A look at the Tour De France 2013
Starting on Saturday June 29th to Sunday July 21th , the 100th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,479 kilometres. It will have seven flat stages, five hilly stages, six mountain stages with 4 summit finishes, two individual time trial stages, one team time trial stage and two rest days.
Stage 1 Saturday June 29th Porto-Vecchio Bastia 213kms
Stage 2 Sunday June 30 Bastia - Ajaccio 154kms
Stage 3 Monday July 1 Ajaccio Calvi 145kms
Stage 4 Tuesday July 2 Nice - Nice (Team Time Trial 25kms
Stage 5 Wednesday July 3 - Cagnes-sur-Mer Marseille 219kms
Stage 6 Thursday July 4 Aix-en-Provence - Montpellier 176kms
Stage 7 Friday July 5 Montpellier - Albi 205kms
Stage 8 Saturday July 6 Castres - Ax 3 Domaines 194kms
Stage 9 Sunday July 7 Saint-Girons Bagnères-de-Bigorre 165kms
Transfer on Monday July 8th from Saint-Nazaire to Loire-Atlantique
Stage 10 Tuesday July 9th Saint-Gildas-des-Bois - Saint-Malo 193km
Stage 11 Wednesday July 10 Avranches Mont-Saint-Michel (Individual Time Trial) 33kms
Stage 12 Thursday July 11 Fougères - Tours 218kms
Stage 13 Friday July 12 Tours Saint-Amand-Montrond 173km
Stage 14 Saturday July 13 Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule - Lyon 191kms
Stage 15 Sunday July 14 Givors to Mont Ventoux 242km
Monday July 15 Rest Day
Stage 16 Tuesday July 16 Vaison-la-Romaine - Gap 168kms
Stage 17 Wednesday July 17 Embrun Chorges (Individual time trial) 32kms
Stage 18 Thursday July 18 Gap Alpe-d’Huez 168km
Stage 19 Friday July 19 Bourg-d’Oisans Le Grand-Bornand 204kms
Stage 20 Saturday July 20 Annecy Annecy - Semnoz 125kms
Stage 21 Sunday July 21 Versailles Paris Champs-Élysées 110kms
FACTS AND FIGURES
198 riders will compete from 22 teams.
Over eight hundred media from around the world will report on the race
This is the first time that Corsica has hosted a Grand Depart. Paris has been used 138 times either as a start or finishing point.
Prize Money is 1,009,000 euros with the winner getting 450,000
Mario Cipollini won the fastest stage in 1999 with an average speed for the 194.5kms stage of 50.355km/h.
The biggest gap between the winner and second place is 28 minutes and 17 seconds when Fausto Coppi won in 1952 beating Stan Ockers.
Henri Desgrange was the first race director. Christian Prudhomme is the current one.
Five British Riders To Have Worn The Yellow Jersey
1962 - Tom Simpson, 1994/1997/1998 - Chris Boardman,
1994 - Sean Yates, 2000- David Millar, 2012 Sir Bradley Wiggins
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