1914 Tour de France

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Final Standings
Length	15 stages, 5405 km
Overall	Philippe Thys	200h 28' 48"
Second	Henri Pélissier	+1' 50"
Third	Jean Alavoine	+36' 53"

The 1914 Tour de France was the 12th Tour de France, taking place June 28 to July 26, 1914. The total distance was 5405 km (3359 miles) and the average speed of the riders was 26.835 km/h^[1].

The day the Tour began, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo, marking the start of World War I. On August 3rd, Germany invaded Belgium and declared war on France, making this Tour the last for five years, until 1919. The three men who won the Tour between 1907 and 1910 would die in the war.^[2]

[edit] Stages

Stage	Date	Route	Length (km)	Winner	Race leader
1	June 28	Paris - Le Havre	388	Philippe Thys	Philippe Thys
2	June 30	Le Havre - Cherbourg	364	Jean Rossius	Philippe Thys
3	July 2	Cherbourg - Brest	405	Emile Engel	Philippe Thys
4	July 4	Brest - La Rochelle	470	Oscar Egg	Jean Alavoine
5	July 6	La Rochelle - Bayonne	376	Oscar Egg	Oscar Egg
6	July 8	Bayonne - Luchon	326	Firmin Lambot	Philippe Thys
7	July 10	Luchon - Bordeaux	323	Jean Alavoine	Jean Alavoine
8	July 12	Bordeaux - Perpignan	370	Octave Lapize	Jean Alavoine
9	July 14	Perpignan - Marseille	338	Jean Rossius	Jean Alavoine
10	July 16	Marseille - Nice	323	Henri Pélissier	Philippe Thys
11	July 18	Nice - Grenoble	325	Gustave Garrigou	Philippe Thys
12	July 20	Grenoble - Genève	325	Henri Pélissier	Philippe Thys
13	July 22	Belfort - Longwy	325	François Faber	Philippe Thys
14	July 24	Longwy - Dunkerque	390	François Faber	Philippe Thys
15	July 26	Dunkerque - Paris	340	Henri Pélissier	Philippe Thys

[edit] References

1914 Tour de France results

[edit] Notes

^ Official 1914 Tour de France results
^ Wheatcroft, Geoffrey. Le Tour: a history of the Tour de France, 1903-2003, p. 59. London: Pocket Books, 2003.

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