1965 Tour de France

1965 Tour de France

Route of the 1965 Tour de France
Race details
Dates	22 June – 14 July 1965
Stages	22, including two split stages
Distance	4,188 km (2,602 mi)
Winning time	116h 42' 06"
Results
Winner  Felice Gimondi (ITA) (Salvarani)   Second  Raymond Poulidor (FRA) (Mercier–BP–Hutchinson)   Third  Gianni Motta (ITA) (Molteni–Ignis) Points  Jan Janssen (NED) (Pelforth–Sauvage–Lejeune)   Mountains  Julio Jiménez (ESP) (Kas–Kaskol)   Combativity  Felice Gimondi (ITA) (Salvarani)   Team Kas–Kaskol
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The 1965 Tour de France was the 52nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 22 June and 14 July, with 22 stages covering a distance of 4,188 km (2,602 mi). In his first year as a professional, Felice Gimondi, a substitute replacement on the Salvarani team, captured the overall title ahead of Raymond Poulidor, the previous year's second-place finisher.

Gimondi became one of only seven riders, the others being Alberto Contador, Vincenzo Nibali, Chris Froome and five-time Tour winners Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault to have won all three of the major Tours. Besides Gimondi's first tour and win, it was a first for other reasons: the 1965 Tour started in Cologne, Germany (the first time the Tour started in Germany,^[1] and only the third time it started outside France), and it was the first time the start ramp was used in time trials.

Jan Janssen, who won the points classification the previous year successfully defended his title; he won another points title in 1967 and the overall title at the 1968 Tour de France.

Julio Jiménez won two stages and his first of three consecutive mountains classification. Jiminez also won the mountains classification at the 1965 Vuelta a España – becoming one of (now) four riders to complete the Tour/Vuelta double by winning both races' mountains competitions in the same year.