1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11

Cycling race stages thumb|350x350px|Route of the 1953 Tour de France; followed counterclockwise, starting in Strasbourg and finishing in Paris The 1953 Tour de France was the 40th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place from 3 to 26 July, with 22 stages covering a distance of 4479 km 0 on. The 1953 Tour de France saw the introduction of the points classification, which gives the green jersey to its leader. The Tour began in Strasbourg on 3 July, and Stage 11 occurred on 14 July with a mountainous stage to Luchon. The race finished in Paris on 26 July. Classification standings LegendJerseys appearing in the table on the left of the page indicate those worn by the cyclist during the particular stage, while those appearing in the table on the right of the page indicate those awarded to the cyclist after the stage. n jerseysCunningham Josh History of the Tour de France jerseys http://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/1409/history-of-the-tour-de-france-jerseys 4 October 2016 Cyclist Dennis Publishing 4 July 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161026180408/http://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/1409/history-of-the-tour-de-france-jerseys 26 October 2016 live 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey Denotes the leader of the general classification 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Denotes the leader of the points classification MG Denotes the leader of the mountains classificationNo 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 n mountains-jersey (meilleur grimpeur)    s.t. indicates that the rider was credited with the same time as the one directly above him. Stage 1 3 July 1953 — Strasbourg to Metz, 195 km onhttp://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.eu/eta_tdf/tdf1953.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20090131134120/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953.php 31 January 2009 + Stage 1 resulthttp://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953.php#Etapes 40ème Tour de France 1953 Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20090131134120/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953.php#Etapes 31 January 2009Classements de la 1re étape https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5100844j/f2.item.zoom L'Équipe 4 July 1953 2 fr Gallica Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fritz Schär SUI Switzerland 4h 55' 00" 2 Wout Wagtmans NED Netherlands s.t. 3 Thijs Roks NED Netherlands s.t. 4 Nello Lauredi FRA France s.t. 5 Jacques Dupont FRA South-West + 3' 13" 6 Raphaël Géminiani FRA France s.t. 7 Vincenzo Rossello ITA Italy s.t. 8 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy s.t. 9 Attilio Redolfi FRA Île-de-France s.t. 10 Jean Robic FRA West s.t.+ General classification after stage 1http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_1.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 - 1ère étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924041222/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_1.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland 4h 54' 00" 2 Wout Wagtmans NED Netherlands + 0' 30" 3 Thijs Roks NED Netherlands + 1' 00" 4 Nello Lauredi FRA France + 1' 00" 5 Jacques Dupont FRA South-West + 4' 13" 6 Raphaël Géminiani FRA France s.t. 7 Vincenzo Rossello ITA Italy s.t. 8 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy s.t. 9 Attilio Redolfi FRA Île-de-France s.t. 10 Jean Robic FRA West s.t. Stage 2 4 July 1953 — Metz to Liège (Belgium), 227 km on + Stage 2 resultClassements (…) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5100845x/f2.item.zoom L'Équipe 6 July 1953 2 fr Gallica Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland 6h 20' 52" 2 Wout Wagtmans NED Netherlands + 0' 02" 3 Gino Bartali ITA Italy + 0' 47" 4 Hugo Koblet SUI Switzerland s.t. 5 Fiorenzo Magni ITA Italy s.t. 6 Jean Robic FRA West s.t. 7 Alex Close BEL Belgium s.t. 8 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy s.t. 9 Ugo Anzile ITA Italy s.t. 10 Louison Bobet FRA France s.t.+ General classification after stage 2http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_2.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 - 2ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924041153/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_2.