Tour de France 1954
41st Tour de France 1954 - final result | ||
Route length | 23 stages, 4,865.4 km | |
Tour winner | Louison Bobet | 140: 06: 05 h (34.728 km / h) |
Second | Ferdy Kübler | + 15:49 min |
Third | Fritz Schär | + 21:46 min |
Fourth | Jean Dotto | + 28:21 min |
fifth | Jean Malléjac | + 31:38 min |
Sixth | Stan Ockers | + 36:02 min |
seventh | Louis Bergaud | + 37:55 min |
Eighth | Vincent Vitetta | + 41:14 min |
Ninth | Jean Brankart | + 42:08 min |
Tenth | Gilbert Bauvin | + 42:21 min |
Green jersey | Ferdy Kübler | 215.5 p. |
Second | Stan Ockers | 284.5 p. |
Third | Fritz Schär | 286.5 p. |
Mountain scoring | Federico Bahamontes | 95 p. |
Second | Louison Bobet | 53 P. |
Third | Richard van Genechten | 46 P. |
Team evaluation | Switzerland |
The 41st Tour de France took place from July 8th to August 1st, 1954 and covered 23 stages over 4,669 km. For the first time, the tour did not start in France: the 110 participants started in Amsterdam , 69 of whom arrived in Paris. Italy did not provide a team after disagreements with the tour management.
Race course
Wout Wagtmans from the Netherlands won the first stage and took over the yellow jersey . After a stage win on the second stage and a good team time trial , last year's winner Louison Bobet took over the overall lead.
However, Wagtmans regained the lead when he crossed the finish line with a breakaway group on stage 8. But already on the first mountain stage in the Pyrenees he lost the yellow jersey to the unknown Gilbert Bauvin , who two days later had to pass it on to his French compatriot Bobet.
As in the previous year, Bobet attacked at Col d'Izoard and won after a solo escape. With this he laid the foundation stone for his tour victory, he made his second tour success in series with the victory in the individual time trial.
Even if the Swiss team around Ferdy Kübler , Hugo Koblet and Fritz Schär put Bobet under pressure and at the end of the tour took the other two podium places behind Bobet, the lead of over a quarter of an hour testifies to Bobet's dominance, even if the co-favorites Koblet and Jean Robic had to give up after falling.
Kübler, second overall and two-time stage winner, won the green jersey . The mountain classification was won by the Spanish climbing artist Federico Bahamontes .
The stages
Stages | Start finish | km | Stage winner | Yellow jersey |
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1st stage | Amsterdam ( NL ) - Brasschaat ( BEL ) | 216 | Wout Wagtmans | Wout Wagtmans |
2nd stage | Beveren (BEL) - Lille | 255 | Louison Bobet | Wout Wagtmans |
3rd stage | Lille - Rouen | 219 | Marcel Dussault | Wout Wagtmans |
4th stage (a) | Rouen - Circuit des Essarts | 10.4 ( MZF ) | Team Switzerland | Louison Bobet |
4th stage (b) | Rouen - Caen | 131 | Wim van Est | Louison Bobet |
5th stage | Caen - Saint-Brieuc | 224 | Ferdy Kübler | Louison Bobet |
6th stage | Saint-Brieuc - Brest | 179 | Dominique Forlini | Louison Bobet |
7th stage | Brest - Vannes | 211 | Jacques Vivier | Louison Bobet |
8th stage | Vannes - Angers | 190 | Fred De Bruyne | Wout Wagtmans |
9th stage | Angers - Bordeaux | 343 | Henk Faanhof | Wout Wagtmans |
10th stage | Bordeaux - Bayonne | 202 | Gilbert Bauvin | Wout Wagtmans |
11th stage | Bayonne - Pau | 241 | Stan Ockers | Wout Wagtmans |
12th stage | Pau - Luchon | 161 | Gilbert Bauvin | Gilbert Bauvin |
13th stage | Luchon - Toulouse | 203 | Fred De Bruyne | Gilbert Bauvin |
14th stage | Toulouse - Millau | 225 | Ferdy Kübler | Louison Bobet |
15th stage | Millau - Le Puy-en-Velay | 197 | Dominique Forlini | Louison Bobet |
16th stage | Le Puy-en-Velay - Lyon | 194 | Jean Forestier | Louison Bobet |
17th stage | Lyon - Grenoble | 182 | Lucien Lazarides | Louison Bobet |
18th stage | Grenoble - Briançon | 216 | Louison Bobet | Louison Bobet |
19th stage | Briançon - Aix-les-Bains | 221 | Jean Dotto | Louison Bobet |
20th stage | Aix-les-Bains - Besançon | 243 | Lucien Teisseire | Louison Bobet |
21st stage (a) | Besançon - Épinal | 134 | François Mahé | Louison Bobet |
21st stage (b) | Épinal - Nancy | 72 ( EZF ) | Louison Bobet | Louison Bobet |
22nd stage | Nancy - Troyes | 216 | Fred De Bruyne | Louison Bobet |
23rd stage | Troyes - Paris | 180 | Robert Varnajo | Louison Bobet |
Web links
- Tour de France 1954 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- radsport-seite.de for the 1954 tour