As was the custom since 1930, the 1950 Tour de France was contested by national and regional teams. The three major cycling countries in 1950, Italy, Belgium and France, each sent a team of 10 cyclists. Other countries sent teams of 6 cyclists: Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Italy and Belgium also sent two extra teams of young riders of 6 cyclists each. The French regional cyclists were divided into five teams of 10 cyclists: Paris, Ile de France–North East, West, Centre–South West and South East. Originally, the plan was to have one extra international team of six cyclists with Spanish cyclists, but this extra team became a North African team, with Moroccan and Algerian cyclists, both being French colonies at the time. Altogether this made 116 cyclists. There were 60 French cyclists (of which 2 French-Moroccan and 4 French-Algerian), 22 Italian, 16 Belgian, 6 Dutch, 6 Luxembourg and 6 Swiss cyclists.

The winner of the previous Tour de France, Fausto Coppi, was injured during the 1950 Giro d'Italia, so he could not defend his title. Still the Italians were favourites, especially Gino Bartali, who had come second in the 1950 Giro d'Italia behind Hugo Koblet, who did not enter the 1950 Tour de France. Other candidates for the victory were Bobet, Kübler, Ockers and Geminiani. Two days before the Tour started, the organisation held a poll amongst 25 journalists, who each gave their eight favourites for the victory. Bartali was on the most lists, 23. Robic was written on 20 lists, Lauredi on 19, Bobet and Goldschmidt on 17. On the first day of the race, before the Tour had started, French cyclist Charles Coste was replaced by Paul Giguet.

Start list By team

+Italy No. Rider Pos. 1 DNF 2 DNF 3 DNF 4 DNF 5 DNF 6 DNF 7 DNF 8 DNF 9 DNF 10 DNF+Belgium No. Rider Pos. 11 DNF 12 DNF 13 DNF 14 25 15 8 16 13 17 2 18 22 19 DNF 20 DNF+France No. Rider Pos. 21 48 22 3 23 24 24 DNF 25 46 26 4 27 37 28 28 29 DNF 30 36+Switzerland No. Rider Pos. 31 41 32 43 33 1 34 DNF 35 50 36 51+Luxembourg No. Rider Pos. 37 18 38 DNF 39 10 40 DNF 41 21 42 5+Netherlands No. Rider Pos. 43 DNF 44 27 45 DNF 46 DNF 47 DNF 48 DNF+Italy Cadets No. Rider Pos. 49 DNF 50 DNF 51 DNF 52 DNF 53 DNF 54 DNF+Belgium Eaglets No. Rider Pos. 55 23 56 16 57 DNF 58 DNF 59 DNF 60 15+France – Paris No. Rider Pos. 61 30 62 47 63 42 64 DNF 65 DNF 66 DNF 67 DNF 68 DNF 69 DNF 70 DNF+France – Île-de-France/North-East No. Rider Pos. 71 49 72 14 73 32 74 6 75 DNF 76 DNF 77 20 78 DNF 79 DNF 80 DNF+France – West No. Rider Pos. 81 DNF 82 44 83 DNF 84 39 85 DNF 86 35 87 DNF 88 DNF 89 12 90 33+France – Centre/South-West No. Rider Pos. 91 DNF 92 7 93 DNF 94 31 95 DNF 96 45 97 9 98 DNF 99 DNF 100 DNF+France – South-East No. Rider Pos. 101 DNF 102 11 103 DNF 104 19 105 17 106 38 107 DNF 108 34 109 DNF 110 29+North Africa No. Rider Pos. 111 DNF 112 26 113 40 114 DNF 115 DNF 116 DNF

