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78th edition 232 km, 19 July 1991

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Start, finish: Stage 13. Jaca - Val Louron

Race Type: Mountain stage

Distance: 232 km

Date: 19 July 1991

1991 Tour de France

78th edition: july 6 - july 28, 1991, results, stages with running gc, map, photos, video and history.

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Map of the 1991 Tour de France

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1991 Tour de France quick facts

The 1991 Tour had 22 stages plus a prologue that totaled 3914.4 kilometers.

It was ridden at an average speed of 38.747 km/hr.

198 riders started and there were 158 classified finishers.

This was Miguel Indurain's first of five consecutive Tour victories.

While wearing yellow Rolf Sorensen crashed near the end of stage five, breaking his clavicle. He was forced to abandon.

Thierry Marie won the following stage and the lead by executing the longest post-war solo break (234 km).

Greg LeMond was expected to repeat his 1989 and 1990 Tour wins with a third consecutive victory. LeMond took the lead in the stage eight time trial and looked capable of holding it all the way to Paris.

In the final 500 meters of stage 13's ascent of the Tourmalet, LeMond couldn't stay with the leaders.

That moment signalled the transition from the LeMond era to the near total hegemony of Miguel Indurain.

1991 Tour de France complete final General Classification:

• Gianni Bugno (Gatorade-Chateau d'Ax) @ 3min 36sec
• Claudio Chiappucci (Carrera) @ 5min 56sec
• Charly Mottet (RMO) @ 7min 37sec
• Luc Leblanc (Castorama) @ 10min 10sec
• Laurent Fignon (Castorama) @ 11min 27sec
• Greg LeMond (Z) @ 13min 13sec
• Andrew Hampsten (Motorola) @ 13min 40sec
• Pedro Delgado (Banesto) @ 20min 10sec
• Gerard Rué (Helvetia) @ 20min 13sec
• Eduardo Chozas (ONCE) @ 21min 0sec
• Abelardo Rondon (Banesto) @ 26min 47sec
• Gert-Jan Theunisse (TVM) @ 27min 10sec
• Jean-François Bernard (Banesto) @ 28min 57sec
• Maurizio Fondriest (Panasonic) @ 30min 9sec
• Denis Roux (Toshiba) @ 20min 40sec
• Eric Caritoux (RMO) @ 32min 39sec
• Alberto Luis Camargo (Ryalcao) @ 32min 54sec
• Alvaro Mejia (Ryalcao) @ 33min 52sec
• Frédéric Vichot (Castorama) @ 36min 43sec
• Gilles Delion (Helvetia) @ 38min 43sec
• Javier Murguialday (Amaya Seguros) @ 39min 11sec
• Jérôme Simon (Z) @ 39min 14sec
• Fabrice Philippot (Banesto) @ 41min 56sec
• Thierry Bourguignon (Toshiba) @ 42min 32sec
• Steven Rooks (Buckler) @ 44min 49sec
• Thierry Claveyrolat (RMO) @ 44min 49sec
• Patrice Esnault (Amaya Seguros) @ 46min 14sec
• Roberto Conti (Ariostea) @ 46min 41sec
• Marco Giovannetti (Gatorade-Chateau d'Ax) @ 47min 6sec
• Luis Herrera (Ryalcao) @ 47min 58sec
• Uwe Ampler (Histor) @ 49min 11sec
• Pello Ruiz (Clas) @ 53min 21sec
• Gerrit de Vries (Buckler) @ 54min 47sec
