Overview of the year 1951
Metz - Paris | total distance: 4690.0 km | number of stages: 24
Winner: Hugo Koblet | Switzerland | Switzerland | age: 26
time: 142hr 20min 14sec | average speed: 32.949 km/h
2nd place: Raphael Geminiani (+ 22min 0sec)
3rd place: Lucien Lazarides (+ 24min 16sec)
winning team: France
number of participants: 123 (finished: 66 |not finished: 57)
Jerseys winners:
Stages in 1951
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage
STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed | ||||||
1 | Metz - | Reims | 185.0 km | Giovanni ROSSI | 5:24:10 | 34.2 km/h |
2 | Reims - | Ghent | 228.0 km | Jean DIEDERICH | 6:29:54 | 35.1 km/h |
3 | Ghent - | Le Tréport | 219.0 km | Georges MEUNIER | 7:05:14 | 30.9 km/h |
4 | Le Tréport - | Paris | 188.0 km | Roger LÉVÊQUE | 4:42:15 | 40.0 km/h |
5 | Paris - | Caen | 215.0 km | Serafino BIAGIONI | 6:10:34 | 34.8 km/h |
6 | Caen - | Rennes | 182.0 km | Édouard MULLER | 5:22:10 | 33.9 km/h |
7 | La Guerche - | Angers | 85.0 km | Hugo KOBLET | 2:05:40 | 40.6 km/h |
8 | Angers - | Limoges | 241.0 km | André ROSSEEL | 7:08:20 | 33.8 km/h |
9 | Limoges - | Clermont-Ferrand | 236.0 km | Raphaël GÉMINIANI | 6:59:40 | 33.7 km/h |
10 | Clermont-Ferrand - | Brive | 216.0 km | Bernardo RUIZ | 6:35:15 | 32.8 km/h |
11 | Brive-la-Gaillarde - | Agen | 177.0 km | Hugo KOBLET | 4:32:41 | 38.9 km/h |
12 | Agen - | Dax | 185.0 km | Wim VAN EST | 5:00:25 | 36.9 km/h |
13 | Dax - | Tarbes | 201.0 km | Serafino BIAGIONI | 5:47:57 | 34.7 km/h |
14 | Tarbes - | Luchon | 142.0 km | Hugo KOBLET | 4:41:41 | 30.2 km/h |
15 | Luchon - | Carcassonne | 213.0 km | André ROSSEEL | 6:22:01 | 33.5 km/h |
16 | Carcassonne - | Montpellier | 192.0 km | Hugo KOBLET | 5:27:14 | 35.2 km/h |
17 | Montpellier - | Avignon | 224.0 km | Louison BOBET | 7:24:44 | 30.2 km/h |
18 | Avignon - | Marseille | 173.0 km | Fiorenzo MAGNI | 4:56:46 | 35.0 km/h |
19 | Marseille - | Gap | 208.0 km | Armand BAEYENS | 7:15:41 | 28.6 km/h |
20 | Gap - | Briançon | 165.0 km | Fausto COPPI | 5:34:04 | 29.6 km/h |
21 | Briançon - | Aix-les-Bains | 201.0 km | Bernardo RUIZ | 6:45:24 | 29.7 km/h |
22 | Aix-les-Bains - | Genève | 97.0 km | Hugo KOBLET | 2:39:45 | 36.4 km/h |
23 | Genève - | Dijon | 197.0 km | Germain DE RIJCKE | 6:11:32 | 31.8 km/h |
24 | Dijon - | Paris | 322.0 km | Adolphe DELEDDA | 9:58:19 | 32.3 km/h |
Winners of stages in 1951 by nations (7):
FRA » 6 | SUI » 6 | ITA » 4 | BEL » 4 | ESP » 2 | NED » 1 | LUX » 1 |
Winners of stages in 1951 by cyclists (17):
Hugo KOBLET » 5 | Serafino BIAGIONI » 2 | Bernardo RUIZ » 2 | André ROSSEEL » 2 | Roger LÉVÊQUE » 1 | Raphaël GÉMINIANI » 1 | Armand BAEYENS » 1 | Jean DIEDERICH » 1 | Louison BOBET » 1 | Adolphe DELEDDA » 1 | Fausto COPPI » 1 | Georges MEUNIER » 1 | Fiorenzo MAGNI » 1 | Giovanni ROSSI » 1 | Édouard MULLER » 1 | Wim VAN EST » 1 | Germain DE RIJCKE » 1 |
Climbs in 1951
*ascents of the second, first and "hors" category
Winners of categorised climbs in 1951 by nations (5):
ITA » 8 | FRA » 6 | ESP » 3 | LUX » 1 | BEL » 1 |
Winners of ascents in 1951 by cyclists (9):
Gino BARTALI » 4 | Fausto COPPI » 4 | Bernardo RUIZ » 3 | Raphaël GEMINIANI » 2 | Bernard GAUTHIER » 2 | Jean DIEDERICH » 1 | Gino SCIARDIS » 1 | Armand BAEYENS » 1 | Lucien LAZARIDES » 1 |