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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. Alexander Vinokourov was winner of the 2006 Vuelta a España. Riders in bold are still active. Number of wins in gold indicates the ...
The biggest winning margin in a Grand Tour was 2h 59' 21" in Maurice Garin's win at the first Tour de France in 1903. The biggest margin in the history of Giro d'Italia was in 1914 when Alfonso Calzolari won by 1h 57' 26", and the biggest margin in the history of Vuelta a España was in 1945 when Delio Rodríguez finished 30' 08" clear.
The modern editions of the races all consist of 21 days of racing with two rest days spread throughout race calendar, giving riders at most 63 chances to win a stage in a Grand Tour each year. 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 ...
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.
Erik Zabel has won the most points classifications at the Grand Tour races, with nine to his credit. 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
List of Grand Tour general classification winners; List of Grand Tour mountains classification winners; List of Grand Tour points classification winners; List of riders with stage wins at all three cycling Grand Tours
The majority of winners have come from Europe, however there have been a few notable victories for cyclists from other continents. Colombia, Australia, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela are the only non-European countries to have a rider win a mountains classification, with twenty-two victories shared between the five countries.
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]