tour de france 1990 results

1990 Tour de France

77th edition: june 30 to july 22, 1990, results, stages with running gc, map, photos and history.

Map of the 1990 Tour de France

Les Woodland's book Cycling's World Championships: The Inside Story is available as an audiobook here .

1990 Tour Quick Facts

198 starters, 156 finishers.

3,403.8 km raced at an average speed of 37.52 km/hr

Greg LeMond won his third Tour in 1990. It was his first time to race the Tour with a powerful team unified behind him.

In the first stage a powerful break that included LeMond's teammate Ronan Pensac arrived at the finish over 9 minutes ahead of the pack.

In that break was Claudio Chiappucci, who proved to be a tenacious holder of the Yellow Jersey.

LeMond ate away at the time gap stage after stage until he captured the lead in the stage 20 individual time trial.

1990 Tour de France Final Individual Classification

Results Summary

Final Team Classification

Points (Green Jersey or Sprinter)

Mountains Grand Prix (Climber or KOM)

Most Aggressive

Best Young Rider (under 25)

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Stages with running GC

Prologue: Saturday, June 30, Futuroscope 6.3 km Individual Time Trial. Stage and GC times and places are the same.

Thierry Marie: 7min 49sec
Greg LeMond @ 4sec
Raul Alcala s.t.
Francis Moreau @ 10sec
Eric Vanderaerden @ 12sec
Viatcheslav Ekimov @ 13sec
Pello Ruiz-Cabestany @ 17sec
Miguel Indurain s.t.
Jelle Nijdam @ 18sec
Stephen Roche s.t.

Stage 1: Monday, July 2, Furturoscope - Futuroscope, 138.5 km

Frans Maassen: 3hr 19min 1sec
Ronan Pensec s.t.
Claudio Chiappucci s.t.
Steve Bauer s.t.
John Carlsen @ 8min 36sec
Guido Winterberg @ 9min 24sec
Olaf Ludwig @ 10min 35sec
Jean-Paul Van Poppel s.t.
Giovanni Fidanza s.t.
Djamolidine Abdoujaparov s.t.

GC after Stage 1:

Steve Bauer: 3hr 27min 1sec
Frans Maassen @ 2sec
Claudio Chiappucci @ 9sec
Ronan Pensec @ 21sec
John Carlsen @ 9min 3sec
Guido Winterberg @ 9min 44sec
Thierry marie @ 10min 24sec
Greg LeMond @ 10min 28sec
Francis Moreau @ 10min 34sec

Stage 2: Monday, July 2, Futuroscope 44.5 km Team Time Trial. Rules limited a rider's time loss to 5 minutes.

Panasonic: 53min 24sec
ONCE @ 22sec
Histor-Sigma s.t.
Castorama @ 33sec
7-Eleven @ 48sec
Buckler @ 56sec
Helvetia @ 1min 15sec
Weinmann @ 1min 18sec

GC after stage 2:

Steve Bauer: 4hr 21min 13sec
Frans Maassen @ 10sec
Ronan Pensec @ 26sec
Claudio Chiappucci @ 50sec
Raul Alcala @ 9min 47sec
Viatcheslav Ekimov @ 9min 49sec
Steven Rooks @ 10min 1sec
Sean Kelly s.t.
Eric Van Lancker @ 10min 3sec
Alan Peiper s.t.

Stage 3: Tuesday, July 3, Poitiers - Nantes, 233 km

Moreno Argentin: 5hr 46min 13sec
Christophe Lavainne @ 2min 29sec
Uwe Raab s.t.
Olaf Ludwig s.t.
Johan Capiot s.t.
Jelle Nijdam s.t.
Soren Lilholt s.t.
Asiate Saitov s.t.
Marc Sergeant s.t.

GC after Stage 3:

Steve Bauer: 10hr 9min 55sec
Frans Maassen @ 8sec
Moreno Argentin @ 8min 23sec

Stage 4: Wednesday, July 4, Nantes - Mont St. Michel, 203 km

Johan Museeuw: 5hr 23min 33sec
Guido Bontempi s.t.
Davis Phinney s.t.
Adriano Baffi s.t.
Etienne De Wilde s.t.
Martin Schalkers s.t.

GC after stage 4:

Steve Bauer: 15hr 33min 24sec
Ronan Pensec @ 30sec
Frans Maassen @ 33sec
Claudio Chiappucci @ 1min 1sec
Moreno Argentin @ 8min 27sec
Raul Alcala @ 9min 58sec
Steven Rooks @ 10min 5sec
Eric Van Lancker @ 10min 4sec

Stage 5: Thursday, July 5, Avranches - Rouen, 301 km

Gerrit Solleveld: 7hr 43min 7sec
Johan Museeuw @ 4min 27sec
Olaf Ludwig @ 4min 30sec
Eric Vanderaerden s.t.
Adri Van Der Poel s.t.

GC after stage 5:

Steve Bauer: 23hr 20min 57sec
Ronan Pensec @ 34sec
Frans Maassen @ 37sec
Claudio Chiappucci @ 1min 5sec
Gerrit Solleveld @ 7min 26sec
Raul Alcala @ 10min 2sec
Sean Kelly @ 10min 3sec
Steven Rooks @ 10min 9sec
Alan Peiper @ 10min 16sec
Guy Nulens @ 10min 18sec

Stage 6: Friday, July 6, Sarrebourg - Vittel, 202.5 km

Jelle Nijdam: 5hr 23min 56sec
Jesper Skibby s.t.
Johan Museeuw s.t.
Viatcheslav Ekimov s.t.
Guy Nulens @ 3sec
Adriano Baffi @ 8sec

GC after Stage 6:

Steve Bauer: 28hr 45min 1sec
Raul Alacala @ 10min 2sec
Guy Nulens @ 10min 11sec

Stage 7: Saturday, July 7, Vittel - Epinal 61.5 km Individual Time Trial

Raul Alcala: 1hr 17min 5sec
Miguel Indurain @ 1min 24sec
Gianni Bugno @ 1min 47sec
Pedro Delgado @ 2min 5sec
Greg LeMond @ 2min 11sec
Jean-François Bernard @ 2min 26sec
Uwe Ampler @ 2min 30sec
Tony Rominger @ 2min 32sec
Gerrit Solleveld @ 2min 40sec

GC after Stage 7:

Steve Bauer: 30hr 4min 49sec
Ronan Pensec @ 17sec
Claudio Chiappucci @ 1min 11sec
Frans Maassen @ 1min 16sec
Raul Alcala @ 7min 19sec
Gerrit Solleveld @ 7min 23sec
Greg LeMond @ 10min 9sec
Uwe Ampler @ 10min 14sec
Sean Kelly @ 10min 15sec
Viatcheslav Ekimov @ 10min 26sec

Stage 8 , Sunday, July 8: Epinal - Besançon, 181.5 km.

Olaf Ludwig: 4hr 26min 53sec
Ron Kiefel s.t.
Jean-Claude Colotti s.t.
Andréas Kappes s.t.
Christophe Lavainne s.t.
Guido Winterberg s.t.
Massimo Ghirotto s.t.
Pascal Lance s.t.
Patrick Jacobs s.t.

GC after Stage 8:

Steve Bauer: 34hr 32min 3sec
Ronen Pensec @ 17sec
Claudio Chiappucci @ 1min 7sec
Frans Massen @ 1min 16sec
Guido Winterberg @ 10min 26sec

Stage 9 , Monday, July 9: Besançon - Geneva, 196 km

Massimo Ghirotto: 4hr 46min 7sec
Eduardo Chozas s.t.
Christophe Lavainne @ 16sec
Brian Holm @ 19sec
Philippe Louviot s.t.
Jörg Muller s.t.
Gilles Delion @ 25sec
Giuseppe Calcaterra @ 27sec
Bjarne Riis s.t.