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 Gino Bartali Italy DNF 2 Serafino Biagioni Italy DNF 3 Angelo Brignole Italy DNF 4 Giovanni Corrieri Italy DNF 5 Guido De Santi Italy DNF 6 Attilio Lambertini Italy DNF 7 Fiorenzo Magni Italy DNF 8 Silvio Pedroni Italy DNF 9 Luciano Pezzi Italy DNF 10 Virgilio Salimbeni Italy DNF 11 Maurice Blomme Belgium DNF 12 Hilaire Couvreur Belgium DNF 13 Marcel Dupont Belgium DNF 14 Marcel Hendrickx Belgium 25 15 Raymond Impanis Belgium 8 16 Roger Lambrecht Belgium 13 17 Stan Ockers Belgium 2 18 Briek Schotte Belgium 22 19 Eduard Van Ende Belgium DNF 20 Jozef Verhaert Belgium DNF 21 Émile Baffert France 48 22 Louison Bobet France 3 23 Paul Giguet France 24 24 Louis Deprez France DNF 25 Robert Desbats France 46 26 Raphaël Géminiani France 4 27 Nello Lauredi France 37 28 Apo Lazaridès France 28 29 Jacques Marinelli France DNF 30 Pierre Molinéris France 36 31 Georges Aeschlimann Switzerland 41 32 Emilio Croci-Torti Switzerland 43 33 Ferdinand Kübler Switzerland 1 34 Martin Metzger Switzerland DNF 35 Gottfried Weilenmann Switzerland 50 36 Fritz Zbinden Switzerland 51 37 Bim Diederich Luxembourg 18 38 Marcel Ernzer Luxembourg DNF 39 Jean Goldschmit Luxembourg 10 40 Henri Kellen Luxembourg DNF 41 Willy Kemp Luxembourg 21 42 Jeng Kirchen Luxembourg 5 43 Henk De Hoog Netherlands DNF 44 Wim De Ruyter Netherlands 27 45 Sjefke Janssen Netherlands DNF 46 Gerrit Voorting Netherlands DNF 47 Frans Vos Netherlands DNF 48 Wout Wagtmans Netherlands DNF 49 Valerio Bonini Italy Cadets DNF 50 Giulio Bresci Italy Cadets DNF 51 Alberto Ghirardi Italy Cadets DNF 52 Adolfo Leoni Italy Cadets DNF 53 Alfredo Pasotti Italy Cadets DNF 54 Remo Sabattini Italy Cadets DNF 55 Armand Baeyens Belgium Eaglets 23 56 Marcel De Mulder Belgium Eaglets 16 57 Isidoor De Ryck Belgium Eaglets DNF 58 Albert Dubuisson Belgium Eaglets DNF 59 Jean Storms Belgium Eaglets DNF 60 Marcel Verschueren Belgium Eaglets 15 61 Jean Baldassari France – Paris 30 62 José Beyaert France – Paris 47 63 Serge Blusson France – Paris 42 64 Robert Chapatte France – Paris DNF 65 Robert Dorgebray France – Paris DNF 66 Dominique Forlini France – Paris DNF 67 Antoine Frankowski France – Paris DNF 68 Lucien Lauk France – Paris DNF 69 Maurice Quentin France – Paris DNF 70 Jacques Renaud France – Paris DNF 71 Gilbert Bauvin France – Île-de-France/North-East 49 72 André Brulé France – Île-de-France/North-East 14 73 Maurice De Muer France – Île-de-France/North-East 32 74 Kléber Piot France – Île-de-France/North-East 6 75 Galiano Pividori France – Île-de-France/North-East DNF 76 Roger Queugnet France – Île-de-France/North-East DNF 77 Attilio Redolfi France – Île-de-France/North-East 20 78 Nello Sforacchi France – Île-de-France/North-East DNF 79 Giuseppe Tacca France – Île-de-France/North-East DNF 80 Daniel Thuayre France – Île-de-France/North-East DNF 81 Armand Audaire France – West DNF 82 Robert Bonnaventure France – West 44 83 Roger Chupin France – West DNF 84 Roger Creton France – West 39 85 Basile Decortès France – West DNF 86 Jean-Marie Goasmat France – West 35 87 André Mahé France – West DNF 88 Roger Pontet France – West DNF 89 Jean Robic France – West 12 90 Gino Sciardis France – West 33 91 René Berton France – Centre/South-West DNF 92 Pierre Cogan France – Centre/South-West 7 93 Armand Darnauguilhem France – Centre/South-West DNF 94 Marcel Dussault France – Centre/South-West 31 95 Bernard Fernandez France – Centre/South-West DNF 96 Noël Lajoie France – Centre/South-West 45 97 Georges Meunier France – Centre/South-West 9 98 Alain Moineau France – Centre/South-West DNF 99 Paul Pineau France – Centre/South-West DNF 100 Hervé Prouzet France – Centre/South-West DNF 101 Marius Bonnet France – South-East DNF 102 Pierre Brambilla France – South-East 11 103 Antonin Canavese France – South-East DNF 104 Robert Castelin France – South-East 19 105 Bernard Gauthier France – South-East 17 106 Maurice Kallert France – South-East 38 107 Paul Néri France – South-East DNF 108 Raoul Rémy France – South-East 34 109 Emile Rol France – South-East DNF 110 Antonin Rolland France – South-East 29 111 Max Charroin North Africa DNF 112 Custodio Dos Reis North Africa 26 113 Ahmed Kebaili North Africa 40 114 Marcel Molinès North Africa DNF 115 Abdel-Kader Zaaf North Africa DNF 116 Marcel Zelasco North Africa DNF

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