1948 Tour de France
The 35th Tour de France led from June 30 to July 25, 1948 on 21 stages over 4922 km anti-clockwise through France. The start and finish were in Paris.
Race course
The tour was dominated by Italian Gino Bartali, who ruled seven stages for himself and at the end of the tour went out on the runner-up 26 minutes ahead. The climber, who had already won the Tour in 1938, is also secured the mountain classification. Bartali has remained one driver, is the largest distance between its tour victories.
Already on the first stage Bartali won, but the yellow jersey of the leader could only wear for one day. The sixth stage to Biarritz won Louison Bobet. He took over the lead in the general standings, he could defend in the Pyrenees subsequent stages. On the stage into the Italian Sanremo he stood for a furuncle just before the task, but fought his way to the finish and was the next day in Cannes for a stage win to continue to drive in yellow. Only in the Alps had to give up the jersey after three race wins in a row Bartalis again the Frenchman.
Of the 120 drivers were started 16 excluded because they were on the third to the 18th stage respectively in last place overall. This made it difficult tour director Jacques Goddet the water carriers, the tour, as they had to go and make their own placement now. In Paris, 44 drivers were counted, Bartali had mastered the track at an average speed of 33.443 km / h.