Tour de France 1997

|} The 84e Tour de France is held of the July 5th with the July 27th 1997 out of 21 stages for 3.944 km.

General information

  • the departure of the Turn takes place with Rouen; the final arrival is judged with the Fields-Élysées.
  • the young person Jan Ullrich is the first German cyclist to gain the Turn.
  • Richard Virenque and its Festina team is the adversaries more coriaces for Jan Ullrich, but them Festina miss to it stage coach in the Vosges whereas Ulrich knew one difficult moment. Richard Virenque finishes all the same 2nd general classification and vêtu shirt with pea. It is the height of the “Virenquemania” on the roads of the Turn in spite of the important variation, 9 minutes and 9 seconds, separating the two first of the Turn.
  • Cédric Vasseur gains a stage 27 years after the success of his/her father, Alain Vasseur.
  • Average of the winner: 39,237 km/h.

Stages


Additional classifications

List runners

NP: Non-starter; A: Abandonment; HD: Except Time; D: Disqualified.

External bonds

  • memory of cycling/Turn 1997
  • the dictionary of the Turn/the Tour de France 1997
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