Barry Hoban - Tour de France Stage Wins

Tour De France Stage Wins

  • 1967 - stage 14 - Carpentras – Sète – allowed to win after the death of Tom Simpson on the previous stage
  • 1968 - stage 19 - Grenoble – Sallanches – a rarity in that Hoban won a mountain stage, not a sprint
  • 1969 - stage 18 - Mourenx – Bordeaux
  • 1969 - stage 19 - Bordeaux - Brive-la-Gaillarde – the first Briton to win successive stages of the Tour. Mark Cavendish being the second to equal this achievement in 2009
  • 1973 – stage 11 - Montpellier - Argelès-sur-Mer
  • 1973 - stage 19 - Bourges – Versaille
  • 1974 - stage 13 - Avignon – Montpellier
  • 1975 - stage 8 - Angoulême - Bordeaux

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