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2004 Tour de France
| 91st Tour de France 2004 - final results | |
| Length | 20 stages, 3429 km |
| Tour winner | Lance Armstrong 83:36:02 |
| 2nd | Andreas Klöden +6:19 min |
| 3rd | Ivan Basso +6:40 min |
| Green Jersey | Robbie McEwen 272 P. |
| 2nd | Thor Hushovd 247 P. |
| 3rd | Erik Zabel 245 P. |
| King of the Mountains | Richard Virenque 226 P. |
| 2nd | Lance Armstrong 172 P. |
| 3rd | Michael Rasmussen 119 P. |
| White Jersey | Vladimir Karpets 84:01:13 (+25:11) |
| 2nd | Sandy Casar +3:42 min |
| 3rd | Thomas Voeckler +6:01 min |
The 91st Tour de France (July 3 - July 25, 2004).
Lance Armstrong made history, by being the first person to win six Tours de France.
Going in, Armstrong was the favorite to win his sixth consective Tour de France, with his major 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 a remarkable one. With the two individual time trials both scheduled in the last week, one of them being the epic climb of L'Alpe d'Huez, the directors were hoping for a very close race until the very end of the Tour. For the first time in years, the mountains of the Massif Central made an appearance.
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Stages
- Prologue, Liège, Belgium 6.1 km (individual time trial)
- Stage 1, Liège - Charleroi 202.5 km
- Stage 2, Charleroi - Namur 210 km
- Stage 3, Waterloo - Wasquehal 195 km
- Stage 4, Cambrai - Arras 65 km (team time trial)
- Stage 5, Amiens - Chartres 195 km
- Stage 6, Bonneval - Angers 190 km
- Stage 7, Châteaubriant - Saint-Brieuc 208 km
- Stage 8, Lamballe - Quimper 172 km
- Stage 9, Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Guéret 160 km
- Stage 10, Limoges (Massif Central) - Saint-Flour 237 km
- Stage 11, Saint-Flour - Figeac 164 km
- Stage 12, Castelsarrasin - La Mongie 199 km (Pyrenees)
- Stage 13, Lannemezan - Plateau de Beille 217 km (Col de Agnes )
- Stage 14, Carcassonne - Nîmes 200 km
- Stage 15, Valréas - Villard-de-Lans 179 km (French Alps)
- Stage 16, Bourg d'Oisans - L'Alpe d'Huez 15 km (individual time trial)
- Stage 17, Bourg d'Oisans - Le Grand Bornand 212 km
- Stage 18, Annemasse - Lons-le-Saunier 166 km
- Stage 19, Besançon - Besançon 60 km (individual time trial)
- Stage 20, Montereau-Fault-Yonne - Paris Champs-Élysées 165 km
Total distance: 3429 km
Teams
Final results
For complete results, see the Overall Standingson the official web site.
General classification:
1. Lance Armstrong (USA) 83:36:02 2. Andreas Klöden (Germany) + 06:19 3. Ivan Basso (Italy) + 06:40 4. Jan Ullrich (Germany) + 08:50 5. José Azevedo (Portugal) + 14:30 6. Francisco Mancebo (Spain) + 18:01 7. Georg Totschnig (Austria) + 18:27 8. Carlos Sastre (Spain) + 19:51 9. Levi Leipheimer (USA) + 20:12 10. Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spain) + 22:54
Individual stage winners:
Prologue: Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland) Stage 1: Jann Kirsipuu (Estonia) Stage 2: Robbie McEwen (Australia) Stage 3: Jean-Patrick Nazon (France) Stage 4: US Postal - Berry Floor Stage 5: Stuart O'Grady (Australia) Stage 6: Tom Boonen (Belgium) Stage 7: Fillippo Pozzato (Italy) Stage 8: Thor Hushovd (Norway) Stage 9: Robbie McEwen (Australia) Stage 10: Richard Virenque (France) Stage 11: David Moncoutié (France) Stage 12: Ivan Basso (Italy) Stage 13: Lance Armstrong (USA) Stage 14: Aitor González (Spain) Stage 15: Lance Armstrong (USA) Stage 16: Lance Armstrong (USA) Stage 17: Lance Armstrong (USA) Stage 18: Juan Miguel Mercado (Spain) Stage 19: Lance Armstrong (USA) Stage 20: Tom Boonen (Belgium)
2004 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9
2004 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20
External links
- For more information, visit the official 2004 Tour de France website
- For more links, visit the TourBlog 2004
- For stage photography, visit Graham Watson.com