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{{Infobox cycling race report
| name               = 1953 Tour de France
| image              = Route of the 1953 Tour de France.png
| image_caption      = Route of the 1953 Tour de France followed counterclockwise, starting in Strasbourg and finishing in Paris
| image_alt          =
| image_size         = 360px
| date               = 3–26 July 1953
| stages             = 22
| distance           = 4476
| unit               = km
| time               = 129h 23' 25"
| first              = [[Louison Bobet]]
| first_nat          = FRA
| first_color        = yellow
| first_team         = France
| second             = [[Jean Malléjac]]
| second_nat         = FRA
| second_team        = West
| third              = [[Giancarlo Astrua]]
| third_nat          = ITA
| third_team         = Italy
| team               = Netherlands
| mountains          = [[Jesús Loroño]]
| mountains_nat      = ESP
| mountains_natvar   = 1945
| mountains_team     = Spain
| points             = [[Fritz Schär]]
| points_nat         = SUI
| points_color       = green
| points_team        = Switzerland
| combativity        = [[Wout Wagtmans]]
| combativity_nat    = NED
| combativity_team   = Netherlands
| previous           = [[1952 Tour de France|1952]]
| next               = [[1954 Tour de France|1954]]
}}
The '''1953 Tour de France''' was the 40th edition of the [[Tour de France]], taking place from 3 to 26 July. It consisted of 22 stages over {{convert|4476|km|0|abbr=on}}.

The race was won by [[Louison Bobet]], the first of his three consecutive wins. At first, internal struggles in the French national team seemed to work against Bobet, but when the team joined forces, he beat regional rider [[Jean Malléjac]] in the mountains.

The 1953 Tour de France saw the introduction of the [[points classification in the Tour de France|points classification]], which gives the green jersey to its leader. In 1953 this was won by [[Fritz Schär]].

==Innovations and changes==
Changes in the Tour formula were made: Only one time trial was used, instead of two the previous year; the time bonus for the first cyclist to cross a mountain top was removed; there were fewer mountain stages; the number of cyclists per team was increased from 8 to 10. Since all these changes were bad for 1952's winner [[Fausto Coppi]], who had gained significant time in 1952 in the time trials and mountain stages, the Tour organisation was accused of favoring French riders.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011202607:mpeg21:a0164|title=Nieuwe formule Tour de France overtuigend bewijs van chauvinisme|date=13 December 1952|work=De Tijd|publisher=Delpher|access-date=21 February 2015|language=nl}}</ref>

==Teams==
{{main list|List of teams and cyclists in the 1953 Tour de France}}

As was the custom since the [[1930 Tour de France]], the 1953 Tour de France was contested by national and regional teams. Seven national teams were sent, with 10 cyclists each from Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France. France additionally sent five regional teams from 10 cyclists each, divided into Île-de-France, Center-North East France, South-East, West and South West. One Luxembourgian cyclist did not start, so 119 cyclists started the race.<ref name="letour-start-list">{{cite web|title=The history of the Tour de France – Year 1953 – The starters|url=http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1953/partants.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=2 April 2020|archive-date=3 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403084047/http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1953/partants.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The teams entering the race were:<ref name="letour-start-list" />

{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* Italy
* Switzerland
* Belgium
* Spain
* Luxembourg
* Netherlands
* France
* Île-de-France
* North-East/Centre
* South-East
* West
* South-West
{{div col end}}

==Pre-race favourites==

The winner of the previous edition, Coppi, did not defend his title. The reasons were not clear: it could have been injury,<ref name="letour.fr">{{cite web|url=http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1953/histoire.html|title=The Tour: Year 1953|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=7 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716155436/http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1953/histoire.html|archive-date=16 July 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> but it was also possible that Coppi did not want to ride in the same team as his rival [[Gino Bartali]], or that the Tour direction urged the Italian team not to select Coppi because he had dominated the 1952 Tour, or that Coppi chose to prepare for the [[1953 UCI Road World Championships]].{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=198–206}} The big favourites became [[Hugo Koblet]] and [[Louison Bobet]].{{sfn|Amels|1984|pp=68–70}}

The last five editions had been won by Italian and Swiss cyclists, so the French cycling fans were anxious for a French win. When team manager [[Marcel Bidot]] had selected Bobet as the French team captain, controversy arose. Bobet had shown his potential strength, but had already tried to win the Tour de France five times without succeeding. His team-mate [[Raphaël Géminiani]] thought that Bobet was not strong enough, after he did not finish the [[1953 Giro d'Italia]] earlier that year.<ref name="revealed"/>

