Changes From The 1951 Tour De France
The 1952 Tour de France saw the introduction of the combativity award, a daily award for the most combative rider of the stage. The winner of that award received 100,000 French Francs. (The supercombativity award, the award for the most combative rider of the entire Tour de France, would first be given in 1953.)
The team classification had been awarded and calculated since 1930, but in 1952 the daily team classification was also calculated: for each stage, the best team (calculated as the team of which the best three cyclists had the lowest accumulated team in that stage) received a prize.
Another innovation was the stage arrivals on mountain peaks. This happened three times in 1952, on stages 10, 11 and 21.
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