1981 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 11

The 1981 Tour de France was the 68th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Nice with a prologue individual time trial on 25 June and Stage 12a occurred on 8 July with a flat stage to Brussels, Belgium. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 19 July.

Prologue
25 June 1981 — Nice, 5.85 km (individual time trial)

Stage 1a
26 June 1981 — Nice, 97 km

Stage 1b
26 June 1981 — Nice, 40 km (team time trial)

Stage 2
27 June 1981 — Nice to Martigues, 254 km

Stage 3
28 June 1981 — Martigues to Narbonne, 232.5 km

Stage 4
29 June 1981 — Narbonne to Carcassonne, 77.2 km (team time trial)

Stage 5
30 June 1981 — Saint-Gaudens to Pla d'Adet, 117.5 km

Stage 6
1 July 1981 — Nay to Pau, 26.7 km (individual time trial)

Stage 7
2 July 1981 — Pau to Bordeaux, 227 km

Stage 8
3 July 1981 — Rochefort to Nantes, 180 km

Stage 9
5 July 1981 — Nantes to Le Mans, 194 km

Stage 10
6 July 1981 — Le Mans to Aulnay-sous-Bois, 258.5 km

Stage 11
7 July 1981 — Compiègne to Roubaix, 246 km