2004 Tour de France Totally Explained

Everything about 2004 Tour De France totally explained

Final Standings
Overall	Lance Armstrong	83h 36' 02"
Second	Andreas Klöden	+6' 19"
Third	Ivan Basso	+6' 40"
Points	Robbie McEwen	272 points
Second	Thor Hushovd	247 points
Third	Erik Zabel	245 points
Climber	Richard Virenque	226 points
Second	Lance Armstrong	172 points
Third	Ivan Basso	119 points
Youth	Vladimir Karpets	84h 01' 13"
Second	Sandy Casar	+3' 42"
Third	Thomas Voeckler	+6' 01"
Teams	T-Mobile Team	248h 58' 43"
Second	U.S. Postal Service	+2' 42"
Third	Team CSC	+10' 33"

The 2004 Tour de France was the 91st, taking place from 3 July to 25 July 2004. It consisted of 20 stages over 3429 km. Lance Armstrong became the first to win six Tours de France.
Armstrong was favored to win, his competitors seen as being German Jan Ullrich, Spaniards Roberto Heras and Iban Mayo, and fellow Americans Levi Leipheimer and Tyler Hamilton.
The route of the 2004 Tour was remarkable. With two individual time trials scheduled in the last week, one of them the climb of Alpe d'Huez, the directors were hoping for a close race until the end. For the first time in years, the mountains of the Massif Central made an appearance.

Stages

Stage	Route	Distance	Type	Date
Prologue	Liège, Belgium	6.1 km	Individual time trial	Saturday, July 3
1	Liège - Charleroi	202.5 km		Sunday, July 4
2	Charleroi - Namur	210 km		Monday, July 5
3	Waterloo - Wasquehal	195 km		Tuesday, July 6
4	Cambrai - Arras	65 km	Team time trial	Wednesday, July 7
5	Amiens - Chartres	195 km		Thursday, July 8
6	Bonneval - Angers	190 km		Friday, July 9
7	Châteaubriant - Saint-Brieuc	208 km		Saturday, July 10
8	Lamballe - Quimper	172 km		Sunday, July 11
-	Rest day			Monday, July 12
9	Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Guéret	160 km		Tuesday, July 13
10	Limoges (Massif Central) - Saint-Flour	237 km	Mountain stage	Wednesday, July 14
11	Saint-Flour - Figeac	164 km		Thursday, July 15
12	Castelsarrasin - La Mongie	199 km	Mountain stage	Friday, July 16
13	Lannemezan - Plateau de Beille	217 km	Mountain stage	Saturday, July 17
14	Carcassonne - Nîmes	200 km		Sunday, July 18
-	Rest day			Monday, July 19
15	Valréas - Villard-de-Lans	179 km	Mountain stage	Tuesday, July 20
16	Bourg d'Oisans - L'Alpe d'Huez	15.5 km	Individual time trial	Wednesday, July 21
17	Bourg d'Oisans - Le Grand-Bornand	212 km	Mountain stage	Thursday, July 22
18	Annemasse - Lons-le-Saunier	166 km	Mountain stage	Friday, July 23
19	Besançon - Besançon	60 km	Individual time trial	Saturday, July 24
20	Montereau-Fault-Yonne - Paris Champs-Élysées	165 km		Sunday, July 25

Jersey progress

Notes

(1) = In Stage 1, Fabian Cancellara - the winner of the prologue - wore the yellow jersey, and Lance Armstrong wore the green jersey; Bernhard Eisel wore the white jersey in stages 1 and 2.
(2) = In Stage 3, Thor Hushovd - the overall leader - wore the yellow jersey, and Jaan Kirsipuu wore the green jersey.
(3) = In Stage 4, Robbie McEwen - the overall leader - wore the yellow jersey, and Jean-Patrick Nazon wore the green jersey.
(4) = In Stages 6 to 14, Thomas Voeckler - the overall leader - wore the yellow jersey, and Sandy Casar wore the white jersey.

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Teams

188 riders in 21 teams started; 147 riders finished.

List of teams and cyclists in the 2004 Tour de France

Results

General classification

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Lance Armstrong	US Postal	83h 36' 02'
2	Andreas Klöden	T-Mobile Team	6' 19"
3	Ivan Basso	Team CSC	6' 40"
4	Jan Ullrich	T-Mobile Team	8' 50"
5	José Azevedo	US Postal	14' 30"
6	Francisco Mancebo	Illes Balears - Banesto	18' 01"
7	Georg Totschnig	Gerolsteiner	18' 27"
8	Carlos Sastre	CSC	19' 51"
9	Levi Leipheimer	Rabobank	20' 12"
10	Óscar Pereiro	Phonak	22' 54"

Points classification

Rank	Name	Team	Points
1	Robbie McEwen	Lotto-Domo	272
2	Thor Hushovd	Crédit Agricole	247
3	Erik Zabel	T-Mobile	245
4	Stuart O'Grady	Cofidis	234
5	Danilo Hondo	Gerolsteiner	227
6	Tom Boonen	Quick Step-Davitamon	163
7	Jean-Patrick Nazon	AG2R	146
8	Lance Armstrong	US Postal	143
9	Laurent Brochard	AG2R	139
10	Andreas Klöden	T-Mobile	131

Mountains classification

Rank	Name	Team	Points
1	Richard Virenque	Quick Step-Davitamon	226
2	Lance Armstrong	US Postal	172
3	Ivan Basso	Team CSC	119
4	Michael Rasmussen	Rabobank	119
5	Jan Ullrich	T-Mobile	115
6	Christophe Moreau	Crédit Agricole	115
7	Andreas Klöden	T-Mobile	112
8	Francisco Mancebo	Illes Balears - Banesto	77
9	Jens Voigt	CSC	71
10	Axel Merckx	Lotto-Domo	65

Youth classification

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Vladimir Karpets	Illes Balears - Banesto	84h 01' 13'
2	Sandy Casar	Fdjeux.com	3' 42"
3	Thomas Voeckler	Brioches La Boulangère	6' 01"
4	Michael Rogers	Quick Step-Davitamon	16' 28"
5	Iker Camaño	Euskaltel-Euskadi	22' 03"
6	Jérôme Pineau	Brioches La Boulangère	22' 32"
7	Sylvain Chavanel	Brioches La Boulangère	29' 32"
8	Michele Scarponi	Domina Vacanze	37' 50"
9	Mikel Astarloza	AG2R	1h 29' 53"
10	Benjamin Noval	US Postal	1h 32' 30"

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