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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 multi-week races with daily stages. They have a special status in the UCI regulations: more points for the UCI World Tour are distributed in Grand Tours than in other races,[1] and they are the only stage races allowed to last longer than 14 days.[2]

The Giro d'Italia is generally run in May, the Tour de France in July, and the Vuelta a España in late August and September. The Vuelta was originally held in the spring, usually late April, with a few editions held in June in the 1940s. In 1995, however, the race moved to September to avoid direct competition with the Giro d'Italia, held in May.

The Tour de France is the oldest and most prestigious in terms of points accrued to racers of all three,[1], and is the most widely attended annual sporting event in the world.[3] The Tour, the Giro and the Road World Cycling Championship make up the Triple Crown of Cycling.

The three Grand Tours are events for men only, and no three week races exist on the women's road cycling circuit. The Giro Rosa, the ten stage Italian road race for women is the only race on the current women's circuit treated as broadly equivalent to a Grand Tour, although the defunct women's Tour de France was, in its time, given similar status.

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In their current form, the Grand Tours are held over three consecutive weeks and typically include two rest days near the end of the first and second week. The stages are a mix of long massed start races (sometimes including mountain and hill climbs and descents; others are flat stages favoring those with a sprint finish), as well as individual and team time trials and non-competitive exhibition and rest days. Unlike most one-day races, stages in the Grand Tours are generally under 200 kilometers in length.

Controversy often surrounds which teams are invited to the event. Typically, the Union Cycliste Internationale (International Cycling Union) prefers top-rated professional teams to enter, while operators of the Grand Tours often want teams based in their country or those unlikely to cause controversy. From 2005 to 2007, organisers had to accept all ProTour teams, leaving only two wildcard teams per Tour. However, the Unibet team, a ProTour team normally guaranteed entry, was banned from the three Grand Tours for violating gambling advertising laws. In 2008, following numerous doping scandals, some teams were refused entry to the Grand Tours: Astana did not compete at the 2008 Tour de France and Team Columbia did not compete at the 2008 Vuelta a España. Since 2011, under the UCI World Tour rules, all ProTour teams are guaranteed a place in all three events, and obliged to participate.

The prizes include the individual general classification, the team classification, the King of the Mountains, the points classification, and often the best young rider classification, in addition to other less known classifications. The most contested ones are the individual general classification (general classification in the Tour de France, general classification in the Giro d'Italia, and general classification in the Vuelta a España) ; king of the mountains classification (mountains classification in the Tour de France, mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia, and mountains classification in the Vuelta a España); and points classification (points classification in the Tour de France, points classification in the Giro d'Italia, and points classification in the Vuelta a España). Only three riders have won all three in the same race: Eddy Merckx in the 1968 Giro d'Italia and 1969 Tour de France, Tony Rominger in the 1993 Vuelta a España and Laurent Jalabert in the 1995 Vuelta a España.[4]

It is rare for cyclists to ride all grand tours in the same year; in 2004, 474 cyclists started in at least one of the grand tours, 68 of them rode two Grand Tours and only two cyclists started in all three grand tours.[5] It is not unusual for sprinters and their leadout men, who do not expect to complete each race, to start each of the Grand Tours and aim for stage wins before the most difficult stages occur. Alessandro Petacchi and Mark Cavendish started all three Grand Tours in 2010 and 2011, respectively, as did some of their preferred support riders. For both riders in both years, only the Tour de France was ridden to its conclusion.

Over the years, 32 riders have completed all three Grand Tours in one year. Of these, Adam Hansen is the only one to do so six years in a row. Marino Lejarreta has done it four times, Bernardo Ruiz three times, Eduardo Chozas and Carlos Sastre twice each, and 27 more riders have achieved the feat once.

The only riders to have finished in the top 10 in each of the three tours during the same year are Raphaël Géminiani in 1955 and Gastone Nencini in 1957.

