1929 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11

Last updated March 02, 2019

The 1929 Tour de France was the 23rd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris with a flat stage on 30 June, and Stage 11 occurred on 13 July with a flat stage to Marseille. The race finished in Paris on 28 July.

The 1929 Tour de France was the 23rd edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 30 June to 28 July. It consisted of 22 stages over 5,286 km (3,285 mi).

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres and an official estimated population of 2,140,526 residents as of 1 January 2019. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts.

Marseille is the second-largest city of France. The main city of the historical province of Provence, it nowadays is the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It is located on France's south coast near the mouth of the Rhône river. The city covers an area of 241 km² (93 sq mi) and had a population of 852,516 in 2012. Its metropolitan area, which extends over 3,173 km² (1,225 sq mi) is the third-largest in France after Paris and Lyon, with a population of 1,831,500 as of 2010.

Stage 1

30 June 1929 — Paris to Caen, 206 km (128 mi)^[1]

Stage 1 result and general classification after stage 1^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Aimé Dossche (BEL)	5h 55' 21"
2	Aimé Deolet (BEL)	s.t.
3	Marcel Bidot (FRA)	s.t.
4	Maurice De Waele (BEL)	s.t.
5	André Leducq (FRA)	+ 47"
6	Raymond Decorte (BEL)	s.t.
7	André Godinat (FRA)	s.t.
8	Nicolas Frantz (LUX)	s.t.
9	Michele Mara (ITA)	s.t.
10	Henri Simonin (FRA)	s.t.

Stage 2

1 July 1929 — Caen to Cherbourg, 140 km (87 mi)^[1]

Caen, is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department. The city proper has 108,365 inhabitants, while its urban area has 420,000, making Caen the largest city in former Lower Normandy. It is also the third largest municipality in all of Normandy after Le Havre and Rouen and the third largest city proper in Normandy, after Rouen and Le Havre. The metropolitan area of Caen, in turn, is the second largest in Normandy after that of Rouen, the 21st largest in France.

Stage 2 result^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	André Leducq (FRA)	4h 20' 51"
2	Aimé Dossche (BEL)	s.t.
3	Charles Pélissier (FRA)	s.t.
4	Hector Martin (BEL)	s.t.
5	Aimé Deolet (BEL)	s.t.
=6	Frans Bonduel (BEL)	s.t.
=6	Julien Vervaecke (BEL)	s.t.
=6	Pé Verhaegen (BEL)	s.t.
=6	Francis Bouillet (FRA)	s.t.
=6	Gustaaf Van Slembrouck (BEL)	s.t.

General classification after stage 2^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
=1	Aimé Dossche (BEL)
=1	Aimé Deolet (BEL)	s.t.
=1	Marcel Bidot (FRA)	s.t.
=1	Maurice De Waele (BEL)	s.t.
5
6
7
8
9
10

Stage 3

2 July 1929 — Cherbourg to Dinan, 199 km (124 mi)^[1]

Dinan is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2018, the former commune of Léhon was merged into Dinan.

Stage 3 result^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Omer Taverne (BEL)	6h 21' 03"
2	Charles Pélissier (FRA)	s.t.
3	Jef Demuysere (BEL)	s.t.
4	André Godinat (FRA)	s.t.
=5	Armand Van Bruaene (BEL)	s.t.
=5	Luc Govaerts (BEL)	s.t.
=5	Julien Perrain (FRA)	s.t.
=5	Georges Berton (FRA)	s.t.
=5	Jean Aerts (BEL)	s.t.
=5	Lucien Buysse (BEL)	s.t.

General classification after stage 3^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
=1	Aimé Dossche (BEL)
=1	Aimé Deolet (BEL)	s.t.
=1	Marcel Bidot (FRA)	s.t.
=1	Maurice De Waele (BEL)	s.t.
5
6
7
8
9
10

Stage 4

3 July 1929 — Dinan to Brest, 206 km (128 mi)^[1]

Stage 4 result^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Louis De Lannoy (BEL)	6h 41' 54"
2	Maurice De Waele (BEL)	s.t.
3	Nicolas Frantz (LUX)	+ 3' 08"
4	Charles Pélissier (FRA)	s.t.
5	Aimé Deolet (BEL)	s.t.
6	Raymond Decorte (BEL)	s.t.
7	Omer Taverne (BEL)	s.t.
8	Jef Demuysere (BEL)	s.t.
=9	Aimé Dossche (BEL)	s.t.
=9	Léon Chene (FRA)	s.t.

General classification after stage 4^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Maurice De Waele (BEL)
2	Louis De Lannoy (BEL)	+ 47"
3	Aimé Dossche (BEL)	+ 3' 08"
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Stage 5

4 July 1929 — Brest to Vannes, 208 km (129 mi)^[1]

Stage 5 result^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Gustaaf Van Slembrouck (BEL)	6h 29' 03"
2	Alfonso Crippa (ITA)	s.t.
3	Jean Aerts (BEL)	s.t.
4	Aimé Dossche (BEL)	s.t.
5	Albert Barthélémy (FRA)	s.t.
=6	Nicolas Frantz (LUX)	s.t.
=6	Antonin Magne (FRA)	s.t.
=6	Victor Fontan (FRA)	s.t.
=6	Ferdinand Le Drogo (FRA)	s.t.
=6	Jef Demuysere (BEL)	s.t.

General classification after stage 5^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Maurice De Waele (BEL)
=2	Aimé Dossche (BEL)	+ 3' 08"
=2	Marcel Bidot (FRA)	s.t.
=2	Aimé Deolet (BEL)	s.t.
5
6
7
8
9
10

Stage 6

5 July 1929 — Vannes to Les Sables d'Olonne, 204 km (127 mi)^[1]

Vannes is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France. It was founded over 2,000 years ago.

