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1997 Tour de France

84th edition: july 5 - august 27, 1997, results, stages with running gc, map, photos and history.

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1997 Tour de France map

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1997 Tour Quick Facts:

The 1997 Tour de France was 3,943.8 kilometers long and was ridden at an average speed of 39.238 km/hr.

There were 198 starters of whom 139 made it to Paris.

1996 second place Jan Ullrich put on an incredible display of power in the 10th stage to Arcalis, taking the lead and easily defending it to Paris.

Richard Virenque never gave up trying to beat Ullrich, but the end was never really in doubt.

At 23 years old, many thought Ullrich might win the Tour six or seven times more.

Marco Pantani gave a foretaste of what he would do in 1998 when he won solo at L'Alpe d'Huez.

• Jan Ullrich (Telekom): 100hr 30min 35sec
• Richard Virenque (Festina) @ 9min 9sec
• Marco Pantani (Mercatone Uno) @ 14min 3sec
• Abraham Olano (Banesto) @ 15min 55sec
• Fernando Escartin (Kelme) @ 20min 32sec
• Francesco Casagrande (Saeco) @ 22min 47sec
• Bjarne Riis (Telekom) @ 26min 34sec
• José-Maria Jimenez (Banesto) @ 31min 17sec
• Laurent Dufaux (Festina) @ 31min 55sec
• Roberto Conti (Mercatne Uno) @ 32min 26sec
• Beat Zberg (Mercatone Uno) @ 35min 41sec
• Oscar Camenzind (Mapei-GB) @ 35min 52sec
• Peter Luttenberger (Rabobank) @ 45min 39sec
• Manuel Beltran (Banesto) @ 49min 34sec
• Jean-Cyril Robin (US Postal) @ 58min 35sec
• Michael Boogerd (Rabobank) @ 1hr 33sec
• Bobby Julich (Cofidis) @ 1hr 1min 10sec
• Daniele Nardello (Mapei-GB) @ 1hr 1min 30sec
• Christophe Moreau (Festina) @ 1hr 2min 48sec
• Stéphane Heulot (FDJ) @ 1hr 6min 13sec
• Udo Bolts (Telekom) @ 1hr 9min 13sec
• Hernan Buenahora (Kelme) @ 1hr 13min 48sec
• Laurent Roux (Festina) @ 1hr 17min 44sec
• Massimo Podenzana (Mercatone Uno) @ 1hr 20min 56sec
• Laurent Madouas (Lotto-Mobistar) @ 1hr 24min 58sec
• Pascal Chanteur (Casino) @ 1hr 25min 48sec
• Santiago Blanco (Banesto) @ 1hr 29min 18sec
• Thierry Bourguignon (Big Mat-Auber 93) @ 1hr 29min 35sec
• Angel Casero (Banesto) @ 1hr 35min 11sec
• Alberto Elli (Casino) @ 1hr 37min 23sec
• Laurent Brochard (Festina) @ 1hr 39min 15sec
• François Simon (Gan) @ 1hr 40min 40sec
• Orlando Sergio Rodriguis (Banesto) @ 1hr 42min 33sec
• Georg Totschnig (Telekom) @ 1hr 42min 49sec
• Joona Laukka (Festina) @ 1hr 43min 5sec
• Pascal Hervé (Festina) @ 1hr 44min 4sec
• Javier Pascual (Kelme) @ 1hr 45min 52sec
• Kevin Levinston (Cofidis) @ 1hr 46min 23sec
• Peter Farazijn (Lotto) @ 1hr 47min 54sec
• Cédric Vasseur (Gan) @ 1hr 54min 2sec
• Marcello Siboni (Mercatrone Uno) @ 1hr 56min 5sec
• Fabrice Gougot (Casino) @ 1hr 56min 15sec
• Laurent Jalabert (ONCE) @ 1hr 58min 32sec
• Viatcheslav Ekimov (US Postal) @ 2hr 1min 23sec
• Didier Rous (Festina) @ 2hr 1min 46sec
• Gianluca Bortlami (Festina) @ 2hr 3min 35sec
• Massimiliano Lelli (Saeco) @ 2hr 5min 26sec
• Christophe Menghin (FDJ) @ 2hr 6min 57sec
• Peter Meinert (US Postal) @ 2hr 7min 57sec
• Frank Vandenbroucke (Mapei) @ 2hr 9min 34sec
• Rolf Aldag (Telekom) @ 2hr 10min 36sec
• Erik Breukink (Rabobank) @ 2hr 13min 44sec
• Giuseppe Guerini (Polti) @ 2hr 14min 21sec
• Neil Stephens (Festina) @ 2hr 23min 40sec
• Juan José de Los Angeles (Kelme) @ 2hr 24min 12sec
• Andrea Peron (FDJ) @ 2hr 24min 48sec
• Andrea Tafi (Mapei) @ 2hr 25min 53sec
• Davide Rebellin (FDJ) @ 2hr 29min 54sec
• Zenon Jaskula (Mapei) @ 2hr 30min 15sec
• Jens Heppner (Telekom) @ 2hr 31min 12sec
• Marino Alonso (Banesto) @ 2hr 32min 25sec
• Patrick Jonker ( Rabobank) @ 2hr 33min 38sec
• Aitor Garmendia (ONCE) @ 2hr 35min 30sec
• Maarten den Bakker (TVM) @ 2hr 38min 30sec
• Jon Odriozola (Batik-Del Monte)
• Erik Zabel (Telekom) @ 2hr 41min 16sec
• Maximilian Sciandri (FDJ) @ 2hr 42min 24sec
• Rolf Sørensen (Rabobank) @ 2hr 43min 47sec
• Tyler Hamilton (US postal) @ 2hr 47min 51sec
• Iñigo Cuesta (ONCE) @ 2hr 50min 2sec
• Francisco Benitez (Kelme) @ 2hr 53min 37sec
• Daniele Sgnaolin (Roslotto) @ 2hr 54min 0sec
• Marco Zen (Roslotto) @ 2hr 54min 29sec
• Giorgio Furlan (Saeco) @ 2hr 56min21sec
• José Luis Arrieta (Banesto) @ 2hr 57min 4sec
• Miguel Arroyo (Big Mat-Auber) @ 3hr 4min 5sec
• José Angel Vidal (Kelme) @ 3hr 4min 27sec
• José-Roberto Sierra (ONCE) @ 3hr 4min 58sec
• Frankie Andreu (Cofidis) @ 3hr 5min 0sec
• Oscar Pelliccioli (Mercatone Uno) @ 3hr 7min 9sec
• Erik Dekker (Rabobank) @ 3hr 7min 17sec
• Jesper Skibby (TVM) @ 3hr 7min 50sec
• Dominique Rault (La Mutuelle) @ 3hr 9min 58sec
• Christian Henn (Telekom) @ 3hr 10min 1sec
• Francisco Mauleón (ONCE) @ 3hr 11min 0sec
• Gianluca Valoti (Polti) @ 3hr 11min 57sec
• Dariusz Baranowski (US Postal) @ 3hr 12min 45sec
• Thierry Gouvenou (Big Mat-Auber) @ 3hr 12min 52sec
• Wilfried Peeters (Mapei) @ 3hr 13min 33sec
• Paul Van Hyfte (Lotto) @ 3hr 18min 11sec
• Marco Artunghi (Mercatone Uno) @ 3hr 18min 29sec
• Iñigo Chaurreau (Polti) @ 3hr 20min 28sec
• Arturas Kaspustis (Casino) @ 3hr 22min 1sec
• Christophe Agnolutto (Casino) @ 3hr 22min 57sec
• Marco Saligari (Casino) @ 3hr 23min 26sec
• Marty Jemison (US Postal) @ 3hr 25min 21sec
• Giuseppe Tartaggia (Batik-Del Monte) @ 3hr 25min 54sec
• Bart Voskamp (TVM) @ 3hr 26min 27sec
• Henk Vogels (Gan) @ 3hr 26min 46sec
• Mario Traversoni (Mercatone-Uno) @ 3hr 27min 30sec
• Laurent Genty (Big Mat-Auber) @ 3hr 27min 56sec
• Peter Van Petegem (TVM) @ 3hr 29min 20sec
• Gian-Matteo Fagnini (Saeco) @ 3hr 29min 34sec
• George Hincapie (US Postal) @ 3hr 31min 8sec
• Arnaud Prétot (Gan) @ 3hr 32min 7sec
• Flavio Vanzella (FDJ) @ 3hr 32min 52sec
• Servais Knaven (TVM) @ 3hr 34min 52sec
• Francisco Cabello (Kelme) @ 3hr 35min 42sec
• Stuart O'Grady (Gan) @ 3hr 35min 56sec
• Nicola Loda (MG-Technogym) @ 3hr 39min 10sec
• Frédéric Guesdon (FDJ) @ 3hr 41min 4sec
• Bruno Cenghialta (Batik-Del Monte) @ 3hr 41min 6sec
• Serhiy Utchakov (Polti) @ 3hr 42min 48sec
• Frédéric Moncassin (Gan) @ 3hr 45min 3sec
• Christophe Rinero (Cofidis) @ 3hr 45min 14sec
• Gilberto Simoni (MG-Technogym) @ 3hr 45min 33sec
• Robbie McEwen (Rabobank) @ 3hr 45min 47sec
• Giovanni Lombardi (Telekom) @ 3hr 45min 59sec
• Adriano Baffi (US Postal) @ 3hr 46min 55sec
• Luca Scinto (MG-Technogym) @ 3hr 48min 4sec
• Marcelino García (ONCE) @ 3hr 49min 33sec
• Nicola Minali (Batik-Del Monte) @ 3hr 51min 26sec
• Mirko Crepaldi (Polti) @ 3hr 51min 49sec
• Lauri Aus (Casino) @ 3hr 52min 31sec
• Gerrit de Vries (Polti) @ 3hr 54min 5sec
• Jeroen Blijlevens (TVM) @ 3hr 54min 10sec
• Laurent Desbiens (Cofidis) @ 3hr 54min 32sec
• Tristan Hoffman (TVM) @ 3hr 54min 49sec
• Carlo Finco (MG-Technogym) @ 3hr 57min 27sec
• Rossano Brasi (Polti) @ 4hr 2min 11sec
• Pascal Deramé (US Postal) @ 4hr 4min 57sec
• Matteo Tosatto (MG-Technogym) @ 4hr 6min 5sec
• Gianluca Pierobon (Batik-Del Monte) @ 4hr 6min 53sec
• Eros Poli (Gan) @ 4hr 11min 22sec
• Nicolas Jalabert (Cofidis) @ 4hr 11min 31sec
• Torsten Schmidt (Roslotto) @ 4hr 15min 48sec
• Philipp Buschor (Saeco) @ 4hr 17min 35sec
• Stéphane Cueff (La Mutuelle) @ 4hr 18min 18sec
• Philippe Gaumont (Cofidis) @ 4hr 26min 9sec
• Richard Virenque (Festina): 579 points
• Jan Ullrich (Telekom): 328
• Francesco Casagrande (Saeco): 309
• Marco Pantani (Mercatone Uno): 269
• Laurent Brochard (Festina): 241
• Erik Zabel (Telekom): 350 points
• Frédéric Moncassin (Gan): 223
• Mario Traversoni(Mercatone Uno): 198
• Jeroen Blijlevens (TVM): 192
• Nicola Minali (Batik-Del Monte): 156

