In the 1921 Tour de France, two veteran cyclists who joined the race were Ernest Paul and Lucien Pothier, both forty years old. Paul rode his first Tour de France in 1908, while Pothier had started in the first Tour de France in 1903, and finished second. The winner of 1920, Philippe Thys, was the dominant stage racer of the time, but he was recovering from an illness and could not compete for the victory.
The economic impact of World War I was still not over, so as in the previous years there were not sponsored teams, but the cycling companies had bundled their forces under the nick La Sportive. The cyclists were divided in two categories, this time named 1ère class (first class), the professionals, and 2ème classe (second class), the amateurs. This year, some of the second class cyclists would finish higher than some of the first class cyclists.
The 1921 Tour de France saw the introduction of foreign press. They followed the race in their own cars. For the first time, an inhabitant from Monaco joined the Tour de France. Laurent Devalle needed more than twenty-seven hours for the fifth stage, and would finally give up in the eleventh stage.
By starting number + Legend No. Starting number worn by the rider during the Tour Pos. Position in the general classification DNF Denotes a rider who did not finish
No. Name Nationality Pos. 1 Eugène Christophe DNF 2 Jean Rossius DNF 3 Hector Heusghem 2 4 Firmin Lambot 9 5 Honoré Barthélémy 3 6 Jean Alavoine DNF 7 Louis Mottiat 11 8 Louis Heusghem DNF 9 René Vermandel DNF 10 Félix Goethals 10 11 Émile Masson DNF 12 Hector Tiberghien 5 13 Romain Bellenger DNF 15 Philippe Thys DNF 16 Charles Juseret DNF 17 Robert Jacquinot DNF 18 Albert Dejonghe DNF 19 Léon Scieur 1 20 Jacques Coomans DNF 21 René Chassot DNF 22 Alfred Steux DNF 23 Marcel Godard DNF 24 Robert Gerbaud DNF 25 Luigi Lucotti 4 101 Joseph Rayen DNF 102 André Coutte DNF 103 Paul Coppens 30 104 Henri Catelan 38 105 Eugène Dhers 12 106 Jules Lebreton DNF 107 Robert Martens DNF 108 Alexandre Bodinier DNF 109 Robert Constantin 34 110 Félix Sellier 16 111 Edgard Roy 28 112 Ange-Marie Aubry DNF 113 Raoul Petouille DNF 114 Émile Dalifard DNF 115 Charles Cento 35 116 Antoine Rière DNF 117 Pierre Hudsyn 22 118 Camille Botté DNF 119 Édouard Léonard DNF 120 Gaston Degy DNF 121 Alexandre Gilles DNF 122 Maurice Pesnin DNF 123 Jules Deloffre 26 124 Lucien Pothier 32 126 Léon Despontin 7 127 François Chevalier DNF 128 Jean Kienlen 31 129 Fernand Moulet DNF 131 Maurice Armand DNF 132 Charles Pavese DNF 133 Guillaume Cecherelli 19 134 Émile Dorvilliers DNF 135 François Colomines DNF 136 Jules Beyens DNF 137 Robert Asse DNF 138 Étienne Dorfeuille 24 139 Victor Lenaers 6 140 Henri Ferrara 13 141 Noël Amenc 14 142 Napoléon Paoli DNF 143 Théodore Abada DNF 144 Adrien Alpini 37 146 Lucien Roquebert 33 147 Gwénolé Michel DNF 148 Clotaire Guillon DNF 149 Charles Hennuyer DNF 150 René Paxion DNF 151 Henri Miège DNF 152 José Pelletier DNF 153 Paul Seigne DNF 154 Georges Kamm 36 155 Pierre Excoffier DNF 156 Laurent Devalle DNF 157 Emile Brelloch DNF 158 Firmin Pauloin DNF 159 Ernest Paul 27 160 Jules Banino DNF 161 Daniel Dagrau DNF 162 Joseph Normand 23 163 Lucien Lagouche DNF 164 René Billing DNF 169 Arthur Claerhout DNF 171 Jules Nempon DNF 172 Jean Belvaux DNF 173 Auguste Meyer 20 174 Benjamin Javaux 21 175 Louis Budts DNF 178 Pierre Coolens DNF 179 Jules Bertrand DNF 180 Nicolas Urme DNF 181 Camille Leroy 8 183 Charles Raboisson 25 184 Angelo Erba DNF 186 Enrico Sala 18 187 Michele Brega DNF 190 Mario Verzeletti DNF 191 Lucien Abbe DNF 192 Julien Samyn DNF 194 Charles Hans DNF 198 Léon Bonnery DNF 199 Edouard Tibal DNF 200 Charles Parel 29 201 Louis Lembeye DNF 203 Silvio Borsetti DNF 204 Camille Dulac DNF 205 Alexis Rosset DNF 206 Eugène Poncelin DNF 207 Charles Loew DNF 210 Joseph Muller 15 211 Armand Thewis DNF 213 Jean Riou DNF 214 Louis Verbraecken DNF 216 Emile Ledran DNF 217 Émile Lejeune DNF 218 Henri Collé 17 220 Jacques Van Rompaey DNF 221 Mathieu Caplat DNF 222 Pietro Casati DNF 224 Jaime Janer DNF
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