==Route and stages==

The 1953 Tour de France started on 3 July, and had two rest days, in Bordeaux and Monaco.{{sfn|Augendre|2016|p=44}} The [[List of highest points reached in the Tour de France|highest point of elevation in the race]] was {{convert|2360|m|ft|abbr=on}} at the summit of the [[Col d'Izoard]] mountain pass on stage 18.{{sfn|Augendre|2016|p=178}}<ref>{{cite news|title=De 40e Ronde van Frankrijk 1953|trans-title=The 40th Tour de France 1953|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011202260:mpeg21:p005|work=[[De Tijd (Netherlands)|De Tijd]]|date=2 July 1953|page=5|language=nl|via=[[Delpher]]}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Stage characteristics and winners<ref name="mdc1953">{{cite web|url=http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953.php|publisher=Mémoire du cyclisme|title=40ème Tour de France 1953|language=fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306132233/http://memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1947_1977/tdf1953.php|archive-date=6 March 2012|access-date=26 September 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{sfn|Augendre|2016|p=44}}<ref name="topten">{{cite web|url=http://www.cvccbike.com/tour/top_ten.html#1953 |title=Tour de France GC top ten |author=Arian Zwegers |publisher=CVCC |access-date=7 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516071832/http://www.cvccbike.com/tour/top_ten.html |archive-date=16 May 2008 |url-status=live  }}</ref><ref name="letour-stage-winners">{{cite web|title=The history of the Tour de France – Year 1953 – The stage winners|url=http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1953/vainqueurs.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=2 April 2020|archive-date=3 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403002827/http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1953/vainqueurs.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | Stage
! scope="col" | Date
! scope="col" | Course
! scope="col" | Distance
! scope="col" colspan="2" | Type
! scope="col" | Winner
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 1|1]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 3 July
| [[Strasbourg]] to [[Metz]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|195|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Fritz Schär]]|SUI}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 2|2]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 4 July
| [[Metz]] to [[Liège]] (Belgium)|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|227|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Fritz Schär]]|SUI}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 3|3]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 5 July
| [[Liège]] (Belgium) to [[Lille]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|221|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Stanislas Bober]]|FRA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 4|4]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 6 July
| [[Lille]] to [[Dieppe, Seine-Maritime|Dieppe]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|188|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Gerrit Voorting]]|NED}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 5|5]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 7 July
| [[Dieppe]] to [[Caen]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|200|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Jean Malléjac]]|FRA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 6|6]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 8 July
| [[Caen]] to [[Le Mans]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|206|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Martin Van Geneugden]]|BEL}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 7|7]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 9 July
| [[Le Mans]] to [[Nantes]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|181|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Livio Isotti]]|ITA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 8|8]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 10 July
| [[Nantes]] to [[Bordeaux]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|345|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Jan Nolten]]|NED}}
|-
! scope="row" |
| style="text-align:center;" | 11 July
| colspan="2" | [[Bordeaux]]
|
| colspan="2" | Rest day
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 9|9]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 12 July
| [[Bordeaux]] to [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|197|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Fiorenzo Magni]]|ITA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 10|10]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 13 July
| [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]] to [[Cauterets]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|103|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Stage with mountain(s) ||{{Flag athlete|[[Jesús Loroño]]|ESP|1945}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 11|11]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 14 July
| [[Cauterets]] to [[Luchon]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|115|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Stage with mountain(s) ||{{Flag athlete|[[Jean Robic]]|FRA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22#Stage 12|12]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 15 July
| [[Luchon]] to [[Albi]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|228|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[André Darrigade]]|FRA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22#Stage 13|13]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 16 July
| [[Albi]] to [[Béziers]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|189|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Stage with mountain(s) ||{{Flag athlete|[[Nello Lauredi]]|FRA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22#Stage 14|14]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 17 July
| [[Béziers]] to [[Nîmes]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|214|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Stage with mountain(s) ||{{Flag athlete|[[Bernard Quennehen]]|FRA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22#Stage 15|15]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 18 July
| [[Nîmes]] to [[Marseille]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|173|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Maurice Quentin]]|FRA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22#Stage 16|16]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 19 July
| [[Marseille]] to [[Monaco]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|236|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Stage with mountain(s) ||{{Flag athlete|[[Wim van Est]]|NED}}
|-
! scope="row" |
| style="text-align:center;" | 20 July
| colspan="2" | [[Monaco]]
|
| colspan="2" | Rest day
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22#Stage 17|17]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 21 July
| [[Monaco]] to [[Gap, Hautes-Alpes|Gap]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|261|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Stage with mountain(s) ||{{Flag athlete|[[Wout Wagtmans]]|NED}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22#Stage 18|18]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 22 July
| [[Gap, Hautes-Alpes|Gap]] to [[Briançon]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|165|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Stage with mountain(s) ||{{Flag athlete|[[Louison Bobet]]|FRA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22#Stage 19|19]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 23 July
| [[Briançon]] to [[Lyon]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|227|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Stage with mountain(s) ||{{Flag athlete|[[Georges Meunier]]|FRA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22#Stage 20|20]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 24 July
| [[Lyon]] to [[St. Etienne]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|70|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Time Trial.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || [[Individual time trial]] ||{{Flag athlete|[[Louison Bobet]]|FRA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22#Stage 21|21]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 25 July
| [[St. Etienne]] to [[Montluçon]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|210|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Wout Wagtmans]]|NED}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22#Stage 22|22]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 26 July
| [[Montluçon]] to Paris|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|328|km|0|abbr=on}}
| [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage ||{{Flag athlete|[[Fiorenzo Magni]]|ITA}}
|-
! scope="row" |
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center"| Total
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center"| {{convert|4476|km|0|abbr=on}}{{sfn|Augendre|2016|p=109}}
|}
{{reflist|group="notes"}}

==Race overview==
{{main|1953 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11|1953 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 22}}

[[File:Fritz Schär, Stage 2, Tour de France 1953.jpg|thumb|left|[[Fritz Schär]] taking his second win of the race on stage two in [[Liège]], Belgium]]
In the first two stages [[Fritz Schär]] won the sprint. The favourites remained calm. After the fourth stage, French [[Roger Hassenforder]] took the lead, but he soon lost it when the mountains appeared.{{sfn|Amels|1984|pp=68–70}}

Hassenforder was ill, and could not follow in the mountains,{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=198–206}} so Schär took the lead back in the ninth stage. In the next stage, [[Hugo Koblet]], the leader of the Swiss team, fell and had to give up, making Schär the undisputed leader of the Swiss team.{{sfn|Amels|1984|pp=68–70}}

