Tour de France 2001

88th Tour de France 2001 - final result
Route length	20 stages, 3454.2 km
Tour winner (canceled)	Lance Armstrong	86:17:28 h (40.030 km / h)
Second	Jan Ullrich	+ 6:44 min
Third	Joseba Beloki	+ 9:05 min
Fourth	Andrei Kiwilev	+ 9:53 min
fifth	Igor González de Galdeano	+ 13:28 min
Sixth	François Simon	+ 17:22 min
seventh	Óscar Seville	+ 18:30 min
Eighth	Santiago Botero	+ 20:55 min
Ninth	Marcos Serrano	+ 21:45 min
Tenth	Michael Boogerd	+ 22:38 min
Green jersey	Erik Zabel	252 P.
Second	Stuart O'Grady	244 P.
Third	Damien Nazon	169 P.
Dotted jersey	Laurent Jalabert	258 p.
Second	Jan Ullrich	211 P.
Third	Laurent Roux	200 p.
White jersey	Óscar Seville	86:35:58 h
Second	Francisco Mancebo	+ 10:03 min
Third	Jörg Jaksche	+ 47:32 min
Team evaluation	Kelme-Costa Blanca	259: 44: 14 h
Second	ONCE-Eroski	+ 4:59 min
Third	Team Deutsche Telekom	+ 41:06 min

The 88th Tour de France took place from July 7th to 29th 2001 and ran over 3453 km in 20 stages. 189 racing drivers took part, of which 144 were classified. The end result of this event was almost exactly the same as on the previous Tour 2000 : Armstrong won confidently ahead of Jan Ullrich and Joseba Beloki , and Erik Zabel also won the green jersey again for the sixth and last time.

On October 22, 2012, the UCI World Cycling Federation announced the cancellation of all Armstrong titles since August 1, 1998, including all of the American's Tour de France successes. Successors to first place were not used.

Race course

In the first days of the tour, mass sprints and successful breakaway attempts alternated. The best sprinter was clearly Erik Zabel , who was able to win three stages in what is perhaps the best year of his career (including overall victory in the cycling world cup ). Laurent Jalabert (2 × and winner of the mountain classification) and Jens Voigt were able to achieve stage wins from small groups . Voigt had already been able to put on the yellow jersey for one day. On the 8th stage from Colmar to Pontarlier , however, the decisive attack by a breakaway group took place: In pouring rain, 14 riders crossed the finish line sensationally with over half an hour ahead of all favorites. The rest of the tour was shaped by Armstrong, Ullrichs & Co.'s efforts to make up for this deficit. In the end, the best drivers in this group, Kazakh Andrei Kiwiljow and Frenchman François Simon , finished fourth and sixth. Also in the breakaway group was Stuart O'Grady , who took the lead in the points classification with a fifth place and only had to hand it over to Erik Zabel on the final stage.

Lance Armstrong initially seemed to suffer significantly on the first difficult stage in the Alps and was long at the end of the leading group. Before the final climb to L'Alpe d'Huez , the American put an end to his remarkable bluff and, as in previous years, attacked with his irresistibly fast cadence . In a sensational moment that went down in tour history as the look , he glanced back and then drove everyone away. Armstrong also won the following mountain time trial and at the end of the tour had four stage wins. Jan Ullrich fought to the last mountain, although he was clearly inferior to him as in the previous year: In the Pyrenees, he crashed spectacularly on a downhill run at high risk, but was able to continue the race despite an injury.

The stages

Stages	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Yellow jersey
prolog	7th of July	Dunkerque	8.2 ( EZF )	Christophe Moreau	Christophe Moreau
1st stage	8th of July	Saint-Omer - Boulogne-sur-Mer	194.5	Erik Zabel
2nd stage	July 9	Calais - Antwerp ( BEL )	218.5	Marc Wauters	Marc Wauters
3rd stage	10th of July	Antwerp (BEL) - Seraing (BEL)	198.5	Erik Zabel	Stuart O'Grady
4th stage	July 11th	Huy (BEL) - Verdun	215	Laurent Jalabert
5th stage	July 12	Verdun - Bar-le-Duc	67 ( MZF )	Crédit Agricole
6th stage	July 13th	Commercy - Strasbourg	211.5	Jaan Kirsipuu
7th stage	July 14th	Strasbourg - Colmar	162.5	Laurent Jalabert	Jens Voigt
8th stage	15th of July	Colmar - Pontarlier	222.5	Erik Dekker	Stuart O'Grady
9th stage	16th of July	Pontarlier - Aix-les-Bains	185	Sergei Ivanov
10th stage	17th July	Aix-les-Bains - L'Alpe d'Huez	209	Lance Armstrong	François Simon
11th stage	July 18th	Grenoble - Chamrousse	32 (EZF)	Lance Armstrong
Rest day
12th stage	20th of July	Perpignan - Ax-les-Thermes	166.5	Felix Rafael Cardenas	François Simon
13th stage	21 July	Foix - Saint-Lary-Soulan	194	Lance Armstrong	Lance Armstrong
14th stage	22nd of July	Tarbes - Luz-Ardiden	144.5	Roberto Laiseka
Rest day
15th stage	24th July	Pau - Lavaur	232.5	Rik Verbrugghe	Lance Armstrong
16th stage	July 25th	Castelsarrasin - Sarran	227.5	Jens Voigt
17th stage	July 26th	Brive-la-Gaillarde - Montluçon	194	Serge Baguet
18th stage	July 27th	Montluçon - Saint-Amand-Montrond	61 (EZF)	Lance Armstrong
19th stage	July 28th	Orléans - Evry	149.5	Erik Zabel
20th stage	29th of July	Corbeil-Essonnes - Paris	160.5	Ján Svorada

