Overview of the year 1983
Fontenay-sous-Bois - Paris | total distance: 3809.0 km | number of stages: 22
Winner: Laurent Fignon | Renault | France | age: 22
time: 105hr 7min 52sec | average speed: 36.230 km/h
2nd place: Angel Arroyo (+ 4min 4sec)
3rd place: Peter Winnen (+ 4min 9sec)
winning team: TI-Raleigh
number of participants: 140 (finished: 88 |not finished: 52)
Jerseys winners:
Stages in 1983
*total number of posibbilities to win the stage
| STAGES - start, finish, length, winner, time, average speed | ||||||
| P | Fontenay-sous-Bois - | Fontenay-sous-Bois | 5.5 km |  Eric VANDERAERDEN | 0:07:01 | 47.0 km/h |
| 1 | Nogent-sur-Marne - | Créteil | 163.0 km |  Frits PIRARD | 3:49:38 | 42.6 km/h |
| 2 | Soissons - | Fontaine-au-Pire | 100.0 km |  COOP–Mercier–Mavic | 2:18:59 | 43.2 km/h |
| 3 | Valenciennes - | Roubaix | 152.0 km | Rudy MATTHIJS | 3:46:06 | 40.3 km/h |
| 4 | Roubaix - | Le Havre | 300.0 km |  Serge DEMIERRE | 7:58:11 | 37.6 km/h |
| 5 | Le Havre - | Le Mans | 257.0 km | Dominique GAIGNE | 7:09:53 | 35.9 km/h |
| 6 | Châteaubriant - | Nantes | 58.5 km | Bert OOSTERBOSCH | 1:18:34 | 44.7 km/h |
| 7 | Nantes - | Ile d´Oléron | 216.0 km |  Riccardo MAGRINI | 5:45:37 | 37.5 km/h |
| 8 | La Rochelle - | Bordeaux | 222.0 km | Bert OOSTERBOSCH | 6:16:00 | 35.4 km/h |
| 9 | Bordeaux - | Pau | 207.0 km | Philippe CHEVALLIER | 5:46:42 | 35.8 km/h |
| 10 | Pau - | Luchon | 201.0 km |  Robert MILLAR | 6:23:27 | 31.5 km/h |
| 11 | Luchon - | Fleurance | 177.0 km | Régis CLÈRE | 4:27:06 | 39.8 km/h |
| 12 | Fleurance - | Roquefort | 261.0 km |  Kim ANDERSEN | 7:17:49 | 35.8 km/h |
| 13 | Roquefort - | Aurillac | 210.0 km | Henk LUBBERDING | 6:00:06 | 35.0 km/h |
| 14 | Aurillac - | Issoire | 149.0 km | Pierre LE BIGAUT | 3:39:16 | 40.8 km/h |
| 15 | Clermont-Ferrand - | Puy-de-Dôme | 15.6 km |  Ángel ARROYO | 0:40:43 | 23.0 km/h |
| 16 | Issoire - | Saint-Étienne | 144.5 km | Michel LAURENT | 3:49:38 | 37.8 km/h |
| 17 | La Tour du Pin - | Alpe d’Huez | 223.0 km | Peter WINNEN | 7:21:32 | 30.3 km/h |
| 18 | Bourg d’Oisans - | Morzine-Avoriaz | 247.0 km | Jacques MICHAUD | 7:45:25 | 31.8 km/h |
| 19 | Morzine-Avoriaz - | Avoriaz | 15.0 km | Lucien VAN IMPE | 0:35:09 | 25.6 km/h |
| 20 | Morzine-Avoriaz - | Dijon | 291.0 km | Philippe LELEU | 7:22:56 | 39.4 km/h |
| 21 | Dijon - | Dijon | 50.0 km | Laurent FIGNON | 1:11:37 | 41.9 km/h |
| 22 | Alfortville - | Paris | 195.0 km | Gilbert GLAUS | 5:30:56 | 35.4 km/h |
Winners of stages in 1983 by nations (8):
FRA » 9 | NED » 5 | BEL » 3 | SUI » 2 | ITA » 1 | GBR » 1 | DEN » 1 | ESP » 1 |
Winners of stages in 1983 by cyclists (22):
Bert OOSTERBOSCH » 2 | Serge DEMIERRE » 1 | Robert MILLAR » 1 | Ángel ARROYO » 1 | Philippe LELEU » 1 | COOP–Mercier–Mavic » 1 | Riccardo MAGRINI » 1 | Henk LUBBERDING » 1 | Jacques MICHAUD » 1 | Eric VANDERAERDEN » 1 | Dominique GAIGNE » 1 | Régis CLÈRE » 1 | Michel LAURENT » 1 | Laurent FIGNON » 1 | Rudy MATTHIJS » 1 | Philippe CHEVALLIER » 1 | Pierre LE BIGAUT » 1 | Lucien VAN IMPE » 1 | Frits PIRARD » 1 | Kim ANDERSEN » 1 | Peter WINNEN » 1 | Gilbert GLAUS » 1 |
Climbs in 1983
*ascents of the second, first and "hors" category
Winners of categorised climbs in 1983 by nations (7):
FRA » 7 | BEL » 6 | NED » 2 | SUI » 2 | COL » 2 | GBR » 2 | ESP » 1 |
Winners of ascents in 1983 by cyclists (10):
Lucien VAN IMPE » 6 | Christian JOURDAN » 3 | Jacques MICHAUD » 3 | Patrocinio JIMENEZ » 2 | Robert MILLAR » 2 | Serge DEMIERRE » 2 | Angel ARROYO » 1 | Michel LAURENT » 1 | Peter WINNEN » 1 | Henk LUBBERDING » 1 |