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Race details
Dates		July 7–July 29, 2001
Stages		20+Prologue
Distance		3,453 km (2,146 mi)
Winning time		86h 17' 28"[1] (40.016 km/h/24.865 mph)
Palmarès
	Winner	Lance Armstrong	(US Postal)
	Second	Jan Ullrich	(Team Telekom)
	Third	Joseba Beloki	(ONCE-Eroski)
	Points	Erik Zabel	(Team Telekom)
	Mountains	Laurent Jalabert	(CSC–Tiscali)
	Youth	Óscar Sevilla	(Kelme-Costa Blanca)
	Team	Kelme-Costa Blanca

The 2001 Tour de France was relatively difficult, with a number of heavy mountain stages, a team time trial and a climbing time trial. France was ridden 'clockwise', and thus the Alps were visited before the Pyrenees. The Tour started in France, but in the first week Belgium was visited as well. The finish was, as is traditional, on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

The great favorite was the winner of 1999 and 2000, the American Lance Armstrong. His major opponent, like last year, would probably be German Jan Ullrich. Other major contenders seemed to be Joseba Beloki from Spain, Christophe Moreau from France and Francesco Casagrande from Italy. Not starting, because their teams were not selected, were Swiss Alex Zülle, Italian climber Marco Pantani and Italian sprinter Mario Cipollini.

Erik Zabel won his record sixth consecutive points classification victory.

Lance Armstrong riding to victory at L'Alpe d'Huez.

[edit] Stages

[edit] Jersey progress

Jersey wearers when one rider is leading two or more competitions

• In stage 1, Igor González de Galdeano wore the green jersey.
• In stages 8 and 9, Erik Zabel wore the green jersey.

[edit] Overall standings

[edit] General Classification

Rank	Name	Country	Team	Time
1	Lance Armstrong	United States	US Postal	86h 17'28"
2	Jan Ullrich	Germany	Team Telekom	6'44"
3	Joseba Beloki	Spain	ONCE–Eroski	9'05"
4	Andrei Kivilev	Kazakhstan	Cofidis	9'53"
5	Igor González de Galdeano	Spain	ONCE–Eroski	13'28"
6	François Simon	France	Bonjour	17'22"
7	Oscar Sevilla	Spain	Kelme – Costa Blanca	18'30"
8	Santiago Botero	Colombia	Kelme – Costa Blanca	20'55"
9	Marcos Serrano	Spain	ONCE–Eroski	21'45"
10	Michael Boogerd	Netherlands	Rabobank	22'38"

[edit] Points classification

Rank	Name	Country	Team	Points
1	Erik Zabel	Germany	Team Telekom	252
2	Stuart O'Grady	Australia	Crédit Agricole	244
3	Damien Nazon	France	Bonjour	169

[edit] King of the Mountains classification

Rank	Name	Country	Team	Points
1	Laurent Jalabert	France	CSC–Tiscali	258
2	Jan Ullrich	Germany	Team Telekom	211
3	Laurent Roux	France	Jean Delatour	200

[edit] Young Riders' Classification

Rank	Name	Country	Team	Time
1	Óscar Sevilla	Spain	Kelme – Costa Blanca	86h 35'58
2	Francisco Mancebo	Spain	iBanesto.com	10'03"
3	Jörg Jaksche	Germany	ONCE–Eroski	47'32"
4	Denis Menchov	Russia	iBanesto.com	1h 13'20"
5	Marco Pinotti	Italy	Lampre–Daikin	1h 15'59"

[edit] Combativity award

Rank	Name	Country	Team	Points
1	Laurent Jalabert	France	CSC–Tiscali	94
2	Laurent Roux	France	Jean Delatour	55
3	Jens Voigt	Germany	Crédit Agricole	45
4	Rik Verbrugghe	Belgium	Lotto–Adecco	44
5	Paolo Bettini	Italy	Mapei – Quick Step	36
6	Jacky Durand	France	Française des Jeux	36
7	Bradley McGee	Australia	Française des Jeux	32
8	David Etxebarria	Spain	Euskaltel–Euskadi	30
9	Laurent Brochard	France	Jean Delatour	28
10	Nicolas Jalabert	France	CSC–Tiscali	23

[edit] Team classification

Rank	Team	Country	Time
1	Kelme – Costa Blanca	Spain	259 h 14'44"
2	ONCE–Eroski	Spain	4'59"
3	Team Telekom	Germany	41'06"
4	Bonjour	France	41'49"
5	Rabobank	Netherlands	51'53"
6	US Postal	United States	54'51"
7	Cofidis	France	1h 20'41"
8	iBanesto.com	Spain	1h 22'24"
9	Festina	France	1h 45'33"
10	Jean Delatour	France	1h 49'18"

[edit] See also

• List of doping cases in cycling

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• 2001 Tour de France comprehensive results