Team Classification:

• Telekom: 310hr 51min 30sec
• Mercatone Uno @ 31min 56sec
• Festina @ 47min 52sec
• Banesto @ 1hr 5min 15sec
• Kelme @ 2hr 20min 22sec
• Jan Ullrich (Telekom) 100hr 30min 35sec
• Michael Boogerd (Rabobank) @ 1hr 0min 33sec
• Daniele Nardello (Mapei) @ 1hr 1min 30sec
• Laurent Roux (TVM) @ 1hr 17min 44sec

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Individual Stages, Results and running GC

Prologue: Saturday, July 5, Rouen 7.3 km Individual Time Trial.

• Chris Boardman: 8min 20sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 2sec
• Evgeni Berzin @ 5sec
• Tony Rominger s.t.
• Alex Zulle s.t.
• Peter Meinert @ 7sec
• Rolf Sorensen s.t.
• Abraham Olano s.t.
• Laurent Brochard @ 11sec
• Christophe Moreau @ 12sec

Stage 1: Sunday, July 6, Rouen - Forges les Eaux, 192 km.

• Mario Cipollini : 4hr 39min 59sec
• Tom Steels s.t.
• Frederic Moncassin s.t.
• Erik Zabel s.t.
• Robbie McEwen s.t.
• Nicolas Jalabert s.t.
• Gordon Fraser s.t.
• Nicola Minali s.t.
• Francois Simon s.t.
• Mario Traversoni s.t.

