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Bradley Wiggins riding the stage 9 individual time trial of the 2012 Tour de France. The first time trial in the Tour was between La Roche-sur-Yon and Nantes (80 km) in 1934. [113] The first stage in modern Tours is often a short trial, a prologue, to decide who wears yellow on the opening day. The first prologue was in 1967. [54]
The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the most well-known and prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]
The fastest time-trial is Rohan Dennis's stage 1 of the 2015 Tour de France in Utrecht, won at an average pace of 55.446 km/h (34.5 mph). [20] [21] The fastest stage win was by the 2013 Orica GreenEDGE team in a team time-trial. They completed the 25 km time-trial at 57.7 km/h (35.85 mph). [22]
The 2020 Tour was postponed to commence on 29 August, following the French government's extension of a ban on mass gatherings after the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak. [33] This was the first time since the end of World War II that the Tour de France was not held in the month of July. [34]
The 2024 Tour de France was the 111th edition of the Tour de France.It started in Florence, Italy, on 29 June, and finished in Nice, France, on 21 July.The race did not finish in (or near) Paris for the first time since its inception, owing to preparations for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
The 2023 Tour de France was the 110th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Bilbao , Spain, on 1 July and ended with the final stage at Champs-Élysées , Paris , on 23 July. Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard ( Team Jumbo–Visma ) won the general classification for the second year in a row.
The 2021 Tour de France was the 108th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three grand tours.Originally planned for the Danish capital of Copenhagen, the start of the 2021 Tour (known as the Grand Départ) was transferred to Brest because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with Copenhagen hosting four matches in the UEFA Euro 2020, which had also been rescheduled to 2021 because of the pandemic.
The 2019 Tour de France was the 106th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three Grand Tours.The 3,365.8 km (2,091 mi)-long race consisted of 21 stages, starting in the Belgian capital of Brussels on 6 July, before moving throughout France and concluding on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 28 July.