Overview of the year 1949

Date: June 30 - July 24 1949
Paris - Paris | total distance: 4808.0 km | number of stages: 21

Winner: Fausto Coppi | Italy | Italy | age: 29
time: 149hr 40sec 49min | average speed: 32.121 km/h
2nd place: Gino Bartali (+ 10min 55sec)
3rd place: Jacques Marinelli (+ 25min 13sec)
winning team: Italy
number of participants: 120 (finished: 55 |not finished: 65)
Jerseys winners:
 Fausto Coppi
 Fausto Coppi

Stages in 1949

number of stages in this year*: 21 | display finish towns on map
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage

STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed
1Paris - Reims  182.0 km  FRA  Marcel DUSSAULT  5:13:59  34.8 km/h
2Reims - Brussel  273.0 km  BEL  Roger LAMBRECHT  8:37:58  31.6 km/h
3Brussel - Boulogne-sur-Mer  211.0 km  BEL  Norbert CALLENS  6:05:50  34.6 km/h
4Boulogne-sur-Mer - Rouen  185.0 km  FRA  Lucien TEISSEIRE  5:10:04  35.8 km/h
5Rouen - Saint-Malo  293.0 km  SUI  Ferdinand KÜBLER  8:27:13  34.7 km/h
6Saint-Malo - Les Sables  305.0 km  FRA  Adolphe DELEDDA  8:39:07  35.3 km/h
7Les Sables - La Rochelle  92.0 km  ITA  Fausto COPPI  2:18:10  40.0 km/h
8La Rochelle - Bordeaux  262.0 km  FRA  Guy LAPÉBIE  7:27:22  35.1 km/h
9Bordeaux - Donostia (St. Sébastien)  228.0 km  FRA  Louis CAPUT  6:30:49  35.0 km/h
10Donostia (St. Sébastien) - Pau  192.0 km  ITA  Fiorenzo MAGNI  5:53:04  33.3 km/h
11Pau - Luchon  193.0 km  FRA  Jean ROBIC  7:06:22  27.2 km/h
12Luchon - Toulouse  134.0 km  BEL  Rik VAN STEENBERGEN  3:32:11  37.9 km/h
13Toulouse - Nîmes  289.0 km  FRA  Émile IDÉE  8:29:04  34.1 km/h
14Nîmes - Marseille  199.0 km  LUX  Jean GOLDSCHMIT  6:17:08  31.7 km/h
15Marseille - Cannes  215.0 km  BEL  Désiré KETELEER  6:02:29  35.6 km/h
16Cannes - Briançon  275.0 km  ITA  Gino BARTALI  10:25:35  26.3 km/h
17Briançon - Aosta  257.0 km  ITA  Fausto COPPI  9:08:48  28.1 km/h
18Aosta - Lausanne  265.0 km  ITA  Vincenzo ROSSELLO  9:05:26  29.2 km/h
19Lausanne - Colmar  283.0 km  FRA  Raphaël GÉMINIANI  8:59:57  31.4 km/h
20Colmar - Nancy  137.0 km  ITA  Fausto COPPI  3:38:50  37.6 km/h
21Nancy - Paris  340.0 km  BEL  Rik VAN STEENBERGEN  10:49:35  31.4 km/h

Winners of stages in 1949 by nations (5):
FRA » 8 | ITA » 6 | BEL » 5 | LUX » 1 | SUI » 1 |
Winners of stages in 1949 by cyclists (18):
Fausto COPPI » 3 | Rik VAN STEENBERGEN » 2 | Lucien TEISSEIRE » 1 | Louis CAPUT » 1 | Jean GOLDSCHMIT » 1 | Roger LAMBRECHT » 1 | Vincenzo ROSSELLO » 1 | Ferdinand KÜBLER » 1 | Fiorenzo MAGNI » 1 | Désiré KETELEER » 1 | Norbert CALLENS » 1 | Guy LAPÉBIE » 1 | Émile IDÉE » 1 | Raphaël GÉMINIANI » 1 | Marcel DUSSAULT » 1 | Adolphe DELEDDA » 1 | Jean ROBIC » 1 | Gino BARTALI » 1 |

Climbs in 1949

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 1949 by nations (3):
ITA » 7 | FRA » 6 | SUI » 1 |
Winners of ascents in 1949 by cyclists (7):
Fausto COPPI » 4 | Gino BARTALI » 3 | Jean ROBIC » 2 | Pierre TACCA » 2 | Jean-Apo LAZARIDES » 1 | Ferdi KUBLER » 1 | Raphaël GEMINIANI » 1 |