 Route of the 1909 Tour de France followed clockwise, starting in Paris | ||||||||||
| Race details | ||||||||||
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| Dates | 5 July – 1 August 1909 | |||||||||
| Stages | 14 | |||||||||
| Distance | 4,497 km (2,794 mi) | |||||||||
| Winning time | 37 points | |||||||||
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The 1909 Tour de France was the seventh edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 5 July to 1 August. It consisted of 14 stages over 4,497 kilometres (2,794 mi), ridden at an average 28.658 km/h.[1] The results were computed by points accorded finishing positions on each stage, the rider with fewest points at the end of the race winning the race. The stages were approximately the same as in the 1907 and 1908 Tour de France.
Because Lucien Petit-Breton, the winner of the Tour de France in 1907 and 1908, did not enter, the runner-up of 1908, François Faber, was the favourite. Faber went on to win six of the 14 stages and won the race easily.
- ^ Augendre 2016, p. 108.