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{{Infobox cycling race report
| name               = 2005 Tour de France
| series             = [[2005 UCI ProTour]]
| race_no            = 17
| season_no          = 28
| image              = Route of the 2005 Tour de France.png
| image_size         = 360px
| image_caption      = Route of the 2005 Tour de France
| date               = 2–24 July 2005
| stages             = 21
| distance           = 3593
| unit               = km
| time               = 86h 15' 02"
| first              = <s>[[Lance Armstrong]]</s> '''[[Lance Armstrong doping case|none]]'''{{efn|name=armstrong|On 24 August 2012, the [[United States Anti-Doping Agency]] announced that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his victory in the 2005 Tour de France.<ref name="armstrong-usda">{{cite news|title=Lance Armstrong Receives Lifetime Ban And Disqualification Of Competitive Results For Doping Violations Stemming From His Involvement In The United States Postal Service Pro-Cycling Team Doping Conspiracy|url=http://www.usada.org/lance-armstrong-receives-lifetime-ban-and-disqualification-of-competitive-results-for-doping-violations-stemming-from-his-involvement-in-the-united-states-postal-service-pro-cycling-team-doping-conspi/|access-date=17 October 2016|publisher=[[United States Anti-Doping Agency]]|date=24 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104220333/http://www.usada.org/lance-armstrong-receives-lifetime-ban-and-disqualification-of-competitive-results-for-doping-violations-stemming-from-his-involvement-in-the-united-states-postal-service-pro-cycling-team-doping-conspi/|archive-date=4 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Union Cycliste Internationale]], responsible for the international cycling, confirmed this verdict on 22 October 2012.<ref name="armstrong-bbc">{{cite news|title=Lance Armstrong stripped of all seven Tour de France wins by UCI|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/20008520|access-date=17 October 2016|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=22 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908151552/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/20008520|archive-date=8 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
| second             = [[Ivan Basso]]
| second_nat         = ITA
| second_team        = {{UCI team code|CSC|2005}}
| third              = <s>[[Jan Ullrich]]</s> '''none'''{{efn|name=ullrich|Although Ullrich's name still appears on the website page of the 2005 Tour, he has been officially stripped of his finish by the [[Court of Arbitration for Sport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/2005/index.html|title=The Tour: Year 2005|publisher=[[Le Tour de France]]|access-date=31 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320222517/http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/2005/index.html|archive-date=20 March 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="casullrich" />}}

| points             = [[Thor Hushovd]]
| points_nat         = Norway
| points_team        = {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}}
| points_color       = green
| mountains          = [[Michael Rasmussen (cyclist)|Michael Rasmussen]]
| mountains_nat      = DEN
| mountains_team     = {{UCI team code|RAB|2005}}
| mountains_color    = polkadot
| youth              = [[Yaroslav Popovych]]
| youth_nat          = Ukraine
| youth_team         = {{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}
| youth_color        = white
| team               = {{UCI team code|THR|2005}}
| combativity        = [[Óscar Pereiro]]
| combativity_nat    = ESP
| combativity_team   = {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}}
| combativity_color  = red_number
| previous           = [[2004 Tour de France|2004]]
| next               = [[2006 Tour de France|2006]]
}}

The '''2005 Tour de France''' was the 92nd edition of the [[Tour de France]], one of cycling's [[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tours]]. It took place between 2–24 July, with 21 stages covering a distance {{convert|3593|km|0|abbr=on}}. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist [[Lance Armstrong]] originally won the event, the [[United States Anti-Doping Agency]] announced on 24 August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1 August 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from [[1999 Tour de France|1999]] to 2005. The verdict  was subsequently confirmed by the UCI.

The first stages were held in the [[département]] of the [[Vendée]], for the third time in 12 years. The 2005 Tour was announced on 28 October 2004. It was a clockwise route, visiting the [[Alps]] before the [[Pyrenees]]. Armstrong took the top step on the podium, for what was then the seventh consecutive time. He was accompanied on the podium by [[Ivan Basso]] and [[Jan Ullrich]], but in 2012 Ullrich's results were annulled.<ref name="casullrich" /> The points classification was won by [[Thor Hushovd]], and the mountains classification by [[Michael Rasmussen (cyclist)|Michael Rasmussen]].

The race was seen by 15 million spectators along the road, and by 2 billion viewers on TV.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tour de France 2005: welcome on the official website |url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/presentationus/chiffres.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090717103824/http://www.letour.fr/2005/presentationus/chiffres.html |archive-date=17 July 2009 |url-status=dead |access-date=7 October 2009  }}</ref>

==Teams==
{{main list|List of teams and cyclists in the 2005 Tour de France}}
[[File:Tour de France 2005 - Mulhouse.jpg|thumb|Commercial poster for the 2005 Tour]]

In 2005, the UCI had started the [[UCI ProTour|ProTour]]: 20 teams were given a ProTour licence, and were required to start in all ProTour races, which included the Tour de France. The Tour de France organisation was not happy with this rule, as they wanted to be able to decide which teams would join their race. While negotiations were still ongoing, it was decided to use the UCI rule for the 2005 Tour, so all 20 ProTour teams were automatically invited. The Tour organisation could invite one extra team with a [[Wild card (sports)|wildcard]], and used this to invite {{UCI team code|A2R|2005}}.<ref name="Gann">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8mlwItBhhcC&pg=PA53|pages=305–316|title=The Story of the Tour de France: 1965-2007|first=Bill|last=McGann|author2=McGann, Carol|publisher=Dog Ear Publishing|year= 2008|isbn= 978-1-59858-608-4}}</ref> All teams were composed of nine cyclists, so 189 riders in 21 teams commenced the 2005 Tour de France.<ref name="letour-start-list">{{cite web|title=Tour de France 2005 – Riders list|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/coureurs.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=4 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050727011642/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/coureurs.html|archive-date=27 July 2005|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Of them, 155 riders finished.

The teams entering the race were:<ref name="letour-teams">{{cite web|title=Tour de France 2005 – Teams|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/r1_equipes.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=4 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050730012250/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/r1_equipes.html|archive-date=30 July 2005|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
*{{UCI team code|A2R|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|EUC|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|COF|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|C.A|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|CSC|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|DVL|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|DVE|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|EUS|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|FAS|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|GST|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|MOV|2005b}}
*{{UCI team code|LAM|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|ONC|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|LIQ|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|PHO|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|QST|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|RAB|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|SDV|2005}}
*{{UCI team code|TMO|2005}}
{{div col end}}

==Pre-race favourites==
The main favourite was (then) six-time winner Armstrong (now stripped of all his victories). Armstrong had had doubts if he should start the 2005 Tour,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/3958427.stm|title=Tour bosses announce 2005 route|publisher=BBC|date=28 October 2004|access-date=28 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810025517/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/3958427.stm|archive-date=10 August 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> but decided in February 2005 that he would race. His main rival Ullrich was happy with this decision, as he thought it would be a better race with Armstrong present.<ref name="Gann"/>

In previous years, Ullrich never had the full support of his team to win the general classification, as his team was also aiming for stage victories. In 2005, [[Erik Zabel]], who had won the [[points classification in the Tour de France|points classification]] six times, was left out of the team, and Ullrich was supported by Klöden and Vinokourov, who both had already reached the podium on the Tour.<ref name="Gann"/>

On the day before the Tour started, Ullrich crashed into his team director's car, but was not seriously injured.<ref name="Gann"/>

==Route and stages==

The Tour commemorated the death of [[Fabio Casartelli]]. During the 15th stage the riders passed the [[Col de Portet d'Aspet]], where Casartelli died exactly 10 years earlier, in the [[1995 Tour de France]].<ref name="official"/> The Tour also commemorated the first time there was an official mountain climb in the Tour, the [[Col du Ballon d'Alsace|Ballon d'Alsace]].<ref name="parcours">{{cite web|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/presentationus/parcours.html |title=The route |publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]] |year=2005 |access-date=7 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001011631/http://www.letour.fr/2005/presentationus/parcours.html |archive-date=1 October 2009  }}</ref> During the 9th stage this mountain was passed again, exactly 100 years after the first ascent in the Tour.