GC after Stage 1:

• Mario Cipollini: 4hr 48min 9sec
• Chris Boardman @ 10sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 12sec
• Tony Rominger @ 15sec
• Abraham Olano @ 20sec
• Tom Steels @ 24sec
• Servais Knaven @ 25sec
• Erik Dekker @ 27sec
• Oscar Camenzind s.t.
• Frank Vandenbroucke @ 28sec

Stage 2: Monday, July 7, St. Valery en Caux - Vie, 262 km.

• Mario Cipollini: 6hr 27min 47sec
• Jeroen Blijlevens s.t.
• Sergei Outschakov s.t.
• Adriano Baffi s.t.
• Claude Lamour s.t.
• Henk Vogels s.t.
• Massimo Strazzer s.t.

GC after Stage 2:

• Mario Cipollini: 11hr 15min 30sec
• Chris Boardman @ 36sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 38sec
• Tony Rominger @ 41sec
• Abraham Olano @ 46sec
• Laurent Jalabert @ 48sec
• Jeroen Blijlevens @ 48sec
• Erik Zabel @ 49sec
• Tom Steels @ 50sec
• Servais Knaven @ 51sec

Stage 3: Tuesday, July 8, Vire - Plumelec, 224 km.

• Erik Zabel: 4hr 54min 33sec
• Frank Vandenbroucke s.t.
• Bjarne Riis s.t.
• Laurent Jalabert s.t.
• Davide Rebellin s.t.
• Jean-Cyril Robin s.t.
• Jan Ullrich s.t.
• Laurent Dufaux s.t.
• Pascal Chanteur s.t.

GC after Stage 3:

• Mario Cipollini: 16hr 10min 12sec
• Erik Zabel @ 14sec
• Chris Boardman @ 27sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 29sec
• Frank Vandenbroucke @ 33sec
• Abraham Olano @ 37sec
• Laurent Jalabert @ 39sec
• Pascal Lino @ 52sec
• Frederic Moncassin @ 55sec

Stage 4: Wednesday, July 9, Plumelec - Le Puy du Fou, 223 km.

• Nicola Minali: 5hr 46sec 42sec
• Mario Cipollini s.t.
• Fabio Baldato s.t.
• Jan Kirsipuu s.t.
• Stuart O'Grady s.t.
• Robby McEwen s.t.
• Nicola Loda s.t.

GC after stage 4:

• Mario Cipollini: 21hr 56min 46sec
• Erik Zabel @ 4sec
• Chris Boardman @ 35sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 37sec
• Abraham Olano @ 45sec
• Laurent Jalabert @ 47sec
• Frederic Moncassin @ 51sec
• Pascal Lino @ 1min
• Oscar Camenzind @ 1min 3sec

Stage 5: Thursday, July 10, Chantonnay - La Chatre, 261.5 km.

• Cedric Vasseur: 6hr 16min 14sec
• Stuart O'Grady @ 2min 32sec
• Francisco Cabello s.t.
• Marco Artunghi s.t.
• Peter Meinert
• Thierry Bourguignon s.t.
• Fabrice Gougot s.t.
• Stephane Cueff s.t.
• Marco Zen s.t.
• Bo Hamburger s.t.

GC after Stage 5:

• Cedric Vasseur: 28hr 14min 35sec
• Mario Cipollini @ 2min 17sec
• Erik Zabel @ 2min 19sec
• Chris Boardman @ 2min 54sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 2min 56sec
• Frank Vandenbroucke @ 3min
• Abraham Olano @ 3min 4sec
• Stuart O'Grady @ 3min 5sec
• Frederic Moncassin @ 3min 6sec

Stage 6: Friday, July 11, Le Blanc - Marennes, 215.5 km.

• Jeroen Blijlevens: 5hr 58min 9sec
• Djamolidine Abdoujaparov s.t.
• Damien Nazon s.t.
• François Simon s.t.

GC after Stage 6:

• Cedric Vasseur: 34hr 12min 44sec
• Erik Zabel @ 2min 9sec
• Mario Cipollini @ 2min 15sec
• Stuart O'Grady @ 3min 3sec
• Frederic Moncassin @ 3min 4sec
• Laurent Jalabert @ 3min 6sec

Stage 7: Saturday, July 12, Marrennes - Bordeaux, 194 km.

• Erik Zabel: 4hr 11min 15sec

GC after Stage 7:

• Cedric Vasseur: 38hr 23min 59sec
• Erik Zabel @ 1min 49sec
• Oscar Camenzind @ 3min 22sec
• Davide Rebellin @ 3min 24sec

Stage 8: Sunday, July 13, Sauternes - Pau, 161.5 km.

• Erik Zabel: 3hr 22min 42sec
• Lauri Aus s.t.
• Gian Matteo Fagnini s.t.
• Andrei Tchmil s.t.

GC after Stage 8:

• Cedric Vasseur: 41hr 46min 41sec
• Erik Zabel @ 1min 21sec
• Stuart O'Grady @ 2min 59sec

Stage 9: Monday, July 14, Pau - Loudenvielle, 182 km.

• Laurent Brochard: 5hr 24min 57sec
• Richard Virenque @ 14sec
• Marco Pantani s.t.
• Jose Maria Jimenez @ 33sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 41sec
• Fernando Escartin s.t.
• Francesco Casagrande @ 1min 7sec

20. Cedric Vasseur @ 2min 57sec

GC after Stage 9:

• Cedric Vasseur: 47hr 14min 35sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 13sec
• Abraham Olano @ 1min 14sec
• Bjarne Riis @ 1min 43sec
• Richard Virenque s.t.
• Fernando Escartin @ 2min 14sec
• Oscar Camenzind @ 2min 27sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 2min 48sec
• Daniele Nardello @ 3min 49sec
• Laurent Brochard @ 4min 4sec

Stage 10: Tuesday, July 15, Luchon - Arcalis, 252.5 km.

• Jan Ullrich: 7hr 46min 6sec
• Marco Pantani @ 1min 6sec
• Francesco Casagrande @ 2min 1sec
• Bjarne Riis @ 3min 23sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 3min 27sec
• José-Maria Jimenez @ 3min 45sec
• Alberto Elli s.t.

