This competition was won by Spaniard Vicente Trueba, who reached 9 of the 16 mountain peaks first.

[4] Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France entered national teams, consisting of eight cyclists (Les As).

Additionally, 40 Les Individuels, cyclists without a team (including two Spaniards and an Austrian), entered the race.

[5][6] Georges Ronsse, Learco Guerra, Albert Büchi, Kurt Stöpel and André Leducq were the captains of their respective teams.

Tour director Henri Desgrange had named Guerra as probable winner of the race.

The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,556 m (8,386 ft) at the summit tunnel of the Col du Galibier mountain pass on stage 7.

Because of this, the Tour director Henri Desgrange extended the cut-off time for this stage to 10%, in this way 43 cyclists stayed in the race.

l'Equipe wrote that with the help of his Belgian team, Lemaire could have challenged Speicher for the overall victory, especially thanks to the help of Jean Aerts.

But the Belgian team was still divided between the Dutch-speaking and French-speaking cyclists, and Jean Aerts did not help Lemaire but went for his own success.

They were set back to the 6th and 7th place, and Jean Aerts, who initially was third, was named the winner of the race.

For the 1933 UCI Road World Championships, that was held after the race, Tour de France winner Georges Speicher was initially not selected.

Only after a French cyclist that had been selected dropped out, Speicher was brought in as a replacement at the last notice, and won the race.

[2] Speicher was the first cyclist to win the Tour de France and the World Championship in the same year.

The French audience was therefore greatly interested in the race, and the organising newspaper l'Auto had a record circulation of 854000.