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1961 Tour de France

48th edition: june 25 to july 16, 1961, results, stages with running gc and photos.

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Quick 1961 Tour Facts:

4,397 km ridden at an average speed of 36.03 km/hr. 132 starters and 72 classified finishers.

For the last time (except for 1967 and 1968), the Tour used national and regional teams.

The 1961 Tour de France was a complete French romp.

After coming in second in the Giro, Anquetil predicted he would take the lead in the Tour on the first day and hold it all the way to the end.

He did just that by winning Stage 1B time trial.

That morning his teammate André Darrigade had won the first half-stage, meaning the the Yellow Jersey was always possessed by a member of the French team.

• Imerio Massignan (Italy): 95 points
• Charly Gaul (Switzerland- Luxembourg): 61
• Hans Junkermann (Germany): 48
• Marcel Queheille (France, West South-West): 46
• Eddy Pauwels (Belgium): 29
• Manuel Busto (France, Centre-Midi): 28
• Guy Ignolin (France, West South-West), Jacques Anquetil (France): 26
• Jozef Planckaert (Belgium): 19
• Jean Dotto (France, Centre-Midi), André Foucher (France, West South-West): 17
• André Darrigade (France): 95 points
• Jean Gainche (France, West South-West) 169
• Guido Carlesi (Italy): 148
• Jacques Anquetil (France): 146
• Frans Aerenhouts (Belgium): 118

Team Classification.

In previous editions of the Tour de France, the Team Classification was determined by the elapsed time of the top three riders. In 1961 it was calculated by adding up the number of stage victories each team earned.

• France: 10 stage victories
• France, West South-West: 3
• France, Centre-Midi: 1

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Stage Results with running GC:

Stage 1A: Sunday, June 25, Rouen - Versailles, 136.5 km

• André Darrigade: 3hr 15min 16sec
• Mario Minieri s.t.
• Jean Gainche s.t.
• Joseph Groussard s.t.
• Seamus Elliott s.t.
• Frans Aerenhouts s.t.
• Philippe Guadrillet s.t.
• Jacques Anquetil s.t.
• Guido Carlesi s.t.
• Eddy Pauwels s.t.

GC after Stage 1A: Same as stage times and places.

Stage 1B: Sunday, June 25, Versailles 28.5 km Individual Time Trial

• Jacques Anquetil: 39min 43sec
• Albert Bouvet @ 2min 32sec
• Graziano Battistini @ 2min 39sec
• Henry Anglade @ 2min 43sec
• Charly Gaul @ 2min 55sec
• Hans Junkermann @ 2min 58sec
• Raymond Mastrotto @ 3min 3sec
• Jozef Planckaert @ 3min 5sec
• Imerio Massignan @ 3min 18sec
• Albrtus Geldermans @ 3min 21sec

GC after Stage 1B:

• Jacques Anquetil: 3hr 54min 29sec
• Joseph Groussard @ 4min 46sec
• Guido Carlesi @ 5min 25sec
• José Pérez-Francés s.t.
• Seamus Elliott @ 5min 27sec
• Jean Gainche @ 5min 42sec
• Armando Pellegrini @ 5min 58sec
• Roberto Falaschi @ 6min 13sec
• Mario Minieri @ 6min 41sec
• Eddy Pauwels @ 6min 56sec

Stage 2: Monday, June 26, Pontoise - Roubaix, 230.5 km

• André Darrigade: 5hr 31min 26sec
• Emile Daems s.t.
• Carlo Brugnami s.t.
• Pierre Beuffeuil s.t.
• Luis Otano s.t.
• Camille Le Menn s.t.
• Jozef Vloeberghs s.t.
• Jean Forestier s.t.
• Siegfried Renz @ 18sec
• Jean-Baptiste Claes s.t.

GC after Stage 2:

• Jacques Anquetil: 9hr 26min 36sec
• Guido Carlesi @ 5min 22sec
• André Darrigade @ 6min 26sec

Stage 3: Tuesday, June 27, Roubaix - Charleroi, 197.5 km

• Emile Daems: 5hr 51sec
• Frans Aerenhouts @ 2sec
• Michel Van Aerde @ 5sec
• André Darrigade s.t.
• Hans Junkermann s.t.
• Jaap Kersten s.t.
• Georges Groussard s.t.

