Overview of the year 1976
St. Jean de Monts - Paris | total distance: 4017.0 km | number of stages: 22
Winner: Lucien van Impe | Gitane | Belgium | age: 29
time: 116hr 22min 23sec | average speed: 34.518 km/h
2nd place: Joop Zoetemelk (+ 4min 14sec)
3rd place: Raymond Poulidor (+ 12min 8sec)
winning team: Kas
number of participants: 130 (finished: 87 |not finished: 43)
Jerseys winners:
Stages in 1976
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage
STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed | ||||||
P | Saint-Jean-de-Monts - | Saint-Jean-de-Monts | 8.0 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 0:11:03 | 43.4 km/h |
1 | Saint-Jean-de-Monts - | Angers | 173.0 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 4:43:37 | 36.6 km/h |
2 | Angers - | Caen | 236.5 km | Giovanni BATTAGLIN | 6:43:49 | 35.1 km/h |
3 | Le Touquet - | Le Touquet | 37.0 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 0:47:08 | 47.1 km/h |
4 | Le Touquet - | Bornem | 258.0 km | Hennie KUIPER | 7:31:25 | 34.3 km/h |
5a | Leuven - | Leuven | 4.3 km | Ti-Raleigh | 0:05:21 | 48.2 km/h |
5b | Leuven - | Verviers | 144.0 km | Miguel-Maria LASA | 3:51:17 | 37.4 km/h |
6 | Bastogne - | Nancy | 209.0 km | Aldo PARECCHINI | 5:22:32 | 38.9 km/h |
7 | Nancy - | Mulhouse | 205.5 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 5:41:05 | 36.5 km/h |
8 | Beaulieu - | Divonne | 220.5 km | Jacques ESCLASSAN | 5:54:11 | 37.4 km/h |
9 | Divonne - | Alpe d’Huez | 258.0 km | Joop ZOETEMELK | 8:31:49 | 30.2 km/h |
10 | Bourg d’Oisans - | Montgenèvre | 167.0 km | Joop ZOETEMELK | 5:02:20 | 33.1 km/h |
11 | Montgenèvre - | Manosque | 224.0 km | José-Luis VIEJO | 5:42:34 | 39.2 km/h |
12 | Port Barcarès - | Pyrénées2000 | 205.5 km | Raymond DELISLE | 6:47:32 | 30.3 km/h |
13 | Font Romeu - | Saint-Gaudens | 188.0 km | Willy TEIRLINCK | 4:57:23 | 37.9 km/h |
14 | Saint-Gaudens - | Saint-Lary-Soulan | 139.0 km | Lucien VAN IMPE | 4:20:50 | 32.0 km/h |
15 | Saint-Lary-Soulan - | Pau | 195.0 km | Wladimiro PANIZZA | 6:01:37 | 32.4 km/h |
16 | Pau - | Fleurance | 152.0 km | Michel POLLENTIER | 4:38:33 | 32.7 km/h |
17 | Fleurance - | Auch | 38.7 km | Ferdinand BRACKE | 0:52:41 | 44.1 km/h |
18a | Auch - | Langon | 86.0 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 2:34:37 | 33.4 km/h |
18b | Langon - | Lacanau | 123.0 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 3:27:00 | 35.7 km/h |
18c | Lacanau - | Bordeaux | 70.5 km | Gerben KARSTENS | 1:42:13 | 41.4 km/h |
19 | Sainte-Foy-la-Grande - | Tulle | 219.5 km | Hubert MATHIS | 6:46:00 | 32.4 km/h |
20 | Tulle - | Puy-de-Dôme | 220.0 km | Joop ZOETEMELK | 6:52:52 | 32.0 km/h |
21 | Montargis - | Versailles | 145.5 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 4:16:04 | 34.1 km/h |
22a | Versailles - | Paris | 6.0 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 0:07:46 | 46.4 km/h |
22b | Paris - | Paris | 90.7 km | Gerben KARSTENS | 1:58:48 | 45.8 km/h |
Winners of stages in 1976 by nations (5):
BEL » 12 | NED » 7 | ITA » 3 | FRA » 3 | ESP » 2 |
Winners of stages in 1976 by cyclists (17):
Freddy MAERTENS » 8 | Joop ZOETEMELK » 3 | Gerben KARSTENS » 2 | Lucien VAN IMPE » 1 | Hubert MATHIS » 1 | Miguel-Maria LASA » 1 | Raymond DELISLE » 1 | Ferdinand BRACKE » 1 | Hennie KUIPER » 1 | Wladimiro PANIZZA » 1 | Aldo PARECCHINI » 1 | Willy TEIRLINCK » 1 | Ti-Raleigh » 1 | José-Luis VIEJO » 1 | Michel POLLENTIER » 1 | Giovanni BATTAGLIN » 1 | Jacques ESCLASSAN » 1 |
Climbs in 1976
*ascents of the second, first and "hors" category
Winners of categorised climbs in 1976 by nations (5):
ITA » 6 | FRA » 4 | ESP » 4 | NED » 4 | BEL » 3 |
Winners of ascents in 1976 by cyclists (12):
Lucien VAN IMPE » 3 | Raymond DELISLE » 3 | Giancarlo BELLINI » 3 | Joop ZOETEMELK » 3 | Luciano CONATI » 2 | Francisco GALDOS » 1 | Roland SMET » 1 | Luis OCANA » 1 | Gerben KARSTENS » 1 | Pedro TORRES » 1 | Wladimiro PANIZZA » 1 | Domingo PERURENA » 1 |