1913 Tour de France

The 1913 Tour de France was the 11th edition, held from 29 June to 27 July over 5,287 km at an average of 26.715 km/h. The Belgian Philippe Thys won after Eugène Christophe broke his bicycle on the crucial sixth stage and lost several hours repairing it himself; Thys had his own mechanical trouble on the final stage but was helped and received only a ten-minute penalty. The race also marked the return to the original time-based general classification: between 1904 and 1912 the Tour had been decided on points, a system that had worked against Christophe in 1912, and it has been decided on cumulative time ever since.