Tour de France 1920

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14th Tour de France 1920 - final score
Route length 15 stages, 5503 km
Tour winner Philippe Thys 228: 36: 13 h
(24.072 km / h)
Second Hector Heusghem + 57:21 min
Third Firmin Lambot + 1:39:35 h
Fourth Léon Scieur + 1:44:58 h
fifth Émile Masson Sr. + 2:56:52 h
Sixth Louis Heusghem + 3:40:47 h
seventh Jean Rossius + 3:49:55 h
Eighth Honoré Barthélémy + 5:35:19 h
Ninth Félix Goethals + 9:23:07 h
Tenth Joseph Vandaele + 10:45:41 h
Route map of the Tour de France 1920

The 14th Tour de France took place with 15 stages from June 27 to July 25, 1920. 113 drivers took part in the tour, but only 22 made it to the finish.

Race course

The tour started in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil , the destination was the Parisian Parc des Princes . The route took the participants first to the west, then to the Pyrenees , to the French Mediterranean coast and over the Alps to Paris.

The Belgian Philippe Thys was able to prevail as the favorite and win his third Tour de France. For the 5503 km, Thys achieved an average of 24.132 km / h. He was also able to benefit from the fact that numerous competitors for victory, including Eugène Christophe , Jean Alavoine and the brothers Henri and Francis Pélissier , gave up prematurely.

Tour guide Henri Desgrange accused Henri Pélissier of not being capable of suffering enough. The French Honoré Barthélémy suffered a broken shoulder in a fall, but still drove the tour to the end. He finished eighth in the overall standings and was therefore the best French, and the first to seventh places were occupied by Belgians.

For the first time, some stages of the tour were decided in a sprint.

The stages

Stages Start finish km Stage winner Yellow jersey
1st stage Argenteuil - Le Havre 388 Louis Mottiat Louis Mottiat
2nd stage Le Havre - Cherbourg 364 Philippe Thys Philippe Thys
3rd stage Cherbourg - Brest 405 Henri Pélissier Philippe Thys
4th stage Brest - Les Sables-d'Olonne 412 Henri Pélissier Philippe Thys
5th stage Les Sables-d'Olonne - Bayonne 482 Firmin Lambot Philippe Thys
6th stage Bayonne - Luchon 326 Firmin Lambot Philippe Thys
7th stage Luchon - Perpignan 323 Jean Rossius Philippe Thys
8th stage Perpignan - Aix-en-Provence 325 Louis Heusghem Philippe Thys
9th stage Aix-en-Provence - Nice 356 Philippe Thys Philippe Thys
10th stage Nice - Grenoble 333 Hector Heusghem Philippe Thys
11th stage Grenoble - Gex 362 Léon Scieur Philippe Thys
12th stage Gex - Strasbourg 354 Philippe Thys Philippe Thys
13th stage Strasbourg - Metz 300 Philippe Thys Philippe Thys
14th stage Metz - Dunkerque 433 Félix Goethals Philippe Thys
15th stage Dunkerque - Paris 340 Jean Rossius Philippe Thys

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