2003 Tour de France
The centenary Tour, Paris to Paris, with no winner left on the record.
The 2003 Tour de France was the 90th edition and the race's centenary, held from 5 to 27 July, and has no overall winner: Lance Armstrong's original victory was annulled in August 2012 when the United States Anti-Doping Agency disqualified him from all results since 1998, as the UCI confirmed. To mark the centenary the race started and finished in Paris, stayed entirely inside France and partly recreated the 1903 route, covering 3,427 km clockwise in twenty stages with six major mountain stages.
A special Centenaire Classement rewarded the best-placed riders at the six finishes shared with 1903, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes and Paris; Stuart O'Grady won it from Thor Hushovd. The 2003 Tour received the Prince of Asturias Award for Sport. Of the 198 riders, Armstrong was again the favourite, with Iban Mayo, Aitor González, Tyler Hamilton, Ivan Basso, Gilberto Simoni and Jan Ullrich among the expected challengers.
Quick Facts
- Date
- 5–27 July 2003
- Stages
- 20 + Prologue
- Distance
- 3427
- First
- Lance Armstrong; none
- Second
- Jan Ullrich
- Second team
- TBI, 2003b
- Third
- Alexander Vinokourov
- Third team
- THR (2003)
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