GC after Stage 3:

• Jacques Anquetil: 14hr 27min 32sec
• Roberto Falaschi @ 6min 40sec

Stage 4: Wednesday, June 28, Charleroi - Metz, 237.5 km

• Anatole Novak: 6hr 23min 31sec
• Robert Cazala s.t.
• Rolf Graf @ 1sec
• Jo De Haan @ 35sec
• Jaap Kersten

GC after Stage 4:

• Jacques Anquetil: 20hr 52min 25sec
• Joseph Groussard @ 3min 59sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 5min 23sec
• Jean Gainche @ 5min 25sec
• Mario Minieri @ 6min 24sec
• Armando Pellegrini @ 6min 28sec
• André Darrigade @ 6min 56sec
• Eddy Pauwels @ 7min 3sec

Stage 5: Thursday, June 29, Metz - Strasbourg, 221 km

• Louis Bergaud: 5hr 48min 5sec
• Jean Dotto @ 40sec
• Stéphane Lach s.t.
• Wim Van Est s.t.
• Piet Van Est @ 4min 36sec
• André Darrigade @ 4min 56sec
• Fernand Picot s.t.
• Guy Ignolin s.t.

GC after Stage 5:

• Jacques Anquetil: 26hr 45min 26sec
• Joseph Groussard @ 3min 58sec
• Jean Dotto @ 4min 41sec
• Wim Van Est @ 5min 4sec
• Jean Gainche @ 6min 25sec

Stage 6: Friday, June 20, Strasbourg - Belfort, 180.5 km

• Jozef Planckaert: 4hr 35min 39sec
• Graziano Battistini @ 4min 41sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 4min 49sec
• Imerio Massignan s.t.
• Alfred Ruegg s.t.
• Jos Hoevenaers s.t.

GC after Stage 6:

• Jacques Anquetil: 31hr 25min 54sec
• Jean Dotto @ 5min 21sec
• Graziano Battistini @ 7min 49sec
• Henry Anglade @ 8min 1sec
• Carlo Brugnami @ 8min 10sec
• Charly Gaul @ 8min 13sec

Stage 7: Saturday, July 1, Belfort - Chalon sur Saône, 214.5 km

• Jean Stablinski: 5hr 21min 11sec
• Joseph Groussard @ 1sec
• Michel Van Aerde s.t.
• Joseph Thomin s.t.
• André Cloarec s.t.
• Bernard Viot s.t.
• Van Der Steen s.t.
• Adriano Zamboni s.t.
• Jean Milesi s.t.

GC after Stage 7:

• Jacques Anquetil: 36hr 53min 38sec
• Fernando Manzaneque @ 4min 37sec

Stage 8: Sunday, July 2, Chalon sur Saône - St. Etienne, 240.5 km

• Jean Forestier: 7hr 5min 10sec
• Stéphane Lach @ 2sec
• Pierre Everaert @ 3min 39sec
• Adriano Zamboni @ 3min 43sec
• Jean Gainche @ 4min 9sec
• André Darrigade @ 4min 10sec

GC after Stage 8:

• Jacques Anquetil: 44hr 2min 58sec
• Graziano Battistini @ 7min 55sec
• Stéphane Lach @ 8min 31sec
• Henry Anglade @ 8min 7sec

Stage 9: Monday, July 3, St. Etienne - Grenoble, 230 km

• Charly Gaul: 7hr 5min 4sec
• Jacques Anquetil @ 1min 40sec
• Fernando Manzaneque s.t.
• Guido Carlesi @ 3min 31sec
• Raymond Mastrotto s.t.
• Jean Gainche @ 5min 15sec

GC after stage 9:

• Jacques Anquetil: 51hr 9min 12sec
• Fernando Manzaneque @ 5min 7sec
• Charly Gaul @ 6min 3sec
• Guido Carlesi @ 7min 43sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 7min 44sec
• Hans Junkermann @ 8min 46sec
• Imerio Massignan @ 9min 6sec
• Jean Dotto @ 9min 52sec
• Raymond Mastrotto @ 10min 42sec
• Carlo Brugnanmi @ 12min 15sec

Stage 10: Tuesday, July 4, Grenoble - Torino, 250.5 km

• Guy Ignolin: 7hr 30min 59sec
• Emmanuel Busto s.t.
• Carlo Brugnami @ 11min 10sec
• Andé Darrigade @ 12min 31sec
• Brian Robinson s.t.