Only three countries have won all three Grand Tours in a single year: France (1964), Spain (2008) and Great Britain (2018). Out of those three countries, Great Britain completed the set with three different riders.

UCI rules[edit]

For the UCI World Tour, more points are given in grand tours than in other races; the winner of the Tour de France receives 1000 points, and the winners of the Giro and Vuelta receive 850 points. Depending on the nature of other races, points vary for the winner of the overall classification[1] The grand tours have a special status for the length: they are allowed to last between 15 and 23 days.[2]

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Grand Tour winners[edit]

Year Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España
1903 started in 1909 France Maurice Garin started in 1935
1904 France Henri Cornet
1905 France Louis Trousselier
1906 France René Pottier
1907 France Lucien Petit-Breton (1/2)
1908 France Lucien Petit-Breton (2/2)
1909  Luigi Ganna (ITA)  François Faber (LUX)
1910  Carlo Galetti (ITA) (1/3)  Octave Lapize (FRA)
1911  Carlo Galetti (ITA) (2/3)  Gustave Garrigou (FRA)
1912  Team Atala (ITA) (Carlo Galetti (3/3),
Giovanni Micheletto & Eberardo Pavesi) 		 Odile Defraye (BEL)
1913  Carlo Oriani (ITA)  Philippe Thys (BEL) (1/3)
1914  Alfonso Calzolari (ITA)  Philippe Thys (BEL) (2/3)
1915 Not contested during World War I
1916
1917
1918
1919  Costante Girardengo (ITA) (1/2)  Firmin Lambot (BEL) (1/2)
1920  Gaetano Belloni (ITA)  Philippe Thys (BEL) (3/3)
1921  Giovanni Brunero (ITA) (1/3)  Léon Scieur (BEL)
1922  Giovanni Brunero (ITA) (2/3)  Firmin Lambot (BEL) (2/2)
1923  Costante Girardengo (ITA) (2/2)  Henri Pélissier (FRA)
1924  Giuseppe Enrici (ITA)  Ottavio Bottecchia (ITA) (1/2)
1925  Alfredo Binda (ITA) (1/5)  Ottavio Bottecchia (ITA) (2/2)
1926  Giovanni Brunero (ITA) (3/3)  Lucien Buysse (BEL)
1927  Alfredo Binda (ITA) (2/5)  Nicolas Frantz (LUX) (1/2)
1928  Alfredo Binda (ITA) (3/5)  Nicolas Frantz (LUX) (2/2)
1929  Alfredo Binda (ITA) (4/5)  Maurice De Waele (BEL)
1930  Luigi Marchisio (ITA)  André Leducq (FRA) (1/2)
1931  Francesco Camusso (ITA)  Antonin Magne (FRA) (1/2)
1932  Antonio Pesenti (ITA)  André Leducq (FRA) (2/2)
1933  Alfredo Binda (ITA) (5/5)  Georges Speicher (FRA)
1934  Learco Guerra (ITA)  Antonin Magne (FRA) (2/2)
1935  Vasco Bergamaschi (ITA)  Romain Maes (BEL)  Gustaaf Deloor (BEL) (1/2)
1936  Gino Bartali (ITA) (1/5)  Sylvère Maes (BEL) (1/2)  Gustaaf Deloor (BEL) (2/2)
1937  Gino Bartali (ITA) (2/5)  Roger Lapébie (FRA) Not contested during the Spanish Civil War
1938  Giovanni Valetti (ITA) (1/2)  Gino Bartali (ITA) (3/5)
1939  Giovanni Valetti (ITA) (2/2)  Sylvère Maes (BEL) (2/2)
1940  Fausto Coppi (ITA) (1/7) Not contested during World War II
1941 Not contested during World War II  Julián Berrendero (ESP) (1/2)
1942  Julián Berrendero (ESP) (2/2)
1943 Not contested during World War II
1944
1945  Delio Rodríguez (ESP)
1946  Gino Bartali (ITA) (4/5)  Dalmacio Langarica (ESP)
1947  Fausto Coppi (ITA) (2/7)  Jean Robic (FRA)  Edward Van Dijck (BEL)
