The Grand Tours are the three most prestigious multi-week stage races in professional road bicycle racing.[1] The competitions are the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España, contested annually in that order. They are the only stage races permitted to last longer than 14 days.[2] No cyclist has won all three Grand Tours in the same calendar year, but Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Chris Froome have won all three in succession (thus holding all titles at the same time); the only other cyclists to win all three Grand Tours at some point in their career are Jacques Anquetil, Felice Gimondi, Alberto Contador, and Vincenzo Nibali.[3] Contador is the youngest, at 25 years, to win every Tour.[4] It is rare for cyclists to ride all Grand Tours in the same year; in 2004, for example, 474 cyclists started in one of the Grand Tours, 68 rode two and only two cyclists started all three.[5]
Eddy Merckx, who has won the most Grand Tours with 11 victories.
Cyclists are ranked on the basis of their total wins in the three Grand Tours. When there is a tie between cyclists they are listed alphabetically by the Grand Tour they won. The majority of winners have come from Europe, however, there have been a few notable victories for cyclists from other continents. Andrew Hampsten, became the first North American to win the Giro, when he won in 1988.[6]Luis Herrera became the first person from South America and the Southern Hemisphere to win a Grand Tour when he won the 1987 Vuelta a España.[7]
Eddy Merckx, with 11 victories, has won the most Grand Tours. Bernard Hinault is second with 10 and Jacques Anquetil is third with eight.[3] Merckx, Fausto Coppi and Alfredo Binda have won the most Giros, each winning five during their career. Merckx, Hinault, Anquetil and Miguel Indurain hold the record for the most victories in the Tour, with five each. Roberto Heras holds the record for the most victories in the Vuelta, which he has won four times.[8]
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The Grand Tours are the three most prestigious multi week stage races in professional road bicycle racing 1 The competitions are the Giro d Italia Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana contested annually in that order They are the only stage races permitted to last longer than 14 days 2 No cyclist has won all three Grand Tours in the same calendar year but Eddy Merckx Bernard Hinault and Chris Froome have won all three in succession thus holding all titles at the same time the only other cyclists to win all three Grand Tours at some point in their career are Jacques Anquetil Felice Gimondi Alberto Contador and Vincenzo Nibali 3 Contador is the youngest at 25 years to win every Tour 4 It is rare for cyclists to ride all Grand Tours in the same year in 2004 for example 474 cyclists started in one of the Grand Tours 68 rode two and only two cyclists started all three 5 Eddy Merckx who has won the most Grand Tours with 11 victories Cyclists are ranked on the basis of their total wins in the three Grand Tours When there is a tie between cyclists they are listed alphabetically by the Grand Tour they won The majority of winners have come from Europe however there have been a few notable victories