1981 Tour de France, Stage 12a to Stage 22

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 from Roubaix. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 19 July.

Stage 12a
8 July 1981 — Roubaix to Brussels, 107.3 km

Stage 12b
8 July 1981 — Brussels (Belgium) to Circuit Zolder (Belgium), 133.8 km

Stage 13
9 July 1981 — Beringen (Belgium) to Hasselt (Belgium), 157 km

Stage 14
10 July 1981 — Mulhouse, 38.5 km (individual time trial)

Stage 15
11 July 1981 — Besançon to Thonon-les-Bains, 231 km

Stage 16
12 July 1981 — Thonon-les-Bains to Morzine, 200 km

Stage 17
14 July 1981 — Morzine to Alpe d'Huez, 230 km

Stage 18
15 July 1981 — Le Bourg-d'Oisans to Le Pleynet, 134 km

Stage 19
16 July 1981 — Veurey to Saint-Priest, 117.5 km

Stage 20
17 July 1981 — Saint-Priest, 46.5 km (individual time trial)

Stage 21
18 July 1981 — Auxerre to Fontenay-sous-Bois, 207 km

Stage 22
19 July 1981 — Fontenay-sous-Bois to Paris Champs-Élysées, 186 km