1948  Fiorenzo Magni (ITA) (1/3)  Gino Bartali (ITA) (5/5)  Bernardo Ruiz (ESP)
1949  Fausto Coppi (ITA) (3/7)  Fausto Coppi (ITA) (4/7) Not contested for lack of interest
1950  Hugo Koblet (SUI) (1/2)  Ferdinand Kübler (SUI)  Emilio Rodríguez (ESP)
1951  Fiorenzo Magni (ITA) (2/3)  Hugo Koblet (SUI) (2/2) Not contested for lack of interest
1952  Fausto Coppi (ITA) (5/7)  Fausto Coppi (ITA) (6/7)
1953  Fausto Coppi (ITA) (7/7)  Louison Bobet (FRA) (1/3)
1954  Carlo Clerici (SUI)  Louison Bobet (FRA) (2/3)
1955  Fiorenzo Magni (ITA) (3/3)  Louison Bobet (FRA) (3/3)  Jean Dotto (FRA)
1956  Charly Gaul (LUX) (1/3)  Roger Walkowiak (FRA)  Angelo Conterno (ITA)
1957  Gastone Nencini (ITA) (1/2)  Jacques Anquetil (FRA) (1/8)  Jesús Loroño (ESP)
1958  Ercole Baldini (ITA)  Charly Gaul (LUX) (2/3)  Jean Stablinski (FRA)
1959  Charly Gaul (LUX) (3/3)  Federico Bahamontes (ESP)  Antonio Suárez (ESP)
1960  Jacques Anquetil (FRA) (2/8)  Gastone Nencini (ITA) (2/2)  Frans De Mulder (BEL)
1961  Arnaldo Pambianco (ITA)  Jacques Anquetil (FRA) (3/8)  Angelino Soler (ESP)
1962  Franco Balmamion (ITA) (1/2)  Jacques Anquetil (FRA) (4/8)  Rudi Altig (GER)
1963  Franco Balmamion (ITA) (2/2)  Jacques Anquetil (FRA) (6/8)  Jacques Anquetil (FRA) (5/8)
1964  Jacques Anquetil (FRA) (7/8)  Jacques Anquetil (FRA) (8/8)  Raymond Poulidor (FRA)
1965  Vittorio Adorni (ITA)  Felice Gimondi (ITA) (1/5)  Rolf Wolfshohl (GER)
1966  Gianni Motta (ITA)  Lucien Aimar (FRA)  Francisco Gabica (ESP)
1967  Felice Gimondi (ITA) (2/5)  Roger Pingeon (FRA) (1/2)  Jan Janssen (NED) (1/2)
1968  Eddy Merckx (BEL) (1/11)  Jan Janssen (NED) (2/2)  Felice Gimondi (ITA) (3/5)
1969  Felice Gimondi (ITA) (4/5)  Eddy Merckx (BEL) (2/11)  Roger Pingeon (FRA) (2/2)
1970  Eddy Merckx (BEL) (3/11)  Eddy Merckx (BEL) (4/11)  Luis Ocaña (ESP) (1/2)
1971  Gösta Pettersson (SWE)  Eddy Merckx (BEL) (5/11)  Ferdinand Bracke (BEL)
1972  Eddy Merckx (BEL) (6/11)  Eddy Merckx (BEL) (7/11)  José Manuel Fuente (ESP) (1/2)
1973  Eddy Merckx (BEL) (9/11)  Luis Ocaña (ESP) (2/2)  Eddy Merckx (BEL) (8/11)
1974  Eddy Merckx (BEL) (10/11)  Eddy Merckx (BEL) (11/11)  José Manuel Fuente (ESP) (2/2)
1975  Fausto Bertoglio (ITA)  Bernard Thévenet (FRA) (1/2)  Agustín Tamames (ESP)
1976  Felice Gimondi (ITA) (5/5)  Lucien Van Impe (BEL)  José Pesarrodona (ESP)
1977  Michel Pollentier (BEL)  Bernard Thévenet (FRA) (2/2)  Freddy Maertens (BEL)
1978  Johan De Muynck (BEL)  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (2/10)  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (1/10)
1979  Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) (1/2)  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (3/10)  Joop Zoetemelk (NED) (1/2)
1980  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (4/10)  Joop Zoetemelk (NED) (2/2)  Faustino Rupérez (ESP)
1981  Giovanni Battaglin (ITA) (2/2)  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (5/10)  Giovanni Battaglin (ITA) (1/2)
1982  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (6/10)  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (7/10)  Marino Lejarreta (ESP)
