In the 1933 Tour de France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France entered national teams, consisting of eight cyclists. Additionally, 40 touriste-routiers, cyclists without a team, entered the race.
The French team has been named the best collection of pre-war cyclists. The Belgian team had talented riders, but were split between French-speaking and Dutch-speaking cyclists. The Italian team was headed by Learco Guerra. Guerra had won three stages in the 1933 Giro d'Italia and had been world champion. Tour director Henri Desgrange had named Guerra as probable winner of the race.
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 Georges Ronsse Belgium DNF 2 Jean Aerts Belgium 9 3 Georges Lemaire Belgium 4 4 Alphonse Schepers Belgium 18 5 Gaston Rebry Belgium 14 6 Jan Wauters Belgium DNF 7 Alfons Deloor Belgium 27 8 Joseph Moerenhout Belgium DNF 9 Learco Guerra Italy 2 10 Raffaele di Paco Italy DNF 11 Francesco Camusso Italy DNF 12 Domenico Piemontesi Italy DNF 13 Vasco Bergamaschi Italy 39 14 Fabio Battesini Italy DNF 15 Luigi Giacobbe Italy 28 16 Allegro Grandi Italy DNF 17 Albert Büchi Switzerland 13 18 Alfred Büchi Switzerland 20 19 Georges Antenen Switzerland DNF 20 Walter Blattmann Switzerland 30 21 Roger Pipoz Switzerland 36 22 August Erne Switzerland DNF 23 Alfred Bula Switzerland 25 24 Luigi Luisoni Switzerland DNF 25 Kurt Stöpel Germany/Austria 10 26 Oskar Thierbach Germany/Austria 23 27 Ludwig Geyer Germany/Austria 12 28 Herbert Sieronski Germany/Austria DNF 29 Hermann Buse Germany/Austria DNF 30 Willy Kutschbach Germany/Austria DNF 31 Max Bulla Germany/Austria DNF 32 Karl Altenburger Germany/Austria DNF 33 Charles Pélissier France DNF 34 André Leducq France 31 35 Maurice Archambaud France 5 36 Georges Speicher France 1 37 Antonin Magne France 8 38 Léon Le Calvez France 17 39 Roger Lapébie France 29 40 René Le Grevès France 19 101 Antoine Dignef Touriste-routier 26 102 Julien Vervaecke Touriste-routier DNF 103 Émile Joly Touriste-routier DNF 104 Camille Degraeve Touriste-routier DNF 105 Emile Decroix Touriste-routier 22 106 Louis Hardiquest Touriste-routier DNF 107 Léon Louyet Touriste-routier 32 108 Léopold Roosemont Touriste-routier DNF 109 Antonio Folco Touriste-routier DNF 110 Robert Brugère Touriste-routier 24 111 Giovanni Firpo Touriste-routier DNF 112 Amulio Viarengo Touriste-routier DNF 113 André Gaillot Touriste-routier 33 114 Renato Scorticati Touriste-routier DNF 115 Giuseppe Martano Touriste-routier 3 116 Eugenio Gestri Touriste-routier DNF 117 Décimo Bettini Touriste-routier 21 118 Roger Strebel Touriste-routier DNF 119 Vicente Trueba Touriste-routier 6 120 Francisco Cepeda Touriste-routier DNF 121 Karl Thallinger Touriste-routier DNF 122 Léon Level Touriste-routier 7 123 Benoît Faure Touriste-routier DNF 124 René Bernard Touriste-routier 34 125 Roger Bisseron Touriste-routier DNF 126 Adrien Buttafocchi Touriste-routier DNF 127 Fernand Cornez Touriste-routier 35 128 Jean Driancourt Touriste-routier DNF 129 Fernand Fayolle Touriste-routier 11 130 Émile Ignat Touriste-routier DNF 131 Edmond Berenger Touriste-routier DNF 132 François Haas Touriste-routier DNF 133 Pierre Cloarec Touriste-routier 38 134 Auguste Monciero Touriste-routier DNF 135 Ernest Neuhard Touriste-routier 40 136 Gaspard Rinaldi Touriste-routier 15 137 Pierre Pastorelli Touriste-routier 37 138 Louis Peglion Touriste-routier DNF 139 Eugène Le Goff Touriste-routier 16 140 Jean-Baptiste Intcégaray Touriste-routier DNF
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