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]

Eddy Merckx, who has won the most Grand Tours with 11 victories.

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] Luis Herrera became the first person from South America and the Southern Hemisphere to win a Grand Tour when he won the 1987 Vuelta a España.[7]

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.[8]

Winners

By cyclist
Bernard Hinault won 10 Grand Tours during his career.
Miguel Indurain, winner of seven Grand Tours
Fausto Coppi won five Giros and the Tour de France twice.
Alberto Contador, the fifth cyclist to have won all three Grand Tours during his career
Alfredo Binda won the Giro d'Italia five times.
Tony Rominger, winner of four Grand Tours
Ivan Basso, he has won two Giros
Stephen Roche, winner of two Grand Tours
Jan Ullrich won two Grand Tours.
Luis Herrera was the first South American to win a Grand Tour.
Alexander Vinokourov was winner of the 2006 Vuelta a España.

Riders in bold are still active. Number of wins in gold indicates the current record holder(s).

Grand Tour general classification winners
Rank Cyclist Country Winning span Giro Tour Vuelta Total
1 Eddy Merckx Belgium 1968–1974 5 5 1 11
2 Bernard Hinault France 1978–1985 3 5 2 10
3 Jacques Anquetil France 1957–1964 2 5 1 8
4 Fausto Coppi Italy 1940–1953 5 2 0 7
4 Miguel Indurain Spain 1991–1995 2 5 0 7
4 Alberto Contador Spain 2007–2015 2 2 3 7
4 Chris Froome Great Britain 2011–2018 1 4 2 7
8 Gino Bartali Italy 1936–1948 3 2 0 5
8 Alfredo Binda Italy 1925–1933 5 0 0 5
8 Felice Gimondi Italy 1965–1976 3 1 1 5
11 Tony Rominger Switzerland 1992–1995 1 0 3 4
11 Roberto Heras Spain 2000–2005 0 0 4 4
11 Vincenzo Nibali Italy 2010–2016 2 1 1 4
14 Giovanni Brunero Italy 1921–1926 3 0 0 3
14 Carlo Galetti Italy 1910–1912 3 0 0 3
14 Fiorenzo Magni Italy 1948–1951 3 0 0 3
14 Louison Bobet France 1953–1955 0 3 0 3
14 Greg LeMond United States 1986–1990 0 3 0 3
14 Philippe Thys Belgium 1913–1920 0 3 0 3
14 Charly Gaul Luxembourg 1956–1959 2 1 0 3
14 Laurent Fignon France 1983–1989 1 2 0 3
14 Pedro Delgado Spain 1985–1989 0 1 2 3
23 Costante Girardengo Italy 1919–1923 2 0 0 2
23 Franco Balmamion Italy 1962–1963 2 0 0 2
23 Ivan Basso Italy 2006–2010 2 0 0 2
23 Ivan Gotti Italy 1997–1999 2 0 0 2
23 Paolo Savoldelli Italy 2002–2005 2 0 0 2
23 Giuseppe Saronni Italy 1979–1983 2 0 0 2
23 Gilberto Simoni Italy 2001–2003 2 0 0 2
23 Giovanni Valetti Italy 1938–1939 2 0 0 2
23 Ottavio Bottecchia Italy 1924–1925 0 2 0 2
23 Nicolas Frantz Luxembourg 1927–1928 0 2 0 2
23 Firmin Lambot Belgium 1919–1922 0 2 0 2
23 André Leducq France 1930–1932 0 2 0 2
