Tour DuPont

The Tour DuPont is a former cycling race in the United States , which took place six times between 1991 and 1996. The stage race was originally intended to be a similarly large and prestigious cycling event for North America as the Tour de France in France. The tour name can be derived from the sponsor DuPont . The race took place in different locations in the Mid-Atlantic States, mostly near DuPont's headquarters in Delaware . The forerunner event of the Tour DuPont in 1989 and 1990 was the Tour de Trump sponsored by Donald Trump .

Prominent racing drivers such as Lance Armstrong and Greg LeMond were able to win the race, and top-class European cycling teams also completed it. After the sixth race in 1996, the sponsor DuPont stopped its financial support and the tour has not taken place since then.

Tour winner

year	driver	team
1991	Erik Breukink	PDM Concorde
1992	Greg LeMond	Z
1993	Raúl Alcalá	WordPerfect
1994	Viatcheslav Ekimov	WordPerfect
1995	Lance Armstrong	Motorola
1996	Lance Armstrong	Motorola

The six events

Debut year 1991

The table shows the leader in the respective classification at the beginning of the respective stage.
stage	Yellow jersey
01st stage	Erik Breukink
02nd stage	Patrik Roelandt
03rd stage	Greg Oravetr
04th stage
05th stage
06th stage	Atle Kvålsvoll
07th stage
08th stage
09th stage
10th stage
11th stage	Erik Breukink
winner	Erik Breukink

• The long-time leader in the overall standings Atle Kvålsvoll lost the yellow jersey to the eventual winner Erik Breukink in the 26.7 km time trial .
• Steve Bauer and Rolf Aldag were able to win two stages each.

1992

The table shows the leader in the respective classification at the beginning of the respective stage.
stage	Yellow jersey
01st stage	Greg LeMond
02nd stage	David Mann
03rd stage
04th stage
05th stage
06th stage	Atle Kvålsvoll
07th stage
08th stage	Greg LeMond
09th stage
10th stage
11th stage
winner	Greg LeMond

• Like last year, the prologue winner was able to take the overall victory.
• The team-mate of winner Greg LeMond, Atle Kvålsvoll finished second overall, just like last year.

1993

Jelle Nijdam won the prologue in a new record time, his teammate Raúl Alcalá secured overall victory by winning the 59 km time trial. Lance Armstrong was runner-up overall .

1994

Overall result of the Tour DuPont 1994

Yellow jersey	Viatcheslav Ekimov	WordPerfect	47:14:29 h
Second	Lance Armstrong	Motorola	+ 1:24 min
Third	Andrea Peron	Polti	+ 2:43 min
Team evaluation	Motorola		141: 34: 14 h
Second	Polti		+ 1:36 min
Third	Saturn		+ 9:37 min

1995

The table shows the leader in the respective classification at the beginning of the respective stage.
stage	winner	Yellow jersey
prolog	Gianluca Bortolami	not forgiven
02nd stage	Malcolm Elliott	Gianluca Bortolami
03rd stage	Djamolidin Abdujaparov	Malcolm Elliott
04th stage	Lance Armstrong
05th stage ( ITT )	Lance Armstrong	Lance Armstrong
06th stage	Franck Jarno
07th stage	Léon van Bon
08th stage	Clark Sheehan
09th stage	Lance Armstrong
10th stage	?
11th stage ( ITT )	Viatcheslav Ekimov
winner	-	Lance Armstrong

Overall result of the Tour DuPont 1995

Yellow jersey	Lance Armstrong	Motorola	46:31:16 h (Ø 39.13 km / h)
Second	Viatcheslav Ekimov	Novell	+ 02:00 min
Third	Andrea Peron	Motorola	+ 02:56 min
Fourth	Alvaro Mejia	Motorola	+ 06:24 min
fifth	Daniele Nardello	Mapei GB	+ 08:47 min
Sixth	Andrei Teteriok	AKI-Gipiemme	+ 09:12 min
seventh	Laurent Madouas	Castorama	+ 09:30 min
Eighth	Darren Baker	Montgomery Bell	+ 10:54 min
Ninth	Zenon Jaskuła	AKI-Gipiemme	+ 12:12 min
Tenth	Michael Blaudzun	Novell	+ 12:17 min

1996

Overall result of Tour DuPont 1996

Yellow jersey	Lance Armstrong	Motorola	48:20:05 h
Second	Pascal Hervé	Festina	+ 3:15 min
Third	Tony Rominger	Mapei GB	+ 5:38 min
Fourth	David Plaza	Festina	+ 7:24 min
fifth	Jean-Cyril Robin	Festina	+ 7:26 min
Sixth	Andrew Hampsten	US Postal Service	+ 7:43 min
seventh	Arsenio Gonzalez	Mapei GB	+ 7:59 min
Eighth	Felix Garcia-Casas	Festina	+ 8:06 min
Ninth	Federico Echave	Mapei GB	+ 8:27 min
Tenth	Axel Merckx	Motorola	+ 8:52 min
Sprint jersey	Léon van Bon	Rabobank
King of the Mountain	Tony Rominger	Mapei GB
Most combative driver	Pascal Hervé	Festina