1989 Tour de France
Rank Team Time
1 PDM-Concorde 263h 19 ' 48
2 Reynolds + 1 ' 19
3 Z-Peugeot + 44 ' 22
4 Super U-Raleigh-Fiat + 51 ' 26
5 RMO + 1h 12 ' 19
6 Helvetia-La Suisse + 1h 15 ' 26
7 Toshiba + 1h 41 ' 04
8 Café de Colombia + 1h 48 ' 06
9 BH + 1h 51 ' 09
10 Paternina + 2h 05 ' 12
Team classification
The 1989 Tour de France was the 76th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The race consisted of 21 stages and a prologue, over . It started on 1 July 1989 in Luxembourg before taking an anti-clockwise route through France to finish in Paris on 23 July. The race was won by Greg LeMond of the team. It was the second overall victory for the American, who had spent the previous two seasons recovering from a near-fatal hunting accident. In second place was previous two-time Tour winner Laurent Fignon (), ahead of Pedro Delgado (), the defending champion. Delgado started the race as the favourite, but lost almost three minutes on his principal rivals when he missed his start time in the prologue individual time trial. The race turned out to be a two-man battle between LeMond and Fignon, with the pair trading off the race leader's yellow jersey several times. Fignon managed to match LeMond in the prologue, but in the other three individual time trials he lost time to LeMond, who took advantage of aerodynamic elbow-rest handlebars formerly used in triathlon events. Delgado launched several attacks in the mountain stages to eventually finish third, while LeMond rode defensively to preserve his chances. Fignon rode well in the mountains, including a strong performance at Alpe d'Huez which gave him the race lead on stage 17. In the closest Tour in history, LeMond was trailing Fignon by fifty seconds at the start of the final stage, an individual time trial into Paris.