GC after Stage 9:

Steve Bauer: 39hr 18min 47sec
Frans Maassen @ 1min 6sec

Stage 10 , Tuesday, July 10: Geneva - St. Gervaix (Mont Blanc). 118.5 km

Thierry Claveyrolat: 3hr 24min 31sec
Uwe Ampler @ 1min 54sec
Charly Mottet s.t.
Reynel Montoya @ 2min 10sec
Marino Lejaretta s.t.
Eric Boyer s.t.
Pedro Delgado s.t.
Guido Winterberg @ 2min 11sec
Roberto Conti @ 2min 24sec
Greg LeMond @ 2min 29sec

GC after Stage 10:

Ronan Pensec: 42hr 46min 4sec
Steve Bauer @ 1min 21sec
Frans Maassen @ 2min 27sec
Raul Alcala @ 7min 2sec
Uwe Ampler @ 9min 22sec
Guido Winterberg @ 9min 51sec
Greg LeMond @ 9min 52sec
Sean Kelly @ 9min 58sec
Erik Breukink @ 10min 15sec

Stage 11 , Wednesday, July 11, St. Gervais - L'Alpe d'Huez . 182.5 km

Gianni Bugno: 5hr 37min 51sec
Greg LeMond s.t.
Erik Breukink @ 1sec
Thierry Claveyrolat @ 4sec
Fabio Parra @ 6sec
Abelardo Rondon @ 40sec
Andy Hampsten s.t.
Claude Criquielion @ 47sec
Ronan Pensec @ 48sec

GC after Stage 11:

Ronan Pensec: 48hr 24min 43sec
Claudio Chiappucci @ 1min 28sec
Greg LeMond @ 9min 4sec
Erik Breukink @ 9min 28sec
Gianni Bugno @ 10min 39sec
Pedro Delgado @ 11min 5sec
Claude Criquielion @ 11min 29sec
Raul Alcala @ 11min 55sec
Andy Hampsten @ 13min 45sec
Fabrice Philipot @ 13min 49sec

Stage 12 , Thursday, July 12: Fontaine to Villard de Lans. 33.5 km individual time trial

37.46 average speed for winner Breukink

Claudio Chiappucci took the yellow jersey from Ronan Pensec, freeing teammate Greg LeMond to ride his own race. Chiappucci was the first Italian to wear yellow since Moser, 15 years before.

Erik Breukink: 56min 52sec
Pedro Delgado @ 30sec
Miguel Indurain @ 43sec
Marino Lejaretta @ 54sec
Greg LeMond @ 56sec
Fabio Parra @ 58sec
William Palacio @ 59sec
Johan Bruyneel @ 1min 17sec
Reynel Montoya s.t.

GC after Stage 12:

Claudio Chiappucci: 49hr 24min 8sec
Ronan Pensec @ 1min 17sec
Erik Breukink @ 6min 55sec
Greg LeMond @ 7min 27sec
Pedro Delgado @ 9min 2sec
Raul Alcala @ 10min 44sec
Gianni Bugno @ 10min 48sec
Claude Criquielion @ 11min 23sec
Marino Lejaretta @ 12min 46sec
Andy Hampsten @ 13min 58sec

Stage 13 , Saturday, July 14: Villard-de-Lans - St. Etienne. 149 km.

LeMond sent teammate Ronan Pensac ahead. Chiappucci and the Carrera team chased. LeMond and Breukink counterattacked fiercely when Pensac was caught and left Chiappucci behind, who lost almost 5 minutes.

Eduardo Chozas: 3hr 20min 12sec
Erik Breukink s.t.
Roberto Conti s.t.
Marino Lejaretta @ 30sec
Gianni Bugno s.t.
Miguel Indurain @ 36sec
Dimitri Konyshev @ 3min 8sec

35. Claudio Chiappucci @ 4min 35sec

GC after Stage 13:

Claudio Chiappucci: 52hr 49min 13sec
Erik Breukink @ 2min 2sec
Greg LeMond @ 2min 34sec
Ronan Pensec @ 4min 11sec
Pedro Delgado @ 4min 39sec
Gianni Bugno @ 6min 25sec
Marino Lejaretta @ 8min 23sec
Raul Alcala @ 9min
Andy Hampsten @ 9min 5sec
Claude Criquielion @ 9min 39sec

Stage 14 , Sunday, July 15: Le Puy en Velay- Milau (Causse Noir). 205 km.

Marino Lejaretta broke clear 2 km from the top of the final hill-top finish at Millau.

Marino Lejaretta: 5hr 12min 3sec
Miguel Indurain @ 24sec
Gianni Bugno @ 25sec
Raul Alcala @ 33sec
Greg LeMond @ 34sec
Claude Criquielion s.t.
William Palacio s.t.
Gilles Delion s.t.
Fabio Parra s.t.
Roberto Conti @ 42sec
Claudio Chiappucci @ 47sec

GC after Stage 14:

Claudio Chiappucci: 58hr 2min 3sec
Erik Breukink @ 1min 49sec
Greg LeMond @ 2min 21sec
Pedro Delgado @ 4min 26sec
Ronan Pensec @ 4min 55sec
Gianni Bugno @ 6min 3sec
Marino Lejaretta @ 7min 36sec
Raul Alcala @ 8min 46sec
Claude Criquielion @ 9min 26sec
Andy Hampsten @ 9min 43sec

Stage 15 : Monday, July 16, Milau - Revel, 170 km

Charly Mottet rode the final 31 km alone.

Charly Mottet: 4hr 13min 56sec
Giuseppe Calcaterra @ 2min 2sec
Viatscheslav Ekimov s.t.
Edwig Van Hooydonck s.t.
Thierry Claveyrolat s.t.
Davide Cassani s.t.
Atle Kvalsvoll s.t.
Luc Leblanc s.t.
Oscar de Jésus Vargas s.t.
Bruno Cornillet s.t.

GC after Stage 15:

Claudio Chiappucci: 62hr 20min 47sec
Erik Breukink @ 1min 52sec
Greg LeMond @ 2min 24sec
Pedro Delgado @ 4min 29sec
Ronan Pensec @ 4min 58sec
Gianni Bugno @ 6min 6sec
Marino Lejaretta @ 7min 39sec
Eduardo Chozas @ 8min 14sec
Raul Alcala @ 8min 49sec
Claude Criquielion @ 9min 29sec

Stage 16 : Tuesday, July 17, Blagnac- Luz-Ardiden. 215 km

Miguel Indurain: 7hr 4min 38sec
Greg LeMond @ 6sec
Marino Lejaretta @ 15sec
Juan Martinez-Torres @ 59sec
Fabio Parra @ 1min 18sec
Roberto Conti @ 1min 24sec
Claude Criquielion @ 1min 36sec
Pedro Delgado @ 1min 38sec
Gilles Delion @ 2min

GC after Stage 16:

Claudio Chiappucci: 69hr 27min 50sec
Greg LeMond @ 5sec
Pedro Delgado @ 3min 42sec
Erik Breukink @ 3min 49sec
Marino Lejaretta @ 5min 29sec
Gianni Bugno @ 7min 48sec
Eduardo Chozas @ 7min 49sec
Claude Criquielion @ 8min 40sec
Andy Hampsten @ 9min 34sec
Ronan Pensec @ 11min 21sec

Stage 17 : Wednesday, July 18, Lourdes - Pau. 150 km.

Dimitri Konyshev: 4hr 8min 25sec
Johan Bruyneel @ 1sec
Steve Bauer @ 11sec
Jean-Claude Colotti @ 32sec
Pascal Simon @ 34sec
Dominique Arnaud @ 53sec
Laurent Biondi @ 2min 59sec
Peter Declercq @ 3min 38sec

GC after Stage 17:

Claudio Chiappucci: 73hr 41min 46sec
Fabio Parra @ 11min 30sec

Stage 18 : Thursday, July 19, Pau - Bordeaux. 202 km

Gianni Bugno: 5hr 41min 33sec
Roberto Gusmeroli @ 3sec
Giovanni Fidanza @ 19sec

GC after Stage 18:

Claudio Chiappucci: 79hr 23min 38sec
Erik Breukink @ 3min 31sec
Gianni Bugno @ 7min 29sec

Stage 19 : Friday, July 20, Castillon La Bataille - Limoges. 182.5 km

Guido Bontempi: 5hr 16min 4sec
Dag-Otto Lauritzen @ 1min 28sec
Peter Roes s.t.
Robert Gusmeroli @ 1min 32sec
Jelle Nijdam @ 2min 6sec
Maarten Ducrot @ 2min 15sec
Edwig Van Hooyndonck @ 2min 44sec

GC after stage 19:

Claudio Chiappucci: 84hr 45min 46sec

Stage 20 : Saturday, July 21, Lac de Vassivère 45.5 km individual time trial.

Erik Breukink: 1hr 2min 40sec
Raul Alcala @ 28sec
Marino Lejaretta @ 38sec
Miguel Indurain @ 40sec
Greg LeMond @ 57sec
Pello Ruiz-Cabestany @ 1min 28sec
Dag-Otto Lauritzen @ 2min 1sec
Pedro Delgado @ 2min 21sec
Philippe Louviot @ 2min 26sec
Luc Leblanc @ 2min 27sec

GC after Stage 20:

Greg LeMond: 85hr 49min 28sec
Claudio Chiappucci @ 2min 16sec
Erik Breukink @ 2min 29sec
Pedro Delgado @ 5min 1sec
Marino Lejaretta @ 5min 5sec
Eduardo Chozas @ 9min 14sec
Gianni Bugno @ 9min 39sec
Raul Alcala @ 11min 14sec
Claude Criquielion @ 12min 4sec
Miguel Indurain @ 12min 47sec

Stage 21 : Sunday, July 21, Bretigny sur Orge - Paris, 182.5 km

Johan Museeuw: 4hr 53min 52sec
Phil Anderson s.t.

