Tour de France 1910

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8th Tour de France 1910 - final score
Route length 15 stages, 4737 km
Tour winner Octave Lapize 63 P.
162: 41: 30 h
(29.116 km / h)
Second François Faber 67 P.
Third Gustave Garrigou 86 P.
Fourth Cyrille Van Hauwaert 97 P.
fifth Charles Cruchon 119 P.
Sixth Charles Crupelandt 148 P.
seventh Ernest Paul 154 P.
Eighth André Blaise 166 P.
Ninth Julien Maitron 171 P.
Tenth Aldo Bettini 175 p.
Route map of the Tour de France 1910
Octave Lapize at the Col du Tourmalet

The 1910 Tour de France lasted from July 3rd to 31st. The number of stages was increased from 14 to 15, of which 13 were identical to those of the previous year.

Race course

In contrast to previous years, there was a decisive change: the passes of the Pyrenees were overcome for the first time. A year earlier, the reporter Alphonse Steines had been sent to this then still wild area to explore forest and mountain pass roads that could also be traveled by bicycles. Because of his positive report, the Col de Portet-d'Aspet , Col de Peyresourde , Col d'Aspin , Col du Tourmalet and Col d'Aubisque were added to the program. The roads were mostly unpaved and the riders had to push their bikes partially. When the later stage winner Octave Lapize crossed the Col d'Aubisque, he was not particularly good at the organizers, including the journalist Victor Breyer , and cursed exhausted: “You damned murderer!” Gustave Garrigou received a special bonus of 100 francs because he had conquered the Tourmalet without getting off his bike. The sculpture Le Géant du Tourmalet is intended to commemorate this first crossing of the Tourmalet as part of the Tour de France.

Another innovation was the broom wagon , which collected the retired drivers and drove them to the finish. 69 out of 110 drivers had to use this "service". 41 drivers reached the destination. The race was characterized by the duel between last year's winner François Faber and Octave Lapize, who celebrated three or four stage wins. Faber led the overall classification from the 2nd to the 12th stage, but then Lapize benefited from a few falls by his competitor and finally won the tour. For the first time, three drivers from Algeria were at the start.

The tour was overshadowed by the death of the French racing driver Adolphe Hélière , who drowned while bathing during a rest day on the Côte d'Azur .

The stages

Stages Day Start finish km Stage winner Overall first
1st stage 3rd of July Paris - Roubaix 272 Charles Crupelandt Charles Crupelandt
2nd stage 5th July Roubaix - Metz (DR) 398 François Faber François Faber
3rd stage 7th of July Metz (DR) - Belfort 259 Émile Georget François Faber
4th stage July 9 Belfort - Lyon 309 François Faber François Faber
5th stage July 11th Lyon - Grenoble 311 Octave Lapize François Faber
6th stage July 13th Grenoble - Nice 345 Julien Maitron François Faber
7th stage 15th of July Nice - Nîmes 345 François Faber François Faber
8th stage 17th July Nîmes - Perpignan 216 Georges Paulmier François Faber
9th stage July 19 Perpignan - Luchon 289 Octave Lapize François Faber
10th stage 21 July Luchon - Bayonne 326 Octave Lapize François Faber
11th stage July 23 Bayonne - Bordeaux 269 Ernest Paul François Faber
12th stage July 25th Bordeaux - Nantes 391 Louis Trousselier François Faber
13th stage July 27th Nantes - Brest 321 Gustave Garrigou Octave Lapize
14th stage 29th of July Brest - Caen 424 Octave Lapize Octave Lapize
15th stage July 31 Caen - Paris 262 Ernesto Azzini Octave Lapize

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uitgeverij Worldstrip (Ed.): Tour Encyclopedie1903-1929 . Gent 1997, p. 48 .