The 2005 Tour de France was divided into 21 stages. These stages belong to different categories: 8 were flat stages, 5 were medium mountain stages, 5 were high mountain stages, 2 were [[individual time trial]]s and 1 was a [[team time trial]].<ref name="parcours"/> The distinction between flat stage, medium mountain stage and high mountain stage is important for the [[points classification in the Tour de France|points classification]]. The [[List of highest points reached in the Tour de France|highest point of elevation in the race]] was {{convert|2642|m|ft|abbr=on}} at the summit of the [[Col du Galibier]] mountain pass on stage 11.<ref>{{cite news|title=92nd Tour de France – Mountain Stages|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2005/tour05/index.php?id=mountains|access-date=23 December 2019|website=[[Cyclingnews.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219003854/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2005/tour05/index.php%3Fid%3Dmountains|archive-date=19 December 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> There were two rest days, in [[Grenoble]] and in [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]].{{sfn|Augendre|2016|p=96}}

The traditional prologue on the first day was replaced by an [[individual time trial]] of more than twice the length of a standard prologue.<ref name="official">{{cite web|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/presentationus/index.html|title=Edito|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|author=[[Jean-Marie Leblanc]]|year=2005|access-date=7 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090720061121/http://www.letour.fr/2005/presentationus/index.html|archive-date=20 July 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> This stage crossed from the mainland of France to the [[Île de Noirmoutier]]. The most famous route to this island is the [[Passage du Gois]], a road that is under water at high tide. This road was included in the [[1999 Tour de France|1999 Tour]]. Several of the favourites crashed there that year, and ended that stage 7 minutes behind the peloton. This year they took the bridge to the island. Later in the race, there was one more time trial, on the penultimate day. Also, there were just three uphill finishes ([[Courchevel]], [[Ax-3 Domaines]] and [[Pla d'Adet]]), a lower number than in previous years. The finish line of the last stage was, as has been since 1975, on the [[Champs-Élysées]] in Paris.

In the stages that were not time trials, there were intermediate sprints. Cyclist who crossed the intermediate sprints first received points for the [[points classification in the Tour de France|points classification]], and bonification seconds for the [[general classification in the Tour de France|general classification]]. Until stage 8, there were three intermediate sprints, and from stage 9 on there were two.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/presentationus/enjeux.html |title=The Stakes |publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]] |access-date=7 October 2009 |year=2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001131833/http://www.letour.fr/2005/presentationus/enjeux.html |archive-date=1 October 2009  }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Stage characteristics and winners<ref name="letour-stages">{{cite web|title=Tour de France 2005 – List of stages|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/r2_etapes_liste.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=4 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050806010726/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/r2_etapes_liste.html|archive-date=6 August 2005|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="mdc2005">{{cite web|title=92ème Tour de France 2005|trans-title=92nd Tour de France 2005|url=http://memoire-du-cyclisme.eu/eta_tdf/tdf2005.php|work=Mémoire du cyclisme|access-date=6 April 2020|language=fr}}</ref><ref name="letour-stage-winners">{{cite web|title=The history of the Tour de France – Year 2005 – The stage winners|url=http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/2005/vainqueurs.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=6 April 2020|archive-date=3 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403012407/http://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/2005/vainqueurs.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | Stage
! scope="col" | Date
! scope="col" | Course
! scope="col" | Distance
! scope="col" colspan="2" | Type
! scope="col" | Winner
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 1|1]]
| style="text-align:center;" |2 July || [[Fromentine]] to [[Noirmoutier-en-l'Île]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|19.0|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Time Trial.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || [[Individual time trial]] || <s>{{flagathlete|[[David Zabriskie]]|USA}}</s>
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 2|2]]
| style="text-align:center;" |3 July || [[Challans]] to [[Les Essarts, Vendée|Les Essarts]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|181.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Tom Boonen]]|BEL}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 3|3]]
| style="text-align:center;" |4 July || [[La Châtaigneraie]] to [[Tours]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|212.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Tom Boonen]]|BEL}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 4|4]]
| style="text-align:center;" |5 July || [[Tours]] to [[Blois]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|67.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Time Trial.svg|alt=|link=Team time trial|20px]] || [[Team time trial]] || {{noflag|{{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 5|5]]
| style="text-align:center;" |6 July || [[Chambord, Loir-et-Cher|Chambord]] to [[Montargis]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|183.0|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Robbie McEwen]]|AUS}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 6|6]]
| style="text-align:center;" |7 July || [[Troyes]] to [[Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle|Nancy]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|199.0|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Lorenzo Bernucci]]|ITA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 7|7]]
| style="text-align:center;" |8 July || [[Lunéville]] to [[Karlsruhe]] (Germany)|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|228.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Robbie McEwen]]|AUS}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 8|8]]
| style="text-align:center;" |9 July || [[Pforzheim]] (Germany) to [[Gérardmer]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|231.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Mediummountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Hilly stage || {{flagathlete|[[Pieter Weening]]|NED}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 9|9]]
| style="text-align:center;" |10 July || [[Gérardmer]] to [[Mulhouse]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|171.0|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Mediummountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Hilly stage || {{flagathlete|[[Michael Rasmussen (cyclist)|Michael Rasmussen]]|DEN}}
|-
! scope="row" |
| style="text-align:center;" | 11 July
| colspan="2" | [[Grenoble]]
|
| colspan="2" | Rest day
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 10|10]]
| style="text-align:center;" |12 July || [[Grenoble]] to [[Courchevel]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|177.0|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Mountain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Alejandro Valverde]]|ESP}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 11|11]]
| style="text-align:center;" |13 July || [[Courchevel]] to [[Briançon]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|173.0|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Mountain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Alexander Vinokourov]]|KAZ}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 12|12]]
| style="text-align:center;" |14 July || [[Briançon]] to [[Digne-les-Bains]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|187.0|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Mediummountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Hilly stage || {{flagathlete|[[David Moncoutié]]|FRA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 13|13]]
| style="text-align:center;" |15 July || [[Miramas]] to [[Montpellier]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|173.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Robbie McEwen]]|AUS}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 14|14]]
| style="text-align:center;" |16 July || [[Agde]] to [[Ax 3 Domaines]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|220.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Mountain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Georg Totschnig]]|AUT}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 15|15]]
| style="text-align:center;" |17 July || [[Lézat-sur-Lèze]] to [[Pla d'Adet|Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d'Adet]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|205.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Mountain stage || <s>{{flagathlete|[[George Hincapie]]|USA}}</s>
|-
! scope="row" |
| style="text-align:center;" | 18 July
| colspan="2" | [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]]
|
| colspan="2" | Rest day
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 16|16]]
| style="text-align:center;" |19 July || [[Mourenx]] to [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|180.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Mountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Mountain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Óscar Pereiro]]|ESP}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 17|17]]
| style="text-align:center;" |20 July || [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]] to [[Revel, Haute-Garonne|Revel]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|239.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Paolo Savoldelli]]|ITA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 18|18]]
| style="text-align:center;" |21 July || [[Albi]] to [[Mende, Lozère|Mende]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|189.0|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Mediummountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Hilly stage || {{flagathlete|[[Marcos Antonio Serrano]]|ESP}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 19|19]]
| style="text-align:center;" |22 July || [[Issoire]] to [[Le Puy-en-Velay]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|153.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Mediummountainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Hilly stage || {{flagathlete|[[Giuseppe Guerini]]|ITA}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 20|20]]
| style="text-align:center;" |23 July || [[Saint-Étienne]] to [[Saint-Étienne]]|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|55.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Time Trial.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || [[Individual time trial]] || <s>{{flagathlete|Lance Armstrong</s>|USA}}{{efn|name=armstrong}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 21|21]]
| style="text-align:center;" |24 July || [[Corbeil-Essonnes]] to Paris ([[Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France|Champs-Élysées]])|| style="text-align:center;" | {{convert|144.5|km|abbr=on}} || [[File:Plainstage.svg|20px|alt=|link=]] || Plain stage || {{flagathlete|[[Alexander Vinokourov]]|KAZ}}
|-
! scope="row" |
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center"| Total
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center"| {{convert|3593|km|0|abbr=on}}{{sfn|Augendre|2016|p=110}}
|}