for cyclists from other continents Andrew Hampsten became the first North American to win the Giro when he won in 1988 6 Luis Herrera became the first person from South America and the Southern Hemisphere to win a Grand Tour when he won the 1987 Vuelta a Espana 7 Eddy Merckx with 11 victories has won the most Grand Tours Bernard Hinault is second with 10 and Jacques Anquetil is third with eight 3 Merckx Fausto Coppi and Alfredo Binda have won the most Giros each winning five during their career Merckx Hinault Anquetil and Miguel Indurain hold the record for the most victories in the Tour with five each Roberto Heras holds the record for the most victories in the Vuelta which he has won four times 8 Contents 1 Winners 1 1 By cyclist 1 2 By country 2 ReferencesWinners EditBy cyclist Edit nbsp Bernard Hinault won 10 Grand Tours during his career nbsp Miguel Indurain winner of seven Grand Tours nbsp Fausto Coppi won five Giros and the Tour de France twice nbsp Alberto Contador the fifth cyclist to have won all three Grand Tours during his career nbsp Alfredo Binda won the Giro d Italia five times nbsp Tony Rominger winner of four Grand Tours nbsp Ivan Basso he has won two Giros nbsp Stephen Roche winner of two Grand Tours nbsp Jan Ullrich won two Grand Tours nbsp Luis Herrera was the first South American to win a Grand Tour nbsp Alexander Vinokourov was winner of the 2006 Vuelta a Espana Riders in bold are still active Number of wins in gold indicates the current record holder s Grand Tour general classification winners Rank Cyclist Country Winning span Giro Tour Vuelta Total1 Eddy Merckx nbsp Belgium 1968 1974 5 5 1 112 Bernard Hinault nbsp France 1978 1985 3 5 2 103 Jacques Anquetil nbsp France 1957 1964 2 5 1 84 Fausto Coppi nbsp Italy 1940 1953 5 2 0 7Miguel Indurain nbsp Spain 1991 1995 2 5 0 7Alberto Contador nbsp Spain 2007 2015 2 2 3 7Chris Froome nbsp Great Britain 2011 2018 1 4 2 78 Gino Bartali nbsp Italy 1936 1948 3 2 0 5Alfredo Binda nbsp Italy 1925 1933 5 0 0 5Felice Gimondi nbsp Italy 1965 1976 3 1 1 511 Tony Rominger nbsp Switzerland 1992 1995 1 0 3 4Roberto Heras nbsp Spain 2000 2005 0 0 4 4Vincenzo Nibali nbsp Italy 2010 2016 2 1 1 4Primoz Roglic nbsp Slovenia 2019 2023 1 0 3 415 Giovanni Brunero nbsp Italy 1921 1926 3 0 0 3Carlo Galetti nbsp Italy 1910 1912 3 0 0 3Fiorenzo Magni nbsp Italy 1948 1955 3 0 0 3Louison Bobet nbsp France 1953 1955 0 3 0 3Greg LeMond nbsp United States 1986 1990 0 3 0 3Philippe Thys nbsp Belgium 1913 1920 0 3 0 3Charly Gaul nbsp Luxembourg 1956 1959 2 1 0 3Laurent Fignon nbsp France 1983 1989 1 2 0 3Pedro Delgado nbsp Spain 1985 1989 0 1 2 324 Franco Balmamion nbsp Italy 1962 1963 2 0 0 2Ivan Basso nbsp Italy 2006 2010 2 0 0 2Costante Girardengo nbsp Italy 1919 1923 2 0 0 2Ivan Gotti nbsp Italy 1997 1999 2 0 0 2Giuseppe Saronni nbsp Italy 1979 1983 2 0 0 2Paolo Savoldelli nbsp Italy 2002 2005 2 0 0 2Gilberto Simoni nbsp Italy 2001 2003 2 0 0 2Giovanni Valetti nbsp Italy 1938 1939 2 0 0 2Ottavio Bottecchia nbsp Italy 1924 1925 0 2 0 2Nicolas Frantz nbsp Luxembourg 1927 1928 0 2 0 2Firmin Lambot nbsp Belgium 1919 1922 0 2 0 2Andre Leducq nbsp France 1930 1932 0 2 0 2Sylvere Maes nbsp Belgium 1936 1939 0 2 0 2Antonin Magne nbsp France 1931 1934 0 2 0 2Lucien Petit Breton