→ Main article : List of Tour de France stage locations

Jerseys in the course of the tour

The table shows the leader in the respective classification at the beginning of the respective stage.

stage	Yellow jersey	Green jersey	Dotted jersey	White jersey	Team evaluation
01st stage	Christophe Moreau	Christophe Moreau	not forgiven	Florent Brard	Festina
02nd stage		Erik Zabel	Jacky Durand
03rd stage	Marc Wauters	Jaan Kirsipuu		Robert Hunter	Crédit Agricole
04th stage	Stuart O'Grady	Erik Zabel	Benoît Salmon	Florent Brard
05th stage			Patrice Halgand
06th stage				Jörg Jaksche
07th stage
08th stage	Jens Voigt
09th stage	Stuart O'Grady	Stuart O'Grady			Rabobank
010th stage
11th stage	François Simon		Laurent Roux	Óscar Seville
12th stage
13th stage
14th stage	Lance Armstrong		Laurent Jalabert		Kelme-Costa Blanca
15th stage
16th stage
17th stage
18th stage
19th stage
20th stage
winner	Lance Armstrong	Erik Zabel	Laurent Jalabert	Óscar Seville	Kelme-Costa Blanca

All teams and drivers

US Postal Service

No.	country	Surname	space
1		Lance Armstrong	1
2		Roberto Heras	15th
3		Vyacheslav Yekimov	82
4th		Tyler Hamilton	94
5		George Hincapie	71
6th		Steffen Kjaergaard	101
7th		Víctor Hugo Peña	79
8th		José Luis Rubiera	38
9		Christian Vande Velde	A 7.

Team Deutsche Telekom

No.	country	Surname	space
11		Jan Ullrich	2
12		Udo Bölts	51
13		Giuseppe Guerini	39
14th		Jens Heppner	A 16.
15th		Andreas Klöden	26th
16		Kevin Livingston	43
17th		Alexander Vinokurov	16
18th		Steffen Wesemann	A 13.
19th		Erik Zabel	96

ONCE-Eroski

No.	country	Surname	space
21st		Joseba Beloki	3
22nd		Santos González	A 6.
23		Álvaro González	A 19.
24		Igor González	5
25th		José Iván Gutiérrez	64
26th		Jörg Jaksche	29
27		Mikel Pradera	62
28		Carlos Sastre	20th
29		Marcos Serrano	9

Festina

No.	country	Surname	space
31		Christophe Moreau	A 12.
32		Florent Brard	100
33		Angel Luis Casero	A 10.
34		Pascal Chanteur	114
35		Félix García Casas	37
36		Pascal Lino	87
37		Luis Pérez Rodríguez	32
38		Arnaud Pretot	A 7.
39		Sven Teutenberg	80

Fassa Bortolo

No.	country	Surname	space
41		Francesco Casagrande	A 4.
42		Fabio Baldato	81
43		Ivan Basso	NA 8.
44		Vladimir Belli	24
45		Sergei Ivanov	A 12.
46		Nicola Loda	99
47		Alessandro Petacchi	97
48		Oscar Pozzi	A 16.
49		Matteo Tosatto	60

Rabobank

No.	country	Surname	space
51		Michael Boogerd	10
52		Bram de Groot	A 12.
53		Steven de Jongh	A 7.
54		Erik Dekker	91
55		Maarten den Bakker	75
56		Marc Lotz	93
57		Grischa Niermann	NA 17.
58		Geert Verheyen	72
59		Marc Wauters	A 16.

Lotto Adecco

No.	country	Surname	space
61		Rik Verbrugghe	112
62		Mario Aerts	27
63		Serge Baguet	85
64		Jeroen Blijlevens	A 9.
65		Fabien de Waele	NA 1.
66		Gennady Mikhailov	59
67		Kurt Van De Wouwer	A 12.
68		Paul Can Hyfte	92
69		Steve Vermaut	36

Cofidis

No.	country	Surname	space
71		David Millar	A 10.
72		Daniel Atienza	30th
73		Iñigo Cuesta	63
74		Andrei Kiwilev	4th
75		Massimiliano Lelli	67
76		Nico Mattan	98
77		David Moncoutié	48
78		Christophe Rinero	A 7.
79		Guido Trentin	45

Mapei-Quick Step

No.	country	Surname	space
81		Daniele Nardello	57
82		Michele Bartoli	33
83		Paolo Bettini	70
84		Davide Bramati	142
85		Paolo Fornaciari	A 8.
86		Stefano Garzelli	14th
87		Bart Leysen	A 13.
88		Tom Steels	A 10.
89		Stefano Zanini	A 7.

