2004 Tour de France

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Tour de France 2004 - Course Outline
Race details
Dates		July 3–July 25, 2004
Stages		20+Prologue
Distance		3,429 km (2,131 mi)
Winning time		83h 36' 02" (41.016 km/h/25.486 mph)
Palmarès
	Winner	Lance Armstrong	(US Postal)
	Second	Andreas Klöden	(T-Mobile Team)
	Third	Ivan Basso	(Team CSC)
	Points	Robbie McEwen	(Lotto–Domo)
	Mountains	Richard Virenque	(Quick Step – Davitamon)
	Youth	Vladimir Karpets	(Illes Balears – Banesto)
	Team	T-Mobile Team

The 2004 Tour de France was the 91st, taking place from July 3 to July 25, 2004. It consisted of 20 stages over 3429 km.^[1]

Lance Armstrong became the first to win six Tours de France.

Armstrong was favored to win, his competitors seen as being German Jan Ullrich, Spaniards Roberto Heras and Iban Mayo, and fellow Americans Levi Leipheimer and Tyler Hamilton.

The route of the 2004 Tour was remarkable. With two individual time trials scheduled in the last week, one of them the climb of Alpe d'Huez, the directors were hoping for a close race until the end. For the first time in years, the mountains of the Massif Central made an appearance.

Contents 1 Stages 1.1 Jersey progress 2 Teams 3 Results 3.1 General classification 3.2 Points classification 3.3 Mountains classification 3.4 Youth classification 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Stages

Stage	Route	Distance	Type	Date
Prologue	Liège, Belgium	6.1 km	Individual time trial	Saturday, July 3
1	Liège - Charleroi	202.5 km		Sunday, July 4
2	Charleroi - Namur	210 km		Monday, July 5
3	Waterloo - Wasquehal	195 km		Tuesday, July 6
4	Cambrai - Arras	65 km	Team time trial	Wednesday, July 7
5	Amiens - Chartres	195 km		Thursday, July 8
6	Bonneval - Angers	190 km		Friday, July 9
7	Châteaubriant - Saint-Brieuc	208 km		Saturday, July 10
8	Lamballe - Quimper	172 km		Sunday, July 11
-	Rest day			Monday, July 12
9	Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Guéret	160 km		Tuesday, July 13
10	Limoges (Massif Central) - Saint-Flour	237 km		Wednesday, July 14
11	Saint-Flour - Figeac	164 km		Thursday, July 15
12	Castelsarrasin - La Mongie	199 km	Mountain stage	Friday, July 16
13	Lannemezan - Plateau de Beille	217 km	Mountain stage	Saturday, July 17
14	Carcassonne - Nîmes	200 km		Sunday, July 18
-	Rest day			Monday, July 19
15	Valréas - Villard-de-Lans	179 km	Mountain stage	Tuesday, July 20
16	Bourg d'Oisans - L'Alpe d'Huez	15.5 km	Individual time trial	Wednesday, July 21
17	Bourg d'Oisans - Le Grand-Bornand	212 km	Mountain stage	Thursday, July 22
18	Annemasse - Lons-le-Saunier	166 km		Friday, July 23
19	Besançon - Besançon	60 km	Individual time trial	Saturday, July 24
20	Montereau-Fault-Yonne - Paris Champs-Élysées	165 km		Sunday, July 25

3253.1 total km

[edit] Jersey progress

Stage	Winner	General classification Maillot jaune	Mountains classification Maillot à pois rouges	Points classification Maillot vert	Young rider classification Maillot blanc	Team classification	Combativity award Prix de combativité
P	Fabian Cancellara	Fabian Cancellara	N/A	Fabian Cancellara	Fabian Cancellara	US Postal	N/A
1	Jaan Kirsipuu		Jens Voigt	Thor Hushovd			Richard Virenque
2	Robbie McEwen	Thor Hushovd	Paolo Bettini				Jakob Piil
3	Jean-Patrick Nazon	Robbie McEwen		Robbie McEwen			Jens Voigt
4	US Postal	Lance Armstrong			Matthias Kessler		N/A
5	Stuart O'Grady	Thomas Voeckler			Thomas Voeckler	Team CSC	Sandy Casar
6	Tom Boonen			Stuart O'Grady			Jimmy Engoulvent
7	Fillippo Pozzato						Thierry Marichal
8	Thor Hushovd			Robbie McEwen			Jakob Piil
9	Robbie McEwen						Iñigo Landaluze
10	Richard Virenque		Richard Virenque				Richard Virenque
11	David Moncoutié						David Moncoutié
12	Ivan Basso						Frédéric Finot
13	Lance Armstrong						Michael Rasmussen
14	Aitor Gonzalez					T-Mobile Team	Nicolas Jalabert
15	Lance Armstrong	Lance Armstrong				Team CSC	Michael Rasmussen
16	Lance Armstrong					T-Mobile Team	N/A
17	Lance Armstrong						Gilberto Simoni
18	Juan Miguel Mercado						José García Acosta
19	Lance Armstrong				Vladimir Karpets		N/A
20	Tom Boonen						Richard Virenque
Final		Lance Armstrong	Richard Virenque	Robbie McEwen	Vladimir Karpets	T-Mobile Team	Richard Virenque