• Johan Bruyneel (Lotto) @ 57min 28sec
• Jean-Claude Bagot (Castorama) @ 58min 40sec
• Anselmo Fuerte (ONCE) @ 59min 20sec
• Eric Boyer (Z) @ 59min 51sec
• Alberto Leanizbarrutia (Clas) @ 1hr 3min 9sec
• Alessandro Gianelli (Carrera) @ 1hr 3min 52sec
• Ronan Pensec (Amaya Seguros) @ 1hr 6min 4sec
• Viatcheslav Ekimov (Panasonic) @ 1hr 6min 17sec
• Henry Cardenas (Ryalcao) @ 1hr 7min 23sec
• Philippe Louviot (Toshiba) @ 1hr 7min 31sec
• Phil Anderson (Motorola) @ 1hr 8min 13sec
• Gerardo Moncada (Ryalcao) @ 1hr 8min 45sec
• Mauro Ribeiro (RMO) @ 1hr 9min 45sec
• Oscar Vargas (Ryalcao) @ 1hr 11min 4sec
• Pascal Richard (Helvetia) @ 1hr 11min 16sec
• Didier Virvaleix (Histor) @ 1hr 12min 5sec
• Laurent Pillon (Tonton Tapis-Corona) @ 1hr 12min 27sec
• Dmitri Konyshev (TVM) @ 1hr 16min 56sec
• Marino Lejaretta (ONCE) @ 1hr 18min 8sec
• Bruno Cornillet (Z) @ 1hr 18min 59sec
• Francisco Mauléon (Clas) @ 1hr 20min 28sec
• Bruno Cenghialta (Ariostea) @ 1hr 20min 42sec
• Pascal Simon (Castorama) @ 1hr 22min 17sec
• Reynel Montoya (Ryalcao) @ 1hr 23min 15sec
• Moreno Argentin (Ariostea) @ 1hr 23min 21sec
• Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (Z) @ 1hr 26min 57sec
• Iñaki Gaston (Clas) @ 1hr 28min 43sec
• Guy Nulens (Panasonic) @ 1hr 29min 10sec
• Dominik Krieger (Helvetia) @ 1hr 29min 21sec
• Melchior Mauri (ONCE) @ 1hr 29min 25sec
• Andreas Kappes (Histor) @ 1hr 29min 25sec
• Francisco Espinosa (Clas) @ 1hr 30min 55sec
• Stephen Hodge (ONCE) @ 1hr 32min 52sec
• Dominique Arnould (Castorama) @ 1hr 33min 20sec
• Guido Winterberg (Helvetia) @ 1hr 34min 35sec
• Pascal Lino (RMO) @ 1hr 34min 38sec
• Laurent Jalabert (Toshiba) @ 1hr 36min 5sec
• Robert Millar (Z) @ 1hr 36min 6sec
• Olaf Lurvik (Toshiba) @ 1hr 39min 31sec
• Jesus Montoya (Amaya Seguros) @ 1hr 41min 21sec
• Heminio Diaz (ONCE) @ 1hr 42min 13sec
• Miguel Angel Martinez (ONCE) @ 1hr 42min 14sec
• Dominique Arnaud (Banesto) @ 1hr 42min 32sec
• Marc van Orsouw (Panasonic) @ 1hr 43min 45sec
• Rolf Gölz (Ariostea) @ 1hr 43min 45sec
• Jean-Claude Colotti (Tonton Tapis-Corona) @ 1hr 44min 54sec
• Marc Sergeant (Panasonic) @ 1hr 44min 59ec
• Patrick Jacobs (Tonton Tapis-Corona) @ 1hr 45min 55sec
• Rolf Järmann (Weinmannn) @ 1hr 46min 45sec
• Eric Van Lancker (Panasonic) @ 1hr 47min 47sec
• Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (Carrera) @ 1hr 49min 5sec
• Dimitri Zhdanov (Panasonic) @ 1hr 49min 5sec
• Philippe Casado (Z) @ 1hr 49min 32sec
• Vladimir Poulnikov (Carrera) @ 1hr 50min 50sec
• Valerio Tebaldi (Gatorade-Chateau d'Ax) @ 1hr 53min 1sec
• Frank Van Den Abeele (Lotto) @ 1hr 53min 1sec
• Alberto Elli (Ariostea) @ 1hr 55min 35sec
• Christophe Lavainne (Castorama) @ 1hr 56min 16sec
• Enrico Zaina (Carrera) @ 1hr 57min 38sec
• Peter Stevenhaagen (Helvetia) @ 1hr 58min 3sec
• Wilfried Peeters (Histor) @ 1hr 58min 52sec
• Guido Bontempi (Carrera) @ 2hr 0min 29sec