GC after stage 10:

• Jacques Anquetil: 58hr 52min 40sec
• Carlo Brugnami @ 10min 42sec

Stage 11: Wednesday, July 5, Torino - Antibes, 225 km

• Guido Carlesi: 6hr 42min 1sec
• Henry Anglade s.t.
• Dieter Puschel s.t.
• Valentin Huot s.t.
• Josef Planckaert s.t.

GC after Stage 11:

• Jacques Anquetil: 65hr 34min 11sec
• Fernando Mazaneque @ 5min 37sec
• Charly Gaul @ 6min 33sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 8min 14sec
• Hans Junkermann @ 9min 16sec
• Imerio Massignan @ 9min 36sec
• Jean Dotto @ 10min 22sec
• Raymond Mastrotto @ 11min 12sec
• Henry Anglade @ 15min 59sec

Stage 12: Thursday, July 6, Antibes - Aix en Provence, 199 km

• Michel Van Aerde: 5hr 43min 8sec
• Jean Stablinski s.t.
• Renzo Accordi s.t.
• Louis Bergaud s.t.
• Edouard Bihouee s.t.
• Antoine Abate s.t.
• André Le Dissez

GC after Stage 12:

• Jacques Anquetil: 71hr 24min 1sec
• Fernando Manzaneque @ 5min 37sec
• Michel Van Aerde @ 9min 7sec
• Jan Adriaensens @ 16min 40sec

Stage 13: Friday, July 7, Aix en Provence - Montpellier, 177.5 km

• André Darrigade: 4hr 38min 37sec
• Joseph Wasko s.t.

GC after stage 13:

• Jacques Anquetil: 76hr 5min 26sec

Stage 14: Sunday, July 9, Montpellier - Perpignan, 174 km

• Eddy Pauwels: 4hr 21min 42sec
• Jan Westdorp @ 18sec
• Josef Planckaert @ 2min
• Elio Gerussi s.t.
• Piet Van Est s.t.

GC after Stage 14:

• Jacques Anquetil: 80hr 20min 17sec
• Hans Junkermann @ 9min 25sec
• Jean Dotto @ 10min 31sec
• Jan Adriaensens @ 16min 49sec

Stage 15: Monday, July 10, Perpignan - Toulouse, 206 km

• Guido Carlesi: 5hr 33min 58sec
• André Foucher s.t.
• Michel Van Aerde @ 6sec
• Martin Van Geneugden s.t.

GC after Stage 15:

• Jacques Anquetil: 86hr 3min 21sec
• Guido Carlesi @ 6min 7sec

Stage 16: Tuesday, July 11, Toulouse - Superbagnères, 208 km

• Imerio Massignan: 6hr 58min 17sec
• Guido Carlesi @ 8sec
• Hans Junkermann @ 14sec
• Jacques Anquetil @ 16sec
• Charly Gaul s.t.
• Fernando Manzaneque @ 22sec
• Jean Dotto @ 29sec
• Claude Mattio @ 39sec

GC after Stage 16:

• Jacques Anquetil: 93hr 1min 54sec
• Guido Carlesi @ 5min 29sec
• Fernando Manzaneque @ 5min 43sec
• Imerio Massignan @ 8min 50sec
• Hans Junkermann @ 9min 23sec
• Jean Dotto @ 10min 44sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 12min 3sec
• Jan Adriaensens @ 17min 54sec
• Michel Van Aerde @ 18min 12sec

Stage 17: Wednesday, July 12, Luchon - Pau, 197 km

• Eddy Pauwels: 6hr 29min 57sec
• Marcel Queheille @ 5sec
• Georges Groussard @ 3min 58sec
• Jos Hoevenaers @ 3min 59sec
• Guido Carlesi @ 4min 6sec

GC after Stage 17:

• Jacques Anquetil: 99hr 35min 57sec
• Han Junkermann @ 8min 50sec
• Eddy Pauwels @ 18min 21sec

Stage 18: Thursday, July 13, Pau - Bordeaux, 207 km

• Martin Van Geneugden: 5hr 37min 18sec
• Vicente Iturat s.t.
• Rolf Graf s.t.
• Armando Pellegrini s.t.