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland 11h 13' 52" 2 Wout Wagtmans NED MG Netherlands + 1' 02" 3 Thijs Roks NED Netherlands + 3' 55" 4 Vincenzo Rossello ITA Italy + 6' 00" 5 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy s.t. 6 Jean Robic FRA West s.t. 7 Ugo Anzile ITA Italy s.t. 8 Gilbert Bauvin FRA North-East/Centre + 8' 53" 9 Hein van Breenen NED Netherlands + 10' 28" 10 Raphaël Géminiani FRA France s.t. Stage 3 5 July 1953 — Liège (Belgium) to Lille, 221 km on + Stage 3 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Stanislas Bober FRA Île-de-France 6h 06' 21" 2 Antonin Rolland FRA France + 1' 12" 3 Alex Close BEL Belgium s.t. 4 Adolfo Grosso ITA Italy s.t. 5 Roger Hassenforder FRA North-East/Centre s.t. 6 Wim van Est NED Netherlands s.t. 7 Jacques Renaud FRA Île-de-France s.t. 8 José Serra ESP 1945 Spain + 1' 31" 9 Alfred Tonello FRA Île-de-France + 1' 36" 10 Georges Meunier FRA North-East/Centre + 1' 38"+ General classification after stage 3http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_3.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 - 3ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924041631/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_3.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland 17h 28' 23" 2 Wout Wagtmans NED MG Netherlands + 1' 02" 3 Jacques Renaud FRA Île-de-France + 3' 30" 4 Thijs Roks NED Netherlands + 3' 55" 5 Georges Meunier FRA North-East/Centre + 3' 56" 6 Wim van Est NED Netherlands + 5' 26" 7 Alex Close BEL Belgium + 5' 39" 8 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy + 6' 00" 9 Ugo Anzile ITA Italy s.t. 10 Jean Robic FRA West s.t. Stage 4 6 July 1953 — Lille to Dieppe, 188 km on + Stage 4 resultClassements (…) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t51008469/f2.item.zoom L'Équipe 7 July 1953 2 fr Gallica Rank Rider Team Time 1 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands 5h 20' 19" 2 Joseph Mirando FRA South-East s.t. 3 Nello Lauredi FRA France s.t. 4 Amand Audaire FRA West s.t. 5 André Darrigade FRA South West + 5' 02" 6 Jan Nolten NED Netherlands s.t. 7 Hugo Koblet SUI Switzerland + 5' 09" 8 Fiorenzo Magni ITA Italy s.t. 9 Jean Robic FRA West s.t. 10 Robert Vanderstockt BEL Belgium s.t.+ General classification after stage 4http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_4.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 - 4ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924041458/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_4.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland 22h 53' 51" 2 Wout Wagtmans NED MG Netherlands + 1' 02" 3 Jacques Renaud FRA Île-de-France + 3' 30" 4 Thijs Roks NED Netherlands + 3' 55" 5 Georges Meunier FRA North-East/Centre + 4' 43" 6 Wim van Est NED Netherlands + 5' 26" 7 Alex Close BEL Belgium + 5' 39" 8 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy + 6' 00" 9 Ugo Anzile ITA Italy s.t. 10 Jean Robic FRA West s.t. Stage 5 7 July 1953 — Dieppe to Caen, 200 km on + Stage 5 resultClassements (…) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5100847p/f2.item.zoom L'Équipe 8 July 1953 2 fr Gallica Rank Rider Team Time 1 Jean Malléjac FRA West 5h 38' 35" 2 Roger Hassenforder FRA North-East/Centre + 0' 13" 3 Alfred De Bruyne BEL Belgium s.t. 4 Maurice Diot FRA Île-de-France s.t. 5 Joseph Morvan FRA Switzerland s.t. 6 Émile Guérinel FRA West s.t. 7 Pierre Molinéris FRA South-East s.t. 8 Roger Walkowiak FRA North-East/Centre + 1' 28" 9 Hugo Koblet SUI Switzerland + 9' 43" 10 Fiorenzo Magni ITA Italy s.t.+ General classification after stage 5http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_5.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 - 5ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924041520/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_5.