Tour de France 1949

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36th Tour de France 1949 - final result
Route length 21 stages, 4810 km
Tour winner Fausto Coppi 149: 40: 49 h
(32.135 km / h)
Second Gino Bartali + 10:55 min
Third Jacques Marinelli + 25:13 min
Fourth Jean Robic + 34:28 min
fifth Marcel Dupont + 38:59 min
Sixth Fiorenzo Magni + 42:10 min
seventh Stan Ockers + 44:35 min
Eighth Jean Goldschmit + 47:24 min
Ninth Jean Lazaridès + 52:28 min
Tenth Pierre Cogan + 1:08:55 h
Mountain scoring Fausto Coppi 81 P.
Second Gino Bartali 68 P.
Third Jean Robic 63 P.
Team evaluation Italy

The 36th Tour de France led from June 30 to July 21, 1949 on 21 stages over 4808 km and ended with an Italian double victory. 120 racing drivers took part in the tour, 55 of which were classified.

Race course

On the fifth stage, which the Swiss Ferdy Kübler won, the Italian Fausto Coppi fell and was a big deficit. At the foot of the Pyrenees, Coppi was half an hour behind the top in the overall standings and began his race to catch up with a win in the first time trial.

In the Alps, Coppi's farmer Gino Bartali took over the yellow jersey with a stage win on stage 16 . But last year's winner only had one day's lead in the overall standings before Coppi overtook Bartali with a stage win the next day. After he had also won the second time trial, Coppi reached the finish in Paris with a lead of 10 minutes on his pursuer.

Coppi also won the mountain classification ahead of Bartali; He also benefited in the overall standings from his strong performance on the mountain, as time credits were awarded on the passes and mountain arrivals. Coppi had already won the Giro d'Italia in spring 1949 . This made him the first cyclist to achieve a double tour and giro victory in the same year.

The stages

Fausto Coppi
Stages Start finish km Stage winner Yellow jersey
1st stage Paris - Reims 182 Marcel Dussault Marcel Dussault
2nd stage Reims - Brussels ( BEL ) 273 Roger Lambrecht Roger Lambrecht
3rd stage Brussels (BEL) - Boulogne-sur-Mer 211 Norbert Callens Norbert Callens
4th stage Boulogne-sur-Mer - Rouen 185 Lucien Teisseire Jacques Marinelli
5th stage Rouen - Saint Malo 293 Ferdy Kübler Jacques Marinelli
6th stage Saint-Malo - Les Sables-d'Olonne 305 Alphonse Deledda Jacques Marinelli
7th stage Les Sables-d'Olonne - La Rochelle 92 ( EZF ) Fausto Coppi Jacques Marinelli
8th stage La Rochelle - Bordeaux 262 Guy Lapébie Jacques Marinelli
9th stage Bordeaux - San Sebastian ( ESP ) 228 Louis Caput Jacques Marinelli
10th stage San Sebastián (ESP) - Pau 192 Fiorenzo Magni Fiorenzo Magni
11th stage Pau - Luchon 193 Jean Robic Fiorenzo Magni
12th stage Luchon - Toulouse 134 Rik Van Steenbergen Fiorenzo Magni
13th stage Toulouse - Nîmes 289 Émile Idée Fiorenzo Magni
14th stage Nîmes - Marseille 199 Jean Goldschmidt Fiorenzo Magni
15th stage Marseille - Cannes 215 Désiré Keteleer Fiorenzo Magni
16th stage Cannes - Briançon 275 Gino Bartali Gino Bartali
17th stage Briançon - Aosta ( ITA ) 257 Fausto Coppi Fausto Coppi
18th stage Aosta (ITA) - Lausanne ( CH ) 265 Vincenzo Rossello Fausto Coppi
19th stage Lausanne (CH) - Colmar 283 Raphaël Géminiani Fausto Coppi
20th stage Colmar - Nancy 137 (EZF) Fausto Coppi Fausto Coppi
21st stage Nancy - Paris 340 Rik Van Steenbergen Fausto Coppi

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