Overview of the year 1926

Date: June 20 - July 18 1926
Evian - Paris | total distance: 5745.0 km | number of stages: 17

Winner: Lucien Buysse | Automoto | Belgium | age: 33
time: 238hr 44min 25sec | average speed: 24.273 km/h
2nd place: Nicolas Frantz (+ 1hr 22min 25sec)
3rd place: Bartolomeo Aymo (+ 1hr 22min 51sec)
winning team:
number of participants: 126 (finished: 41 |not finished: 85)

Jerseys winners:
 Lucien Buysse

Stages in 1926

number of stages in this year*: 17 | display finish towns on map
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage

STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed
1Evian - Mulhouse  373.0 km  BEL  Jules BUYSSE  14:12:04  26.3 km/h
2Mulhouse - Metz  334.0 km  BEL  Aimé DOSSCHE  13:29:16  24.8 km/h
3Metz - Dunkerque  433.0 km  BEL  Gustaaf VAN SLEMBROUCK  17:11:14  25.2 km/h
4Dunkerque - Le Havre  361.0 km  BEL  Félix SELLIER  14:57:01  24.1 km/h
5Le Havre - Cherbourg  357.0 km  BEL  Adelin BENOIT  14:14:09  25.1 km/h
6Cherbourg - Brest  405.0 km  BEL  Joseph VAN DAM  16:12:49  25.0 km/h
7Brest - Les Sables  412.0 km  LUX  Nicolas FRANTZ  16:20:54  25.2 km/h
8Les Sables - Bordeaux  285.0 km  BEL  Joseph VAN DAM  12:00:08  23.7 km/h
9Bordeaux - Bayonne  189.0 km  LUX  Nicolas FRANTZ  7:38:19  24.7 km/h
10Bayonne - Luchon  326.0 km  BEL  Lucien BUYSSE  17:12:04  18.8 km/h
11Luchon - Perpignan  323.0 km  BEL  Lucien BUYSSE  12:31:16  25.8 km/h
12Perpignan - Toulon  427.0 km  LUX  Nicolas FRANTZ  17:12:32  24.8 km/h
13Toulon - Nice  280.0 km  LUX  Nicolas FRANTZ  11:31:10  24.3 km/h
14Nice - Briançon  275.0 km  ITA  Bartolomeo AIMO  11:59:55  22.9 km/h
15Briançon - Evian  303.0 km  BEL  Joseph VAN DAM  12:09:08  24.9 km/h
16Evian - Dijon  321.0 km  BEL  Camille VAN DE CASTEELE  13:45:57  23.3 km/h
17Dijon - Paris  341.0 km  BEL  Aimé DOSSCHE  14:56:05  22.8 km/h

Winners of stages in 1926 by nations (3):
BEL » 12 | LUX » 4 | ITA » 1 |
Winners of stages in 1926 by cyclists (10):
Nicolas FRANTZ » 4 | Joseph VAN DAM » 3 | Lucien BUYSSE » 2 | Aimé DOSSCHE » 2 | Camille VAN DE CASTEELE » 1 | Gustaaf VAN SLEMBROUCK » 1 | Jules BUYSSE » 1 | Félix SELLIER » 1 | Bartolomeo AIMO » 1 | Adelin BENOIT » 1 |

Climbs in 1926

number of categorized climbs in this year*: 14 | display climbs on map
*ascents of the second, first and "hors" category


Winners of categorised climbs in 1926 by nations (3):
BEL » 10 | ITA » 3 | FRA » 1 |
Winners of ascents in 1926 by cyclists (8):
Lucien BUYSSE » 5 | Bartolomeo AIMO » 2 | Omer HUYSE » 2 | Ottavio BOTTECCHIA » 1 | Théophile BEECKMAN » 1 | Léon PARMENTIER » 1 | Odile TAILLIEU » 1 | Marcel BIDOT » 1 |