1970 Tour de France

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Final Standings
Overall	Eddy Merckx	119h 31' 49"
Second	Joop Zoetemelk	+12' 41"
Third	Gösta Pettersson	+15' 54"
Points	Walter Godefroot	212 points
Second	Eddy Merckx	207 points
Third	Marino Basso	161 points
Climber	Eddy Merckx	128 points
Second	Andres Gandarias	94 points
Third	Martin Vandenbossche	85 points
Teams	SALVARANI
Second
Third

The 1970 Tour de France was the 57th Tour de France, taking place June 27 to July 19, 1970. It was comprised of 23 stages over 4366 km, ridden at an average speed of 35.589 km/h.

1 Results
- 1.1 Overall standings
- 1.2 Stages
2 External links

[edit] Results

[edit] Overall standings

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Eddy Merckx	Belgium	119h 31' 49"
2	Joop Zoetemelk	Netherlands	12' 41"
3	Gösta Pettersson	Sweden	15' 54"
4	Martin Vandenbossche	Belgium	18' 53"
5	Marinus Wagtmans	Netherlands	19' 54"
6	Lucien Van Impe	Belgium	20' 34"
7	Raymond Poulidor	France	20' 35"
8	Antoon Houbrechts	Belgium	21' 34"
9	Francisco Galdos	Spain	21' 45"
10	Georges Pintens	Belgium	23' 23"

[edit] Stages

Stage	Route	Distance	Type	Stage Winner
P	Limoges	7.4 km	Individual time trial	Eddy Merckx
1	Limoges - La Rochelle	224.5 km		Cyrille Guimard
2	La Rochelle - Angers	200 km		Italo Zilioli
3a	Angers	10.7 km	Team time trial	Faema-Faemino
3b	Angers - Rennes	140 km		Marino Basso
4	Rennes - Lisieux	229 km		Walter Godefroot
5a	Lisieux - Rouen	169 km		Walter Godefroot
5b	Rouen - Amiens	223 km		Jozef Spruyt
6	Amiens - Valenciennes	135.5 km		Roger De Vlaeminck
7a	Valenciennes - Forest/Vorst	119 km		Eddy Merckx (2)
7b	Forest/Vorst	7.2 km	Individual time trial	José-Antonio Gonzalez-Linares
8	Ciney - Felsberg	232.5 km		Alain Vasseur
9	Saarlouis- Mulhouse	269.5 km	Mountain stage	Mogens Frey
10	Belfort - Divonne les Bains	241 km	Mountain stage	Eddy Merckx (3)
11a	Divonne les Bains	8.8 km	Individual time trial	Eddy Merckx (4)
11b	Divonne les Bains - Thonon les Bains	139.5 km	Mountain stage	Marino Basso
12	Thonon les Bains - Grenoble	194 km	Mountain stage	Eddy Merckx (5)
13	Grenoble - Gap	194.5 km	Mountain stage	Primo Mori
14	Gap - Mont Ventoux	170 km		Eddy Merckx (6)
15	Carpentras- Montpellier	144.5 km		Marinus Wagtmans
16	Montpellier - Toulouse	160 km		Albert Van Vlierberghe
17	Toulouse - Saint Gaudens	190 km		Luis Ocana
18	Saint Gaudens- La Mongie/Tourmalet	135.5 km	Mountain stage	Bernard Thévenet
19	Bagnères de Bigorre-Mourenx/Ville nouvelle	185.5 km		Christian Raymond
20a	Mourenx - Bordeaux	160 km		Rolf Wolfshohl
20b	Bordeaux	8.2 km	Individual time trial	Eddy Merckx (7)
21	Ruffec - Tours	191.5 km		Marino Basso (3)
22	Tours - Versailles	238.5 km		Jean-Pierre Danguillaume
23	Versailles - Paris Champs-Élysées	54 km	Individual time trial	Eddy Merckx (8)
Total		4366 km