nbsp France 1907 1908 0 2 0 2Tadej Pogacar nbsp Slovenia 2020 2021 0 2 0 2Bernard Thevenet nbsp France 1975 1977 0 2 0 2Jonas Vingegaard nbsp Denmark 2022 2023 0 2 0 2Julian Berrendero nbsp Spain 1941 1942 0 0 2 2Gustaaf Deloor nbsp Belgium 1935 1936 0 0 2 2Jose Manuel Fuente nbsp Spain 1972 1974 0 0 2 2Alex Zulle nbsp Switzerland 1996 1997 0 0 2 2Egan Bernal nbsp Colombia 2019 2021 1 1 0 2Hugo Koblet nbsp Switzerland 1950 1951 1 1 0 2Gastone Nencini nbsp Italy 1957 1960 1 1 0 2Marco Pantani nbsp Italy 1998 1 1 0 2Stephen Roche nbsp Ireland 1987 1 1 0 2Giovanni Battaglin nbsp Italy 1981 1 0 1 2Denis Menchov nbsp Russia 2007 2009 1 0 1 2Nairo Quintana nbsp Colombia 2014 2016 1 0 1 2Jan Janssen nbsp Netherlands 1967 1968 0 1 1 2Luis Ocana nbsp Spain 1970 1973 0 1 1 2Roger Pingeon nbsp France 1967 1969 0 1 1 2Jan Ullrich nbsp Germany 1997 1999 0 1 1 2Joop Zoetemelk nbsp Netherlands 1979 1980 0 1 1 258 Vittorio Adorni nbsp Italy 1965 1 0 0 1Ercole Baldini nbsp Italy 1958 1 0 0 1Gaetano Belloni nbsp Italy 1920 1 0 0 1Vasco Bergamaschi nbsp Italy 1935 1 0 0 1Fausto Bertoglio nbsp Italy 1975 1 0 0 1Evgeni Berzin nbsp Russia 1994 1 0 0 1Gianni Bugno nbsp Italy 1990 1 0 0 1Alfonso Calzolari nbsp Italy 1914 1 0 0 1Francesco Camusso nbsp Italy 1931 1 0 0 1Richard Carapaz nbsp Ecuador 2019 1 0 0 1Franco Chioccioli nbsp Italy 1991 1 0 0 1Carlo Clerici nbsp Switzerland 1954 1 0 0 1Damiano Cunego nbsp Italy 2004 1 0 0 1Johan De Muynck nbsp Belgium 1978 1 0 0 1Danilo Di Luca nbsp Italy 2007 1 0 0 1Tom Dumoulin nbsp Netherlands 2017 1 0 0 1Giuseppe Enrici nbsp Italy 1924 1 0 0 1Luigi Ganna nbsp Italy 1909 1 0 0 1Stefano Garzelli nbsp Italy 2000 1 0 0 1Tao Geoghegan Hart nbsp Great Britain 2020 1 0 0 1Jai Hindley nbsp Australia 2022 1 0 0 1Learco Guerra nbsp Italy 1934 1 0 0 1Andrew Hampsten nbsp United States 1988 1 0 0 1Ryder Hesjedal nbsp Canada 2012 1 0 0 1Luigi Marchisio nbsp Italy 1930 1 0 0 1Giovanni Micheletto nbsp Italy 1912 1 0 0 1Francesco Moser nbsp Italy 1984 1 0 0 1Gianni Motta nbsp Italy 1966 1 0 0 1Carlo Oriani nbsp Italy 1913 1 0 0 1Arnaldo Pambianco nbsp Italy 1961 1 0 0 1Eberardo Pavesi nbsp Italy 1912 1 0 0 1Antonio Pesenti nbsp Italy 1932 1 0 0 1Gosta Pettersson nbsp Sweden 1971 1 0 0 1Michel Pollentier nbsp Belgium 1977 1 0 0 1Michele Scarponi nbsp Italy 2011 1 0 0 1Pavel Tonkov nbsp Russia 1996 1 0 0 1Roberto Visentini nbsp Italy 1986 1 0 0 1Lucien Aimar nbsp France 1966 0 1 0 1Federico Bahamontes nbsp Spain 1959 0 1 0 1Lucien Buysse nbsp Belgium 1966 0 1 0 1Henri Cornet nbsp France 1904 0 1 0 1Maurice De Waele nbsp Belgium 1929 0 1 0 1Odile Defraye nbsp Belgium 1912 0 1 0 1Cadel Evans nbsp Australia 2011 0 1 0 1Francois Faber nbsp Luxembourg 1909 0 1 0 1Maurice Garin nbsp France 1903 0 1 0 1Gustave Garrigou nbsp France 1911 0 1 0 1Ferdinand Kubler nbsp Switzerland 1950 0 1 0 1Roger Lapebie nbsp France 1937 0 1 0 1Octave Lapize nbsp France 1910 0 1 0 1Romain Maes nbsp Belgium 1935 0 1 0 1Henri Pelissier nbsp France 1966 0 1 0 1oscar Pereiro nbsp Spain 2006 0 1 0 1Rene Pottier nbsp France 1906 0 1 0 1Bjarne Riis nbsp Denmark 1996 0 1 0 1Jean Robic nbsp France 1947 0 1 0 1Carlos Sastre nbsp Spain 2008 0 1 0 1Andy Schleck nbsp Luxembourg 2010 0 1 0 1Leon Scieur nbsp Belgium 1921 0 1 0 1Georges Speicher nbsp France 