The 1989 Tour de France was the 76th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Luxembourg with a prologue individual time trial on 1 July and Stage 10 occurred on 11 July with a mountain stage to Superbagnères. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 23 July, with a further individual time trial.

Stage 11 12 July 1989 — Luchon to Blagnac, Stage 11 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 2 Chateau d'Ax 3 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 4 Panasonic–Isostar 5 PDM 6 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 7 Helvetia–La Suisse 8 Domex–Weinmann 9 TVM 10 Hitachi-VTM General classification after stage 11 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Super U 2 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 3 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 4 Reynolds–Banesto 5 7 Eleven-American Airlines 6 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 7 Chateau d'Ax 8 Z–Peugeot 9 PDM 10 PDM

Stage 12 13 July 1989 — Toulouse to Montpellier, Stage 12 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Chateau d'Ax 2 Carrera Jeans–Vagabond 3 Reynolds–Banesto 4 Domex–Weinmann 5 Domex–Weinmann 6 SuperConfex–Yoko–Opel 7 TVM 8 Z–Peugeot 9 Histor Sigma–Fina 10 Z–Peugeot General classification after stage 12 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Super U 2 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 3 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 4 Reynolds–Banesto 5 7 Eleven-American Airlines 6 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 7 Chateau d'Ax 8 Z–Peugeot 9 PDM 10 PDM

Stage 13 14 July 1989 — Montpellier to Marseille, Stage 13 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Super U 2 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 3 Toshiba 4 Helvetia–La Suisse 5 Histor Sigma–Fina 6 PDM 7 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 8 Toshiba 9 Domex–Weinmann 10 BH General classification after stage 13 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Super U 2 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 3 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 4 Reynolds–Banesto 5 7 Eleven-American Airlines 6 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 7 Chateau d'Ax 8 Z–Peugeot 9 PDM 10 PDM

Stage 14 15 July 1989 — Marseille to Gap, Stage 14 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 SuperConfex–Yoko–Opel 2 Toshiba 3 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 4 Chateau d'Ax 5 PDM 6 Histor Sigma–Fina 7 TVM 8 PDM 9 PDM 10 RMO–Mavic–Liberia General classification after stage 14 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Super U 2 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 3 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 4 Reynolds–Banesto 5 7 Eleven-American Airlines 6 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 7 Chateau d'Ax 8 Z–Peugeot 9 PDM 10 PDM

Stage 15 16 July 1989 — Gap to Orcières-Merlette, (ITT) Stage 15 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 PDM 2 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 3 Reynolds–Banesto 4 Reynolds–Banesto 5 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 6 PDM 7 PDM 8 PDM 9 Fagor 10 Super U General classification after stage 15 Rank Rider Team Time 1 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 2 Super U 3 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 4 Reynolds–Banesto 5 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 6 PDM 7 7 Eleven-American Airlines 8 PDM 9 PDM 10 PDM

Stage 16 18 July 1989 — Gap to Briançon, Stage 16 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Helvetia–La Suisse 2 Z–Peugeot 3 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 4 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 5 Toshiba 6 Reynolds–Banesto 7 PDM 8 PDM 9 Super U 10 PDM General classification after stage 16 Rank Rider Team Time 1 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 2 Super U 3 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 4 Reynolds–Banesto 5 PDM 6 PDM 7 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 8 PDM 9 Reynolds–Banesto 10 7 Eleven-American Airlines

Stage 17 19 July 1989 — Briançon to Alpe d'Huez, Stage 17 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 PDM 2 Reynolds–Banesto 3 Super U 4 Reynolds–Banesto 5 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 6 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 7 PDM 8 Chateau d'Ax 9 Z–Peugeot 10 Super U General classification after stage 17 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Super U 2 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 3 Reynolds–Banesto 4 PDM + 5' 12" 5 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 6 PDM 7 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 8 PDM 9 Z–Peugeot 10 PDM + 14' 09"

Stage 18 20 July 1989 — Le Bourg-d'Oisans to Villard-de-Lans, Stage 18 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Super U 2 PDM 3 PDM 4 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 5 PDM 6 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 7 Reynolds–Banesto 8 Café de Colombia 9 PDM 10 Café de Colombia General classification after stage 18 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Super U 2 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 3 Reynolds–Banesto 4 PDM 5 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 6 PDM 7 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 8 PDM 9 Z–Peugeot 10 PDM

Stage 19 21 July 1989 — Villard-de-Lans to Aix-les-Bains, Stage 19 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 2 Super U 3 Reynolds–Banesto 4 PDM 5 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 6 Chateau d'Ax 7 PDM 8 Helvetia–La Suisse 9 PDM 10 Reynolds–Banesto General classification after stage 19 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Super U 2 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 3 Reynolds–Banesto 4 PDM 5 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 6 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 7 PDM 8 PDM 9 Z–Peugeot 10 PDM

Stage 20 22 July 1989 — Aix-les-Bains to L'Isle-d'Abeau, Stage 20 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 Chateau d'Ax 2 SuperConfex–Yoko–Opel 3 PDM 4 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 5 Domex–Weinmann 6 Histor Sigma–Fina 7 Carrera Jeans–Vagabond 8 Toshiba 9 Super U 10 Helvetia–La Suisse General classification after stage 20 Rank Rider Team Time 1 Super U 2 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 3 Reynolds–Banesto 4 PDM 5 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal 6 RMO–Mavic–Liberia 7 PDM 8 PDM 9 Z–Peugeot 10 PDM

Stage 21 23 July 1989 — Versailles to Paris Champs-Élysées, (ITT)

Departing from Versailles, the route passed through Chaville, Sèvres and Issy-les-Moulineaux, before the intermediate timecheck and then entering Paris and crossing to the Rive Droite. The route entered the Champs-Élysées via the Cours-la-Reine and the Place de la Concorde, heading up the south side of the Champs-Élysées and returning down the north side, just before the Arc de Triomphe.

The time trial was the first and, so far, only to have ever finished on the Champs-Élysées at the end of a Tour de France.

LeMond's time trial bike was set up with a 54-tooth chainring on the front and a 12-tooth gear as the fastest on the rear cogset, as well as the triathlon bars he had used in the Stage 5 and Stage 15 time trials, and a rear Mavic disc wheel. Meanwhile, Fignon rode with the same rear gear, but a 55-tooth front ring, no triathlon bars, and with front and rear disc wheels. LeMond used an aerodynamic helmet, whilst Fignon rode without a helmet and wore a long ponytail. Fignon also had a saddle sore and had little sleep the night before.

With the weather hot, dry and still, LeMond departed from the starthouse in Versailles at 4:12 p.m. CEST, and Fignon two minutes later. LeMond requested that his support crew not provide him with his intermediate times, nor details of Fignon's progress, so that he could give total concentration to his own ride. By the timecheck, LeMond was 21 seconds up on Fignon, for the stage. LeMond averaged along the course, which was a Tour de France time trial record at the time.

Stage 21 result Rank Rider Team Time 1 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 2 Super U + 33" 3 Super U + 58" 4 SuperConfex–Yoko–Opel + 1' 07" 5 7 Eleven-American Airlines + 1' 10" 6 Carrera Jeans–Vagabond s.t. 7 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal + 1' 11" 8 RMO–Mavic–Liberia + 1' 16" 9 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal + 1' 19" 10 TVM + 1' 22"General classification after stage 21 Rank Rider Team Time 1 ADR–Agrigel–Bottechia 87h 38' 35" 2 Super U + 8" 3 Reynolds–Banesto + 3' 34" 4 PDM + 7' 30" 5 Paternina–Marcos Eguizabal + 9' 39" 6 RMO–Mavic–Liberia + 10' 06" 7 PDM + 11' 10" 8 PDM + 14' 21" 9 PDM + 18' 25" 10 Z–Peugeot + 18' 46"

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