Tour de France 1929
| 23rd Tour de France 1929 - final result | ||
| Route length | 22 stages, 5256 km | |
| Tour winner | Maurice De Waele | 186: 39: 16 h (28.159 km / h) |
| Second | Giuseppe Pancera | + 44:23 min |
| Third | Jef Demuysere | + 57:10 min |
| Fourth | Salvador Cardona | + 57:46 min |
| fifth | Nicolas Frantz | + 58:00 min |
| Sixth | Louis de Lannoy | + 1:06:09 h |
| seventh | Antonin Magne | + 1:08:00 h |
| Eighth | Julien Vervaecke | + 2:01:37 h |
| Ninth | Pierre Magne | + 2:03:00 h |
| Tenth | Gaston Rebry | + 2:17:49 h |
The 23rd Tour de France took place from June 30th to July 28th 1929 and comprised 22 stages. 155 racing drivers took part, 60 of them were classified. For the first time there was radio broadcasts of the race.
route
The 23rd Tour de France first led from the French capital Paris to Brittany, then along the Atlantic coast to the Pyrenees and from there along the Mediterranean. From Nice , the course went to Malo-les-Bains in northern France , from where the drivers drove to their destination in Paris. The winner covered the 5286 km with an average speed of 28.320 km / h.
Race course
Nicolas Frantz , winner of 1927 and 1928 , started the race as a big favorite , and the winner of 1926 , Lucien Buysse , was also hoping for another victory.
Initially, the favorites were close together, so that after the seventh stage, three drivers were ahead in the overall standings: Nicolas Frantz, André Leducq , Victor Fontan . So the novelty arose that three drivers started wearing the yellow jersey. On the tenth stage, Victor Fontan, who was wearing the yellow jersey at the time , broke the fork of his bike. However, according to a rule that was abolished after this tour, the participants had to come to the finish on the bike they started with. So Fontan went from house to house to borrow a bike so that he could still cover the 145 km to the destination. With his broken bike on his back, he finally reached the stage's destination in tears and gave up the race.
Through Fontan's task, the Belgian Maurice De Waele took the lead and was able to defend it as far as Paris. On the stage to Belfort , however, he was weakened by an illness and could only survive the day with the help of his teammates. Henri Desgrange , director of the tour, later said that they had "had a corpse won" and that the result was "not the sporting truth." In order to put the drivers more on their own, national teams were introduced from 1930 onwards.
On the final stage, Jef Demuysere was given a 25-minute penalty after consuming a prohibited drink. As a result, he lost his second place in the overall standings to the Italian Giuseppe Pancera . André Leducq was able to win five stages.
The stages
| Stages | Start finish | km | Stage winner | Yellow jersey |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st stage | Paris - Caen | 206 | Aimé Dossche | Aimé Dossche |
| 2nd stage | Caen - Cherbourg | 140 | André Leducq | Aimé Dossche |
| 3rd stage | Cherbourg - Dinan | 199 | Omer tavern | Aimé Dossche |
| 4th stage | Dinan - Brest | 206 | Louis Delannoy | Maurice De Waele |
| 5th stage | Brest - Vannes | 208 | Gustaaf van Slembrouck | Maurice De Waele |
| 6th stage | Vannes - Les Sables-d'Olonne | 204 | Paul Le Drogo | Maurice De Waele |
| 7th stage | Les Sables-d'Olonne - Bordeaux | 285 | Nicolas Frantz | Nicolas Frantz André Leducq Victor Fontan |
| 8th stage | Bordeaux - Bayonne | 182 | Julien Moineau | Gaston Rebry |
| 9th stage | Bayonne - Luchon | 363 | Salvador Cardona | Victor Fontan |
| 10th stage | Luchon - Perpignan | 323 | Jef Demuysere | Maurice De Waele |
| 11th stage | Perpignan - Marseille | 366 | André Leducq | Maurice De Waele |
| 12th stage | Marseille - Cannes | 191 | Marcel Bidot | Maurice De Waele |
| 13th stage | Cannes - Nice | 133 | Benoit Faure | Maurice De Waele |
| 14th stage | Nice - Grenoble | 333 | Gaston Rebry | Maurice De Waele |
| 15th stage | Grenoble - Evian-les-Bains | 329 | Julien Vervaecke | Maurice De Waele |
| 16th stage | Evian-les-Bains - Belfort | 283 | Charles Pélissier | Maurice De Waele |
| 17th stage | Belfort - Strasbourg | 145 | André Leducq | Maurice De Waele |
| 18th stage | Strasbourg - Metz | 165 | André Leducq | Maurice De Waele |
| 19th stage | Metz - Charleville-Mezieres | 159 | Bernard van Rysselberghe | Maurice De Waele |
| 20th stage | Charleville-Mézières - Malo-les-Bains | 270 | Maurice De Waele | Maurice De Waele |
| 21st stage | Malo-les-Bains - Dieppe | 234 | André Leducq | Maurice De Waele |
| 22nd stage | Dieppe - Paris | 332 | Nicolas Frantz | Maurice De Waele |
Web links
- Tour de France 1929 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- radsport-seite.de for the 1929 tour