1983  Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) (2/2)  Laurent Fignon (FRA) (1/3)  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (8/10)
1984  Francesco Moser (ITA)  Laurent Fignon (FRA) (2/3)  Éric Caritoux (FRA)
1985  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (9/10)  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (10/10)  Pedro Delgado (ESP) (1/3)
1986  Roberto Visentini (ITA)  Greg LeMond (USA) (1/3)  Álvaro Pino (ESP)
1987  Stephen Roche (IRL) (1/2)  Stephen Roche (IRL) (2/2)  Luis Herrera (COL)
1988  Andrew Hampsten (USA)  Pedro Delgado (ESP) (2/3)  Sean Kelly (IRL)
1989  Laurent Fignon (FRA) (3/3)  Greg LeMond (USA) (2/3)  Pedro Delgado (ESP) (3/3)
1990  Gianni Bugno (ITA)  Greg LeMond (USA) (3/3)  Marco Giovannetti (ITA)
1991  Franco Chioccioli (ITA)  Miguel Indurain (ESP) (1/7)  Melchor Mauri (ESP)
1992  Miguel Indurain (ESP) (2/7)  Miguel Indurain (ESP) (3/7)  Tony Rominger (SUI) (1/4)
1993  Miguel Indurain (ESP) (4/7)  Miguel Indurain (ESP) (5/7)  Tony Rominger (SUI) (2/4)
1994  Eugeni Berzin (RUS)  Miguel Indurain (ESP) (6/7)  Tony Rominger (SUI) (3/4)
1995  Tony Rominger (SUI) (4/4)  Miguel Indurain (ESP) (7/7)  Laurent Jalabert (FRA)
1996  Pavel Tonkov (RUS)  Bjarne Riis (DEN)  Alex Zülle (SUI) (1/2)
1997  Ivan Gotti (ITA) (1/2)  Jan Ullrich (GER) (1/2)  Alex Zülle (SUI) (2/2)
1998  Marco Pantani (ITA) (1/2)  Marco Pantani (ITA) (2/2)  Abraham Olano (ESP)
1999  Ivan Gotti (ITA) (2/2) No Winner[A]  Jan Ullrich (GER) (2/2)
2000  Stefano Garzelli (ITA) No Winner[A]  Roberto Heras (ESP) (1/4)
2001  Gilberto Simoni (ITA) (1/2) No Winner[A]  Ángel Casero (ESP)
2002  Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) (1/2) No Winner[A]  Aitor González (ESP)
2003  Gilberto Simoni (ITA) (2/2) No Winner[A]  Roberto Heras (ESP) (2/4)
2004  Damiano Cunego (ITA) No Winner[A]  Roberto Heras (ESP) (3/4)
2005  Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) (2/2) No Winner[A]  Roberto Heras (ESP) (4/4)
2006  Ivan Basso (ITA) (1/2)  Óscar Pereiro (ESP)  Alexander Vinokourov (KAZ)
2007  Danilo Di Luca (ITA)  Alberto Contador (ESP) (1/7)  Denis Menchov (RUS) (1/2)
2008  Alberto Contador (ESP) (2/7)  Carlos Sastre (ESP)  Alberto Contador (ESP) (3/7)
2009  Denis Menchov (RUS) (2/2)  Alberto Contador (ESP) (4/7)  Alejandro Valverde (ESP)
2010  Ivan Basso (ITA) (2/2)  Andy Schleck (LUX)  Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) (1/4)
2011  Michele Scarponi (ITA)  Cadel Evans (AUS)  Juan José Cobo (ESP)
2012  Ryder Hesjedal (CAN)  Bradley Wiggins (GBR)  Alberto Contador (ESP) (5/7)
2013  Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) (2/4)  Chris Froome (GBR) (1/6)  Chris Horner (USA)
2014  Nairo Quintana (COL) (1/2)  Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) (3/4)  Alberto Contador (ESP) (6/7)
2015  Alberto Contador (ESP) (7/7)  Chris Froome (GBR) (2/6)  Fabio Aru (ITA)
2016  Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) (4/4)  Chris Froome (GBR) (3/6)  Nairo Quintana (COL) (2/2)
2017  Tom Dumoulin (NED)  Chris Froome (GBR) (4/6)  Chris Froome (GBR) (5/6)
2018  Chris Froome (GBR) (6/6)  Geraint Thomas (GBR)  Simon Yates (GBR)
2019  Richard Carapaz (ECU)

