The 1952 Tour de France was the 39th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 25 June to 19 July. It was composed of 23 stages over .

The Tour began in Brest on 25 June, and Stage 12 occurred on 7 July with a mountainous stage to Monaco. The race finished in Paris on 19 July.

Classification standings

Legend Denotes the leader of the general classification MG Denotes the leader of the mountains classification (meilleur grimpeur)    s.t. indicates that the rider was credited with the same time as the one directly above him.

Stage 1 25 June 1952 — Brest to Rennes,

+ Stage 1 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Belgium 2 Belgium s.t. 3 North-East/Centre s.t. 4 Belgium + 2' 54" 5 North-East/Centre + 3' 08" 6 West/South-West s.t. 7 France s.t. 8 Netherlands s.t. 9 Italy s.t. 10 Belgium s.t.+ General classification after stage 1 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Belgium 2 Belgium + 0' 30" 3 North-East/Centre + 1' 00" 4 Belgium + 3' 54" 5 North-East/Centre + 4' 08" 6 West/South-West s.t. 7 France s.t. 8 Netherlands s.t. 9 Italy s.t. 10 Belgium s.t.

Stage 2 26 June 1952 — Rennes to Le Mans,

+ Stage 2 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Belgium 2 Spain s.t. 3 South-East s.t. 4 Belgium s.t. 5 South-East + 0' 26" 6 Spain + 0' 54" 7 Belgium + 1' 10" 8 Italy s.t. 9 West/South-West s.t. 10 Netherlands s.t.+ General classification after stage 2 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Belgium 2 North-East/Centre + 1' 00" 3 Belgium + 2' 58" 4 Belgium + 3' 49" 5 Belgium + 3' 54" 6 Italy + 4' 08" 7 North-East/Centre s.t. 8 Belgium + 5' 11" 9 Spain + 5' 41" 10 South-East + 6' 11"

Stage 3

27 June 1952 — Le Mans to Rouen,

+ Stage 3 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 France 2 France s.t. 3 Netherlands + 3' 25" 4 Italy + 6' 04" 5 South-East + 6' 10" 6 Paris + 10' 31" 7 Netherlands s.t. 8 France s.t. 9 Switzerland s.t. 10 Italy s.t.+ General classification after stage 3 Rank Rider Team Time 1 France 2 France + 3' 43" 3 Belgium + 4' 04" 4 North-East/Centre + 5' 04" 5 Belgium + 7' 02" 6 South-East + 7' 04" 7 Netherlands + 7' 38" 8 Belgium + 7' 53" 9 Belgium + 7' 58" 10 North-East/Centre + 8' 12"

Stage 4 28 June 1952 — Rouen to Roubaix,

+ Stage 4 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 South-East 2 France + 2' 34" 3 France + 3' 21" 4 Belgium s.t. 5 Italy s.t. 6 Italy s.t. 7 Belgium s.t. 8 France s.t. 9 France s.t. 10 Luxembourg/Australia s.t.+ General classification after stage 4 Rank Rider Team Time 1 France 2 South-East + 1' 36" 3 Belgium + 2' 44" 4 Belgium + 3' 40" 5 Italy + 3' 54" 6 Belgium + 4' 04" 7 South-East + 7' 04" 8 France + 7' 07" 9 Netherlands + 7' 15" 10 Netherlands + 7' 38"

Stage 5 29 June 1952 — Roubaix to Namur (Belgium),

+ Stage 5 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Luxembourg/Australia 2 Italy + 5' 01" 3 Belgium + 5' 43" 4 Italy + 7' 16" 5 Italy + 7' 22" 6 Luxembourg/Australia + 7' 30" 7 Belgium + 8' 28" 8 South-East + 9' 10" 9 Switzerland + 9' 22" 10 Netherlands s.t.+ General classification after stage 5 Rank Rider Team Time 1 France 2 Belgium + 1' 00" 3 Belgium + 2' 44" 4 Luxembourg/Australia + 3' 39" 5 Italy + 6' 06" 6 Italy + 6' 17" 7 Netherlands + 7' 38" 8 Italy + 8' 26" 9 Luxembourg/Australia + 8' 34" 10 Italy + 8' 51"

Stage 6 30 June 1952 — Namur (Belgium) to Metz,

+ Stage 6 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Italy 2 West/South-West + 5' 35" 3 Switzerland s.t. 4 Switzerland s.t. 5 France + 7' 38" 6 Netherlands s.t. 7 Paris s.t. 8 North Africa s.t. 9 Italy s.t. 10 Italy s.t.+ General classification after stage 6 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Italy 2 France + 0' 12" 3 Belgium + 0' 13" 4 Belgium + 2' 56" 5 Italy + 6' 18" 6 Italy + 6' 29" 7 Netherlands + 7' 50" 8 Luxembourg/Australia + 8' 46" 9 Italy + 9' 03" 10 Luxembourg/Australia + 9' 30"

