Tour de France 1952
39th Tour de France 1952 - Final result | ||
Route length | 23 stages, 4827 km | |
Tour winner | Fausto Coppi | 151: 57: 20 h (31.766 km / h) |
Second | Stan Ockers | + 28:17 min |
Third | Bernardo Ruiz | + 34:38 min |
Fourth | Gino Bartali | + 35:25 min |
fifth | Jean Robic | + 35:36 min |
Sixth | Fiorenzo Magni | + 38:25 min |
seventh | Alexandre Close | + 38:32 min |
Eighth | Jean Dotto | + 48:01 min |
Ninth | Andrea Carrea | + 50:20 min |
Tenth | Antonio Gelabert | + 58:16 min |
Mountain scoring | Fausto Coppi | 92 P. |
Second | Antonio Gelabert | 69 P. |
Third | Jean Robic | 60 p. |
Team evaluation | Italy |
The 39th Tour de France ran from June 25 to July 19, 1952 on 23 stages over 4807 km. After the winners of previous years, the Swiss Ferdy Kübler and Hugo Koblet, could not take part in the tour due to injuries, the tour ended with a clear victory for Fausto Coppi , who had already won in 1949 . Like three years before, he managed the Double Tour - Giro d'Italia . 122 racing drivers took part in the tour, 78 of them were classified.
Race course
The Belgian classic specialist Rik Van Steenbergen won the first stage and took the overall lead, which he was only able to defend for one day. The yellow jersey changed hands five times up to the first mountain stage , then Fausto Coppi was able to take the lead with a stage win at the first mountain finish in L'Alpe d'Huez .
Coppi also won the stage the next day to Sestriere , as well as two more stages in the further course of the tour, including a finish on the Puy de Dôme . Due to his superiority in the mountains, Coppi celebrated a victory that was safe in the end and also won the mountain prize. On the stage to Monaco , Coppi's team-mate Gino Bartali , who was his fiercest rival in Coppi's first victory in 1949 , gave him his bike after a defect in order to keep Coppi's deficit within limits. At the end of the day, at the age of 38, Bartali finished fourth in the overall ranking.
The Frenchman Jean Robic , winner of 1947 , was also able to convince with a stage victory. However, it was not enough for a place on the podium because he had a flat tire on the stage to Sestrières - together with Coppi in the lead. His team boss was not around, however, Robic had to inflate his front tire several times and lost more than 10 minutes.
On the ninth stage, Andrea Carrea , a water carrier from Coppi, drove in a breakaway group with the eventual stage winner Walter Diggelmann and unexpectedly found himself wearing the yellow jersey . He only found out the news when he was already in the bathtub in the hotel, and the blind masseur Biagio Cavanna and other drivers pushed their way into the bathroom to congratulate him. However, Carrea burst into tears and asserted: "I really didn't want that ..." Only when Coppi personally assured him that he had earned the yellow jersey and also congratulated him, Carrea calmed down again.
TV pictures were shot on the line for the first time in 1952 and were broadcast on the same evening.
The stages
Stages | Start finish | km | Stage winner | Yellow jersey |
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1st stage | Brest - Rennes | 246 | Rik Van Steenbergen | Rik Van Steenbergen |
2nd stage | Rennes - Le Mans | 181 | André Rosseel | Rik Van Steenbergen |
3rd stage | Le Mans - Rouen | 189 | Nello Lauredi | Nello Lauredi |
4th stage | Rouen - Roubaix | 232 | Pierre Molineris | Nello Lauredi |
5th stage | Roubaix - Namur ( BEL ) | 197 | Bim Diederich | Nello Lauredi |
6th stage | Namur (BEL) - Metz | 228 | Fiorenzo Magni | Fiorenzo Magni |
7th stage | Metz - Nancy | 60 ( EZF ) | Fausto Coppi | Nello Lauredi |
8th stage | Nancy - Mulhouse | 252 | Raphaël Géminiani | Fiorenzo Magni |
9th stage | Mulhouse - Lausanne ( CH ) | 238 | Walter Diggelmann | Andrea Carrea |
10th stage | Lausanne (CH) - L'Alpe d'Huez | 266 | Fausto Coppi | Fausto Coppi |
11th stage | Le Bourg-d'Oisans - Sestriere ( ITA ) | 182 | Fausto Coppi | Fausto Coppi |
12th stage | Sestriere (ITA) - Monaco | 251 | Jan Nolten | Fausto Coppi |
13th stage | Monaco - Aix-en-Provence | 214 | Raoul Remy | Fausto Coppi |
14th stage | Aix-en-Provence - Avignon | 178 | Jean Robic | Fausto Coppi |
15th stage | Avignon - Perpignan | 275 | Georges Decaux | Fausto Coppi |
16th stage | Perpignan - Toulouse | 200 | André Rosseel | Fausto Coppi |
17th stage | Toulouse - Bagneres-de-Bigorre | 204 | Raphaël Géminiani | Fausto Coppi |
18th stage | Bagnères-de-Bigorre - Pau | 149 | Fausto Coppi | Fausto Coppi |
19th stage | Pau - Bordeaux | 195 | Hans Dekkers | Fausto Coppi |
20th stage | Bordeaux - Limoges | 228 | Jacques Vivier | Fausto Coppi |
21st stage | Limoges - Puy de Dôme | 245 | Fausto Coppi | Fausto Coppi |
22nd stage | Clermont-Ferrand - Vichy | 63 (EZF) | Fiorenzo Magni | Fausto Coppi |
23rd stage | Vichy - Paris | 354 | Antonin Rolland | Fausto Coppi |
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Lemke: Fausto Coppi. 20 years of international cycling. Miesbach 1999. pp. 307f.
Web links
- Tour de France 1952 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- radsport-seite.de for the 1952 tour