In the 1932 Tour de France, for the third year, the race was run in the national team format, with five different teams. Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and France each sent a team with eight cyclists, while Germany and Austria sent a combined team, with seven German cyclists and one Austrian cyclist. In addition, 40 cyclists joined as touriste-routiers.
Charles Pélissier, who had won 13 stages in the 1930 and 1931 Tours, and Antonin Magne, the winner of 1931, were absent from the French team. Still, there were so many good French cyclists in that time that the French team was still considered superior.
The Italian team included three Giro d'Italia winners: the winner from the 1930 Giro d'Italia, Luigi Marchisio; the winner from the 1931 Giro d'Italia, Francesco Camusso and the winner from the 1932 Giro d'Italia, Antonio Pesenti.
The Belgium team had Jef Demuysere, who had fought for the victory in the previous Tour until the end and had become second, and two-time world champion Georges Ronsse.
By rider + Legend No. Starting number worn by the rider during the Tour Pos. Position in the general classification DNF Denotes a rider who did not finish
No. Name Nationality Team Pos. 1 Jef Demuysere Belgium 8 2 Alphonse Schepers Belgium DNF 3 Georges Ronsse Belgium 5 4 Georges Lemaire Belgium 15 5 Gérard Loncke Belgium 34 6 Jean Aerts Belgium 13 7 Frans Bonduel Belgium 6 8 Gaston Rebry Belgium 20 9 Raffaele di Paco Italy 33 10 Antonio Pesenti Italy 4 11 Aldo Canazza Italy DNF 12 Ambrogio Morelli Italy DNF 13 Eugenio Gestri Italy DNF 14 Francesco Camusso Italy 3 15 Michele Orecchia Italy 14 16 Luigi Marchisio Italy 26 17 Albert Büchi Switzerland 11 18 Ernst Hofer Switzerland DNF 19 Alfred Bula Switzerland 41 20 August Erne Switzerland 55 21 Türel Wanzenried Switzerland DNF 22 Alfred Büchi Switzerland 36 23 Roger Pipoz Switzerland DNF 24 Georges Antenen Switzerland 29 25 Willy Kutschbach Germany/Austria DNF 26 Georg Umbenhauer Germany/Austria 56 27 Max Bulla Germany/Austria 19 28 Oskar Thierbach Germany/Austria 7 29 Herbert Sieronski Germany/Austria 39 30 Ludwig Geyer Germany/Austria 22 31 Kurt Stoepel Germany/Austria 2 32 Rudolph Risch Germany/Austria 57 33 André Leducq France 1 34 Albert Barthélémy France 49 35 Julien Moineau France 25 36 Louis Peglion France 47 37 Marcel Bidot France 30 38 Maurice Archambaud France 16 39 Georges Speicher France 10 40 Roger Lapébie France 23 101 Paul Le Drogo Touriste-routier DNF 102 Benoît Faure Touriste-routier 12 103 Joseph Mauclair Touriste-routier DNF 104 Ernest Neuhard Touriste-routier 28 105 Auguste Pitte Touriste-routier DNF 106 Yves Le Goff Touriste-routier DNF 107 Fernand Fayolle Touriste-routier 35 108 Adrien Buttafocchi Touriste-routier DNF 109 Marius Guiramand Touriste-routier 31 110 René Bernard Touriste-routier 18 111 François Haas Touriste-routier 51 112 Lazare Venot Touriste-routier 37 113 Léon Fichot Touriste-routier DNF 114 Robert Brugere Touriste-routier 52 115 Marcel Mazeyrat Touriste-routier 24 116 Jules Puy Touriste-routier DNF 117 François Moreels Touriste-routier 44 118 Jean Gouleme Touriste-routier 46 119 Jules Buysse Touriste-routier 40 120 Jean Wauters Touriste-routier 17 121 Jean Naert Touriste-routier DNF 122 Emile Decroix Touriste-routier 43 123 Frans Alexander Touriste-routier DNF 124 Félicien Vervaecke Touriste-routier DNF 125 Joseph Horemans Touriste-routier DNF 126 Augusto Zanzi Touriste-routier 21 127 Amerigo Cacioni Touriste-routier DNF 128 Luigi Barral Touriste-routier 9 129 Amulio Viarengo Touriste-routier 38 130 Giuseppe Pancera Touriste-routier 32 131 Alessandro Catalani Touriste-routier DNF 132 Aleardo Simoni Touriste-routier 42 133 Francis Bouillet Touriste-routier 53 134 Nicolas Frantz Touriste-routier 45 135 Jean-Pierre Muller Touriste-routier 50 136 Fernand Cornez Touriste-routier 54 137 Vicente Trueba Touriste-routier 27 138 Hermann Müller Touriste-routier DNF 139 Karl Altenburger Touriste-routier 48 140 Karl Olböter Touriste-routier DNF
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