When viewing the map for the entire history of the. The toughest tour in history the 1919 tour had just 10. The fastest ever average speed for a stage of the tour is 50. With an average speed of over 54 kilometers an hour, lemond finished. The races are very long and for most of the day they are riding at a speed much below their maximum. It started on 1 july 1989 in luxembourg before taking an anticlockwise route through france to finish in paris on 23 july. To the modern peloton and we have tomes by chris froome and mark cavendishs at speed. Here is a listing of the dates of each tour with the starting until 1952, it was always paris and finishing city always paris, the total length of each tour, number of stages, the number of entrants and finishers as well as the winners average speed over the entire tour. The race consisted of 21 stages and a prologue, over 3,285 km 2,041 mi. On flat stages, about 65% of the day is spent riding at an easy pace. The race course changes from year to year and the amount of hill climbing will drastically change the average speed. Rohan dennis beat chris boardmans previous record of an average speed of 55. Like the other grand tours the giro ditalia and the vuelta a espana, it consists of 21 daylong stages over the course of 23 days.
The distances and average speeds for preworld war i tour are very inexact. Its really too bad that the book wasnt published earlier in the year leading up to the 100th race. I moonlighted covering the tour, and wrote a history of the race. I would suggest doing an average speed of the winner during time trial days instead. Every summer the world tunes in for the pageantry of the competition and the incredible scenery of the french countryside. The secret race, by tyler hamilton and daniel coyle. Which years tour set the record for the highest overall average speed. The average speed of the winner i believe is a poor correlation to try and use in this instance. Our friends at agence france presse took a moment to comb through the record books to. The amazon link here will make either purchase easy. Le tour has sometimes been called chess on wheels because of the complicated strategies used by the races 22 teams and 176 riders. Jumbovisma win stage two team time trial as it happened mike teunissen retained the yellow jersey as jumbovisma. Though a landmark event, it isnt the first time womens race has taken place. Dates, stages, average speed, length, number of entrants and finishers.
The history, the legend, the riders by graeme fife is a. The lance armstrong era is of course renowned for its cheating history, with the. Results, stages with running gc, startlist, photos and history. On the other end of the scale, in 1919, firmin lambot won the race with the slowest ever winning average speed of 24. The first winner was 32 year old frenchman maurice garin who completed the course at an average speed of 25. Released 7th may 2019 by quarto on their motorbooks imprint, its 160 pages and available in ebook and paperback formats. In fact, its usually about double that of an average rider. At the average speed of the ride, the metabolic power to ride on level ground would be 700 w. Curtailed at least the biological possibility of the riders is now very near the limit of human biology. On the 100th anniversary of the tour s first expedition into the alps, the 18th stage finished at the top of one of the most mythical of mountains, the col du galibier. The history, strategies, and intrigue behind the worlds greatest bicycle race.
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