==Race overview==
{{main|2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11|2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21}}

[[File:Tour de france 2005 15th stage mt 01.jpg|thumb|[[Lance Armstrong]] in the race leader's [[General classification in the Tour de France|yellow jersery]] accompanied by his teammates of {{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}]]
In Stage 1, [[David Zabriskie]], a former teammate of [[Lance Armstrong]], beat Armstrong by two seconds.<ref name="mdc2005" /> In the team time trial of stage 4, Zabriskie fell in the last kilometres, and Armstrong took over the lead.<ref name="mdc2005"/>

Armstrong initially refused to wear the yellow jersey in the fifth stage{{efn|name=injured|It is a tradition that a cyclist who becomes the new leader because the previous leader was injured, does not wear the yellow jersey. Merckx did so in 1971 after Ocaña fell, Zoetemelk did so in 1980 after Hinault left, and LeMond did so in 1991 after Sørensen crashed.}} but was forced by the Tour organisation, who threatened to remove him from the race.<ref name="Gann"/>

In the tenth stage, the start was moved from Grenoble to Froges.{{sfn|Augendre|2016|p=96}}

Before the 20th stage, an individual time trial, [[Michael Rasmussen (cyclist)|Michael Rasmussen]] occupied the third place in the general classification. During that stage, Rasmussen fell multiple times and changed bicycles multiple times, and lost so much time that he ended up at the seventh place in the general classification.<ref name="mdc2005"/> All total throughout the stage he changed bikes twice, changed wheels twice, began to hesitate going through corners and went off the road. His final time during this ITT was still better than half the field.<ref name="mdc2005"/>

The race jury invoked the 'rain rule'<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/depeches.html
 |title=Tour de France 2005 Newsflashes
 |publisher=letour.fr
 |access-date=5 October 2009
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001062059/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/depeches.html
 |archive-date=1 October 2009
}}</ref> for the Champs-Élysées, meaning that Lance Armstrong became the winner of the General classification the first time the race passed the finish line, rather than the eighth time as normal. The time bonification for the winner of the stage was still given, and [[Alexander Vinokourov]] profited from this as he won the stage after an escape in the last kilometre (the first time since 1994 that the final stage did not end in a sprint<ref name="mdc2005"/>), and passed [[Levi Leipheimer]] in the general classification to end fifth.<ref name="cn-stage21">{{cite news|last=Tan|first=Anthony|title=Suddenly seven|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2005/tour05/?id=results/tour0521|access-date=8 September 2016|website=[[Cyclingnews.com]]|date=24 July 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929225244/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2005/tour05/?id=results%2Ftour0521|archive-date=29 September 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

During the final ceremonies in Paris, Armstrong was allowed to talk to the crowds, the first time in the Tour's history that a winner was given this chance.{{sfn|Thompson|2008|p=264}} It has since become a regular occurrence.

===Doping===

{{see also|Lance Armstrong doping case}}

During the race, 143 urine tests and 21 blood tests were conducted. None of them returned positive.{{sfn|Thompson|2008|p=262}} Still, there were fears that banned substances were being used; the boss of the {{UCI team code|AMO|2005}} team (not racing in the 2005 Tour) questioned the increase in velocities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2005/July/22070502.asp|title=Doping fears haunt Tour de France|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|date=22 July 2005|access-date=28 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021043122/http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2005/July/22070502.asp|archive-date=21 October 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2010, Hans Michael Holczer, the team boss of Gerolsteiner in 2005, said that the UCI had informed him that Leipheimer had shown blood values just under the doping limit, and that Holczer suspected that Leipheimer was doping. The UCI advised Gerolsteiner to find a reason to remove Leipheimer from the race, but Holczer refused, because his team was still facing bad publicity from a previous doping case.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bikeworldnews.com/2010/08/04/gerolsteiners-holczer-implicates-leipheimer-uci-doping-scandal/|title=Gerolsteiner's Holczer implicates Leipheimer & UCI in doping scandal|date=4 August 1010|publisher=Bike World News|first=Ron|last=Callahan|access-date=28 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910144139/http://www.bikeworldnews.com/2010/08/04/gerolsteiners-holczer-implicates-leipheimer-uci-doping-scandal/|archive-date=10 September 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

The top five of the general classification of 2005 would not compete the 2006 edition. Armstrong had retired after the 2005 Tour, and a few days before the 2006 edition, after it became public that (among others) Basso, Ullrich and Mancebo were under investigation in the Operacion Puerto doping case, the Tour organisation and team leaders decided to exclude all cyclists under investigation from joining the Tour. Vinokourov, fifth-placed in 2005, was not under investigation, but his team was reduced to five cyclists, below the minimal required amount of six, so he could also not compete.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/tdf2006/news/story?id=2505072|title=Four of top five '05 finishers won't start Tour this year|publisher=ESPN|date=1 July 2006|access-date=28 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611143054/http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/tdf2006/news/story?id=2505072|archive-date=11 June 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>

In February 2012, the [[Court of Arbitration for Sport]] found Ullrich guilty of being engaged in Fuentes' doping program, and decided that Ullrich's results since May 2005, including his results from the 2005 Tour de France, would be disqualified.<ref name="casullrich">{{cite news|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/jan-ullrich-given-two-year-ban-from-cas|title=Jan Ullrich given two year ban from CAS|publisher=Future Publishing limited|work=[[Cyclingnews.com]]|date=9 February 2012|access-date=9 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211190844/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/jan-ullrich-given-two-year-ban-from-cas|archive-date=11 February 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

Subsequent to Armstrong's statement to withdraw his fight against [[United States Anti-Doping Agency]]'s (USADA) charges, on 24 August 2012, the USADA said it would ban Armstrong for life and stripped him of his record seven Tour de France titles.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/othersports/lance-armstrong-faces-lifetime-ban-from-usada-tour-de-france-titles-in-jeopardy/2012/08/24/053a2320-ed98-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_story.html| title=Lance Armstrong will be banned from cycling by USADA after saying he won't fight doping charges| newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]| date=24 August 2012| access-date=24 August 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014160449/http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/othersports/lance-armstrong-faces-lifetime-ban-from-usada-tour-de-france-titles-in-jeopardy/2012/08/24/053a2320-ed98-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_story.html| archive-date=14 October 2012| url-status=live| df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=USADA to ban Armstrong for life, strip Tour titles|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usada-to-ban-armstrong-for-life-strip-tour-titles/|work=[[CBS News]]|access-date=24 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824162637/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-57499550/usada-to-ban-armstrong-for-life-strip-tour-titles/|archive-date=24 August 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Later that day it was confirmed in a USADA statement that Armstrong was banned for life and would be disqualified from any and all competitive results obtained on and subsequent to 1 August 1998, including forfeiture of any medals, titles, winnings, finishes, points and prizes.<ref name="armstrong-usda" /> On 22 October 2012, the [[Union Cycliste Internationale]] endorsed the USADA sanctions, and decided not to award victories to any other rider or upgrade other placings in any of the affected events.<ref name="armstrong-bbc" />

[[Michael Rasmussen (cyclist)|Michael Rasmussen]], winner of the [[Mountains classification in the Tour de France|mountains classification]], revealed in 2013 that in a doping test his value of [[Reticulocyte|immature red blood cells]] was below the minimum threshold, but that the UCI allowed him to continue in the race because they did not want an incident.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15733/Rasmussen-makes-doping-claims-against-Hesjedal-Sorensen-Hj-and-others.aspx|title=Rasmussen makes doping claims against Hesjedal, Sorensen, Høj and others|date=30 October 2013|publisher=VeloNation Press}}</ref>

==Classification leadership and minor prizes==

There were four main individual classifications contested in the 2005 Tour de France, as well as a team competition. The most important was the [[General classification in the Tour de France|general classification]], which was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage,{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|p=16}} with time bonuses given at the end of each [[mass start]] stage.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|p=18}} If a crash had happened within the final {{convert|3|km|1|abbr=on}} of a stage, not including time trials and summit finishes, the riders involved would have received the same time as the group they were in when the crash occurred.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|pp=9–10}} The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered the overall winner of the Tour.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|p=16}} The rider leading the classification wore a yellow jersey.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|pp=5–6}}