[[Jean Robic]], the winner of the [[1947 Tour de France]], rode for the regional team from West. He was in great shape, and won the 11th stage, and even took the leading position in the general classification.<ref name="letour.fr"/> In the next stage, Robic rode in the yellow jersey for the first and only time in his career. Robic had won the [[1947 Tour de France]], but only captured the lead in the ultimate stage, so he never wore the yellow jersey during that race.<ref name="mdc1953"/> Robic was a good climber, but he was not heavy enough to be a good descender. It is said that the manager of his team had arranged bidons filled with lead, that would be given to Robic on the top of the mountains. This helped Robic to keep his lead on the descent.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=198–206}}

Robic lost the yellow jersey in the next stage, after he crashed and the French national team attacked.<ref name="letour.fr"/> A large group of twenty five cyclists, without any of the favourites, had escaped and stayed away.{{sfn|Amels|1984|pp=68–70}} Robic's team did not lose the jersey however, as first [[François Mahé]] took over the lead.<ref name="letourfrench"/>

In the next stage, the favourites attacked again. Mahé could not keep up, and lost his leading position to his team-mate [[Jean Malléjac]].<ref name="letourfrench">{{cite web|url=http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/fr/TDF/1953/histoire.html|title=L'Historique du Tour: Année 1953|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=7 December 2009|language=fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090720093842/http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/fr/TDF/1953/histoire.html|archive-date=20 July 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The sprint was won by [[Nello Lauredi]] from the French national team, before his team-mate Bobet. Bobet was angry that Lauredi had won the sprint, because it made Bobet miss the one-minute time bonus for the winner of the stage. Bobet accused Lauredi and Géminiani of working against him, and during dinner it came to a fight. The French team captain intervened, and they found a solution: Bobet agreed to give his prize money to his team-mates, if they helped him win the Tour.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=198–206}}

[[File:Louison Bobet (1951).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Louison Bobet]] ''(pictured in 1951)'', winner of the [[General classification in the Tour de France|general classification]]]]
In that stage, Robic had fallen down, and lost many minutes, so he was no longer considered able to win the Tour.{{sfn|Amels|1984|pp=68–70}} He did not start the fourteenth stage.<ref name="mdc1953"/> At that point, Bobet was 3 minutes 13 seconds behind Malléjac.<ref name="revealed"/>

In the eighteenth stage in the alps, Bobet followed [[Jesús Loroño]] who attacked on the [[Col de Vars]]. Bobet dropped him on the descend, and went alone to the [[Col d'Izoard]]. There was a group of early attackers ahead, including Bobet's team-mate Deledda. Deledda waited for Bobet, and helped him to reach the Izoard. Bobet could save his energy, and when they reached the Izoard, he left Deledda behind. The tactics had worked, and Bobet won more than 12 minutes on Malléjac and took the yellow jersey.<ref name="revealed"/> He extended his lead by winning the time trial in stage 20, thereby showing that he was not only a good climber but also a fine time trialist.<ref name="revealed"/> At that point, the Dutch team was leading the team classification, and the Dutch and French team started to work together to keep their leading positions in the general and team classification.{{sfn|Amels|1984|pp=68–70}}

For the finish in Paris, eleven former Tour de France winners were present: [[Maurice Garin]] (who won the 1903 edition), [[Gustave Garrigou]] (1911), [[Philippe Thys (cyclist)|Philippe Thys]] (1913, 1914 and 1920), [[Lucien Buysse]] (1926), [[André Leducq]] (1930 and 1932), [[Antonin Magne]] (1931 and 1934), [[Georges Speicher]] (1933), [[Romain Maes]] (1935), [[Sylvère Maes]] (1936 and 1939), [[Roger Lapébie]] (1937) and [[Ferdinand Kübler]] (1950).<ref name="letour.fr"/>

==Classification leadership and minor prizes==

The time that each cyclist required to finish each stage was recorded, and these times were added together for the [[general classification in the Tour de France|general classification]]. If a cyclist had received a time bonus, it was subtracted from this total; all time penalties were added to this total. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey.{{sfn|Nauright|Parrish|2012|pp=452–453}} Of the 119 cyclists that started the 1953 Tour de France, 76 finished the race. The results showed that the pre-war greats were no longer dominant: all cyclists in the top ten had turned professional after the Second World War.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=190–194}} The prize for best regional cyclist was won by second-placed Malléjac.<ref name="letourfrench"/>

Fifty years after the first Tour de France, the 1953 Tour featured the introduction of the green jersey, for the leader in the [[points classification in the Tour de France|points classification]] (usually seen as the "best sprinter's" jersey), at that time called the {{lang|fr|Grand Prix Cinquentennaire}}.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=198–206}} The classification was based on the points system as it had been used from the [[1905 Tour de France]] to the [[1912 Tour de France]]. The points classification was not only added to celebrate the 50 years since the first race, but also to have the sprinters race hard for the entire race.<ref name="revealed">{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingrevealed.com/timeline/Race%20Snippets/TdF/TdF1953.htm|title=Bobet is Brilliant, as French Team Squabbles|author=Barry Boyce|publisher=Cycling revealed|year=2004|access-date=7 December 2009}}</ref> The calculation method came from the Tours de France from 1905 to 1912. Points were given according to the ranking of the stage: the winner received one points, the next cyclist two points, and so on. These points were added, and the cyclist with the fewest points was the leader of the points classification. In 1953, this was won by Fritz Schär.<ref name="mdc1953"/>

