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The 1952 Tour de France was the 39th Tour de France, taking place June 25 to July 19, 1952. It was composed of 23 stages over 4807 km, ridden at an average speed of 31.739 km/h. Newly introduced were the arrivals on mountain peaks. The race was won by Italian Fausto Coppi. Coppi dominated the race, winning five stages and the mountains classification, and was a member of the winning Italian team. His dominance was so large that the Tour organisation had to double the prize money for second place to make the race interesting. At the end, Coppi had a margin of almost half an hour over the second-ranked cyclist, such a margin has never been achieved again. ==Changes from the 1951 Tour de France== The 1952 Tour de France saw the introduction of the combativity award, a daily award for the most combative rider of the stage.〔 The winner of that award received 100,000 French Francs.〔 (The supercombativity award, the award for the most combative rider of the entire Tour de France, would first be given in 1953.) The team classification had been awarded and calculated since 1930, but in 1952 the daily team classification was also calculated: for each stage, the best team (calculated as the team of which the best three cyclists had the lowest accumulated team in that stage) received a prize.〔 Another innovation was the stage arrivals on mountain peaks. This happened three times in 1952, on stages 10, 11 and 21.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1952 Tour de France」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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