23rd Tour de Normandie - 2.5

France, March 24-30, 2003

2002 Results Stage List Preview Start List Past winners

The Stages

Prologue - March 24: Mondeville ITT, 5.6 km
Stage 1 - March 25: Lisieux - Forges-les-Eaux, 181 km
Stage 2 - March 26: Forges-les-Eaux - Elbeuf-sur-Seine, 151 km
Stage 3 - March 27: Elbeuf-sur-Seine - Flers, 208 km
Stage 4 - March 28: Flers - Valognes, 178 km
Stage 5 - March 29: Valognes - Bagnoles de l'Orne, 194 km
Stage 6 - March 30: Bagnoles de l'Orne - Caen, 146 km

Preview

The 23rd edition of the Tour de Normandie begins Monday, March 24 with a prologue in Mondeville, France. Twenty three teams will contest the race, which typically fields a mixture of regional teams and espoir divisions of larger trade teams. This year's course features six road stages in addition to the opening day's prologue of 5.6km. After covering a total distance of 1,063 km, the race wraps up Sunday, March 30 in Caen, the ducal seat of William the Conquerer.

Start list

Coming!

Past winners

Professionals
2002 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Bonjour
2001 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole
2000 Ludovic Auger (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93
1999 Steffen Kjaergaard (Nor) Team Chicky World
1998 Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Team Chicky World / Elite
1997 Glenn Magnusson (Swe) Amore & Vita
1996 Frédéric Pontier (Fra) Aubervilliers

Amateur/Elite

1995 Ole-Sigurd Simensen (Nor)
1994 Saulius Sarkauskas (Lit)
1993 Emmanuel Mallet (Fra)
1992 Thierry Dupuy (Fra)
1991 Stéphane Heulot (Fra)
1990 Dimitri Zdhanov (Rus)
1989 Sébastien Flicher (Fra)
1988 Vjatcheslav Ekimov (Rus)
1987 (2) Yvan Frebert (Fra)
1986 Nentscho Staikov (Bul)
1985 Paul Curran (GBr)
1984 Mario Kummer (DDR)
1983 Yvan Frebert (Fra)
1982 Daniel Leveau (Fra)

1959-1981 Not Held

1958 Joseph Wasko (Fra)
1957 Pierre Gouget (Fra)
1956 Armand Audaire (Fra)

1940-1955 Not held

1939 Guilaume Godere (Fra)

Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com