Tour de France review: The Tour in numbers

Key race facts

3,664 – In kilometres, the total distance covered in this year’s race.

164 – Number of finishers, out of 198 starters.

89:59:06 – Total race time for overall winner Vincenzo Nibali.

40.679 – In kilometres per hour, the average race speed for Nibali, making this the second fastest Tour de France ever (40.782kph in 2006).

6 – Nationalities represented in the top ten on GC (three Frenchmen, two each from Spain and the Netherlands. one each from Italy, Czech Republic and USA).

4 – Countries visited by this year’s Tour: UK, France, Belgium and Spain.

3,500,000 – Official estimate of the number of fans who lined the route of the three UK stages.

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