Tour de France 2004

Tour de France 2004
Details
Race	91. Tour de France
Stapas	21
Dates	3 - 25 July 2004
Total distance	3429 km
Countries	France Belgium
Start place	Liege
Place of arrival	Paris
Equipment	21
Participants	188
Cycling completed	147
Average speed	41,016 km/h
Final classification
Winner	not granted
Second	Andreas Klöden (T-Mobile)
Third	Ivan Basso (CSC)
Points	Robbie McEwen (Lotto-Domo)
Mountain	Richard Virenque (Quick Step-Davitamon)
Young	Vladimir Karpets (Illes Balears-Banesto)
Combating	Richard Virenque (Quick Step-Davitamon)
Equipment	T-Mobile
◀ 2003	2005.
	Documentation

The 91st edition of the Tour de France began on July 3, 2004 in the Belgian city of Liège and ended in Paris, in the classic final on the Champs-Élysées, on July 25 2004. A total of 3,395 km were covered divided into 20 stages + the initial prologue, and 188 riders divided into 21 teams participated.

In this edition, the two time trial stages in the last week stood out, one of them being a time trial to the mythical summit of Alpe d'Huez.

The final winner was the American Lance Armstrong, who achieved his sixth consecutive title, surpassing the mark of the Spanish Miguel Induráin and establishing a new record of victories in the French round. However, in 2012 the UCI decided to annul all the American's results since 1998 due to doping, so that the 2004 edition was officially declared without a winner.

Participating teams

Stages

Phase	Date	Tour	Distance (km)	Winner	Leader
Prologue	3 July	Liège-Liège	6.1 (CRI)	Fabian Cancellara	Fabian Cancellara
1. a	4 July	Liège-Charleroi	202	Jaan Kirsipuu	Fabian Cancellara
2. a	5 July	Charleroi-Namur	197	Robbie McEwen	Thor Hushovd
3. a	6 July	Waterloo-Wasquehal	210	Jean-Patrick Nazon	Robbie McEwen
4. a	7 July	Cambrai-Arras	64 (CRE)	US Postal	Lance Armstrong
5. a	8 July	Amiens-Chartres	200	Stuart O'Grady	Thomas Voeckler
6. a	9 July	Bonneval-Angers	196	Tom Boonen	Thomas Voeckler
7. a	10 July	Châteaubriant-Saint-Brieuc	204	Filippo Pozzato	Thomas Voeckler
8. a	11 July	Lamballe-Quimper	168	Thor Hushovd	Thomas Voeckler
9. a	13 July	St-Léonard-Guéret	160	Robbie McEwen	Thomas Voeckler
10. a	14 July	Limoges-Saint-Flour	237	Richard Virenque	Thomas Voeckler
11. a	15 July	Saint-Flour-Figeac	164	David Moncoutié	Thomas Voeckler
12. a	16 July	Castelsarrasin-La Mongie	197	Ivan Basso	Thomas Voeckler
13. a	17 July	Lannemezan-Plateau de Beille	205	Lance Armstrong No winner	Thomas Voeckler
14. a	18 July	Carcassonne-Nîmes	192	Aitor González	Thomas Voeckler
15. a	20 July	Valréas-Villard-de-Lans	180	Lance Armstrong No winner	Lance Armstrong
16. a	21 July	Le Bourg-d'Oisans-Alpe d'Huez	15 (CRI)	Lance Armstrong No winner	Lance Armstrong
17. a	22 July	Le Bourg-d'Oisans-Le Grand Bornand	204	Lance Armstrong No winner	Lance Armstrong
18. a	23 July	Annemasse-Lons-le-Saunier	166	Juan Miguel Mercado	Lance Armstrong
19. a	24 July	Besançon-Besançon	55 (CRI)	Lance Armstrong No winner	Lance Armstrong
20. a	25 July	Montereau-Paris	163	Tom Boonen	Lance Armstrong

Race Rankings

Thomas Voeckler with the leader leotard

Ivan Basso and Lance Armstrong at Tourmalet (La Mongie)

Lance Armstrong in the prologue

Overall classification

Pos.	Name	Equipment	Time
	Desert
DSQ	Lance Armstrong	US Postal	83h 36' 02"
2	Andreas Klöden	T-Mobile	6'19"
3	Ivan Basso	CSC	6'40"
4	Jan Ullrich	T-Mobile	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"
DSQ	Levi Leipheimer	Rabobank	20'12"
9	Óscar Pereiro	Phonak	22'54"

Classification of points

Pos.	Name	Equipment	Points
	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

Mountain Classification

Pos.	Name	Equipment	Points
	Richard Virenque	Quick Step-Davitamon	226
DSQ-	Lance Armstrong	US Postal	172
2	Michael Rasmussen	Rabobank	119
3	Ivan Basso	CSC	119
4	Christophe Moreau	Crédit Agricole	115
5	Jan Ullrich	T-Mobile	115

Best Young Classification

Pos.	Name	Equipment	Time
	Vladimir Karpets	Illes Balears-Banesto	84.01'13"
2	Sandy Casar	FDJ-Big Mat	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"

Team classification

Pos.	Equipment	Nationality	Time
1	T-Mobile Team	GermanyGermany	248.58'43"
2	US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor	United States	2'42"
3	Team CSC	DenmarkDenmark	10'33"
4	Illes Balears-Banesto	SpainSpain	52'26"
5	Quick Step-Davitamon	BelgiumBelgium	57'33"

Combativity

• Richard Virenque

Evolution of rankings

The Tour in figures

• 21 teams took the exit being 189 participants. These corridors were accompanied by350 assistants (sports director, mechanics, doctors, masseurs...) and supervised by 15 members of the College of Commissioners.

• The Tour de France 2004 was one of the most mediatic with 1200 accredited journalists more 1000 distributed in 370 press agencies, 70 local and national radio stations, 75 television networks (of which 21 live) broadcasting 170 countries that amounted to 2400 hours of dissemination (100 days) for millions of spectators.

• In total, Tour de France 2004 had 1600 vehicles.

• The advertising caravan was in length 20 miles 200 vehicles ensuring 45 minutes of spectacle on all the daily tour in which they were published 42 different brands.