Tour de France 1912

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10th Tour de France 1912 - final score
Route length 15 stages, 5319 km
Tour winner Odiel Defraeye 49 p.
190: 30: 28 h
(27.920 km / h)
Second Eugène Christophe 108 P.
Third Gustave Garrigou 140 p.
Fourth Lucien Buysse 147 P.
fifth Jean Alavoine 148 P.
Sixth Philippe Thys 148 P.
seventh Hector Tiberghien 149 P.
Eighth Henry Devroye 163 P.
Ninth Félicien Salmon 166 P.
Tenth Alfons Spiessens 167 p.
Route map of the previous year's tour, corresponds approximately (except for a stretch of 25 km between Grenoble and Nice) to the route from 1912

The Tour de France 1912 took place from June 30th to July 28th. The stage locations were exactly the same as the year before; however, the route was a few kilometers shorter. For the last time, the winner was determined using a points system. Of 131 riders who started, only 41 finished the tour.

Race course

Lucien Petit-Breton , one of the favorites in the run-up to the tour, collided with a runaway cow on the second stage near Armentières and had to give up the race. The Belgian champion Odiel Defraeye already took the lead in the overall classification after the third stage and did not give it up until the end. Although could Eugène Christophe initially reduce the backlog thanks to three stage wins, but this was distancing critical of Defraeye in the first stage in the Pyrenees. On the same day, co-favorite Octave Lapize gave up the race, his teammates no longer competed. So the first tour victory by a Belgian was ultimately safe.

A technical innovation was the first use of the freewheel . Tour director Henri Desgrange , however, banned its use on some stages. In his opinion, the riders did not cover the effective distance because they were no longer forced to pedal constantly.

The stages

Stages Start finish km Stage winner Overall first
1st stage Paris - Dunkerque 351 Charles Crupelandt Charles Crupelandt
2nd stage Dunkerque - Longwy 388 Odiel Defraeye Vincenzo Borgarello
3rd stage Longwy - Belfort 331 Eugène Christophe Odiel Defraeye
4th stage Belfort - Chamonix 344 Eugène Christophe Odiel Defraeye
5th stage Chamonix - Grenoble 366 Eugène Christophe Odiel Defraeye
6th stage Grenoble - Nice 323 Octave Lapize Odiel Defraeye
7th stage Nice - Marseille 334 Odiel Defraeye Odiel Defraeye
8th stage Marseille - Perpignan 335 Vincenzo Borgarello Odiel Defraeye
9th stage Perpignan - Luchon 289 Odiel Defraeye Odiel Defraeye
10th stage Luchon - Bayonne 326 Louis Mottiat Odiel Defraeye
11th stage Bayonne - La Rochelle 379 Jean Alavoine Odiel Defraeye
12th stage La Rochelle - Brest 470 Louis Heusghem Odiel Defraeye
13th stage Brest - Cherbourg 405 Jean Alavoine Odiel Defraeye
14th stage Cherbourg - Le Havre 361 Vincenzo Borgarello Odiel Defraeye
15th stage Le Havre - Paris 317 Jean Alavoine Odiel Defraeye

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