GC after Stage 10:

• Jan Ullrich: 55hr 54sec
• Richard Virenque @ 2min 58sec
• Abraham Olano @ 4min 46sec
• Bjarne Riis @ 4min 53sec
• Marco Pantani @ 5min 29sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 5min 46sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 6min 2sec
• Oscar Camenzind @ 7min
• Francesco Casagrande @ 7min 20sec
• Cedric Vasseur @ 7min 31sec

Stage 11: Wednesday, July 16, Andorra - Perpignan, 192 km.

• Laurent Debiens: 5hr 5min 5sec
• Carlo Finco s.t.
• Frederic Moncassin @ 18sec
• Frankie Andreu s.t.
• Gianluca Pierobon s.t.

GC after stage 11:

• Jan Ullrich: 60hr 6min 17sec
• Richard Virenque @ 2min 38sec
• Abrahman Olano @ 4min 46sec
• Marco Pantani @ 65min 29sec

Stage 12: Friday, July 18, St. Etienne 55.5 km Individual Time Trial.

• Jan Ullrich: 1hr 16min 24sec
• Richard Virenque @ 3min 4sec
• Bjarne Riis @ 3min 8sec
• Abraham Olano @ 3min 14sec
• Marco Pantani @ 3min 42sec
• Francesco Casagrande @ 3min 56sec
• Frank Vandenbroucke @ 4min 44sec
• Zenon Jaskula @ 4min 50sec
• Beat Zberg @ 5min
• Michael Boogerd @ 5min 4sec

GC after stage 12:

• Jan Ullrich: 61hr 22min 41sec
• Richard Virenque @ 5min 42sec
• Abraham Olano @ 8min
• Bjarne Riis @ 8min 11sec
• Marco Pantani @ 9min 11sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 9min 11sec
• Francesco Casagrande @ 11min 16sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 12min 28sec
• Oscar Camenzind @ 13min 15sec
• Pascal Lino @ 14min 16sec

Stage 13: St. Etienne - L'Alpe d'Huez, 203.5 km.

• Marco Pantani: 5hr 2min 42sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 47sec
• Richard Virenque @ 1min 27sec
• Francesco Casagrande @ 2min 27sec
• Bjarne Riis @ 2min 28sec
• Beat Zberg @ 2min 59sec
• Udo Bolts s.t.
• Roberto Conti s.t.
• Laurent Madouas s.t.
• Laurent Jalabert @ 3min 22sec

GC after Stage 13:

• Jan Ullrich: 66hr 26min 10sec
• Richard Virenque @ 6min 22sec
• Marco Pantani @ 8min 24sec
• Bjarne Riis @ 9min 42sec
• Abraham Olano @ 10min 38sec
• Francesco Casagrande @ 12min 56sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 14min 36sec
• Oscar Camenzind @ 16min 59sec
• Jose-Maria Jimenez @ 18min 32sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 18min 46sec

Stage 14: Sunday, July 20, Bourg d'Oisans - Courchevel, 148 km.

• Richard Virenque: 4hr 34min 16sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 47sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 1min 19sec
• Bjarne Riis @ 1min 24sec
• Marco Pantani @ 3min 6sec
• Francesco Casagrande @ 3min 36sec
• Jose-Maria Jimenez @ 3min 50sec
• Roberto Conti @ 4min 41sec

GC after Stage 14:

• Jan Ullrich: 71hr 26sec
• Bjarne Riis @ 11min 6sec
• Marco Pantani @ 11min 30sec
• Abraham Olano @ 14min 28sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 15min 23sec
• Francesco Casagrande @ 16min 32sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 20min 5sec
• Jose-Maria Jimenez @ 22min 22sec
• Roberto Conti @ 25min 39sec

Stage 15: Monday, July 21, Courchevel - Morzine, 208.5 km.

• Marco Pantani: 5hr 57min 16sec
• Richard Virenque @ 1min 17sec
• Beat Zberg @ 1min 59sec
• Francesco Casagrande s.t.
• Bobby Julich s.t.
• Bjarne Riis @ 2min 6sec
• Jose-Maria Jimenez @ 2min 37sec
• Oscar Canenzind @ 3min 29sec

GC after stage 15:

• Jan Ullrich: 76hr 58min 59sec
• Richard Virenque @ 6min 12sec
• Marco Pantani @ 10min 13sec
• Bjarne Riis @ 11min 55sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 16min 5sec
• Abraham Olano @ 16min 40sec
• Francesco Casagrande @ 17min 14sec
• Jose-Maria Jimenez @ 23min 42sec
• Roberti Conti @ 28min 20sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 29min 46sec

Stage 16: Tuesday, July 22, Morzine - Fribourg, 181 km.

• Christophe Mengin: 4hr 30min 11sec
• Orlando Rodriguez s.t.

GC after stage 16:

• Jan Ullrich: 81hr 29min 10sec
• Bjarne Riis @ 18min 4sec
• Roberto Conti @ 28min 20sec
• Lurent Dufaux @ 29min 46sec

Stage 17: Wednesday, July 23, Fribourg - Colmar, 218.5 km.

• Neil Stephens: 4hr 54min 38sec
• Oscar Camenzind @ 3sec
• Viatscheslav Ekimov s.t.
• Laurent Roux s.t.
• Erik Dekker s.t.
• Javier Pascual s.t.
• Serguei Outschakov s.t.
• Peter Farazijn s.t.
• Christophe Mengin s.t.
• Massimo Podenzana s.t.
• Georg Totschnig @ 5sec
• Aitor Garmendia @ 6sec
• Erik Zabel won the field sprint @ 3min 58sec

GC after stage 17:

• Jan Ullrich: 86hr 27min 46sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 29min 26sec

Stage 18: Thursday, July 24, Colmar - Montbeliard, 175.5 km.

• Dider Rous: 4hr 24min 48sec
• Pascal Herve @ 5min 9sec
• Bobby Julich @ 5min 10sec
• Angel Casero s.t.
• Laurent Dufaux @ 5min 12sec
• Daniele Nardello @ 5min 14sec
• Manuel Beltran s.t.
• Laurent Madouas @ 5min 16sec

GC after Stage 18:

• Jan Ullrich: 90hr 58min 3sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 29min 29sec

Stage 19: Friday, July 25, Montbéliard - Dijon, 172 km.

• Mario Traversoni was 26 seconds behind the 2 riders first across the line, Bart Voskamp and Jens Heppner, who were both relegated for irregular sprinting.
• Marco Saligari s.t.
• Christian Henn s.t.
• Servais Knaven s.t.
• Bart Voskamp: 4hr 3min 17sec
• Jens Heppner same time as Voskamp.

