List of Grand Tour general classification winners
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. They are the only stage races permitted to last longer than 14 days.[2] No cyclist has won all three Grand Tours in the same calendar year, but Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Chris Froome have won all three in succession (thus holding all titles at the same time). The only other cyclists to win all three Grand Tours at some point in their career are Jacques Anquetil, Felice Gimondi, Alberto Contador, and Vincenzo Nibali.[3] Contador is the youngest, at 25 years, to win every Tour.[4] It is rare for cyclists to ride all Grand Tours in the same year; in 2004, for example, 474 cyclists started in one of the Grand Tours, 68 rode two and only two cyclists started all three.[5]
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 majority of winners have come from Europe, however there have been a few notable victories for cyclists from other continents. Andrew Hampsten, became the first North American to win the Giro, when he won in 1988.[6] Of the four South Americans to win a Grand Tour, three are Colombians Luis Herrera who won the 1987 Vuelta a España and Nairo Quintana, who won the 2014 Giro d'Italia and 2016 Vuelta a España.[7][8] Luis Herrera became the first person from the Southern Hemisphere to win a Grand Tour by winning the 1987 Vuelta a España. In June 2019, Richard Carapaz became Ecuador's first GT victor at the Giro d'Italia. In 2019 Egan Bernal won the Tour de France.
Eddy Merckx, with 11 victories, has won the most Grand Tours. Bernard Hinault is second with 10 and Jacques Anquetil is third with eight.[3] Merckx, Fausto Coppi and Alfredo Binda have won the most Giros, each winning five during their career. Merckx, Hinault, Anquetil and Miguel Indurain hold the record for the most victories in the Tour, with five each. Roberto Heras holds the record for the most victories in the Vuelta, which he has won four times.[9]
Winners
By cyclist
Riders in bold are still active. Number of wins in gold indicates the current record holder(s).
Rank | Cyclist | Country | Winning span | Giro | Tour | Vuelta | Total |
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1 | Eddy Merckx | 1968–1974 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 11 | |
2 | Bernard Hinault | 1978–1985 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | |
3 | Jacques Anquetil | 1957–1964 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | |
4 | Fausto Coppi | 1940–1953 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 | |
4 | Miguel Indurain | 1991–1995 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 | |
4 | Alberto Contador | 2007–2015 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
4 | Chris Froome | 2011–2018 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | |
8 | Gino Bartali | 1936–1948 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
8 | Alfredo Binda | 1925–1933 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
8 | Felice Gimondi | 1965–1976 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
11 | Vincenzo Nibali | 2010–2016 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
11 | Tony Rominger | 1992–1995 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | |
11 | Roberto Heras | 2000–2005 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
14 | Giovanni Brunero | 1921–1926 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
14 | Carlo Galetti | 1910–1912 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
14 | Fiorenzo Magni | 1948–1951 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
14 | Louison Bobet | 1953–1955 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
14 | Greg LeMond | 1986–1990 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
14 | Philippe Thys | 1913–1920 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
14 | Charly Gaul | 1956–1959 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
14 | Laurent Fignon | 1983–1989 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
14 | Pedro Delgado | 1985–1989 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
23 | Costante Girardengo | 1919–1923 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Franco Balmamion | 1962–1963 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Ivan Basso | 2006–2010 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Ivan Gotti | 1997–1999 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Paolo Savoldelli | 2002–2005 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Giuseppe Saronni | 1979–1983 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Gilberto Simoni | 2001–2003 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Giovanni Valetti | 1938–1939 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Ottavio Bottecchia | 1924–1925 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Nicolas Frantz | 1927–1928 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Firmin Lambot | 1919–1922 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | André Leducq | 1930–1932 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Sylvère Maes | 1936–1939 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Antonin Magne | 1931–1934 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Lucien Petit-Breton | 1907–1908 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Bernard Thévenet | 1975–1977 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Julián Berrendero | 1941–1942 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
23 | Gustaaf Deloor | 1935–1936 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
23 | José Manuel Fuente | 1972–1974 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
23 | Alex Zülle | 1996–1997 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
23 | Hugo Koblet | 1950–1951 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Gastone Nencini | 1957–1960 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Marco Pantani | 1998 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Stephen Roche | 1987 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
23 | Giovanni Battaglin | 1981 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
23 | Denis Menchov | 2007–2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
23 | Nairo Quintana | 2014–2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
23 | Jan Janssen | 1967–1968 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
23 | Luis Ocaña | 1970–1973 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
23 | Roger Pingeon | 1967–1969 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
23 | Jan Ullrich | 1997–1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
23 | Joop Zoetemelk | 1979–1980 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