Points for the [[mountains classification in the Tour de France|mountains classification]] were earned by reaching the mountain tops first.{{sfn|Nauright|Parrish|2012|p=454}} The system was almost the same as in 1952: there were two types of mountain tops: the hardest ones, in category 1, gave 10 points to the first cyclist, the easier ones, in category 2, gave 6 points to the first cyclist, and the easiest ones, in category 3, gave 3 points. Jesús Loroño won this classification.<ref name="mdc1953"/>

The calculation of the [[Team classification in the Tour de France|team classification]] was changed from the calculation in 1952. In 1953, it was calculated as the sum of the daily team classifications, and the daily team classification was calculated by adding the times in the stage result of the best three cyclists per team.{{sfn|Nauright|Parrish|2012|p=455}} It was won by the Dutch team, with a small margin over the French team. South West did not finish with three cyclists so was not eligible for the team classification.

The 1952 Tour had seen the introduction of [[Combativity award in the Tour de France|combativity award]]s, in which a jury composed of journalists gave points after most stages to the cyclist they considered most combative. In 1953, this system was kept, with the addition of a classification that was led by the rider with the most points from votes in all stages, and an overall super-combativity award.{{sfn|van den Akker|2018|pp=211–216}} This was won by [[Wout Wagtmans]].{{sfn|Augendre|2016|p=44}} The [[Souvenir Henri Desgrange]] was given in honour of Tour founder [[Henri Desgrange]] to the first rider to pass a point by his final residence, the "Villa Mia" in Beauvallon, [[Grimaud, Var|Grimaud]], on the [[French Riviera]] on stage 16. This prize was won by [[Claude Colette]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Opwindend eine van een rustige etappe|trans-title=Exciting end of a quiet stage|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011202275:mpeg21:p005|work=[[De Tijd]]|date=20 July 1953|page=5|language=nl|via=[[Delpher]]}}</ref>{{sfn|Seray|Lablaine|2006|p=84}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:smaller; clear:both;"
|+Classification leadership by stage<ref name="antwerpen-final-table">{{cite news|url=http://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19530727&id=GVA-19530727-01010006|title=Tour – digest|language=nl|work=[[Gazet van Antwerpen]]|date=27 July 1953|page=10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216023525/http://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19530727&id=GVA-19530727-01010006|archive-date=16 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="tdf-statistics">{{cite web|last=van den Akker|first=Pieter|title=Informatie over de Tour de France van 1953|trans-title=Information about the Tour de France from 1953|url=http://www.tourdefrancestatistieken.nl/tour.php?jaar=1953|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302050104/http://www.tourdefrancestatistieken.nl/tour.php?jaar=1953|archive-date=2 March 2019|language=nl|website=TourDeFranceStatistieken.nl|access-date=2 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" style="width:1%;" rowspan="2" | Stage
! scope="col" style="width:12%;" rowspan="2" | Winner
! scope="col" style="width:12%;" rowspan="2" | [[General classification in the Tour de France|General classification]]<br />[[File:Jersey yellow.svg|25px|alt=|link=]]
! scope="col" style="width:12%;" rowspan="2" | [[Points classification in the Tour de France|Points classification]]<br>[[File:Jersey green.svg|25px|alt=|link=]]
! scope="col" style="width:12%;" rowspan="2" | [[Mountains classification in the Tour de France|Mountains classification]]{{efn|name=mountains-jersey|No jersey was awarded to the leader of the mountains classification until a white jersey with red [[polka dot]]s was introduced in [[1975 Tour de France|1975]].{{sfn|Nauright|Parrish|2012|p=454}}}}
! scope="col" style="width:12%;" rowspan="2" | [[Team classification in the Tour de France|Team classification]]
! scope="col" style="width:24%;" colspan="2" | [[Combativity award in the Tour de France|Combativity]]<!-- no red number bib given before 1998 -->
! scope="col" style="width:12%;" rowspan="2" | Bad luck award
|-
! scope="col" style="width:12%;" | Award
! scope="col" style="width:12%;" | Classification
|-
! scope="row" | 1
| [[Fritz Schär]]
| style="background:#FFEB64;" rowspan="4"| [[Fritz Schär]]
| style="background:#9CE97B;" rowspan="9"| [[Fritz Schär]]
| ''no award''
| rowspan="4"| Netherlands
| [[Wout Wagtmans]]
| rowspan="13"| [[Wout Wagtmans]]
| [[Antonin Rolland]]
|-
! scope="row" | 2
| [[Fritz Schär]]
| rowspan="8"| [[Wout Wagtmans]]
| [[Wout Wagtmans]]
| [[François Mahé]]
|-
! scope="row" | 3
| [[Stanislas Bober]]
| [[Stanislas Bober]]
| [[Bernard Gauthier]]
|-
! scope="row" | 4
| [[Gerrit Voorting]]
| [[Gerrit Voorting]]
| [[Jean Forestier]]
|-
! scope="row" | 5
| [[Jean Malléjac]]
| style="background:#FFEB64;" rowspan="4"| [[Roger Hassenforder]]
| rowspan="13"| North-East/Centre
| [[Roger Hassenforder]]
| [[Claude Rouer]]
|-
! scope="row" | 6
| [[Martin Van Geneugden]]
| [[Louis Caput]]
| [[André Darrigade]]
|-
! scope="row" | 7
| [[Livio Isotti]]
| [[François Mahé]]
| [[Émile Guérinel]]
|-
! scope="row" | 8
| [[Jan Nolten]]
| [[Jan Nolten]]
| [[Antonin Rolland]]
|-
! scope="row" | 9
| [[Fiorenzo Magni]]
| style="background:#FFEB64;" rowspan="2"| [[Fritz Schär]]
| [[André Darrigade]]
| [[Pierre Molinéris]]
|-
! scope="row" | 10
| [[Jesús Loroño]]
| style="background:#9CE97B;" rowspan="3"| [[Jean Robic]]
| [[Jesús Loroño]]
| [[Jesús Loroño]]
| [[Guy Buchaille]]
|-
! scope="row" | 11
| [[Jean Robic]]
| style="background:#FFEB64;"| [[Jean Robic]]
| rowspan="3"| [[Jean Robic]]
| [[Jean Robic]]
| [[Marcel Huber]]
|-
! scope="row" | 12
| [[André Darrigade]]
| style="background:#FFEB64;"| [[François Mahé]]
| [[Maurice Quentin]]
| [[Jacques Dupont (cyclist)|Jacques Dupont]]
|-
! scope="row" | 13
| [[Nello Lauredi]]
| style="background:#FFEB64;" rowspan="5"| [[Jean Malléjac]]
| style="background:#9CE97B;" rowspan="10"| [[Fritz Schär]]
| [[Joseph Mirando]]
| [[Jean Robic]]
|-
! scope="row" | 14
| [[Bernard Quennehen]]
| rowspan="9"| [[Jesús Loroño]]
| [[Jan Nolten]]
| rowspan="3"| [[Jan Nolten]]
| [[Roger Pontet]]
|-
! scope="row" | 15
| [[Maurice Quentin]]
| [[Maurice Quentin]]
| [[Maurice Diot]]
|-
! scope="row" | 16
| [[Wim van Est]]
| [[Joseph Mirando]]
| [[Jesús Loroño]]
|-
! scope="row" | 17
| [[Wout Wagtmans]]
| [[Stanislas Bober]]
| rowspan="6"| [[Wout Wagtmans]]
| [[François Mahé]]
|-
! scope="row" | 18
| [[Louison Bobet]]
| style="background:#FFEB64;" rowspan="5"| [[Louison Bobet]]
| rowspan="5"| Netherlands
| [[Louison Bobet]]
| [[Gino Bartali]]
|-
! scope="row" | 19
| [[Georges Meunier]]
| [[Jean Forestier]]
| [[Hilaire Couvreur]]
|-
! scope="row" | 20
| [[Louison Bobet]]
| ''no award''
| [[Alfred Tonello]]
|-
! scope="row" | 21
| [[Wout Wagtmans]]
| [[Gilbert Bauvin]]
| [[Jean Le Guilly]]
|-
! scope="row" | 22
| [[Fiorenzo Magni]]
| [[Wout Wagtmans]]
| [[Maurice Diot]]
|-
! colspan="2" | Final
! style="background:#FFDB00;"|[[Louison Bobet]]
! style="background:#46E800;"|[[Fritz Schär]]
! [[Jesús Loroño]]
! Netherlands
! colspan="2" | [[Wout Wagtmans]]
! [[Guy Buchaille]]
|}

