Tour de France 1997
Tour de France 1997 | |
Racing series | UCI world rankings |
Host country |
France , Switzerland Andorra |
Competition period | July 5th to 27th, 1997 |
Stages | 21st |
overall length | 3942 km |
Starting field | 198 from 25 nations in 22 teams (of which 139 arrived at the finish) |
winner | |
Overall rating | 1st Jan Ullrich 100: 30: 35 h 2nd Richard virusesque + 9:09 min 3rd Marco Pantani + 14:03 min |
Team evaluation | Team Deutsche Telekom 301: 51: 30 h |
course | |
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84th Tour de France 1997 - final result | ||
Route length | 21 stages, 3,942.3 km | |
Tour winner | Jan Ullrich | 100: 30: 35 h (39.223 km / h) |
Second | Richard virusesque | + 9:09 min |
Third | Marco Pantani | + 14:03 min |
Fourth | Abraham Olano | + 15:55 min |
fifth | Fernando Escartín | + 20:32 min |
Sixth | Francesco Casagrande | + 22:47 min |
seventh | Bjarne Riis | + 26:34 min |
Eighth | José María Jiménez | + 31:17 min |
Ninth | Laurent Dufaux | + 31:55 min |
Tenth | Roberto Conti | + 32:26 min |
Green jersey | Erik Zabel | 350 p. |
Second | Frédéric Moncassin | 223 P. |
Third | Mario Traversoni | 198 P. |
Dotted jersey | Richard virusesque | 579 P. |
Second | Jan Ullrich | 328 P. |
Third | Francesco Casagrande | 309 P. |
White jersey | Jan Ullrich | 100: 30: 35 h |
Second | Peter Luttenberger | + 45:39 min |
Third | Michael Boogerd | + 1:00:33 h |
Team evaluation | Team Deutsche Telekom | 301: 51: 30 h |
Second | Mercatone Uno | + 31:56 min |
Third | Festina Watches | + 47:52 min |
The 84th Tour de France took place from July 5th to 27th, 1997 and ran over 3942 km on 21 stages.
Teams / participants
In the 1997 Tour de France, 22 teams competed. 7 Germans , 8 Swiss and 2 Austrians were among the 198 drivers . 139 racing drivers reached the finish in Paris and were classified.
→ See: Complete list of driver field
route
This time the tour was counterclockwise; After a series of flat stages, it first went to the Pyrenees , then to the Alps . In addition, a mountain time trial in Saint-Étienne and a stage through the Vosges were on the program. The final time trial on a flat route had Disneyland just outside Paris as the start and finish point. There were stage locations outside France in Andorra and Switzerland .
Race course
Erik Zabel in particular shone on the flat stages with three stage wins and Mario Cipollini with two successes. In addition, the latter wore the yellow jersey for four days. A breakaway attempt succeeded on the fifth stage: stage winner Cédric Vasseur took the lead in the overall classification, which he was only to give up again in the Pyrenees.
The favorites were those who had already achieved top positions in previous years: The Swiss Alex Zülle , second from 1995 , who was handicapped by a broken collarbone in the Tour de Suisse ; Abraham Olano , last year's winner Bjarne Riis and his Telekom team colleague Jan Ullrich . Marco Pantani and Richard Virusque were considered good climbing specialists, but not as above-average time trialists, so that they were less likely to be considered for the overall victory. Tony Rominger , all-time favorite of the last few years, seemed to have passed his zenith at the age of 36. On one of the first flat stages he was involved in a mass fall and had to give up the race with a broken collarbone. Jan Ullrich was initially only intended as a helper for his team leader Bjarne Riis, but this classification was revised in the course of the tour, as Riis could not meet expectations and Ullrich, on the other hand, was in great shape. In addition, Riis, who wanted to attack again, had several problems with his racing bike during the last time trial, so he threw it into the ditch in a rage.
On the 10th stage to Arcalis ( Andorra ), the team management gave Ullrich a "free hand". At the beginning of the final climb he attacked from a leading group with all favorites, none of which could follow him. The German won the stage with 1:08 minutes ahead of Pantani and Virusque and was able to put on the yellow jersey. At the time trial in Saint-Étienne , Ullrich won with a fabulous advantage over the runner-up Virusque, who had started three minutes earlier, and which he even overtook. The following mountain stages were able to win Pantani and Virusque, but Ullrich was able to increase the time lead in the overall standings to both of them on the three stages.
During the tour, Ullrich faced a slightly threatening situation twice: once he lost touch on a downhill stage on an Alpine stage and then waited for Bjarne Riis to bring him back to the top group. He showed the second phase of weakness on a stage through the Vosges , from which the warning "Torment you, you pig" is handed down, which team colleague Udo Bölts is said to have called out to him.
Ullrich won the tour with the greatest advantage (9:09 minutes) since 1984 . He is the only German who could win this tour.
The stages
Stages | Day | Start finish | km | Stage winner | Yellow jersey |
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prolog | 5th July | Rouen | 7.3 ( EZF ) | Chris Boardman | Chris Boardman |
1st stage | July 6th | Rouen - Forges-les-Eaux | 192 | Mario Cipollini | Mario Cipollini |
2nd stage | 7th of July | Saint-Valery-en-Caux - Vire | 262 | Mario Cipollini | |
3rd stage | 8th of July | Vire - Plumelec | 224 | Erik Zabel | |
4th stage | July 9 | Plumelec - Puy du Fou | 223 | Nicola Minali | |
5th stage | 10th of July | Chantonnay - La Châtre | 261.5 | Cédric Vasseur | Cédric Vasseur |
6th stage | July 11th | Le Blanc - Marennes | 215.5 | Jeroen Blijlevens | |
7th stage | July 12 | Marennes - Bordeaux | 194 | Erik Zabel | |
8th stage | July 13th | Sauternes - Pau | 161.5 | Erik Zabel | |
9th stage | July 14th | Pau - Loudenvielle | 182 | Laurent Brochard | |
10th stage | 15th of July | Luchon - Arcalis ( AND ) | 252.5 | Jan Ullrich | Jan Ullrich |
11th stage | 16th of July | Andorra-la-Vella (AND) - Perpignan | 192 | Laurent Desbiens | |
Rest day | |||||
12th stage | July 18th | Saint-Étienne - Saint-Étienne | 55.5 (EZF) | Jan Ullrich | Jan Ullrich |
13th stage | July 19 | Saint-Etienne - L'Alpe d'Huez | 203.5 | Marco Pantani | |
14th stage | 20th of July | Le Bourg-d'Oisans - Courchevel | 148 | Richard virusesque | |
15th stage | 21 July | Courchevel - Morzine | 208.5 | Marco Pantani | |
16th stage | 22nd of July | Morzine - Friborg ( CH ) | 181 | Christophe Mengin | |
17th stage | July 23 | Friborg (CH) - Colmar | 218.5 | Neil Stephens | |
18th stage | 24th July | Colmar - Montbeliard | 175.5 | Didier Rous | |
19th stage | July 25th | Montbeliard - Dijon | 172 | Mario Traversoni | |
20th stage | July 26th | Euro Disneyland - Euro Disneyland | 63 (EZF) | Abraham Olano | |
21st stage | July 27th | Euro Disneyland - Paris | 149.5 | Nicola Minali |
Jerseys in the course of the tour
→ See: Final results in the individual ratings
The table shows the wearer of the respective jersey during the individual stage or the leaders of the respective overall ranking on the evening of the previous day.
stage |
Yellow jersey |
Green jersey |
Dotted jersey |
White jersey |
Team evaluation |
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1st stage | Chris Boardman | Chris Boardman | not forgiven | Jan Ullrich | Team Deutsche Telekom |
2nd stage | Mario Cipollini | Mario Cipollini | Artūras Kasputis | ||
3rd stage | Laurent Brochard | ||||
4th stage | Erik Zabel | ||||
5th stage | |||||
6th stage | Cédric Vasseur | GAN | |||
7th stage | |||||
8th stage | |||||
9th stage | |||||
10th stage | Team Deutsche Telekom | ||||
11th stage | Jan Ullrich | Richard virusesque | Festina Watches | ||
12th stage | |||||
13th stage | Team Deutsche Telekom | ||||
14th stage | |||||
15th stage | |||||
16th stage | |||||
17th stage | |||||
18th stage | |||||
19th stage | |||||
20th stage | |||||
winner | Jan Ullrich | Erik Zabel | Richard virusesque | Jan Ullrich | Team Deutsche Telekom |
Web links
- Tour de France 1997 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- radsport-seite.de for the 1997 tour