 2h 38' 42" 97 Aldo Parecchini ITA Brooklyn 1974 + 2h 41' 11" 98 Alain Cigana FRA Jobo 1974 + 2h 42' 24" 99 Frans Van Looy BEL Flandria 1974 + 2h 46' 03" 100 Daniel Verplancke BEL Flandria 1974 + 2h 46' 38" 101 Régis Delépine FRA Merlin Plage–Shimano–Flandria + 2h 55' 42" 102 Piet van Katwijk NED Frisol 1974 + 2h 58' 39" 103 Donald John Allan AUS Frisol 1974 + 3h 06' 53" 104 Bernard Masson FRA Jobo 1974 + 3h 16' 56" 105 Lorenzo Alaimo ITA Frisol 1974 + 3h 55' 46" Points classification +Final points classification (1–10)http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1974/07/22/MD19740722-019.pdf Clasificaciones oficiales 22 July 1974 19 es Mundo Deportivo https://web.archive.org/web/20191006192210/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1974/07/22/MD19740722-019.pdf 6 October 2019 live Rank Rider Team Points 1 Patrick Sercu BEL 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey. Brooklyn 1974 283 2 Eddy Merckx BEL 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey. 20px|link=Combination classification in the Tour de France|alt=A white jersey. Molteni 1974 270 3 Barry Hoban GBR Mercier 1974 170 4 Gerben Karstens NED Bic 1974 149 5 Jacques Esclassan FRA Peugeot 1974 143 6 Herman Van Springel BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 113 7 Michel Pollentier BEL Flandria 1974 107 8 Piet van Katwijk NED Frisol 1974 97 9 Gerard Vianen NED Mercier 1974 94 10 Raymond Poulidor FRA Mercier 1974 94 Mountains classification +Final mountains classification (1–10) Rank Rider Team Points 1 Domingo Perurena ESP 1945 KAS 1974 171 2 Eddy Merckx BEL 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey. 20px|link=Combination classification in the Tour de France|alt=A white jersey. Molteni 1974 133 3 José Luis Abilleira ESP 1945 La Casera–Peña Bahamontes 108 4 Gonzalo Aja ESP 1945 KAS 1974 104 5 Raymond Poulidor FRA Mercier 1974 93 6 Vicente López Carril ESP 1945 KAS 1974 84 7 Andrês Oliva ESP 1945 La Casera–Peña Bahamontes 80 8 Wladimiro Panizza ITA Brooklyn 1974 55 9 Juan Santiago Zurano ESP 1945 La Casera–Peña Bahamontes 44 10 Jean-Pierre Danguillaume FRA Peugeot 1974 44 Combination classification +Final combination classification (1–5) Rank Rider Team Points 1 Eddy Merckx BEL 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey. 20px|link=Combination classification in the Tour de France|alt=A white jersey. Molteni 1974 8 2 Michel Pollentier BEL Flandria 1974 31 3 Raymond Poulidor FRA Mercier 1974 36 4 Herman Van Springel BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 37 5 Jean-Pierre Danguillaume FRA Peugeot 1974 50 Intermediate sprints classification +Final intermediate sprints classification (1–10)Saunders 1974 "Final hot spot sprints classification" Rank Rider Team Points 1 Barry Hoban GBR Mercier 1974 132 2 Gerben Karstens NED Bic 1974 110 3 Eddy Merckx BEL 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey. 20px|link=Combination classification in the Tour de France|alt=A white jersey. Molteni 1974 92 4 Michel Coroller FRA Merlin Plage–Shimano–Flandria 39 5 Herman Van Springel BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 26 6 Michel Pollentier BEL Flandria 1974 22 7 Patrick Sercu BEL 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey. Brooklyn 1974 20 8 Jean-Pierre Danguillaume FRA Peugeot 1974 18 9 Jack Mourioux FRA Mercier 1974 18 10 Dirk Baert BEL Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 17 Team classification +Final team classification (1–10) Rank Team Time1KAS 1974 350h 24' 27"2Mercier 1974 + 15' 26"3Molteni 1974 + 31' 23"4Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 + 49' 02"5Bic 1974 + 49' 50"6Brooklyn 1974 + 53' 04"7Jobo 1974 + 1h 01' 09"8Peugeot 1974 + 1h 15' 24"9La Casera–Peña Bahamontes + 1h 34' 47"10Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 + 1h 36' 35" Team points classification +Final team points classification (1–10)Saunders 1974 "Final team points classification" Rank Team Points1 Mercier 1974 11002 Peugeot 1974 14643 Brooklyn 1974 15324 Miko–de Gribaldy 1974 16305 Molteni 1974 16776 Gitane–Campagnolo 1974 17417 KAS 1974 19318 Bic 1974 20189 Flandria 1974 239210 Merlin Plage–Shimano–Flandria 2516 Aftermath With his fifth Tour victory, Merckx equalled Jacques Anquetil. Moreover, Merckx had won the first five Tours that he entered. Merckx set a few new records after winning the 1974 Tour:McGann McGann 2008 81–88 Total number of stage victories: 32 (surpassing André Leducq, who had won 25) First man to win the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Tour de Suisse in one year. Merckx had already won the 1974 Giro d'Italia earlier that year, and after winning the 1974 Tour de France also won the world championship, and became the first cyclist to win the Triple Crown of Cycling. Notes References 30em Bibliography Jacques Augendre Jacques Augendre http://netstorage.lequipe.fr/ASO/cyclisme/le-tour/2016/histoire/TDF16_GH_Interactif-PROD.pdf Guide historique Historical guide 2016 fr 27 October 2016 Tour de France Paris Amaury Sport Organisation https://web.archive.org/web/20160817121602/http://netstorage.lequipe.fr/ASO/cyclisme/le-tour/2016/histoire/TDF16_GH_Interactif-PROD.pdf 17 August 2016 live McGann Bill McGann Carol The Story of the Tour de France: 1965–2007 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=V8mlwItBhhcC Dog Ear Publishing Indianapolis 2008 978-1-59858-608-4 Nauright John Parrish Charles Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC 2012 ABC-CLIO Santa Barbara, California 978-1-59884-300-2 Saunders David Tour de France 1974 Kennedy Brothers Publishing Keighley, UK 1974 van den Akker Pieter Tour de France Rules and Statistics: 1903–2018 https://books.google.com/books?id=09sxwQEACAAJ 2018 Self-published 978-1-79398-080-9 Further reading Mapping Le Tour Ellis Bacon HarperCollins Publishers Glasgow 2014 154–155 9780007543991 872700415 External links 1974 Tour de France P 11 12 22 Tour Tour Category:Tour de France by year Tour de France Tour de France Category:1974 Super Prestige Pernod