==Final standings==

===General classification===

{| class="wikitable" style="width:38em;margin-bottom:0;"
|+ Final general classification (1–10)<ref name="letour-class-final">{{cite web|title=The history of the Tour de France – Year 1953 – Stage 22 Montluçon > Paris|url=http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1953/2200/etape.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=2 April 2020|archive-date=2 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402220322/http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/1953/2200/etape.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | Rank!! scope="col" | Rider!! scope="col" | Team!! scope="col" | Time
|-
! scope="row" |1
| {{Flag athlete|[[Louison Bobet]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" |   129h 23' 25"
|-
! scope="row" |2
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jean Malléjac]]|FRA}} || West || style="text-align:right;" | + 14' 18"
|-
! scope="row" |3
| {{Flag athlete|[[Giancarlo Astrua]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | + 15' 02"
|-
! scope="row" |4
| {{Flag athlete|[[Alex Close]]|BEL}} || Belgium || style="text-align:right;" | + 17' 35"
|-
! scope="row" |5
| {{Flag athlete|[[Wout Wagtmans]]|NED}} || Netherlands || style="text-align:right;" | + 18' 05"
|-
! scope="row" |6
| {{Flag athlete|[[Fritz Schär]]|SUI}} || Switzerland || style="text-align:right;" | + 18' 44"
|-
! scope="row" |7
| {{Flag athlete|[[Antonin Rolland]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | + 23' 03"
|-
! scope="row" |8
| {{Flag athlete|[[Nello Lauredi]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | + 26' 03"
|-
! scope="row" |9
| {{Flag athlete|[[Raphaël Géminiani]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | + 27' 18"
|-
! scope="row" |10
| {{Flag athlete|[[François Mahé]]|FRA}} || West || style="text-align:right;" | + 28' 26"
|}
{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:38em;margin-top:-1px;"
|-
! scope="col" colspan="4" | Final general classification (11–76)<ref name="letour-class-final" />
|-
! scope="col" | Rank!! scope="col" | Rider!! scope="col" | Team!! scope="col" | Time
|-
! scope="row" |11
| {{Flag athlete|[[Gino Bartali]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | + 32' 00"
|-
! scope="row" |12
| {{Flag athlete|[[Joseph Mirando]]|FRA}} || South-East || style="text-align:right;" | + 38' 21"
|-
! scope="row" |13
| {{Flag athlete|[[Wim van Est]]|NED}} || Netherlands || style="text-align:right;" | + 39' 00"
|-
! scope="row" |14
| {{Flag athlete|[[José Serra (cyclist)|José Serra]]|ESP|1945}} || Spain || style="text-align:right;" | + 40' 32"
|-
! scope="row" |15
| {{Flag athlete|[[Fiorenzo Magni]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | + 40' 47"
|-
! scope="row" |16
| {{Flag athlete|[[Gilbert Bauvin]]|FRA}} || North-East/Centre || style="text-align:right;" | + 42' 03"
|-
! scope="row" |17
| {{Flag athlete|[[Gerrit Voorting]]|NED}} || Netherlands || style="text-align:right;" | + 44' 02"
|-
! scope="row" |18
| {{Flag athlete|[[Marcel Ernzer]]|LUX}} || Luxembourg || style="text-align:right;" | + 46' 41"
|-
! scope="row" |19
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jan Nolten]]|NED}} || Netherlands || style="text-align:right;" | + 47' 29"
|-
! scope="row" |20
| {{Flag athlete|[[Ugo Anzile]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | + 50' 38"
|-
! scope="row" |21
| {{Flag athlete|[[Lucien Lazaridès]]|FRA}} || South-East || style="text-align:right;" | + 52' 16"
|-
! scope="row" |22
| {{Flag athlete|[[Vincenzo Rossello]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | + 54' 47"
|-
! scope="row" |23
| {{Flag athlete|[[Raymond Impanis]]|BEL}} || Belgium || style="text-align:right;" | + 59' 12"
|-
! scope="row" |24
| {{Flag athlete|[[Andrés Trobat]]|ESP|1945}} || Spain || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 04' 35"
|-
! scope="row" |25
| {{Flag athlete|[[Stanislas Bober]]|FRA}} || Île-de-France || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 08' 16"
|-
! scope="row" |26
| {{Flag athlete|[[Lucien Teisseire]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 12' 57"
|-
! scope="row" |27
| {{Flag athlete|[[Georges Meunier]]|FRA}} || North-East/Centre || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 14' 43"
|-
! scope="row" |28
| {{Flag athlete|[[Hilaire Couvreur]]|BEL}} || Belgium || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 16' 04"
|-
! scope="row" |29
| {{Flag athlete|[[Thijs Roks]]|NED}} || Netherlands || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 22' 04"
|-
! scope="row" |30
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jean Le Guilly]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 22' 15"
|-
! scope="row" |31
| {{Flag athlete|[[Maurice Quentin]]|FRA}} || Île-de-France || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 24' 15"
|-
! scope="row" |32
| {{Flag athlete|[[Marcel Huber]]|SUI}} || Switzerland || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 25' 02"
|-
! scope="row" |33
| {{Flag athlete|[[Richard Van Genechten]]|BEL}} || Belgium || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 29' 39"
|-
! scope="row" |34
| {{Flag athlete|[[Martin Van Geneugden]]|BEL}} || Belgium || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 30' 17"
|-
! scope="row" |35
| {{Flag athlete|[[Adolphe Deledda]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 37' 24"
|-
! scope="row" |36
| {{Flag athlete|[[Hein van Breenen]]|NED}} || Netherlands || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 37' 41"
|-
! scope="row" |37