• Steve Bauer (Motorola) @ 2hr 0min 57sec
• Mauro Gianetti (Helvetia) @ 2hr 2min 3sec
• Pascal Lance (Toshiba) @ 2hr 3min 35sec
• Jesús Rodríguez (Banesto) @ 2hr 4min 21sec
• François Lemarchand (Z) @ 2hr 4min 30sec
• Thierry Laurent (RMO) @ 2hr 6min 7sec
• Edwig van Hooydonck (Buckler) @ 2hr 6min 43sec
• Arsenio Chaparro (Ryalcao) @ 2hr 6min 48sec
• Michel Dernies (Weinmann) @ 2hr 7min 3sec
• Roland Le Clerc (Amaya Seguros) @ 2hr 7min 26sec
• Bjarne Riis (Casotrama) @ 2hr 8min 1sec
• Henrie Abadie (Toshiba) @ 2hr 8min 3sec
• Rudy Verdonck (Weinmann) @ 2hr 9min54sec
• Christian Chaubet (Toshiba) @ 2hr 11min 22sec
• Thierry Marie (Castorama) @ 2hr 12min 37sec
• Davide Cassani (Ariostea) @ 2hr 12min 38sec
• Werner Stutz (Weinmann) @ 2hr 12min 48sec
• Olaf Ludwig (Panasonic) @ 2hr 12min 54sec
• Marc Madiot (RMO) @ 2hr 13min 22sec
• Urs Zimmermann (Motorola) @ 2hr 13min 58sec
• Jelle Nijdam (Buckler) @ 2hr 15min 5sec
• Michel Vermote (RMO) @ 2hr 15min 32sec
• Luis Javier Lukin (Banesto) @ 2hr 16min 23sec
• Giancarlo Perini (Carrera) @ 2hr 16min 47sec
• Vassili Jdanov (TVM) @ 2hr 16min 52sec
• Javier Duch (Clas) @ 2hr 17min 4sec
• Marino Alonso (Banesto) @ 2hr 19min 44sec
• Brian Holm (Histor) @ 2hr 20min 16sec
• Etienne De Wilde (Histor) @ 2hr 20min 21sec
• Andy Bishop (Motorola) @ 2hr 20min 30sec
• Eric Vanderaerden (Buckler) @ 2hr 20min 43sec
• Erich Mächler (Carrera) @ 2hr 21min 5sec
• Frans Massen (Buckler) @ 2hr 21min 31sec
• Patrick Verschueren (Lotto) @ 2hr 23min 49sec
• Roberto Gusmeroli (Gatorade-Chateau d'Ax) @ 2hr 25min 30sec
• Francis Moreau (Tonton Tapis-Corona) @ 2hr 26min 6sec
• Gerrit Solleveld (Buckler) @ 2hr 26min 47sec
• Jure Pavlic (Carrera) @ 2hr 26min 56sec
• Per Pedersen (Amaya Seguros) @ 2hr 28min 11sec
• Sergei Uslamin (TVM) @ 2hr 29min 21sec
• Peter De Clercq (Lotto) @ 2hr 29min 26sec
• Ron Keifel (Motorola) @ 2hr 31min 24sec
• Jan Schur (Gatorade-Chateau d'Ax) @ 2hr 31min 45sec
• Hendrik Redant (Lotto) @ 2hr 32min 11sec
• Stefano Zanatta (Gatorade-Chateau d'Ax) @ 2hr 32min 27sec
• Rik van Slycke (Lotto) @ 2hr 38min 25sec
• Enrique Guerrikagoitia (Amaya Seguros) @ 2hr 39min 48sec
• Henri Manders (Helvetia) @ 2hr 43min 34sec
• Alfred Achermann (Weinmann) @ 2hr 44min 38sec
• Jan Siemons (TVM) @ 2hr 44min 38sec
• Mauro-Antonio Santaromita (Gatorade-Chataeu d'Ax) @ 2hr 45min 4sec
• José-Manuel Oliveira (Clas) @ 2hr 46min 27sec
• Giuseppe Calcaterra (Gatorade-Chateau d'Ax) @ 2hr 48min 11sec
• Ludwig Willems (Weinmann) @ 2hr 58min 10sec
• Carlos Jamarillo (Ryalcao) @ 2hr 58min 47sec
• Eddy Schurer (TVM) @ 2hr 58min 55sec
• Lawrence Roche (Tonton Tapis-Crona) @ 2hr 59min 25sec
• Twan Poels (Buckler) @ 3hr 0min 15sec
• Thomas Wegmüller (Weinmann) @ 3hr 0min 26sec
• Thomas Barth (TVM) @ 2hr 5min 33sec
• Wiebren Veenstra (Buckler) @ 3hr 13min 58sec
• Rob Harmeling (TVM) @ 3hr 25min 51sec