The second classification was the [[Points classification in the Tour de France|points classification]]. Riders received points for finishing in the highest positions in a stage finish, or in [[intermediate sprint]]s during the stage. The points available for each stage finish were determined by the stage's type.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|p=16}} The leader was identified by a green jersey.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|pp=5–6}}

The third classification was the [[Mountains classification in the Tour de France|mountains classification]]. Most stages of the race included one or more categorised climbs, in which points were awarded to the riders that reached the summit first. The climbs were categorised as fourth-, third-, second- or first-category, or ''[[hors catégorie]]'' for the most difficult climbs.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|p=17}} The leader wore a white jersey with red [[polka dot]]s.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|pp=5–6}}

The final individual classification was the [[Young rider classification in the Tour de France|young rider classification]]. This was calculated the same way as the general classification, but the classification was restricted to riders who were born on or after 1 January 1980.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|p=17}} The leader wore a white jersey.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|pp=5–6}}

The final classification was a [[Team classification in the Tour de France|team classification]]. This was calculated using the finishing times of the best three riders per team on each stage; the leading team was the team with the lowest cumulative time. The number of stage victories and placings per team determined the outcome of a tie.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|p=17}}

In addition, there was a [[Combativity award in the Tour de France|combativity award]] given after each mass start stage to the rider considered, by a jury, to have "made the greatest effort and who has demonstrated the best qualities of sportsmanship".{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|p=18}} The winner wore a red number bib the following stage.{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|pp=5–6}} At the conclusion of the Tour, [[Óscar Pereiro]] ({{UCI team code|PHO|2005|nolink=yes}}) was given the overall super-combativity award.<ref name="letour-combativity-final">{{cite web|title=Tour de France 2005 – Overall combativity standing|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/ICG.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=4 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050726234638/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/ICG.html|archive-date=26 July 2005|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The [[Souvenir Henri Desgrange]] given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the [[Col du Galibier]] on stage 11. This prize was won by [[Alexander Vinokourov]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Vino's back! and Botero better|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-france-2005/stage-11/results/|access-date=2 March 2019|website=[[Cyclingnews.com]]|date=14 July 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302163412/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-france-2005/stage-11/results/|archive-date=2 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:smaller; clear:both;"
|+Classification leadership by stage<ref>{{cite web|title=Tour de France 2005 – Leaders overview|url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-france/2005/gc/stages/leaders-overview|website=ProCyclingStats|access-date=16 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216221840/https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-france/2005/gc/stages/leaders-overview|archive-date=16 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="tdf-statistics">{{cite web|last=van den Akker|first=Pieter|title=Informatie over de Tour de France van 2005|trans-title=Information about the Tour de France from 2005|url=http://www.tourdefrancestatistieken.nl/tour.php?jaar=2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302052728/http://www.tourdefrancestatistieken.nl/tour.php?jaar=2005|archive-date=2 March 2019|language=nl|website=TourDeFranceStatistieken.nl|access-date=2 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:1%;"| Stage
! scope="col" style="width:14%;"| Winner
! scope="col" style="width:14%;"| [[General classification in the Tour de France|General classification]]<br>[[File:Jersey yellow.svg|25px|link=General classification in the Tour de France|alt=Yellow jersey]]
! scope="col" style="width:14%;"| [[Points classification in the Tour de France|Points classification]]<br>[[File:Jersey green.svg|25px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=Green jersey]]
! scope="col" style="width:14%;"| [[Mountains classification in the Tour de France|Mountains classification]]<br>[[File:Jersey polkadot.svg|25px|link=Mountains classification in the Tour de France|alt=Polkadot jersey]]
! scope="col" style="width:14%;"| [[Young rider classification in the Tour de France|Young rider classification]]<br>[[File:Jersey white.svg|25px|link=Young rider classification in the Tour de France|alt=White jersey]]
! scope="col" style="width:14%;"| [[Team classification in the Tour de France|Team classification]]<!-- no yellow number bib given before 2006 -->
! scope="col" style="width:14%;"| [[Combativity award in the Tour de France|Combativity award]]<br>[[File:Jersey red number.svg|20px|link=Combativity award in the Tour de France|alt=A white jersey with a red number bib.]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 1|1]]
| <del>[[David Zabriskie]]</del>
| style="background:#FFEB64;"     rowspan="3"|<del>[[David Zabriskie]]</del>
| style="background:#9CE97B;"|<del>[[David Zabriskie]]</del>
| ''no award''
| style="background:white;"      rowspan="2"|[[Fabian Cancellara]]
|     rowspan="13"|{{UCI team code|SAX|2005}}
| ''no award''
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 2|2]]
| [[Tom Boonen]]
| style="background:#9CE97B;" rowspan="10"|[[Tom Boonen]]
| style="background:#FFA8A4;"|[[Thomas Voeckler]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Sylvain Calzati]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 3|3]]
| [[Tom Boonen]]
| style="background:#FFA8A4;"     rowspan="3"|[[Erik Dekker]]
| style="background:white;"      rowspan="5"|[[Yaroslav Popovych]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Erik Dekker]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 4|4]]
| {{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}
| style="background:#FFEB64;"     rowspan="5"|<del>[[Lance Armstrong]]</del>{{efn|name=armstrong}}
| ''no award''
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 5|5]]
| [[Robbie McEwen]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Juan Antonio Flecha]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 6|6]]
| [[Lorenzo Bernucci]]
| style="background:#FFA8A4;"|[[Karsten Kroon]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Christophe Mengin]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 7|7]]
| [[Robbie McEwen]]
| style="background:#FFA8A4;"|[[Fabian Wegmann]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Fabian Wegmann]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 8|8]]
| [[Pieter Weening]]
| style="background:#FFA8A4;"     rowspan="14"|[[Michael Rasmussen (cyclist)|Michael Rasmussen]]
| style="background:white;"      rowspan="2"|[[Vladimir Karpets]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Pieter Weening]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 9|9]]
| [[Michael Rasmussen (cyclist)|Michael Rasmussen]]
| style="background:#FFEB64;"|[[Jens Voigt]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Michael Rasmussen (cyclist)|Michael Rasmussen]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 10|10]]
| [[Alejandro Valverde]]
| style="background:#FFEB64;"     rowspan="12"|<del>[[Lance Armstrong]]</del>{{efn|name=armstrong}}
| style="background:white;"      rowspan="3"|[[Alejandro Valverde]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Laurent Brochard]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 11|11]]
| [[Alexander Vinokourov]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Alexander Vinokourov]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 12|12]]
| [[David Moncoutié]]
| style="background:#9CE97B;" rowspan="10"|[[Thor Hushovd]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[David Moncoutié]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 13|13]]
| [[Robbie McEwen]]
| style="background:white;"      rowspan="9"|[[Yaroslav Popovych]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Carlos Da Cruz]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 14|14]]
| [[Georg Totschnig]]
|     rowspan="3"|{{UCI team code|THR|2005}}
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Georg Totschnig]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 15|15]]
| <s>[[George Hincapie]]</s>
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Óscar Pereiro]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 16|16]]
| [[Óscar Pereiro]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Óscar Pereiro]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 17|17]]
| [[Paolo Savoldelli]]
| <s>{{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}</s>
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Sébastien Hinault]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 18|18]]
| [[Marcos Serrano]]
|     rowspan="4"|{{UCI team code|THR|2005}}
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Carlos Da Cruz]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 19|19]]
| [[Giuseppe Guerini]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Sandy Casar]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 20|20]]
| <s>[[Lance Armstrong]]</s>{{efn|name=armstrong}}
| ''no award''
|-
! scope="row" | [[2005 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21#Stage 21|21]]
| [[Alexander Vinokourov]]
| style="background:#E4B3AB;"|[[Philippe Gilbert]]
|-
! colspan="2" | Final
! style="background:#FFDB00;"|<del>[[Lance Armstrong]]</del>{{efn|name=armstrong}}
! style="background:#46E800;"|[[Thor Hushovd]]
! style="background:#FF3E33;" | {{font color|white|Michael Rasmussen|link=Michael Rasmussen (cyclist)}}
! style="background:white;"|[[Yaroslav Popovych]]
! {{UCI team code|THR|2005}}
! style="background:#E42A19;" | {{font color|white|Óscar Pereiro|link=yes}}
|}

*In stage 1, [[Lance Armstrong]] wore the green jersey.