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Roger Hassenforder FRA 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey North-East/Centre 22h 53' 51" 2 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland + 0' 48" 3 Wout Wagtmans NED MG Netherlands + 1' 50" 4 Jacques Renaud FRA Île-de-France + 4' 18" 5 Thijs Roks NED Netherlands + 4' 43" 6 Georges Meunier FRA North-East/Centre + 5' 31" 7 Wim van Est NED Netherlands + 6' 14" 8 Alex Close BEL Belgium + 6' 27" 9 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy + 6' 48" 10 Ugo Anzile ITA Italy s.t. Stage 6 8 July 1953 — Caen to Le Mans, 206 km on + Stage 6 resultClassements (…) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t51008482/f2.item.zoom L'Équipe 9 July 1953 2 fr Gallica Rank Rider Team Time 1 Martin Van Geneugden BEL Belgium 5h 10' 53" 2 Louis Caput FRA Île-de-France s.t. 3 Adolphe Deledda FRA France s.t. 4 François Mahé FRA West s.t. 5 Hein van Breenen NED Netherlands s.t. 6 Gilbert Bauvin FRA North-East/Centre s.t. 7 Lucien Lazaridès FRA South-East s.t. 8 Edy Hein LUX Luxembourg + 3' 13" 9 Adri Voorting NED Netherlands + 4' 02" 10 Fiorenzo Magni ITA Italy + 4' 13"+ General classification after stage 6http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_6.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 - 6ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924041356/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_6.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Roger Hassenforder FRA 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey North-East/Centre 33h 56' 27" 2 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland + 0' 48" 3 Wout Wagtmans NED MG Netherlands + 1' 50" 4 Jacques Renaud FRA Île-de-France + 4' 18" 5 Thijs Roks NED Netherlands + 4' 43" 6 Gilbert Bauvin FRA North-East/Centre + 5' 28" 7 Georges Meunier FRA North-East/Centre + 5' 31" 8 Wim van Est NED Netherlands + 6' 14" 9 Alex Close BEL Belgium + 6' 27" 10 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy + 6' 48" Stage 7 9 July 1953 — Le Mans to Nantes, 181 km on + Stage 7 resultClassements (…) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5100849f/f2.item.zoom L'Équipe 10 July 1953 2 fr Gallica Rank Rider Team Time 1 Livio Isotti ITA Italy 4h 46' 08" 2 Maurice Quentin FRA Île-de-France s.t. 3 Bernard Quennehen FRA North-East/Centre s.t. 4 Raoul Rémy FRA France s.t. 5 Jacques Labertonnière FRA North-East/Centre s.t. 6 René Rotta FRA South-East s.t. 7 François Mahé FRA West + 6' 31" 8 Hugo Koblet SUI Switzerland + 8' 06" 9 André Darrigade FRA South West s.t. 10 Jean Robic FRA West s.t.+ General classification after stage 7http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_7.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 - 7ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924041332/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_7.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Roger Hassenforder FRA 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey North-East/Centre 38h 50' 41" 2 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland + 0' 48" 3 Wout Wagtmans NED MG Netherlands + 1' 50" 4 Jacques Renaud FRA Île-de-France + 4' 18" 5 Thijs Roks NED Netherlands + 4' 43" 6 Gilbert Bauvin FRA North-East/Centre + 5' 28" 7 Georges Meunier FRA North-East/Centre + 5' 31" 8 Wim van Est NED Netherlands + 6' 14" 9 Alex Close BEL Belgium + 6' 27" 10 François Mahé FRA West + 6' 34" Stage 8 10 July 1953 — Nantes to Bordeaux, 345 km on + Stage 8 resultClassements (…) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5100850c/f2.item.zoom L'Équipe 11 July 1953 2 fr Gallica Rank Rider Team Time 1 Jan Nolten NED Netherlands 9h 56' 40" 2 Robert Vanderstockt BEL Belgium + 1' 26" 3 Marcel Dierkens LUX Luxembourg + 2' 24" 4 Bernard Bultel FRA West s.t. 5 Roger Walkowiak FRA North-East/Centre s.t. 6 José Serra ESP 1945 Spain + 5' 25" 7 Bim Diederich LUX Luxembourg + 5' 29" 8 Amand Audaire FRA West s.t. 9 Max Schellenberg SUI Switzerland s.t. 10 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 5' 34"+ General classification after stage 8http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_8.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 - 8ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924041314/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_8.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Roger Hassenforder FRA 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey North-East/Centre 48h 53' 18" 2 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland + 0' 48" 3 Wout Wagtmans NED MG Netherlands + 1' 50" 4 Jacques Renaud FRA Île-de-France + 4' 18" 5 Thijs Roks NED Netherlands + 4' 43" 6 Gilbert Bauvin FRA North-East/Centre + 5' 28" 7 Georges Meunier FRA North-East/Centre + 5' 31" 8 Wim van Est NED Netherlands + 6' 14" 9 Alex Close BEL Belgium + 6' 27" 10 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 6' 33" Stage 9 12 July 1953 — Bordeaux to Pau, 197 km on + Stage 9 resultClassements (…) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5100851r/f2.item.zoom L'Équipe 13 July 1953 2 fr Gallica Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fiorenzo Magni ITA Italy 5h 09' 58" 2 Hugo Koblet SUI Switzerland s.t. 3 Jean Robic FRA West s.t. 4 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland s.t. 5 Gino Bartali ITA Italy s.t. 6 Wim van Est NED Netherlands s.t. 7 Raymond Impanis BEL Belgium s.t. 8 Jacques Dupont FRA South-West s.t. 9 Raphaël Géminiani FRA France s.t. 10 Antonin Rolland FRA France s.t.