1990 Tour de France complete final General Classification

The Story of the 1990 Tour de France

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LeMond had always made it clear that he did not think that the European professional cycling culture of year-round asceticism was right for him. He felt that a life was to be lived. In the off season this could manifest itself in a visible loss of form. At the start of the 1990 season LeMond was noticeably overweight. The situation was not improved when he had a bout of mononucleosis (Brits call it glandular fever).

On the plus side, for the first time in his career, LeMond had a strong team that was dedicated to him. There were no split loyalties of the sort both he and Stephen Roche had been forced to deal with in earlier years. And unlike his 1989 ADR team, his new team, sponsored by a children's clothing company "Z", had riders who could assist him during the entire Tour. His "Z" helpers included climber Robert Millar, and all-around strongmen Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (a future 2-time Paris–Roubaix winner) and Ronan Pensec. These were good men to have on one's side.

While there may have been justifiable worries about LeMond's fitness to contest the Tour de France, these fears were almost immediately put to rest with the Prologue time trial. Thierry Marie, who made a habit of winning these mini-time trials, won this one. LeMond was second at only 4 seconds. Raul Alcala scored third with just about the same time. Fignon was fifteenth at 19 seconds.

The first stage was one of those dopey stages in which a break of good riders, generally thought to be General Classification non-threats, was allowed to get away. The pack must have had a day of non compos mentis because this was a group of good racers

Claudio Chiappucci, who never had any regard for conservative tactics, took off when the first stage was only 6 kilometers old. Steve Bauer, Ronan Pensec and Frans Maassen quickly joined him. For the first 30 kilometers the quartet was only able to squeeze out a 30-second lead. Then, as is often the case, the peloton relented in its chase, perhaps slowed by a crash that took Pedro Delgado down. The lead increased and by the end of the stage the pack was 10 minutes, 35 seconds behind the 4 speedy adventurers. All of these riders except Chiappucci were well known quantities. Bauer was fourth in the 1988 Tour. Pensec had a sixth and a seventh in his past Tours. They were tough riders who would probably surrender their time in the high mountains only after a tough fight. But Chiappucci?

So far, Chiappucci had shown himself to be a competent but unspectacular racer. The previous year he was forty-sixth in the Giro and eighty-first in the Tour. He did manage to win the Giro del Piemonte and score a second in the hilly Giro del Trentino. This year he had improved, with a seventh in Paris–Nice and a commendable twelfth in the Giro. This did not seem to be the stuff of a Tour contender on the level of Fignon or Delgado. But wait, Chiappucci was King of the Mountains in this year's Giro. Hmmm…

Bauer was in Yellow yet again. The General Classification now stood thus:

As the Tour went clockwise across northern France and then headed south for the Alps, the general situation remained unchanged, with the stage 1 breakaway quartet sitting on top of the leader board and Bauer in Yellow. A crash in stage 4 cost Robert Millar over 9 minutes and effectively eliminated this winner of the 1990 Dauphiné from contention.

Raul Alcala blistered the stage 7 time trial with Miguel Indurain second to him at a distant 1 minute, 24 seconds. LeMond picked up some time on the 4 breakaways, he was now 10 minutes, 9 seconds behind Bauer. Fignon, again unable to ride well, abandoned. The important news of the time trial was that the 4 stage-1 breakaways had ridden credible time trials. The closest rider to the top 4 was Raul Alcala and he was still over 7 minutes behind Bauer.

Stage 10, with its finish at the Le Bettex ski station, saw the first casualty of the Gang of Four. Bauer finished fiftieth, 4 minutes, 7 seconds behind stage winner Thierry Claveyrolat who had taken off early in search of Hot Spot sprint points and then stayed away to the finish. Behind, on the final climb, an aggressive Delgado blew up the chasing group but wasn't able to gain more than 19 seconds on the other contenders. More importantly for the moment, Bauer had come in behind Pensec and Chiappucci. The pair finished in the LeMond group which included Rooks, Alcala, Gianni Bugno, Miguel Indurain and Andy Hampsten. The Yellow Jersey was now the property of LeMond's teammate Ronan Pensec.

LeMond continued to chew away at the deficit in little bites. Stage 11 crossed the Glandon, the Madeleine and finished atop L'Alpe d'Huez. Gianni Bugno and LeMond finished with the same time, with Erik Breukink just off their wheels. Pensec lost 48 seconds and Chiappucci lost 1 minute, 48 seconds. Pensec was still in Yellow with an increased lead over Chiappucci.

The standings after the major Alpine climbing was finished:

Stage 12 is where it starts to get really interesting. The 33.5-kilometer individual time trial included a second category climb and ended Ronan Pensec's hopes of taking the Yellow Jersey to Paris. Erik Breukink continued to display his fine form by winning the stage with Delgado only 30 seconds back. LeMond was fifth at 56 seconds. Chiappucci showed he was made of stern stuff with an eighth place, 1 minute, 5 seconds behind Breukink and only 9 seconds slower then LeMond. Pensec was forty-ninth at 3 minutes, 50 seconds. That at least ended any split ambitions in the team. Pensec was now riding for LeMond.

The General Classification at this point:

Chiappucci had the Yellow Jersey and the Tour had a day of rest. Keeping the Yellow Jersey would be a real challenge as Breukink, Delgado, LeMond, Hampsten and the others with high General Classification ambitions continued their bellicosity when the race resumed. The very next day into the Massif Central, stage 13, Chiappucci missed the crucial break that included LeMond, Breukink, and Delgado, and lost almost 5 minutes. Doing a lot of the chasing himself, Chiappucci had at one point closed to within 33 seconds. But getting almost no help from the other teams, making contact with the talented riders ahead of him was an almost impossible task. Well, he was the Yellow Jersey and it wasn't the job of the other teams to defend it for him.

Breukink, who was having the Tour of his life, had pulled within 2 minutes, 2 seconds of Chiappucci, and LeMond was just a tad further back at 2 minutes, 34 seconds. If LeMond wanted the win, he had to get by both Chiappucci and a beautifully riding Erik Breukink.

In stage 14 Breukink and LeMond took a small bite out of Chiappucci, about 10 seconds. If they could keep up the pressure, the small Italian would just bleed little dabs of time all over France. Would Chiappucci run out of Tour before he ran out of time?

Stage 16 to Luz Ardiden with the Aspin and the Tourmalet in the middle decided the Tour and showed that both LeMond and Chiappucci were athletes worthy of admiration.

Chiappucci decided on a gigantic roll of the dice. He couldn't let LeMond and Breukink continue to ride their race, forcing him to give up time each stage. He attacked as soon as the race hit the first major climb, the Aspin, taking 6 others with him. Again Chiappucci was stuck, being forced to do all the work. He took off and was first over the summit, 34 seconds ahead of the first group. Chiappucci pressed on and by the time he was halfway up the Tourmalet he had extended his lead to 3 minutes, 20 seconds. LeMond grew alarmed. If Chiappucci held this much lead by the end of the day he would probably be able to withstand any assault LeMond could mount with only 1 mountain stage and 1 time trial left.

LeMond dropped all but Delgado and Indurain as he attacked to get back on terms with the small, tough Italian. By distancing himself from Breukink at this point, he potentially eliminated his only other real threat.

LeMond did a kamikaze descent, making up a whole minute, and closed the gap to Chiappucci. There was now a small group in the lead that included Indurain, Fabio Parra and Marino Lejarreta. On the final climb to Luz Ardiden, after riding hard at the front as long as he could, Chiappucci had to surrender when Fabio Parra attacked. LeMond and Indurain were among the small group who went with Parra. Near the finish Indurain attacked and LeMond had to let him go.

Indurain won the stage with LeMond only 6 seconds back. Chiappucci came in fourteenth, 2 minutes, 25 seconds behind Indurain. That left Chiappucci with only a 5-second lead, a very slim hold on the Yellow Jersey with a time trial coming up.