Climbers Competition:

• Thierry Claveyrolat (RMO): 277
• Luc Leblanc (Castorama): 164
• Gianni Bugno (Gatorade-Chateau d'Ax): 157
• Miguel Indurain (Banesto): 141
• Andrew Hampsten (Motorola): 128
• Charly Mottet (RMO): 122
• Pascal Richard (Helvetia): 118
• Roberto Conti (Ariostea): 110
• Peter De Clercq (Lotto): 88

Points Competition:

• Laurent Jalabert (Toshiba): 263
• Olaf Ludwig (Panasonic): 175
• Jean-Claude Colotti (Tonton Tapis-Corona): 159
• Andreas Kappes (Histor): 151
• Etienne De Wilde (Histor): 143
• Greg LeMond (Z): 139
• Maurizio Fondriest (Panasonic): 130
• Phil Anderson (Motorola): 127
• Dmitri Konychev (TVM): 107

Team Classification:

• Banesto: 303hr 28min 50sec
• Castorama @ 25min 44sec
• RMO @ 50min 25sec
• Z @ 57min 29sec
• Postobón @ 1hr 9min 45sec
• Helvestia @ 1hr 11min 19sec
• Amaya Seguros @ 1hr 38min 24sec
• Toshiba @ 1hr 40min 8sec
• Carrera @ 1hr 51min 27sec
• Alvaro Mejia (Ryalcao)
• Gerrit de Vries (Buckler)
• Dominik Krieger (Helvetia)
• Laurent Jalabert (Toshiba)
• Dimitri Zhdanov (Panasonic)

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1991 Tour de France stages and results

Prologue: Sunday, July 6, Lyon 5.4 km Individual Time Trial. Stage and GC places and times are the same.

Stage 1: Sunday, July 7, Lyon - Lyon, 114.5 km.

GC after Stage 1:

Stage 2: Sunday, July 7, Bron - Chassieu 36.5 km Team Time Trial

GC after Stage 2:

Stage 3: Monday, July 8, Villeurbanne - Dijon, 210.5 km

GC after stage 3:

Stage 4: Tuesday, July 9, Dijon - Reims, 286 km

GC after stage 4:

Stage 5: Wednesday, July 10, Reims - Valenciennes, 149.5 km

GC after stage 5:

Stage 6: Thursday, July 11, Arras - Le Havre, 259 km

GC after Stage 6:

Stage 7: Friday, July 12, Le Havre - Argentan, 167 km

GC after Stage 7:

Stage 8: Saturday, July 13, Argentan - Alençon 73 km Individual Time Trial

GC after Stage 8:

Stage 9: Sunday, July 14, Alençon - Rennes, 161 km

GC after Stage 9:

Stage 10: Monday, July 15, Rennes - Quimper, 207.5 km

GC after Stage 10:

Stage 11: Tuesday, July 16, Quimper - St. Herblain, 246 km

GC after Stage 11:

Stage 12: Thursday, July 18, Pau - Jaca, 192 km

GC after stage 12:

Stage 13: Friday, July 19, Jaca - Val Louron, 232 km

GC after Stage 13:

