Tour de France 1952

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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
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

  1. ^ Walter Lemke: Fausto Coppi. 20 years of international cycling. Miesbach 1999. pp. 307f.

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