iBanesto.com

No.	country	Surname	space
91		Francisco Mancebo	13
92		Santiago Blanco	A 13.
93		Tomasz Brożyna	21st
94		José Vicente García Acosta	A 16.
95		Eladio Jiménez	105
96		Denis Menchow	47
97		Jon Odriozola	69
98		Javier Pascual Rodríguez	41
99		Leonardo Piepoli	44

Crédit Agricole

No.	country	Surname	space
101		Bobby Julich	18th
102		Frédéric Bessy	119
103		Sébastien Hinault	137
104		Thor Hushovd	A 12.
105		Christopher Jenner	139
106		Anthony Morin	107
107		Stuart O'Grady	54
108		Jonathan Vaughters	A 15.
109		Jens Voigt	46

Euskaltel-Euskadi

No.	country	Surname	space
111		David Etxebarria	34
112		Ángel Castresana	103
113		Íñigo Chaurreau	12
114		Txema Del Olmo	NA 7.
115		Unai Etxebarria	88
116		Iker Flores	A 2.
117		Roberto Laiseka	28
118		Albereto Lopez De Munain	77
119		Haimar Zubeldia	73

Ag2r prevoyance

No.	country	Surname	space
121		Benoît Salmon	35
122		Christophe Agnolutto	120
123		Stéphane Bergès	135
124		Alexander Bocharov	17th
125		Ludovic Capelle	A 10.
126		Sébastien Demarbaix	108
127		Jaan Kirsipuu	A 10.
128		Gilles Maignan	121
129		Ludovic Turpin	78

CSC tables

No.	country	Surname	space
131		Laurent Jalabert	19th
132		Michael Blaudzun	84
133		Francisco Cerezo	118
134		Marcelino Garcia	122
135		Nicolas Jalabert	115
136		Nicolai Bo Larsen	A 16.
137		Jacob Piil	117
138		Nicki Sørensen	49
139		Rolf Sørensen	141

Jean Delatour

No.	country	Surname	space
141		Laurent Brochard	23
142		Jérôme Bernard	106
143		Gilles Bouvard	53
144		Stéphane Goubert	31
145		Patrice Halgand	55
146		Christophe Oriol	111
147		Laurent Roux	50
148		Eddy Seigneur	95
149		Olivier Trastour	A 6.

Kelme-Costa Blanca

No.	country	Surname	space
151		Santiago Botero	8th
152		Félix Cárdenas	61
153		Laurent Desbiens	A 3.
154		Aitor González Jiménez	A 10.
155		José Enrique Gutiérrez	25th
156		Javier Pascual Llorente	58
157		Óscar Seville	7th
158		Antonio Tauler	76
159		Jose-Angel Vidal	86

Bonjour

No.	country	Surname	space
161		Didier Rous	11
162		Walter Bénéteau	42
163		Franck Bouyer	74
164		Sylvain Chavanel	65
165		Damien Nazon	109
166		Olivier Perraudeau	138
167		Franck Renier	116
168		Jean-Cyril Robin	56
169		François Simon	6th

Lampre-Daikin

No.	country	Surname	space
171		Marco Serpellini	125
172		Raivis Belohvoščiks	110
173		Rubens Bertogliati	140
174		Ludo Dierckxsens	A 13.
175		Matteo Frutti	128
176		Robert Hunter	A 13.
177		Marco Pinotti	52
178		Ján Svorada	129
179		Johan Verstrepen	130

FDJeux.com

No.	country	Surname	space
181		Sven Montgomery	A 16.
182		Jimmy Casper	144
183		Jacky Durand	127
184		Frédéric Guesdon	124
185		Emmanuel Magnien	113
186		Bradley McGee	83
187		Christophe Mengin	102
188		Daniel Schnider	66
189		Nicolas Vogondy	89

Domo Farm Fries

No.	country	Surname	space
191		Romāns Vainšteins	132
192		Enrico Cassani	143
193		Servais Knaven	90
194		Axel Merckx	22nd
195		Marco Milesi	A 12.
196		Johan Museeuw	A 13.
197		Fred Rodriguez	A 13.
198		Max Van Heeswijk	134
199		Piotr Wadecki	68

Big Mat Auber 93

No.	country	Surname	space
201		Stéphane Heulot	40
202		Guillaume Auger	136
203		Ludovic Auger	133
204		Christophe Capelle	123
205		Thierry Gouvenou	131
206		Xavier Jan	NA 14.
207		Loïc Lamouller	A 9.
208		Alexei Sivakov	104
209		Sébastien Talabardon	126

A: abandonment during the stage, NA: not started for the stage, S: suspended / excluded, ZÜ: timeout

Web links

Commons : Tour de France 2001  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tour de France 2001 in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• radsport-seite.de for the 2001 tour

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Armstrong loses all seven Tour titles . In: faz.net
2. ^ Zeit Online: Armstrong loses all seven tour titles , accessed on October 22, 2012