The Classic French stage race, Transe Gaule XI drew to a close at Gruissan Beach in the South of France on August 30th.
Billed as the equivalent of the Tour de France cycling on foot, the race began at Roscoff with 48 starters. Pre-race favourite JJ Moros didn’t start the fifth stage and Stéphane Pelissier assumed the lead stretching away until the end of the race.
Womens winner Carmen Hildebrand finished fifth overall 21 hours or so ahead of second placed Ya-Fen Wang for her 3rd consecutive win.
Transe Gaule XI (12-30/08/2014)
1192 km / 19 stages
1 Stéphane Pelissier 107:19:44
2 Wan-Chun Tsai (TPE) 112:38:58
3 Hervé Rozec 115:26:05
4 Kun-Peng Huang (TPE) 115:39:01
5 Carmen Hildebrand (GER) 116:15:15
6 Patrick Poivet 120:34:32
7 Fabrice Viaud 123:09:33
8 René Larcher 128:36:06
9 Angel Pallaruelo 130:09:40
10 Stefano Molteni (ITA) 130:56:18
11 Jean-Michel Frémery 132:03:31
12 Yvonnick Simon 135:06:18
13 Ya-Fen Wang (TPE) 137:02:52
14 Kelvin Marshall (AUS) 137:35:25
15 Alain Prost-Dumont 137:53:47
16 Catherine Vidal 140:53:25
17 Yen-Ling Huang (TPE) 144:08:01
18 Hung-Chang Hsieh (TPE) 146:06:45
19 Dominique Caillé 146:59:07
20 Hiroko Okiyama (JAP) 147:34:43
21 Jean-Pierre Richard 148:54:22
21 Philippe Gallou 148:54:22
23 Alfio Ciol 152:13:52
24 Rebecca Tsai (USA) 152:14:48
25 Siew-Lee Teoh (MAS) 154:54:21
26 Sylvia Frühauf (GER) 158:27:22
27 Philippe Grizard 166:49:51
28 Mimi Chevillon 170:13:59
29 Jui-Chi Cheng (TPE) 171:22:45
30 Jean-Louis Valderrama 171:44:36
31 Jean-Luc Ridet 171:56:33
32 Philippe Marmet 178:03:38
33 Gérard Denis 180:25:50
34 Carlos da Fonseca 180:26:17
35 Daniel Muller 184:49:48
36 Ming-Yi Tsai (TPE) 189:53:02
37 Heiner Schütte (GER) 192:21:59
38 Pierre Magne 193:34:31
39 Jean-Charles Cailliez 194:23:06
40 Don Winkley (USA) 203:30:34
Françoise Perchoc DNF (12)
Bernard Deborde DNF (10)
Matthieu Fréville DNF (7)
Marie-Jeanne Simons DNF (5)
Jean-Jacques Moros DNS (5)
Claire Secker (USA) DNF (3)
Christian Scheffer DNS (3)
Olivier Forti DNF (2)
(48 starters, 40 finishers)
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