1984 Including Millar's Best Tour De France
1984 saw continued improvement. In the early season Paris–Nice stage "Race to the Sun" he and his Peugeot team mates finished second in the stage 4 team time trial. Two days later Millar finished second on a 64 km stage ending on Mount Ventoux putting him in the overall lead at that point. He ended the race in sixth overall behind winner Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche, Bernard Hinault, Michel Laurent and Phil Anderson.
In the Tour de Romandie second stage at Crans Montana he beat Pascal Simon into second place with Steven Rooks third. Roche won the race with Millar finishing in fifth in between Simon and Rooks. Millar took the mountains competition. Millar also enjoyed success in the Grand Prix du Midi Libre winning a stage and finishing fourth overall.
Then came Millar's best Tour de France. On stage 11 on July 9th the stage again began at Pau. After crossing the climbs of the Portet d'Aspet, Core and Latrape, Millar won the stage finishing with a climb to Guzet-Neige ski station. He was 41 seconds ahead of Luis Herrera with Delgado a further 20 seconds behind in third. Millar finished fourth overall (surpassing Tom Simpson's sixth place in the 1960s) with Fignon winning for the second successive year and Hinault and LeMond also ahead of Millar. Kelly was a place behind Millar in fifth. Millar won the "King of the Mountains" polka dot jersey, the first and only time to date a native English speaker has won this jersey.
On September 2nd was Millar's best finish in the UCI World Championships. Raced in Barcelona, Millar finished sixth with winner Claude Criquielion, Claudio Corti and Steve Bauer taking the podium places.
Other races that year included second in the Tour du Haut Var to Eric Caritoux and second in Nice - Alassio to Roche. Millar finished seventh in the Volta a Catalunya, won by Kelly.
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