1956 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11

Cycling race stages thumb|350px|right|alt=Map of France with the route of the 1956 Tour de France|Route of the 1956 Tour de France The 1956 Tour de France was the 43rd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Reims with a flat stage on 5 July and Stage 11 occurred on 16 July with a mountainous stage to Pau. The race finished in Paris on 28 July. Stage 1 1 July 1956 - Reims to Liège, 223 km 1 onhttp://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1978_2005/tdf1956.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20090503042728/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956.php 3 May 2009 Stage 1 resulthttps://bikeraceinfo.com/tdf/tdf1956.html 1956 Tour de France BikeRaceInfo 10 April 2024 Rank Rider Team Time 1 André Darrigade FRA France 5h 19' 15" 2 Fritz Schär SUI Switzerland s.t. 3 Brian Robinson NED Netherlands s.t. 4 André Vlayen BEL Belgium + 2' 04" 5 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands s.t. 6 Antonio Barbosa Alves POR Luxembourg Mixed s.t. 7 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East s.t. 8 Daan de Groot NED Netherlands + 5' 34" 9 Pierre Barbotin FRA France + 6' 36" 10 Jan Adriaensens BEL Belgium + 6' 40"General classification after stage 1http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_1.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 1ère étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175237/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_1.php 25 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 André Darrigade FRA 20px|Yellow jersey France 5h 19' 15" 2 Fritz Schär SUI Switzerland s.t. 3 Brian Robinson NED Netherlands s.t. 4 André Vlayen BEL Belgium + 2' 04" 5 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands s.t. 6 Antonio Barbosa Alves POR Luxembourg Mixed s.t. 7 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East s.t. 8 Daan de Groot NED Netherlands + 5' 34" 9 Pierre Barbotin FRA France + 6' 36" 10 Jan Adriaensens BEL Belgium + 6' 40" Stage 2 6 July 1956 - Liège to Lille, 217 km 1 on Stage 2 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fred De Bruyne BEL Belgium 6h 35' 31" 2 Pierre Pardoën FRA France – North-East/Centre s.t. 3 Jean Malléjac FRA France s.t. 4 Jean-Pierre Schmitz LUX Luxembourg Mixed s.t. 5 Louis Caput FRA France – West + 49" 6 Roger Hassenforder FRA France – West s.t. 7 Antonin Rolland FRA France s.t. 8 Nicolas Barone FRA France – Île-de-France s.t. 9 Gilbert Scodeller FRA France – North-East/Centre s.t. 10 Bruno Monti ITA Italy s.t.General classification after stage 2http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_2.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 2ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175219/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_2.php 25 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 André Darrigade FRA 20px|Yellow jersey France 11h 54' 35" 2 Fritz Schär SUI Switzerland + 2' 26" 3 Brian Robinson GBR Luxembourg Mixed + 2' 56" 4 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East + 3' 04" 5 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 3' 28" 6 André Vlayen BEL Belgium + 6' 28" 7 Fred De Bruyne BEL Belgium + 6' 39" 8 Daan de Groot NED Netherlands + 6' 58" 9 Jean Malléjac FRA France + 7' 39" 10 Jean-Pierre Schmitz LUX Luxembourg Mixed s.t. Stage 3 7 July 1956 - Lille to Rouen, 225 km on Stage 3 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Arigo Padovan ITA Italy 6h 34' 31" 2 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium s.t. 3 Claude Le Ber FRA France – West s.t. 4 François Mahé FRA France s.t. 5 Roger Chaussabel FRA France – South-East + 10" 6 Leo van der Pluym NED Netherlands s.t. 7 Claude Frei SUI Switzerland s.t. 8 Antonio Barbosa Alves POR Luxembourg Mixed + 20" 9 Camille Huyghe FRA France – North-East/Centre + 1' 25" 10 Fernand Picot FRA France – West + 14' 54"General classification after stage 3http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_3.