The last stage in the mountains with the Aubisque and the Marie-Blanque changed nothing at the top of the standings. Breukink, LeMond and Chiappucci finished with the same time. LeMond had a scare, however. On the Marie-Blanque Chiappucci and Delgado attacked. Seconds later LeMond flatted. He got a slow wheel change and then had to change his bike. With the 2 challengers up the road, LeMond chased with a surprising fury. His descent down the mountain was frighteningly fast. LeMond was a truly skilled descender and this time he put those abilities to use. The race marshal on the motor bike said that he had never seen a descent like LeMond's that day. Up ahead Chiappucci had 4 Carrera teammates helping him while further back the 4 "Z" riders who were with LeMond could mostly just hang on while the World Champion blasted down the road. Eventually contact was made and LeMond made known his displeasure with the others that their forcing an attack while he was getting a repair was not sportsmanlike. Later LeMond said that he truly feared at that moment that the race was lost.

With some good fortune and some smart riding, LeMond had things where he wanted them. He was to face a man with a 5-second lead who never shown any special flair for riding against the clock.

The stage 20 45.5-kilometer individual time trial played out exactly as LeMond had hoped and Chiappucci had dreaded.

LeMond had won his third Tour, this time without ever winning a stage.

The final 1990 Tour de France General Classification:

Climbers' Competition:

Points Competition:

There was an interesting addition to this Tour. A team of Soviet riders sponsored by Alfa-Lum came and did very well. Dmitri Konyshev won stage 17. Two other riders on this team would make a serious impression on the European pro circuit over time: Piotr Ugrumov and Djamolodine Abdoujaparov. East German Olaf Ludwig, riding for Panasonic, won the Green Jersey. Alcala's stage 7 time trial victory was the first Tour stage win by a Mexican. Times were changing.

More than one writer at the time speculated that if Miguel Indurain had ridden for himself instead of for Delgado, he probably would have won the Tour. Who knows?

1990 Tour de France: results and classification

General classification of the 1990 tour de france, jerseys of the 1990 tour de france, stages of the 1990 tour de france.

Prologue (Futuroscope - Futuroscope, 6.3 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 1 (Futuroscope - Futuroscope, 138.5 km)

Stage 2 (Futuroscope - Futuroscope, 44.5 km in Team Time Trial)

Stage 3 (Poitiers - Nantes, 233 km)

Stage 4 (Nantes - Mont St Michel, 203 km)

Stage 5 (Avranches - Rouen, 301 km)

Stage 6 (Sarrebourg - Vittel, 202.5 km)

Stage 7 (Vittel - Epinal, 61.5 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 8 (Epinal - Besançon, 181.5 km)

Stage 9 (Besançon - Genève, 196 km)

Stage 10 (Genève - St Gervais/Mont Blanc, 118.5 km)

Stage 11 (St Gervais - Alpe d'Huez, 182.5 km)

Stage 12 (Fontaine - Villard de Lans, 33.5 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 13 (Villard de Lans - St Etienne, 149 km)

Stage 14 (Le Puy en Velay - Millau/Causse noir, 205 km)

Stage 15 (Millau - Revel, 170 km)

Stage 16 (Blagnac - Luz Ardiden, 215 km)

Stage 17 (Lourdes - Pau, 150 km)

Stage 18 (Pau - Bordeaux, 202 km)

Stage 19 (Castillon la Bataille - Limoges, 182.5 km)

Stage 20 (Lac de Vassivière - Lac de Vassivière, 45.5 km in Individual Time Trial)

Stage 21 (Brétigny - Paris/Champs Elysées, 182.5 km)

Championship and cup winners
Club honours
World Cup: results of all matches
Winners of the most important cycling races
Tour de France winners (yellow jersey)
Best sprinters (green jersey)
Best climbers (polka dot jersey)
Best young riders (white jersey)
Tour de France: Stage winners
Australian Open: Men's singles
Australian Open: Women's singles
Australian Open: Men's doubles
Australian Open: Women's doubles
Australian Open: Mixed doubles
French Open: Men's singles
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Showing brilliant form, Greg LeMond and Erik Breukink emerged from one of the most intense stages the Tour de France has seen in recent years, as the leading contenders to win the race’s 77th edition. By regaining almost five minutes of their seven-minute deficit on race leader Claudio Chiappucci, they showed that the Italian was unlikely to hold the yellow jersey much longer.

This Bastille Day stage was only 149km long, but it was so full of action and dramatic twists that race followers were left bemused and dazzled by the action. From the start in Villard-de-Lans, to the finish in St. Etienne, the attacks and counterattacks zoomed out like the fireworks that would conclude the celebrations on this French national holiday.

The stage was finally won by Eduardo Chozas of ONCE, but it was an attack by LeMond — 43km from the stage end — that caused the Tour to take a dramatic new tum. On a short climb out of the solid, stone-built town of Aubenas, LeMond made the move that blew the race apart.

At that point, Chiappucci and his Carrera team had been stretched to their limits in chasing a 30-man break containing LeMond’s second-placed teammate Ronan Pensec. When this group gained 90 seconds on a short, winding climb away from the Rhone Valley, the Frenchman had overcome his overnight deficit of 1:17, forcing Chiappucci himself to join his team in the pursuit. Their chase was successful, but with the gap still at 10 seconds on the six remaining leaders, LeMond counterattacked with Breukink.

The exhausted Chiappucci couldn’t follow. Pedro Delgado was also taken by surprise, although his Banesto teammate Miguel Indurain managed to catch the flying LeMond and Breukink, as did Andrew Hampsten a few moments later. The 7-Eleven leader described what happened: “l saw LeMond go, and then Breukink. I was watching Delgado, but he didn’t react. I think he was waiting for the Carreras to chase — but only Acacio Da Silva was working. I jumped with Boyer where the road was curvy. He wouldn’t pull at first. Then he did, and we got there pretty quickly.”

LeMond and Breukink were riding in tandem to establish as big a lead as possible before reaching the difficult Croix de Chabouret climb, less than 12km away. In so doing, they swept up the six riders ahead of them, and took a 90-second lead over the Delgado-Chiappucci group by the foot of the hill.

There, with the tar melting from a burning sun, Delgado counterattacked with Gianni Bugno, Marino Lejarreta and the young French rider, Fabrice Philipot of Castorama. But yellow jersey Chiappucci had nothing left. He was even dropped by a second chase group, and rode most of the 12km climb on his own. And Pensec, whose attack had opened the way for teammate LeMond’s startling move, was even farther back.

Midway up the Chabouret climb, where huge Bastille Day crowds left only a narrow passage for the riders, the Delgado-Bugno-Lejaneta group was still 75 seconds behind, and looked unlikely to make much more progress on the leaders. But Banesto director Jose-Miguel Echavarri then ordered Indurain to wait for his team captain, and this extra firepower enabled them to close the gap to 20 seconds by the 4000-foot summit.

The pursuit match continued on the technically demanding descent into St. Etienne between LeMond (followed by Breukink, Hampsten, Chozas and Conti) and Indurain (towing Delgado, Bugno and Lejarreta). LeMond, who was opening gaps on his companions on every curve of the fast descent (he covered the last 18km in 17 minutes), increased his advantage to 30 seconds by the finish. The world champion waved the others through to contest the sprint on the wide Cours Fauriel, where the 30-year-old Chozas just outsped Breukink despite swerving to avoid the wall of photographers beyond the line. It was the fourth Tour de France stage win for Chozas, but his first in a sprint.

Behind, the race had been split into 10 separate groups — with Chiappucci coming in with the third (4:53 down) and Pensec with the sixth (at 7:47). Despite the several hills and intense heat — many riders were suffering from dehydration — the stage has been completed at a near record speed of 44.655 kph.

Part of that figure was caused by a super-rapid start by Phil Anderson. The TVM rider attacked as soon as the flag dropped and covered the last 34km in 39 minutes before getting caught by the pack that was intent on getting to St. Etienne as quickly as possible.

Two more breaks flowered and died before the halfway point, where the seeds were sown for the 30-man break that thrust Pensec into the lead. Three men started it, joined by 10 others (including Bauer) and then by the rest (including Pensec and 7-Eleven’s Andy Bishop), as the race crossed the Rhône River at Sarras. Each time, the Carreras had chased down the breaks. But this last one would prove their undoing.

Stage 13: Villard-de-Lans-St. Etienne, 149km, July 14.

l. Eduardo Chozas (Sp). ONCE, 3:20:12 (44.655 kph) 2. Breukink 3. Hampsten 3. Contr 5. LeMond, all s.t. 6. Lejarreta at 0:30 7. Delgado 8. Bugno, both s.t. 9. Indurain, at 0:36 10. Dmrtri Konyshev (USSR), Alfa Lum, at 3:09 11. Holm 12. Miguel Martinez-Torres (Sp), ONCE 13. Criquielion 14. Guy Nulens (B), Panasonic-Sportlife 15. Piotr Ugrumov (USSR), Alfa Lum 16. Delion 17. Robeet 18. Philipot 19. Ruiz-Cabestany 20. Palacio, all s.t.

