20 individual jerseys for each stage throughout race
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The Tour de France has unveiled 20 unique yellow jersey designs to celebrate its centenary(Image credit: ASO)
The first eight stages' jersey designs(Image credit: ASO)
The yellow jersey designs for stages 10-17(Image credit: ASO)
The jerseys for stages 18-21(Image credit: ASO)
To celebrate the centenary of the yellow jersey, Tour de France organiser Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO) and the race’s jersey sponsor Le Coq Sportif have announced 20 individual yellow jerseys to be worn during the 2019 Tour de France.
As there is no race leader until the end of the Stage 1, the winner of the opening stage will be then presented with the specially designed stage 2 jersey to wear the following day. Unique images of significant buildings, locations and riders are faintly overlaid onto each of the yellow jerseys so as not to detract from the iconic colour with the first jersey presented featuring The Atomium building in Brussels.
Eugène Christophe was the first rider to wear the jersey at the Tour de France in 1919 and since its inception, the yellow jersey of the Tour de France has become one of the most iconic symbols in all of sport.
In a press release from ASO, race director Christian Prudhomme said: "The jerseys are unique this year because each jersey is different and features either the race routes or the champions that have contributed to the history of the Tour de France.
"We will leave from Brussels where the first Yellow Jersey will feature the Atomium, the last will feature the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Elysées, while others will feature a portrait of Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil and Miguel Indurain for example.
"t will be something really special for the 100th anniversary of the Yellow Jersey. In a few years’ time, we will be able to say: ‘the yellow jersey was on this stage because it features Eugène Christophe, the first rider to wear the Yellow Jersey in the history of the Tour de France – 19 July 1919-19 July 2019, in Pau’."
The 20 Yellow Jersey designs for the 2019 Tour de France
Stage 2: The Atomium, Brussels Stage 3: Eddy Merckx Stage 4: Reims Cathedral Stage 5: Jacques Anquetil Stage 6: Peloton and spectators Stage 7: The Lion of Belfort Stage 8: Bernard Hinault Stage 9: Geoffroy-Guichard Stadium, Saint-Étienne Stage 10: Sainte-Cécile Cathedral, Albi Stage 11: Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Miguel Indurain and Bernard Hinault Stage 12: Place du Capitole, Toulouse Stage 13: Eugène Christophe Stage 14: Col du Tourmalet Stage 15: Miguel Indurain Stage 16: Nîmes arenas Stage 17: Pont du Gard aqueduct Stage 18: Col du Galibier Stage 19: Col de l’Iseran Stage 20: Mountain landscape Stage 21: Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Elysées
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