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 3ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120924230519/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_3.php 24 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Gilbert Desmet BEL 20px|Yellow jersey Belgium 18h 37' 02" 2 François Mahé FRA France + 32" 3 Camille Huyghe FRA France – North-East/Centre + 1' 57" 4 Arigo Padovan ITA Italy + 4' 26" 5 André Darrigade FRA France + 7' 10" 6 Antonio Barbosa Alves POR Luxembourg Mixed + 7' 21" 7 Fritz Schär SUI Switzerland + 9' 36" 8 Brian Robinson GBR Luxembourg Mixed + 10' 06" 9 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East + 10' 14" 10 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 10' 38" Stage 4a 8 July 1956 - Circuit de Rouen-Les-Essarts, 15.1 km on (ITT) Stage 4a result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Charly Gaul LUX Luxembourg Mixed 22' 19" 2 Jean Brankart BEL Belgium + 27" 3 Federico Bahamontes ESP 1945 Spain + 32" 4 Stan Ockers BEL Belgium + 33" 5 Jean-Pierre Schmitz LUX Luxembourg Mixed + 45" 6 Raymond Elena FRA France – South-East + 47" 7 Gilbert Bauvin FRA France + 48" 8 Pasquale Fornara ITA Italy + 50" 9 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium + 58" 10 Agostino Coletto ITA Italy + 1' 01"General classification after stage 4ahttp://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_4a.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 4ème étape (a) Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175456/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_4a.php 25 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Gilbert Desmet BEL 20px|Yellow jersey Belgium 19h 00' 19" 2 François Mahé FRA France + 47" 3 Camille Huyghe FRA France – North-East/Centre + 2' 58" 4 Arigo Padovan ITA Italy + 5' 12" 5 André Darrigade FRA France + 7' 28" 6 Antonio Barbosa Alves POR Luxembourg Mixed + 7' 39" 7 Fritz Schär SUI Switzerland + 9' 40" 8 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East + 10' 21" 9 Brian Robinson GBR Luxembourg Mixed + 10' 43" 10 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 11' 23" Stage 4b 8 July 1956 - Rouen to Caen, 125 km on Stage 4b result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Roger Hassenforder FRA France – West 2h 56' 44" 2 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands s.t. 3 René Privat FRA France s.t. 4 Fernand Picot FRA France – West s.t. 5 Pierre Barbotin FRA France s.t. 6 Armand Audaire FRA France – West s.t. 7 Albert Dolhats FRA France – South-West + 1' 42" 8 Roger Walkowiak FRA France – North-East/Centre s.t. 9 Miguel Poblet ESP 1945 Spain + 1' 45" 10 Stan Ockers BEL Belgium s.t.General classification after stage 4bhttp://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_4b.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 4ème étape (b) Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175605/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_4b.php 25 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 André Darrigade FRA 20px|Yellow jersey France 22h 06' 16" 2 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 1' 30" 3 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East + 2' 53" 4 Brian Robinson GBR Luxembourg Mixed + 3' 15" 5 Leo van der Pluym NED Netherlands + 5' 27" 6 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium + 6' 40" 7 André Vlayen BEL Belgium + 6' 44" 8 François Mahé FRA France + 7' 27" 9 Pierre Barbotin FRA France + 7' 42" 10 Stan Ockers BEL Belgium + 8' 09" Stage 5 9 July 1956 - Caen to Saint-Malo, 189 km on Stage 5 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Joseph Morvan FRA France – West 4h 51' 49" 2 Alessandro Fantini ITA Italy s.t. 3 Daan de Groot NED Netherlands s.t. 4 Raymond Hoorelbeke FRA France – Île-de-France s.t. 5 Michel Stolker NED Netherlands s.t. 6 Mario Bertolo ITA France – North-East/Centre s.t. 7 Joseph Mirando FRA France – South-East s.t. 8 Roger Walkowiak FRA France – North-East/Centre s.t. 9 Jean Forestier FRA France s.t. 10 Jan Nolten NED Netherlands s.t.General classification after stage 5http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_5.