Italy, Germany and Spain did not send teams to the 1939 Tour de France.[1] The Tour organisation were short on participating cyclists, because of this. To solve the problem, they allowed Belgium to send two teams, and France to send four additional regional teams.[2]
The French cyclists had been successful in the 1930s, but their Tour winners were absent in 1939:1930 and 1932 winner André Leducq had retired in 1938, as had 1931 and 1934 winner Antonin Magne; 1933 winner Georges Speicher did not ride, and 1937 winner Roger Lapébie was injured. This all made the Belgian team favourite.[3]
No. | Starting number worn by the rider during the Tour | |
Pos. | Position in the general classification | |
DNF | Denotes a rider who did not finish |
No. | Name | Nationality | Team | Pos. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sylvère Maes | Belgium | 1 | [4] | ||
2 | Félicien Vervaecke | Belgium | DNF | |||
3 | Edward Vissers | Belgium | 5 | |||
4 | Marcel Kint | Belgium | 34 | |||
5 | Lucien Storme | Belgium | DNF | |||
6 | Albert Hendrickx | Belgium | 26 | |||
7 | François Neuville | Belgium | 27 | |||
8 | Romain Maes | Belgium | DNF | |||
9 | Karl Litschi | Switzerland | DNF | |||
10 | Werner Jaisli | Switzerland | DNF | |||
11 | Josef Wagner | Switzerland | 30 | |||
12 | Walter Gross | Switzerland | DNF | |||
13 | Théo Perret | Switzerland | 41 | |||
14 | Karl Wyss | Switzerland | DNF | |||
15 | Ettore Maestranzi | Switzerland | DNF | |||
16 | René Pedroli | Switzerland | 44 | |||
17 | Jean Majerus | Luxembourg | DNF | |||
18 | Pierre Clemens | Luxembourg | 20 | |||
19 | Mathias Clemens | Luxembourg | 4 | |||
20 | François Neuens | Luxembourg | 42 | |||
21 | Arsène Mersch | Luxembourg | DNF | |||
22 | Grégoire Leisen | Luxembourg | DNF | |||
23 | Christophe Didier | Luxembourg | 18 | |||
24 | Lucien Bidinger | Luxembourg | DNF | |||
25 | Albert van Schendel | Netherlands | 15 | |||
26 | Antoon van Schendel | Netherlands | 38 | |||
27 | Janus Hellemons | Netherlands | 46 | |||
28 | Jan Lambrichs | Netherlands | 8 | |||
29 | Jozef Dominicus | Netherlands | 39 | |||
30 | Jan Gommers | Netherlands | DNF | |||
31 | André de Korver | Netherlands | 28 | |||
32 | Hubert Sijen | Netherlands | DNF | |||
33 | Auguste Mallet | France | 13 | |||
34 | Georges Naisse | France | 19 | |||
35 | Lucien Le Guével | France | 35 | |||
36 | Victor Cosson | France | 25 | |||
37 | Sylvain Marcaillou | France | 6 | |||
38 | Pierre Jaminet | France | DNF | |||
39 | Dante Gianello | France | 11 | |||
40 | Raymond Louviot | France | 29 | |||
41 | Albertin Disseaux | Belgium B | 7 | |||
42 | Jules Lowie | Belgium B | DNF | |||
43 | Lucien Vlaemynck | Belgium B | 3 | |||
44 | Albert Ritserveldt | Belgium B | 9 | |||
45 | Éloi Meulenberg | Belgium B | DNF | |||
46 | Cyriel Vanoverberghe | Belgium B | 10 | |||
47 | Albert Perikel | Belgium B | 21 | |||
48 | Edmond Delathouwer | Belgium B | DNF | |||
49 | Maurice Archambaud | France – North-East/Île de France | 14 | |||
50 | Fernand Mithouard | France – North-East/Île de France | DNF | |||
51 | Louis Thiétard | France – North-East/Île de France | 17 | |||
52 | Pierre Gallien | France – North-East/Île de France | 16 | |||
53 | Gabriel Dubois | France – North-East/Île de France | DNF | |||
54 | Amédée Fournier | France – North-East/Île de France | 47 | |||
55 | Roger Bailleux | France – North-East/Île de France | DNF | |||
56 | Victor Codron | France – North-East/Île de France | 40 | |||
57 | René Le Grevès | France – West | 45 | |||
58 | Pierre Cloarec | France – West | 31 | |||
59 | Christophe Taëron | France – West | DNF | |||
60 | Jean Fontenay | France – West | 43 | |||
61 | Armand Le Moal | France – West | 49 | |||
62 | Yvan Marie | France – West | DNF | |||
63 | Albert Goutal | France – West | DNF | |||
64 | Eloi Tassin | France – West | 32 | |||
65 | Paul Maye | France – South-West | DNF | |||
66 | Jean Fréchaut | France – South-West | DNF | |||
67 | Gérard Virol | France – South-West | DNF | |||
68 | Edmond Pagès | France – South-West | 23 | |||
69 | André Bramard | France – South-West | DNF | |||
70 | Joffre Daran | France – South-West | DNF | |||
71 | François Garcia | France – South-West | DNF | |||
72 | Raymond Passat | France – South-West | 12 | |||
73 | Oreste Bernardoni | France – South-East | 24 | |||
74 | René Vietto | France – South-East | 2 | |||
75 | Charles Berty | France – South-East | 33 | |||
76 | Joseph Soffietti | France – South-East | 48 | |||
77 | Gabriel Bouffier | France – South-East | DNF | |||
78 | Trino Yelamos | France – South-East | 36 | |||
79 | Fabien Galateau | France – South-East | 22 | |||
80 | Joseph Aureille | France – South-East | 37 |