List of riders with stage wins at all three cycling Grand Tours
The
Giro d'Italia,
Tour de France, and
Vuelta a España are collectively known as the
Grand Tours of cycling. The oldest of the races, the Tour, began in
1903, while the Giro first started in
1909 and the Vuelta in
1935. 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.
The Grand Tours are the three most prestigious multi-week stage races in professional road bicycle racing.[2] 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.[3] Winning a stage in a Grand Tour is significant achievement and winning three stages in each Grand Tour is a rare feat that only 83 riders have achieved in their careers. Fiorenzo Magni was the first rider to win a stage in each Grand Tour with his victory in the stage 7 individual time trial at the 1955 Vuelta a España.[4] The most recent rider to accomplish this task was Marcel Kittel after he won the second stage of the 2014 Giro d'Italia.[5]
Cyclists are ranked on the basis of their total stage wins in the three Grand Tours. When there is a tie between cyclists they are listed alphabetically. The majority of stage winners across the three tours have come from Europe, however there have been a few non-European cyclists who have accomplished this feat. Colombian Luis Herrera was the first non-European rider to win a stage in each of the Grand Tours when he completed the triple with his victory in stage 13 at the 1989 Giro d'Italia. The only North American to complete this feat is Tyler Farrar with his victory in stage 3 of the 2011 Tour de France. Simon Gerrans became the first person from the Southern Hemisphere to win a stage at each Grand Tour with his victory at the 2009 Vuelta a España in tenth leg.
Eddy Merckx, with 65 victories, has won the most stages at the Grand Tours. Mario Cipollini is second with 57 and Alessandro Petacchi is third with 48. Merckx has won the most Tour stages with 34, while Cipollini leads the tally for career stage wins at the Giro d'Italia with 42 to his name. Delio Rodríguez has the most stage wins in the history of the Vuelta a España but he failed to win and is thus not represented in this list.[6]
List
Eddy Merckx won over 60 stages between the Grand Tours during his racing years.
Bernard Hinault won 41 stages at the Grand Tours between the years 1978 and 1986.
Miguel Poblet (center) won 26 stages between all three Grand Tours during his professional racing career.
Djamolidine Abdoujaparov won seventeen stages between the Grand Tour races that he competed in during his cycling career.
Federico Bahamontes won a total of eleven stages at the Grand Tours between the years 1957 and 1964.
Riders in bold are still active.
Riders who have a stage at each Grand Tour in a calendar year
An ever rarer accomplishment is to win a stage at all the Grand Tours in one single calendar year. This feat has only been accomplished by three riders in history. The first rider was Spain's Miguel Poblet who won a total of eight stages at all three Grand Tours in 1956. Two years later, Pierino Baffi won six stages between all three Grand Tours. The third, and most recent, rider was Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi who won fifteen stages at the Grand Tours in 2003.
Riders with a blue background and in bold are still active.
References
- Citations
- ↑ "Million dollar, baby!". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 12 January 2007. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
- ↑ "UCI Cycling Regulations" (ASP). Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Retrieved 29 April 2011.
- ↑ http://www.irishpeloton.com/2012/06/the-grand-tour-hat-trick-a-stage-win-in-each/
- ↑ "Marcel Kittel takes stage two of Giro d’Italia in sprint finish". Irish Times. Irish Times Limited. 2014-05-10. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ CyclingWeekly (2007-09-13). "PETACCHI RACKS UP THE WINS IN THE VUELTA". Cycling Weekly (IPC Media Limited). Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ "Mario Cipollini". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Birnie, Lionel (9 September 2010). "Cavendish completes the set of grand tour stage wins". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
- ↑ "Report". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 1999-05-18. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ Tim Maloney (2000-07-05). "Wüst pounces Zabel for first ever Tour stage win". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ "Alex Zülle". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ↑ Stephen Farrand (2011-07-12). "Greipel defeats Cavendish for stage win in Carmaux". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ Shane Stokes (2008-05-12). "Bennati completes good day for Liquigas, Pellizotti holds on". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ "Report". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 1999-05-17. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ Andrew Hood (10 May 2014). "A Giant among boys: Marcel Kittel adds Giro stage to his palmares". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc). Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- ↑ Fotheringham, Alasdair (15 May 2012). "Rodriguez's uphill attack gets him Giro d'Italia lead". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). Retrieved 15 May 2012.
- ↑ "Paolo Bettini". SR/Olympic Sports. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
- ↑ Andrew Hood (2009-05-13). "Menchov wins stage 5; Di Luca in pink". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
- ↑ Velonews.com (2011-07-04). "Farrar first on the Fourth, wins stage 3 of the 2011 Tour de France". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc). Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ Tim Maloney (2003-07-25). "Lastras blasts to second iBanesto stage victory". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ "Stage 13 Report". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 1995-07-18. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ "Con su éxito de ayer, Oliverio ya tiene la colección completa" [With his success yesterday, Oliver already has the complete collection] (PDF). El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish) (El Mundo Deportivo S.A.). 1995-05-28. p. 28. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ Anthony Tan (2009-07-25). "Garate grabs emphatic Ventoux victory". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Jeff Jones (2009-09-03). "Petacchi equals Poblet and Baffi". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
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