Overview of the year 1981
Nice - Paris | total distance: 3753.0 km | number of stages: 24
Winner: Bernard Hinault | Renault | France | age: 26
time: 96hr 19min 38sec | average speed: 38.960 km/h
2nd place: Lucien Van Impe (+ 14min 34sec)
3rd place: Robert Alban (+ 17min 4sec)
winning team: Peugeot
number of participants: 150 (finished: 121 |not finished: 29)
Jerseys winners:
Stages in 1981
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage
STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed | ||||||
P | Nice - | Nice | 5.8 km | Bernard HINAULT | 0:06:48 | 51.2 km/h |
1a | Nice - | Nice | 97.0 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 2:23:19 | 40.6 km/h |
1b | Nice - | Nice | 40.0 km | Raleigh | 0:46:20 | 51.8 km/h |
2 | Nice - | Martigues | 254.0 km | Johan VAN DER VELDE | 6:32:27 | 38.8 km/h |
3 | Martigues - | Narbonne | 232.0 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 6:33:50 | 35.3 km/h |
4 | Narbonne - | Carcassonne | 77.2 km | Raleigh | 1:41:03 | 45.8 km/h |
5 | Saint-Gaudens - | Saint-Lary-Soulan | 117.5 km | Lucien VAN IMPE | 3:32:32 | 33.2 km/h |
6 | Nay - | Pau | 26.7 km | Bernard HINAULT | 0:35:52 | 44.7 km/h |
7 | Pau - | Bordeaux | 227.0 km | Urs FREULER | 5:37:24 | 40.4 km/h |
8 | Rochefort - | Nantes | 182.0 km | Ad WIJNANDS | 4:35:37 | 39.6 km/h |
9 | Nantes - | Le Mans | 196.5 km | René MARTENS | 4:23:09 | 44.8 km/h |
10 | Le Mans - | Aulnay-sous-Bois | 264.0 km | Ad WIJNANDS | 6:30:41 | 39.7 km/h |
11 | Compiègne - | Roubaix | 246.0 km | Daniel WILLEMS | 6:18:34 | 39.0 km/h |
12a | Roubaix - | Brussel | 107.3 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 2:25:48 | 44.2 km/h |
12b | Brussel - | Zolder | 137.8 km | Eddy PLANCKAERT | 3:22:31 | 40.8 km/h |
13 | Beringen - | Hasselt | 157.4 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 4:01:20 | 39.1 km/h |
14 | Mulhouse - | Mulhouse | 38.5 km | Bernard HINAULT | 0:50:30 | 45.7 km/h |
15 | Besançon - | Thonon | 231.0 km | Sean KELLY | 5:47:07 | 39.9 km/h |
16 | Thonon - | Morzine-Avoriaz | 199.5 km | Robert ALBAN | 6:14:29 | 32.0 km/h |
17 | Morzine-Avoriaz - | Alpe d’Huez | 230.5 km | Peter WINNEN | 7:36:18 | 30.3 km/h |
18 | Bourg-d’Oisans - | Le Pleynet | 134.0 km | Bernard HINAULT | 4:16:43 | 31.3 km/h |
19 | Veurey - | Saint-Priest | 117.5 km | Daniel WILLEMS | 3:07:02 | 37.7 km/h |
20 | Saint-Priest - | Saint-Priest | 46.5 km | Bernard HINAULT | 1:01:16 | 45.5 km/h |
21 | Auxerre - | Fontenay-sous-Bois | 207.0 km | Johan VAN DER VELDE | 5:32:36 | 37.3 km/h |
22 | Fontenay-sous-Bois - | Paris | 186.8 km | Freddy MAERTENS | 4:45:24 | 39.3 km/h |
Winners of stages in 1981 by nations (5):
BEL » 10 | NED » 7 | FRA » 6 | SUI » 1 | IRL » 1 |
Winners of stages in 1981 by cyclists (13):
Bernard HINAULT » 5 | Freddy MAERTENS » 5 | Johan VAN DER VELDE » 2 | Daniel WILLEMS » 2 | Ad WIJNANDS » 2 | Raleigh » 2 | Urs FREULER » 1 | Sean KELLY » 1 | Robert ALBAN » 1 | Lucien VAN IMPE » 1 | Eddy PLANCKAERT » 1 | René MARTENS » 1 | Peter WINNEN » 1 |
Climbs in 1981
*ascents of the second, first and "hors" category
Winners of categorised climbs in 1981 by nations (4):
BEL » 7 | FRA » 6 | ESP » 2 | NED » 1 |
Winners of ascents in 1981 by cyclists (10):
Lucien VAN IMPE » 4 | Bernard HINAULT » 3 | Robert ALBAN » 2 | Hendrik DEVOS » 1 | William TACKAERT » 1 | Vicente BELDA » 1 | Jean-René Jean-René BERNAUDEAU » 1 | Roger DE CNIJF » 1 | Juan FERNÁNDEZ MARTIN » 1 | Peter WINNEN » 1 |