Tour de France 1987
| 74th Tour de France 1987 | ||
| Route length | 25 stages, 4,231.6 km | |
| Tour winner | Stephen Roche | 115: 27: 42 h (36.649 km / h) |
| Second | Pedro Delgado | + 0:40 min |
| Third | Jean-François Bernard | + 2:13 min |
| Fourth | Charly Mottet | + 6:40 min |
| fifth | Luis Herrera | + 9:32 min |
| Sixth | Fabio Parra | + 16:53 min |
| seventh | Laurent Fignon | + 18:24 min |
| Eighth | Anselmo Fuerte | + 18:33 min |
| Ninth | Raúl Alcalá | + 21:49 min |
| Tenth | Marino Lejarreta | + 26:13 min |
| Green jersey | Jean-Paul van Poppel | 263 P. |
| Second | Stephen Roche | 247 P. |
| Third | Pedro Delgado | 228 P. |
| Dotted jersey | Luis Herrera | 452 P. |
| Second | Anselmo Fuerte | 314 P. |
| Third | Raúl Alcalá | 277 P. |
| White jersey | Raúl Alcalá | 115: 49: 31 h |
| Second | Erik Breukink | + 31:46 min |
| Third | Gilles Sanders | + 59:08 min |
| Team evaluation | Système U | 346: 44: 02 h |
| Second | Cafe de Colombia | + 38:20 min |
| Third | bra | + 56:02 min |
The 74th Tour de France took place from July 1 to July 26, 1987 and ran over 25 stages or a total of 4231 km. It was the last edition of the Tour of France, which was over 4000 km long. Stephen Roche was the first Irishman to win the Tour's overall ranking. In the same year he also won the Giro d'Italia and the road world championships and was the only cyclist besides Eddy Merckx to achieve this rare triple. 207 racing drivers took part in the tour, of which 135 were classified.
Race course
The race was started on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Berlin in the western part of the city . After the prologue, a short stage within the city or sector boundaries and a team time trial, the tour entourage was flown to Karlsruhe , where another two stages took place on German soil. Then the French hexagon was driven counter-clockwise.
The two protagonists of the last two events in 1985 and 1986 respectively did not take part: Bernard Hinault had ended his career, Greg LeMond was seriously injured in a hunting accident in America.
The 1987 tour was varied and exciting: the yellow jersey changed a total of nine times, a record in Tour history. At the end of the race, third-placed Jean-François Bernard was only a good two minutes behind, whereby he lost four minutes on the 19th stage due to a defect and thus his yellow jersey and probably also the tour. There were even only 40 seconds between the winner Stephen Roche and the runner-up Pedro Delgado - the third-tightest result of the tour. Roche only overtook the Spaniard in the last time trial.
The German Rolf Gölz won a stage on his first tour.
The stages
| Stages | Day | Start finish | km | Stage winner |
 Yellow jersey
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prolog | July 1 | West Berlin ( DE ) | 6.1 ( EZF ) | Jelle Nijdam | Jelle Nijdam |
| 1st stage | 2nd July | West Berlin (DE) - West Berlin (DE) | 105.5 | Nico Verhoeven | Lech Piasecki |
| 2nd stage | 2nd July | West Berlin (DE) - West Berlin (DE) | 40.5 ( MZF ) | Team Carrera Jeans | |
| Rest day | |||||
| 3rd stage | July 4th | Karlsruhe (DE) - Stuttgart (DE) | 219 | Acácio da Silva | Erich Mächler |
| 4th stage | 5th July | Stuttgart (DE) - Pforzheim (DE) | 79 | Herman Frison | |
| 5th stage | 5th July | Pforzheim (DE) - Strasbourg | 112.5 | Marc Sergeant | |
| 6th stage | July 6th | Strasbourg - Épinal | 169 | Christophe Lavainne | |
| 7th stage | 7th of July | Epinal - Troyes | 211 | Manuel-Jorge Dominguez | |
| 8th stage | 8th of July | Troyes - Épinay-sous-Sénart | 205.5 | Jean-Paul van Poppel | |
| 9th stage | July 9 | Orléans - Renazé | 260 | Adri van der Poel | Charly Mottet |
| 10th stage | 10th of July | Saumur - Futuroscope | 87.5 (EZF) | Stephen Roche | |
| 11th stage | July 11th | Poitiers - Chaumeil | 255 | Martial Gayant | Martial Gayant |
| 12th stage | July 12 | Brive - Bordeaux | 228 | Davis Phinney | |
| 13th stage | July 13th | Bayonne - Pau | 219 | Erik Breukink | Charly Mottet |
| 14th stage | July 14th | Pau - Luz-Ardiden | 166 | Dag Otto Lauritzen | |
| 15th stage | 15th of July | Tarbes - Blagnac | 164 | Rolf Goelz | |
| 16th stage | 16th of July | Blagnac - Millau | 216.5 | Regis Clère | |
| 17th stage | 17th July | Millau - Avignon | 239 | Jean-Paul van Poppel | |
| Rest day | |||||
| 18th stage | July 19 | Carpentras - Mont Ventoux | 36.5 ( BZF ) | Jean-François Bernard | Jean-François Bernard |
| 19th stage | 20th of July | Valréas - Villard-de-Lans | 185 | Pedro Delgado | Stephen Roche |
| 20th stage | 21 July | Villard-de-Lans - L'Alpe d'Huez | 201 | Federico Echave | Pedro Delgado |
| 21st stage | 22nd of July | Le Bourg-d'Oisans - La Plagne | 185.5 | Laurent Fignon | |
| 22nd stage | July 23 | La Plagne - Morzine | 186 | Eduardo Chozas | |
| 23rd stage | 24th July | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois - Dijon | 224.5 | Regis Clère | |
| 24th stage | July 25th | Dijon - Dijon | 38 (EZF) | Jean-François Bernard | Stephen Roche |
| 25th stage | July 26th | Créteil - Paris | 192 | Jeff Pierce | |
Web links
- Tour de France 1987 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- radsport-seite.de Tour 1987
- cycling pages for the 1987 tour