Others: 23. Alcala, at 3:09 35. Chiappucci, at 4:53 42. Bauer, s.t. 76. Pensec, at 7:47 79. Kiefel, at 10:12 83. Lauritzen, s.t. 103. Bishop, at 12:26 105. Alvis, s.t. 136. Phinney, at 17:28 142. Roll 153. Yates, both s.t.

Overall: 1. Chiappucci, 52:49:13 2. Breukink, at 2:02 3. LeMond, at 2:34 4. Pensec, at 4:11 5. Delgado, at 4:39

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Start, finish: Stage 1. Futuroscope - Futuroscope

Race Type: Sprint stage

Distance: 138.5 km

Date: 1 July 1990

Classic Races: Tour de France 1990

30 June 1990 77th Tour de France Prologue : Futuroscope - Futuroscope 2nd : LEMOND Greg (USA) Z Photo : Yuzuru SUNADA / Slide

An early escape turned the 1990 Tour into a three-week game of catch-up for reigning champ Greg LeMond. Would he recapture last year’s triumph or had he left it too late?

Words Lionel Birnie Photos: Graham Watson, Yuzuru Sunada Additional interviews: Edward Pickering, Chris Sidwells, Gregor Brown

No one was expecting a repeat of the drama of the previous year, when the Tour de France was decided in the final metres on the Champs-Elysées. But the 1990 Tour was just as gripping, albeit in a different way.

Instead of a final-day showdown, there was a three-week pursuit around France. And all because the contenders wanted to save their legs on the first Sunday. With a team time trial to come in the afternoon, four riders gained 10 minutes during the morning’s road stage. And it took almost three weeks to get that time back.

Uncertain future

The Tour began at Futuroscope, a futuristic theme park near Poitiers, intended to showcase French technology and innovation. This being a late-1980s vision of the future, it had a surreal feel that wasn’t eased by the fact it was out in the middle of nowhere.

Futuroscope had hosted a time trial in the 1987 Tour de France, shortly after the park opened. Now the owners had paid £500,000 to stage the opening weekend. “It was like something from space,” says Frans Maassen, the Dutch rider with the Buckler team. “It was strange and there were bits of it that were still like a building site.”

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Before the race, French newspaper L’Equipe was anticipating another showdown between Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon, the two men separated by just eight seconds in Paris the year before. LeMond, the reigning world champion, had not won a race since taking the rainbow jersey in Chambéry the previous August, while Fignon was horribly out of form. The two had been sniping at one another. Fignon said: “Greg’s tactics don’t change. He always bases his race on following the most dangerous rider on general classification, never attacks, and saves himself for the time trials.”

The other two firm favourites for the race were 1988 champion Pedro Delgado, and Erik Breukink of Holland.

Thierry Marie, a team-mate of Fignon’s on the Castorama squad, won the prologue. The favourites just wanted to settle down and negotiate the dangers of a flat, potentially windy opening week before the first serious battle came in the time trial at Epinal. As it turned out, the race was to take an unusual twist perfectly in keeping with the alien surroundings of the prologue.

Opinion split

On the first Sunday there were two stages, as was common at the time. In the morning was a 138-kilometre loop, followed by a 45-kilometre team time trial in the afternoon. Most of the riders disliked the split stages because there was very little time to recover before having to ride in a hard, specialist discipline. For Steve Bauer, this presented an opportunity.

“When you have a team time trial in the afternoon, you don’t have the same commitment from the teams in the morning,” said the Canadian, who rode for 7-Eleven. “Everyone knows that if you have a bad team time trial you can lose a couple of minutes, so no one really wants to go into it feeling tired already. My tactic was simple: attack and hope that there wasn’t the stomach for a big chase. I did exactly the same thing in 1988 when I attacked in the morning stage, won and got the yellow jersey. I wanted to use it to my advantage again. I told myself that I had to be in every break. You don’t want to miss the one that eventually goes.”

Claudio Chiappucci, a 27-year-old Italian rider with the Carrera team, was virtually unknown outside his home country but, after a solid Giro d’Italia, he had his eyes on an early spell in the King of the Mountains jersey.

“We planned the escape,” he says. “When we arrived in France we examined the [route] book and I saw there was a chance to get away, win the points for the King of Mountains and get on the podium on the first day.”

As soon as the flag dropped at the end of the neutralised zone, the attacks started. Even with the team time trial looming, everyone was eager and fresh. Bauer had positioned himself right at the front on the start line so he could see everything happening in front of him. There’s a touch of alchemy in the way a successful break forms. It takes boldness, persistence and a stroke of luck to be in the right place at the right time. But not until the combination of riders and circumstances is perfect will the break turn to gold.

Chiappucci and Bauer were joined by Maassen and Frenchman Ronan Pensec, a team-mate of LeMond’s in the Z squad. The gap was small to start with, just 30 seconds or so, and it stayed like that for 20 or 30 kilometres. The bunch could see the riders ahead but couldn’t bring them back.

Maassen rode for Buckler, run by Jan Raas. “We did the Tour of Sweden just before the Tour,” says Maassen. “We won four stages but we made a silly tactical mistake and lost the race overall to an amateur rider [Dimitri Zhdanov of Russia]. Raas was angry about that. He was often angry about things. Sweden was not a really important race so maybe he was angry about it to motivate us for the Tour. Before the race he kept saying how important it was for us to have a good start. We had a new sponsor [Buckler, a non-alcoholic beer] and Raas wanted to impress them.”

The chase was disorganised and the gap was just big enough to discourage anyone from trying to bridge across, the effect of which would have been to drag the whole peloton up. In the escape, no one dared look back for fear of seeing the bunch upon them. It became a case of willpower. Could the escapees keep the pace up until the bunch sat up?

“We were drilling it but we knew in our minds we couldn’t keep that pace up for ever,” says Bauer. “It became a case of who was going to break first? Us, or the peloton? We didn’t want to give up but it was getting to the point where we were pushing very hard and getting nowhere. I don’t know what was happening behind but eventually they stopped chasing and suddenly, boom, we had five, six, seven minutes.”

Back in the bunch, no one wanted to work for fear of compromising their team time trial. LeMond’s Z team had the perfect excuse — they had Pensec in the lead. Castorama, who were supposed to be defending Marie’s yellow jersey, had their minds on the afternoon stage. Panasonic, run by Peter Post, who was Raas’ nemesis, hated the fact a Buckler rider was up the road. But they, too, were saving themselves. That left PDM, who had Breukink and Raul Alcala as their leaders. They took on the bulk of the work but only once the gap had reached 15 minutes, by which time it was damage-limitation time.

“I was really worried Panasonic would chase,” says Maassen.

“I was sure they wouldn’t let me get away because we always had big bells [ding-dong battles] with them. In those days it was always Post against Raas. It cost me a lot of races. I heard from some guys afterwards that Post was very angry with them that I had been allowed to get away.”

Chiappucci achieved his goal, winning both of the climbs to take the lead in the King of the Mountains competition. Bauer knew he had ridden the best prologue time trial of the four. However, Maassen won the time bonus at the first intermediate sprint and Bauer knew that if the Dutchman won the stage, he’d also take the yellow jersey.

“I made sure I won the last bonus sprint because then I just had to finish with Maassen and I’d get the jersey,” he says. “My main goal was to get the yellow jersey but once I’d made pretty sure of it I did start to think about the stage as well.”

On the run-in, Pensec stopped working. Even for Z the lead had grown a little uncomfortable. By now Maassen felt the pressure to win. “I was worried about Bauer,” he says. “Chiappucci I knew nothing about. I hadn’t heard of him but I thought ‘well, he’s Italian, he’s a little guy, I think I’m going to be faster’.”

Bauer and Maassen had a chat — each was most worried about the other.

“I felt Maassen was the strongest,” says Bauer. “I didn’t think Pensec was going to try to pull a sprint after he’d sat on the back for the last bit. I said to Frans that if he attacked I wouldn’t chase him.” Bauer hoped that Maassen would attack first, forcing Chiappucci to close the gap and giving him the chance to spring past. It didn’t quite work out. Instead, the crafty Maassen waited, forcing Bauer to lead it out, and then the Dutchman came past to win the stage.

The bunch came in 10 minutes and 35 seconds later.

It was a huge gap and however much the likes of LeMond tried to play it down, it was to shape the entire race.

“People these days wonder why we let a four-man break with Chiappucci and the rest go up the road,” says Delgado. “But, frankly, things like that happened all the time in the Tour in those days. It wasn’t so finely calculated as it is now. Also, in 1990, there wasn’t a clear ‘patron’. We all sat around, as it were, waiting for somebody else to start doing the hard work. And nobody did.”