Stage 14: Saturday, July 20, St. Gaudens - Castres, 172.5 km

GC after stage 14:

Stage 15: Sunday, July 21, Albi - Alès, 235 km

GC after Stage 15:

Stage 16: Monday, July 22, Alès - Gap, 215 km

GC after Stage 16:

Stage 17: Tuesday, July 23, Gap - L'Alpe d'Huez, 125 km

GC after Stage 17:

Stage 18: Wednesday, July 24, Bourg d'Oisans - Morzine, 255 km

GC after Stage 18:

Stage 19: Thursday, July 25, Morzine - Aix les Bains, 177 km

GC after Stage 19:

Stage 20: Friday, July 26, Aix les Bains - Mâcon, 160 km

GC after Stage 20:

Stage 21: Saturday, July 27, Lugny - Mâcon 57 km Individual Time Trial

GC after Stage 21:

22nd and Final Stage: Sunday, July 28, Melun - Paris (Champs Elysées)

Complete Final 1991 Tour de France General Classification

The Story of the 1991 Tour de France

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Of course, after his 1989 and 1990 Tour victories, LeMond was expected to be the man to beat in the 1991 edition. His spring was less auspicious than ever. He abandoned the Giro and finished twelfth in the Tour of Switzerland. But a less than sparkling spring was never a sign that LeMond should be counted out of the Tour de France.

Thierry Marie started the 1991 Tour the same way he had the year before, by winning the Prologue time trial.

The real racing started with the first stage. A break of serious Tour men got away: LeMond, Erik Breukink, Sean Kelly and Rolf Sorensen among them. With the time bonuses and his good prologue, LeMond was back in Yellow. This was a 2-stage day. The afternoon was a team time trial: Sorensen's Ariostea squad won the stage and put Sorensen in the lead. Sorensen kept the Yellow Jersey until stage 5. 4 kilometers from the finish of that stage Sorensen hit a traffic island and broke his clavicle. His Tour was over.

Prologue specialist Thierry Marie showed that he could do more than just a few kilometers at speed. He won the sixth stage with an astounding 234-kilometer solo break, the third-longest post-war escape by a single rider (Albert Bourlon's 253-kilometer ride in 1947 remains the postwar record). At the end of the stage the pack was breathing down his neck, but he had 1 minute, 54 seconds to spare. That was enough to put him back in Yellow for a couple of days.

Stage 8's long 73-kilometer individual time trial brought out the real Tour riders. Miguel Indurain won the stage.

Here are the times of the top finishers:

That put LeMond back in Yellow. In the Overall, Breukink was 1 minute, 13 seconds back and Indurain was at 2 minutes, 17 seconds.

A couple of days later, things got messy. Before the start of stage 10, 2 riders on the PDM team quit the Tour. Along the road to Quimper where the stage finished, a couple of other PDMs retired. That evening it was revealed that several PDM riders including Erik Breukink, Sean Kelly and Raul Alcala were very ill. Only the riders and none of the support staff of the team were sick, which ruled out food poisoning. Eventually Jonathan Boyer, spokesman for the team, said that it might have been a bad glucose drip (perfectly legal) that infected the riders. The team withdrew from the Tour amid speculation that a doping program gone wrong was involved. Nothing was ever proven to that effect and the PDM team always denied using banned substances.

The real action of the Tour began with the first Pyrenean stage, from Pau to Jaca with 2 category 1 climbs. A break got away on the first climb, the Soudet. By the second climb, the second category Ichère, the break was established and contained 3 riders of real class: Luc Leblanc, Pascal Richard and Charly Mottet. LeMond was unable to either get up to the break or enlist help from the other teams. By the end of the day, with a winning margin of almost 7 minutes over the LeMond group, Leblanc had gained the lead with LeMond 2 minutes, 35 seconds down.

It was the next stage, unlucky (for LeMond) number 13 that changed the face of the Tour and set the tone for the next 4 years as well. It was a 232-kilometer stage that crossed the Pourtalet (category 1), the Aubisque ( hors category ), the Tourmalet ( hors category ), the Aspin (category 2) and the final ascent to Val Louron (category 1). Only the well-prepared and truly competitive would survive the stage with their high classifications intact.

