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Internet TdF Game: HistoryThis is an overview of the different editions of the Internet Tour de France Game. The first edition of the game was held in 1994.
Participants and winnersThe next table lists each edition (column Year) with the number of participants that year (Part), the number of different countries they represented (Coun), the number of stages that took part in the game (Stag), the highest attainable overall score (Max), the number of points collected by the winner (Poin) and the name and the country of the winner.
Year Part Coun Stag Max Poin Winner 2010 463 41 19 829 728 Rune Førsund (Norway) 2009 546 39 18 726 599 Thomas Storrødvann (Norway) 2008 447 30 19 763 673 Tom Denters (The Netherlands) 2007 631 34 19 797 601 Rune Førsund (Norway) 2006 646 37 19 890 781 Arthur Denneman (The Netherlands) 2005 903 43 18 635 535 Amadeus Bike (The Netherlands) 2004 1200 40 18 897 706 Arthur Denneman (The Netherlands) 2003 1351 45 18 729 585 Belinda Ward (USA) 2002 1142 39 18 761 629 Martin Smits (The Netherlands) 2001 1100 39 18 789 651 Reinier van Olderen (The Netherlands) 2000 826 31 18 730 525 Etienne Gaasenbeek (The Netherlands) 1999 817 33 19 820 743 Michael Botzet (Germany) 1998 813 35 19 738 564 Tako Molanus (The Netherlands) 1997 1147 36 20 860 749 Kees Winder (The Netherlands) 1996 461 25 20 832 606 Wieger van Brug (The Netherlands) 1995 241 20 18 846 666 Frank Koper (The Netherlands) 1994 36 4 19 893 520 Marko Borst (The Netherlands) The reasons for the different numbers of stages used in the game are differences in the number of rest days (currently 2 but 1 before 1999), the inclusion or absence of the team trial (absent in 1996-1999, 2006-2008, 2010) and the presence of a neutralized stage in the editions of 1995 and 1998.
Game veteransHere is a list of participants that have frequently taken part in the 17 editions of the game:
Plc Eds Name
1. 17 Erik TKS, Tako Molanus
3. 16 Benoît Rey, Erix Schokker, Frank Koper, Gosse Bouma,
Guus van Zadelhoff, Marcel Spanjer, Nico Wienders
10. 15 Arthur Denneman, Bret Jaeger, David Marshall, Francis Stalpers,
Marko Tukic, Michael McQuillen, Remco van Veenendaal, Rien Post,
Robert Beernink
19. 14 A.B. Glah, Bert Platt, Bojan Kozelj, Chad Lennon,
Christoph Kersten, Dex Tooke, Gerard Creemers, Graeme Camp,
Jos Droste, Kevin Mathers, Matthias Kersten, Michael Botzet,
Steve Smith, Tom Scanlon, Wim Penninx
34. 13 Anton Cozijnsen, Edwin Saunders, Harrie Wintermans,
Hugo Paulissen, Jeroen van Koert, Joel Hull, Ken Charbonneau,
Michael Smukler, Michel Oberson, Mike Ross, Randall Cockroft,
Ria Molanus, Robin van Koert, Stefano Heyer
Altogether, 47 participants have taken part in the game thirteen times or more often. The robot participant Jan Modaal has also been present in all editions of the game. There is an overview of veteran performance for the years 1994-2010.