Bauer, fourth overall in 1988, was suddenly being talked of as a contender. He certainly wasn’t the sort of rider you could allow such a head start to. Pensec was also a danger. He was a reasonable climber, and had been sixth overall in 1986, and seventh in 1988. Maassen was not a danger. He couldn’t climb or time trial well enough. But no one paid much heed to Chiappucci. Just a small name. An Italian rider on a Carrera team that had seen better days.

No one suspected it would take the best part of three weeks to reel him in.

Tiny advantage

As he tried to recover for the afternoon’s time trial, Bauer was concerned that the tiny, two-second advantage he held over Maassen would not be enough. On paper, Buckler should have been faster than 7-Eleven. Like the other Dutch teams, Panasonic and PDM, they had made team time trialling a speciality. “I was convinced I would take the yellow jersey in the afternoon,” says Maassen. “The gap was only two seconds. I knew 7-Eleven were strong but I thought we were stronger.”

Powered by Sean Yates, 7-Eleven finished sixth, eight seconds in front of Buckler. “Sean could go toe-to-toe with anyone in the world in the team time trial,” says Bauer. “I certainly didn’t have the full sharpness after the morning stage but I am not one to skip turns. The inspiration of riding in the yellow jersey and knowing you have to go very fast otherwise someone is going to take it meant we gave it everything we had.”

Maassen was devastated. “That evening I didn’t celebrate at all. No Champagne, nothing. It was special to be in the break and win the stage but at the time I was so upset not to get the yellow jersey. You know the chance to wear it maybe comes only once in your career. That was my chance.”

To make matters worse, Panasonic won the team time trial. You could say the match ended one-one between Panasonic and Buckler but for Raas it felt like they’d led for 90 minutes before conceding a last-minute equaliser.

Fignon floored

The first week was long and difficult. Fignon crashed on the stage to Nantes, prompting Robert Millar to say: “He’s going badly. He’s always at the back when it gets hard. First possible excuse he gets, he’ll pack.”

There were crashes on the run-in to the stage to Mont Saint Michel, off the coast of Normandy, and then the riders braced themselves for a 301-kilometre stage from Avranches to Rouen. In the rain. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Fignon. He went home.

At Epinal, LeMond did not do as well as expected. Raul Alcala, the Mexican, won the 61-kilometre time trial by almost a minute-and-a-half from Miguel Indurain. It was an immense performance and had people touting him as the man to beat. LeMond was only fifth, just 15 seconds quicker than his team-mate Pensec.

“I was surprised how well Pensec did,” says Bauer, who retained the yellow jersey by just 17 seconds. “He did a brilliant ride. After I’d finished I was a bit disappointed. I was a bit too conservative that day. I wasn’t really super, certainly not as good as I was in 1988, but I felt I could have squeezed a bit more out of myself.”

Alcala may have been more than seven minutes behind Bauer, but he was now 2-50 ahead of LeMond. However, suddenly being in such a strong position may have been his downfall. Alcala liked to be the underdog, and his position as the outright favourite began to weigh heavily on him.

As the race reached the Alps, Bauer faded. “Maybe the mountains were too tall for me that year,” he says. “Holding the jersey for so long definitely took some snap out of me. I wasn’t following the best guys. I’m not like a top, top climber.

I could hold my own when I was absolutely super but I wasn’t quite there.”

At Mont Blanc, Bauer was dropped and saw the lead pass to Pensec. “I found it most interesting, that shift of attention when you’ve lost the jersey, it’s quite dramatic,” he says. “People always ask what wearing the yellow jersey is like and it’s incredible but I don’t think you realise what it means until you lose it. It’s an icon and people are drawn to it. When you have it, you have no time to yourself. Everyone wants a photo or an interview but the morning after you’ve lost it you can cruise around the start village and no one gives a shit. I remember really reflecting on that difference very vividly.”

Pensec took the yellow jersey on his 27th birthday but was under no illusions that he was the Z team’s best chance of winning the Tour, despite what the French press said.

“It was a thrill but I also knew my place. I knew I could never win and that Greg was the team leader,” he says. However, for a couple of days, the Z team had split responsibilities. Most of the team remained assigned to LeMond, but Robert Millar looked after Pensec, pacing him on Alpe d’Huez to defend the jersey. “He worked especially hard for me that day, encouraging me, and I hope he knows how much that means to me.”

As those who knew him suspected he might, Alcala blew up spectacularly on Alpe d’Huez. A dangerous move went clear on the Col du Glandon. LeMond, Delgado, Miguel Indurain and Gianni Bugno broke away and PDM missed it. They gave chase on the descent and then Sean Kelly dragged Alcala and Breukink to within striking distance of the leaders. Breukink remained calm, whereas Alcala was all fidgety and nervous, worrying that his chance to win the Tour was slipping away. When it came to the lower slopes of the Alpe, Alcala was spent and he lost more than five minutes.

“In a way it helped me that we were behind,” says Breukink. “I knew the leaders were not too far ahead and I didn’t panic. It meant I could ride the climb at my own rhythm. I was passing people all the way and that gives you a lot more confidence.”

When Breukink won the mountain time trial to Villard de Lans the following day, he became the favourite. “The climb was good for me, not too steep, and I was climbing well. When I won, I thought I could win the Tour, especially when I saw that I’d beaten LeMond by a minute.”

The ride of the day was by Chiappucci, who finished just nine seconds behind LeMond and took yellow. Time was running out for Breukink and LeMond to close the seven-minute gap.

Cracking Chiappucci

No one could guarantee Chiappucci would crack. While it was true he was an unknown quantity, he had shown in the Alps that he could limit his losses effectively. There was just one summit finish remaining, at Luz-Ardiden in the Pyrenees, and the final time trial at Lac de Vassivière, on a very demanding course that LeMond knew well, having won there in 1985.

Even if LeMond and Breukink could be confident of taking three minutes in the time trial — and that was far from a certainty — it still left a lot of time to make up, and few opportunities to do it.

After the rest day came the 13th stage, from Villard de Lans to St Etienne. It was not long, just 149 kilometres, and it featured just a second-category climb, the Col de la Croix de Chaubouret, but LeMond and his team-mates decided to pile pressure on Chiappucci and hope to catch him cold.

“The stage is one I feel goes unnoticed when people write about the 1990 Tour,” says Pensec, who was now second overall. “I attacked straight away and got a breakaway going which meant that Chiappucci’s team had to chase the whole time.”

It wasn’t until the foot of the Col de la Croix de Chaubouret that Pensec’s group was caught. Chiappucci’s team were tired and the Italian was left exposed. He’d been worked over good and proper.

“I lacked experience and friends in the peloton,” he says. LeMond attacked, Breukink and a few others followed and they quickly gained time. For long spells Chiappucci was all by himself. At the finish Eduardo Chozas of Spain won the stage but Breukink and LeMond were more interested in the time gap. By the time Chiappucci arrived in a group of a dozen or so riders, almost five minutes had elapsed.

“That was a super-fast stage,” says Breukink. “I knew I had to be aware because LeMond’s team were attacking from the start, including LeMond himself. People say LeMond was a defensive rider, that he didn’t attack, but he was very intelligent. He was strong but he didn’t waste it. Instead he waited for the moment. The stages around

St Etienne are always hard, especially when it’s hot. Chiappucci would have been expecting an attack in the Pyrenees but we had to try to get some time when he wasn’t expecting it.”

Delgado says: “LeMond was a great strategist. He just waited and waited for his moment throughout the entire Tour and then pounced. His rivals were far less experienced than him, or plain unlucky, like I was. Bugno and Indurain were on the point of breaking into the big time but hadn’t quite made it. Breukink couldn’t handle the heat.

At the same time, LeMond had all the luck in the world. If it hadn’t been for that stage to St Etienne, I’m still convinced Chiappucci would have won the Tour.

It was a good attack but I sat there, waiting for Chiappucci to go for it. And he didn’t react. I couldn’t understand it. That was the beginning of the end — he missed a move he shouldn’t have.”

Still fighting

Although severely compromised, Chiappucci refused to lie down. The crucial stage was going to be a Pyrenean monster, 215 kilometres from Blagnac to Luz-Ardiden, crossing the Aspin and the Tourmalet. With just two minutes’ lead, he was now vulnerable. More or less everyone now accepted that the Tour was either LeMond’s or Breukink’s. It would be close but there was no way Chiappucci would defend that lead in the time trial.

So Chiappucci decided to attack on the Col d’Aspin, breaking clear with a group and turning the spotlight on LeMond instead. It was insouciant riding and the French fans were delighted.

