Tour de France 1977
| 64th Tour de France 1977 - final result | ||
| Route length | 22 stages, 4098.6 km | |
| Tour winner | Bernard Thévenet | 115: 38: 30 h (35.442 km / h) |
| Second | Hennie Kuiper | + 0:48 min |
| Third | Lucien Van Impe | + 3:32 min |
| Fourth | Francisco Galdós | + 7:45 min |
| fifth | Dietrich Thurau | + 12:24 min |
| Sixth | Eddy Merckx | + 12:38 min |
| seventh | Michael Laurent | + 17:42 min |
| Eighth | Joop Zoetemelk | + 19:22 min |
| Ninth | Raymond Delisle | + 21:32 min |
| Tenth | Alain Meslet | + 27:31 min |
| Green jersey | Jacques Esclassan | 236 P. |
| Second | Giacinto Santambrogio | 140 p. |
| Third | Dietrich Thurau | 137 P. |
| Dotted jersey | Lucien Van Impe | 244 P. |
| Second | Hennie Kuiper | 174 P. |
| Third | Pedro Torres | 144 P. |
| White jersey | Dietrich Thurau | 115: 50: 54 h |
| Team evaluation | Ti-Raleigh | |
The 64th Tour de France took place from June 30th to July 24th, 1977 and ran over 22 stages with 4096 km. After 1975 , Bernard Thévenet won his second tour. 100 racing drivers took part in the tour , of which 53 were classified.
Race course
The German Dietrich Thurau won the prologue on his first Tour de France participation and was able to maintain the yellow jersey up to the 15th stage. In total, the 22-year-old was able to win four stages and finished fifth in the overall ranking. In the time trial in Bordeaux , he took 50 seconds off Eddy Merckx in his special discipline, and over a minute on Bernard Thévenet. Even Klaus-Peter Thaler won a stage in his first Tour participation.
In the Alps, Thurau was not as strong as at the beginning, and in the mountain time trial he had to hand over his yellow jersey to Thévenet, who defended it all the way to Paris. The time trial was won by last year's winner Lucien Van Impe , who won the mountain classification for the fourth time in 1977 and took third place in the overall classification. The Dutchman Joop Zoetemelk had to give up his hopes for a podium position after a 10-minute penalty in the time trial due to a positive doping test.
On the 17th stage to L'Alpe d'Huez , Van Impe fell in an attack after a collision with an escort vehicle. Due to technical problems that followed, he was unable to follow the Dutchman Hennie Kuiper and Thévenet. Kuiper won the stage and finished second overall, less than a minute behind Thévenet.
Merckx was weakened by illness on his last tour just behind Thurau sixth. The green jersey was won by Jacques Esclassan , who also won a stage. On the stage to Thonon-les-Bains , Bernard Quilfen crossed the finish line with a lead of three minutes after a 222 km solo escape .
The stages
| Stages | Day | Start finish | km | Stage winner |
 Yellow jersey
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prolog | June 30th | Fleurance | 5 ( EZF ) | Dietrich Thurau | Dietrich Thurau |
| 1st stage | July 1 | Fleurance - too | 237 | Pierre-Raymond Villemiane | |
| 2nd stage | 2nd July | Also - Pau | 253 | Dietrich Thurau | |
| 3rd stage | 3rd of July | Oloron-Sainte-Marie - Vitoria ( ESP ) | 248.2 | José Nazabal | |
| 4th stage | July 4th | Vitoria (ESP) - Seignosse | 256 | Régis Delépine | |
| 5th stage (a) | 5th July | Morcenx - Bordeaux | 138.5 | Jacques Esclassan | |
| 5th stage (b) | 5th July | Bordeaux - Bordeaux | 30.2 (EZF) | Dietrich Thurau | |
| 6th stage | July 6th | Bordeaux - Limoges | 225.5 | Jan Raas | |
| 7th stage (a) | 7th of July | Jaunay Clan - Angers | 139.5 | Patrick Sercu | |
| 7th stage (b) | 7th of July | Angers - Angers | 4 ( MZF ) | FIAT | |
| 8th stage | 8th of July | Angers - Lorient | 246.5 | Giacinto Santambrogio | |
| 9th stage | July 9 | Lorient - Rennes | 187 | Klaus-Peter Thaler | |
| Rest day | |||||
| 10th stage | July 11th | Bagnoles-de-l'Orne - Rouen | 174 | Fedor the Hertog | Dietrich Thurau |
| 11th stage | July 12 | Rouen - Roubaix | 242.5 | Jean-Pierre Danguillaume | |
| 12th stage | July 13th | Roubaix - Charleroi ( BEL ) | 192.5 | Patrick Sercu | |
| 13th stage (a) | July 14th | Freiburg im Breisgau ( DE ) - Freiburg im Breisgau (DE) | 46 | Patrick Sercu | |
| 13th stage (b) | July 14th | Altkirch - Besançon | 159.5 | Jean-Pierre Danguillaume | |
| 14th stage | 15th of July | Besançon - Thonon-les-Bains | 230 | Bernard quilting | |
| Rest day | |||||
| 15th stage (a) | 17th July | Thonon-les-Bains - Morzine | 105 | Paul Wellens | Dietrich Thurau |
| 15th stage (b) | 17th July | Morzine - Avoriaz | 15 (EZF) | Lucien Van Impe | Bernard Thévenet |
| 16th stage | July 18th | Morzine - Chamonix | 121 | Dietrich Thurau | |
| 17th stage | July 19 | Chamonix - L'Alpe d'Huez | 184.5 | Hennie Kuiper | |
| 18th stage | 20th of July | Voiron - Saint-Etienne | 199.5 | Joaquim Agostinho | |
| 19th stage | 21 July | Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans - Dijon | 171.5 | Gerrie Knetemann | |
| 20th stage | 22nd of July | Dijon - Dijon | 50 (EZF) | Bernard Thévenet | |
| 21st stage | July 23 | Montereau - Versailles | 141.5 | Gerrie Knetemann | |
| 22nd stage (a) | 24th July | Paris - Paris | 6 (EZF) | Dietrich Thurau | |
| 22nd stage (b) | 24th July | Paris - Paris | 90.7 | Alain Meslet | |
Web links
- Tour de France 1977 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- radsport-seite.de for the 1977 tour