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Alberto Contador, the fifth cyclist to have won all three Grand Tours during his career Alfredo Binda won the Giro d'Italia five times. Tony Rominger, winner of four Grand Tours Ivan Basso, he has won two Giros Stephen Roche, winner of two Grand Tours Jan Ullrich won two Grand Tours. Luis Herrera was the first South American to win a Grand Tour.
Winning a stage in a Grand Tour is a significant achievement and winning a stage in each Grand Tour is a rare feat that only 112 riders have achieved in their careers. Fiorenzo Magni was the first rider to win a stage in each Grand Tour with his victory in the stage 7 individual time trial at the 1955 Vuelta a España. [4] The most recent rider ...
In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour is one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España. Collectively they are termed the Grand Tours , and all three races are similar in format, being three-week races with daily stages.
It is rare for cyclists to ride all Grand Tours in the same year; in 2004, 474 cyclists started in one of the Grand Tours, 68 rode two and two cyclists started all three. [3] 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 triple crown of cycling has been achieved by three men, Eddy Merckx in 1974, Stephen Roche in 1987 and Tadej Pogačar in 2024. There are no three week grand tours in women's cycling, but shorter stage races associated with the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, and the World Championship, were won by Annemiek van Vleuten in 2022.
Charly Gaul (left) and Federico Bahamontes (right) have won thirteen mountains classifications at the Grand Tours between each other. 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 ...
The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the best-known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]
The 2018 Giro d'Italia was the 101st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The race started in Jerusalem on 4 May, with a 9.7 km (6 mi) individual time trial followed by two additional stages within Israel. After a rest day, there were 18 further stages in Italy before the tour reached the finish in Rome on 27 May. [1]