Tour de France 1988

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75th Tour de France 1988
Route length 22 stages, 3286 km
Tour winner Pedro Delgado 84:27:53 h
(38.892 km / h)
Second Steven Rooks + 7:13 min
Third Fabio Parra + 9:58 min
Fourth Steve Bauer + 12:15 min
fifth Eric Boyer + 14:04 min
Sixth Luis Herrera + 14:36 ​​min
seventh Ronan Pensec + 16:52 min
Eighth Álvaro Pino + 18:36 min
Ninth Peter Winnen + 19:12 min
Tenth Denis Roux + 20:08 min
Green jersey Eddy Planckaert 278 P.
Second Davis Phinney 193 P.
Third Sean Kelly 183 P.
Dotted jersey Steven Rooks 326 P.
Second Gert-Jan Theunisse 248 P.
Third Pedro Delgado 223 P.
White jersey Erik Breukink 84:50:59 h
Second Raúl Alcalá + 8:08 min
Third Janus Kuum + 15:47 min
Team evaluation PDM

The 75th Tour de France took place from July 3 to July 24, 1988. It ran over 3286 km in 22 stages, making it one of the shortest. The victory of the Spaniard Pedro Delgado was overshadowed by a doping affair . Delgado had tested positive for the masking agent probenecid during the tour, but was not penalized because the substance was on the doping list of the IOC at the time of the control, but not that of the UCI . Another driver, the Dutchman Gert-Jan Theunisse , also tested positive and was downgraded in the classification. 198 racing drivers took part in this event, 151 of whom were classified.

Race course

Delgado won the race itself clearly ahead of the Dutchman Steven Rooks after the winners of previous years could not take part: Stephen Roche had to retire due to an injury, Greg LeMond was not fully recovered after his hunting accident.

Guido Bontempi won the prologue. The race was blocked on the 1st stage by striking shipyard workers for about a quarter of an hour and was then restarted. After the individual time trial to Wasquehal, the Colombian mountain specialist Luis Herrera had lost little time and at that point had a good chance of winning. The 8th stage won the German Rolf Gölz and achieved his second stage victory after 1987. After this stage the Canadian Steve Bauer took over the yellow jersey and kept it for 4 days. On the stage to L'Alpe d'Huez, however, he had to hand it over to Pedro Delgado, who did not hand it over to Paris. The stage itself was won by Steven Rooks, who escaped the field together with Delgado after a weakness from Herrera. On the 14th stage, the Frenchman Philippe Bouvatier gave away a victory by mistakenly driving into the press parking lot, Robert Millar followed him. The laughing third was the Italian Massimo Ghirotto , who won the stage.

The stages

Stages Day Start finish km Stage winner Jersey yellow.svg Yellow jersey
prolog July 4th Pornichet - La Baule 1 Guido Bontempi Guido Bontempi
1st stage 5th July Pontchâteau - Machecoul 91.5 Steve Bauer Steve Bauer
2nd stage 5th July La Haie-Fouassière - Ancenis 48 ( MZF ) Panasonic Teun van Vliet
3rd stage July 6th Nantes - Le Mans 213.5 Jean-Paul van Poppel
4th stage 7th of July Le Mans - Evreux 158 Acácio da Silva
5th stage 8th of July Neufchâtel-en-Bray - Liévin 147.5 Jelle Nijdam Henk Lubberding
6th stage July 9 Liévin - Wasquehal 52 ( EZF ) Sean Yates Jelle Nijdam
7th stage 10th of July Wasquehal - Reims 225.5 Valerio Tebaldi
8th stage July 11th Reims - Nancy 219 Rolf Goelz Steve Bauer
9th stage July 12 Nancy - Strasbourg 160.5 Jérôme Simon
10th stage July 13th Belfort - Besançon 149.5 Jean-Paul van Poppel
11th stage July 14th Besançon - Morzine 232 Fabio Parra
12th stage 15th of July Morzine - L'Alpe d'Huez 227 Steven Rooks Pedro Delgado
13th stage 16th of July Grenoble - Villard-de-Lans 38 (EZF) Pedro Delgado
Rest day
14th stage July 18th Blagnac - Guzet-Neige 163 Massimo Ghirotto Pedro Delgado
15th stage July 19 Saint-Girons - Luz Ardiden 187.5 Laudelino Cubino
16. Stage (a) 20th of July Tarbes - Pau 38 Adrie van der Poel
16th stage (b) 20th of July Pau - Bordeaux 210 Jean-Paul van Poppel
17th stage 21 July Ruelle-sur-Touvre - Limoges 93.5 Gianni Bugno
18th stage 22nd of July Limoges - Puy de Dôme 188 Johnny Weltz
19th stage July 23 Clermont-Ferrand - Chalon-sur-Saône 223.5 Thierry Marie
20th stage 24th July Santenay - Santenay 46 (EZF) Juan Martinez Oliver
21st stage 24th July Nemours - Paris 172.5 Jean-Paul van Poppel

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