1951 Tour de France

April 2019 May 2019 1951 Tour de France Route of the 1951 Tour de France.png Route of the 1951 Tour de France followed counterclockwise, starting in Metz and finishing in Paris 350px 4–29 July 1951 24 4690 km 142h 20' 14" Hugo Koblet SUI yellow Switzerland Raphaël Géminiani FRA France Lucien Lazaridès FRA France France Raphaël Géminiani FRA France 1950 1952 The 1951 Tour de France was the 38th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 4 to 29 July. It consisted of 24 stages over 4690 km 0 on. The race started outside Île-de-France for the first time since 1926; a change that remained permanent beyond 1951 with the exceptions of 1963, 1983, 1984, 1986 and 2003. The race was won by Swiss cyclist Hugo Koblet. Koblet used his time-trial abilities to win large amounts of time. Dutch cyclist Wim van Est gained fame, not only by becoming the first Dutch cyclist to lead the Tour de France, but more by falling down a ravine in the leader's jersey. Teams List of teams and cyclists in the 1951 Tour de France As was the custom since the 1930 Tour de France, the 1951 Tour de France was contested by national and regional teams. The three major cycling countries in 1951, Italy, Belgium and France, each sent a team of 12 cyclists. Other countries sent teams of 8 cyclists: Switzerland, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Spain. The French regional cyclists were divided into four teams of 12 cyclists: Paris, Île-de-France/North-West, East/South-East and West/South-West. The last team of eight cyclists was made up out of cyclists from the French North African colonies. In the end, Luxembourg only sent 7 cyclists, so altogether this made 123 cyclists. There were 68 French cyclists (of which 1 French-Moroccan and 7 French-Algerian), 12 Italian, 12 Belgian, 8 Dutch, 8 Spanish, 8 Swiss and 7 Luxembourgian cyclists.The history of the Tour de France – Year 1951 – The starters http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1951/partants.html Tour de France Amaury Sport Organisation 2 April 2020 The teams entering the race were: 20em Switzerland Italy Belgium France Luxembourg Netherlands Spain Paris Île-de-France/North-West East/South-East West/South-West North Africa Route and stages The 1951 Tour de France started in Metz; it was the second time after the 1926 Tour de France that the start of the Tour de France was not in or near Paris. Unlike in previous years, the route was no longer around the perimeter of France, and the Massif Central mountains were visited for the first time.McGann McGann 2006 159–165 There were two rest days, in Limoges and Montpellier.Augendre 2016 42 The highest point of elevation in the race was 2360 m ft on at the summit of the Col d'Izoard mountain pass on stage 20.Augendre 2016 178Twee ton voor Tour-karavaan Two tons for Tour caravan https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010852587:mpeg21:p005 De Waarheid 2 July 1951 5 nl Delpher + Stage characteristics and winners38ème Tour de France 1951 38th Tour de France 1951 http://memoire-du-cyclisme.eu/eta_tdf/tdf1951.php Mémoire du cyclisme 6 April 2020 frAugendre 2016 42http://www.cvccbike.com/tour/top_ten.html#1951 Tour de France GC top ten Arian Zwegers CVCC 4 December 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20080516071832/http://www.cvccbike.com/tour/top_ten.html 16 May 2008 live The history of the Tour de France – Year 1951 – The stage winners http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1951/vainqueurs.html Tour de France Amaury Sport Organisation 2 April 2020 3 April 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200403002817/http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1951/vainqueurs.html dead Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 1 4 July Metz to Reims 185 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Giovanni Rossi SUI 2 5 July Reims to Ghent (Belgium) 228 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Jean Diederich LUX 3 6 July Ghent (Belgium) to