| {{Flag athlete|[[André Darrigade]]|FRA}} || South West|| style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 39' 09"
|-
! scope="row" |38
| {{Flag athlete|[[Pierre Molinéris]]|FRA}} || South-East || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 39' 16"
|-
! scope="row" |39
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jean Forestier]]|FRA}} || North-East/Centre || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 40' 15"
|-
! scope="row" |40
| {{Flag athlete|[[Adri Suykerbuyk]]|NED}} || Netherlands || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 40' 31"
|-
! scope="row" |41
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jacques Renaud]]|FRA}} || Île-de-France || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 40' 42"
|-
! scope="row" |42
| {{Flag athlete|[[Livio Isotti]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 41' 03"
|-
! scope="row" |43
| {{Flag athlete|[[René De Smet]]|BEL}} || Belgium || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 42' 25"
|-
! scope="row" |44
| {{Flag athlete|[[Roger Pontet]]|FRA}} || West || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 43' 43"
|-
! scope="row" |45
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jan Adriaensens]]|BEL}} || Belgium || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 44' 03"
|-
! scope="row" |46
| {{Flag athlete|[[Francisco Masip]]|ESP|1945}} || Spain || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 45' 31"
|-
! scope="row" |47
| {{Flag athlete|[[Roger Walkowiak]]|FRA}} || North-East/Centre || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 52' 53"
|-
! scope="row" |48
| {{Flag athlete|[[Antonio Gelabert]]|ESP|1945}} || Spain || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 52' 56"
|-
! scope="row" |49
| {{Flag athlete|[[Alfred Tonello]]|FRA}} || Île-de-France || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 54' 03"
|-
! scope="row" |50
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jesús Loroño]]|ESP|1945}} || Spain || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 58' 03"
|-
! scope="row" |51
| {{Flag athlete|[[Raoul Rémy]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 02' 07"
|-
! scope="row" |52
| {{Flag athlete|[[Alfred De Bruyne]]|BEL}} || Belgium || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 02' 46"
|-
! scope="row" |53
| {{Flag athlete|[[Mario Baroni]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 03' 06"
|-
! scope="row" |54
| {{Flag athlete|[[Umberto Drei]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 12' 25"
|-
! scope="row" |55
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jean Dacquay]]|FRA}} || North-East/Centre || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 12' 33"
|-
! scope="row" |56
| {{Flag athlete|[[Giovanni Corrieri]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 14' 05"
|-
! scope="row" |57
| {{Flag athlete|[[Remo Pianezzi]]|SUI}} || Switzerland || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 15' 34"
|-
! scope="row" |58
| {{Flag athlete|[[Claude Colette]]|FRA}} || South West || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 16' 18"
|-
! scope="row" |59
| {{Flag athlete|[[Vincent Vitetta]]|FRA}} || South-East || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 20' 00"
|-
! scope="row" |60
| {{Flag athlete|[[Maurice Diot]]|FRA}} || Île-de-France || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 24' 09"
|-
! scope="row" |61
| {{Flag athlete|[[Carlo Lafranchi]]|SUI}} || Switzerland || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 26' 48"
|-
! scope="row" |62
| {{Flag athlete|[[Joseph Morvan]]|FRA}} || Switzerland || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 31' 09"
|-
! scope="row" |63
| {{Flag athlete|[[René Rotta]]|FRA}} || South-East || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 31' 24"
|-
! scope="row" |64
| {{Flag athlete|[[Bernard Quennehen]]|FRA}} || North-East/Centre || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 31' 57"
|-
! scope="row" |65
| {{Flag athlete|[[Amand Audaire]]|FRA}} || West || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 31' 59"
|-
! scope="row" |66
| {{Flag athlete|[[Willy Kemp]]|LUX}} || Luxembourg || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 42' 49"
|-
! scope="row" |67
| {{Flag athlete|[[Max Schellenberg]]|SUI}} || Switzerland || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 43' 32"
|-
! scope="row" |68
| {{Flag athlete|[[Martin Metzger]]|SUI}} || Switzerland || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 55' 58"
|-
! scope="row" |69
| {{Flag athlete|[[Siro Bianchi]]|FRA}} || South-East || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 58' 33"
|-
! scope="row" |70
| {{Flag athlete|[[Bernard Bultel]]|FRA}} || West || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 26' 06"
|-
! scope="row" |71
| {{Flag athlete|[[Norbert Esnault]]|FRA}} || West || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 31' 21"
|-
! scope="row" |72
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jean Schmit (cyclist)|Jean Schmit]]|LUX}} || Luxembourg || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 34' 58"
|-
! scope="row" |73
| {{Flag athlete|[[Dalmacio Langarica]]|ESP|1945}} || Spain || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 39' 59"
|-
! scope="row" |74
| {{Flag athlete|[[José Vidal Porcar]]|ESP|1945}} || Spain || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 48' 11"
|-
! scope="row" |75
| {{Flag athlete|[[Bernard Gauthier]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 49' 49"
|-
! scope="row" |76
| {{Flag athlete|[[Claude Rouer]]|FRA}} || Île-de-France || style="text-align:right;" | + 4h 09' 10"
|}