==Final standings==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! scope="col" colspan="4" | Legend
|-
| [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px|link=Points classification in the Tour de France|alt=Green jersey]]
| Denotes the leader of the [[Points classification in the Tour de France|points classification]]{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|pp=5–6}}
| [[File:Jersey polkadot.svg|20px|link=Mountains classification in the Tour de France|alt=Polka dot jersey]]
| Denotes the leader of the [[Mountains classification in the Tour de France|mountains classification]]{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|pp=5–6}}
|-
| [[File:Jersey white.svg|20px|link=Young rider classification in the Tour de France|alt=White jersey]]
| Denotes the leader of the [[Young rider classification in the Tour de France|young rider classification]]{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|pp=5–6}}
| [[File:Jersey red number.svg|20px|link=Combativity award in the Tour de France|alt=A white jersey with a red number bib.]]
| Denotes the winner of the [[Combativity award in the Tour de France|super-combativity award]]{{sfn|''Race regulations''|2005|pp=5–6}}
|}

===General classification===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:44em;margin-bottom:0;"
|+ Final general classification (1–10)<ref name="letour-gc-final">{{cite web|title=Tour de France 2005 – Overall standing by time (definitive)|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/ITG.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=4 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050731002315/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/ITG.html|archive-date= 31 July 2005|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Rider
! scope="col" | Team
! scope="col" | Time
|-
! scope="row" | DSQ
| <s>{{flagathlete|[[Lance Armstrong]]|USA}}</s>{{efn|name=armstrong}} || <s>{{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}</s> || style="text-align:right;" | <s>86h 15' 02"</s>
|-
! scope="row" | 2
| {{flagathlete|[[Ivan Basso]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|CSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 4' 40"
|-
! scope="row" | DSQ
| <s>{{flagathlete|[[Jan Ullrich]]|GER}}</s>{{efn|name=ullrich}} ||<s> {{UCI team code|TMO|2005}}</s> || style="text-align:right;" | <s>+6' 21"</s>
|-
! scope="row" | 4
| {{flagathlete|[[Francisco Mancebo]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|MOV|2005b}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 9' 59"
|-
! scope="row" | 5
| {{flagathlete|[[Alexander Vinokourov]]|KAZ}} || {{UCI team code|TMO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 11' 01"
|-
! scope="row" | DSQ
| <s>{{flagathlete|[[Levi Leipheimer]]|USA}}</s> || <s>{{UCI team code|GST|2005}}</s> || align=right|<s> +11' 21"</s>
|-
! scope="row" | 7
| {{flagathlete|[[Michael Rasmussen (cyclist)|Michael Rasmussen]]|DEN}} [[File:Jersey polkadot.svg|20px|Rasmussen was awarded the final polkadot jersey as mountains classification winner|alt=Polkadot jersey]] || {{UCI team code|RAB|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 11' 33"
|-
! scope="row" | 8
| {{flagathlete|[[Cadel Evans]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|DVL|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 11' 55"
|-
! scope="row" | 9
| {{flagathlete|[[Floyd Landis]]|USA}} || {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 12' 44"
|-
! scope="row" | 10
| {{flagathlete|[[Óscar Pereiro]]|ESP}} [[File:Jersey red number.svg|20px|link=Combativity award in the Tour de France|alt=A white jersey with a red number bib.]] || {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 16' 04"
|}
{| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:44em;margin-top:-1px;"
|-
! scope="col" colspan="4" | Final general classification (11–154)<ref name="letour-gc-final" />
|-
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Rider
! scope="col" | Team
! scope="col" | Time
|-|-
! scope="row" | 11
| {{flagathlete|[[Christophe Moreau]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 16' 26"
|-
! scope="row" | 12
| {{flagathlete|[[Yaroslav Popovych]]|UKR}} [[File:Jersey white.svg|20px|link=Young rider classification in the Tour de France|alt=White jersey]] || {{UCI team code|DSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 19' 02"
|-
! scope="row" | 13
| {{flagathlete|[[Eddy Mazzoleni]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|LAM|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 21' 06"
|-
! scope="row" | DSQ
| <s>{{flagathlete|[[George Hincapie]]|USA}}</s> || <s>{{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}</s> || style="text-align:right;" | <s>+23' 40"</s>
|-
! scope="row" | 15
| {{flagathlete|[[Haimar Zubeldia]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|EUS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 23' 43"
|-
! scope="row" | 16
| {{flagathlete|[[Jörg Jaksche]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|ONC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 24' 07"
|-
! scope="row" | 17
| {{flagathlete|[[Bobby Julich]]|USA}} || {{UCI team code|CSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 24' 08"
|-
! scope="row" | 18
| {{flagathlete|[[Óscar Sevilla]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|TMO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 27' 45"
|-
! scope="row" | 19
| {{flagathlete|[[Andrey Kashechkin]]|KAZ}} || {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 28' 04"
|-
! scope="row" | 20
| {{flagathlete|[[Giuseppe Guerini]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|TMO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 33' 02"
|-
! scope="row" | 21
| {{flagathlete|[[Carlos Sastre]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|CSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 34' 24"
|-
! scope="row" | 22
| {{flagathlete|[[Xabier Zandio]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|MOV|2005b}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 36' 20"
|-
! scope="row" | 23
| {{flagathlete|[[Leonardo Piepoli]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|SDV|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 36' 20"
|-
! scope="row" | DSQ
| {{flagathlete|<s>[[Michael Boogerd]]|NED}}</s> || <s>{{UCI team code|RAB|2005}}</s> || style="text-align:right;" | <s>+ 38' 29"</s>
|-
! scope="row" | 25
| {{flagathlete|[[Paolo Savoldelli]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|DSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 44' 30"
|-
! scope="row" | 26
| {{flagathlete|[[Georg Totschnig]]|AUT}} || {{UCI team code|GST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 49' 14"
|-
! scope="row" | 27
| {{flagathlete|[[Mikel Astarloza]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|A2R|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 54' 03"
|-
! scope="row" | 28
| {{flagathlete|[[Laurent Brochard]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|EUC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 55' 29"
|-
! scope="row" | 29
| {{flagathlete|[[Sandy Casar]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 56' 47"
|-
! scope="row" | 30
| {{flagathlete|[[José Bento Azevedo]]|POR}} || {{UCI team code|DSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 59' 48"
|-
! scope="row" | 31
| {{flagathlete|[[Alberto Contador]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|ONC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 03' 25"
|-
! scope="row" | 32
| {{flagathlete|[[Stefano Garzelli]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|LIQ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 04' 49"
|-
! scope="row" | 33
| {{flagathlete|[[Chris Horner]]|USA}} || {{UCI team code|SDV|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 07' 57"
|-
! scope="row" | 34
| {{flagathlete|[[Stéphane Goubert]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|A2R|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 10' 53"
|-
! scope="row" | 35
| {{flagathlete|[[José-Luis Rubiera]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|DSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 11' 48"
|-
! scope="row" | 36
| {{flagathlete|[[Pietro Caucchioli]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 16' 21"
|-
! scope="row" | 37
| {{flagathlete|[[Maxim Iglinsky]]|KAZ}} || {{UCI team code|DVE|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 18' 44"
|-
! scope="row" | 38
| {{flagathlete|[[Jörg Ludewig]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|DVE|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 19' 05"
|-
! scope="row" | 39
| {{flagathlete|[[Axel Merckx]]|BEL}} || {{UCI team code|DVL|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 20' 15"
|-
! scope="row" | 40
| {{flagathlete|[[Marcos Antonio Serrano]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|ONC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 21' 31"
|-
! scope="row" | 41
| {{flagathlete|[[Michael Rogers (cyclist)|Michael Rogers]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|QST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 24' 32"
|-
! scope="row" | 42
| {{flagathlete|[[Alexandre Moos]]|SUI}} || {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 25' 35"
|-
! scope="row" | 43
| {{flagathlete|[[Jérôme Pineau]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|EUC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 31' 38"
|-
! scope="row" | 44
| {{flagathlete|[[Cédric Vasseur]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|COF|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 33' 17"
|-
! scope="row" | 45
| {{flagathlete|[[Roberto Heras]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|ONC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 38' 33"
|-
! scope="row" | 46
| {{flagathlete|[[Pierrick Fédrigo]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|EUC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 41' 14"
|-
! scope="row" | 47
| {{flagathlete|[[Franco Pellizotti]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|LIQ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 41' 38"
|-
! scope="row" | 48
| {{flagathlete|[[Egoi Martínez]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|EUS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 42' 29"
|-
! scope="row" | 49
| {{flagathlete|[[José Enrique Gutiérrez]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 42' 35"
|-
! scope="row" | 50
| {{flagathlete|[[Vladimir Karpets]]|RUS}} || {{UCI team code|MOV|2005b}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 43' 45"
|-
! scope="row" | 51
| {{flagathlete|[[Santiago Botero]]|COL}} || {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 49' 22"
|-
! scope="row" | 52
| {{flagathlete|[[Patrice Halgand]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 53' 26"
|-
! scope="row" | 53
| {{flagathlete|[[David Arroyo]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|MOV|2005b}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 54' 12"
|-
! scope="row" | 54
| {{flagathlete|[[Dario David Cioni]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|LIQ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 00' 39"
|-
! scope="row" | 55
| {{flagathlete|[[Daniele Nardello]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|TMO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 02' 23"
|-
! scope="row" | 56
| {{flagathlete|[[Christophe Brandt]]|BEL}} || {{UCI team code|DVL|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 03' 10"
|-
! scope="row" | 57
| {{flagathlete|[[Matthias Kessler]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|TMO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 03' 56"
|-
! scope="row" | 58
| {{flagathlete|[[Sylvain Chavanel]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|COF|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 05' 20"
|-
! scope="row" | 59
| {{flagathlete|[[Patrik Sinkewitz]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|QST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 07' 48"
|-
! scope="row" | 60
| {{flagathlete|[[Iban Mayo]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|EUS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 07' 48"
|-
! scope="row" | 61
| {{flagathlete|[[Thomas Löfkvist]]|SWE}} || {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 07' 48"
|-
! scope="row" | 62
| {{flagathlete|[[Lorenzo Bernucci]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|FAS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 08' 37"
|-
! scope="row" | 63
| {{flagathlete|[[David Cañada]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|SDV|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 08' 56"
|-
! scope="row" | 64
| {{flagathlete|[[Ángel Vicioso]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|ONC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 09' 37"
|-
! scope="row" | 65
| {{flagathlete|[[Sebastian Lang]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|GST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 11' 18"
|-
! scope="row" | 66
| {{flagathlete|[[Juan Manuel Gárate]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|SDV|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 15' 17"
|-
! scope="row" | 67
| {{flagathlete|[[David Moncoutié]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|COF|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 15' 23"
|-
! scope="row" | 68
| {{flagathlete|[[Walter Bénéteau]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|EUC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 17' 06"
|-
! scope="row" | 69
| {{flagathlete|[[Iker Camaño]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|EUS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 22' 41"
