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Yellow Jersey won by Miguel Induráin, collection KOERS. Museum of Cycle Racing.. Since the first Tour de France in 1903, there have been 2,205 stages, up to and including the final stage of the 2021 Tour de France.
The Belgian rider Philippe Thys, who won the Tour in 1913, 1914 and 1920, recalled in the Belgian magazine Champions et Vedettes when he was 67 that he was awarded a yellow jersey in 1913 when the organiser, Henri Desgrange, asked him to wear a coloured jersey. Thys declined, saying making himself more visible in yellow would encourage other ...
The yellow jersey (French: maillot jaune) of 1963, worn by general classification leader Gilbert Desmet of Wiel's–Groene Leeuw After the Second World War , no one dominated the Tour until Louison Bobet , who won three consecutive Tours from 1953 to 1955 —he was the first person to achieve this feat. [ 12 ]
Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) won the yellow jersey as the overall winner of the 2023 Tour de France. The 26-year-old won the Tour for the second straight season, becoming the 21st ...
Adam Yates beats twin brother Simon to opening stage win and yellow jersey. ADAM YATES WINS STAGE ONE. Saturday 1 July 2023 16:56, Ben Fleming. A couple of notable later finishers - Mark Cavendish ...
Polka dot jersey prize money. The best young rider at the end of the Tour (aged 25 and under) takes away €20,000. €20,000. €15,000. €10,000. €5,000
Wiggins held the yellow jersey until the end of the Tour to become the first Briton to win the race. Froome came in second overall, [6] and the following year went one better and won the Tour after gaining and holding the lead to the end after his victory on stage eight's mountain course from Castres to Ax 3 Domaines. [7]
After Merckx in 1972 no other rider would win three distinctive jerseys in a single Tour until Tadej Pogačar in 2020, a feat he repeated the following year. [1] [2] Twice the Tour was won by a racer who never wore the yellow jersey until the race was over. In 1947, Jean Robic overturned a three-minute deficit on a 257 km final stage into Paris.