Overview of the year 1938

Date: July 5 - July 31 1938
Paris - Paris | total distance: 4694.0 km | number of stages: 21

Winner: Gino Bartali | Italy | Italy | age: 24
time: 148hr 29min 12sec | average speed: 31.565 km/h
2nd place: Felicien Vervaecke (+ 18min 27sec)
3rd place: Victor Cosson (+ 29min 26sec)
winning team: Belgium
number of participants: 96 (finished: 55 |not finished: 41)
Jerseys winners:
 Gino Bartali
 Gino Bartali

Stages in 1938

number of stages in this year*: 29 | display finish towns on map
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage

STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed
1Paris - Caen  215.0 km  GER  Willi OBERBECK  6:38:25  32.4 km/h
2Caen - Saint-Brieuc  237.0 km  LUX  Jean MAJERUS  7:01:07  33.8 km/h
3Saint-Brieuc - Nantes  238.0 km  NED  Gerrit SCHULTE  7:39:01  31.1 km/h
4aNantes - La Roche-sur-Yon  62.0 km  BEL  Eloi MEULENBERG  2:03:49  30.0 km/h
4bLa Roche-sur-Yon - La Rochelle  83.0 km  BEL  Eloi MEULENBERG  2:34:20  36.2 km/h
4cLa Rochelle - Royan  83.0 km  BEL  Félicien VERVAECKE  2:32:13  32.7 km/h
5Royan - Bordeaux  198.0 km  BEL  Eloi MEULENBERG  5:12:42  38.0 km/h
6aBordeaux - Arcachon  53.0 km  ITA  Jules ROSSI  1:16:20  41.3 km/h
6bArcachon - Bayonne  171.0 km  ITA  Glauco SERVADEI  5:06:34  33.5 km/h
7Bayonne - Pau  115.0 km  NED  Théo MIDDELKAMP  2:51:22  40.3 km/h
8Pau - Luchon  193.0 km  BEL  Félicien VERVAECKE  7:15:19  26.6 km/h
9Luchon - Perpignan  260.0 km  FRA  Jean FRÉCHAUT  7:08:15  36.4 km/h
10aPerpignan - Narbonne  63.0 km  NED  Antoon VAN SCHENDEL  1:56:09  32.5 km/h
10bNarbonne - Beziers  27.0 km  BEL  Félicien VERVAECKE  0:39:31  41.0 km/h
10cBeziers - Montpellier  73.0 km  FRA  Antonin MAGNE  2:06:23  34.7 km/h
11Montpellier - Marseille  223.0 km  ITA  Gino BARTALI  6:52:10  32.5 km/h
12Marseille - Cannes  199.0 km  FRA  Jean FRÉCHAUT  6:35:26  30.2 km/h
13Cannes - Digne  284.0 km  FRA  Dante GIANELLO  9:19:49  30.4 km/h
14Digne - Briançon  219.0 km  ITA  Gino BARTALI  8:49:07  24.8 km/h
15Briançon - Aix-les-Bains  311.0 km  BEL  Marcel KINT  10:52:24  28.6 km/h
16Aix-les-Bains - Besançon  284.0 km  BEL  Marcel KINT  9:39:56  29.4 km/h
17aBesançon - Belfort  89.0 km  BEL  Emile "junior" MASSON  2:27:48  36.3 km/h
17bBelfort - Strasbourg  143.0 km  FRA  Jean FRÉCHAUT  4:30:20  31.7 km/h
18Strasbourg - Metz  186.0 km  BEL  Marcel KINT  5:43:27  32.5 km/h
19Metz - Reims  196.0 km  FRA  Fabien GALATEAU  6:35:21  29.7 km/h
20aReims - Laon  48.0 km  ITA  Glauco SERVADEI  1:03:17  45.5 km/h
20bLaon - St-Quentin  42.0 km  BEL  Félicien VERVAECKE  1:04:40  39.0 km/h
20cSt-Quentin - Lille  107.0 km  BEL  François NEUVILLE  3:07:12  34.3 km/h
21Lille - Paris  279.0 km  FRA  André LEDUCQ  8:54:50  31.3 km/h

as the winners of the last stage (21st stage from Lille to Paris) were declared two riders Andre Leducq and Antonin Magne

Winners of stages in 1938 by nations (6):
BEL » 12 | FRA » 7 | ITA » 5 | NED » 3 | LUX » 1 | GER » 1 |
Winners of stages in 1938 by cyclists (18):
Félicien VERVAECKE » 4 | Eloi MEULENBERG » 3 | Jean FRÉCHAUT » 3 | Marcel KINT » 3 | Glauco SERVADEI » 2 | Gino BARTALI » 2 | Fabien GALATEAU » 1 | Jean MAJERUS » 1 | François NEUVILLE » 1 | Antoon VAN SCHENDEL » 1 | Emile "junior" MASSON » 1 | Gerrit SCHULTE » 1 | Théo MIDDELKAMP » 1 | Dante GIANELLO » 1 | André LEDUCQ » 1 | Willi OBERBECK » 1 | Jules ROSSI » 1 | Antonin MAGNE » 1 |

Climbs in 1938

number of categorized climbs in this year*: 13 | display climbs on map
*ascents of the second, first and "hors" category


Winners of categorised climbs in 1938 by nations (3):
ITA » 10 | BEL » 2 | FRA » 1 |
Winners of ascents in 1938 by cyclists (4):
Gino BARTALI » 9 | Félicien VERVAECKE » 2 | Mario VICINI » 1 | Pierre GALLIEN » 1 |