This year’s 100th edition of the Tour de France was a phenomenal battle between Chris Froome and Alberto Contador.
Today the 2013 Tour de France champion will be crowned, and as we await the crowning, we honour the man who won the first ever Tour de France race – Maurice Garin.
Maurice Garin nicknamed ‘the chimney sweep’ after his former profession, won the first Tour de France on this day in 1903. He won with a margin of 2 hours and 49 minutes, which remains the largest in the history of the race.
Maurice Garin, 1890.
Photo: Roger Viollet / Getty Images
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