It was on the Tourmalet that fortunes were reversed. LeMond broke away near the bottom of the mountain. Indurain chased, bringing with him Leblanc, Hampsten, Chiappucci, Gianni Bugno, Charly Mottet and Gérard Rué. Near the top, with just 500 meters to go, LeMond slid off the back. He could do nothing as he watched the others slowly distance themselves from him. At the top of the Tourmalet LeMond, as he fought with every ounce of energy he could command to keep them in sight, was only 17 seconds behind the leading group. Never one to give up, LeMond descended with that terrific ability that had saved him so many times before. He rejoined the leaders, but Indurain had taken off. In a giant gear, LeMond bolted from the leading group, fully understanding the importance of what was happening. This was the Tour's pivotal moment. At the foot of the Aspin, he could see Indurain. Once the climbing began anew, LeMond lost ground again, unable to keep pace with the soaring Spaniard.

Meanwhile, Claudio Chiappucci had extracted himself from the leaders and was chasing Indurain. Getting word from his director that the Italian was on his way, Indurain slowed to allow Chiappucci to join him. The 2 then relayed each other to the finish with Chiappucci taking the stage and Indurain taking the overall lead. LeMond finished 7 minutes, 18 seconds later. The Yellow Jersey, Luc Leblanc, fared worse. As LeMond fought to get back on terms with Indurain and Chiappucci, Leblanc was jettisoned from the chasers. He came in sixteenth, 12 minutes, 36 seconds after Chiappucci.

Here is the General Classification after Indurain made his Tour abilities very clear:

Stage 16 showed that LeMond had absolutely no intention of giving up. He had been down this much time before and had managed to win the Tour. On a day with no highly rated climbs, he fought to get into breaks and when caught, went again. He got second in the stage and pulled back 26 seconds. This was a hard but successful day's work.

There was no avoiding the fate that awaited him the next day with its finish at the top of L'Alpe d'Huez after the Bayard and Ornon, both second category climbs. Gianni Bugno took the stage with Indurain right on his wheel. Chiappucci and Rooks were 43 seconds back. LeMond, Theunisse and Hampsten were about 2 minutes behind.

The final Alpine stage was the cruelest of all, 255 kilometers covering the Aravis, the Colombière (both first category) and then the Joux-Plane ( hors category ). Thierry Claveyrolat won the stage with most of the contenders, including Indurain, about 30 seconds behind. LeMond was fifty-ninth at 7 minutes, 52 seconds, accompanied to the finish by his teammate Robert Millar.

LeMond broke away again on stage 17 and snatched back a minute and a half. Because LeMond was no longer a threat to Indurain, Indurain was content to finish in the middle of the pack.

The twenty-first and penultimate stage was a 57-kilometer time trial. Indurain won it, Bugno was second and LeMond was third. The Tour was sealed.

On the final day with the criterium up and down the Champs Elysées Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, nicknamed the "Tashkent Express", was involved in a spectacular crash. With less than a kilometer to go, Abdoujaparov, the wearer of the Green Jersey, ran into a barrier and went flying. It took a quarter of an hour before he could get up and cross the line. Because it was in the last kilometer, Tour rules mandated that he get the same time as the pack and he was allowed to keep his Green Jersey.

The final 1991 Tour de France General Classification:

Climbers' competition:

Miguel Indurain raced with the economical style of Jacques Anquetil. He did nothing more than necessary in the mountains. Only if an obvious or extraordinary opportunity presented itself did he attack. He was content to let his time trialing and watchful riding do the rest. It makes for a less exciting job for this chronicler of the Tour, especially after the tumultuous years of Hinault, Fignon, Delgado and LeMond. A look at the final General Classification shows a real generational shift. Delgado, LeMond and Fignon, who had been so dominant, were now well down in time while younger riders surfaced.