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 5ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175117/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_5.php 25 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 André Darrigade FRA 20px|Yellow jersey France 27h 01' 32" 2 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 1' 30" 3 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East + 2' 53" 4 Brian Robinson GBR Luxembourg Mixed + 3' 15" 5 Daan de Groot NED Netherlands + 5' 13" 6 Leo van der Pluym NED Netherlands + 5' 27" 7 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium + 6' 40" 8 André Vlayen BEL Belgium + 6' 44" 9 Roger Walkowiak FRA France – North-East/Centre + 7' 18" 10 François Mahé FRA France + 7' 27" Stage 6 10 July 1956 - Saint-Malo to Lorient, 192 km on Stage 6 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fred De Bruyne BEL Belgium 4h 39' 19" 2 Joseph Thomin FRA France – West s.t. 3 Louis Caput FRA France – West s.t. 4 Bruno Monti ITA Italy s.t. 5 Claude Le Ber FRA France – West s.t. 6 Daan de Groot NED Netherlands s.t. 7 Armand Audaire FRA France – West s.t. 8 André Darrigade FRA France s.t. 9 Fernand Picot FRA France – West s.t. 10 André Vlayen BEL Belgium s.t.General classification after stage 6http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_6.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 6ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175819/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_6.php 25 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 André Darrigade FRA 20px|Yellow jersey France 31h 40' 51" 2 Daan de Groot NED Netherlands + 5' 13" 3 Leo van der Pluym NED Netherlands + 5' 27" 4 André Vlayen BEL Belgium + 6' 44" 5 Roger Walkowiak FRA France – North-East/Centre + 7' 18" 6 Fernand Picot FRA France – West + 8' 40" 7 Gilbert Scodeller FRA France – North-East/Centre + 10' 11" 8 René Privat FRA France + 10' 14" 9 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 12' 55" 10 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East + 14' 18" Stage 7 11 July 1956 - Lorient to Angers, 244 km on Stage 7 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Alessandro Fantini ITA Italy 5h 59' 20" 2 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands s.t. 3 Piet Van De Brekel NED Netherlands s.t. 4 Gilbert Bauvin FRA France s.t. 5 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium s.t. 6 Arigo Padovan ITA Italy s.t. 7 Jos Hinsen NED Netherlands s.t. 8 Louis Caput FRA France – West s.t. 9 Albert Dolhats FRA France – South-West s.t. 10 Wout Wagtmans NED Netherlands s.t.General classification after stage 7http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_7.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 7ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175322/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_7.php 25 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Roger Walkowiak FRA 20px|Yellow jersey France – North-East/Centre 37h 47' 29" 2 Fernand Picot FRA France – West + 1' 22" 3 Gilbert Scodeller FRA France – North-East/Centre + 2' 53" 4 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 5' 07" 5 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East + 7' 00" 6 Wout Wagtmans NED Netherlands + 10' 28" 7 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium + 10' 38" 8 André Darrigade FRA France + 11' 28" 9 Gilbert Bauvin FRA France + 12' 31" 10 Jan Adriaensens BEL Belgium + 15' 19" Stage 8 12 July 1956 - Angers to La Rochelle, 180 km on Stage 8 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Miguel Poblet ESP 1945 Spain 4h 14' 56" 2 Louis Caput FRA France – West s.t. 3 Daan de Groot NED Netherlands s.t. 4 Max Schellenberg SUI Switzerland s.t. 5 Maurice Quentin FRA France – West s.t. 6 René Privat FRA France s.t. 7 Brian Robinson GBR Luxembourg Mixed s.t. 8 Alfred Tonello FRA France – Île-de-France s.t. 9 Jan Adriaensens BEL Belgium s.t. 10 Pietro Giudici ITA Italy s.t.General classification after stage 8http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_8.