{{columns-start}}

===Points classification===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Final points classification (1–10)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19530727&id=GVA-19530727-01011006|title=Puntenrangschikking – Schaer eindoverwinnaar|trans-title=Points ranking – Schaer overall winner|language=nl|work=[[Gazet van Antwerpen]]|date=27 July 1953|page=11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923170652/http://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19530727&id=GVA-19530727-01011006|archive-date=23 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Classement général final|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5100863v/f6.item.zoom|work=[[L'Équipe]]|date=27 July 1953|page=6|language=fr|via=[[Gallica]]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | Rank!! scope="col" | Rider!! scope="col" | Team!! scope="col" | Points
|-
! scope="row" |1
| {{Flag athlete|[[Fritz Schär]]|SUI}} || Switzerland || style="text-align:right;" |   271
|-
! scope="row" |2
| {{Flag athlete|[[Fiorenzo Magni]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | 307
|-
! scope="row" |3
| {{Flag athlete|[[Raphaël Géminiani]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | 406.5
|-
! scope="row" |4
| {{Flag athlete|[[Antonin Rolland]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | 413
|-
! scope="row" |5
| {{Flag athlete|[[Wim van Est]]|NED}} || Netherlands || style="text-align:right;" | 440
|-
! scope="row" |6
| {{Flag athlete|[[Gerrit Voorting]]|NED}} || Netherlands || style="text-align:right;" | 490
|-
! scope="row" |7
| {{Flag athlete|[[Louison Bobet]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | 541
|-
! scope="row" |8
| {{Flag athlete|[[Giancarlo Astrua]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | 546
|-
! scope="row" |9
| {{Flag athlete|[[Gino Bartali]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | 552
|-
! scope="row" |10
| {{Flag athlete|[[Raymond Impanis]]|BEL}} || Belgium || style="text-align:right;" | 620
|}