GC after Stage 19:

• Jan Ullrich: 95hr 19min 17sec

Stage 20: Saturday, July 26, Disneyland 63 km Individual Time Trial.

• Abraham Olano: 1hr 15min 57sec
• Jan Ullrich @ 45sec
• Philippe Gaumont @ 1min 12sec
• Bobby Julich @ 2min 24sec
• Erik Dekker @ 2min 39sec
• Christophe Moreau @ 2min 56sec
• Laurent Brochard @ 3min 10sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 3min 11sec
• Richard Virenque @ 3min 32sec
• Arturas Kaspustis @ 3min 48sec

GC after Stage 20:

• Jan Ullrich: 96hr 35min 59sec
• Richard Virenque @ 9min 9sec
• Marco Pantani @ 14min 3sec
• Abraham Olano @ 15min 55sec
• Fernando Escartin @ 20min 32sec
• Francesco Casagrande @ 22min 47sec
• Bjarne Riis @ 26min 34sec
• Jose-Maria Jimenez @ 31min 17sec
• Laurent Dufaux @ 31min 55sec
• Roberto Conti @ 32min 26sec

20th and Final Stage: Sunday, July 27, Disneyland - Paris (Champs Elysées), 149.5 km.

• Nicola Minali: 3hr 54min 36sec
• George Hincapie s.t.
• Nicola Lauda s.t.
• Philippe Gaumont s.t.

Complete Final 1997 Tour de France General Classification:

The Story of the 1997 Tour de France :

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Bjarne Riis set about the job of winning a second successive Tour. He would be over 33 years old but so were Scieur, Lambot, Zoetemelk, Buysse, Bartali and Pélissier when they won. Of that group only Zoetemelk had won in the last 40 years. But Riis' domination had been complete and it was rational to believe that he could do it again. Although he had abandoned the Tour of Switzerland, he had good results in the spring including a win in the Amstel Gold Race that seemed to confirm his optimism. Moreover, he had a superb team. The Telekom squad was brimming with good, dedicated talent, including the previous Tour's second place, young Jan Ullrich.

There was a bit of a problem. Ullrich, while riding as a domestique for Riis, still ended up a close second to the Dane. As the 1996 Tour was drawing to a close and Riis was faltering with exhaustion, Ullrich was stronger than ever, winning the final time trial. I remember the dueling TV interviews in the summer of 1997 with Riis asserting the Ullrich would ride for him, since Riis was the designated captain of the team. Ullrich seemed to demur on that point a bit. Anyone watching could see that the chains of servitude were not as strongly forged as Riis wanted to think they were. After the 1996 Tour and his terrific second place Ullrich declared that the Tour would be the centerpiece of his career.

Ullrich had turned pro for Telekom late in the 1994 season. He was a shoo-in to ride for Germany in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games but chose instead to ride the Tour to help Riis. Ullrich had no notable victories in the spring of 1997 but came to the Tour looking very good.

There was no rematch with Miguel Indurain. He retired at the end of the 1996 season, becoming the Olympic Time Trial Champion in August and starting but abandoning the Vuelta a España that September. The mantle of leadership of the Banesto team fell to Abraham Olano who had finished a credible ninth in the 1996 Tour, 3 minutes, 14 seconds ahead of Indurain.

Other men who could wear Yellow in Paris included the previous year's third place Richard Virenque, Alex Zülle, the fading Tony Rominger, Evgeni Berzin and a rising Italian star. Marco Pantani was a cycling type whose equal had not been seen since Charly Gaul. He was what the Italians call a scattista , a man who can explode on a steep climb when the other good climbers are already at their limit. This type of pure climber is the bane of men like Indurain, Ullrich and Hinault who find a rhythm on an ascent and can climb at a very high rate, but don't react well to changes of speed. Pantani in 1994, his second year as a pro, scored a second in the Giro and a third place in the Tour. In 1995 it looked as if his career was over after he suffered a terrible accident that shattered his femur. He doggedly set out to prove how very wrong the doctors were to doubt that the small climber would ever walk again. By early 1997 he was fully competitive. He abandoned the Giro but earlier had come in fourth in the Critérium International. Like Gaul, Pantani was a bomb who could go off any time the road went up.

The 1997 Tour was counter-clockwise (Pyrenees first) and set up to give the riders a relentless pounding in the mountains. The hard climbing started in stage 9 and continued without stop through the Massif Central and the Alps. After the Alps were concluded in stage 16, the riders would get a hard dose of the Vosges in stage 18. This Tour would test recovery as well as climbing. Not since the 1976 Tour stacked up all the climbing in 9 sequential stages had the mountains been all run up against each other. 1976 had yielded Lucien van Impe, the finest climber of his age as the winner. Might the 1997 Tour be as kind to Richard Virenque or Marco Pantani?

Chris Boardman did the job he was paid to do, winning the Tour's 7.3-kilometer prologue time trial. Win it he did but Jan Ullrich was only 2 seconds slower and Zülle was only 5 seconds off the winner's pace. So strong were they that these men who would contend for Yellow were almost able to beat the prologue specialist at his own game.

The first 4 stages run through Brittany and Normandy were dominated by the pure sprinters with Italian Mario Cipollini winning the first 2. Then Ullrich's teammate Erik Zabel won stage 3 and Nicola Minali bagged stage 4. Since the end of stage 1 Cipollini had been wearing the Yellow Jersey.

It was rumored that tension between Riis and Ullrich started with the first stage when Riis was caught in a massive crash and delayed. Ullrich didn't wait for the 1996 Tour winner to help him get back up to the field. The fast-moving early stages claimed 2 victims: Zülle suffered several crashes and finally gave up after the fourth stage and Tony Rominger had to withdraw with a broken collarbone.

The fifth stage saw the Tour's first real exploit when Cédric Vasseur went on a 147-kilometer break and won the stage by 2½ minutes, 27 years after his father Alain had won a Tour stage. But unlike the father's win, Cedric's earned him the Yellow Jersey.

As the Tour headed for the Pyrenees the sprinters continued to own the race with Zabel winning 3 of the stages so far. His job was made easier because the ranks of the speedsters were considerably thinned. Belgian Tom Steels was thrown out of the Tour for throwing a water bottle at Frédéric Moncassin, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov was tossed from the Tour for a positive dope test, and Mario Cipollini quit with an injured knee.

