Overview of the year 1955
Le Havre - Paris | total distance: 4495.0 km | number of stages: 22
Winner: Louison Bobet | France | France | age: 30
time: 130hr 29min 26sec | average speed: 34.446 km/h
2nd place: Jean Brankart (+ 4min 53sec)
3rd place: Charly Gaul (+ 11min 30sec)
winning team: France
number of participants: 130 (finished: 69 |not finished: 61)
Jerseys winners:
Stages in 1955
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage
STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed | ||||||
1a | Le Havre - | Dieppe | 102.0 km | Miguel POBLET | 2:39:31 | 38.4 km/h |
1b | Dieppe - | Dieppe | 12.5 km | Netherlands | 0:16:25 | 45.7 km/h |
2 | Dieppe - | Roubaix | 204.0 km | Antonin ROLLAND | 5:54:00 | 34.6 km/h |
3 | Roubaix - | Namur | 210.0 km | Louison BOBET | 6:37:39 | 31.7 km/h |
4 | Namur - | Metz | 225.0 km | Willy KEMP | 6:41:07 | 33.7 km/h |
5 | Metz - | Colmar | 229.0 km | Roger HASSENFORDER | 5:57:54 | 38.4 km/h |
6 | Colmar - | Zurich | 195.0 km | André DARRIGADE | 4:32:14 | 43.0 km/h |
7 | Zurich - | Thonon | 267.0 km | Jos HINSEN | 7:22:01 | 36.2 km/h |
8 | Thonon - | Briançon | 253.0 km | Charly GAUL | 7:42:55 | 32.8 km/h |
9 | Briançon - | Monaco | 275.0 km | Raphaël GÉMINIANI | 8:15:50 | 33.3 km/h |
10 | Monaco - | Marseille | 240.0 km | Lucien LAZARIDÈS | 6:45:12 | 35.5 km/h |
11 | Marseille - | Avignon | 198.0 km | Louison BOBET | 5:42:32 | 34.7 km/h |
12 | Avignon - | Millau | 240.0 km | Alessandro FANTINI | 6:53:50 | 34.8 km/h |
13 | Millau - | Albi | 205.0 km | Daan DE GROOT | 5:52:41 | 34.9 km/h |
14 | Albi - | Narbonne | 156.0 km | Louis CAPUT | 4:12:05 | 37.1 km/h |
15 | Narbonne - | Ax-les-Thermes | 151.0 km | Luciano PEZZI | 4:32:53 | 33.2 km/h |
16 | Ax-les-Thermes - | Toulouse | 123.0 km | Rik VAN STEENBERGEN | 2:57:09 | 41.7 km/h |
17 | Toulouse - | Saint-Gaudens | 249.0 km | Charly GAUL | 7:31:31 | 33.1 km/h |
18 | Saint-Gaudens - | Pau | 206.0 km | Jean BRANKART | 6:39:39 | 30.9 km/h |
19 | Pau - | Bordeaux | 195.0 km | Wout WAGTMANS | 5:15:38 | 37.1 km/h |
20 | Bordeaux - | Poitiers | 243.0 km | Jean FORESTIER | 7:24:12 | 32.8 km/h |
21 | Chatellerault - | Tours | 68.6 km | Jean BRANKART | 1:39:31 | 41.4 km/h |
22 | Tours - | Paris | 229.0 km | Miguel POBLET | 6:38:25 | 34.5 km/h |
Winners of stages in 1955 by nations (6):
FRA » 9 | NED » 4 | LUX » 3 | BEL » 3 | ITA » 2 | ESP » 2 |
Winners of stages in 1955 by cyclists (19):
Jean BRANKART » 2 | Miguel POBLET » 2 | Louison BOBET » 2 | Charly GAUL » 2 | Louis CAPUT » 1 | Jean FORESTIER » 1 | Netherlands » 1 | André DARRIGADE » 1 | Alessandro FANTINI » 1 | Willy KEMP » 1 | Raphaël GÉMINIANI » 1 | Luciano PEZZI » 1 | Antonin ROLLAND » 1 | Jos HINSEN » 1 | Daan DE GROOT » 1 | Wout WAGTMANS » 1 | Roger HASSENFORDER » 1 | Lucien LAZARIDÈS » 1 | Rik VAN STEENBERGEN » 1 |
Climbs in 1955
*ascents of the second, first and "hors" category
Winners of categorised climbs in 1955 by nations (4):
LUX » 11 | FRA » 4 | ITA » 1 | ESP » 1 |
Winners of ascents in 1955 by cyclists (7):
Charly GAUL » 11 | Luciano PEZZI » 1 | Miguel POBLET » 1 | François MAHE » 1 | Raphael GEMINIANI » 1 | Louis CAPUT » 1 | Louison BOBET » 1 |