A. a b c d e f g Lance Armstrong was declared winner of seven consecutive tours from 1999 to 2005. However, in October 2012, he was stripped of all titles by the UCI for his use of performance-enhancing drugs. Organizers of the Tour de France announced that the winner's slot would remain empty in the record books, rather than transfer the win to the second-place finishers each year. However, in October 2014, the Tour de France resumed listing Armstrong as a previous winner of the tour, but with his name crossed out.[6]

Statistics[edit]

Most Grand Tour wins per rider[edit]

Main article: List of Grand Tour general classification winners
Rank Rider Total Tour Giro Vuelta
1  Eddy Merckx (BEL) 11 5 (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974) 5 (1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974) 1 (1973)
2  Bernard Hinault (FRA) 10 5 (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985) 3 (1980, 1982, 1985) 2 (1978, 1983)
3  Jacques Anquetil (FRA) 8 5 (1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964) 2 (1960, 1964) 1 (1963)
4  Fausto Coppi (ITA) 7 2 (1949, 1952) 5 (1940, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953) 0
 Miguel Indurain (ESP) 7 5 (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995) 2 (1992, 1993) 0
 Alberto Contador (ESP) 7 2 (2007, 2009) 2 (2008, 2015) 3 (2008, 2012, 2014)
7  Chris Froome (GBR) 6 4 (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017) 1 (2018) 1 (2017)
8  Alfredo Binda (ITA) 5 0 5 (1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1933) 0
 Gino Bartali (ITA) 5 2 (1938, 1948) 3 (1936, 1937, 1946) 0
 Felice Gimondi (ITA) 5 1 (1965) 3 (1967, 1969, 1976) 1 (1968)
  • Active riders marked in bold.

Wins by country[edit]

Grand Tour general classification wins by country
Country Giro Tour Vuelta Total
 Italy 69 10 6 85
 France 6 36 9 51
 Spain 4 12 33 49
 Belgium 7 18 7 32
  Switzerland 3 2 5 10
 Great Britain 1 6 2 9
 Luxembourg 2 5 0 7
 United States 1 3 1 5
 Netherlands 1 2 2 5
 Germany 0 1 3 4
 Russia 3 0 1 4
 Colombia 1 0 2 3
 Ireland 1 1 1 3
 Sweden 1 0 0 1
 Canada 1 0 0 1
 Ecuador 1 0 0 1
 Australia 0 1 0 1
 Denmark 0 1 0 1
 Kazakhstan 0 0 1 1

Winners of all three Grand Tours[edit]

Seven cyclists have won all three of the Grand Tours during their career:[7]

Hinault and Contador are the only cyclists to have won each Grand Tour at least twice.

