Overview of the year 1978

Date: June 29 - July 23 1978
Leiden - Paris | total distance: 3908.0 km | number of stages: 22

Winner: Bernard Hinault | Renault | France | age: 23
time: 108hr 18min 0sec | average speed: 36.084 km/h
2nd place: Joop Zoetemelk (+ 3min 56sec)
3rd place: Joaquim Agostinho (+ 6min 54sec)
winning team: Miko - Mercier
number of participants: 110 (finished: 78 |not finished: 32)

Jerseys winners:
 Bernard Hinault
 Freddy Maertens
 Mariano Martinez
 Henk Lubberding

Stages in 1978

number of stages in this year*: 25 | display finish towns on map
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage

STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed
PLeiden - Leiden  5.2 km  NED  Jan RAAS  0:06:38  47.0 km/h
1aLeiden - Saint-Willebrord  135.0 km  NED  Jan RAAS  3:24:21  39.6 km/h
1bSaint-Willebrord - Brussel  100.0 km  BEL  Walter PLANCKAERT  2:22:14  42.2 km/h
2Brussel - Saint-Amand-les-Eaux  199.0 km  FRA  Jacques ESCLASSAN  5:21:31  37.1 km/h
3Saint-Amand-les-Eaux - Saint-Germain-en-Laye  243.5 km  GER  Klaus-Peter THALER  7:25:42  32.8 km/h
4Evreux - Caen  153.0 km  NED  Ti-Raleigh  3:39:07  41.9 km/h
5Caen - Mazé-Montgeoffroy  244.0 km  BEL  Freddy MAERTENS  7:00:16  34.8 km/h
6Mazé-Montgeoffroy - Poitiers  162.0 km  IRL  Sean KELLY  4:02:24  40.1 km/h
7Poitiers - Bordeaux  242.0 km  BEL  Freddy MAERTENS  7:01:07  34.5 km/h
8Saint-Emilion - Sainte-Foy-la-Grande  59.3 km  FRA  Bernard HINAULT  1:22:01  43.4 km/h
9Bordeaux - Biarritz  233.0 km  ESP  Miguel-Maria LASA  6:43:09  34.4 km/h
10Biarritz - Pau  191.5 km  NED  Henk LUBBERDING  5:46:54  33.1 km/h
11Pau - Saint-Lary-Soulan  161.0 km  FRA  Mariano MARTINEZ  5:47:26  27.8 km/h
12aTarbes - Valence d´Agen  158.0 km        0.0 km/h
12bValence d´Agen - Toulouse  96.0 km  FRA  Jacques ESCLASSAN  2:19:12  41.4 km/h
13Figeac - Superbesse  221.5 km  BEL  Paul WELLENS  6:43:49  32.9 km/h
14Besse-en-Ch. - Puy-de-Dôme  52.5 km  NED  Joop ZOETEMELK  1:25:51  36.7 km/h
15Saint-Dier-d´A. - Saint-Étienne  196.0 km  FRA  Bernard HINAULT  5:49:48  33.6 km/h
16Saint-Étienne - Alpe d’Huez  240.5 km  NED  Hennie KUIPER  7:23:07  32.6 km/h
17Grenoble - Morzine-Avoriaz  225.0 km  FRA  Christian SEZNEC  7:13:34  31.3 km/h
18Morzine-Avoriaz - Lausanne  137.5 km  NED  Gerrie KNETEMANN  3:36:52  38.0 km/h
19Lausanne - Belfort  181.5 km  BEL  Marc DEMEYER  5:05:57  35.6 km/h
20Metz - Nancy  72.0 km  FRA  Bernard HINAULT  1:39:29  43.4 km/h
21Epernay - Senlis  207.5 km  NED  Jan RAAS  5:58:49  34.7 km/h
22Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Paris  161.5 km  NED  Gerrie KNETEMANN  4:22:46  36.9 km/h

Winners of stages in 1978 by nations (7):
NED » 9 | FRA » 7 | BEL » 5 | GER » 1 | IRL » 1 | ESP » 1 | » 1 |
Winners of stages in 1978 by cyclists (18):
Bernard HINAULT » 3 | Jan RAAS » 3 | Gerrie KNETEMANN » 2 | Jacques ESCLASSAN » 2 | Freddy MAERTENS » 2 | Christian SEZNEC » 1 | Klaus-Peter THALER » 1 | Miguel-Maria LASA » 1 | Joop ZOETEMELK » 1 | Walter PLANCKAERT » 1 | Sean KELLY » 1 | » 1 | Ti-Raleigh » 1 | Henk LUBBERDING » 1 | Hennie KUIPER » 1 | Paul WELLENS » 1 | Marc DEMEYER » 1 | Mariano MARTINEZ » 1 |