Overview of the year 1972
Angers - Paris | total distance: 3846.0 km | number of stages: 20
Winner: Eddy Merckx | Molteni | Belgium | age: 27
time: 108hr 17min 18sec | average speed: 35.514 km/h
2nd place: Felice Gimondi (+ 10min 41sec)
3rd place: Raymond Poulidor (+ 11min 34sec)
winning team: GAN - Mercier
number of participants: 132 (finished: 88 |not finished: 44)
Jerseys winners:
Stages in 1972
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage
STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed | ||||||
P | Angers - | Angers | 7.2 km | Eddy MERCKX | 0:08:51 | 48.8 km/h |
1 | Angers - | Saint-Brieuc | 235.5 km | Cyrille GUIMARD | 6:00:31 | 39.2 km/h |
2 | Saint-Brieuc - | La Baule | 206.5 km | Rik VAN LINDEN | 5:09:43 | 40.0 km/h |
3a | Pornichet - | Saint-Jean-de-Monts | 161.0 km | Ercole GUALAZZINI | 3:56:33 | 40.8 km/h |
3b | Merlin-Plage - | Merlin-Plage | 16.2 km | Molteni | 0:19:20 | 50.3 km/h |
4 | Merlin-Plage - | Royan | 236.0 km | Cyrille GUIMARD | 5:22:43 | 43.9 km/h |
5a | Royan - | Bordeaux | 133.5 km | Walter GODEFROOT | 2:59:33 | 44.6 km/h |
5b | Bordeaux - | Bordeaux | 12.7 km | Eddy MERCKX | 0:16:05 | 46.3 km/h |
6 | Bordeaux - | Bayonne | 205.0 km | Léo DUYNDAM | 5:44:10 | 35.7 km/h |
7 | Bayonne - | Pau | 220.5 km | Yves HÉZARD | 6:02:19 | 36.5 km/h |
8 | Pau - | Luchon | 163.5 km | Eddy MERCKX | 4:54:48 | 33.3 km/h |
9 | Luchon - | Colomiers | 179.0 km | Joseph HUYSMANS | 4:43:01 | 37.9 km/h |
10 | Castres - | La Grande-Motte | 210.0 km | Willy TEIRLINCK | 6:08:19 | 34.2 km/h |
11 | Carnon - | Mont Ventoux | 207.0 km | Bernard THÉVENET | 7:13:45 | 28.6 km/h |
12 | Carpentras - | Orcières-Merlette | 192.0 km | Lucien VAN IMPE | 5:38:33 | 34.0 km/h |
13 | Orcières-Merlette - | Briançon | 201.0 km | Eddy MERCKX | 6:26:12 | 31.2 km/h |
14a | Briançon - | Valloire | 51.0 km | Eddy MERCKX | 1:32:02 | 33.2 km/h |
14b | Valloire - | Aix-les-Bains | 151.0 km | Cyrille GUIMARD | 4:48:53 | 31.4 km/h |
15 | Aix-les-Bains - | Mont Revard | 28.0 km | Cyrille GUIMARD | 1:09:49 | 24.1 km/h |
16 | Aix-les-Bains - | Pontarlier | 198.5 km | Willy TEIRLINCK | 6:08:17 | 32.3 km/h |
17 | Pontarlier - | Ballon d´Alsace | 213.0 km | Bernard THÉVENET | 5:59:08 | 35.6 km/h |
18 | Vesoul - | Auxerre | 257.5 km | Marinus "Rini" WAGTMANS | 7:38:21 | 33.7 km/h |
19 | Auxerre - | Versailles | 230.0 km | Joseph BRUYÈRE | 6:41:55 | 34.3 km/h |
20a | Versailles - | Versailles | 42.0 km | Eddy MERCKX | 0:55:27 | 45.4 km/h |
20b | Versailles - | Paris | 89.0 km | Willy TEIRLINCK | 2:32:14 | 35.1 km/h |
Winners of stages in 1972 by nations (4):
BEL » 14 | FRA » 7 | ITA » 2 | NED » 2 |
Winners of stages in 1972 by cyclists (14):
Eddy MERCKX » 6 | Cyrille GUIMARD » 4 | Willy TEIRLINCK » 3 | Bernard THÉVENET » 2 | Molteni » 1 | Rik VAN LINDEN » 1 | Yves HÉZARD » 1 | Marinus "Rini" WAGTMANS » 1 | Walter GODEFROOT » 1 | Ercole GUALAZZINI » 1 | Joseph HUYSMANS » 1 | Joseph BRUYÈRE » 1 | Léo DUYNDAM » 1 | Lucien VAN IMPE » 1 |
Climbs in 1972
*ascents of the second, first and "hors" category
Winners of categorised climbs in 1972 by nations (5):
BEL » 11 | FRA » 5 | POR » 4 | NED » 2 | ITA » 1 |
Winners of ascents in 1972 by cyclists (12):
Lucien VAN IMPE » 6 | Joaquim AGOSTINHO » 4 | Bernard THEVENET » 2 | Roger SWERTS » 2 | Eddy MERCKX » 2 | Raymond DELISLE » 1 | Cyrille GUIMARD » 1 | Mathieu PUSTJENS » 1 | Pietro CAMPAGNARI » 1 | Joop ZOETEMELK » 1 | Wilfried DAVID » 1 | Christian RAYMOND » 1 |