{{column}}

===Mountains classification===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Final mountains classification (1–10)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19530727&id=GVA-19530727-01011008|title=Lorono wint de bergprijs|trans-title=Lorono wins the mountain prize|language=nl|work=[[Gazet van Antwerpen]]|date=27 July 1953|page=11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923170610/http://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19530727&id=GVA-19530727-01011008|archive-date=23 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | Rank!! scope="col" | Rider!! scope="col" | Team!! scope="col" | Points
|-
! scope="row" |1
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jesús Loroño]]|ESP|1945}}  || Spain || style="text-align:right;" |   54
|-
! scope="row" |2
| {{Flag athlete|[[Louison Bobet]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | 36
|-
! scope="row" |3
| {{Flag athlete|[[Joseph Mirando]]|FRA}} || South-East || style="text-align:right;" | 30
|-
! scope="row" |4
| {{Flag athlete|[[Gilbert Bauvin]]|FRA}} || North-East/Centre || style="text-align:right;" | 25
|-
! scope="row" |5
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jean Le Guilly]]|FRA}} || France || style="text-align:right;" | 24
|-
! scope="row" |6
| {{Flag athlete|[[Fritz Schär]]|SUI}} || Switzerland || style="text-align:right;" | 22
|-
! scope="row" |7
| {{Flag athlete|[[Giancarlo Astrua]]|ITA}} || Italy || style="text-align:right;" | 20
|-
! scope="row" |8
| {{Flag athlete|[[José Serra Gil|José Serra]]|ESP|1945}} || Spain || style="text-align:right;" | 19
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" |9
| {{Flag athlete|[[Jan Nolten]]|NED}} || Netherlands || style="text-align:right;" | 14
|-
| {{Flag athlete|[[Marcel Huber]]|SUI}} || Switzerland || style="text-align:right;" | 14
|}

{{columns-end}}

===Team classification===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Final team classification<ref>{{cite news|url=http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD02/HEM/1953/07/27/MD19530727-003.pdf|date=27 July 1953|language=es|title=Paris dedicó una llegada apeteótica a los "tours"|work=[[Mundo Deportivo]]|page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006131412/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD02/HEM/1953/07/27/MD19530727-003.pdf|archive-date=6 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19530727&id=GVA-19530727-01009004|title=Holland wint|trans-title=Holland wins|language=nl|work=[[Gazet van Antwerpen]]|date=27 July 1953|page=9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923171947/http://krantenarchief.concentra.be/vw/article.do?code=GVA&date=19530727&id=GVA-19530727-01009004|archive-date=23 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | Rank!! scope="col" | Team!! scope="col" | Time
|-
! scope="row" |1
| Netherlands || style="text-align:right;" | 387h 42' 54"
|-
! scope="row" |2
| France || style="text-align:right;" | + 11' 07"
|-
! scope="row" |3
| North-East/Centre || style="text-align:right;" | + 23' 22"
|-
! scope="row" |4
| Belgium || style="text-align:right;" | + 54' 57"
|-
! scope="row" |5
| West || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 07' 51"
|-
! scope="row" |6
| Italy || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 19' 45"
|-
! scope="row" |7
| Spain || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 00' 13"
|-
! scope="row" |8
| South-East || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 28' 45"
|-
! scope="row" |9
| Île-de-France || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 38' 25"
|-
! scope="row" |10
| Switzerland || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 42' 22"
|-
! scope="row" |11
| Luxembourg || style="text-align:right;" | + 4h 34' 52"
|}

==Aftermath==
The 1953 Tour de France had two young rider making their debuts, [[Charly Gaul]] and [[André Darrigade]].<ref name="mdc1953"/> Gaul would later win the [[1958 Tour de France]], and Darrigade would win 22 stages in total, and win the points classification twice.

It was the last Tour that [[Gino Bartali]] rode. Bartali started eight Tours, and won two of them.{{sfn|McGann|McGann|2006|pp=198–206}}

The winner of the 1953 Tour, Bobet, would also win the next two editions, and became the first rider to win three consecutive Tours.

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|last=Amels|first=Wim|title=De geschiedenis van de Tour de France 1903–1984|location=Valkenswaard, Netherlands|publisher=Sport-Express|year=1984|language=nl|isbn=978-90-70763-05-3}}
* {{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Augendre|author-link=Jacques Augendre|url=http://netstorage.lequipe.fr/ASO/cyclisme/le-tour/2016/histoire/TDF16_GH_Interactif-PROD.pdf|title=Guide historique|trans-title=Historical guide|year=2016|language=fr|access-date=27 October 2016|work=Tour de France|location=Paris|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817121602/http://netstorage.lequipe.fr/ASO/cyclisme/le-tour/2016/histoire/TDF16_GH_Interactif-PROD.pdf|archive-date=17 August 2016|url-status=live}}
* {{cite book|last1=McGann|first1=Bill|last2=McGann|first2=Carol|title=The Story of the Tour de France: 1903–1964|volume=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jxq20JskqMUC|publisher=Dog Ear Publishing|location=Indianapolis|year=2006|isbn=978-1-59858-180-5}}
* {{cite book|last1=Nauright|first1=John|last2=Parrish|first2=Charles|title=Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice|volume=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC|year=2012|publisher=ABC–CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, California|isbn=978-1-59884-300-2}}
* {{cite book|last1=Seray|first1=Jacques|last2=Lablaine|first2=Jacques|author-link1=:fr:Jacques Seray|title=Henri Desgrange, l'homme qui créa le Tour de France|trans-title=Henri Desgrange, the man who created the Tour de France|language=fr|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EKgTAQAAIAAJ|publisher=Editions Cristel|location=Saint-Malo, France|year=2006|isbn=978-2-84421-042-5}}
* {{cite book|title=The Tour de France: A Cultural History|last=Thompson|first=Christopher S.|year=2006|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0-520-24760-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M-vUF6Y_4RUC}}
* {{cite book|last=van den Akker|first=Pieter|title=Tour de France Rules and Statistics: 1903–2018|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=09sxwQEACAAJ|year=2018|publisher=Self-published|isbn=978-1-79398-080-9}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=Mapping Le Tour|first=Ellis|last=Bacon|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|location=Glasgow|year=2014|pages=108–109|isbn=9780007543991|oclc=872700415}}

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