8″ 1989 Greg LeMond vs Laurent Fignon
23″ 2007 Alberto Contador vs Cadel Evans
32″ 2006 Óscar Pereiro vs Andreas Klöden
38″ 1968 Jan Janssen vs Herman Van Springel
40″ 1987 Stephen Roche vs Pedro Delgado
48″ 1977 Bernard Thévenet vs Hennie Kuiper
54″ 2017 Chris Froome vs Rigoberto Urán
55″ 1964 Jacques Anquetil vs Raymond Poulidor
58″ 2008 Carlos Sastre vs Cadel Evans
159″ 2020 Tadej Pogačar vs Primož Roglič
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The fastest Tour de France
Everyone, who followed Tour de France 2022 day by day, expected it, but after the last stage it’s finally official: the 109th Tour de France was the fastest edition ever. Overall winner Jonas Vingegaard ( Jumbo-Visma) rode 3,350,1 km in 79h 33′ 20″, thus realising an overall speed of 42.457 km/h (26.381 mph).
Plateau de Beille at Tour de France
Plateau de Beille, located in the Pyrenees, is a realtively newcomer in the world of Tour de France climbs. It was introduced to the race in 1998, the first rider on the top was Marco Pantani. List of riders winning a stage up to Plateau de Beille 2015 Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) 2011 Jelle Vanendert (BEL) … