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Overall Speed of the Tour de France. The 2022 edition was the fastest Tour de France in history. Jonas Vingegaard rode 3,349,8 km in 79h 33' 20", thus realising an overall speed of 42.102 km/h (26.161 mph). [17] The slowest Tour de France was the edition of 1919, when Firmin Lambot's average speed was 24.1 km/h. [18]
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]
At the 2011 Tour de France he became the first British rider to win the Tour de France points classification. [11] Became the second British rider—after Tom Simpson—to win the UCI Road Race World Championship. 2012. Became the first rider to win the final Champs-Élysées stage in the Tour de France four years in a row (2009–2012).
Unlike most of the others on this list, Marco Pantani’s renown doesn’t come from repeated success at the Tour de France. In fact, Il Pirata only won the yellow jersey once, in 1998 (after a ...
Mark Cavendish made cycling history on Wednesday, winning a record-breaking 35th stage at the Tour de France.
152.1 km (94.5 m) – 2,033 m (6,669 ft) of elevation Route for Stage 5 of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes A.S.O. How hard is Stage 5 of the Tour de France Femmes?
Only seven riders have won the equivalent of a career Triple Crown, meaning a Gold in the UCI Road World Championships road race, the Tour de France, and the Giro d'Italia. In addition to Merckx, Roche, Pogacar and Van Vleuten who won the triple crown in a single season they are Fausto Coppi, Felice Gimondi and Bernard Hinault.
He won stage five, seven, eleven, fifteen and twenty-one of the Tour de France—bringing his total to twenty career Tour de France stage wins. [40] [92] [93] He also became the first person to win the final stage three years in succession. Cavendish was docked twenty points for finishing outside the time limit after stage nine and again after ...