+ General classification after stage 9http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_9.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 - 9ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924041627/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_9.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland 54h 04' 04" 2 Wout Wagtmans NED MG Netherlands + 1' 02" 3 Jacques Renaud FRA Île-de-France + 3' 30" 4 Thijs Roks NED Netherlands + 3' 55" 5 Gilbert Bauvin FRA North-East/Centre + 4' 40" 6 Wim van Est NED Netherlands + 5' 26" 7 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 5' 45" 8 François Mahé FRA West + 5' 46" 9 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy + 6' 00" 10 Jean Robic FRA West s.t. Stage 10 13 July 1953 — Pau to Cauterets, 103 km on + Stage 10 resultClassements (…) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t51008524/f2.item.zoom L'Équipe 14 July 1953 2 fr Gallica Rank Rider Team Time 1 Jesús Loroño ESP 1945 Spain 3h 14' 30" 2 Jean Robic FRA West + 5' 56" 3 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy s.t. 4 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey Switzerland s.t. 5 Louison Bobet FRA France + 6' 04" 6 Richard Van Genechten BEL Belgium + 6' 07" 7 Gilbert Bauvin FRA North-East/Centre s.t. 8 Antonin Rolland FRA France + 6' 19" 9 Gino Bartali ITA Italy + 6' 37" 10 Francisco Masip ESP 1945 Spain + 7' 25"+ General classification after stage 10http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_10.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 - 10ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924041547/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_10.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey Switzerland 57h 24' 30" 2 Wout Wagtmans NED Netherlands + 3' 40" 3 Gilbert Bauvin FRA North-East/Centre + 4' 51" 4 Jean Robic FRA 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey West + 5' 30" 5 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy + 6' 00" 6 Alex Close BEL Belgium + 9' 28" 7 François Mahé FRA West + 9' 32" 8 Thijs Roks NED Netherlands + 10' 34" 9 Raymond Impanis BEL Belgium + 10' 58" 10 Jacques Renaud FRA Île-de-France + 11' 00" Stage 11 14 July 1953 — Cauterets to Luchon, 115 km on + Stage 11 resultClassements (…) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5100853h/f2.item.zoom L'Équipe 15 July 1953 2 fr Gallica Rank Rider Team Time 1 Jean Robic FRA 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey West 3h 50' 06" 2 Louison Bobet FRA France + 1' 27" 3 Gilbert Bauvin FRA North-East/Centre + 1' 29" 4 Fritz Schär SUI 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey Switzerland + 4' 48" 5 Nello Lauredi FRA France + 5' 33" 6 Gino Bartali ITA Italy + 5' 42" 7 Marcel Ernzer LUX Luxembourg s.t. 8 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy s.t. 9 Vicente Iturat ESP 1945 Spain s.t. 10 Antonin Rolland FRA France s.t.+ General classification after stage 11http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_11.php 40ème Tour de France 1953 - 11ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924225816/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953_11.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Jean Robic FRA 20px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=A yellow jersey 20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=A green jersey MG West 61h 19' 06" 2 Fritz Schär SUI Switzerland + 0' 18" 3 Gilbert Bauvin FRA North-East/Centre + 1' 50" 4 Giancarlo Astrua ITA Italy + 7' 12" 5 Louison Bobet FRA France + 9' 12" 6 Alex Close BEL Belgium + 10' 40" 7 François Mahé FRA West + 11' 54" 8 Nello Lauredi FRA France + 12' 54" 9 Marcel Ernzer LUX Luxembourg + 13' 12" 10 Antonin Rolland FRA France + 13' 48" Notes n References 30em Bibliography 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 1953 Tour de France 1 11 12 22 Category:1953 Tour de France Category:Tour de France stages