Tour de France 1951

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38th Tour de France 1951 - final result
Route length 24 stages, 4692 km
Tour winner Hugo Koblet 142: 20: 14 h
(32.964 km / h)
Second Raphaël Géminiani + 22:00 min
Third Lucien Lazarides + 24:16 min
Fourth Gino Bartali + 29:09 min
fifth Stan Ockers + 32:53 min
Sixth Pierre Barbotin + 36:40 min
seventh Fiorenzo Magni + 39:14 min
Eighth Gilbert Bauvin + 45:53 min
Ninth Bernardo Ruiz + 45:55 min
Tenth Fausto Coppi + 46:51 min
Mountain scoring Raphaël Géminiani 66 P.
Second Gino Bartali 59 P.
Third Fausto Coppi
Hugo Koblet
Bernardo Ruiz		 41 P.
41 P.
41 P.
Team evaluation France

The 38th Tour de France took place from July 4th to 29th, 1951 and ran over 4692 km on 24 stages. For the first time since 1926 and only for the second time ever, Paris was not the starting point of the Tour de France. 123 racing drivers took part in the tour, 66 of which were classified.

Race course

Fausto Coppi , winner of the 1949 tour , did not do a good tour after his brother's fatal accident in a bicycle race and finished in tenth place in the end. Only on the 20th stage did he show his skills and became the stage winner after a solo escape.

In the first half of the tour there was no clear lead by a driver, various drivers wore the yellow jersey . The Dutchman Wim van Est was able to take the lead after his stage win on the twelfth section, the next day he had to give up after a fall. Gilbert Bauvin took over the lead from him , but only one day later the Swiss Hugo Koblet was able to take over the yellow jersey: In his third stage win on his first tour, he was able to outrun everyone except Coppi on the mountain stage to Luchon . Koblet had already won the first time trial and on the eleventh stage, on the stage to Agen after a solo escape over 135 km.

Koblet did not give up the lead in the overall standings until Paris, so that after Ferdy Kübler a Swiss can win the Tour de France for the second time in a row. Koblet even crowned his performance with two more stage wins.

The Frenchman Raphaël Géminiani , who was able to win a stage, was second in the overall standings, clearly behind the Swiss, but was able to win the mountain classification.

The stages

Stages Start finish km Stage winner Yellow jersey
1st stage Metz - Reims 185 Giovanni Rossi Giovanni Rossi
2nd stage Reims - Ghent ( BEL ) 228 Bim Diederich Bim Diederich
3rd stage Ghent (BEL) - Le Tréport 219 Georges Meurnier Bim Diederich
4th stage Le Tréport - Paris 188 Roger Levêque Bim Diederich
5th stage Paris - Caen 215 Serafino Biagioni Serafino Biagioni
6th stage Caen - Rennes 182 Edouard Muller Roger Levêque
7th stage La Guerche - Angers 85 ( EZF ) Hugo Koblet Roger Levêque
8th stage Angers - Limoges 241 André Rosseel Roger Levêque
9th stage Limoges - Clermont-Ferrand 236 Raphaël Géminiani Roger Levêque
10th stage Clermont-Ferrand - Brive-la-Gaillarde 216 Bernardo Ruiz Roger Levêque
11th stage Brive-la-Gaillarde- Agen 177 Hugo Koblet Roger Levêque
12th stage Agen - Dax 185 Wim van Est Wim van Est
13th stage Dax - Tarbes 201 Serafino Biagioni Gilbert Bauvin
14th stage Tarbes - Luchon 142 Hugo Koblet Hugo Koblet
15th stage Luchon - Carcassonne 213 André Rosseel Hugo Koblet
16th stage Carcassonne - Montpellier 192 Hugo Koblet Hugo Koblet
17th stage Montpellier - Avignon 224 Louison Bobet Hugo Koblet
18th stage Avignon - Marseille 173 Fiorenzo Magni Hugo Koblet
19th stage Marseille - Gap 208 Armand Baeyens Hugo Koblet
20th stage Gap - Briançon 165 Fausto Coppi Hugo Koblet
21st stage Briançon - Aix-les-Bains 201 Bernardo Ruiz Hugo Koblet
22nd stage Aix-les-Bains - Geneva ( CH ) 97 (EZF) Hugo Koblet Hugo Koblet
23rd stage Geneva (CH) - Dijon 197 Germain Derycke Hugo Koblet
24th stage Dijon - Paris 322 Adolphe Deladda Hugo Koblet

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