Breukink suffered a disastrous day. He punctured before the Aspin and had to change his bike twice. Because of the aggressive racing up ahead, he struggled to get back in touch and then, five kilometres from the top of the Tourmalet, he blew.

By now Chiappucci was becoming more than a minor irritation to LeMond. Although the gap was never more than two minutes, it was seriously harming LeMond’s chances. It wasn’t until the town of Luz St Sauveur, at the foot of Luz-Ardiden, that LeMond’s group caught Chiappucci’s. LeMond and Indurain went clear and the American seemed, at long last, deep into the final week, to be on his way to into yellow.

However, Chiappucci clung on to the lead by his fingertips. It had taken 15 stages for LeMond to recover 10 minutes. He now had five days to get the final five seconds.

Never give up

LeMond was now clearly on course for his third Tour de France title but Chiappucci prolonged the suspense. Even with his lead hacked away to almost nothing, he was still upbeat.

Max Sciandri, his team-mate, was riding his first Tour. “Every night we were having champagne and people said ‘Hey, it’s not always like this, you know’. For me, it was strange. I was just trying to survive the Tour and although

I tried to help him where I could, there was a limit to what I could do. People love it when the yellow jersey attacks, and he was a very optimistic guy. He probably knew he wasn’t going to win, but he wasn’t going to give up.”

However, during the final stage in the Pyrenees, Chiappucci angered LeMond with a piece of riding that was a violation of the unwritten rules.

Even though it wasn’t strictly necessary, with the time trial still to come, LeMond wanted to gain some more time and take the yellow jersey if possible. The 17th stage from Lourdes to Pau went over the Aubisque and the Marie Blanque but there was a long descent and flat run-in to the finish.

The plan was to put a couple of Z riders — Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle and Atle Kvalsvoll — in the early break, then for LeMond to attack Chiappucci on the climb, make contact with his team-mates and pull out some more time on the flat.

As they reached the Marie Blanque, Duclos-Lassalle and Kvalsvoll were in a group that was more than seven minutes ahead. They were over the top and on the way down the other side when LeMond punctured on the climb. At that moment, Chiappucci, with several Carrera team-mates, accelerated.

LeMond had just two men with him — Eric Boyer and Jerome Simon — so Roger Legeay, the Z manager in the team car behind LeMond radioed ahead to Serge Beucherie, who was following the lead group and told him to get Duclos-Lassalle and Kvalsvoll to stop and wait.

“At first we turned round and started to ride back up the course, but they stopped us from doing that because it was against the rules,” says the Norwegian Kvalsvoll. “So we had to wait, for seven minutes. We saw Chiappucci’s group come past and then a minute-and-a-half later Greg was approaching. There were five of us chasing and we all worked, including Greg. It took us quite a while to catch them and I’d never seen Greg so mad. When we caught them, he wanted to attack straight away but we managed to calm him down.”

LeMond was livid that Chiappucci had sought to exploit his misfortune although Breukink is willing to give the Italian the benefit of the doubt. “Maybe Claudio already had it in his mind to attack at that moment,” he says. “It was the last difficult mountain of the race and even though there were still 50 kilometres to go he was entitled to attack if that was his plan, I guess.”

Would Breukink have done the same?

“I don’t think I’d want to win the Tour like that. I knew LeMond had punctured. Of course there was no way we were going to wait with LeMond, we had to follow Chiappucci, but we didn’t work.”

Cutting the deficit

Greg LeMond became the first rider to win the Tour without taking a stage since Lucien Aimar in 1966. Some cited that as evidence of the negative riding Fignon talked about but for three weeks, he was racing to catch up with someone who had been allowed a 10-minute lead.

Breukink won the Lac de Vassivière time trial to take third place. “Maybe I could have won but the big break changed everything in the race. Instead of racing against LeMond and Delgado and the others, we were always calculating how to catch them, first Pensec, then Chiappucci. It’s annoying to finish third when I was the second best in the Tour. We gave Chiappucci a present of 10 minutes. That’s what it was, a present.”

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1990 Tour de France - Results

There were several classifications in the 1990 Tour de France. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour.

The points classification was calculated in another way: the first cyclists to finish in a stage received points, based on their rank and the type of stage. All stages (except time trials) also had one or more intermediate sprints, where some points could be won. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey.

Additionally, there was the mountains classification. The organisation had categorized some climbs into categories; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a polkadot jersey.

For the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that lead this classification wore yellow caps.

There was also the young rider classification. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1966 were eligible.

For the combativity classification, a jury gave points after each stage to the cyclists they considered most combative. The cyclist with the most votes in all stages lead the classification.

