Overview of the year 1974
Brest - Paris | total distance: 4098.0 km | number of stages: 22
Winner: Eddy Merckx | Molteni | Belgium | age: 29
time: 116hr 16min 58sec | average speed: 35.241 km/h
2nd place: Raymond Poulidor (+ 8min 4sec)
3rd place: Vicente Lopez-Carril (+ 8min 9sec)
winning team: Kas
number of participants: 130 (finished: 105 |not finished: 25)
Jerseys winners:
Stages in 1974
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage
| STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed | ||||||
| P | Brest - | Brest | 7.1 km |  Eddy MERCKX | 0:08:54 | 47.9 km/h |
| 1 | Brest - | Saint-Pol de Léon | 144.0 km |  Ercole GUALAZZINI | 3:25:30 | 42.0 km/h |
| 2 | Plymouth - | Plymouth | 163.7 km |  Henk POPPE | 3:53:44 | 42.0 km/h |
| 3 | Morlaix - | Saint-Malo | 190.0 km | Patrick SERCU | 4:45:57 | 39.9 km/h |
| 4 | Saint-Malo - | Caen | 184.5 km | Patrick SERCU | 4:48:54 | 38.3 km/h |
| 5 | Caen - | Dieppe | 165.0 km | Ronald DE WITTE | 4:15:34 | 38.7 km/h |
| 6a | Dieppe - | Harelbeke | 239.0 km |  Jean-Luc MOLINERIS | 6:18:56 | 37.8 km/h |
| 6b | Harelbeke - | Harelbeke | 9.0 km | Molteni | 0:10:49 | 49.9 km/h |
| 7 | Mons - | Chalons-sur-Marne | 221.5 km | Eddy MERCKX | 6:38:37 | 33.3 km/h |
| 8a | Chalons-sur-Marne - | Chaumont | 136.0 km | Cyrille GUIMARD | 3:44:08 | 36.4 km/h |
| 8b | Chaumont - | Besançon | 152.0 km | Patrick SERCU | 4:25:04 | 34.4 km/h |
| 9 | Besançon - | Gaillard | 241.0 km | Eddy MERCKX | 7:09:58 | 33.6 km/h |
| 10 | Gaillard - | Aix-les-Bains | 131.5 km | Eddy MERCKX | 3:46:44 | 34.8 km/h |
| 11 | Aix-les-Bains - | Serre-Chevalier | 199.0 km |  Vicente LOPEZ-CARRIL | 6:55:36 | 28.7 km/h |
| 12 | Savines - | Orange | 231.0 km | Joseph SPRUYT | 7:15:12 | 31.8 km/h |
| 13 | Avignon - | Montpellier | 126.0 km |  Barry HOBAN | 3:15:42 | 38.6 km/h |
| 14 | Lodève - | Colomiers | 248.5 km | Jean-Pierre GENET | 7:12:50 | 34.4 km/h |
| 15 | Colomiers - | Seo de Urgel | 225.0 km | Eddy MERCKX | 6:42:29 | 33.5 km/h |
| 16 | Seo de Urgel - | Saint-Lary-Soulan | 209.0 km | Raymond POULIDOR | 7:53:29 | 26.5 km/h |
| 17 | Saint-Lary-Soulan - | Tourmalet | 119.0 km | Jean-Pierre DANGUILLAUME | 3:58:44 | 29.9 km/h |
| 18 | Bagnères-de-Bigorre - | Pau | 141.5 km | Jean-Pierre DANGUILLAUME | 4:19:20 | 32.7 km/h |
| 19a | Pau - | Bordeaux | 195.5 km | Francis CAMPANER | 4:51:56 | 40.2 km/h |
| 19b | Bordeaux - | Bordeaux | 12.4 km | Eddy MERCKX | 0:16:15 | 45.8 km/h |
| 20 | Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie - | Nantes | 120.0 km | Gérard VIANEN | 2:53:21 | 41.5 km/h |
| 21a | Vouvray - | Orléans | 112.5 km | Eddy MERCKX | 2:19:05 | 48.5 km/h |
| 21b | Orléans - | Orléans | 37.5 km | Michel POLLENTIER | 0:48:23 | 46.5 km/h |
| 22 | Orléans - | Paris | 146.0 km | Eddy MERCKX | 3:49:22 | 38.2 km/h |
Winners of stages in 1974 by nations (6):
BEL » 14 | FRA » 7 | ITA » 2 | NED » 2 | ESP » 1 | GBR » 1 |
Winners of stages in 1974 by cyclists (17):
Eddy MERCKX » 8 | Patrick SERCU » 3 | Jean-Pierre DANGUILLAUME » 2 | Gérard VIANEN » 1 | Vicente LOPEZ-CARRIL » 1 | Ercole GUALAZZINI » 1 | Molteni » 1 | Jean-Pierre GENET » 1 | Michel POLLENTIER » 1 | Ronald DE WITTE » 1 | Joseph SPRUYT » 1 | Francis CAMPANER » 1 | Henk POPPE » 1 | Cyrille GUIMARD » 1 | Raymond POULIDOR » 1 | Jean-Luc MOLINERIS » 1 | Barry HOBAN » 1 |
Climbs in 1974
*ascents of the second, first and "hors" category
Winners of categorised climbs in 1974 by nations (3):
ESP » 11 | FRA » 4 | BEL » 2 |
Winners of ascents in 1974 by cyclists (9):
Domingo PERURENA » 4 | Gonzalo AJA » 4 | Vicente LOPEZ-CARRIL » 2 | Jean-Pierre DANGUILLAUME » 2 | Raymond POULIDOR » 1 | Raymond DELISLE » 1 | Andres OLIVA » 1 | Eric LEMAN » 1 | Herman VANSPRINGEL » 1 |