Le Tréport 219 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Georges Meunier FRA 4 7 July Le Tréport to Paris 188 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Roger Lévêque FRA 5 8 July Paris to Caen 215 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Serafino Biagioni ITA 6 9 July Caen to Rennes 182 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Édouard Muller FRA 7 10 July La Guerche-de-Bretagne to Angers 85 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Individual time trial Hugo Koblet SUI 8 11 July Angers to Limoges 241 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage André Rosseel BEL 12 July Limoges Rest day 9 13 July Limoges to Clermont-Ferrand 236 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Raphaël Géminiani FRA 10 14 July Clermont-Ferrand to Brive 216 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Bernardo Ruiz ESP 1945 11 15 July Brive to Agen 177 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Hugo Koblet SUI 12 16 July Agen to Dax 185 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Wim van Est NED 13 17 July Dax to Tarbes 201 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Serafino Biagioni ITA 14 18 July Tarbes to Luchon 142 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Hugo Koblet SUI 15 19 July Luchon to Carcassonne 213 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) André Rosseel BEL 16 20 July Carcassonne to Montpellier 192 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Hugo Koblet SUI 21 July Montpellier Rest day 17 22 July Montpellier to Avignon 224 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Louison Bobet FRA 18 23 July Avignon to Marseille 173 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Fiorenzo Magni ITA 19 24 July Marseille to Gap 208 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Armand Baeyens BEL 20 25 July Gap to Briançon 165 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Fausto Coppi ITA 21 26 July Briançon to Aix-les-Bains 201 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Bernardo Ruiz ESP 1945 22 27 July Aix-les-Bains to Geneva 97 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Individual time trial Hugo Koblet SUI 23 28 July Geneva to Dijon 197 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Stage with mountain(s) Germain Derycke BEL 24 29 July Dijon to Paris 322 km 0 on 20px|alt=|link= Plain stage Adolphe Deledda FRA Total 4690 km 0 onAugendre 2016 109 "notes" Race overview thumb|upright|General classification winner Hugo Koblet pictured on stage one On the first stage, Hugo Koblet attacked almost immediately from the start. The peloton got back to him after 40 km mi on. Koblet stayed calm for the next stages, until the individual time trial in stage seven, which he won.http://www.cyclingrevealed.com/Aug06/Aug_Cover_Feature2.htm Cycling revealed 1 March 2010 Graham Jones Great Escapes August 2006 Initially, Bobet was reported to have won the time trial by one second. Koblet protested against the result, and argued that the intermediate timings showed that Bobet could not have won. The Tour de France jury agreed that Bobet's time was off by one minute, and Koblet was given the stage victory by 59 seconds.McGann McGann 2006 159–165http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD02/HEM/1951/07/11/MD19510711-001.pdf Koblet vencedor en la etape contra reloj - Se comprobó el error de cronometraja que había dado ganador a Bobet por un segundo 11 July 1951 es Mundo Deportivo 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20191006192048/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD02/HEM/1951/07/11/MD19510711-001.pdf 6 October 2019 live Koblet's rival Raphaël Géminiani after the stage said: "If there were two Koblets in the sport I would retire from cycling tomorrow."McGann McGann 2006 177 In the eleventh stage, Koblet attacked after 37 km mi on. He was followed by Louis Deprez for a short while, but when Deprez fell back, Koblet was on his own. It was a hot day, and