After striking the balance in Stage 17, Markel Irizar of Team Radioshack held onto the middle position through the remainder of the race to take home the Point d’Appui Award for the 2011 Tour de France. Irizar finished dead middle in the last five stages of the tour and also finished on the cuspide during the non-fulcrum Stage 15.

During the 2011 Tour de France, the lead for the point d’appui changed 6 times and 10 stages ended without a rider at the center. The following show the general classification for le point d’appui in the Tour de France.

• Stage One – 198 riders come home – No fulcrum
• Stage Two – No fulcrum
• Stage Three – No fulcrum
• Stage Four – William Bonnet of team FDJ is the first point d’appui of the 2011 Tour de France, coming home 4 minutes and 29 seconds adrift. The Lanterne Rouge, Vincent Jerome of Team Europcar, finishes 27 minutes and 53 seconds behind the leader.
• Stage Five – Stuart O’Grady of Team Leopard-Trek becomes le point d’appui, 6 minutes and 10 seconds behind the leader.
• Stage Six – Manuel Quinziato of BMC Racing Team is le point d’appui, finishing 8 minutes and 29 seconds behind the yellow jersey.
• Stage Seven – No fulcrum
• Stage Eight – No fulcrum
• Stage Nine – No fulcrum
• Stage Ten – No fulcrum. The number of riders is down to 178.
• Stage Eleven – Sébastien Turgot of Team Europcar finishes at the middle of the pack — 33 minutes and 8 seconds behind the leader — on the middle stage of the race. The Lanterne Rouge, still Vincent Jerome, is 1 hour, 35 minutes and 50 seconds behind the leader.
• Stage Twelve – Bauke Mollema of Rabobank becomes the new point d’appui, finishing 56 minutes and 6 seconds behind the leader.
• Stage Thirteen – Rui Alberto Costa of Movistar finishes as the fulcrum, 1 hour, 2 minutes and 32 seconds adrift.
• Stage Fourteen – No fulcrum.
• Stage Fifteen – No fulcrum.
• Stage Sixteen – No fulcrum.
• Stage Seventeen – After an abandon by Paulo Tiralongo, the center of the field comes to rest on Markel Irizar of Team Radioshack, who finishes 1 hour, 34 minutes and 26 seconds behind the maillot jaune.
• Stage Eighteen – For the second day in a row, Markel Irizar holds onto the maillot gris, although he lost nearly 50 minutes on the day to the leaders, ending at 2 hours, 23 minutes and 59 seconds behind the leaders.
• Stage Nineteen – Markel Irizar finishes in l’autobus and continues to hold the fulcrum for the third day in a row.
• Stage Twenty – Despite placing in the top third of the riders during the individual time trial on Stage 21, Markel Irizar remains the fulcrum.
• Stage Twenty-One – Le point d’appui for the 2011 Tour de France is Markel Irizar of Team Radioshack. Igoi Martinez of Euskaltel-Euskadi claimed the middle of the pack for the final stage, finishing with the same time as 150 other riders on the day. The Lanterne Rouge, Fabio Sabatini of Liquigas-Cannondale, finished 3 hours, 57 minutes and 43 seconds behind winner Cadel Evans of BMC.