List of cyclists in the 1907 Tour de France

Not all cyclists were competing for the victory in the 1907 Tour de France, some only joined as tourists. The most notable of them was Henri Pépin. Pépin had hired two riders, Jean Dargassies and Henri Gauban to ride with him. They treated the race as a pleasure ride, stopping for lunch when they chose and spending the night in the best hotels they could find.^[1] Dargassies and Gaubin became the first cyclists in the history of the Tour de France to ride not for their own placings but for their team leader's interest. During the race, they found another Tour de France competitor, Jean-Marie Teychenne, lying in a ditch. They helped him get up, fed him, and from that moment Teycheime was also helping Pépin.^[2][3]

As in the previous years, there were two classes of cyclists, the coureurs de vitesse and the coureurs sur machines poinçonnées. Of the 93 cyclists starting the race, 82 were in the poinçonnée category, which meant that they had to finish the race on the same bicycle as they left, and if it was broken they had to fix it without assistance. The coureurs de vitesse could get help from the car with bicycle repairmen when they had to fix a bicycle, and when a bicycle was beyond repair, they could change it to a new one.

Although the riders officially rode the Tour as individuals, some had the same sponsor and cooperated as if they rode in teams. At the start of the race, it was clear that the riders sponsored by Alcyon and the riders sponsored by Peugeot would compete for the overall victory. Alcyon started with three main contenders: Louis Trousselier, Marcel Cadolle and Léon Georget; Peugeot counted on Emile Georget.^[4]

By rider

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.	Ref
1	Édouard Wattelier	France	DNF	[5]
2	Augustin Ringeval	France	8	[5]
3	Lucien Pothier	France	DNF	[5]
4	François Faber	Luxembourg	7	[5]
5	Constant Ménager	France	DNF	[5]
6	Alfred Faure	France	DNF	[5]
7	Gaston Tuvache	France	16	[5]
8	Albert Chartier	France	33	[5]
9	Prosper Rau	France	DNF	[5]
10	Marcel Cadolle	France	DNF	[5]
11	Louis Trousselier	France	DNF	[5]
12	Lucien Mazan	France	1	[5]
13	Henri Lignon	France	DNF	[5]
14	Marcel Lequatre	Switzerland	DNF	[5]
16	Albert Baudet	France	25	[5]
17	Noël Prevost	France	DNF	[5]
18	Ferdinand Payan	France	10	[5]
19	Armand Roume	France	DNF	[5]
22	Baptiste Roux	France	18	[5]
23	Paul Adeh	France	DNF	[5]
24	Marcel Dozol	France	32	[5]
25	Marcel Lallement	France	DNF	[5]
26	Fernand Vercher	France	DNF	[5]
27	Gabriel Mathonat	France	DNF	[5]
28	Léon Riche	France	DNF	[5]
29	Georges Fleury	France	12	[5]
30	Georges Bronchard	France	21	[5]
31	Henri Timmermann	Belgium	20	[5]
32	David Dupont	France	DNF	[5]
34	Henri Gauban	France	DNF	[5]
35	Gaston Angeli	France	DNF	[5]
36	Louis Lavalette	France	DNF	[5]
37	Jules Chabas	France	DNF	[5]
38	Louis Gardent	France	DNF	[5]
39	Louis Lorillon	France	28	[5]
40	Carlo Galetti	Italy	DNF	[5]
42	Luigi Ganna	Italy	DNF	[5]
43	Eberardo Pavesi	Italy	6	[5]
44	Léon Aumonier	France	DNF	[5]
45	Cyrille van Hauwaert	Belgium	DNF	[5]
46	Alzir Vivier	France	15	[5]
47	François Poiry	France	DNF	[5]
48	Marceau Narcy	France	22	[5]
49	Joseph Ponthieu	France	DNF	[5]
50	Georges Landrieu	France	DNF	[5]
52	Martin Soulie	France	DNF	[5]
53	Honoré Genin	France	23	[5]
54	Claude Cursillat	France	DNF	[5]
55	Charles Crupelandt	France	DNF	[5]
56	André Sevestre	France	DNF	[5]
57	Alfred Le Bars	France	26	[5]
58	Jacques Mendes	France	DNF	[5]
59	Henri Pépin	France	DNF	[5]
61	Marius Vilette	France	14	[5]
62	Eloi Guichard	France	DNF	[5]
63	Julien Maitron	France	DNF	[5]
64	Arsène Tuale	France	DNF	[5]
65	Alfred Quenon	France	27	[5]
66	Jean Dargassies	France	DNF	[5]
67	Henri Anthoine	France	DNF	[5]
68	Léon Georget	France	DNF	[5]
70	Georges Passerieu	France	4	[5]
71	Gustave Garrigou	France	2	[5]
72	Henri Cornet	France	DNF	[5]
73	Émile Georget	France	3	[5]
76	Jean-Michel Teychenne	France	DNF	[5]
78	Georges Jeanblanc	France	DNF	[5]
79	Jean Vezie	France	DNF	[5]
80	Georges Devilly	France	DNF	[5]
81	Charles Jeanperin	France	DNF	[5]
82	Auguste Dufour	France	DNF	[5]
83	Octave Noel	France	30	[5]
84	François Lafourcade	France	13	[5]
86	Pierre Privat	France	11	[5]
87	François Beaugendre	France	5	[5]
88	Philippe Pautrat	France	19	[5]
89	Aloïs Catteau	Belgium	9	[5]
90	Marcel Lecuyer	France	DNF	[5]
92	Julien Gabory	France	DNF	[5]
93	Ernest Ricaux	France	DNF	[5]
94	Marcel Godivier	France	DNF	[5]
95	Jules Bertholat	France	DNF	[5]
97	Christophe Laurent	France	DNF	[5]
98	Joseph Rouaix	France	DNF	[5]
99	Eugène Delhaye	Belgium	17	[5]
100	Anselme Mazan	France	DNF	[5]
101	Henri Star	France	DNF	[5]
103	Raymond Etcheverry	France	DNF	[5]
104	Albert Geraud	France	31	[5]
105	Antony Wattelier	France	24	[5]
106	Anton Jaeck	Switzerland	DNF	[5]
108	Pierre Desvages	France	DNF	[5]
109	René Fleury	France	29	[5]

References

1. Chany, Pierre; Cazeneuve, Thierry (1985). La Fabuleuse Histoire du Tour de France (in French). France: ODIL. ISBN 2-8307-0689-7.
2. McGann, Bill; McGann, Carol (2006). The Story of the Tour de France. Dog Ear Publishing. pp. 19–22. ISBN 1-59858-180-5. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
3. Thompson, Christopher S. (2003). The Tour de France. Routledge. p. 73. ISBN 0-520-25630-1. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
4. Amels, Wim (1984). De geschiedenis van de Tour de France 1903–1984 (in Dutch). Sport-Express. ISBN 90-70763-05-2.
5. "5ème Tour de France 1907". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012.

Notes

1.^ His real name was Dargaties but the Tour spelled his name wrongly and the error stuck.