53 | Vittorio Adorni | 1965 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Ercole Baldini | 1958 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Gaetano Belloni | 1920 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Vasco Bergamaschi | 1935 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Fausto Bertoglio | 1975 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Evgeni Berzin | 1994 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Gianni Bugno | 1990 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Alfonso Calzolari | 1914 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Francesco Camusso | 1931 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Richard Carapaz | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Franco Chioccioli | 1991 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Carlo Clerici | 1954 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Damiano Cunego | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Johan De Muynck | 1978 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Danilo Di Luca | 2007 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Tom Dumoulin | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Giuseppe Enrici | 1924 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Luigi Ganna | 1909 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Stefano Garzelli | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Learco Guerra | 1934 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Andrew Hampsten | 1988 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Ryder Hesjedal | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Luigi Marchisio | 1930 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Giovanni Micheletto | 1912 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Francesco Moser | 1984 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Gianni Motta | 1966 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Carlo Oriani | 1913 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Arnaldo Pambianco | 1961 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Eberardo Pavesi | 1912 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Antonio Pesenti | 1932 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Gösta Pettersson | 1971 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Michel Pollentier | 1977 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Michele Scarponi | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Pavel Tonkov | 1996 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Roberto Visentini | 1986 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Lucien Aimar | 1966 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Federico Bahamontes | 1959 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Egan Bernal | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Lucien Buysse | 1966 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Henri Cornet | 1904 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Maurice De Waele | 1929 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Odile Defraye | 1912 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Cadel Evans | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | François Faber | 1909 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Maurice Garin | 1903 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Gustave Garrigou | 1911 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Ferdinand Kübler | 1950 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Octave Lapize | 1910 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Roger Lapébie | 1937 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Romain Maes | 1935 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Óscar Pereiro | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | René Pottier | 1906 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Henri Pélissier | 1966 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Bjarne Riis | 1996 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Jean Robic | 1947 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Carlos Sastre | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Andy Schleck | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Léon Scieur | 1921 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Georges Speicher | 1933 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Geraint Thomas | 2018 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Louis Trousselier | 1905 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Lucien Van Impe | 1976 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Roger Walkowiak | 1956 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Bradley Wiggins | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
53 | Rudi Altig | 1962 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Fabio Aru | 2015 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Ferdinand Bracke | 1971 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Éric Caritoux | 1984 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Ángel Casero | 2001 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Angelo Conterno | 1956 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Frans De Mulder | 1960 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Jean Dotto | 1955 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Francisco Gabica | 1966 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Marco Giovannetti | 1990 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Aitor González | 2002 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Luis Herrera | 1987 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Chris Horner | 2013 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Laurent Jalabert | 1995 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Sean Kelly | 1988 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Dalmacio Langarica | 1946 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Marino Lejarreta | 1982 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Jesús Loroño | 1957 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Freddy Maertens | 1977 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Melcior Mauri | 1991 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Abraham Olano | 1998 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | José Pesarrodona | 1976 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Álvaro Pino | 1986 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Raymond Poulidor | 1964 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Delio Rodríguez | 1945 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Emilio Rodríguez | 1950 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Primož Roglič | 2019 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Bernardo Ruiz | 1948 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Faustino Rupérez | 1980 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Angelino Soler | 1961 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Jean Stablinski | 1958 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Antonio Suárez | 1959 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Agustín Tamames | 1975 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Alejandro Valverde | 2009 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Edward Van Dijck | 1947 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Alexander Vinokourov | 2006 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Rolf Wolfshohl | 1965 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
53 | Simon Yates | 2018 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
By country
Country | Giro | Tour | Vuelta | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
69 | 10 | 6 | 85 | |
6 | 36 | 9 | 51 | |
4 | 12 | 33 | 49 | |
7 | 18 | 7 | 32 | |
3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | |
1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | |
2 | 5 | 0 | 7 | |
1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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