GC after Stage 18:

• Jacques Anquetil: 105hr 13min 15sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 18min 21sec

Stage 19: Friday, July 14, Bergerac - Périgueux 74.5 km Individual Time Trial

• Jacques Anquetil: 1hr 42min 32sec
• Charly Gaul @ 2min 59sec
• Guido Carlesi @ 3min 37sec
• Hans Junkermann @ 3min 41sec
• Jean Gainche @ 3min 47sec
• Raymond Mastrotto @ 4min 38sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 5min 19sec
• Gérard Thiélin @ 5min 25sec
• Rolf Graf @ 5min 54sec
• Jozef Planckaert @ 5min 59sec

GC after Stage 19:

• Jacques Anquetil: 106hr 54min 47sec
• Charly Gaul @ 10min 2sec
• Guido Carlesi @ 10min 6sec
• Hans Junkermann @ 14min 4sec
• Fernando Manzaneque @ 14min 13sec
• Imerio Massignan @ 15min 59sec
• José Pérez-Francés @ 18min 22sec
• Jean Dotto @ 19min 35sec
• Jan Adriaensens @ 26min 6sec
• Eddy Pauwels @ 27min 36sec

Stage 20: Saturday, July 15, Périgueux - Tours, 309.5 km

• André Darrigade: 8hr 35min 59sec
• Piet Damen s.t.

GC after stage 20:

• Jacques Anquetil: 115hr 30min 46sec

Stage 21 (Final Stage): Sunday, July 16, Tours - Paris, 252.5 km

Guido Carlesi got to the entrance of the velodrome where the stage times were taken @ 1min 39sec (eventually coming in 14th), while Gaul came 27th, @ 1min 44sec. Thus Carlesi moved to second in the final GC.

• Robert Cazala: 6hr 31min 17sec
• Jozef Planckaert s.t.
• Marcel Queheille s.t.
• Jean Gainche @ 1min 44sec
• Jaap Kersten @ 1min 40sec

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The 1961 Tour de France was the 48th edition of the Tour de France , one of cycling's Grand Tours . It took place between 25 June and 16 July, with 21 stages covering a distance of 4,397   km (2,732   mi) . Out of the 132 riders who started the tour, 72 managed to complete the tour's tough course. Throughout the 1961 Tour de France, two of the French national team's riders, André Darrigade and Jacques Anquetil held the yellow jersey for the entirety 21 stages. There was a great deal of excitement between the second and third places, concluding with Guido Carlesi stealing Charly Gaul 's second-place position on the last day by two seconds.

1961 Tour de France: results and classification

General classification of the 1961 tour de france, jerseys of the 1961 tour de france, stages of the 1961 tour de france.

Stage 1a (Rouen - Versailles, 136.5 km)

Stage 1b (Versailles - Versailles, 28.5 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 2 (Pontoise - Roubaix, 230.5 km)

Stage 3 (Roubaix - Charleroi, 197.5 km)

Stage 4 (Charleroi - Metz, 237.5 km)

Stage 5 (Metz - Strasbourg, 221 km)

Stage 6 (Strasbourg - Belfort, 180.5 km)

Stage 7 (Belfort - Chalons sur Saône, 214.5 km)

Stage 8 (Chalon sur Saone - St Etienne, 240.5 km)

Stage 9 (St Etienne - Grenoble, 230 km)

Stage 10 (Grenoble - Torino, 250.5 km)

Stage 11 (Torino - Juan les Pins, 225 km)

Stage 12 (Juan les Pins - Aix-en-Provence, 199 km)

Stage 13 (Aix-en-Provence - Montpellier, 177.5 km)

Stage 14 (Montpellier - Perpignan, 174 km)

Stage 15 (Perpignan - Toulouse, 206 km)

Stage 16 (Toulouse - Luchon/Superbagnères, 208 km)

Stage 17 (Bagnères-de-Luchon - Pau, 197 km)

Stage 18 (Pau - Bordeaux, 207 km)

Stage 19 (Bergerac - Périgueux, 74.5 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 20 (Périgueux - Tours, 309.5 km)

Stage 21 (Tours - Paris, 252.5 km)

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Le Tour de France 1961 est la 48ème édition de cette épreuve. La compétition a eu lieu du 25 juin au 16 juillet 1961 . Le vainqueur de l'édition 1961 est Jacques Anquetil.

