The 1938 Tour de France was the 32nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris with a flat stage on 5 July, and Stage 10c occurred on 17 July with a flat stage to Montpellier. The race finished in Paris on 31 July.
The 1938 Tour de France was the 32nd edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 5 July to 31 July. It was composed of 21 stages over 4,694 km (2,917 mi).The race was won by Italian cyclist Gino Bartali, who also won the mountains classification.
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 is one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts.
Montpellier is a city near the south coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the Hérault department. It is located in the Occitanie region. In 2014, 589,610 people lived in the urban area and 275,318 in the city itself. Nearly one third of the population are students from three universities and from three higher education institutions that are outside the university framework in the city.
5 July 1938 – Paris to Caen, 215 km (134 mi) [1]
Stage 1 result and general classification after stage 1 [1]
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6 July 1938 – Caen to Saint-Brieuc, 237 km (147 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.
Saint-Brieuc is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France.
Stage 2 result [1]
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7 July 1938 – Saint-Brieuc to Nantes, 238 km (148 mi) [1]
Nantes is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of 303,382 in Nantes and a metropolitan area of nearly 950,000 inhabitants. With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms the main north-western French metropolis.
Stage 3 result [1]
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8 July 1938 – Nantes to La Roche-sur-Yon, 62 km (39 mi) [1]
La Roche-sur-Yon is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It is the capital of the department. Its inhabitants are called Yonnais.
Stage 4a result [1]
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8 July 1938 – La Roche-sur-Yon to La Rochelle, 83 km (52 mi) [1]
La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department.
Stage 4b result [1]
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8 July 1938 – La Rochelle to Royan, 83 km (52 mi) [1]
Royan is a commune and town in the south-west of France, in the department of Charente-Maritime in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its inhabitants are known as Royannais and Royannaises. Capital of the Côte de Beauté, Royan is one of the main French Atlantic coastal resort towns, and has five beaches, a marina for over 1,000 boats, and an active fishing port. As of 2013, the population of the greater urban area was 48,982. The town had 18,393 inhabitants in 2015.
Stage 4c result [1]
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9 July 1938 – Royan
10 July 1938 – Royan to Bordeaux, 198 km (123 mi) [1]
Stage 5 result [1]
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11 July 1938 – Bordeaux to Arcachon, 53 km (33 mi) [1]
Stage 6a result [1]
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11 July 1938 – Arcachon to Bayonne, 171 km (106 mi) [1]
Stage 6b result [1]
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12 July 1938 – Bayonne to Pau, 115 km (71 mi) [1]
Stage 7 result [1]
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13 July 1938 –- Pau
14 July 1938 – Pau to Luchon, 193 km (120 mi) [1]
Stage 8 result [1]
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15 July 1938 – Luchon
16 July 1938 – Luchon to Perpignan, 260 km (160 mi) [1]
Stage 9 result [1]
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17 July 1938 – Perpignan to Narbonne, 63 km (39 mi) [1]
Stage 10a result [1]
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17 July 1938 – Narbonne to Béziers, 27 km (17 mi) (ITT) [1]
Stage 10b result [1]
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17 July 1938 – Béziers to Montpellier, 73 km (45 mi) [1]
Stage 10c result [1]
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Paul Duboc was a French professional road bicycle racer from 1907 through 1927. Despite winning 5 career stages in the Tour de France, he may be most remembered for being disqualified at the 1919 Tour de France for borrowing a car to go and repair his pedal axle. In 1911, Duboc was close to winning the Tour de France, when he became ill after drinking from a poisoned bottle given to him. His fans were blaming the classification leader Gustave Garrigou, and the Tour organizers advised Garrigou to ride under disguise. Duboc would end the 1911 Tour de France in second place, his best result.
The 1921–22 French Rugby Union Championship of first division was won by Toulouse beating Bayonne in the final.
The 1923-24 French Rugby Union Championship was won for the second consecutive year by Toulouse that defeated the US Perpignan in the final.
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