Jersey wearers when one rider is leading two or more competitions

• In stage 1, Lance Armstrong wore the green jersey.
• In stages 1 and 2, Bernhard Eisel wore the white jersey.
• In stage 3, Jaan Kirsipuu wore the green jersey.
• In stage 4, Jean-Patrick Nazon wore the green jersey.
• In stages 6 through 15, Sandy Casar wore the white jersey.

[edit] Teams

188 riders in 21 teams started; 147 riders finished.

• List of teams and cyclists in the 2004 Tour de France

[edit] Results

[edit] General classification Rank Name Country Team Time 1 Lance Armstrong  United States US Postal 83h 36' 02' 2 Andreas Klöden  Germany T-Mobile Team 6' 19" 3 Ivan Basso  Italy Team CSC 6' 40" 4 Jan Ullrich  Germany T-Mobile Team 8' 50" 5 José Azevedo  Portugal US Postal 14' 30" 6 Francisco Mancebo  Spain Illes Balears – Banesto 18' 01" 7 Georg Totschnig  Austria Gerolsteiner 18' 27" 8 Carlos Sastre  Spain Team CSC 19' 51" 9 Levi Leipheimer  United States Rabobank 20' 12" 10 Óscar Pereiro  Spain Phonak 22' 54"

[edit] Points classification Rank Name Country Team Points 1 Robbie McEwen  Australia Lotto–Domo 272 2 Thor Hushovd  Norway Crédit Agricole 247 3 Erik Zabel  Germany T-Mobile Team 245 4 Stuart O'Grady  Australia Cofidis 234 5 Danilo Hondo  Germany Gerolsteiner 227 6 Tom Boonen  Belgium Quick Step – Davitamon 163 7 Jean-Patrick Nazon  France AG2R Prévoyance 146 8 Lance Armstrong  United States US Postal 143 9 Laurent Brochard  France AG2R Prévoyance 139 10 Andreas Klöden  Germany T-Mobile Team 131

[edit] Mountains classification Rank Name Country Team Points 1 Richard Virenque  France Quick Step – Davitamon 226 2 Lance Armstrong  United States US Postal 172 3 Ivan Basso  Italy Team CSC 119 4 Michael Rasmussen  Denmark Rabobank 119 5 Jan Ullrich  Germany T-Mobile Team 115 6 Christophe Moreau  France Crédit Agricole 115 7 Andreas Klöden  Germany T-Mobile Team 112 8 Francisco Mancebo  Spain Illes Balears – Banesto 77 9 Jens Voigt  Germany Team CSC 71 10 Axel Merckx  Belgium Lotto–Domo 65

[edit] Youth classification Rank Name Country Team Time 1 Vladimir Karpets  Russia Illes Balears – Banesto 84h 01' 13' 2 Sandy Casar  France FDJeux.com 3' 42" 3 Thomas Voeckler  France Brioches La Boulangère 6' 01" 4 Michael Rogers  Australia Quick Step – Davitamon 16' 28" 5 Iker Camaño  Spain Euskaltel–Euskadi 22' 03" 6 Jérôme Pineau  France Brioches La Boulangère 22' 32" 7 Sylvain Chavanel  France Brioches La Boulangère 29' 32" 8 Michele Scarponi  Italy Domina Vacanze 37' 50" 9 Mikel Astarloza  Spain AG2R Prévoyance 1h 29' 53" 10 Benjamin Noval  Spain US Postal 1h 32' 30"

[edit] See also

• List of doping cases in cycling

v • d • e 2004 Tour de France List of teams and cyclists in the 2004 Tour de France Prologue–Stage 9  · Stage 10–20

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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• Official 2004 Tour de France website
• VeloNews 2004 Tour de France results

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