1957 Tour de France
Route of the 1957 Tour de France
Followed clockwise, starting in Nantes and finishing in Paris |
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| Race details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 27 June – 20 July | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 4,669 km (2,901 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 135h 44' 42" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Jacques Anquetil (FRA)
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| Second |
 Marcel Janssens (BEL)
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(Belgium) | |
| Third |
 Adolf Christian (AUT)
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(Switzerland) | |
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Points |
Jean Forestier (FRA)
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(France) |
| Mountains |
 Gastone Nencini (ITA)
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(Italy) | |
| Team | France | ||
The 1957 Tour de France was the 44th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 27 June to 20 July. It was composed of 22 stages over 4,669 km (2,901 mi).
The 1957 Tour was the first win for Jacques Anquetil, who won the Tour five times over his career.
The French national team was very successful in the 1957 Tour de France; not only did they provide the winning cyclist, they also won the team classification, and almost every daily team classification. They lost only one cyclist (last year's winner Roger Walkowiak), and had the stage winner 12 times. They had Forestier winning the points classification, and Bergaud second in the mountains classification. Only once they did not have the yellow jersey for the leader in the general classification, when Barone took it after the seventh stage.
The Tour organisation had a conflict with the French television, and as a results there had almost been no live television coverage of the 1957 Tour de France. At the last moment the organizers and the television agreed on how much the television would pay for the right to cover the Tour, and the race was broadcast. For the other journalist, the conditions improved: a mobile press room with modern communication equipment was installed, so the journalists had the best conditions to report.
The cut-off time, which had been set at 10% of the winner in 1956, was reduced to 8% of the winner in 1957. In the seventh and eighth stage it would be 10% of the winner, while in stages 10, 11, 16, 17 and 18 the cut-off time would be 12% of the winner. In each stage, if the number of cyclists removed from the race would be more than 15% of the cyclists that started the stage, the cut-off time would be increased by 2%. The goal of this reduction in cut-off time was to make the race tougher.
For the first time since the introduction of the national team format in 1930, the riders were allowed to have advertising on their jerseys.
The teams entering the race were:
The route of the 1957 Tour de France contained many mountains, so mountain specialists Charly Gaul and Federico Bahamontes were considered favourites. Gaul, had requested to ride in the Dutch team, but this was not allowed.
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