Route de France 1951

The 38. Route de France found of 4. to 29. July 1951 instead of and led on 24 stages across 4692 km. For the first time since 1926 and only for the second time at all of Paris was not starting place of the route de France.

Fausto Coppi, winner of the route 1949 drove no good round travel to the deadly accident its brother with a Radrennen and occupied at the end tenth rank. Only on the 20. Stage it let a its being able flash and became stage winner after a solo escape.

In the first half of the route there was no clear guidance of a driver, the yellow leotard landed on the shoulders of different drivers. The Dutchman Wim van Est could take over the leotard after his stage-win on the twelfth section, on the next day had he after a fall to give up. From it Gilbert Bauvin took over the guidance, but only later Swiss Hugo Koblet the yellow leotard of him could take over one day: With its third stage-win on its first round travel it could do on mountain-gropes for Luchon all except Coppi to depend. Already when first time driving as well as on the elften stage Koblet had been able to win, with the stage after Agen after a solo escape over 135 km.

The guidance in the total valuation did not deliver Koblet to of Paris, so that after Ferdi Kübler a Swiss can win the route de France for the second time one behind the other. Koblet even still crowned its line with two further stage-wins.

The Frenchman Raphaël Géminiani, which could win a stage, was appropriate for the total valuation clearly as the second at the end behind Swiss, could win the mountain valuation however.

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