1933 0 1 0 1Geraint Thomas nbsp Great Britain 2018 0 1 0 1Louis Trousselier nbsp France 1905 0 1 0 1Lucien Van Impe nbsp Belgium 1976 0 1 0 1Roger Walkowiak nbsp France 1956 0 1 0 1Bradley Wiggins nbsp Great Britain 2012 0 1 0 1Rudi Altig nbsp Germany 1962 0 0 1 1Fabio Aru nbsp Italy 2015 0 0 1 1Ferdinand Bracke nbsp Belgium 1971 0 0 1 1Eric Caritoux nbsp France 1984 0 0 1 1Angel Casero nbsp Spain 2001 0 0 1 1Angelo Conterno nbsp Italy 1956 0 0 1 1Frans De Mulder nbsp Belgium 1960 0 0 1 1Jean Dotto nbsp France 1955 0 0 1 1Remco Evenepoel nbsp Belgium 2022 0 0 1 1Francisco Gabica nbsp Spain 1966 0 0 1 1Marco Giovannetti nbsp Italy 1990 0 0 1 1Aitor Gonzalez nbsp Spain 2002 0 0 1 1Luis Herrera nbsp Colombia 1987 0 0 1 1Chris Horner nbsp United States 2013 0 0 1 1Laurent Jalabert nbsp France 1995 0 0 1 1Sean Kelly nbsp Ireland 1988 0 0 1 1Sepp Kuss nbsp United States 2023 0 0 1 1Dalmacio Langarica nbsp Spain 1946 0 0 1 1Marino Lejarreta nbsp Spain 1982 0 0 1 1Jesus Lorono nbsp Spain 1957 0 0 1 1Freddy Maertens nbsp Belgium 1977 0 0 1 1Melcior Mauri nbsp Spain 1991 0 0 1 1Abraham Olano nbsp Spain 1998 0 0 1 1Jose Pesarrodona nbsp Spain 1976 0 0 1 1Alvaro Pino nbsp Spain 1986 0 0 1 1Raymond Poulidor nbsp France 1964 0 0 1 1Delio Rodriguez nbsp Spain 1945 0 0 1 1Emilio Rodriguez nbsp Spain 1950 0 0 1 1Bernardo Ruiz nbsp Spain 1948 0 0 1 1Faustino Ruperez nbsp Spain 1980 0 0 1 1Angelino Soler nbsp Spain 1961 0 0 1 1Jean Stablinski nbsp France 1958 0 0 1 1Antonio Suarez nbsp Spain 1959 0 0 1 1Agustin Tamames nbsp Spain 1975 0 0 1 1Alejandro Valverde nbsp Spain 2009 0 0 1 1Edward Van Dijck nbsp Belgium 1947 0 0 1 1Alexander Vinokourov nbsp Kazakhstan 2006 0 0 1 1Rolf Wolfshohl nbsp Germany 1965 0 0 1 1Simon Yates nbsp Great Britain 2018 0 0 1 1By country Edit Grand Tour general classification winners by country Rank Country Giro Tour Vuelta Total1 nbsp Italy 69 10 6 852 nbsp France 6 36 9 513 nbsp Spain 4 12 32 484 nbsp Belgium 7 18 8 335 nbsp Great Britain 2 6 3 116 nbsp Switzerland 3 2 5 107 nbsp Luxembourg 2 5 0 78 nbsp Slovenia 1 2 3 6 nbsp United States 1 3 2 610 nbsp Netherlands 1 2 2 5 nbsp Colombia 2 1 2 512 nbsp Germany 0 1 3 4 nbsp Russia 3 0 1 414 nbsp Ireland 1 1 1 3 nbsp Denmark 0 3 0 316 nbsp Australia 1 1 0 217 nbsp Sweden 1 0 0 1 nbsp Canada 1 0 0 1 nbsp Ecuador 1 0 0 1 nbsp Kazakhstan 0 0 1 1References EditGeneral Albo d Oro La Gazzetta dello Sport Retrieved 21 May 2014 Jacques Augendre 2014 Tour de France Guide Historique PDF Amaury Sport Organisation Archived from the original PDF on 22 May 2014 Retrieved 21 May 2014 Palmares in Spanish Vuelta a Espana Archived from the original on 6 September 2010 Retrieved 30 September 2013 Specific Million dollar baby Cycling News Future Publishing Limited 12 January 2007 Retrieved 21 May 2011 UCI Cycling Regulations Union Cycliste Internationale UCI Archived from the original ASP on 23 June 2011 Retrieved 29 April 2011 a b Historical Results The Grand Tours Cycling Hall of Fame Retrieved 13 April 2011 Birnie Lionel 21 September 2008 Contador becomes quickest to complete Grand Tour set Cycling Weekly Retrieved 13 April 2011 Riche Antoine 19 March 2005 Doubler deux Grands Tours revient a la mode CyclisMag in French 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