Winners of three or more consecutive Grand Tours[edit]

Winners of multiple Grand Tours in a single year[edit]

No rider has won all all three Grand Tours in a single year. Few have finished all three in a single year, of whom two finished in the top ten in each: Raphaël Géminiani (4th, 6th and 3rd in the Giro, Tour and Vuelta in 1955) and Gastone Nencini (1st, 6th and 9th in 1957).

Ten riders have achieved a double by winning two grand tours in the same calendar year.

Seven cyclists have won the Tour and the Giro in the same calendar year:[7]

The Tour/Vuelta double has been achieved by three cyclists:[7]

The Giro/Vuelta double has been achieved by three cyclists:[7]

Of the above ten, Pantani, Roche and Battaglin's doubles were their only Grand Tour victories in their careers.

Smallest margin between 1st and 2nd placed rider[edit]

The margins between the winner of a Grand Tour and the runner-up are often narrow, and rarely larger than a few minutes.

As of 2019, there has been 52 Grand Tours with a winning margin less than one minute. The smallest margins are as follows:

Rank Winner Time Runner-up Margin Race
1  Eric Caritoux (FRA) 90h 08' 03""  Alberto Fernández (ESP) +00h 00' 06" Vuelta a España (1984)
2  Greg LeMond (USA) 87h 38' 35""  Laurent Fignon (FRA) +00h 00' 08" Tour de France (1989)
3  José Manuel Fuente (ESP)

 Fiorenzo Magni (ESP)

86h 48' 18

124h 51' 52"

 Joaquim Agostinho (PRT)

 Ezio Cecchi (ITA)

+00h 00' 11" Vuelta a España (1974)

Giro d'Italia (1948)

5  Eddy Merckx (BEL) 113h 08' 13"  Gianbattista Baronchelli (ITA) +00h 00' 12" Giro d'Italia (1974)
6  Juan José Cobo (ESP)

 Angelo Conterno (ITA)

 Fiorenzo Magni (ITA)

84h 59' 31"

105h 37' 52"

108h 56' 12"

 Chris Froome (GBR)

 Jesús Loroño (ESP)

 Fausto Coppi (ITA)

+00h 00' 13" Vuelta a España (2011)

Vuelta a España (1956)

Giro d'Italia (1955)

9  Augustín Tamames (ESP) 88h 00" 56'  Domingo Perurena (ESP) +00h 00' 14" Vuelta a España (1975)
10  Ryder Hesjedal (CAN) 91h 39' 02"  Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) +00h 00' 16" Giro d'Italia (2012)

The Grand Tour winner with the biggest margin to the runner-up is  Maurice Garin (FRA), who finished the first Tour de France in 1903 three hours faster than the second placed rider. The biggest win margin in the history of Giro d'Italia was in 1914 when  Alfonso Calzolari (ITA) won by almost two hours, and the biggest margin seen in the history of Vuelta a España was in 1945 when  Delio Rodríguez (ESP) finished with a 30 minute gap to the runner-up.


Most mountains classification wins[edit]

Main articles: King of the Mountains and List of Grand Tour mountains classification winners

The Tour/Giro/Vuelta triple has been achieved by two riders –  Federico Bahamontes (ESP) and  Luis Herrera (COL).

Rank Rider Total Tour Giro Vuelta
1  Gino Bartali (ITA) 9 2 (1938, 1948) 7 (1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947) 0
 Federico Bahamontes (ESP) 9 6 (1954, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964) 1 (1956) 2 (1957, 1958)
3  Lucien Van Impe (BEL) 8 6 (1971, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1983) 2 (1982, 1983) 0
4  Richard Virenque (FRA) 7 7 (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004) 0 0

Most points classification wins[edit]

Main articles: Points classification and List of Grand Tour points classification winners

The Tour/Giro/Vuelta triple has been achieved by five riders –  Djamolidine Abdoujaparov (UZB),  Mark Cavendish (GBR),  Laurent Jalabert (FRA),  Eddy Merckx (BEL) and  Alessandro Petacchi (ITA).

