2005 Tour de France

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Final Standings
Overall	Lance Armstrong	86h 15' 02"
Second	Ivan Basso	+4' 40"
Third	Jan Ullrich	+6' 21"
Points	Thor Hushovd	194 points
Second	Stuart O'Grady	182 points
Third	Robbie McEwen	178 points
Climber	Michael Rasmussen	185 points
Second	Oscar Pereiro Sio	155 points
Third	Lance Armstrong	99 points
Youth	Yaroslav Popovych	86h 34' 04"
Second	Andrey Kashechkin	+9' 02"
Third	Alberto Contador	+44' 23"
Teams	T-Mobile Team	256h 10' 29"
Second	Discovery Channel	+14' 57"
Third	Team CSC	+25' 15"

The 92nd Tour de France was held from July 2 to July 24, 2005. The first stages were held in the département of the Vendée, for the third time in 12 years. The 2005 Tour was announced on October 28, 2004. It was a clockwise route, visiting the Alps before the Pyrenees.

The traditional prologue on the first day was replaced by an individual time trial of more than twice the length of a standard prologue. This stage crossed from the mainland of France to the Île de Noirmoutier. The most famous route to this island is the Passage du Gois, a road that is under water at high tide. This road was included in the 1999 Tour. Several of the favorites crashed there that year, and ended that stage 7 minutes behind the peloton. Fortunately, this year they took the bridge to the island.

Later in the race, there was one more time trial, on the penultimate day. Also, there were just three uphill finishes (Courchevel, Ax-3 Domaines and Pla d'Adet), a lower number than in previous years. The finish line of the last stage was, as has been since 1975, on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

The Tour commemorated the death of Fabio Casartelli. During the 15th stage the riders passed the Col du Portet d'Aspet, where Casartelli died exactly 10 years earlier. The Tour also commemorated the first time there was an official mountain climb in the Tour, the Ballon d'Alsace. During the 9th stage this mountain was passed again, exactly 100 years after the first ascent in the Tour.

The race jury invoked the 'rain rule' for the Champs-Elysees, meaning that Lance Armstrong became the winner of the General classification the first time the race passed the finish line, rather than the eighth time as normal.

1 Stages
2 Stage recaps
3 Teams and riders
4 Final standings
- 4.1 Rider's jerseys progress chart
5 Retirement/Withdrawals
6 Rider physical statistics
7 External links
8 See also

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Stages

Stage	Route	Distance	Type	Date
1	Fromentine - Noirmoutier en l'Île	19 km (12 mi)	Individual time trial	Saturday, July 2
2	Challans - Les Essarts	181.5 km (112.5 mi)		Sunday, July 3
3	La Châtaigneraie - Tours	212.5 km (132 mi)		Monday, July 4
4	Tours - Blois	67.5 km (42 mi)	Team time trial	Tuesday, July 5
5	Chambord - Montargis	183 km (113.7 mi)		Wednesday, July 6
6	Troyes - Nancy	199 km (123.7 mi)		Thursday, July 7
7	Lunéville - Karlsruhe (Germany)	228.5 km (142 mi)		Friday, July 8
8	Pforzheim (Germany) - Gérardmer	231.5 km (143.8 mi)		Saturday, July 9
9	Gérardmer - Mulhouse	170 km (105.6 mi)	Mountain stage	Sunday, July 10
Rest day				Monday, July 11
10	Grenoble - Courchevel	192.5 km (119.6 mi)	Mountain stage	Tuesday, July 12
11	Courchevel - Briançon	173 km (107 mi)	Mountain stage	Wednesday, July 13
12	Briançon - Digne-les-Bains	187 km (116 mi)	Mountain stage	Thursday, July 14
13	Miramas - Montpellier	173.5 km (107.8 mi)		Friday, July 15
14	Agde - Ax-3 Domaines	220.5 km (137 mi)	Mountain stage	Saturday, July 16
15	Lézat-sur-Lèze - Saint-Lary Soulan (Pla d'Adet)	205.5 km (127 mi)	Mountain stage	Sunday, July 17
Rest day				Monday, July 18
16	Mourenx - Pau	180.5 km (112.2 mi)	Mountain stage	Tuesday, July 19
17	Pau - Revel	239.5 km (148 mi)		Wednesday, July 20
18	Albi - Mende	189 km (117 mi)		Thursday, July 21
19	Issoire - Le Puy-en-Velay	153.5 km (95 mi)		Friday, July 22
20	Saint-Étienne - Saint-Étienne	55 km (34 mi)	Individual time trial	Saturday, July 23
21	Corbeil-Essonnes - Paris Champs-Élysées	144 km (89.5 mi)		Sunday, July 24
Total		3606 km (2240.7 mi)

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Stage recaps

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Teams and riders

189 riders in 21 teams commenced the 2005 Tour de France.

List of teams and cyclists in the 2005 Tour de France.

