• TITLE: Tour De France 1961
  
• ARTIST: Anonymous
  
• CIRCA: 1961
• ORIGIN: France
• SIZE: 15 in. x 22.5 in.

A- Condition

Professionally linen backed

1961 Race statistics

4397 km (2732 miles)

21 stages including one split stage

General Classification: Jacques Anquetil, France

King of the Mountains: Imorio Massignan, Italy

Points Champion: Andre Darrigade, France

Team Champion France

^{Jacques Anquetil had won the 1957 Tour de France but had been to unable to repeat due to illness, tiredness and struggle within the French team. For 1961, he asked the team captain Marcel Bidot to make a team that would only ride for him, and Bidot agreed. Anquetil announced before the race that he would take the Yellow Jersey as leader of the general classification on the first day, and wear it until the end of the race in Paris. This was technically true as he lost the first half of the opening split stage but gained the Yellow Jersey on the second half of the split stage on the first day and carried it all the way to Paris.}