After stage 8 and before the climbing began the General Classification stood thus:

Stage 9, held on Bastille Day, July 14, took the race from Pau to Loudenvielle by going over the Soulor, the Tourmalet, the Aspin, up to Val Louron-Azet before descending to Loudenvielle. Virenque was aggressive the entire day while Ullrich stayed with Riis who was having a tough start in the mountains. When Virenque attacked on the final climb Ullrich easily went with him, leaving his leader behind. Pantani and Laurent Brochard formed a lead group over the top. Brochard took off on the descent but Ullrich was uninterested in Brochard and kept his eye on Virenque. While Ullrich had no trouble marking Virenque, he initiated no attacks of his own, perhaps because Godefroot had not yet decided to give his young rider complete freedom to seek the big win. Vasseur was able to hang on to the lead for another day. The new General Classification showed that even though the Tour was still young, things had already begun to sort themselves out.

Riis continued to tell the press that he was still the team leader. In fact, he was doing very well and had a good position in the standings but Ullrich was clearly the stronger rider.

The next day was even harder, 252 kilometers that went over the Portet d'Aspet, the Port, the Port d'Envalira, the Ordino and a final 32-kilometer ascent to Andorra/Arcalis. Now Godefroot moved to backing Ullrich as his man. On the big last climb with 10 kilometers to go, Ullrich accelerated twice, and with the second acceleration, even the finest pure climbers in the world, Pantani and Virenque, were helpless before the his demonstration of power. Ullrich smoothly rolled up the mountain and into the Yellow Jersey.

The stage's results:

Which yielded a new General Classification:

The post-stage comments indicated a new appreciation of Ullrich's extraordinary physical talents. Bernard Hinault thought he would be able to dominate the Tour for another 7 or 8 years. Virenque hoped Ullrich wouldn't go on a 5-Tour winning streak. Ullrich had clearly concentrated everyone's attention. After a rest day, a hilly 55.5-kilometer individual time trial was scheduled. Virenque had voiced his optimistic hope that he would only lose a couple of minutes in what was presumed to be Ullrich's specialty. His director didn't think a loss of 4 or more minutes would be a surprise. Virenque was the penultimate starter with Ullrich his 3-minute man. Just near the end Ullrich caught Virenque and increased his lead to 5 minutes, 42 seconds. Virenque had no intentions of giving up. With the Alps coming he said he would now be on the roads that would play to his advantage.

Stage 13 presented a real opportunity to take a chunk of time out of Ullrich if it were indeed possible. It was an easterly run in from St. Etienne over flattish country with a ascent to the top of L'Alpe d'Huez. The steep slopes of the Alpe would give the pure climbers a chance to shake Ullrich and set a new tone for the Alpine stages. Ullrich was dropped but only by Marco Pantani and not until the riders were well into the climb. Making his way through hundreds of thousands of fans who formed a narrow defile, Pantani was able to beat Ullrich to the top by 47 seconds. Jean-Paul Ollivier says that Ullrich intentionally eased to let Pantani have the win, being careful not to let the diminutive climber gain too much time. Virenque's hope to start his challenge to Ullrich on the fabled Alpe turned out to be an empty one. He lost another 40 seconds to the German. Ullrich voiced the thought that Virenque had lost too much time to be considered a true threat to the Tour leadership. Pantani had moved into third place but so far Ullrich didn't seem to show any signs of weakness.

2 real climbing stages were left. Stage 14 started at Bourg d'Oisans, near the bottom of L'Alpe d'Huez, and went over the Glandon and Madeleine before the first category ascent to Courchevel. The evening after the L'Alpe d'Huez stage Virenque had been told that Ullrich was suffering from food poisoning. Virenque's Festina team decided that the next day (stage 14) would be the perfect time to deploy a set-piece assault on the supposedly ailing German. Once on the Glandon the Festina team, which had some good climbers, went all-out. By the time the front group crested the Glandon there were about 20 riders in the main lead group and Ullrich was isolated without teammates. In addition to being a fine climber, Virenque was a first rate descender. I talked to one of the professional drivers of the race officials' cars in important races and asked him who the best descenders were in the late 1990's. Richard Virenque's name was the first one he mentioned. Pantani was also high on his list.

Virenque decided to descend the Glandon aggressively with Ullrich close on his tail. Ullrich had a super light climbing bike that was a poor-handling, unstable affair that caused him to come close to grief more than once on the treacherous descent. At the bottom of the hill Ullrich slowed for some teammates but Virenque kept on alone. Riis put himself at Ullrich's service and got him back to Virenque in time for the final climb. There, Ullrich stayed with Virenque no matter how hard the Frenchman tried to get away. Virenque got the stage win but now he was down to just 1 climbing stage to take back 6 minutes, 22 seconds. The day had been a hard one. Frank Vandenbroucke led in 93 riders who finished 36 minutes, 56 seconds after Virenque. This was beyond the Tour time elimination cutoff, and special dispensation was made by the officials to keep the peloton from being reduced to 62 riders at one stroke.

If there might be a stage where Virenque could recover some time, it was the fifteenth with the Forclaz, Croix Fry, Colombière and the Joux-Plane. It turned out to be a stage without high drama. Pantani had been complaining of a sore throat and breathing trouble since the L'Alpe d'Huez stage and had threatened to abandon. Yet he broke away on the final climb and also being a gifted descender, rode off for the stage win while Ullrich marked Virenque and finished with his nemesis.

With the Alpine stages finished, the General Classification stood thus:

A chink in the German's armor showed in stage 18, the Vosges stage. On the penultimate major climb of the stage Ullrich had to let Virenque go. Showing grit, Ullrich was able to regain contact and finished with Virenque in the main group. Now there was only the final time trial the day before the stage into Paris. Ullrich didn't win it, but after defending his lead since the tenth stage he could be allowed a second place to Olano, one of the finest time trialists in the world. Virenque lost almost another 3 minutes to Ullrich over the 63 kilometers. He was tired as well. And also tired, having been unwell in the Alps, and perhaps a bit cranky was Riis. His final time trial was terrible. After damaging his bike in a fall, he suffered a series of mishaps as his mechanics couldn't get his wheel in correctly. Riis must have been furious at how the entire Tour turned out after he had prepared so carefully for what he was sure would be a repeat win. He finally threw his bike to the ground in fury, a move that was caught on worldwide television.