Rank Rider Total Tour Giro Vuelta
1  Erik Zabel (GER) 9 6 (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001) 0 3 (2002, 2003, 2004)
2  Sean Kelly (IRL) 8 4 (1982, 1983, 1985, 1989) 0 4 (1980, 1985, 1986, 1988)
3  Laurent Jalabert (FRA) 7 2 (1992, 1995) 1 (1999) 4 (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997)
4  Eddy Merckx (BEL) 6 3 (1969, 1971, 1972) 2 (1968, 1973) 1 (1973)
4  Peter Sagan (SVK) 6 6 (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018) 0 0

Most young rider classification wins[edit]

Main article: Young rider classification

The Tour/Giro double has been achieved by two riders –  Nairo Quintana (COL) and  Andy Schleck (LUX). The Giro/Vuelta double has been achieved by one rider –  Miguel Ángel López (COL).

Rank Rider Total Tour Giro Vuelta
1  Andy Schleck (LUX) 4 3 (2008, 2009, 2010) 1 (2007) 0
2  Jan Ullrich (GER) 3 3 (1996, 1997, 1998) 0 0
 Nairo Quintana (COL) 3 2 (2013, 2015) 1 (2014) 0
 Miguel Ángel López (COL) 3 0 2 (2018, 2019) 1 (2017)

Most Grand Tour stage wins[edit]

See also: List of riders with stage wins at all three cycling Grand Tours

Three cyclists have won stages in all three of the Grand Tours in the same season:  Miguel Poblet (ESP) in 1956,  Pierino Baffi (ITA) in 1958 and  Alessandro Petacchi (ITA) in 2003.[8]

Cyclists whose names are in bold are still active.[9] This list is complete up to and including the 2017 Vuelta a España.

Rank Rider Country Tour[10] Giro Vuelta Total
1 Eddy Merckx  Belgium 34 24 6 64
2 Mario Cipollini  Italy 12 42 3 57
3 Mark Cavendish  Great Britain 30 15 3 48
Alessandro Petacchi  Italy 6 22 20 48
5 Alfredo Binda  Italy 2 41 0 43
6 Bernard Hinault  France 28 6 7 41
7 Learco Guerra  Italy 8 31 0 39
8 Delio Rodríguez  Spain 0 0 38 38
9 Rik Van Looy  Belgium 7 12 18 37
10 Freddy Maertens  Belgium 15 7 13 35
11 Fausto Coppi  Italy 9 22 0 31
12 Costante Girardengo  Italy 0 30 0 30
13 Gino Bartali  Italy 12 17 0 29
14 Marino Basso  Italy 6 15 6 27
Francesco Moser  Italy 2 23 2 27
16 Guido Bontempi  Italy 6 16 4 26
Raffaele Di Paco  Italy 11 15 0 26
Miguel Poblet  Spain 3 20 3 26
19 Franco Bitossi  Italy 4 21 0 25
Laurent Jalabert  France 4 3 18 25
André Leducq  France 25 0 0 25
Rik Van Steenbergen  Belgium 4 15 6 25
23 Roger De Vlaeminck  Belgium 1 22 1 24
Robbie McEwen  Australia 12 12 0 24
Giuseppe Saronni  Italy 0 24 0 24
26 André Darrigade  France 22 1 0 23
27 Jacques Anquetil  France 16 5 1 22
Jean Paul van Poppel  Netherlands 9 4 9 22
André Greipel  Germany 11 7 4 22
30 Charly Gaul  Luxembourg 10 11 0 21
Sean Kelly  Ireland 5 0 16 21

The rider with the most Grand Tour wins in one season is  Freddy Maertens (BEL) who won 20 Grand Tour stages in 1977. After winning 13 (out of 19) stages in the Vuelta a España, he won 7 stages in the Giro d'Italia before abandoning the race with a broken wrist after a crash on the first of the two half-stages on the eight day of the race.

