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Tour de France: Facts and figures
Posted: Wednesday July 03, 2002 5:58 AM
Updated: Wednesday July 03, 2002 5:58 AM
Twenty past winners:
2001 - Lance Armstrong (U.S.)
2000 - Armstrong
1999 - Armstrong
1998 - Marco Pantani (Italy)
1997 - Jan Ullrich (Germany)
1996 - Bjarne Riis (Denmark)
1995 - Miguel Indurain (Spain)
1994 - Indurain
1993 - Indurain
1992 - Indurain
1991 - Indurain
1990 - Greg LeMond (U.S.)
1989 - Greg LeMond (U.S.)
1988 - Pedro Delgado (Spain)
1997 - Stephen Roche (Ireland)
1986 - Greg LeMond (U.S.)
1985 - Bernard Hinault (France)
1984 - Laurent Fignon (France)
1983 - Laurent Fignon (France)
1982 - Hinault
Last year's standings:
1. Lance Armstrong (U.S.) U.S. Postal 86 hrs 17 mins 28 secs
2. Jan Ullrich (Germany) Telekom 6:44 behind
3. Joseba Beloki (Spain) ONCE 9:05
4. Andrei Kivilev (Kazakhstan) 9:53
5. Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (Spain) ONCE 13:28
6. Francois Simon (France) Bonjour 17:22
7. Oscar Sevilla (Spain) Kelme 18:30
8. Santiago Botero (Colombia) Kelme 20:55
9. Marcos Serrano (Spain) ONCE 21:45
10. Michael Boogerd (Netherlands) 22:38
King of the mountains: Laurent Jalabert (France) ONCE
Points winner: Erik Zabel (Germany) Telekom
Team standings: Kelme (Spain)
Best under 25 rider: Sevilla
Most Tour victories:
5 - Jacques Anquetil (France), Eddy Merckx (Belgium),
Bernard Hinault (France), Miguel Indurain (Spain)
Most stage wins:
34 - Merckx
Most stage wins in one Tour:
8 - Charles Pelissier (France) 1930, Merckx (Belgium) 1970
and 1974, Freddy Maertens (Belgium) 1976
Most successive stage wins:
5 - Francois Faber (Luxembourg) 1909
Victories by country:
France 36, Belgium 18, Italy 9, Spain 8, United States 6,
Luxembourg 4, Switzerland and Netherlands 2, Germany, Ireland
and Denmark 1
Most King of the mountains victories:
6 - Lucien Van Impe (Belgium)
Most points standings won:
6 - Erik Zabel (Germany)
Most Tours entered:
16 - Joop Zoetemelk (Netherlands) 1970 to 1986
Fastest Tour:
40.726 kph, Armstrong in 1999
Slowest Tour:
24.056 kph, Firmin Lambot (Belgium) 1919
Fastest stage:
50.355 kph, Mario Cipollini (Italy) 1999 Laval to Blois (194.5 kms)
Fastest time trial:
54.545 kph, LeMond 1989 Versailles-Paris (24 kms)
Most starters:
210 in 1986
Fewest starters:
60 in 1903, 1905 and 1934
Most finishers:
158 in 1991
Fewest finishers:
11 in 1919
Youngest winner:
Henri Cornet, 19 years 50 weeks in 1904
Oldest winner:
Lambot, 36 years four months in 1922
Longest stage:
Les Sables d'Olonne-Bayonne 482 kms from 1919 to 1924
Shortest stage:
Le Monetier-les-Bains to Sestriere 46 kms in 1996 (stage shortened because of snow)
Most stage finishes:
Paris 87, Bordeaux 77, Pau 55
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