While Ullrich voiced worry that something could go wrong on the final stage, nothing did and he won what everyone thought would be the first in a series of stunning Tour victories.

Final 1997 Tour de France General Classification:

Climbers' competition:

Points competition:

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The 1997 Tour de France was the 84th edition of the Tour de France and took place from 5 to 27 July. Jan Ullrich 's victory margin of 9:09 was the largest margin of victory since Laurent Fignon won the 1984 Tour de France by 10:32. [1] Since 1997 no rider has had this convincing of a win with the closest margin to Ullrich's victory being Vincenzo Nibali winning the 2014 Tour de France with a gap of 7:39. Ullrich's simultaneous victories in both the general classification and the young riders' classification marked the first time the same rider had won both categories in the same Tour since Laurent Fignon in 1983 . The points classification was won by Ullrich's teammate Erik Zabel , for the second time, and their team Team Telekom also won the team classification . The mountains classification was won by Richard Virenque for the fourth time.

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Race overview, classification leadership and minor prizes, final standings, general classification, points classification, mountains classification, young rider classification, team classification, combativity classification, bibliography, external links.

198 riders in 22 teams commenced the 1997 Tour de France. 139 riders finished. [2] The 16 teams with the highest UCI ranking at the start of 1997 were automatically qualified. [3] Six wildcard invitations were also given. [4] [5]

The teams entering the race were: [6]

Qualified teams

• Batik–Del Monte
• Festina–Lotus
• Française des Jeux
• Mapei–GB
• MG Maglificio–Technogym
• Roslotto–ZG Mobili
• Saeco–Estro
• Team Telekom
• TVM–Farm Frites

Invited teams

• BigMat–Auber 93
• Kelme–Costa Blanca
• Lotto–Mobistar–Isoglass
• Mercatone Uno
• Mutuelle de Seine-et-Marne
• U.S. Postal Service

The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,408   m (7,900   ft) at the summit of the Port d'Envalira mountain pass on stages 10 and 11. [7] [8]

The Prologue was won by Time Trial Specialist Chris Boardman giving him the Yellow Jersey for stage one with Ullrich just two seconds behind. Defending champion Bjarne Riis , who had been preparing for and seeking a repeat victory with Ullrich acting as his Super-Domestique finished outside the top 10 but was in no way concerned as he had come into the Tour in good form. The first four stages were flat stages, the first two of which were won by the infamous Italian sprinter Mario Cipollini with the third going to Erik Zabel and the fourth being won by Nicola Minali . Cipollini would wear the Yellow Jersey following the first few stages due to bonus seconds during the sprint finishes. [11] During the 261   km stage five from Chantonnay to Le Chatre Cédric Vasseur survived a breakaway and finished nearly two and a half minutes ahead of the Peloton to claim the stage win and the Yellow Jersey, which he would hold on to until the race reached the high mountains.

Stage 6 was won by Jeroen Blijlevens in a sprint finish with Djamolidine Abdoujaparov finishing 2nd which would be his highest placing in this final TDF of his impressive career. Stages 7 and 8 followed rounding out the first week with sprint finishes, both of which were won by Erik Zabel as he bested Jaan Kirsipuu and Blijlevens in stage 7 and Minali and Blijlevens in stage 8. Zabel had donned the Green Jersey following stage 3 and would hold it all the way to Paris. Stage 9 was the first stage in the Pyrenees which included the Col d'Aspin and Col du Tourmalet as two of the five categorized climbs. Laurent Brochard won the stage with the elite group of Richard Virenque , Pantani and Ullrich finishing 0:14 behind. Surprisingly to some defending champion Riis lost nearly thirty seconds to the other contenders coming across in 8th putting him in a tie for 4th in the overall standings with Virenque at 1:43 behind Vasseur after the first major mountain stage. Spaniard Abraham Olano was in 3rd at 1:14 behind and the next closest GC favorite was Ullrich 0:14 behind him. [12]

Stage 10 was another high mountain stage with five climbs and was won convincingly by Ullrich by 1:06 over Virenque and Pantani as Riis and Olano each lost more than three minutes. With the victory Ullrich became the first German rider to wear the maillot jaune since Klaus-Peter Thaler in the 1978 Tour de France and only 3rd overall as "Didi" Dietrich Thurau wore it for 15 days in the 1977 Tour de France . [11] Stage 11 was an intermediate stage in which Laurent Desbiens survived to finish 0:18 ahead of the bunch together with two other riders whom he outsprinted to take the stage win. There were no major attacks by the GC riders in this stage so going into the ITT in Stage 12 Ullrich was convincingly in the lead at 2:38 over Virenque, 4:46 over Olano and 4:53 over his teammate Riis, who at this point remained confident he was still the leader of Team Telekom with Ullrich continuing to ride for him as a Super- Domestique .

The individual time trial extinguished any and all doubts who was in command of the race as Ullrich put more than three minutes into all of his competitors and teammates with 2nd place Virenque now approaching a six-minute deficit in the overall standings and Pantani, Olano and Riis each being eight minutes or more behind.

Stage 13 was Alpe d'Huez and the only rider able to drop Ullrich was Pantani who had to put in one of the fastest recorded times up Alpe d'Huez in TDF history in order to do so. [13] Virenque finished 3rd 1:27 behind Pantani and Francesco Casagrande finished 4th on the stage while also moving to 6th place in the overall standings. Riis finished 5th, losing nearly another two minutes to Ullrich. In stage 14 Virenque made an attack to win back time on Ullrich, helped by his entire team. The margin was never more than two minutes, and Ullrich was able to get back to Virenque before the final climb. Virenque won the stage, but Ullrich finished in the same time. [14] In stage 15 it was the Pirate attacking and winning his second stage and while he remained more than ten minutes behind Ullrich he did jump Riis in the standings to move in the final podium position.

Ullrich remained fully in command as the race progressed and aside from suffering a major crash or failing a doping control there wasn't much chance of him losing the Tour. Stage 18 was the final mountain stage and included a rare climb up the Ballon d'Alsace , which was a popular stage early in TDF history but hadn't been included since the 1982 Tour de France and was added to the route for only the 4th time since World War II. [15] Frenchman Didier Rous would win the stage beating the next closest breakaway riders in Pascal Hervé , Bobby Julich and Laurent Roux by more than five minutes to finish the mountain stages with there being no further changes among the general classification favorites. [16]

The final ITT in Stage 20 was won by Olano with Ullrich taking second 0:45 back. The final stage on the Champs-Élysées was won by Nicola Minali who beat out Zabel, Blijlevens, Henk Vogel, Robbie McEwen and George Hincapie in the mass sprint finish. Afterwards on the podiums Erik Zabel was awarded the green jersey, Richard Virenque won the King of the Mountains as well as the Most Combative Rider, in 3rd place on the podium was Marco Pantani , in 2nd was Virenque and in 1st overall winning the best young rider award, as well as the yellow jersey as champion of the Tour de France was Jan Ullrich .