the other cyclists did not believe that Koblet's escape had any chance. When the peloton heard that Koblet was already three minutes ahead, they started to chase him. They worked together for more than 100 km, but couldn't reach Koblet, who won the stage with a margin of more than two and a half minutes. Directly after Koblet finished, he used a stopwatch to measure the time gap, because he did not trust the Tour's time keepers anymore.McGann McGann 2006 159–165 The other cyclists were amazed that Koblet had been able to defend his lead against all the other cyclists. In the twelfth stage, Dutch cyclist Wim van Est escaped, won the stage and took the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification. He was the first Dutch cyclist to do so. Van Est was inexperienced in the mountains that showed up in the thirteenth stage, but did his best to defend his lead. Going up the Aubisque, Van Est punctured and lost time. He tried to gain back time on the descent by following Magni, a fast descender. Van Est could not follow, and crashed. He remounted and rode down again, but took too much risk and fell down a ravine. His fall was broken by trees, 75 meters down. Spectators helped him to climb back, by handing him a rope made from inner tubes.http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=7274 Daily Peloton Cycling Legends - Pédaleur de Charme 25 October 2004 7 May 2010 Podofdonny In the next stage, Van Est fell down a ravine while defending his position, and had to abandon the race. Gilbert Bauvin took over the lead. Géminiani crossed the finish line first in that stage, but he was set back to fourth place by the jury.http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1951_13.php Mémoire du cyclisme 37ème Tour de France 1951 - 13ème étape fr 7 May 2010 In the fourteenth stage, Coppi attacked. Koblet punctured, but chased back and reached Coppi, and outsprinted him to win the stage, and thanks to the minute bonification time as stage winner took over the lead.McGann McGann 2006 159–165 In the sixteenth stage, that seemed not too hard because there were almost no mountains, Coppi collapsed and lost more than half an hour. This was said to be caused by grief over his brother's death, although other accounts said it was because of food poisoning. His teammates and former rivals Gino Bartali and Fiorenzo Magni helped him until the end of the stage.McGann McGann 2006 159–165 The Mont Ventoux was climbed in the seventeenth stage for the first time in Tour de France history. Bobet escaped and won the stage, while Koblet was able to stay with his competitors. After that stage, second-placed rider Géminiani was no longer trying to beat Koblet, but instead focussed on defending his second place against Bobet.McGann McGann 2006 159–165 Koblet stayed out of problems for the rest of the race, and won the time trial in the 22nd stage with a large margin; he even overtook Bartali who had started 8 minutes earlier.McGann McGann 2006 159–165http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1951_22.php Mémoire du cyclisme 37ème Tour de France 1951 - 22ème étape fr 7 May 2010 Classification leadership and minor prizes The time that each cyclist required to finish each stage was recorded, and these times were added together for the general classification. If a cyclist had received a time bonus, it was subtracted from this total; all time penalties were added to this total. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey.Nauright Parrish 2012 452–453 Of the 123 cyclists that started the 1951 Tour de France, 66 finished the race. Points for the mountains classification were earned by reaching the mountain tops first.Nauright Parrish 2012 454 The system was almost the same as in 1950: there were two types of mountain tops: the hardest ones, in category 1, gave 10 points to the first cyclist, the easier ones, in category 2, gave 6 points to the first cyclist, and the easiest ones, in category 3, gave 3 points. Raphaël Géminiani won this classification. The team classification was calculated by adding the times in the general classification of the best three cyclists per team.Nauright Parrish 2012 455 It was won by the French team, with a large margin over the Belgian team. The other three teams that started, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and North Africa, did not finish with three cyclists so were not eligible for the team classification. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the Col du Lautaret on stage 21. This prize was won by Gino Sciardis.Tour de France 1951: Spaanse klimmer Ruiz won de etappe der vijf grote Alpentoppen Tour de France 1951: Spanish climber Ruiz won the stage of the five major Alpine peaks https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010416379:mpeg21:p003 Limburgs Dagblad 27 July 1951 3 nl Delpher The special award for the best regional rider was won by eighth-placed Gilbert Bauvin.Augendre 2016 42 +Classification leadership by stagevan den Akker Pieter Informatie over de Tour de France van 1951 Information about the Tour de France from 1951 http://www.tourdefrancestatistieken.nl/tour.php?jaar=1951 https://web.archive.org/web/20190302050058/http://www.tourdefrancestatistieken.nl/tour.php?jaar=1951 2 March 2019 nl TourDeFranceStatistieken.nl 2 March 2019 live Stage Winner General classification25px|alt=|link= 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 Team classification 1 Giovanni Rossi Giovanni Rossi no award 2 Jean Diederich Jean Diederich 3 Georges Meunier Luxembourg 4 Roger Lévêque France 5 Serafino Biagioni Serafino Biagioni Italy 6 Édouard Muller Roger Lévêque 7 Hugo Koblet France 8 André Rosseel 9 Raphaël Géminiani Raphaël Géminiani 10 Bernardo Ruiz Bernardo Ruiz 11 Hugo Koblet Raphaël Géminiani 12 Wim van Est Wim van Est West/South-West 13 Serafino Biagioni Gilbert Bauvin 14 Hugo Koblet Hugo Koblet France 15 André Rosseel 16 Hugo Koblet 17 Louison Bobet 18 Fiorenzo Magni 19 Armand Baeyens 20 Fausto Coppi 21 Bernardo Ruiz 22 Hugo Koblet 23 Germain Derijcke 24 Adolphe Deledda FinalHugo Koblet Raphaël Géminiani France Final standings General classification + Final general classification (1–10)The history of the Tour de France – Year 1951 – Stage 24 Dijon > Paris http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1951/2400/etape.html Tour de France Amaury Sport Organisation 2 April 2020 2 April 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200402220308/http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1951/2400/etape.html dead Rank Rider Team Time1 Hugo Koblet SUI Switzerland 142h 20' 14"2 Raphaël Géminiani FRA France + 22' 00"3 Lucien Lazaridès FRA France + 24' 16"4 Gino Bartali ITA Italy + 29' 09"5 Stan Ockers BEL Belgium + 32' 53"6 Pierre Barbotin FRA France + 36' 40"7 Fiorenzo Magni ITA Italy + 39' 14"8 Gilbert Bauvin FRA East/South-East + 45' 53"9 Bernardo Ruiz ESP 1945 Spain + 45' 55"10 Fausto Coppi ITA Italy + 46' 51" Final general classification (11–66) Rank Rider Team Time11 Nello Lauredi FRA France + 57' 19"12 Jean Diederich LUX Luxembourg + 59' 29"13 Marcel De Mulder BEL Belgium + 1h 04' 18"14 Edward Van Ende BEL Belgium + 1h 07' 18"15 Serafino Biagioni ITA Italy + 1h 08' 52"16 Georges Meunier FRA West/South-West + 1h 13' 36"17 Roger Decock BEL Belgium + 1h 13' 57"18 Marcel Verschueren BEL Belgium + 1h 14' 36"19 Pierre Cogan FRA West/South-West + 1h 15' 30"20 Louison Bobet FRA France + 1h 24' 09"21 Jean-Marie Goasmat FRA West/South-West + 1h 31' 27"22 Aloïs De Hertog BEL Belgium + 1h 35' 04"23 Jean Dotto FRA East/South-East + 1h 36' 23"24 Georges Aeschlimann SUI Switzerland + 1h 39' 45"25 André Rosseel BEL Belgium + 1h 42' 22"26 Bernard Gauthier FRA France + 1h 51' 09"27 Jean Robic FRA Paris + 1h 55' 35"28 Hans Sommer SUI Switzerland + 1h 58' 47"29 Franco Franchi ITA Italy + 1h 59' 13"30 Roger Lévêque FRA West/South-West + 2h 01' 51"31 Lucien Teisseire FRA France + 2h 08' 05"32 Adolphe Deledda FRA East/South-East + 2h 09' 29"33 Vincent Vitetta FRA East/South-East + 2h 09' 