RecordsSince the maximum attainable overall score is different in every edition, it would not be fair to make a list of the highest overall scores in the game. An overview of the highest stage scores is kept on a separate page. The current record holders are Bevo Gallagher (USA) and Dimitri van Agterveld (The Netherlands) with 114 points (2006). Dimitri van Agterveld is the only participant in the history of the game that had all members of a stage top ten in his team top ten (in stage 2 of 2006). Here we keep an overview of stage winners, more in particular those participants that have been able to win stages in different editions of the game:
Plc Eds Stg Name (Years)
1. 8 14 Erix Schokker (1995:2,1996:3,1998,1999,2001,2002,2007:4,2009)
2. 6 10 Wicher Otten (1999,2001,2002,2007:2,2008,2010:4)
3. 5 11 Erik TKS (1994:5,1995:3,2000,2006,2007)
4. 3 8 Bastin Verweij (2006,2009:3,2010:4)
5. 3 4 Jose Aarts (2000:2,2008,2009)
3 4 Maaike Kuipers (2002:2,2005,2006)
3 4 Rien Post (2001:2,2002,2010)
8. 3 3 Dick Blom (1999,2001,2006)
3 3 Gary Timberlake (2008,2009,2010)
3 3 Martin Hoffellner (2005,2007,2009)
3 3 Tore Högman (2002,2006,2009)
12. 2 3 Bevo Gallagher (2006:2,2008)
2 3 Marco Alter (2006,2008:2)
2 3 Xiaojun Creemers (2003:2,2010)
15. 2 2 Wim Penninx (1994,1995)
2 2 Severine Chaumette (2005,2007)
2 2 Sander Kaspers (1998,2002)
2 2 Rob Spaans (1998,2007)
2 2 Reinier van Olderen (2006,2007)
2 2 Olle Olausson (2003,2006)
2 2 Jan Matheeuwsen (2004,2006)
2 2 Berthold B. Journaille (1998,1999)
2 2 Anton Cozijnsen (1998,2009)
The list contains the rank of the participant (Plc), the number of different editions in which he won a stage (Eds), the total number of stage wins (Stg), the participant's name and the years of the stage wins. Twenty three participants have been able to win stages in more than one edition of the game. More than 25 participants have won more than one stage in a single edition of the game. Obviously this was easier in the earlier game editions when there were not that many participants. Only three participants have been able to win more than three stages in one year after the first edition of the game in 1994: Erix Schokker of The Netherlands (4 in 2007), Evert Molanus (5 in 2008) and Wicher Otten (4 in 2010). Eleven participants have managed to hold the overall lead in different editions of the game:
Plc Eds Stg Name (Years)
1. 4 7 Rien Post (1999,2001,2002:4,2010)
2. 3 23 Rune Førsund (2007:6,2009:9,2010:8)
3. 3 9 Erix Schokker (1996:7,2002,2007)
4. 3 6 Bastin Verweij (2007:3,2009,2010:2)
5. 3 5 Martin Hoffellner (2005,2007,2009:3)
6. 2 11 Tako Molanus (1998:10,2008)
7. 2 9 Reinier van Olderen (2001:8,2002)
8. 2 8 Arthur Denneman (2004:7,2006)
2 8 Wil Gommans (2000:7,2010)
10. 2 7 Brigitte Touw (2006:6,2007)
11. 2 5 Gary Timberlake (2008,2010:4)
This overview shows the rank in this list (Plc), the number of different editions in which the participant occupied the overall place one (Eds), the total of stages in which the participant managed this (Stg), his or her name and the years in which the top ranks were achieved. Fourteen participants have managed to obtain two or more top ten positions in the final overall rankings of the game:
Plc Eds Name (Years:Ranks) 1. 4 Emanuel Correia (2006:8,2007:5,2008:7,2010:5) 2. 3 Arthur Denneman (2001:6,2004:1,2006:1) 3. 3 Dimitri van Agterveld (1999:4,2002:10,2006:3) 4. 2 Rune Førsund (2007:1,2010:1) 5. 2 Michael Botzet (1999:1,2004:4) 6. 2 Etienne Gaasenbeek (2000:1,2010:9) 7. 2 Brigitte Touw (2006:2,2007:3) 8. 2 Bryan Stout (2008:2,2009:8) 9. 2 Hans Splinter (1998:3,2002:5) 10. 2 Rob Spaans (1998:3,2004:8) 11. 2 Erik-Jan Meles (1999:3,2000:10) 12. 2 Daniel McQuillen (2001:5,2002:4) 13. 2 Stefano Heyer (2007:6,2010:4) 14. 2 Johan van Ommen (2004:5,2008:9) This overview shows the rank in this list (Plc), the number of different editions in which the participant finished within the top ten (Eds),his or her name and the years in which the top positions were achieved.
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