Tour Xtra

Tour de France Records

Longest Tours (in distance)

Shortest Tours (in distance)

1 1926

2 1919

3 1921

4 1920

5 1928

6 1925

7 1924

8 1914

9 1927

10 1923

5795 km

5560 km

5485 km

5483 km

5476 km

5430 km

5428 km

5405 km

5398 km

5386 km

1 1904

— 1903

3 1905

4 2002

5 1988

6 1989

7 2004

8 2003

9 1990

10 2011

17 stages

15 stages

15 stages

15 stages

22 stages

18 stages

15 stages

15 stages

24 stages

15 stages

2428 km

2428 km

2994 km

3277.5 km

3282 km

3285 km

3391.1 km

3427.5 km

3449 km

3430 km

6 stages

6 stages

11 stages

21 stages

23 stages

23 stages

21 stages

21 stages

22 stages

21 stages

Longest stages in the Tour de France (Start Finish)

1 Les Sables d’Olonne

— Les Sables d’Olonne

3 Marseille

4 La Rochelle

— Brest

6 Metz

Bayonne

Bayonne

Toulon

Brest

La Rochelle

Dunkerque

1919

1924

1906

1911

1914

1919

Cities that hosted most Tour stage finishes

1 Paris

2 Bordeaux

3 Pau

4 Bagnères-de-Luchon

5 Metz

6 Perpignan

Grenoble

8 Nice

— Caen

10 Marseille

11 Briançon

12 Bayonne

103 times

79 times

58 times

47 times

38 times

35 times

35 times

34 times

34 times

33 times

32 times

30 times

1903

1903

1930

1910

1907

1910

1905

1906

1905

1903

1922

1906

2012

2010

2012

2012

2012

2009

2011

1981

2006

2007

2007

2003

First time

Last time

482 km

482 km

480 km

470 km

470 km

468 km

Giro d’Italia & Tour de France & Vuelta a España in one year

1991 Eduardo Chozas (Esp)(2)

1991 Iñaki Gastón (Esp)

1991 Marco Giovannetti (Ita)

1991 Alb. Leánizbarrutia (Esp)

1991 Marino Lejarreta (Esp)(4)

1991 Vladimir Pulnikov (Ukr)

1991 Valerio Tebaldi (Ita)

1992 Guido Bontempi (Ita)

1992 Neil Stephens (Aus)

1999 Mariano Piccoli (Ita)

2001 Jon Odriozola (Esp)

2005 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita)

2006 Carlos Sastre (Esp)

2007 Mario Aerts (Bel)

2008 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita)

2008 Erik Zabel (Ger)

2009 Julian Dean (NZl)

2010 Carlos Sastre (Esp) (2)

2011 Sebastian Lang (Ger)

1955 Louis Caput (Fra)

1955 Raphaël Geminiani (Fra)

1955 Bernardo Ruiz (Esp)

1956 Arrigo Padovan (Ita)

1956 José Serra (Esp)

1956 Bernardo Ruiz (Esp)(2)

1957 Gastone Nencini (Ita)

1957 Mario Baroni (Ita)

1957 Bernardo Ruiz (Esp)(3)

1958 Pierino Baffi (Ita)

1958 Feder. Bahamontès (Esp)

1971 José M. Fuente (Esp)

1971 José L. Uribezubia (Esp)

1985 Philippe Poissonnier (Fra)

1987 Marino Lejarreta (Esp)

1988 Luis Javier Lukin (Esp)

1989 Marino Lejarreta (Esp)(2)

1990 Eduardo Chozas(Esp)

1990 Marino Lejarreta (Esp)(3)

 

 

 

 

68

4

28

12

26 38

1

74

55

23

17

39

44

86

4

32

10

11

7

 

 

 

 

54

6

22

26

81 70

6

53

24

63

8

72

69

90

10

82

5

6

5

 

 

 

 

55

3

14

19

9 31

9

46

3

37

6

54

36

66

34

60

20

33

55

 

 

 

 

10

23

8

64

5

11

47

40

57

38

58

88

43

20

3

80

136

8

113

11

61

30

39

59

88

89

75

74

50

69

118

4

69

24

40

121

19

56

11

14

18

44

3

66

87

62

66

58

82

114

3

28

10

49

132

8

77

Thanks to Mark Lancaster for some of this information

Fastest Tours

1 2005

2 2003

3 2006

4 2004

5 2008

6 2009

7 1999

8 2001

9 1998

10 2002

41.689 km/h

40.956 km/h

40.782 km/h

40.563 km/h

40.492 km/h

40.316 km/h

40.315 km/h

40.053 km/h

39.988 km/h

39.927 km/h

Lance Armstrong (USA)

Lance Armstrong (USA)

Óscar Pereiro (Esp)

Lance Armstrong (USA)

Carlos Sastre (Esp)

Alberto Contador (Esp)

Lance Armstrong (USA)

Lance Armstrong (USA)

Marco Pantani (Ita)

Lance Armstrong (USA)

3596.5 km

3427.5 km

3657.1 km

3391.1 km

3559.5 km

3459.5 km

3686.8 km

3456.2 km

3712.1 km

3277.5 km

Avg. Speed

Distance

Winner