Tour de France 1955
42nd Tour de France 1955 - final result | ||
Route length | 22 stages, 4,476.1 km | |
Tour winner | Louison Bobet | 130: 29: 26 h (34.302 km / h) |
Second | Jean Brankart | + 4:53 min |
Third | Charly Gaul | + 11:30 min |
Fourth | Pasquale Fornara | + 12:44 min |
fifth | Antonin Rolland | + 13:18 min |
Sixth | Raphaël Géminiani | + 15:01 min |
seventh | Giancarlo Astrua | + 18:13 min |
Eighth | Stan Ockers | + 27:13 min |
Ninth | Alexandre Close | + 31:10 min |
Tenth | François Mahé | + 36:27 min |
Green jersey | Stan Ockers | 322 P. |
Second | Wout Wagtmans | 399 P. |
Third | Miguel Poblet | 409 P. |
Mountain scoring | Charly Gaul | 84 P. |
Second | Louison Bobet | 70 p. |
Third | Jean Brankart | 44 P. |
Team evaluation | France |
The 42nd Tour de France took place from July 7th to 30th, 1955 and covered 22 stages over 4,476 km. The tour ended with the third win in a row for Frenchman Louison Bobet . 130 racing drivers took part in the tour, 69 of which were classified.
Race course
On the second stage, Antonin Rolland won out of a leading group, which enabled him to take the lead in the overall standings. Before the mountains he was more than ten minutes ahead of the favorites, so he was allowed to wear the yellow jersey up to the 16th stage. He only had to hand it over to Wim van Est for one stage , who lost time on Rolland the next day.
On the first stages Louison Bobet, winner of 1953 and 1954 , gained a small lead over his fiercest competitors. Especially on the 11th stage to Avignon via Mont Ventoux , the Bobet, weakened by an injury in the seat area, left all competitors behind after a long solo escape and won the stage. Before that, Bobet had to watch how the 22-year-old Charly Gaul from Luxembourg won Bobet's favorite stage to Briançon , where he had laid the foundation for his tour victories in the previous two years.
Next to Gaul, the Frenchman Jean Brankart was Bobet's biggest competitor. After taking it off for almost two minutes in the last time trial, he came within less than five minutes of the eventual tour winner. In the end, Gaul was able to win the mountain classification ahead of Bobet , the Belgian Stan Ockers won the green jersey .
Photos of the finish line were taken for the first time in 1955 in order to be able to find the right stage winner in the event of tight decisions.
The stages
Stages | Start finish | km | Stage winner | Yellow jersey |
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1st stage (a) | Le Havre - Dieppe | 102 | Miguel Poblet | Miguel Poblet |
1st stage (b) | Dieppe - Dieppe | 12.5 ( MZF ) | Team Netherlands | Miguel Poblet |
2nd stage | Dieppe - Roubaix | 204 | Antonin Rolland | Wout Wagtmans |
3rd stage | Roubaix - Namur ( BEL ) | 210 | Louison Bobet | Wout Wagtmans |
4th stage | Namur (BEL) - Metz | 225 | Willy Kemp | Antonin Rolland |
5th stage | Metz - Colmar | 229 | Roger Hassenforder | Antonin Rolland |
6th stage | Colmar - Zurich ( CH ) | 195 | André Darrigade | Antonin Rolland |
7th stage | Zurich (CH) - Thonon-les-Bains | 267 | Jos Hinsen | Wim van Est |
8th stage | Thonon-les-Bains - Briançon | 253 | Charly Gaul | Antonin Rolland |
9th stage | Briançon - Monaco | 275 | Raphaël Géminiani | Antonin Rolland |
10th stage | Monaco - Marseille | 240 | Lucien Lazarides | Antonin Rolland |
11th stage | Marseille - Avignon | 198 | Louison Bobet | Antonin Rolland |
12th stage | Avignon - Millau | 240 | Alessandro Fantini | Antonin Rolland |
13th stage | Millau - Albi | 205 | Daan de Groot | Antonin Rolland |
14th stage | Albi - Narbonne | 156 | Louis Caput | Antonin Rolland |
15th stage | Narbonne - Ax-les-Thermes | 151 | Luciano Pezzi | Antonin Rolland |
16th stage | Ax-les-Thermes - Toulouse | 123 | Rik Van Steenbergen | Antonin Rolland |
17th stage | Toulouse - Saint-Gaudens | 249 | Charly Gaul | Louison Bobet |
18th stage | Saint-Gaudens- Pau | 206 | Jean Brankart | Louison Bobet |
19th stage | Pau - Bordeaux | 195 | Wout Wagtmans | Louison Bobet |
20th stage | Bordeaux - Poitiers | 243 | Jean Forestier | Louison Bobet |
21st stage | Châtellerault - Tours | 68.6 ( EZF ) | Jean Brankart | Louison Bobet |
22nd stage | Tours - Paris | 229 | Miguel Poblet | Louison Bobet |
Web links
- Tour de France 1955 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- radsport-seite.de for the 1955 tour