|-
! scope="row" | 70
| {{flagathlete|[[Philippe Gilbert]]|BEL}} || {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 24' 00"
|-
! scope="row" | 71
| {{flagathlete|[[Nicki Sørensen]]|DEN}} || {{UCI team code|CSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 24' 08"
|-
! scope="row" | 72
| {{flagathlete|[[Pieter Weening]]|NED}} || {{UCI team code|RAB|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 24' 16"
|-
! scope="row" | 73
| {{flagathlete|[[Juan Antonio Flecha]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|FAS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 24' 21"
|-
! scope="row" | 74
| {{flagathlete|[[José Luis Arrieta]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|MOV|2005b}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 25' 27"
|-
! scope="row" | 75
| {{flagathlete|[[Joseba Beloki]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|ONC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 26' 26"
|-
! scope="row" | 76
| {{flagathlete|[[Carlos Da Cruz]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 26' 49"
|-
! scope="row" | 77
| {{flagathlete|[[Stuart O'Grady]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|COF|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 27' 19"
|-
! scope="row" | 78
| {{flagathlete|[[Andriy Hrivko]]|UKR}} || {{UCI team code|DVE|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 28' 08"
|-
! scope="row" | 79
| {{flagathlete|[[Fabian Wegmann]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|GST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 29' 32"
|-
! scope="row" | 80
| {{flagathlete|[[Massimo Giunti]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|FAS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 29' 34"
|-
! scope="row" | 81
| {{flagathlete|[[Tobias Steinhauser]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|TMO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 31' 02"
|-
! scope="row" | 82
| {{flagathlete|[[Didier Rous]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|EUC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 33' 10"
|-
! scope="row" | 83
| {{flagathlete|[[Joost Posthuma]]|NED}} || {{UCI team code|RAB|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 33' 59"
|-
! scope="row" | 84
| {{flagathlete|[[Allan Davis (cyclist)|Allan Davis]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|ONC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 34' 40"
|-
! scope="row" | 85
| {{flagathlete|[[Denis Menchov]]|RUS}} || {{UCI team code|RAB|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 35' 00"
|-
! scope="row" | 86
| {{flagathlete|[[Stephan Schreck]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|TMO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 35' 52"
|-
! scope="row" | 87
| {{flagathlete|[[Gorazd Štangelj]]|SLO}} || {{UCI team code|LAM|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 36' 13"
|-
! scope="row" | 88
| {{flagathlete|[[Nicolas Portal]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|A2R|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 38' 01"
|-
! scope="row" | 89
| {{flagathlete|[[Kurt Asle Arvesen]]|NOR}} || {{UCI team code|CSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 39' 27"
|-
! scope="row" | 90
| {{flagathlete|[[Yuriy Krivtsov]]|UKR}} || {{UCI team code|A2R|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 39' 51"
|-
! scope="row" | 91
| {{flagathlete|[[Ronny Scholz]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|GST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 43' 03"
|-
! scope="row" | 92
| {{flagathlete|[[Rubens Bertogliati]]|SUI}} || {{UCI team code|SDV|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 45' 03"
|-
! scope="row" | 93
| {{flagathlete|[[Beat Zberg]]|SUI}} || {{UCI team code|GST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 46' 24"
|-
! scope="row" | 94
| {{flagathlete|[[Francis Mourey]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 47' 14"
|-
! scope="row" | 95
| {{flagathlete|[[Pavel Padrnos]]|CZE}} || {{UCI team code|DSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 49' 53"
|-
! scope="row" | 96
| {{flagathlete|[[Ludovic Turpin]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|A2R|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 51' 28"
|-
! scope="row" | 97
| {{flagathlete|[[Anthony Geslin]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|EUC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 51' 58"
|-
! scope="row" | 98
| {{flagathlete|[[Alessandro Cortinovis (cyclist)|Alessandro Cortinovis]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|DVE|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 52' 02"
|-
! scope="row" | 99
| {{flagathlete|[[David Loosli]]|SUI}} || {{UCI team code|LAM|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 52' 41"
|-
! scope="row" | 100
| {{flagathlete|[[Iñigo Landaluze]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|EUS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 52' 41"
|-
! scope="row" | 101
| {{flagathlete|[[Salvatore Commesso]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|LAM|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 53' 46"
|-
! scope="row" | 102
| {{flagathlete|[[Luke Roberts]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|CSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 54' 12"
|-
! scope="row" | 103
| {{flagathlete|[[Bert Grabsch]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 54' 35"
|-
! scope="row" | 104
| {{flagathlete|[[Volodymir Gustov]]|UKR}} || {{UCI team code|FAS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 54' 56"
|-
! scope="row" | 105
| {{flagathlete|[[Bradley McGee]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 55' 59"
|-
! scope="row" | 106
| {{flagathlete|[[Sébastien Joly]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 56' 10"
|-
! scope="row" | 107
| {{flagathlete|[[Benjamín Noval]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|DSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 00' 59"
|-
! scope="row" | 108
| {{flagathlete|[[Luis Leon Sánchez]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|ONC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 03' 19"
|-
! scope="row" | 109
| {{flagathlete|[[Erik Dekker]]|NED}} || {{UCI team code|RAB|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 03' 36"
|-
! scope="row" | 110
| {{flagathlete|[[Daniele Righi]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|LAM|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 04' 17"
|-
! scope="row" | 111
| {{flagathlete|[[Bram Tankink]]|NED}} || {{UCI team code|QST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 05' 12"
|-
! scope="row" | 112
| {{flagathlete|[[Mario Aerts]]|BEL}} || {{UCI team code|DVL|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 07' 30"
|-
! scope="row" | 113
| {{flagathlete|[[Alessandro Bertolini]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|DVE|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 09' 13"
|-
! scope="row" | 114
| {{flagathlete|[[Samuel Dumoulin]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|A2R|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 11' 02"
|-
! scope="row" | 115
| {{flagathlete|[[Sébastien Hinault]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 14' 33"
|-
! scope="row" | 116
| {{flagathlete|[[Thor Hushovd]]|NOR}} || {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 15' 40"
|-
! scope="row" | 117
| {{flagathlete|[[Laurent Lefèvre]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|EUC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 16' 06"
|-
! scope="row" | 118
| {{flagathlete|[[Giovanni Lombardi (cyclist)|Giovanni Lombardi]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|CSC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 18' 21"
|-
! scope="row" | 119
| {{flagathlete|[[László Bodrogi]]|HUN}} || {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 18' 44"
|-
! scope="row" | 120
| {{flagathlete|[[Matthieu Sprick]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|EUC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 20' 47"
|-
! scope="row" | 121
| {{flagathlete|[[Stéphane Augé]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|COF|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 21' 30"
|-
! scope="row" | 122
| {{flagathlete|[[Iñaki Isasi]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|EUS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 21' 50"
|-
! scope="row" | 123
| {{flagathlete|[[Matt White (cyclist)|Matthew White]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|COF|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 23' 41"
|-
! scope="row" | 124
| {{flagathlete|[[Thomas Voeckler]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|EUC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 25' 32"
|-
! scope="row" | 125
| {{flagathlete|[[Marcus Ljungqvist]]|SWE}} || {{UCI team code|LIQ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 25' 36"
|-
! scope="row" | 126
| {{flagathlete|[[Simon Gerrans]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|A2R|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 27' 03"
|-
! scope="row" | 127
| {{flagathlete|[[Thierry Marichal]]|BEL}} || {{UCI team code|COF|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 30' 59"
|-
! scope="row" | 128
| {{flagathlete|[[Fabian Cancellara]]|SUI}} || {{UCI team code|FAS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 32' 40"
|-
! scope="row" | 129
| {{flagathlete|[[Frédéric Bessy]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|COF|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 34' 59"
|-
! scope="row" | 130
| {{flagathlete|[[Michael Rich (cyclist)|Michael Rich]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|GST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 37' 13"
|-
! scope="row" | 131
| {{flagathlete|[[Manuel Quinziato]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|SDV|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 37' 31"
|-
! scope="row" | 132
| {{flagathlete|[[Fred Rodriguez]]|USA}} || {{UCI team code|DVL|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 37' 58"
|-
! scope="row" | 133
| {{flagathlete|[[Alessandro Vanotti]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|DVE|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 38' 43"
|-
! scope="row" | 134
| {{flagathlete|[[Robbie McEwen]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|DVL|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 41' 52"
|-
! scope="row" | 135
| {{flagathlete|[[Karsten Kroon]]|NED}} || {{UCI team code|RAB|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 42' 03"
|-
! scope="row" | 136
| {{flagathlete|[[Johan Vansummeren]]|BEL}} || {{UCI team code|DVL|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 43' 05"
|-
! scope="row" | 137
| {{flagathlete|[[Mauro Gerosa]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|LIQ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 44' 22"
|-
! scope="row" | 138
| {{flagathlete|[[Nicolas Jalabert]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 44' 26"
|-
! scope="row" | 139
| {{flagathlete|[[Guido Trenti]]|USA}} || {{UCI team code|QST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 46' 24"
|-
! scope="row" | 140
| {{flagathlete|[[Marc Wauters]]|BEL}} || {{UCI team code|RAB|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 46' 54"
|-
! scope="row" | 141
| {{flagathlete|[[Kjell Carlström]]|FIN}} || {{UCI team code|LIQ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 47' 02"
|-
! scope="row" | 142
| {{flagathlete|[[Baden Cooke]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 47' 17"
|-
! scope="row" | 143
| {{flagathlete|[[Bernhard Eisel]]|AUT}} || {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 47' 35"
|-
! scope="row" | 144
| {{flagathlete|[[Mauro Facci]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|FAS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 49' 30"
|-
! scope="row" | 145
| {{flagathlete|[[Michael Albasini]]|SUI}} || {{UCI team code|LIQ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 51' 03"
|-
! scope="row" | 146
| {{flagathlete|[[Peter Wrolich]]|AUT}} || {{UCI team code|GST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 51' 50"
|-
! scope="row" | 147
| {{flagathlete|[[Rafael Nuritdinov]]|UZB}} || {{UCI team code|DVE|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 54' 14"
|-
! scope="row" | 148
| {{flagathlete|[[José Vicente Garcia]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|MOV|2005b}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 56' 34"
|-
! scope="row" | 149
| {{flagathlete|[[Servais Knaven]]|NED}} || {{UCI team code|QST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 3h 59' 07"
|-
! scope="row" | 150
| {{flagathlete|[[Unai Etxebarria]]|VEN|1930}} || {{UCI team code|EUS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 4h 00' 24"
|-
! scope="row" | 151
| {{flagathlete|[[Robert Förster]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|GST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 4h 01' 40"
|-
! scope="row" | 152
| {{flagathlete|[[Daniel Becke]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|MOV|2005b}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 4h 02' 16"
|-
! scope="row" | 153
| {{flagathlete|[[Janek Tombak]]|EST}} || {{UCI team code|COF|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 4h 03' 09"
|-
! scope="row" | 154
| {{flagathlete|[[Wim Vansevenant]]|BEL}} || {{UCI team code|DVL|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 4h 09' 25"
|-
! scope="row" | 155
| {{flagathlete|[[Iker Flores]]|ESP}} || {{UCI team code|EUS|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | + 4h 20' 24"
|}

