Tour de France 2011
| 98th Tour de France 2011 | |
| Racing series | UCI WorldTour |
| Host country |
 France Italy
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| Competition period | July 2nd to 24th, 2011 |
| Stages | 21st |
| overall length | 3430 km |
| Starting field | 198 from 30 nations in 22 teams (167 of them arrived at the finish) |
| winner | |
| Overall rating | 1. Cadel Evans 86:12:22 h 2. Andy Schleck + 1:34 min 3. Fränk Schleck + 2:30 min 
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| Team evaluation |
 Team Garmin-Cervélo
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Cadel Evans |
86:12:22 h (39.788 km / h) |
| 2. |
Andy Schleck
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+ 1:34 min |
| 3. |
Frank Schleck
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+ 2:30 min |
| 4th |
Thomas Voeckler
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+ 3:20 min |
| 5. |
 Samuel Sánchez
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+ 4:55 min |
| 6th |
Damiano Cunego
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+ 6:05 min |
| 7th |
Ivan Basso
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+ 7:23 min |
| 8th. |
Tom Danielson
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+ 8:15 min |
| 9. |
Jean-Christophe Péraud
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+ 10:11 min |
| 10. |
Pierre Rolland
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+ 10:43 min |
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 Mark Cavendish |
334 P. |
| 2. |
José Joaquín Rojas
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272 P. |
| 3. |
 Philippe Gilbert
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236 P. |
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Samuel Sánchez |
108 P. |
| 2. |
Andy Schleck
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98 P. |
| 3. |
Jelle Vanendert
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74 P. |
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Pierre Rolland |
86:23:05 h |
| 2. |
 Purely Taaramäe
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+ 0:46 min |
| 3. |
Jérôme Coppel
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+ 7:53 min |
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Team Garmin-Cervélo
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258: 18: 49 h |
| 2. |
Leopard Trek
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+ 11:04 min |
| 3. |
Ag2r
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+ 11:20 min |
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Jérémy Roy
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The 2011 Tour de France was the 98th edition of the most important stage cycle race in the world. It began on July 2nd, 2011 at the Passage du Gois in the Vendée department and ended on July 24th, 2011 on the avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris .
With a total distance of 3430 km, it was around 200 km shorter than the Tour de France 2010 and comprised 21 stages. As last in 2008 , the tour did not start with a prologue time trial , but with a regular stage. In addition to the team time trial around Les Essarts on the second day of the race, the course of the tour this year only provided for an individual time trial .
Field of participants
As usual, 22 teams with 9 riders each took part in the 2011 Tour de France. These included by the regulations of the International Cycling Union UCI for races of the UCI World Tour , the 18 ProTeam . In addition, the organizer ASO took the opportunity to invite four Professional Continental Teams . The 198 drivers came from a total of 30 nations, including Germany with 12, Switzerland with 4 and Austria with one starter. With 45 drivers, France provided the largest national contingent - as it has for years.
At 39 years of age and 14 tour starts, Jens Voigt (LEO) was the oldest driver in the field. The US-American George Hincapie (BMC) already entered his 16th Tour de France in 2011 and set the participation record for Joop Zoetemelk . Anthony Delaplace (SAU) was the youngest starter at the age of 21. This year, all riders born in 1986 or later fell into the junior competition, a total of 39, which, as in the previous year, made up about a fifth of the peloton.
A detailed start list with an overview of the nationalities, successes and exits of the individual drivers and teams during the Tour de France 2011 can be found on the separate page → Driver Field 2011 .
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Starting position
In the run-up to the Tour de France, a duel between last year's winner Alberto Contador (SBS) and Andy Schleck (LEO), who was runner-up in 2010 and three-time winner of the junior ranking , was expected in the battle for the overall standings . Cadel Evans (BMC) and the winner of the Critérium du Dauphiné , Bradley Wiggins (SKY), who started the tour with good preparation, were given chances of a podium placement . Due to their placements in the previous year, Samuel Sánchez (EUS), Jurgen Van Den Broeck (OLO), Robert Gesink (RAB) and Christopher Horner (RSH) were also on the list of favorites for the overall victory. German hopefuls were Tony Martin (HTC) as well as Andreas Klöden (RSH) and Linus Gerdemann (LEO), who only took on helper roles in the preliminary planning of their teams.
The main contenders for the green jersey of the best on points were world champion Thor Hushovd (GRM), defending champion Alessandro Petacchi (LAM) and Mark Cavendish (HTC), who won five stages in 2010. After his return to the Tour de France, Tom Boonen (QST) had just as good chances of winning the mass sprint as the Germans Gerald Ciolek (QST) and André Greipel (OLO) and the Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen (SKY).
Classic specialist Philippe Gilbert (OLO), who led the UCI WorldTour drivers' standings at the start of the tour , was trusted to win at least one day on a medium stage. The French Sylvain Chavanel (QST), who was named the most active rider at the Tour de France 2010, Sandy Casar (FDJ), Thomas Voeckler (EUC) and also the Spaniard Juan Antonio Flecha (SKY), who had competed frequently in previous years had shown in escape groups, were considered promising contenders for a breakaway victory.
The only former winner of the spotted jersey in the touring line-up, Anthony Charteau (EUC), was given at most an outsider chance to repeat his triumph. This means that the mountain classification - also in view of the new regulations - was completely open before the start of the tour.
