Overview of the year 1953

Date: July 3 - July 26 1953
Strasbourg - Paris | total distance: 4476.0 km | number of stages: 22

Winner: Louison Bobet | France | France | age: 28
time: 129hr 23min 25sec | average speed: 34.593 km/h
2nd place: Jean Mallejac (+ 14min 18sec)
3rd place: Giancarlo Astrua (+ 15min 1sec)
winning team: Holland
number of participants: 119 (finished: 76 |not finished: 43)
Jerseys winners:
 Louison Bobet
 Fritz Schaer
 Jesus Lorono

Stages in 1953

number of stages in this year*: 22 | display finish towns on map
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage

STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed
1Strasbourg - Metz  195.0 km  SUI  Fritz SCHÄR  4:55:00  39.7 km/h
2Metz - Liège  227.0 km  SUI  Fritz SCHÄR  6:20:52  35.8 km/h
3Liège - Lille  221.0 km  FRA  Stanislas BOBER  6:06:21  36.2 km/h
4Lille - Dieppe  188.0 km  NED  Gerrit VOORTING  5:20:19  35.2 km/h
5Dieppe - Caen  200.0 km  FRA  Jean MALLÉJAC  5:38:35  35.4 km/h
6Caen - Le Mans  206.0 km  BEL  Martin VAN GENEUGDEN  5:10:53  39.8 km/h
7Le Mans - Nantes  181.0 km  ITA  Livio ISOTTI  4:46:08  38.0 km/h
8Nantes - Bordeaux  345.0 km  NED  Jan NOLTEN  9:56:40  34.7 km/h
9Bordeaux - Pau  197.0 km  ITA  Fiorenzo MAGNI  5:09:58  38.1 km/h
10Pau - Cauterets  103.0 km  ESP  Jesús LOROÑO  4:14:30  24.3 km/h
11Cauterets - Luchon  115.0 km  FRA  Jean ROBIC  3:50:06  30.0 km/h
12Luchon - Albi  228.0 km  FRA  André DARRIGADE  5:40:40  40.2 km/h
13Albi - Beziers  189.0 km  FRA  Nello LAUREDI  5:18:41  35.6 km/h
14Beziers - Nîmes  214.0 km  FRA  Bernard QUENNEHEN  6:21:23  33.7 km/h
15Nîmes - Marseille  173.0 km  FRA  Maurice QUENTIN  4:32:33  38.1 km/h
16Marseille - Monaco  236.0 km  NED  Wim VAN EST  7:20:53  32.1 km/h
17Monaco - Gap  261.0 km  NED  Wout WAGTMANS  8:18:34  31.4 km/h
18Gap - Briançon  165.0 km  FRA  Louison BOBET  5:11:17  31.8 km/h
19Briançon - Lyon  227.0 km  FRA  Georges MEUNIER  6:18:15  36.0 km/h
20Lyon - Saint-Étienne  70.0 km  FRA  Louison BOBET  1:49:00  38.5 km/h
21Saint-Étienne - Montluçon  210.0 km  NED  Wout WAGTMANS  6:20:08  33.1 km/h
22Montluçon - Paris  328.0 km  ITA  Fiorenzo MAGNI  9:42:53  33.8 km/h

Winners of stages in 1953 by nations (6):
FRA » 10 | NED » 5 | ITA » 3 | SUI » 2 | BEL » 1 | ESP » 1 |
Winners of stages in 1953 by cyclists (18):
Wout WAGTMANS » 2 | Louison BOBET » 2 | Fiorenzo MAGNI » 2 | Fritz SCHÄR » 2 | Livio ISOTTI » 1 | André DARRIGADE » 1 | Jean MALLÉJAC » 1 | Jesús LOROÑO » 1 | Maurice QUENTIN » 1 | Stanislas BOBER » 1 | Jan NOLTEN » 1 | Nello LAUREDI » 1 | Martin VAN GENEUGDEN » 1 | Jean ROBIC » 1 | Wim VAN EST » 1 | Gerrit VOORTING » 1 | Bernard QUENNEHEN » 1 | Georges MEUNIER » 1 |

Climbs in 1953

number of categorized climbs in this year*: 12 | display climbs on map
*ascents of the second, first and "hors" category


Winners of categorised climbs in 1953 by nations (3):
FRA » 8 | ESP » 3 | NED » 1 |
Winners of ascents in 1953 by cyclists (8):
Jean ROBIC » 3 | Jésus LORONO » 2 | Joseph MIRANDO » 2 | José SERRA » 1 | Jean LE GUILLY » 1 | Wout WAGTMANS » 1 | Adolphe DELEDDA » 1 | Louison BOBET » 1 |