Circuit de la Sarthe (2.1)

Winners, podium, distance, average speed

The Circuit de la Sarthe stage race is held in mid-April in the Loire region of Normandy. The 2.1 ranked race is generally 5 stages long. It was amateur race until 1975. The Circuit de la Sarthe was Greg LeMond's first European stage race victory.

Year	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Distance	Average Speed km/hr
1975	Bernard Hinault 15hr 58min 48sec	Jan Brzezny @ 1min 48sec	Jean-Claude Misac @ 2min 27sec	662 km	41.426
1976	Bernard Hinault 17hr 34min 6sec	Yves Hézard @ 28sec	Yvon Bertin @ 1min 23sec	652 km	37.112
1977	Aavo Pikkus 17hr 7min 15sec	Gregor Braun @ 32sec	Jan Brzezny @ 39sec	654 km	38.199
1978	Bernd Drogan 15hr 46min 21sec	Yvon Bertin @ 7sec	Mariano Martinez @ 8sec	626 km	39.689
1979	Christian Muselet 17hr 8min 27sec	Michal Klasa @ 17min 20sec	Aavo Pikkus @ 17min 46sec	688 km	40.138
1980	Greg LeMond 16hr 35min 24sec	Ladislav Ferebauer @ 23sec	Jan Jankiewicz @ 24sec	652 km	39.301
1981	Youri Barinov 17hr 28min 35sec	Ivan Mitchenko @ 4min 10sec	Shagrid Zagretdinov @ 5min 38sec	662.4 km	37.902
1982	Ivan Mitchenko 18hr 58min 57sec	Milan Jurco @ 1min 1sec	Anatoli Jarkin @ 1min 2sec	727 km	38.298
1983	Pascal Jules 18hr 25min 46sec	Claude Moreau @ 17sec	Jérôme Simon @ 1min 7sec	728 km	39.502
1984	Claude Moreau 15hr 15min 15sec	Yvon Lamote @ 22sec	Régis Clère @ 42sec	616 km	40.382
1985	Pascal Jules 14hr 18min 18sec	Ronan Pensec @ 34sec	Voktor Demidenko @ 35sec	594 km	41.524
1986	Didier Garcia 15hr 24min 26sec	Daniel Wyder @ 2sec	John Talen @ s.t.	605 km	39.267
1987	Piotr Ugramov 15hr 48min 44sec	Pascal Lance @ 1min 23sec	Kurt Steinmann @ 1min 31sec	606.7 km	38.369
1988	Thierry Marie 15hr 3min 54sec	Viatcheslav Ekimov @ 2sec	Jean-Claude Colotti @ 18sec	596.7 km	39.608
1989	Thierry Laurent 15hr 22min 17sec	Viatcheslav Ekimov @ 10sec	Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle @ 14sec	608.4 km	39.580
1990	Dimitri Zhdanov 16hr 58min 52sec	Michel Vermote @ 25sec	Thierry Marie @ 26sec	656.7 km	38.672
1991	Bruno Cornillet 15hr 43min 1sec	Amand De Las Cuevas @ 13sec	Jean-Philippe Dojwa @ 55sec	638.5 km	40.625
1992	Jean-François Bernard 16hr 20min 34sec	Philippe Bouvatier 2 1min 9sec	Robert Forest @ 1min 27sec	669.4 km	40.960
1993	Jean-François Bernard 15hr 51min 51sec	Laurent Bezault @ 7sec	Thierry Dupuy @ 45sec	623 km	39.271
1994	Stéphane Heulot 16hr 27min 47sec	Laurent Brochard @ 33sec	Erwin Thijs @ 51sec	637.2 km	38.705
1995	Thierry Marie 15hr 38min 54sec	Patrick Jonker @ 14sec	Pascal Lance @ 48sec	629.8 km	40.247
1996	Adriano Baffi 15hr 30min 21sec	Mariano Rojas @ 40sec	Stéphane Heulot @ 1min 41sec	655.35 km	42.268
1997	Melchior Mauri 15hr 44min 7sec	Pascal Lino @ 12sec	Tony Rominger @ 17sec	629.9 km	40.031
1998	Melchior Mauri 18hr 32min 41sec	Marc Streel @ 12sec	Jaan Kirsipuu @ s.t.	705.5 km	38.043
1999	Steffen Kjaergaard 17hr 11min 6sec	Gilles Maignan @ 9sec	Jens Voigt @ 11sec	678.4 km	39.476
2000	David Cañada 16hr 55min 27sec	Jens Voigt @ 7sec	Laurent Borchard @ 12sec	706 km	41.715
2001	David Millar 16hr 14min 58sec	Anthony Morin @ 31sec	Franck Bouyer @ 43sec	677.3 km	41.681
2002	Didier Rous 16hr 34min 6sec	Bradley McGee @ 1sec	Arturas Kasputas @ 4sec	652 km	39.352
2003	Carlos Da Cruz 16hr 35min 51sec	Alexei Sivakov @ 56sec	Laurent Brochard @ 4min 46sec	676.9 km	40.783
2004	Thomas Lövkvist 18hr 3min 33sec	Franck Bouyer @ 19sec	Ronny Scholz @ 23sec	750.5 km	41.558
2005	Sylvain Chavanel 15hr 57min 13sec	Markus Fothen @ 1min 3sec	Volodymyr Bileka @ 1min 11sec	673.4 km	42.210
2006	Stefan Schumacher 16hr 30min 40sec	Serguei Gontchar @ s.t.	Brian Vandborg @ 3sec	660.3 km	39.991
2007	Andreas Klöden 15hr 58min 47sec	Nicolas Vogondy @ 4sec	Vladimir Duma @ 10sec	672.9 km	42.109
2008	Thomas Voeckler 16hr 29min 33sec	Christian Vande Velde @ 4sec	Tiziano Dall'Antonia @ 11sec	673.2 km	40.818
2009	David Le Lay 15hr 48min 34sec	Enrico Rossi @ 17sec	Benoît Vaugrenard @ s.t.	667.8 km	42.240
2010	Luis León Sánchez Gil 15hr 36min 52sec	Tiago Machado @ 14sec	Julien Simon @ 15sec	641.3 km	41.059
2011	Anthony Roux 15hr 51min 2sec	Blel Kadri @ 5sec	David Millar @ 9sec	644.3km	40.646

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