Grand Tour finishers[edit]

Only 34 riders have finished all three Grand Tours in one season. Adam Hansen has done this six times, Marino Lejarreta four times and Bernardo Ruiz achieved it in three different years, while Eduardo Chozas and Carlos Sastre have completed the accomplishment twice.[11][12]

The rider with most participations on Grand Tours is Matteo Tosatto with 34 (12 Tours, 13 Giros and 9 Vueltas). The rider who has finished most Grand Tours is also Matteo Tosatto, with 28 (12 Tours, 11 Giros and 5 Vueltas). Adam Hansen has finished the most consecutive Grand Tours: 20 tours from 2011 Vuelta a España till 2018 Giro d'Italia. The best average finish was the first time three Grand Tours were finished in one season, when Raphaël Géminiani finished 4th, 6th and 3rd in the Giro, Tour and Vuelta, respectively.

Rider Year Final GC position
Giro Tour Vuelta
Australia Adam Hansen (6) 2017 93 113 95
Spain Alejandro Valverde 2016 3 6 12
Australia Adam Hansen (5) 2016 68 100 110
France Sylvain Chavanel 2015 36 54 47
Australia Adam Hansen (4) 2015 77 114 55
Australia Adam Hansen (3) 2014 73 64 53
Australia Adam Hansen (2) 2013 72 72 60
Australia Adam Hansen 2012 94 81 123
Germany Sebastian Lang 2011 56 113 77
Spain Carlos Sastre (2) 2010 8 20 8
New Zealand Julian Dean 2009 136 121 132
Italy Marzio Bruseghin 2008 3 27 10
Germany Erik Zabel 2008 80 43 49
Belgium Mario Aerts 2007 20 70 28
Spain Carlos Sastre 2006 43 4 4
Italy Giovanni Lombardi 2005 88 118 114
Spain Jon Odriozola 2001 58 69 83
Italy Mariano Piccoli 1999 38 50 58
Italy Guido Bontempi 1992 40 75 62
Australia Neil Stephens 1992 57 74 66
Spain Eduardo Chozas (2) 1991 10 11 11
Italy Marco Giovannetti 1991 8 30 18
Spain Marino Lejarreta (4) 1991 5 53 3
Spain Inaki Gaston 1991 23 61 14
Spain Alberto Leanizbarrutia 1991 64 39 44
Russia Vladimir Poulnikov 1991 11 88 66
Italy Valerio Tebaldi 1991 47 89 87
Spain Eduardo Chozas 1990 11 6 33
Spain Marino Lejarreta (3) 1990 7 5 55
Spain Marino Lejarreta (2) 1989 10 5 20
Spain Luis Javier Lukin 1988 32 82 60
Spain Marino Lejarreta 1987 4 10 34
France Philippe Poissonnier 1985 86 90 66
Spain José Luis Uribezubia [fr] 1971 29 50 27
Spain Jose Manuel Fuente 1971 39 72 54
Spain Federico Bahamontes 1958 17 8 6
Italy Pierino Baffi 1958 23 63 37
Italy Mario Baroni 1957 74 53 46
Italy Gastone Nencini 1957 1 6 9
Spain Bernardo Ruiz (3) 1957 55 24 3
Italy Arrigo Padovan 1956 12 26 19
Spain Bernardo Ruiz (2) 1956 38 70 31
Spain José Serra 1956 26 81 9
France Raphaël Géminiani 1955 4 6 3
Spain Bernardo Ruiz 1955 28 22 14
France Louis Caput 1955 68 54 55

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