Stage 6 result^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Paul Le Drogo (FRA)	6h 23' 14"
2	Jules Merviel (FRA)	s.t.
3	André Leducq (FRA)	s.t.
4	Hector Martin (BEL)	s.t.
5	Nicolas Frantz (LUX)	s.t.
6	Charles Pélissier (FRA)	s.t.
7	Jean Aerts (BEL)	s.t.
=8	Marcel Bidot (FRA)	s.t.
=8	Victor Fontan (FRA)	s.t.
=8	Francis Bouillet (FRA)	s.t.

General classification after stage 6^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Maurice De Waele (BEL)
=2	Aimé Dossche (BEL)	+ 3' 08"
=2	Marcel Bidot (FRA)	s.t.
=2	Aimé Deolet (BEL)	s.t.
5
6
7
8
9
10

Stage 7

6 July 1929 — Les Sables d'Olonne to Bordeaux, 285 km (177 mi)^[1]

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

Stage 7 result^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Nicolas Frantz (LUX)	9h 13' 07"
2	Antonin Magne (FRA)	s.t.
3	Jef Demuysere (BEL)	s.t.
4	Victor Fontan (FRA)	s.t.
5	André Leducq (FRA)	s.t.
6	Charles Pélissier (FRA)	+ 43"
7	Jules Merviel (FRA)	+ 55"
8	André Godinat (FRA)	s.t.
9	Louis De Lannoy (BEL)	s.t.
10	Salvador Cardona Balbastre (ESP)	s.t.

General classification after stage 7^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
=1	Nicolas Frantz (LUX)
=1	André Leducq (FRA)	s.t.
=1	Victor Fontan (FRA)	s.t.
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Stage 8

7 July 1929 — Bordeaux to Bayonne, 182 km (113 mi)^[1]

Bayonne Subprefecture and commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Bayonne is a city and commune and one of the two sub-prefectures of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. It is located at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers in the northern part of the cultural region of the Basque Country, as well as the southern part of Gascony where the Aquitaine basin joins the beginning of the Pre-Pyrenees.

Stage 8 result^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Julien Moineau (FRA)	5h 36' 25"
2	Gustaaf Van Slembrouck (BEL)	s.t.
3	Gaston Rebry (BEL)	s.t.
4	Nicolas Frantz (LUX)	+ 3' 21"
5	Charles Pélissier (FRA)	s.t.
6	Francis Bouillet (FRA)	s.t.
7	Jean Aerts (BEL)	s.t.
=8	Marcel Bidot (FRA)	s.t.
=8	André Godinat (FRA)	s.t.
=8	August Verdyck (BEL)	s.t.

General classification after stage 8^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Gaston Rebry (BEL)
=2	Nicolas Frantz (LUX)	+ 2' 26"
=2	André Leducq (FRA)	s.t.
=2	Victor Fontan (FRA)	s.t.
5
6
7
8
9
10

Stage 9

9 July 1929 — Bayonne to Luchon, 363 km (226 mi)^[1]

Stage 9 result^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Salvador Cardona Balbastre (ESP)	16h 31' 57"
2	Victor Fontan (FRA)	s.t.
3	Maurice De Waele (BEL)	+ 8' 06"
4	Nicolas Frantz (LUX)	+ 11' 04"
5	Romain Bellenger (FRA)	s.t.
6	Giuseppe Pancera (ITA)	s.t.
7	Jef Demuysere (BEL)	+ 16' 23"
8	Antonin Magne (FRA)	s.t.
9	Settimo Innocenti (ITA)	s.t.
10	Benoît Faure (FRA)	s.t.

General classification after stage 9^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Victor Fontan (FRA)
2	Maurice De Waele (BEL)	+ 9' 54"
3	Nicolas Frantz (LUX)	+ 11' 04"
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Stage 10

10 July 1929 — Luchon to Perpignan, 323 km (201 mi)^[1]

Stage 10 result^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Jef Demuysere (BEL)	11h 42' 48"
2	Louis De Lannoy (BEL)	s.t.
3	Maurice De Waele (BEL)	+ 9"
4	Benoît Faure (FRA)	+ 5' 29"
5	André Leducq (FRA)	+ 11' 47"
6	Frans Bonduel (BEL)	s.t.
7	Giuseppe Pancera (ITA)	+ 16' 23"
8	Francis Bouillet (FRA)	+ 13' 13"
9	Bernard Van Rysselberghe (BEL)	+ 25' 25"
10	Salvador Cardona Balbastre (ESP)	s.t.

General classification after stage 10^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Maurice De Waele (BEL)
2	Jef Demuysere (BEL)	+ 14' 49"
3	Giuseppe Pancera (ITA)	+ 22' 01"
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Stage 11

13 July 1929 — Perpignan to Marseille, 366 km (227 mi)^[1]

Stage 11 result^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	André Leducq (FRA)	13h 37' 29"
2	Nicolas Frantz (LUX)	s.t.
3	Charles Pélissier (FRA)	s.t.
4	Julien Delbecque (BEL)	s.t.
5	Hector Martin (BEL)	s.t.
6	Antonin Magne (FRA)	s.t.
7	Omer Taverne (BEL)	s.t.
8	Luc Govaerts (BEL)	s.t.
=9	Jef Demuysere (BEL)	s.t.
=9	Giuseppe Pancera (ITA)	s.t.

General classification after stage 11^[1]

Rank	Rider	Time
1	Maurice De Waele (BEL)
2	Jef Demuysere (BEL)	+ 14' 49"
3	Giuseppe Pancera (ITA)	+ 22' 01"
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

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