23 Sylvère Maes Belgium 1936–1939 0 2 0 2
23 Antonin Magne France 1931–1934 0 2 0 2
23 Lucien Petit-Breton France 1907–1908 0 2 0 2
23 Bernard Thévenet France 1975–1977 0 2 0 2
23 Julián Berrendero Spain 1941–1942 0 0 2 2
23 Gustaaf Deloor Belgium 1935–1936 0 0 2 2
23 José Manuel Fuente Spain 1972–1974 0 0 2 2
23 Primož Roglič Slovenia 2019-2020 0 0 2 2
23 Alex Zülle Switzerland 1996–1997 0 0 2 2
23 Hugo Koblet Switzerland 1950–1951 1 1 0 2
23 Gastone Nencini Italy 1957–1960 1 1 0 2
23 Marco Pantani Italy 1998 1 1 0 2
23 Stephen Roche Ireland 1987 1 1 0 2
23 Giovanni Battaglin Italy 1981 1 0 1 2
23 Denis Menchov Russia 2007–2009 1 0 1 2
23 Nairo Quintana Colombia 2014–2016 1 0 1 2
23 Jan Janssen Netherlands 1967–1968 0 1 1 2
23 Luis Ocaña Spain 1970–1973 0 1 1 2
23 Roger Pingeon France 1967–1969 0 1 1 2
23 Jan Ullrich Germany 1997–1999 0 1 1 2
23 Joop Zoetemelk Netherlands 1979–1980 0 1 1 2
54 Vittorio Adorni Italy 1965 1 0 0 1
54 Ercole Baldini Italy 1958 1 0 0 1
54 Gaetano Belloni Italy 1920 1 0 0 1
54 Vasco Bergamaschi Italy 1935 1 0 0 1
54 Fausto Bertoglio Italy 1975 1 0 0 1
54 Evgeni Berzin Russia 1994 1 0 0 1
54 Gianni Bugno Italy 1990 1 0 0 1
54 Alfonso Calzolari Italy 1914 1 0 0 1
54 Francesco Camusso Italy 1931 1 0 0 1
54 Richard Carapaz Ecuador 2019 1 0 0 1
54 Franco Chioccioli Italy 1991 1 0 0 1
54 Carlo Clerici Italy 1954 1 0 0 1
54 Damiano Cunego Italy 2004 1 0 0 1
54 Johan De Muynck Belgium 1978 1 0 0 1
54 Danilo Di Luca Italy 2007 1 0 0 1
54 Tom Dumoulin Netherlands 2017 1 0 0 1
54 Giuseppe Enrici Italy 1924 1 0 0 1
54 Luigi Ganna Italy 1909 1 0 0 1
54 Stefano Garzelli Italy 2000 1 0 0 1
54 Tao Geoghegan Hart Great Britain 2020 1 0 0 1
54 Learco Guerra Italy 1934 1 0 0 1
54 Andrew Hampsten United States 1988 1 0 0 1
54 Ryder Hesjedal Canada 2012 1 0 0 1
54 Luigi Marchisio Italy 1930 1 0 0 1
54 Giovanni Micheletto Italy 1912 1 0 0 1
54 Francesco Moser Italy 1984 1 0 0 1
54 Gianni Motta Italy 1966 1 0 0 1
54 Carlo Oriani Italy 1913 1 0 0 1
54 Arnaldo Pambianco Italy 1961 1 0 0 1
54 Eberardo Pavesi Italy 1912 1 0 0 1
54 Antonio Pesenti Italy 1932 1 0 0 1
54 Gösta Pettersson Sweden 1971 1 0 0 1
54 Michel Pollentier Belgium 1977 1 0 0 1
54 Michele Scarponi Italy 2011 1 0 0 1
54 Pavel Tonkov Russia 1996 1 0 0 1
54 Roberto Visentini Italy 1986 1 0 0 1
54 Lucien Aimar France 1966 0 1 0 1
54 Federico Bahamontes Spain 1959 0 1 0 1
54 Egan Bernal Colombia 2019 0 1 0 1
54 Lucien Buysse Belgium 1966 0 1 0 1
54 Henri Cornet France 1904 0 1 0 1
54 Maurice De Waele Belgium 1929 0 1 0 1
54 Odile Defraye Belgium 1912 0 1 0 1
54 Cadel Evans Australia 2011 0 1 0 1
54 François Faber Luxembourg 1909 0 1 0 1
