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1982 Dakar Rally also known as the 1982 Paris-Dakar Rally was the 4th running of the Dakar Rally

Dakar Rally

The Dakar Rally is an annual rally raid type of off-road automobile race, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation...

event. 382 competitors took part. The brothers, Claude Marreau and Bernard Marreau, won for the Renault team while Cyril Neveu won the motorcycle category for the Honda team.

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Stage	Date	From	To	Total (km)
1	1 January	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...	Olivet Olivet, Loiret Olivet is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-Geography:Olivet is located in the septentrional bend of the Loire, which crosses from east to west. Olivet belongs to the vallée de la Loire sector between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire, which was in 2000 inscribed by...
2	2 January	Olivet Olivet, Loiret Olivet is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-Geography:Olivet is located in the septentrional bend of the Loire, which crosses from east to west. Olivet belongs to the vallée de la Loire sector between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire, which was in 2000 inscribed by...	Sète Sète Sète is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France. Its inhabitants are called Sétois....
	3 January	Transportation to Africa
3	4 January	Algiers Algiers ' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...	Ouled Djellal Ouled Djellal Ouled Djellal is a town and commune in Biskra Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 45,622.-References:...	470
4	5 January	Ouled Djellal	Hassi Messaoud Hassi Messaoud Hassi Messaoud is a town in Ouargla province, southeast Algeria, north Africa. Oil was discovered there in 1956 and the town's prominence has grown rapidly since then. It is an oil refinery town named after the first oil well. A water well, dug in 1917, can be found on the airport side of town...
5	6 January	Hassi Messaoud	Bordj Omar Driss Bordj Omar Driss Bordj Omar Driss is a municipality in Illizi Province, Algeria. It is part of In Aménas district and has a population of 3,547, which gives it 7 seats in the PMA. Its postal code is 33210 and its municipal code is 3304....	414
6	7 January	Bordj Omar Driss	Tit Tit, Algeria Tit is a village north-west of Tamanrasset, in the commune of Tamanrasset in central Algeria. It is known for the Battle of Tit which took place in may 1902 between the French colonial empire and the Kel Ahaggar....	568
7	8 January	Tit	Timeaouine	538
8	9 January	Timeaouine	Gao Gao Gao is a town in eastern Mali on the River Niger lying ESE of Timbuktu. Situated on the left bank of the river at the junction with the Tilemsi valley, it is the capital of the Gao Region and had a population of 86,663 in 2009....	740
	10 January	Rest day in Gao
9	11 January	Gao	Mopti Mopti Mopti is a city at the confluence of the Niger and the Bani in Mali, between Timbuktu and Ségou. The city lies on three islands linked by dykes: the New Town, the Old Town and Medina Coura. As a result it is sometimes known as the "Venice of Mali".-History:The city of Mopti derives its name from...	538
10	12 January	Mopti	Gao	570
	13 January	Rest day in Gao
11	14 January	Gao	Tombouctou Tombouctou Tombouctou may be:* Tombouctou Region in northern Mali* The French name for the city of Timbuktu, which gives its name to the region...	424
12	15 January	Tombouctou	Niono Niono Niono is a town and commune located in the Ségou Region of Mali. It is the seat of the Niono Cercle. As of 2004 there are approximately 50,000 inhabitants in the commune, while the town itself measures some 4,900 people. The town is the capital of Niono Cercle, one of six subdivisions of Segou...	558
13	16 January	Niono	Nioro du Sahel Nioro du Sahel Nioro du Sahel often referred to as simply Nioro is a town and commune in the Kayes Region of western Mali, 241 km from the city of Kayes. It is located 275 miles north-west of the capital Bamako...	517
14	17 January	Nioro du Sahel Nioro du Sahel Nioro du Sahel often referred to as simply Nioro is a town and commune in the Kayes Region of western Mali, 241 km from the city of Kayes. It is located 275 miles north-west of the capital Bamako...	Tambacounda Tambacounda Tambacounda is the largest city in eastern Senegal, southeast of Dakar, and is the Regional capital of the province of the same name. Its estimated population in 2007 was 78,800.-Geography:...	310
15	18 January	Tambacounda	Dara	306
16	19 January	Dara	Tiougoune	250
17	20 January	Tiougoune	Dakar Dakar Dakar is the capital city and largest city of Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African mainland...	100

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