White Jersey Tour de France July 3 - July 25 , 2004 ).
Lance Armstrong made history, by being the first person to win six Tours de France.
Going in, Armstrong was the favorite to win his sixth consective Tour de France, with his major competitors seen as being German Jan Ullrich , Spaniards Roberto Heras and Iban Mayo , and fellow Americans Levi Leipheimer and Tyler Hamilton .
The route of the 2004 Tour was a remarkable one. With the two individual time trials both scheduled in the last week, one of them being the epic climb of L'Alpe d'Huez , the directors were hoping for a very close race until the very end of the Tour. For the first time in years, the mountains of the Massif Central made an appearance.
Stages
Prologue , Liège , Belgium 6.1 km (individual time trial)
Stage 1 , Liège - Charleroi 202.5 km
Stage 2 , Charleroi - Namur 210 km
Stage 3 , Waterloo - Wasquehal 195 km
Stage 4 , Cambrai - Arras 65 km (team time trial)
Stage 5 , Amiens - Chartres 195 km
Stage 6 , Bonneval - Angers 190 km
Stage 7 , Châteaubriant - Saint-Brieuc 208 km
Stage 8 , Lamballe - Quimper 172 km
Stage 9 , Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Guéret 160 km
Stage 10 , Limoges (Massif Central) - Saint-Flour 237 km
Stage 11 , Saint-Flour - Figeac 164 km
Stage 12 , Castelsarrasin - La Mongie 199 km (Pyrenees )
Stage 13 , Lannemezan - Plateau de Beille 217 km (Col de Agnes)
Stage 14 , Carcassonne - Nîmes 200 km
Stage 15 , Valréas - Villard-de-Lans 179 km (French Alps )
Stage 16 , Bourg d'Oisans - L'Alpe d'Huez 15 km (individual time trial)
Stage 17 , Bourg d'Oisans - Le Grand Bornand 212 km
Stage 18 , Annemasse - Lons-le-Saunier 166 km
Stage 19 , Besançon - Besançon 60 km (individual time trial)
Stage 20 , Montereau-Fault-Yonne - Paris Champs-Élysées 165 km
Total distance: 3429 km
Teams
Final results
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1. Lance Armstrong (USA) 83:36:02
2. Andreas Klöden (Germany) + 06:19
3. Ivan Basso (Italy) + 06:40
4. Jan Ullrich (Germany) + 08:50
5. José Azevedo (Portugal) + 14:30
6. Francisco Mancebo (Spain) + 18:01
7. Georg Totschnig (Austria) + 18:27
8. Carlos Sastre (Spain) + 19:51
9. Levi Leipheimer (USA) + 20:12
10. Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spain) + 22:54
Individual stage winners:
Prologue: Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)
Stage 1: Jann Kirsipuu (Estonia)
Stage 2: Robbie McEwen (Australia)
Stage 3: Jean-Patrick Nazon (France)
Stage 4: US Postal - Berry Floor
Stage 5: Stuart O'Grady (Australia)
Stage 6: Tom Boonen (Belgium)
Stage 7: Fillippo Pozzato (Italy)
Stage 8: Thor Hushovd (Norway)
Stage 9: Robbie McEwen (Australia)
Stage 10: Richard Virenque (France)
Stage 11: David Moncoutié (France)
Stage 12: Ivan Basso (Italy)
Stage 13: Lance Armstrong (USA)
Stage 14: Aitor González (Spain)
Stage 15: Lance Armstrong (USA)
Stage 16: Lance Armstrong (USA)
Stage 17: Lance Armstrong (USA)
Stage 18: Juan Miguel Mercado (Spain)
Stage 19: Lance Armstrong (USA)
Stage 20: Tom Boonen (Belgium)
