Tour de France 1972
59th Tour de France 1972 - Final result | ||
Route length | 20 stages, 3846.6 km | |
Tour winner | Eddy Merckx | 108: 17: 18 h (35.522 km / h) |
Second | Felice Gimondi | + 10:41 min |
Third | Raymond Poulidor | + 11:34 min |
Fourth | Lucien Van Impe | + 16:45 min |
fifth | Joop Zoetemelk | + 19:09 min |
Sixth | Mariano Martinez | + 21:31 min |
seventh | Yves Hezard | + 21:52 min |
Eighth | Joaquim Agostinho | + 34:16 min |
Ninth | Bernard Thévenet | + 37:11 min |
Tenth | Edouard Janssens | + 42:33 min |
Green jersey | Eddy Merckx | 196 p. |
Second | Rik Van Linden | 135 P. |
Third | Joop Zoetemelk | 132 P. |
Mountain scoring | Lucien Van Impe | 229 P. |
Second | Eddy Merckx | 211 P. |
Third | Joaquim Agostinho | 163 P. |
Team evaluation | Gan-Mercier |
The 59th Tour de France took place from July 1 to 23, 1972 and ran over 3847 km over 20 stages. The Belgian Eddy Merckx and the Spaniard Luis Ocaña Pernía , who had retired from the lead last year, entered the race as favorites. 132 cyclists took part in the tour , 88 of which were classified.
Race course
After winning the prologue, Merckx took over the yellow jersey , which he lost to French stage winner Cyrille Guimard the next day on the first stage . Guimard drove in yellow up to the Pyrenees stage to Luchon , where Merckx took over two minutes from him and took over the overall lead, which he defended until the finish in Paris. On the stages to Briançon and the Col du Galibier as well as in the last individual time trial , Merckx extended its lead with stage wins.
Nevertheless, Guimard showed a good performance in the mountains and, after his two stage victories at the beginning of the tour on the first and fourth stages, also got two victories in the Alps. In Le Revard he even sprinted over Merckx, who had thrown up his arms too early to celebrate his stage win. Guimard was able to prevail against both sprinters and in the mountains and wore the green jersey for a long time , but had to give up on the penultimate stage after a tendonitis in his knee. Merckx, who won the points classification, symbolically gave him his green jersey at the end.
The French Bernard Thévenet won two difficult mountain stages: to Mont Ventoux and to the Ballon d'Alsace . He had had a hard fall on the stage over the Col d'Aubisque in the Pyrenees, but had obviously recovered well.
The Spaniard Luis Ocaña Pernia, who was Merckx's biggest competitor last year , had to retire after a fall on the 15th stage. Ocaña was in fifth place overall at this point, but was weakened by an illness.
Lucien Van Impe was able to defend the win in the mountain classification from the previous year. In the overall standings, Felice Gimondi , winner of 1965 , was second behind Merckx, and third was Frenchman Raymond Poulidor . Merckx won six stages and set Jacques Anquetil's record with his fourth tour win in a row .
The stages
Stages | Day | Start finish | km | Stage winner | Yellow jersey |
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prolog | July 1 | Angers | 7.2 ( EZF ) | Eddy Merckx | Eddy Merckx |
1st stage | 2nd July | Angers - Saint-Brieuc | 235.5 | Cyrille Guimard | Cyrille Guimard |
2nd stage | 3rd of July | Saint-Brieuc - La Baule | 206.5 | Rik Van Linden | Cyrille Guimard |
3rd stage (a) | July 4th | Pornichet - Saint-Jean-de-Monts | 161 | Ercole Gualazzini | Cyrille Guimard |
3rd stage (b) | July 4th | Merlin Plage - Merlin Plage | 16.2 ( MZF ) | Molteni | Cyrille Guimard |
4th stage | 5th July | Merlin Plage - Royan | 236 | Cyrille Guimard | Cyrille Guimard |
5th stage (a) | July 6th | Royan - Bordeaux | 133.5 | Walter Godefroot | Cyrille Guimard |
5th stage (b) | July 6th | Bordeaux - Bordeaux | 12.7 (EZF) | Eddy Merckx | Cyrille Guimard |
6th stage | 7th of July | Bordeaux - Bayonne | 205 | Leo Duyndam | Cyrille Guimard |
Rest day | |||||
7th stage | July 9 | Bayonne - Pau | 220.5 | Yves Hézard | Cyrille Guimard |
8th stage | 10th of July | Pau - Luchon | 163.5 | Eddy Merckx | Eddy Merckx |
9th stage | July 11th | Luchon - Colomiers | 179 | Jozef Huysmans | Eddy Merckx |
10th stage | July 12 | Castres - La Grande-Motte | 210 | Willy Teirlinck | Eddy Merckx |
11th stage | July 13th | Carnon-Plage - Mont Ventoux | 207 | Bernard Thévenet | Eddy Merckx |
12th stage | July 14th | Carpentras - Orcières-Merlette | 192 | Lucien Van Impe | Eddy Merckx |
13th stage | 15th of July | Orcières Merlette - Briançon | 201 | Eddy Merckx | Eddy Merckx |
14th stage (a) | 16th of July | Briançon - Col du Galibier | 51 | Eddy Merckx | Eddy Merckx |
14th stage (b) | 16th of July | Valloire - Aix-les-Bains | 151 | Cyrille Guimard | Eddy Merckx |
15th stage | 17th July | Aix-les-Bains - Le Revard | 28 | Cyrille Guimard | Eddy Merckx |
Rest day | |||||
16th stage | July 19 | Aix-les-Bains - Pontarlier | 198.5 | Willy Teirlinck | Eddy Merckx |
17th stage | 20th of July | Pontarlier - Ballon d'Alsace | 213 | Bernard Thévenet | Eddy Merckx |
18th stage | 21 July | Belfort - Auxerre | 257.5 | Marinus Wagtmans | Eddy Merckx |
19th stage | 22nd of July | Auxerre - Versailles | 230 | Joseph Briar | Eddy Merckx |
20th stage (a) | July 23 | Versailles - Versailles | 42 (EZF) | Eddy Merckx | Eddy Merckx |
20th stage (b) | July 23 | Versailles - Paris | 89 | Willy Teirlinck | Eddy Merckx |
Web links
- Tour de France 1972 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- radsport-seite.de for the 1972 tour