Stage 7 1 July 1952 — Metz to Nancy, (ITT)

+ Stage 7 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Italy 2 Belgium + 0' 34" 3 Paris + 1' 19" 4 Italy + 1' 22" 5 France + 1' 23" 6 Netherlands + 1' 27" 7 Switzerland + 1' 36" 8 North Africa + 1' 41" 9 Italy + 1' 45" 10 France + 1' 46"+ General classification after stage 7 Rank Rider Team Time 1 France 2 Italy + 0' 10" 3 Italy + 3' 43" 4 Belgium + 4' 54" 5 Belgium + 5' 36" 6 Italy + 7' 50" 7 Luxembourg/Australia + 9' 24" 8 Italy + 10' 39" 9 Netherlands + 11' 01" 10 Netherlands + 12' 02"

Stage 8 2 July 1952 — Nancy to Mulhouse,

+ Stage 8 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 France 2 Italy + 5' 19" 3 Belgium s.t. 4 Italy s.t. 5 Switzerland s.t. 6 Belgium s.t. 7 France s.t. 8 Belgium s.t. 9 West/South-West s.t. 10 Spain s.t.+ General classification after stage 8 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Italy 2 France + 0' 20" 3 Italy + 4' 03" 4 Belgium + 5' 14" 5 Italy + 8' 10" 6 Italy + 10' 59" 7 Belgium + 12' 26" 8 Spain + 14' 31" 9 MG France + 15' 37" 10 Switzerland + 17' 13"

Stage 9 3 July 1952 — Mulhouse to Lausanne (Switzerland),

+ Stage 9 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Switzerland 2 Paris s.t. 3 Netherlands s.t. 4 Netherlands s.t. 5 Belgium s.t. 6 France s.t. 7 Italy s.t. 8 North Africa s.t. 9 Italy + 6' 15" 10 Belgium + 9' 11"+ General classification after stage 9 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Italy 2 Italy + 1' 01" 3 France + 1' 21" 4 Italy + 5' 04" 5 Belgium + 6' 15" 6 Italy + 12' 00" 7 Belgium + 13' 20" 8 Belgium + 13' 27" 9 Spain + 15' 32" 10 MG France + 16' 38"

Stage 10 4 July 1952 — Lausanne (Switzerland) to L'Alpe d'Huez,

+ Stage 10 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Italy 2 France + 1' 20" 3 Belgium + 3' 22" 4 Spain s.t. 5 France + 3' 27" 6 Italy + 3' 29" 7 South-East + 4' 00" 8 Netherlands + 4' 02" 9 Italy + 4' 13" 10 Belgium + 4' 15"+ General classification after stage 10 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Italy 2 Italy + 0' 05" 3 Italy + 1' 50" 4 France + 5' 01" 5 Belgium + 7' 06" 6 Belgium + 13' 25" 7 Italy + 13' 57" 8 Belgium + 16' 12" 9 Spain + 16' 25" 10 France + 18' 17"

Stage 11 6 July 1952 — Le Bourg d'Oisans to Sestriere (Italy),

+ Stage 11 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Italy 2 Spain + 7' 09" 3 Belgium + 9' 33" 4 West/South-West + 9' 56" 5 Italy + 10' 09" 6 Belgium + 10' 11" 7 France + 11' 24" 8 South-East + 14' 45" 9 Switzerland + 14' 46" 10 Netherlands + 15' 39"+ General classification after stage 11 Rank Rider Team Time 1 MG Italy 2 Belgium + 19' 57" 3 Italy + 20' 26" 4 Italy + 25' 16" 5 Spain + 25' 24" 6 Belgium + 25' 38" 7 Italy + 26' 46" 8 France + 31' 21" 9 France + 32' 21" 10 Belgium + 34' 41"

Stage 12 7 July 1952 — Sestriere (Italy) to Monaco,

+ Stage 12 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Netherlands 2 France + 1' 27" 3 South-East + 3' 44" 4 South-East + 5' 07" 5 Belgium + 6' 42" 6 Belgium + 6' 48" 7 France s.t. 8 Italy + 6' 59" 9 MG Italy s.t. 10 Spain s.t.+ General classification after stage 12 Rank Rider Team Time 1 MG Italy 2 Belgium + 24' 02" 3 Spain + 25' 26" 4 Belgium + 25' 27" 5 Italy + 26' 04" 6 Italy + 26' 46" 7 Italy + 30' 16" 8 France + 31' 50" 9 South-East + 33' 48" 10 Belgium + 34' 24"

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