1962 Tour de France

The 49th edition of the Tour de France started on June 24th 1962 in Nancy. He ended on July 15 in Paris. There were 150 riders divided into 15 teams, at the start. It was also the first round with brand teams was held.

Jacques Anquetil, who in 1957 and 1961 had already won the round, won in 1962, his third Tour. Anquetil won the opening time trial, but hit the yellow jersey soon lost again. He was threatened by among others Rudi Altig , Rik Van Looy , Federico Bahamontes and for the first timeRaymond Poulidor . But when he two stages before the end retract the yellow in a time trial, there was no one there could come about and he won his third Tour.
 * Number of rides: 22
 * Total distance: 4274 km
 * Average speed: 37.317 km / h
 * Number of participants: 150

Content

 * One Belgian and Dutch performance
 * 1.1 Belgian stage victories
 * 1.2 Dutch stage victory
 * 2 Stage Overview
 * 3 In popular culture

Belgian and Dutch performance [ edit ]
In total there are 28 Belgians and six Dutch part in the 1962 Tour.

Belgian stage victories [ edit ]

 * Willy Vandenberghen won the 4th stage from Amiens to Le Havre
 * Emile Daems won the 5th stage of Pont l'Eveque to Saint-Malo, the 16th stage Montpellier to Aix-en-Provence and the 18th stage of Antibes / Juan-les-Pins to Briancon
 * Willy Vannitsen won the 10th stage from Bordeaux to Bayonne and the 15th stage from Carcassonne to Montpellier
 * Eddy Pauwels won the 11th stage from Bayonne to Pau

Dutch stage victory [ edit ]

 * Huub Silverberg won the 7th stage of Quimper to Saint-Nazaire

[In popular culture Edit ]
From 1947 to 1964 drew the Belgian cartoonist Marc Sleen an annual humorous account of all the rides of the Tour de France in his comic series The Tour de France The Tour from 1962 here.