Tour de France 1924
| 18th Tour de France 1924 - final score | ||
| Route length | 15 stages, 5425 km | |
| Tour winner | Ottavio Bottecchia | 226: 18: 21 h (23.972 km / h) |
| Second | Nicolas Frantz | + 35:36 min |
| Third | Lucien Buysse | + 1:32:13 h |
| Fourth | Bartolomeo Aimo | + 1:32:47 h |
| fifth | Theophile Beeckman | + 2:11:12 h |
| Sixth | Joseph Muller | + 2:35:33 h |
| seventh | Arshne Alancourt | + 2:41:31 h |
| Eighth | Romain Bellenger | + 2:51:09 h |
| Ninth | Omer Huyse | + 2:58:13 h |
| Tenth | Hector Tiberghien | + 3:05:04 h |
The 18th Tour de France took place from June 22nd to July 20th, 1924 and covered 15 stages over 5425 km.
The route took the drivers from Paris to the west and along the Atlantic coast towards the Pyrenees . From there, the route ran along the Mediterranean to Nice , from where the course led over the Alps and then further north to Dunkerque . The destination of the tour was in Paris. 60 of the 157 participants were classified.
Race course
The Italian Ottavio Bottecchia dominated the 18th Tour de France from the start. After he was able to win the first stage, he did not give up the lead in the overall standings until the finish. Bottecchia's average speed during the entire tour was 23.972 km / h.
In the course of the tour, Bottecchia won four stages and benefited from the increase in the time bonus to three minutes for the stage winner.
Last year's winner Henri Pélissier got out together with his brother Francis and their friend Maurice Ville after the third stage to protest against the petty rule interpretation. Following their exit, they gave the journalist Albert Londres an interview in which they complained about the rigors of the tour and also emptied doping agents from their pockets on the table and explained them.
The stages
| Stages | Start finish | km | Stage winner | Yellow jersey |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st stage | Paris - Le Havre | 381 | Ottavio Bottecchia | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 2nd stage | Le Havre - Cherbourg | 371 | Romain Bellenger | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 3rd stage | Cherbourg - Brest | 405 | Theophile Beeckman | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 4th stage | Brest - Les Sables-d'Olonne | 412 | Félix Goethals | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 5th stage | Les Sables-d'Olonne - Bayonne | 482 | Omer Huyse | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 6th stage | Bayonne - Luchon | 326 | Ottavio Bottecchia | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 7th stage | Luchon - Perpignan | 323 | Ottavio Bottecchia | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 8th stage | Perpignan - Toulon | 427 | Louis Mottiat | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 9th stage | Toulon - Nice | 280 | Philippe Thys | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 10th stage | Nice - Briançon | 275 | Giovanni Brunero | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 11th stage | Briançon - Gex | 307 | Nicolas Frantz | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 12th stage | Gex - Strasbourg | 360 | Nicolas Frantz | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 13th stage | Strasbourg - Metz | 300 | Arsène Alancourt | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 14th stage | Metz - Dunkerque | 433 | Romain Bellenger | Ottavio Bottecchia |
| 15th stage | Dunkerque - Paris | 343 | Ottavio Bottecchia | Ottavio Bottecchia |
Web links
- Tour de France 1924 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- radsport-seite.de for the 1924 tour
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Londres: Les frères Pélissier et leur camarade Ville abandonnent. In: Le Petit Parisien. June 27, 1924 ( digitized version ( 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 .; PDF; 46 kB)