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 8ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175352/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_8.php 25 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Roger Walkowiak FRA 20px|Yellow jersey France – North-East/Centre 42h 09' 46" 2 Fernand Picot FRA France – West + 1' 22" 3 Gilbert Scodeller FRA France – North-East/Centre + 2' 53" 4 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 5' 07" 5 Wout Wagtmans NED Netherlands + 6' 20" 6 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East + 7' 00" 7 André Darrigade FRA France + 7' 20" 8 Jan Adriaensens BEL Belgium + 7' 58" 9 Daan de Groot NED Netherlands + 9' 20" 10 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium + 10' 38" Stage 9 13 July 1956 - La Rochelle to Bordeaux, 219 km on Stage 9 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Roger Hassenforder FRA France – West 5h 31' 00" 2 Leo van der Pluym NED Netherlands s.t. 3 Claude Le Ber FRA France – West + 55" 4 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium s.t. 5 Albert Dolhats FRA France – South-West s.t. 6 André Darrigade FRA France + 1' 07" 7 Stan Ockers BEL Belgium s.t. 8 Miguel Bover ESP 1945 Spain s.t. 9 Arigo Padovan ITA Italy s.t. 10 Gilbert Bauvin FRA France s.t.General classification after stage 9http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_9.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 9ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175836/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_9.php 25 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Roger Walkowiak FRA 20px|Yellow jersey France – North-East/Centre 47h 41' 53" 2 Fernand Picot FRA France – West + 1' 22" 3 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 5' 07" 4 Wout Wagtmans NED Netherlands + 6' 20" 5 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East + 7' 00" 6 André Darrigade FRA France + 7' 20" 7 Jan Adriaensens BEL Belgium + 7' 58" 8 Daan de Groot NED Netherlands + 9' 20" 9 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium + 10' 26" 10 Louis Caput FRA France – West + 11' 53" Rest Day 1 14 July 1956 - Bordeaux Stage 10 15 July 1956 - Bordeaux to Bayonne, 201 km on Stage 10 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Fred De Bruyne BEL Belgium 4h 59' 39" 2 André Darrigade FRA France s.t. 3 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium s.t. 4 Bruno Monti ITA Italy s.t. 5 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East s.t. 6 Maurice Quentin FRA France – West s.t. 7 Miguel Chacón ESP 1945 Spain s.t. 8 Gilbert Bauvin FRA France s.t. 9 Nicolas Barone FRA France – Île-de-France s.t. 10 Nino Defilippis ITA Italy s.t.General classification after stage 10http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_10.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 10ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175545/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_10.php 25 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Gerrit Voorting NED 20px|Yellow jersey Netherlands 52h 46' 39" 2 André Darrigade FRA France + 1' 43" 3 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East + 1' 53" 4 Jan Adriaensens BEL Belgium + 2' 51" 5 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium + 5' 19" 6 Gilbert Bauvin FRA France + 7' 24" 7 Roger Walkowiak FRA France – North-East/Centre + 9' 04" 8 Fernand Picot FRA France – West + 10' 26" 9 Wout Wagtmans NED Netherlands + 15' 24" 10 Bruno Monti ITA Italy s.t. Stage 11 16 July 1956 - Bayonne to Pau, 255 km on Stage 11 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Nino Defilippis ITA Italy 4h 49' 46" 2 Stan Ockers BEL Belgium s.t. 3 André Darrigade FRA France s.t. 4 Jean Forestier FRA France s.t. 5 Charly Gaul LUX Luxembourg Mixed s.t. 6 Federico Bahamontes ESP 1945 Spain s.t. 7 Jean Brankart BEL Belgium s.t. 8 Roger Walkowiak FRA France – North-East/Centre s.t. 9 Wout Wagtmans NED Netherlands s.t. 10 Valentin Huot FRA France – South-West s.t.General classification after stage 11http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_11.php 43ème Tour de France 1956 - 11ème étape Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175256/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1956_11.php 25 September 2012 Rank Rider Team Time 1 André Darrigade FRA 20px|Yellow jersey France 59h 24' 19" 2 Jan Adriaensens BEL Belgium + 1' 08" 3 Gerrit Voorting NED Netherlands + 2' 19" 4 Nello Lauredi FRA France – South-East + 4' 12" 5 Gilbert Bauvin FRA France + 5' 41" 6 Gilbert Desmet BEL Belgium + 6' 59" 7 Roger Walkowiak FRA France – North-East/Centre + 7' 21" 8 Fernand Picot FRA France – West + 12' 45" 9 Wout Wagtmans NED Netherlands + 13' 41" 10 Bruno Monti ITA Italy + 17' 43" References 30em 1956 Tour de France 1 11 12 22 Category:1956 Tour de France Category:Tour de France stages