1935 Tour de France
Route of the 1935 Tour de France
Followed clockwise, starting in Paris |
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| Dates | 4–28 July | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 21, including six split stages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 4,338 km (2,696 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 141h 32' 00" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Romain Maes (BEL)
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| Second |
 Ambrogio Morelli (ITA)
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(Italian individuals) | |
| Third |
Félicien Vervaecke (BEL)
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(Belgium) | |
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| Mountains |
Félicien Vervaecke (BEL)
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(Belgium) | |
| Team | Belgium | ||
The 1935 Tour de France was the 29th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 4 to 28 July. It consisted of 21 stages over 4,338 km (2,696 mi). Although the French team was favourite, Belgian Romain Maes took the lead in the first stage, and never gave it away. Halfway the race, Romain Maes' biggest threat, Antonin Magne, had to abandon after he was hit by a car.
In the eighth stage, Spanish cyclist Francisco Cepeda fell while he was descending at high speed, and died while he being transported to the hospital.
This was the first Tour that had a stage finish and start in a city that wasn't in France, when Geneva was visited in the fifth stage.
The prize money increased in 1935, and for the first time it was more than one million Francs.
As was the custom since the 1930 Tour de France, the 1935 Tour de France was contested by national teams. Belgium, Italy, Spain, Germany and France each sent teams of 8 cyclists. Each country also sent four cyclists who rode as individuals, but could take over the place of another cyclist if they dropped out. Spain only sent three cyclists, and Switzerland sent four individual cyclists even though they did not have a national team, so 23 individual cyclists were racing. Finally, there was the touriste-routiers category, in which 30 cyclists participated. In total this made 93 cyclists. Split up in nationalities, there were 41 French, 13 Italian, 12 Belgian, 12 German, 11 Spanish and 4 Swiss cyclists.
The French team looked very strong, as it contained the three winners of the last five Tours, Antonin Magne, Georges Speicher and André Leducq, in addition to climber René Vietto and Maurice Archambaud, who had led the general classification for a long time in 1933. In addition, they had Roger Lapébie and Charles Pélissier riding as individuals, which meant that they could take the place of a French team member dropping out.
Of the other teams, the Belgian and Italian teams seemed most likely to challenge the French.
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