{{columns-start}}

===Points classification===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Final points classification (1–10)<ref name="letour-points-final">{{cite web|title=Tour de France 2005 – Overall points standing|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/IPG.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=4 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050727003747/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/IPG.html|archive-date=27 July 2005|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Rider
! scope="col" | Team
! scope="col" | Points
|-
! scope="row" | 1
|{{flagathlete|[[Thor Hushovd]]|NOR}} [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px|Hushovd was awarded the final green jersey as points classification winner|alt=Green jersey]] || {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 194
|-
! scope="row" | 2
|{{flagathlete|[[Stuart O'Grady]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|COF|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 182
|-
! scope="row" | 3
|{{flagathlete|[[Robbie McEwen]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|LOT|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 178
|-
! scope="row" | 4
|{{flagathlete|[[Alexander Vinokourov]]|KAZ}} || {{UCI team code|TMO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 158
|-
! scope="row" | 5
|{{flagathlete|[[Allan Davis (cyclist)|Allan Davis]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|ONC|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 130
|-
! scope="row" | 6
|{{flagathlete|[[Óscar Pereiro]]|ESP}} [[File:Jersey red number.svg|20px|link=Combativity award in the Tour de France|alt=A white jersey with a red number bib.]] || {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 118
|-
! scope="row" | 7
|{{flagathlete|[[Robert Förster]]|GER}} || {{UCI team code|GST|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 101
|-
! scope="row" | DSQ
|<s>{{flagathlete|[[Lance Armstrong]]|USA}}</s>{{efn|name=armstrong}} ||  <s>{{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}</s> || style="text-align:right;" | <s>93</s>
|-
! scope="row" | 9
|{{flagathlete|[[Baden Cooke]]|AUS}} || {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 91
|-
! scope="row" | 10
|{{flagathlete|[[Bernhard Eisel]]|AUT}} || {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 88
|}

