1964 Tour de France
Anquetil and Poulidor shoulder to shoulder, and a fifth Tour.
The 1964 Tour de France was the 51st edition, held from 22 June to 14 July over 22 stages and 4,504 km, three of them split with a time trial in the second half. It was the only Tour to include a mid-stage climb to the Alpe d'Huez ski resort, and the highest point was 2,802 m on the Cime de la Bonette. Jacques Anquetil, fresh from winning the Giro d'Italia and chasing a Giro-Tour double previously achieved only by Fausto Coppi, won his fifth Tour after an epic shoulder-to-shoulder battle with Raymond Poulidor on stage 20; Poulidor and Federico Bahamontes completed the podium. 132 riders started in twelve teams of eleven, with a rest day in Andorra.
Quick Facts
- Date
- 22 June – 14 July 1964
- Stages
- 22, including three split stages
- Distance
- 4504
- First
- Jacques Anquetil
- First color
- yellow
- First team
- Saint-Raphaël (1964)
- Second
- Raymond Poulidor
- Second team
- Mercier (1964)
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