54 Maurice Garin France 1903 0 1 0 1
54 Gustave Garrigou France 1911 0 1 0 1
54 Ferdinand Kübler Switzerland 1950 0 1 0 1
54 Octave Lapize France 1910 0 1 0 1
54 Roger Lapébie France 1937 0 1 0 1
54 Romain Maes Belgium 1935 0 1 0 1
54 Óscar Pereiro Spain 2006 0 1 0 1
54 Tadej Pogačar Slovenia 2020 0 1 0 1
54 René Pottier France 1906 0 1 0 1
54 Henri Pélissier France 1966 0 1 0 1
54 Bjarne Riis Denmark 1996 0 1 0 1
54 Jean Robic France 1947 0 1 0 1
54 Carlos Sastre Spain 2008 0 1 0 1
54 Andy Schleck Luxembourg 2010 0 1 0 1
54 Léon Scieur Belgium 1921 0 1 0 1
54 Georges Speicher France 1933 0 1 0 1
54 Geraint Thomas Great Britain 2018 0 1 0 1
54 Louis Trousselier France 1905 0 1 0 1
54 Lucien Van Impe Belgium 1976 0 1 0 1
54 Roger Walkowiak France 1956 0 1 0 1
54 Bradley Wiggins Great Britain 2012 0 1 0 1
54 Rudi Altig Germany 1962 0 0 1 1
54 Fabio Aru Italy 2015 0 0 1 1
54 Ferdinand Bracke Belgium 1971 0 0 1 1
54 Éric Caritoux France 1984 0 0 1 1
54 Ángel Casero Spain 2001 0 0 1 1
54 Angelo Conterno Italy 1956 0 0 1 1
54 Frans De Mulder Belgium 1960 0 0 1 1
54 Jean Dotto France 1955 0 0 1 1
54 Francisco Gabica Spain 1966 0 0 1 1
54 Marco Giovannetti Italy 1990 0 0 1 1
54 Aitor González Spain 2002 0 0 1 1
54 Luis Herrera Colombia 1987 0 0 1 1
54 Chris Horner  United States 2013 0 0 1 1
54 Laurent Jalabert France 1995 0 0 1 1
54 Sean Kelly Ireland 1988 0 0 1 1
54 Dalmacio Langarica Spain 1946 0 0 1 1
54 Marino Lejarreta Spain 1982 0 0 1 1
54 Jesús Loroño Spain 1957 0 0 1 1
54 Freddy Maertens Belgium 1977 0 0 1 1
54 Melcior Mauri Spain 1991 0 0 1 1
54 Abraham Olano Spain 1998 0 0 1 1
54 José Pesarrodona Spain 1976 0 0 1 1
54 Álvaro Pino Spain 1986 0 0 1 1
54 Raymond Poulidor France 1964 0 0 1 1
54 Delio Rodríguez Spain 1945 0 0 1 1
54 Emilio Rodríguez Spain 1950 0 0 1 1
54 Bernardo Ruiz Spain 1948 0 0 1 1
54 Faustino Rupérez Spain 1980 0 0 1 1
54 Angelino Soler Spain 1961 0 0 1 1
54 Jean Stablinski France 1958 0 0 1 1
54 Antonio Suárez Spain 1959 0 0 1 1
54 Agustín Tamames Spain 1975 0 0 1 1
54 Alejandro Valverde Spain 2009 0 0 1 1
54 Edward Van Dijck Belgium 1947 0 0 1 1
54 Alexander Vinokourov  Kazakhstan 2006 0 0 1 1
54 Rolf Wolfshohl Germany 1965 0 0 1 1
54 Simon Yates Great Britain 2018 0 0 1 1

By country
Grand Tour general classification winners 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
 Great Britain 2 6 3 11
  Switzerland 3 2 5 10
 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 1 2 4
 Ireland 1 1 1 3
 Slovenia 0 1 2 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

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General

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