45"34 Paul Giguet FRA East/South-East + 2h 12' 23"35 Marcel Huber SUI Switzerland + 2h 13' 36"36 Pierre Brambilla FRA East/South-East + 2h 18' 29"37 Louis Deprez FRA Île-de-France/North-West + 2h 25' 44"38 Andrea Carrea ITA Italy + 2h 28' 01"39 Roger Buchonnet FRA East/South-East + 2h 31' 33"40 Armand Baeyens BEL Belgium + 2h 34' 04"41 Édouard Muller FRA France + 2h 39' 02"42 Hilaire Couvreur BEL Belgium + 2h 47' 01"43 Germain Derijcke BEL Belgium + 2h 47' 16"44 Manolo Rodríguez ESP 1945 Spain + 2h 49' 29"45 Louis Caput FRA Paris + 2h 53' 38"46 André Labeylie FRA Île-de-France/North-West + 2h 54' 06"47 Joseph Mirando FRA East/South-East + 2h 58' 29"48 Luciano Pezzi ITA Italy + 2h 58' 38"49 Joseph Morvan FRA West/South-West + 2h 59' 11"50 Gottfried Weilenmann SUI Switzerland + 3h 01' 15"51 Gino Sciardis FRA Île-de-France/North-West + 3h 09' 00"52 Ettore Milano ITA Italy + 3h 11' 03"53 Angelo Colinelli FRA East/South-East + 3h 11' 58"54 Virgilio Salimbeni ITA Italy + 3h 12' 23"55 Willy Kemp LUX Luxembourg + 3h 19' 02"56 Jean Baldassari FRA France + 3h 20' 40"57 Roger Walkowiak FRA West/South-West + 3h 21' 30"58 Dalmacio Langarica ESP 1945 Spain + 3h 24' 24"59 Francisco Masip ESP 1945 Spain + 3h 40' 13"60 Léo Weilenmann SUI Switzerland + 3h 48' 32"61 Jean Guéguen FRA France + 3h 49' 47"62 Aloïs Van Steenkiste BEL Belgium + 3h 56' 05"63 Jean-Louis Carle FRA Paris + 4h 08' 53"64 Émile Baffert FRA East/South-East + 4h 45' 26"65 Manuel Mayen FRA North Africa + 4h 56' 59"66 Abd-el-Kader Zaaf FRA North Africa + 4h 58' 18" Mountains classification + Final mountains classification (1–10)http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD02/HEM/1951/07/29/MD19510729-003.pdf La Vuelta Ciclista a Francia The Cycling Tour of France Mundo Deportivo 3 29 July 1951 es https://web.archive.org/web/20191004000459/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD02/HEM/1951/07/29/MD19510729-003.pdf 4 October 2019 live Rank Rider Team Points1 Raphaël Géminiani FRA France 602 Gino Bartali ITA Italy 593 Fausto Coppi ITA Italy 41 Hugo Koblet SUI Switzerland Bernardo Ruiz ESP 1945 Spain6 Lucien Lazaridès FRA France 377 Jean Robic FRA Paris 238 Bernard Gauthier FRA France 22 Jean Dotto FRA East/South-East10 Robert Buchonnet FRA East/South-East 18 Team classification + Final team classificationhttp://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19510730&id=GVA-19510730-01010003 Het eindigde als een Vlaamse Kermis It ended up as a Flemish Fair nl Gazet van Antwerpen 30 July 1951 10 https://web.archive.org/web/20191004000455/http://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19510730&id=GVA-19510730-01010003 4 October 2019 live Rank Team Time1 France 426h 47' 36"2 Belgium + 44' 37"3 Italy + 1h 22' 16"4 East/South-East + 1h 48' 00"5 West/South-West + 2h 15' 38"6 Switzerland + 2h 49' 55"7 Spain + 4h 45' 19"8 Île-de-France/North-West + 5h 30' 39"9 Paris + 6h 05' 29" Aftermath Hugo Koblet would be unable to defend his title in the 1952 Tour de France, as he was injured. After that, Koblet never reached the heights that he was able to reach in 1951. Second-placed Géminiani said that he regarded himself as the winner, because Koblet did not count because he was not human.McGann McGann 2006 159–165 Van Est, who fell down a ravine wearing the leader's yellow jersey, starred in an advert for watch-making company Pontiac, that said "His heart stopped but his Pontiac kept time." 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 PDF 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: 1903–1964 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=jxq20JskqMUC Dog Ear Publishing Indianapolis, IN 2006 978-1-59858-180-5 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, CA 978-1-59884-300-2 Further reading Mapping Le Tour Ellis Bacon HarperCollins Publishers Glasgow 2014 102–103 9780007543991 872700415 External links 1951 Tour de France 1 12 13 24 Category:Tour de France by year Tour De France, 1951 Category:1951 in road cycling Tour de France Tour de France