Stage overview
The route for the Tour de France 2011 was presented on October 19, 2010 by Tour Director Christian Prudhomme in Paris. Since the stage plan did not include a prologue, the final time trial on the penultimate day of the race, which has been common for several years, was the only individual time trial of this Tour de France. However, a team time trial was planned for 2011 again. The route plan also included ten flat stages, three mountainous stages and six high mountain stages with four mountain arrivals. A total of 23 climbs in categories 2, 1 and HC had to be mastered. The Col du Galibier was driven twice to mark the 100th anniversary of the first Alpine pass crossing.
After the “Grand Depart” on July 2nd in the Vendée department , in which the starting field crossed the Passage du Gois , the stages of the first week of the race led on mostly flat terrain through Brittany and Normandy . With a distance of 226.5 km, the longest section of this edition took place on July 7th.
The eighth stage led the peloton into the Massif Central , where two medium-difficult mountain stages were held before the first day of rest. After two more flat stages in the south of France, the tour reached the Pyrenees in the second half of the second week . Among other things, there was a mountain arrival on the Plateau de Beille . From Limoux , one of 15 debut stage cities, the 15th stage went along the Mediterranean coast to Montpellier .
The third week comprised four alpine stages. The 18th stage started in Pinerolo, Italy, and ended on the Col du Galibier at an altitude of 2,645 meters, the highest finish in the history of the Tour de France. The next mountain arrival took place on the tour legend L'Alpe d'Huez the next day .
The final individual time trial was held around Grenoble . The last stage began, as usual, near Paris and ended with the repeated circling of the Champs-Elysées.
Special features and anniversaries
Rule changes
In order to increase the tension in the fight for the green jersey for the leader in the points classification and the dotted jersey for the mountain classification , there were changes in the rules of the 2011 edition of the Tour de France:
- Scoring: There is only one intermediate sprint per stage, but this will be upgraded so that not only the first three drivers get points, but points are awarded up to 15th place as at the finish. The winner of the intermediate sprint receives 20 points. At the finish, the same procedure is used for the individual time trial and for mountain stages; the winner receives 30 points for medium-difficulty stages and 45 points for flat stages.
- Mountain scoring: The previous rule that the last mountain scoring of each stage is scored twice only applies to mountain arrivals. There were four of them in 2011. Overall, fewer mountain points are awarded to fewer drivers. For the highest category there are 20 points, for the other categories the winner receives ten, five, two or one point. A total of six, five, four, two or one driver receive points in the categories in descending order.
- Time credits: Since 2008 there have been no time bonuses for the overall ranking either for intermediate sprints or in the stage finish.
100 years of Col du Galibier
In the third week of the tour in 2011, the 100th anniversary of the first crossing of the Col du Galibier alpine pass was remembered. The inclusion of the Galibier in the 1911 Tour de France program was initiated by the tour's founder, Henri Desgrange , who has been honored for years when he regularly crosses the Galibier by giving the souvenir Henri Desgrange to the first rider at the top of the pass. Due to the anniversary in 2011, the pass was used both during the 18th (in the form of a mountain arrival) and during the 19th stage.
100 years of Gustave Garrigou
Since 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the Frenchman Gustave Garrigou 's victory on the Tour , this anniversary was especially celebrated on the 10th stage in his home town of Vabre-Tizac .
150 years of Italy
The tour came to Italy on July 20th. The occasion was the 150th anniversary of Italy's independence.
Ratings in the course of the tour
The table shows the leader in the respective classification or the wearers of the jerseys or shirt numbers at the end of the respective stage.
Notes on the table:
The 167th and last of the overall ranking (“ Lanterne Rouge ”) of the 2011 Tour de France was Fabio Sabatini from the Liquigas-Cannondale team . He finished the tour 3:57:43 hours behind.
doping
On July 11, 2011, the UCI announced that the Russian Alexander Kolobnew of the Katyusha team tested positive for the intake of the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide , which is often used to mask other doping substances, on the basis of a doping test from July 6 . The analysis of the B sample confirmed the doping result, whereupon Kolobnew was suspended by Katyusha.
See also
Web links
- Official website of the Tour de France (French, English, Spanish and German)
- Official history of the 2011 tour
- Tour de France 2011 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tour de France 2011 begins in the Vendée with Passage du Gois and team time trials . live-radsport.ch. January 27, 2010. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ↑ LiVE Radsport.ch: Starter list of the Tour de France 2011. July 2nd, 2011, accessed on July 12th, 2011 .
- ↑ letour.fr: Teams at the Tour de France 2011. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011 ; Retrieved July 12, 2011 .
- ^ T-Online: The ambitions of the 22 tour teams. Retrieved July 12, 2011 .
- ↑ a b letour.fr: route of the Tour de France 2011. Archived from the original on July 12, 2011 ; Retrieved July 16, 2011 .
- ↑ de.eurosport.yahoo.com: Tour de France - The jerseys & ratings of the tour. June 24, 2011, accessed July 3, 2011 .
- ↑ letour.fr: Regulations of the Tour de France, Article 26. (PDF; 904 KB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 3, 2011 (French, English). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ letour.fr: The Galibier calls forever . Archived from the original on July 13, 2011 ; Retrieved July 16, 2011 .
- ↑ ladepeche.fr: Vabre-Tizac. Tour de France: les 100 ans de Gustave Garrigou. Retrieved July 16, 2011 (French).
- ↑ ard.de: On Wednesday the tour climbs to Italy. Retrieved July 19, 2011 .
- ↑ The tour has its first doping case , Spiegel Online from July 11, 2011 (accessed on July 11, 2011)
- ↑ Tour: B-sample also positive - Kolobnew suspended , AFP report from July 20, 2011 (accessed on July 20, 2011).
