1909 Tour de France

The 1909 Tour de France was the seventh edition, held from 5 July to 1 August over fourteen stages and 4,497 km at an average of 28.658 km/h, on roughly the same course as 1907 and 1908. Results were calculated on points, with the fewest points winning, and the classification was cleaned up after the eighth and thirteenth stages by removing riders who had abandoned. With two-time winner Lucien Petit-Breton absent, the 1908 runner-up François Faber was the favourite; he won six of the fourteen stages and the race easily. The rule obliging riders to use Tour-supplied frames was dropped, and riders could enter in teams for the first time.