Tour de France 1956
43rd Tour de France 1956 - final result | ||
Route length | 22 stages, 4,527.1 km | |
Tour winner | Roger Walkowiak | 124: 01: 16 h (36.503 km / h) |
Second | Gilbert Bauvin | + 1:25 min |
Third | Jan Adriaensens | + 3:44 min |
Fourth | Federico Bahamontes | + 10:14 min |
fifth | Nino Defilippis | + 10:25 min |
Sixth | Wout Wagtmans | + 10:59 min |
seventh | Nello Lauredi | + 14:01 min |
Eighth | Stan Ockers | + 16:25 min |
Ninth | René private | + 22:59 min |
Tenth | Antonio Barbosa | + 26:03 min |
Green jersey | Stan Ockers | 280 p. |
Second | Fernand Picot | 464 P. |
Third | Gerrit Voorting | 465 P. |
Mountain scoring | Charly Gaul | 71 P. |
Second | Federico Bahamontes | 67 P. |
Third | Valentin Huot | 65 p. |
Team evaluation | Belgium |
The 43rd Tour de France took place from July 5 to 28, 1956 and covered 22 stages over 4,498 km. The tour ended with the surprise victory of the Frenchman Roger Walkowiak from the regional team "Northeast France". Louison Bobet , who had previously won the tour for three years in a row, had not started, and Fausto Coppi and Ferdy Kübler were also absent . 120 racing drivers took part in the tour, 88 of which were classified.
Race course
The Frenchman André Darrigade won the first stage and then wore the yellow jersey on the flat stages . In the meantime, he only had to leave it to the Belgian Gilbert Desmet on two stages .
On the seventh stage to Angers , a breakaway group of 31 riders who were not rated as strong and who had a lead of around 19 minutes formed. Roger Walkowiak took the lead. However, the favorites around Charly Gaul underestimated the strength of the runaway riders in the mountains and could no longer catch up.
Walkowiak lost the lead on the stage to Bayonne and fought back in the Alps. In the meantime, Jan Adriaensens from Belgium and the Dutchman Wout Wagtmans , who were also represented in the large breakaway group of the seventh stages, took over the jersey. In the end, Adriaensens came in third. In front of him was the Frenchman Gilbert Bauvin , who had done a strong time trial on the penultimate stage and came within 1:25 of the leading Walkowiak. Bauvin had lost the crucial time on Walkowiak after a fall in the Pyrenees.
Charly Gaul , who was unable to intervene in the battle for overall victory, won two stages and the mountain classification. The green jersey won as in the previous year , the Belgian Stan Ockers . The Frenchman Roger Hassenforder was able to convince with four stage wins, including one victory after an 187 km solo escape on the stage from Lyon to Montluçon .
Walkowiak won the tour without a single stage win and set a new record for average speed with 36.268 km / h.
The stages
Stages | Start finish | km | Stage winner | Yellow jersey |
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1st stage | Reims - Liège ( BEL ) | 223 | André Darrigade | André Darrigade |
2nd stage | Liege (BEL) - Lille | 217 | Fred De Bruyne | André Darrigade |
3rd stage | Lille - Rouen | 225 | Arrigo Padovan | Gilbert Desmet |
4th stage (a) | Circuit des Essarts | 15.1 ( EZF ) | Charly Gaul | Gilbert Desmet |
4th stage (b) | Rouen - Caen | 125 | Roger Hassenforder | André Darrigade |
5th stage | Caen - Saint Malo | 189 | Joseph Morvan | André Darrigade |
6th stage | Saint-Malo - Lorient | 192 | Fred De Bruyne | André Darrigade |
7th stage | Lorient - Angers | 244 | Alessandro Fantini | Roger Walkowiak |
8th stage | Angers - La Rochelle | 180 | Miguel Poblet | Roger Walkowiak |
9th stage | La Rochelle - Bordeaux | 219 | Roger Hassenforder | Roger Walkowiak |
10th stage | Bordeaux - Bayonne | 201 | Fred De Bruyne | Gerrit Voorting |
11th stage | Bayonne - Pau | 255 | Nino Defilippis | André Darrigade |
12th stage | Pau - Luchon | 130 | Jean-Pierre Schmitz | Jan Adriaensens |
13th stage | Luchon - Toulouse | 176 | Nino Defilippis | Jan Adriaensens |
14th stage | Toulouse - Montpellier | 231 | Roger Hassenforder | Jan Adriaensens |
15th stage | Montpellier - Aix-en-Provence | 204 | Joseph Thornin | Wout Wagtmans |
16th stage | Aix-en-Provence - Gap | 203 | Jean Forestier | Wout Wagtmans |
17th stage | Gap - Turin ( ITA ) | 234 | Nino Defilippis | Wout Wagtmans |
18th stage | Turin (ITA) - Grenoble | 250 | Charly Gaul | Roger Walkowiak |
19th stage | Grenoble - Saint-Etienne | 173 | Stan Ockers | Roger Walkowiak |
20th stage | Saint-Etienne - Lyon | 73 (EZF) | Miguel Bover Pons | Roger Walkowiak |
21st stage | Lyon - Montluçon | 237 | Roger Hassenforder | Roger Walkowiak |
22nd stage | Montluçon - Paris | 331 | Gastone Nencini | Roger Walkowiak |
Web links
- Tour de France 1956 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- radsport-seite.de for the 1956 tour