1949 Tour de France
Route and stages
The 1949 Tour de France started on 30 June, and had four rest days, in Les Sables-d'Olonne, Pau, Cannes and Aosta.

1949 Tour de France

Section Title: Route and stages
Table Section Text: The 1949 Tour de France started on 30 June, and had four rest days, in Les Sables-d'Olonne, Pau, Cannes and Aosta.

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type	Winner

1	30 June	Paris to Reims	182 km (113 mi)	Plain stage	Marcel Dussault (FRA)

2	1 July	Reims to Brussels (Belgium)	273 km (170 mi)	Plain stage	Roger Lambrecht (BEL)

3	2 July	Brussels (Belgium) to Boulogne-sur-Mer	211 km (131 mi)	Plain stage	Norbert Callens (BEL)

4	3 July	Boulogne-sur-Mer to Rouen	185 km (115 mi)	Plain stage	Lucien Teisseire (FRA)

5	4 July	Rouen to Saint-Malo	293 km (182 mi)	Plain stage	Ferdinand Kübler (SUI)

6	5 July	Saint-Malo to Les Sables-d'Olonne	305 km (190 mi)	Plain stage	Adolphe Deledda (FRA)

6 July	Les Sables-d'Olonne	Rest day

7	7 July	Les Sables-d'Olonne to La Rochelle	92 km (57 mi)	Individual time trial	Fausto Coppi (ITA)

8	8 July	La Rochelle to Bordeaux	262 km (163 mi)	Plain stage	Guy Lapébie (FRA)

9	9 July	Bordeaux to San Sebastián	228 km (142 mi)	Plain stage	Louis Caput (FRA)

10	10 July	San Sebastián to Pau	192 km (119 mi)	Plain stage	Fiorenzo Magni (ITA)

11 July	Pau	Rest day

11	12 July	Pau to Luchon	193 km (120 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Jean Robic (FRA)

12	13 July	Luchon to Toulouse	134 km (83 mi)	Plain stage	Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL)

13	14 July	Toulouse to Nîmes	289 km (180 mi)	Plain stage	Emile Idée (FRA)

14	15 July	Nîmes to Marseille	199 km (124 mi)	Plain stage	Jean Goldschmidt (LUX)

15	16 July	Marseille to Cannes	215 km (134 mi)	Plain stage	Désiré Keteleer (BEL)

17 July	Cannes	Rest day

16	18 July	Cannes to Briançon	275 km (171 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Gino Bartali (ITA)

17	19 July	Briançon to Aosta	257 km (160 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Fausto Coppi (ITA)

20 July	Aosta	Rest day

18	21 July	Aosta to Lausanne	265 km (165 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Vincenzo Rossello (ITA)

19	22 July	Lausanne to Colmar	283 km (176 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Raphaël Géminiani (FRA)

20	23 July	Colmar to Nancy	137 km (85 mi)	Mountain time trial	Fausto Coppi (ITA)

21	24 July	Nancy to Paris	340 km (211 mi)	Plain stage	Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL)

Total	4,808 km (2,988 mi)

Sentence(s)

The 1949 Tour de France consisted of 21 stages over 4,808 km (2,988 mi).

final_sentence: The 1949 Tour de France consisted of 21 stages over 4,808 km (2,988 mi).