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Overall Speed of the Tour de France. The 2022 edition was the fastest Tour de France in history. Jonas Vingegaard rode 3,349,8 km in 79h 33' 20", thus realising an overall speed of 42.102 km/h (26.161 mph). [17] The slowest Tour de France was the edition of 1919, when Firmin Lambot's average speed was 24.1 km/h. [18]
The 2023 Tour de France was the 110th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Bilbao , Spain, on 1 July and ended with the final stage at Champs-Élysées , Paris , on 23 July. Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard ( Team Jumbo–Visma ) won the general classification for the second year in a row.
A closer look at every day of the race from Bilbao to Paris
7 July 2023 – Mont-de-Marsan to Bordeaux, 170 km (110 mi) Stage 7 was a flat stage ending in a bunch sprint in Bordeaux. The sprint was won by Philipsen again, narrowly beating Mark Cavendish ( Astana Qazaqstan Team ), whose bicycle gears slipped within metres of the finish line.
The Tour de France cycles to a stop on July 23, 2023. How many riders are in the Tour de France? 176 cyclists are riding in the Tour de France this year, making up 22 Tour de France teams.
On land, the speed record registered by a rider on a 200-meter flying start speed trial was 133.28 km/h (82.82 mph) by the Canadian Sam Whittingham riding the Varna Tempest, a streamliner recumbent bicycle in 2009, [19] at Battle Mountain, Nevada. His record has been surpassed by 0.5 km/h by Sebastiaan Bowier of the Netherlands in 2013 setting ...
The peloton takes on the longest route of the entire Tour de France which includes the famously draining Jaizkibel Tour de France 2023 stage 2 preview: Route map and profile of 209km from Vitoria ...
At more than 200km this is the longest stage of the 2023 Tour and, with the sizeable Jaizkibel climb (8.1km, 5.3% average gradient) shortly before the finish, this is even more tough on the legs ...