Tour de France 1909

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The 7th Tour de France is held of the July 5th with the 1909 out of 14 stages for 4.488 km.

General information

  • general classification is always done at the points and not at time.
  • the departure of the Turn takes place to the Pont of the Bowl; the final arrival is judged with the Parc of the Princes. The course is exactly the same one as the previous year.
  • Average of the winner: 28,658 km/h
  • First final victory from abroad.
  • the Luxembourger François Faber flies over the Turn by entering only 37 points.
  • “Peugeot” not introducing a team on this Lathe, the succession is open. The Alcyon team has proud pace. She joins together in her rows the Luxembourger of Paris François Faber, the Belgian Cyrille Van Hauwaert and the French Louis Trousselier, Gustave Garrigou, Paul Duboc and Jean Alavoine. Vis-a-vis “Alcyon”, “the Nile-Supra”, “Biguet-Dunlop”, “the Earth”, and the Italians of “Legnano”, “Felsina” and “Atala”. Still and always, the independent runners are majority within the group. Enough logically, “Alcyon” dominates the debates while placing five runners in the first five places, the sixth member of the team pointing in the eighth place. It is an isolated runner, Ernest Paul, which finishes sixth behind the armada “Alcyon”.
  • Plus of 100.000 spectators is listed in Paris for the final arrival of the Turn.

Stages

Sources

  • coll, Tour de France, 100 years , Paris, the Team, 2003, volume 1, p.66-71

External bonds

  • memory of cycling/Turn 1909

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