1903 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 3

Cycling race stages thumb|360px|alt=Map of France with the route of the 1903 Tour de France|Route of the 1903 Tour de France The 1903 Tour de France was the 1st edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris on 1 July and Stage 3 occurred on 8 July with a flat stage to Toulouse. The race finished at the Parc des Princes in Paris on 18 July. Stage 1 1 July 1903 — Paris (Montgeron) to Lyon, 467 km 1 onhttp://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1903_1939/tdf1903.php#Etapes 1ère Tour de France 1903 Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120119173811/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1903_1939/tdf1903.php#Etapes 19 January 2012http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/dossiers/dos_reglmt_tdf1903.php Réglement du Tour de France 1903 Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20081208182607/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/dossiers/dos_reglmt_tdf1903.php 8 December 2008 thumb|right|The departure from the Café au Réveil-Matin in Montgeron, 1903 Tour de France.|alt=A black-and-white picture of a group of persons with bicycles, standing on a road. The inaugural stage of the Tour de France departed from the Cafe au Réveil-Matin, in the south-eastern Paris suburb of Montgeron, at 3:16 p.m.http://www.bikeraceinfo.com/tdf/tdf1903.html 1903 Tour de France BikeRaceInfo 25 September 2016 The route headed south through Fontainebleau, Corbeil, Melun, Montargis, Nevers, Moulins, Lapalisse and Roanne, before arriving in Lyon. The riders had raced through the evening and night, to arrive from about 9 a.m. on the following day.https://velopeloton.com/1903-tour-de-france-stage-1/ 1903 Tour de France – Stage 1 Vélo Peloton Pyrénées 25 September 2016 27 September 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160927131853/https://velopeloton.com/1903-tour-de-france-stage-1/ dead Stage 1 result and general classification after stage 1http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1903_1939/tdf1903_1.php 1ère Tour de France 1903 - 1ère étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120201195813/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1903_1939/tdf1903_1.php 1 February 2012 Rank Rider Time 1 Maurice Garin FRA 17h 45' 13" 2 Emile Pagie FRA + 55" 3 Léon Georget FRA + 34' 59" 4 Fernand Augereau FRA + 1h 02' 50" 5 Jean Fischer FRA + 1h 04' 55" 6 Marcel Kerff BEL + 1h 42' 55" 7 Aloïs Catteau BEL + 1h 48' 57" 8 Ernest Pivin FRA + 1h 49' 49" 9 Léon Habets FRA + 2h 08' 16" 10 François Beaugendre FRA + 2h 08' 27" Stage 2 5 July 1903 — Lyon to Marseille, 374 km 1 on Stage 2 result Rank Rider Time 1 Hippolyte Aucouturier FRA 14h 28' 53" 2 Léon Georget FRA s.t. 3 Eugène Brange FRA + 26' 06" 4 Maurice Garin FRA + 26' 07" 5 Rodolfo Muller ITA 1861 s.t. 6 Lucien Pothier FRA s.t. 7 Marcel Kerff BEL + 39' 37" 8 Fernand Augereau FRA + 57' 17" 9 Georges Pasquier BEL + 1h 32' 10" 10 François Beaugendre FRA s.t.General classification after stage 2http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1903/200/etape.html Stage 2 Lyon > Marseille LeTour.fr 26 September 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160902143934/http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1903/200/etape.html 2 September 2016 dead dmy-all Rank Rider Time 1 Maurice Garin FRA 32h 40' 13" 2 Léon Georget FRA + 8' 52" 3 Fernand Augereau FRA + 1h 34' 00" 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Stage 3 8 July 1903 — Marseille to Toulouse, 423 km on Stage 3 result Rank Rider Time 1 Hippolyte Aucouturier FRA 17h 55' 04" 2 Eugène Brange FRA + 32' 22" 3 Julien Lootens BEL s.t. 4 Maurice Garin FRA s.t. 5 Lucien Pothier FRA s.t. 6 François Beaugendre FRA + 1h 00' 00" 7 Jean Fischer FRA + 1h 35' 18" 8 Rodolfo Muller ITA 1861 + 1h 35' 19" 9 Aloïs Catteau BEL + 1h 35' 20" 10 Marcel Kerff BEL s.t.General classification after stage 3http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1903/300/etape.html Stage 3 Marseille > Toulouse LeTour.fr 26 September 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160902143935/http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1903/300/etape.html 2 September 2016 dead dmy-all Rank Rider Time 1 Maurice Garin FRA 51h 07' 39" 2 Léon Georget FRA + 1h 58' 53" 3 Lucien Pothier FRA + 2h 58' 01" 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 References 30em Further reading https://books.google.com/books?id=uHKba6joRZsC Tour de France 1903: la nascita della Grande Boucle Facchinetti Paolo 2003 Ediciclo Editore Italian 88-85318-88-6 1903 Tour de France 1 3 4 6 Category:1903 Tour de France Category:Tour de France stages