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1961 Tour de France

The 1961 Tour de France was the 48th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 25 June and 16 July, with 21 stages covering a distance of 4,397 km (2,732 mi). Out of the 132 riders who started the tour, 72 managed to complete the tour's tough course. Throughout the 1961 Tour de France, two of the French national team's riders, André Darrigade and Jacques Anquetil held the yellow jersey for the entirety 21 stages. There was a great deal of excitement between the second and third places, concluding with Guido Carlesi stealing Charly Gaul's second place position on the last day by two seconds.

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Route and stages

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The teams entering the race were:

Pre-race favourites

Since Jacques Anquetil had won the 1957 Tour de France, he was unable to repeat it, due to illness, tiredness and struggle within the French team. For 1961, he asked the team captain Marcel Bidot to make a team that would only ride for him, and Bidot agreed. Anquetil announced before the race that he would take the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification on the first day, and wear it until the end of the race in Paris.

Gastone Nencini, who won the previous edition, did not enter in 1961, but Graziano Battistini, his team mate and runner-up of 1960, started the race as leader of the Italian team. If the French team would again have internal struggles, the Italian team could emerge as the winner.

The Spanish team had two outsiders, José Pérez Francés and Fernando Manzaneque. The last outsider was Charly Gaul,winner of the 1958 Tour de France, who rode in the mixed Luxembourg-Swiss team. He considered his team mates so weak that he did not seek their help, and rode the race on his own. Raymond Poulidor was convinced by his team manager Antonin Magne that it would be better to skip the Tour, because the national team format would undermine his commercial value.

The 1961 Tour de France started on 25 June in Rouen, and had one rest day, in Montpellier. For the first time the finish on top of the Superbagnères was included to the race.

André Darrigade won the opening stage, and it became the fifth time that he won the opening stage. Darrigade had been in a small group that broke away, which included Anquetil. Other competitors, such as Gaul and Battistini, already lost more than 5 minutes. After that, there was a time trial, won by Jacques Anquetil. Anquetil became the leader of the race, with his team mate Joseph Groussard in second place, almost five minutes behind him.

The second stage, run in bad weather, featured small roads in Northern France. Several cyclists got into problems, and seven cyclists already had to leave the race; the favourites were not harmed. In the sixth stage, German Horst Oldenburg fell down on the descent of the Col de la Schlucht, and the Dutch team captain Ab Geldermans ran into him. Geldermans was taken to the Belfort hospital by helicopter, and the Dutch team had lost its captain.

Unlike previous years, the French team continued without fights, and won five of the first eight stages. The ninth stage included four major climbs. On the second climb, Gaul escaped. He crashed on the descent of the third mountain, but managed to stay away and win the stage; Anquetil was not far behind and kept the lead. Anquetil had a five-minutes margin on the second-placed rider, which was Manzaneque. In the eleventh stage, Graziano Battistini was hit by a car, and had to leave the race. This situation had not changed when the sixteenth stage started. It was expected that Gaul, in third place more than six minutes behind, would attack, but this did not happen, because Gaul had been injured in his crash in the previous stage.

The last chance for the opposition to win back time on Anquetil was in the seventeenth stage, but Anquetil stayed close to his direct competitors, and only allowed lower classified riders to escape. The press criticized Anquetil's tactics, saying he was riding passively. In the nineteenth stage, an individual time trial, Gaul was on his way to win back a little time on Anquetil, when he crashed heavily, and could not find his pace again. Anquetil won almost three minutes on Gaul and extended his lead to more than ten minutes.

In the final two stages, Anquetil did not get into problems. His main rival Gaul even lost time in the last stage, and conceded his second place to Guido Carlesi.

There were several classifications in the 1961 Tour de France, two of them awarding jerseys to their leaders. 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.

Additionally, there was a points classification. 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.

There was also a mountains classification. The organisation had categorized some climbs as either 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-categorized climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, but was not identified with a jersey.

For the team classification The calculation was different from previous years. Before 1961, the classification was based on time, but in 1961, it was based on points; times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the team with the lowest time on a stage won the team prize for that stage. The overall team classification was calculated by counting the number of team prizes.

The combativity award was given to the entire regional West-South West team.

As Anquetil had led the race after every stage, there was not much competitiveness, which organiser Jacques Goddet termed a "fiasco". After the race, the system with national teams was abandoned, and it was announced that the 1962 Tour de France would be run with sponsored teams.

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