Tour du Vaucluse

Tour du Vaucluse

Race details
Date	early April
Region	Vaucluse, France
Discipline	Road race
History
First edition	1923
Editions	54
Final edition	1998
First winner	Romain Bellenger (FRA)
Final winner	Benoît Salmon (FRA)

The Tour du Vaucluse (Tour of the Vaucluse) is a former cycling race, held in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. From 1923 until 1960 it was organized as a one-day race finishing in Cavaillon. Subsequently it was held as a stage race, run over two and later three days, until the event was discontinued in 1998.^[1]

Palmarès

Edition	Winner	Second	Third
One-day race
1923	Romain Bellenger	José Pelletier	Joseph Curtel
1924	Maurice Ville	Jean Hillarion	Gaston Ducerisier
1930	Louis Gras	Maxime Calamel	Ernest Neuhard
1931	Maxime Calamel	Henri Bergerioux	Marius Guiramand
1932	Maxime Calamel	Giuseppe Cassin	Georges Speicher
1933	Georges Speicher	Max Bulla	Louis Hardiquest
1934	Jean Bidot	Maurice Archambaud	Edoardo Molinar
1935	Jean Bidot	Léon Level	Maxime Calamel
1936	Ettore Molinaro	Fabien Galateau	Luigi Barral
1937	Giuseppe Cassin	Henri Puppo	Adrien Buttafocchi
1938	Nello Troggi	Amédée Rolland	Georges Naisse
1939	Dante Gianello	Fermo Camellini	Pierre Lorino
1941	Domenico Zanti	Pierre Canavese	Paul Neri
1951	Raoul Rémy	Antonin Rolland	Robert Chapatte
1952	Jose Perez De Las Heras	Siro Bianchi	Antonin Rolland
1953	Antonin Canavese	Antonin Rolland	Francis Anastasi
1954	Raymond Elena	André Payan	Siro Bianchi
1955	Russell Mockridge	Raoul Rémy	Antonin Canavese
1956	Lucien Fliffel	Guy Carle	Marcel Ferri
1957	Jean Dotto	Gérard Bousquet	Henry Anglade
1959	Max Cohen	Alcide Vaucher	Fernand Lamy
1960	René Fournier	Anatole Novak	Siro Bianchi
Stage race
1965	Marcel Ferri[2]	Escudier	Cenari
1966	Francis Ducreux	Serge Bolley	Marcel Ferri
1967	Paul Gutty	Joseph Carrara	Giorgetti
1968	Pierre Martelozzo	Combes	Rault
1969	Pierre Martelozzo	Vittorio Cumino	Francis Rigon
1970	Mario Corti	Giuseppe Maffeis	Franco Baroni
1971	Giuseppe Maffeis	Claude Mazeaud	Mario Corti
1972	no race
1973	Stanisław Szozda	Fernando Plaza	Ryszard Szurkowski
1974	Jan Brzezny	Tadeusz Mytnik	B. Kieczynski
1975	Patrick Marette	Henri Berthillot	Fr. Indalecio
1976	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	Tadeusz Mytnik	Nentcho Staykov
1977	Bernd Drogan	G. Fedrigo	Tadeusz Mytnik
1978	Michel Laurent	Mariano Martínez	Pierre-Raymond Villemiane
1979	Czesław Lang	Zdenek Benacek	Alain De Carvalho
1980	Michel Laurent	Robert Millar	Jean-François Rodriguez
1981	Michel Laurent	Bernard Thévenet	Alain De Carvalho
1982	Éric Caritoux	Laurent Fignon	Urs Zimmermann
1983	Denis Roux	André Chappuis	Gilles Mas
1984	Philippe Chevalier	Davide Cassani	Éric Salomon
1985	Jean-Jacques Philippe	Philippe Casado	Hervé Doueil
1986	Jérôme Simon	Laurent Fignon	Uwe Ampler
1987	Pascal Simon	Uwe Ampler	Laurent Fignon
1988	Charly Mottet	Claude Criquielion	Jan Schur
1989	Steven Rooks	Pascal Lance	Éric Caritoux
1990	Atle Kvålsvoll	Thierry Bourguignon	Luc Leblanc
1991	Miguel Indurain	Fabrice Philipot	Luc Roosen
1992	Robert Forest	Orlando Rodrigues	Dimitri Zhdanov
1993	Thierry Bourguignon	Pascal Hervé	Jean-Christophe Currit
1994	Blaise Chauviere	František Trkal	Jens Zemke
1995	Fabrizio Guidi	Jean-Christophe Bloy	Claude Lamour
1996	Fabrizio Guidi	Marco Vergnani	Maurizio De Pasquale
1998	Benoît Salmon	Artūras Kasputis	Daniel Schnider

References

1. "Tour du Vaucluse". memoire-du-cyclisme.net (in French). Retrieved 21 February 2016.
2. In 1965 the first edition was held over two days, 1 and 2 April 1965

External links

• Palmarès of the Tour du Vaucluse on siteducyclisme.net