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6 LEMARCHAND Francois
7 MILLAR Robert (DNF #16)
8 PENSEC Ronan
9 SIMON Jérôme
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13 LAVAINNE Christophe (DNF #14)
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21 DELGADO Pedro
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24 GOROSPE Julián (DNF #11)
25 INDURAIN Miguel
26 LUKIN Luis Javier (DNF #17)
27 MARTÍNEZ Juan
28 RODRÍGUEZ MAGRO Jesús
29 RONDON Abelardo
31 BREUKINK Erik
32 ALCALÁ Raúl
33 AMPLER Uwe (DNF #13)
34 DHAENENS Rudy
35 EARLEY Martin (DNF #11)
36 JAKOBS Gert
37 KELLY Sean
38 RAAB Uwe
39 VAN AERT Jos
41 LEJARRETA Marino
42 CHOZAS Eduardo
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45 HODGE Stephen
46 MARTÍNEZ Miguel Ángel *
47 MAURI Melchor *
48 RUÍZ CABESTANY Pello
49 WELTZ Johnny (DNF #14)
51 MOTTET Charly
52 BAGOT Jean-Claude
53 BRUN Frédéric
54 CARITOUX Éric (DNF #11)
55 CLAVEYROLAT Thierry
56 COLOTTI Jean-Claude
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59 VERMOTE Michel
61 ROOKS Steven
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64 NULENS Guy
65 PEIPER Allan (DNF #8)
66 PLANCKAERT Eddy (DNF #9)
67 SERGEANT Marc
68 VAN LANCKER Eric
69 VAN POPPEL Jean-Paul
71 BUGNO Gianni
72 CALCATERRA Giuseppe
73 FIDANZA Giovanni *
74 GUSMEROLI Roberto *
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76 ROMINGER Tony
77 SANTAROMITA Mauro-Antonio
78 SCHUR Jan
79 VOLPI Alberto
81 HAMPSTEN Andrew
82 ALVIS Norman
83 BAUER Steve
84 BISHOP Andy *
85 KIEFEL Ron
86 LAURITZEN Dag-Otto
87 PHINNEY Davis
88 ROLL Bob
89 YATES Sean
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92 DE LA CRUZ Roque (DNF #3)
93 HERMANS Mathieu (OTL #5)
94 HEYNDERICKX Jean-Pierre * (DNF #11)
95 MORENO Pablo
96 PINO Álvaro (DNF #8)
97 RIDAURA Vicente Juan
98 RODRÍGUEZ José Luis *
99 UREA José *
101 VAN DER POEL Adrie
102 ACHERMANN Alfred (DNF #11)
103 BOMANS Carlo
104 BREU Beat
105 DERNIES Michel
106 GOESSENS Jan
107 ROBEET Patrick
108 STEINMANN Kurt
109 WEGMULLER Thomas
111 RICHARD Pascal (DNF #14)
112 DELION Gilles *
113 GIANETTI Mauro
114 HAFLIGER Othmar (DNF #13)
115 LECLERCQ Jean-Claude
116 MARKI Hansrüdi (DNF #19)
117 MANDERS Henri
118 RÜTTIMANN Niki (DNF #17)
119 WINTERBERG Guido (DNF #17)
121 BERNARD Jean-François (DNF #11)
122 CARLSEN John (DNF #8)
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124 KAPPES Andreas *
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127 LOUVIOT Philippe
128 MADIOT Yvon (DNF #6)
129 ROUX Denis
131 MEJIA Alvaro *
132 CASTILLO Juan Carlos
133 HERNANDEZ Omar
134 JARAMILLO Carlos Mario
135 MONCADA Gerardo
136 MONTOYA Reynel
137 PALACIO William *
138 PULIDO William *
139 VARGAS Óscar de Jesús
141 ROCHE Stephen
142 BIONDI Laurent
143 DE WILDE Etienne (DNS #6)
144 HAGHEDOOREN Paul
145 HOLM SØRENSEN Brian
146 LILHOLT Søren *
147 MOREAU Francis * (DNS #12)
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151 CRIQUIELION Claude
152 BRUYNEEL Johan
153 DE CLERCQ Peter *
154 HAEX Jos
155 MUSEEUW Johan *
156 REDANT Hendrik
157 ROES Peter
158 VAN EYNDE Wim
159 VERSCHUEREN Patrick
161 ANDERSON Phil
162 CAPIOT Johan (DNF #9)
163 DUCROT Maarten
164 JACOBS Patrick (DNF #11)
165 MULLER Jörg
166 SCHALKERS Martin
167 SCHURER Eddy (DNF #10)
168 SIEMONS Jan
169 SKIBBY Jesper (DNS #11)
171 CHIAPPUCCI Claudio
172 BONTEMPI Guido
173 DA SILVA Acácio
174 GHIROTTO Massimo
175 GIANNELLI Alessandro
176 GIUPPONI Flavio (DNF #14)
177 MÄCHLER Erich
178 PERINI Giancarlo
179 SCIANDRI Maximilian *
181 VAN HOOYDONCK Edwig *
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183 MAASSEN Frans *
184 NIJDAM Jelle
185 POELS Twan
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189 WINNEN Peter (DNF #11)
191 ARGENTIN Moreno (DNS #6)
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193 CASSANI Davide
194 CENGHIALTA Bruno
195 CONTI Roberto
196 ELLI Alberto
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198 PIVA Valerio
199 SIBONI Marcello *
201 PARRA Fabio Enrique
202 DIAZ Antonio Miguel *
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204 FARFÁN José Martín * (DNF #8)
205 LARA Mario * (OTL #7)
206 MORA Néstor Oswaldo
207 RODRÍGUEZ Nélson *
208 ROSADO Jesus *
209 SARRAPIO José Angel
211 KONYCHEV Dmitri *
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214 IVANOV Ivan (DNS #16)
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217 TRUBINE Alexandre *
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1990 Tour de France
The 1990 Tour de France was the 77th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 30 June and 22 July 1990. The 3,403.8 km (2,115.0 mi) race consisted of 21 stages and a prologue. American Greg LeMond (Z-Tomasso) repeated his 1989 victory in the general classification, ahead of Claudio Chiappucci (Carrera Jeans-Vagabond) and Erik Breukink (PDM ...
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Greg LeMond is the winner of Tour de France 1990, before Claudio Chiappucci and Erik Breukink. Johan Museeuw is the winner of the final stage.
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LeMond had won his third Tour, this time without ever winning a stage. The final 1990 Tour de France General Classification: 1. Greg LeMond (Z): 90 hours 43 minutes 20 seconds. 2. Claudio Chiappucci (Carrera) @ 2 minutes 16 seconds. 3. Erik Breukink (PDM) @ 2 minutes 29 seconds. 4.
Results of the 1990 Tour de France
1990 Tour de France: results and classification Start: June 30th 1990 End: July 22nd 1990 Number of stages : 21 Number of participants : 198 Number of finishers : 156 Distance : 3404 km Average speed : 37.518 km/h General classification of the 1990 Tour de France. Rider Time; 1: Greg LeMond (Usa) 90h43'20" 2:
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Cycling - Tour de France 1990 - Results. Sport Betting; Yearly calendar; ... Tour de France 1990. France - 30 June 1990 - 23 July 1990. General Classification - 23 July 1990. 1: Greg LeMond (USA) Z: 90h43'20'' 2: Claudio Chiappucci (ITA) Carrera Jeans: 2'16'' 3: Erik Breukink (NED) Pdm - Ultima - Concorde:
Tour de France 1990 Stage 11 results
Stage 11 » Saint Gervais › L'Alpe d'Huez (182.5km) Gianni Bugno is the winner of Tour de France 1990 Stage 11, before Greg LeMond and Erik Breukink. Ronan Pensec was leader in GC.
Results Tour de France 1990
Results of the cycling race Tour de France GC in 1990 won by Greg Lemond before Claudio Chiappucci and Erik Breukink. CyclingRanking. Rankings . Riders. Overall 1869 - 2024; Top 10 Year Avg Ranking; ... 30 June 1990 - 22 July 1990. Rider Team Time; 1. Greg LEMOND: Z: 90h43'20" 2. Claudio CHIAPPUCCI: Carrera - Vagabond: 02'16" 3. Erik BREUKINK ...
1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21
The 1990 Tour de France was the 77th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Futuroscope with a prologue individual time trial on 30 June and Stage 10 occurred on 10 July with a mountain stage to Saint-Gervais. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 22 July.
List of teams and cyclists in the 1990 Tour de France
The number of riders per nation participated in the 1990 Tour de France: 20+. 10-19. 2-9. 1. The 1990 Tour de France started with 198 cyclists, divided into 22 teams of 9 cyclists: [1] Sixteen teams qualified based on the FICP team ranking, [2] while six teams were given wildcards. [3]
Classic races: 1990 Tour de France
An early escape turned the 1990 Tour de France into a three-week game of catch-up for reigning champion Greg LeMond. ... sixth in the 1987 Tour and seventh in 1988, but never matched these results ...
Tour de France 1990 Stage 20 (ITT) results
Stage 20 (ITT) » Lac de Vassivière › Lac de Vassivière (45.5km) Erik Breukink is the winner of Tour de France 1990 Stage 20 (ITT), before Raúl Alcalá and Marino Lejarreta. Greg LeMond was leader in GC.
Tour de France Winners List
1990: 77: Greg LeMond: United States: Z: 1989: 76: Greg LeMond: United States: ADR: 1988: 75: Pedro Delgado: Spain: Reynolds: 1987: 74: Stephen Roche: Ireland: Carrera: 1986: 73: ... 1996: Bjarne Riis has admitted to the use of doping during the 1996 Tour. The Tour de France organizers have stated they no longer consider him to be the winner ...
VN Archives: LeMond drops the guillotine in the 1990 Tour de France
Showing brilliant form, Greg LeMond and Erik Breukink emerged from one of the most intense stages the Tour de France has seen in recent years, as the leading contenders to win the race's 77th edition. By regaining almost five minutes of their seven-minute deficit on race leader Claudio Chiappucci, they showed that the Italian was unlikely to hold the yellow jersey much longer.
Tour de France 1990
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Results Tour de France 1990
Results of he cycling race Tour de France Stage 7. Vittel - Epinal in 1990 won by Raúl Alcalá Gallegos before Miguel Induráin Larraya and Gianni Bugno. CyclingRanking. Rankings . ... Tour de France 1990 | Stage 7. Vittel - Epinal . 77th edition. 61.5 km, 7 July 1990. Rider Team Time; 1. Raúl ALCALÁ GALLEGOS ...
Tour de France 1990 Stage 3 results
Moreno Argentin is the winner of Tour de France 1990 Stage 3, before Christophe Lavainne and Uwe Raab. Steve Bauer was leader in GC.
List of Tour de France general classification winners
The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the best-known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. The race usually covers approximately 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi), passing through France and neighbouring countries such as Belgium.
Tour de France 1990 Stage 21 results
DNF=Did not finish / DNS=Did not start / OTL = Outside time limit / DF=Did finish, no result / NR=No result Rider wearing the jersey >50% of race distance in group before peloton
Results Tour de France 1990
Results of he cycling race Tour de France Stage 1. Futuroscope - Futuroscope in 1990 won by Frans Maassen before Ronan Pensec and Claudio Chiappucci. CyclingRanking. Rankings . ... Tour de France 1990 | Stage 1. Futuroscope - Futuroscope . 77th edition. 138.5 km, 1 July 1990. Rider Team Time; 1. Frans MAASSEN ...
Classic Races: Tour de France 1990
30 June 1990 77th Tour de France Prologue : Futuroscope - Futuroscope 2nd : LEMOND Greg (USA) Z Photo : Yuzuru SUNADA / Slide (Image credit: Yuzuru SUNADA) By Cycle Sport. published 6 November 2010.
Tour de France 1990 Stage 5 results
Gerrit Solleveld is the winner of Tour de France 1990 Stage 5, before Johan Museeuw and Etienne De Wilde. Steve Bauer was leader in GC.
1990 Tour de France
Results. There were several classifications in the 1990 Tour de France. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner ...
Startlist for Tour de France 1990
216 SAITOV Asiat * (DNF #16) 217 TRUBINE Alexandre *. 218 UGRUMOV Piotr. 219 USLAMIN Sergei (DNF #11) DS FRANCHINI Primo, MOROZOV Nikolai. team statistics in race. * = competes for youth GC. 6m Indicates the time the rider was added to the startlist. (e.g. 6m = 6 minutes ago, 11h = 11 hours ago) Competing teams and riders for Tour de France 1990.