A sad coda to this and the previous Tour should be mentioned. In 2004, in an interview in the French newspaper Le Monde, Greg LeMond said, "In 1990 I won the Tour and my team [Z] won the top-team classification. One year later, not one of us could follow the pace in the pack. There had been a radical change." He went on to note that when he was winning, his VO2 Max—maximum oxygen consumption, the basic measurement of an athlete's aerobic capacity—was tops among professional racers. Today, LeMond said, he would be in the fifty-first percentile. In other words, the Greg LeMond of 1990 who won the Tour de France would be sent back for water bottles today.

Commenting on this interview in an open letter, Andy Hampsten wrote "Like Greg, I, too, saw what I believe were the effects of EPO when it entered pro cycling in the early '90s. In the first years it grew from a few individuals reaping obscene wins from exploiting its 'benefits', to entire teams relying on it, essentially forcing all but the most gifted racers to either use EPO to keep their place in cycling, quit, or become just another obscure rider in the group."

These athletes spoke out honestly with a real concern for the direction of the sport. They received almost nothing but opprobrium for their trouble. Their words are the results of experience and have wisdom in them.

Video of the final stage where Djamolidine Abdoujaparov crashed horribly.

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1991 Tour de France: results and classification

General classification of the 1991 tour de france, jerseys of the 1991 tour de france, stages of the 1991 tour de france.

Prologue (Lyon - Lyon, 5.4 km)

Stage 1 (Lyon - Lyon, 114.5 km)

Stage 2 (Bron - Chassieu, 36.5 km in Team Time Trial)

Stage 3 (Villeurbanne - Dijon, 210.5 km)

Stage 4 (Dijon - Reims, 286 km)

Stage 5 (Reims - Valenciennes, 149.5 km)

Stage 6 (Arras - Le Havre, 259 km)

Stage 7 (Le Havre - Argentan, 167 km)

Stage 8 (Argentan - Alençon, 73 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 9 (Alençon - Rennes, 161 km)

Stage 10 (Rennes - Quimper, 207.5 km)

Stage 11 (Quimper - St Herblain, 246 km)

Stage 12 (Pau - Jaca, 192 km)

Stage 13 (Jaca - Val Louron, 232 km)

Stage 14 (St Gaudens - Castres, 172.5 km)

Stage 15 (Albi - Alès, 235 km)

Stage 16 (Alès - Gap, 215 km)

Stage 17 (Gap - Alpe d'Huez, 125 km)

Stage 18 (Le Bourg-d'Oisans - Morzine, 255 km)

Stage 19 (Morzine - Aix-les-Bains, 177 km)

Stage 20 (Aix-les-Bains - Mâcon, 160 km)

Stage 21 (Lugny - Mâcon, 57 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 22 (Melun - Paris/Champs Elysées, 178 km)

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Rétro : revivez la 13e étape du Tour de France 1991 (Jaca - Val-Louron)

Revivez en vidéo sur le site et la chaîne l'équipe, ce mercredi à partir de 13h30, la 13e étape du tour de france 1991 entre jaca et val-louron, remportée par l'italien claudio chiappucci..

En cette période de confinement, le site et la chaîne L'Équipe rediffusent les étapes mythiques du Tour de France. Ce mercredi, c'est la très belle victoire de Claudio Chiappucci  lors de la 13e étape de la Grande Boucle 1991 qui est à l'honneur. Ce jour-là, l'italien s'impose devant l'Espagnol Miguel Indurain au terme d'un formidable mano a mano.

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Points at finish

Sprint | la ferriére bouchard, sprint | juvigné, sprint | louvigné de bais, kom sprint | côte de l'etang-neuf, race information.

• Date: 14 July 1991
• Start time: -
• Avg. speed winner: 43.74 km/h
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
• Distance: 161 km
• Points scale: GT.A.Stage
• Parcours type:
• ProfileScore: 29
• Vert. meters: 1679
• Departure: Alençon
• Arrival: Rennes
• Race ranking: 0
• Startlist quality score: 1933
• Won how: Sprint of small group
• Avg. temperature:

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