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Final standings

Rank	Name	Country	Team	Time (Ave. Speed)
1	Lance Armstrong	United States	Discovery Channel	86h 15'02" (41.654km/h)
2	Ivan Basso	Italy	Team CSC	+4'40"
3	Jan Ullrich	Germany	T-Mobile	+6'21"
4	Francisco Mancebo	Spain	Illes Balears	+9'59"
5	Alexander Vinokourov	Kazakhstan	T-Mobile	+11'01"
6	Levi Leipheimer	United States	Gerolsteiner	+11'21"
7	Michael Rasmussen	Denmark	Rabobank	+11'33"
8	Cadel Evans	Australia	Davitamon-Lotto	+11'55"
9	Floyd Landis	United States	Phonak	+12'44"
10	Oscar Pereiro Sio	Spain	Phonak	+16'04"

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Rider's jerseys progress chart

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Retirement/Withdrawals

189 riders started the 2005 Tour de France, 34 did not complete the event.

Constantino Zaballa, Saunier Duval - Prodir (SDV) – Withdrawal, Stage 5
Claudio Corioni, Fassa Bortolo (FAS) – Withdrawal, Stage 6
Steve Zampieri, Phonak (PHO) – Withdrawal, Stage 7
Alessandro Spezialetti, Lampre-Caffita (LAM) – Withdrawal, Stage 7
Christophe Mengin, Française des Jeux (FDJ) – Did Not Start, Stage 8
Serhiy Honchar, Domina Vacanze (DOM) – Did Not Start, Stage 8
Sylvain Calzati, Ag2r (A2R) – Withdrawal, Stage 8
Isaac Gálvez, Illes Balears (IBA) – Withdrawal, Stage 8
Leon van Bon, Davitamon-Lotto (DVL) – Withdrawal, Stage 8
Luciano Pagliarini, Liquigas-Bianchi (LIQ) – Withdrawal, Stage 9
Jaan Kirsipuu, Crédit Agricole (C.A) – Withdrawal, Stage 9
Igor González Galdeano, Liberty Seguros team (LSW) – Withdrawal, Stage 9
Jose Angel Gómez Marchante, Saunier Duval - Prodir (SDV) – Withdrawal, Stage 9
David Zabriskie, Team CSC (CSC) – Withdrawal, Stage 9
Gerrit Glomser, Lampre-Caffita (LAM) – Withdrawal, Stage 10
Jevgeni Petrov, Lampre-Caffita (LAM) – Excluded (Did not pass blood test after 10th stage), Stage 10
Dario Frigo, Fassa Bortolo (FAS) – Excluded (due to finding of doping products in his wife's car before 11th stage), Stage 11
Kim Kirchen, Fassa Bortolo (FAS) – Withdrawal, Stage 11
Stefano Zanini, Quick-Step (QST) – Withdrawal, Stage 11
Jean-Patrick Nazon, Ag2r (A2R) – Withdrawal, Stage 11
Jens Voigt, Team CSC (CSC) – Eliminated on time, Stage 11
Kevin Hulsmans, Quick-Step (QST) – Eliminated on time, Stage 11
Tom Boonen, Quick-Step (QST) – Did Not Start, Stage 12
Manuel Beltran, Discovery Channel (DSC) – Withdrawal, Stage 12
Robert Hunter, Phonak Hearing Systems (PHO) – Withdrawal, Stage 12
Nicolas Fritsch, Saunier Duval - Prodir (SDV) – Withdrawal, Stage 12
Angelo Furlan, Domina Vacanze (DOM) – Withdrawal, Stage 12
Alejandro Valverde, Illes Balears (IBA) – Withdrawal, Stage 13
Gerben Löwik, Rabobank (RAB) – Did Not Start, Stage 14
David Herrero, Euskaltel-Euskadi (EUS) – Withdrawal, Stage 15
Wilfried Cretskens, Quick-Step (QST) – Withdrawal, Stage 15
Magnus Backstedt, Liquigas-Bianchi (LIQ) – Did Not Start, Stage 16
Gianluca Bortolami, Lampre-Caffita (LAM) – Did Not Start, Stage 16
Andreas Klöden, T-Mobile Team (TMO) – Withdrawal, Stage 17

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Rider physical statistics

Analysis of the 2005 competitors in the 2005 Tour the tallest rider was Johan van Summeren at 1.98 metres and the shortest was Samuel Dumoulin at 1.58 metres. The heaviest rider was Magnus Backstedt at 95 kg, the lightest was Leonardo Piepoli at 57 kg, while Christopher Horner and Laurent Lefevre shared the lowest resting heart rate, of 35 beats per minute. The "average" rider in 2005 was 1.79 metres tall, weighed 71 kg, and had a resting heart rate of 50 beats per minute.

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2005 Tour de France

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Contents

Stages

Stage recaps

Teams and riders

Final standings

Rider's jerseys progress chart

Retirement/Withdrawals

Rider physical statistics

External links

See also

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