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Five eight-man teams again (this time Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France) with forty Touristes-Routiers, but once again the French come out on top with André Leducq. Leducq is the great beneficiary of a system of bonuses that gave 4, 2 and 1 minutes to the first three on each stage: without these bonuses, Leducq would have won by just three seconds. Only on four occasions did the he and Kurt Stöpl not finish in the same bunch: on stage 3 Leducq gained 45 seconds on the German - who, incidentally, was the first German to wear the Yellow Jersey; on stage 5 Leducq gained 20 more seconds; Stöpl then clawed 2' 52" back on the run to Nice; Leducq countered by taking 1' 50" on stage 13 and there it remained. Leducq's all-round consistency saw him take 31 minutes of bonuses to Stöpl's 7. Still, one cannot criticise a rider for winning according to the rules. To win the Tour is still a great achievement, and there is little doubt that, with a healthy cushion of time steadily accruing from stage 3 onwards, Leducq felt little compulsion to attack. Who is to say that, without the bonuses, he wouldn't have ridden a more aggressive strategy, as he had done in 1930?
| Stage | Winner | Overall Leader | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Paris - Caen, 208km | Jean Aerts | Jean Aerts |
| Stage 2 | Caen - Nantes, 300km | Kurt Stöpl | Kurt Stöpl |
| Stage 3 | Nantes - Bordeaux, 387km | André Leducq | André Leducq |
| Stage 4 | Bordeaux - Pau, 206km | Georges Ronsse | Leducq |
| Stage 5 | Pau - Luchon, 229km | Antonio Pesenti | Leducq |
| Stage 6 | Luchon - Perpignan, 323km | Frans Bonduel | Leducq |
| Stage 7 | Perpignan - Montpellier, 168km | Bonduel | Leducq |
| Stage 8 | Montpellier - Marseille, 206km | Michele Orecchia | Leducq |
| Stage 9 | Marseille - Cannes, 191km | Rafaele Di Paco | Leducq |
| Stage 10 | Cannes - Nice, 132km | Francesco Camusso | Leducq |
| Stage 11 | Nice - Gap, 233km | Leducq | Leducq |
| Stage 12 | Gap - Grenoble, 102km | Roger Lapébie | Leducq |
| Stage 13 | Grenoble - Aix-les-Bains, 230km | Leducq | Leducq |
| Stage 14 | Aix-les-Bains - Evian, 204km | Di Paco | Leducq |
| Stage 15 | Evian - Belfort, 291km | Leducq | Leducq |
| Stage 16 | Belfort - Strasbourg, 145km | Gérard Loncke | Leducq |
| Stage 17 | Strasbourg - Metz, 165km | Di Paco | Leducq |
| Stage 18 | Metz - Charleville, 159km | Di Paco | Leducq |
| Stage 19 | Charleville - Malo-les-Bains, 271km | Gaston Rebry | Leducq |
| Stage 20 | Malo-les-Bains - Amiens, 212km | Leducq | Leducq |
| Stage 21 | Amiens - Paris, 159km | Leducq | Leducq |
1st: André Leducq, France, 4520km in 154h 11' 49" (29.214km/h)
2nd: Kurt Stöpl, Germany, @24' 03"
3rd: Francesco Camusso, Italy, @26' 21"
4th: Antonio Pesenti, Italy, @37' 08"
5th: Georges Ronsse, Belgium, @41' 04"
6th: Frans Bonduel, Belgium, @45' 13"
7th: Oskar Thierbach, Germany, @58' 44"
8th: Jef Demuysère, Belgium, @1h 03' 24"
9th: Luigi Barral, Italy (Touriste - Routier), @1h 06' 57"
10th: Georges Speicher, France, @1h 10' 37"
(57th: Rudolf Risch, Germany, @5h 5' 14")
1st: Italy 464h 57' 41"
2nd: Belgium @7' 27"
3rd: France @11' 50"