There were several classifications in the 1997 Tour de France. [17] The most important was the general classification , calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour. [18] [19]

Additionally, there was a points classification , which awarded a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists got points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey. [18] [20]

There was also a mountains classification . The organisation had categorised some climbs as either hors catégorie , first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and wore a white jersey with red polka dots . [18] [21]

The fourth individual classification was the young rider classification , which was not marked by a jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders under 26 years were eligible. [18] [22]

For the team classification , the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. [18] [23]

In addition, there was a combativity award given after each mass-start stage to the cyclist considered most combative. The decision was made by a jury composed of journalists who gave points. The cyclist with the most points from votes in all stages led the combativity classification. [24] Richard Virenque won this classification, and was given overall the super-combativity award. [25] The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the Port d'Envalira on stage 10. This prize was won by Virenque for the third time, the most by any rider in Tour history. [26] [7] [27]

• In stage 1, Jan Ullrich wore the green jersey.
• In stage 2, Tom Steels wore the green jersey.
• In stage 3, Erik Zabel wore the green jersey.

After Ullrich's domination of the 1997 Tour de France at his young age, it was believed that Ullrich would dominate the Tour de France for the next years. [33] However, Ullrich would never win the Tour again, although he did reach the podium four more times finishing second to Pantani in 1998 and standing 2nd on the podium to Lance Armstrong three times. He also reached the podium in the 2005 Tour de France , but that result was later voided. Ullrich would win another Grand Tour however, the 1999 Vuelta a España .

• ↑ A white jersey was not awarded to the leader of the young rider classification between 1989 and 1999 . [22]

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• ↑ "Tour de France 1997 – Leaders overview" . ProCyclingStats . Archived from the original on 16 February 2019 . Retrieved 16 February 2019 .
• ↑ van den Akker, Pieter. "Informatie over de Tour de France van 1997" [ Information about the Tour de France from 1997 ] . TourDeFranceStatistieken.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2 March 2019 . Retrieved 2 March 2019 .
• 1 2 3 4 5 "The history of the Tour de France – Year 1997 – Stage 21 Disneyland-Paris > Paris" . Tour de France . Amaury Sport Organisation . Archived from the original on 2 April 2020 . Retrieved 4 April 2020 .
• 1 2 "Tour de France 1997 - Stage 21, Disneyland (Paris) to Champs Elysses (Paris), 149.5 km" . Cyclingnews . 1997. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011 . Retrieved 23 November 2013 .
• ↑ "Jan Ullrich, une premiere pour changer d'ere l'homme mur de Berlin s'est erige a Paris Abraham Olano sauve son Tour de Justesse" [ Jan Ullrich, a first to change the era of the Berlin wall man built in Paris Abraham Olano rescues his Tower of Justice ] . Le Soir (in French). 28 July 1997. Archived from the original on 8 October 2019 . Retrieved 8 October 2019 .
• ↑ Abt, Samuel (28 July 1997). "A New Dynasty Begins at the Tour de France" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on 19 December 2013 . Retrieved 23 November 2013 .
• Augendre, Jacques (2016). "Guide historique" [ Historical guide ] (PDF) . Tour de France (in French). Paris: Amaury Sport Organisation . Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 August 2016 . Retrieved 27 October 2016 .
• Nauright, John; Parrish, Charles (2012). Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice . Vol.   2. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN   978-1-59884-300-2 .
• van den Akker, Pieter (2018). Tour de France Rules and Statistics: 1903–2018 . Self-published. ISBN   978-1-79398-080-9 .
• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 August 1997)
• 1997 Tour de France at Cyclingnews.com
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Ergebnisse und Ranglisten der Tour de France 1997

Gesamtwertung der tour de france 1997, wertungstrikots der tour de france 1997, etappen der tour de france 1997.

Prolog (Rouen - Rouen, 7,3 km)

Etappe 1 (Rouen - Forges les Eaux, 192 km)

Etappe 2 (St Valéry en Caux - Vire, 262 km)

Etappe 3 (Vire - Plumelec, 224 km)

Etappe 4 (Plumelec - Le Puy du Fou, 223 km)

Etappe 5 (Chantonnay - La Châtre, 261,5 km)

Etappe 6 (Le Blanc - Marennes, 215,5 km)

Etappe 7 (Marennes - Bordeaux, 194 km)

Etappe 8 (Sauternes - Pau, 161,5 km)

Etappe 9 (Pau - Loudenvielle, 182 km)

Etappe 10 (Bagnères-de-Luchon - Arcalis, 252,5 km)

Etappe 11 (Andorre - Perpignan, 192 km)

Etappe 12 (St Etienne - St Etienne, 55,5 km im Einzelzeitfahren)

Etappe 13 (St Etienne - Alpe d'Huez, 203,5 km)

Etappe 14 (Le Bourg-d'Oisans - Courchevel, 148 km)

Etappe 15 (Courchevel - Morzine, 181 km)

Etappe 16 (Morzine - Fribourg, 181 km)

Etappe 17 (Fribourg - Colmar, 218,5 km)

Etappe 18 (Colmar - Montbéliard, 175,5 km)

Etappe 19 (Montbéliard - Dijon, 172 km)

Etappe 20 (Disneyland-Paris - Disneyland-Paris, 63 km im Einzelzeitfahren)

Etappe 21 (Disneyland-Paris - Paris/Champs Élysées, 149,5 km)

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Sprint | Marcilloles

Sprint | veurey-voroize, mountain sprint | col du grand bois, mountain sprint | l'alpe-d'huez, team day classification, race information.

• Date: 19 July 1997
• Start time: -
• Avg. speed winner: 40.34 km/h
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
• Distance: 203.5 km
• Points scale: GT.A.Stage
• Parcours type:
• ProfileScore: 341
• Vert. meters: 4099
• Departure: Saint-Etienne
• Arrival: l'alpe d'huez
• Race ranking: 0
• Startlist quality score: 1994
• Won how: 8.8 km solo
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