Stage: 5 – 13 July : Bordeaux – Nantes, 425 km Stage 5 started at 23:00, it was an easy victory for Garin. His only real rival for the GC was Georget who abandoned at La Rochelle feeling very unwell. Garin easly won the stage in a sprint with 2 of his domestics. Fernand Augereau arrived 10…
Stage: 4 – 10 July : Toulouse – Bordeaux, 268 km First foreign stage victory. 1903 Tour de France – Stage 4. The riders are divided into 2 groups again for this stage. There were 25 riders left in the GC competition. It is once again the second group that produced the winner. Swiss rider Charles Laeser…
Stage: 3 – 7 July : Marseille – Toulouse, 423 km 1903 Tour de France – Stage 3. The race was started in 2 groups. Those who competed for the GC left 1 hour before 5 riders who competed for the stage only. Hippolyte Aucouturier started in the second bunch. Eugene Brange won the sprint from the…
Stage: 2 – 4 July : Lyon – Marseille, 374 km 1903 Tour de France – Stage 2 from Lyon to Marseille 347 km. Stage 2 started at 02:00. 42 riders started but only 37 would finish. The stage finished in the village of Saint-Antoine about 10 km from Marseille. This stage was won by Hippolyte Aucouturier…
Stage: 1 – 1 July : Paris – Lyon, 467 km For the 1903 Tour de France – Stage 1 there were 79 riders entered in the race. Only 60 turned up at the start of which only 37 would finish the first stage into Lyon the following day. The stage started at 15:16. The riders…