As was the custom since 1930, the 1935 Tour de France was contested by national teams. Belgium, Italy, Spain, Germany and France each sent teams of 8 cyclists. Then there were the individuals: each country also sent four cyclists who rode as individuals, but could take over the place of another cyclists if they dropped out. Spain only sent three cyclists, and Swiss sent four individual cyclists even though they did not have a national team, so 23 individual cyclists were racing. Finally, there was the touriste-routiers category, in which 30 cyclists participated. In total this made 93 cyclists. Split up by nationality, there were 41 French, 13 Italian, 12 Belgian, 12 German, 11 Spanish and 4 Swiss cyclists.
The French team looked very strong, as it contained the three winners of the last five Tours, Antonin Magne, Georges Speicher and André Leducq, in addition to climber René Vietto and Maurice Archambaud, who had led the general classification for a long time in 1933. In addition, they had Roger Lapébie and Charles Pélissier riding as individuals, which meant that they could take the place of a French team member dropping out.
Of the other teams, the Belgian and Italian teams seemed most likely to challenge the French.
By rider + Legend 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 Jean Aerts Belgium 29 2 Gustave Danneels Belgium DNF 3 Edgard De Caluwé Belgium DNF 4 Henri Garnier Belgium DNF 5 Louis Hardiquest Belgium DNF 6 Romain Maes Belgium 1 7 Jozef Moerenhout Belgium DNF 8 Félicien Vervaecke Belgium 3 9 Vasco Bergamaschi Italy DNF 10 Giuseppe Martano Italy DNF 11 Remo Bertoni Italy DNF 12 Raffaele di Paco Italy DNF 13 Francesco Camusso Italy DNF 14 Mario Cipriani Italy DNF 15 Adriano Vignoli Italy DNF 16 Luigi Giacobbe Italy DNF 17 Fédérico Ezquerra Spain DNF 18 Mariano Cañardo Spain DNF 19 Vicente Trueba Spain DNF 20 Antonio Prior Spain 32 21 Emiliano Alvarez Spain DNF 22 Cipriano Elis Spain DNF 23 Salvador Cardona Spain 22 24 Isidro Figueras Spain DNF 25 Kurt Stöpel Germany DNF 26 Oskar Thierbach Germany 10 27 Willy Kutschbach Germany 46 28 Georg Umbenhauer Germany DNF 29 Otto Weckerling Germany 42 30 Anton Hodey Germany DNF 31 Emil Kijewski Germany DNF 32 Karl Heide Germany DNF 33 André Leducq France 17 34 Georges Speicher France 6 35 René Le Grevès France 15 36 Antonin Magne France DNF 37 Maurice Archambaud France 7 38 René Vietto France 8 39 Jules Merviel France DNF 40 René Debenne France DNF 51 Sylvère Maes Belgium Individuals 4 52 Antoon Dignef Belgium Individuals 20 53 Jules Lowie Belgium Individuals 5 54 François Neuville Belgium Individuals DNF 55 Pietro Rimoldi Italy Individuals DNF 56 Ambrogio Morelli Italy Individuals 2 57 Eugenio Gestri Italy Individuals DNF 58 Orlando Teani Italy Individuals 27 59 Demetrio Vicente Spain Individuals DNF 60 Francisco Cepeda Spain Individuals DNF 61 Vicente Bachero Spain Individuals 39 63 Ferdi Ickes Germany Individuals 45 64 Bruno Roth Germany Individuals 23 65 Georges Haendel Germany Individuals 34 66 Georg Stach Germany Individuals DNF 67 Jean Fontenay France Individuals 25 68 Julien Moineau France Individuals 30 69 Roger Lapébie France Individuals DNF 70 Charles Pélissier France Individuals 13 71 Leo Amberg Switzerland Individuals 24 72 Fritz Hartmann Switzerland Individuals 26 73 Alfred Bula Switzerland Individuals DNF 74 Kurt Stettler Switzerland Individuals 40 101 Louis Thiétard Touriste-routier 36 102 Oreste Bernardoni Touriste-routier 35 103 Paul-René Corallini Touriste-routier DNF 104 Georges Lachat Touriste-routier 38 105 Aimable Denhez Touriste-routier DNF 106 Arthur Debruycker Touriste-routier DNF 107 Honoré Granier Touriste-routier 28 108 Benoît Faure Touriste-routier 12 109 Sezny Leroux Touriste-routier DNF 110 Charles Berty Touriste-routier 37 111 Clément Bistagne Touriste-routier DNF 112 Maurice Kraus Touriste-routier DNF 113 Joseph Mauclair Touriste-routier 19 114 Fernand Fayolle Touriste-routier 16 115 Maurice Pomarede Touriste-routier DNF 116 Dante Gianello Touriste-routier 21 117 Georges Hubatz Touriste-routier 44 118 Jean Philip Touriste-routier DNF 119 Pierre Cogan Touriste-routier 11 120 Louis Halbourg Touriste-routier DNF 121 Manuel Garcia Touriste-routier 41 122 Pierre Janvier Touriste-routier DNF 123 Gabriel Ruozzi Touriste-routier 9 124 René Bernard Touriste-routier 14 125 Pierre-Marie Cloarec Touriste-routier 18 126 Roland Fleuret Touriste-routier DNF 127 Théodore Ladron Touriste-routier 43 128 Paul Chocque Touriste-routier 31 129 Robert Renonce Touriste-routier DNF 130 Aldo Bertocco Touriste-routier 33
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