{{column}}

===Mountains classification===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Final mountains classification (1–10)<ref name="letour-mountains-final">{{cite web|title=Tour de France 2005 – Overall climber standing|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/IMG.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=4 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050728005210/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/IMG.html|archive-date=28 July 2005|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Rider
! scope="col" | Team
! scope="col" | Points
|-
! scope="row" | 1
|{{flagathlete|[[Michael Rasmussen (cyclist)|Michael Rasmussen]]|DEN}} [[File:Jersey polkadot.svg|20px|Rasmussen was awarded the final polkadot jersey as mountains classification winner|alt=Polkadot jersey]] || {{UCI team code|RAB|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 185
|-
! scope="row" | 2
|{{flagathlete|[[Óscar Pereiro]]|ESP}} [[File:Jersey red number.svg|20px|link=Combativity award in the Tour de France|alt=A white jersey with a red number bib.]]|| {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 155
|-
! scope="row" | DSQ
|<s>{{flagathlete|[[Lance Armstrong]]|USA}}</s>{{efn|name=armstrong}} ||  <s>{{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}</s> || style="text-align:right;" | <s>99</s>
|-
! scope="row" | 4
|{{flagathlete|[[Christophe Moreau]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 93
|-
! scope="row" | 5
|{{flagathlete|[[Michael Boogerd]]|NED}} || {{UCI team code|RAB|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 90
|-
! scope="row" | 6
|{{flagathlete|[[Santiago Botero]]|COL}} || {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 88
|-
! scope="row" | 7
|{{flagathlete|[[Alexander Vinokourov]]|KAZ}} || {{UCI team code|TMO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 75
|-
! scope="row" | 8
|{{flagathlete|[[Laurent Brochard]]|FRA}} || {{UCI team code|BBO|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 75
|-
! scope="row" | DSQ
|<s>{{flagathlete|[[George Hincapie]]</s>|USA}} || <s>{{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}</s> || style="text-align:right;" | <s>74</s>
|-
! scope="row" | 10
|{{flagathlete|[[Pietro Caucchioli]]|ITA}} || {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}} || style="text-align:right;" | 73
|}

{{columns-end}}
{{columns-start}}

===Young rider classification===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Final young rider classification (1–10)<ref name="letour-youth-final">{{cite web|title=Tour de France 2005 – Overall youth standing|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/IJG.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=4 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050727000004/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/IJG.html|archive-date=27 July 2005|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
|-
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Rider
! scope="col" | Team
! scope="col" | Time
|-
! scope="row" | 1
| {{flagathlete|[[Yaroslav Popovych]]|UKR}} [[File:Jersey white.svg|20px|link=Young rider classification in the Tour de France|alt=White jersey]]
| {{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 86h 34' 04"
|-
! scope="row" | 2
| {{flagathlete|[[Andrey Kashechkin]]|KAZ}}
| {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 9' 02"
|-
! scope="row" | 3
| {{flagathlete|[[Alberto Contador]]|ESP}}
| {{UCI team code|ONC|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 44' 23"
|-
! scope="row" | 4
| {{flagathlete|[[Maxim Iglinsky]]|KAZ}}
| {{UCI team code|DVE|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 59' 42"
|-
! scope="row" | 5
| {{flagathlete|[[Jérôme Pineau]]|FRA}}
| {{UCI team code|EUC|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 12' 36"
|-
! scope="row" | 6
| {{flagathlete|[[Vladimir Karpets]]|RUS}}
| {{UCI team code|MOV|2005b}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 24' 43"
|-
! scope="row" | 7
| {{flagathlete|[[David Arroyo]]|ESP}}
| {{UCI team code|MOV|2005b}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 35' 10"
|-
! scope="row" | 8
| {{flagathlete|[[Patrik Sinkewitz]]|GER}}
| {{UCI team code|QST|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 48' 46"
|-
! scope="row" | 9
| {{flagathlete|[[Thomas Löfkvist]]|SWE}}
| {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 48' 46"
|-
! scope="row" | 10
| {{flagathlete|[[Philippe Gilbert]]|BEL}}
| {{UCI team code|FDJ|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 04' 58"
|}

{{column}}

===Team classification===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Final team classification (1–10)<ref name="letour-team-final">{{cite web|title=Tour de France 2005 – Overall team standing|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/ETG.html|work=Tour de France|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|access-date=4 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050728003111/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/classement/ETG.html|archive-date=28 July 2005|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Team
! scope="col" | Time
|-
! scope="row" | 1
| {{UCI team code|TMO|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | 256h 10' 29"
|-
! scope="row" | 2
| {{UCI team code|DSC|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 14' 57"
|-
! scope="row" | 3
| {{UCI team code|CSC|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 25' 15"
|-
! scope="row" | 4
| {{UCI team code|MOV|2005b}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 55' 24"
|-
! scope="row" | 5
| {{UCI team code|C.A|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 06' 09"
|-
! scope="row" | 6
| {{UCI team code|PHO|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 09' 20"
|-
! scope="row" | 7
| {{UCI team code|ONC|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 1h 47' 56"
|-
! scope="row" | 8
| {{UCI team code|RAB|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 26' 30"
|-
! scope="row" | 9
| {{UCI team code|FAS|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 48' 58"
|-
! scope="row" | 10
| {{UCI team code|ALM|2005}}
| style="text-align:right;" | + 2h 52' 04"
|}

{{columns-end}}

==See also==
* [[List of doping cases in cycling]]

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite web|first=Jacques|last=Augendre|author-link=Jacques Augendre|url=http://netstorage.lequipe.fr/ASO/cyclisme/le-tour/2016/histoire/TDF16_GH_Interactif-PROD.pdf|title=Guide historique|trans-title=Historical guide|year=2016|language=fr|access-date=27 October 2016|work=[[Tour de France]]|location=Paris|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817121602/http://netstorage.lequipe.fr/ASO/cyclisme/le-tour/2016/histoire/TDF16_GH_Interactif-PROD.pdf|archive-date=17 August 2016|url-status=live}}
* {{cite web|title=Race regulations|url=http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/docs/reglement_2005_us.pdf|work=[[Tour de France]]|location=Paris|publisher=[[Amaury Sport Organisation]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051222063848/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/docs/reglement_2005_us.pdf|archive-date=22 December 2005|url-status=dead|access-date=27 October 2016|year=2005|ref={{harvid|''Race regulations''|2005}}}}
* {{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Christopher S.|title=The Tour de France: A Cultural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UpzzPqexF00C|publisher=University of California Press|location=Oakland, California|year=2008|isbn=978-0-520-25630-9}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=Mapping Le Tour|first=Ellis|last=Bacon|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|location=Glasgow|year=2014|pages=226–227|isbn=9780007543991|oclc=872700415}}
* {{cite book|last1=Roll|first1=Bob|author-link1=Bob Roll|last2=Koeppel|first2=Dan|author-link2=Dan Koeppel|title=The Tour de France Companion 2005|url=https://archive.org/details/tourdefrancecomp00roll|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=Workman Publishing Company|location=New York City|isbn=978-0-7611-3798-6}}
* {{cite book|last1=Wilcockson|first1=John|last2=Hood|first2=Andrew|author-link1=John Wilcockson|title=The 2005 Tour de France: Armstrong's Farewell|url=https://archive.org/details/2005tourdefrance00wilc|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=VeloPress|location=Boulder, Colorado|isbn=978-1-931382-68-7}}

==External links==
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* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050803015140/http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/2100/index.html |date=3 August 2005 |title=Official website }}{{cbignore}}
* [http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2005/tour05/ 2005 Tour de France] at [[Cyclingnews.com]]

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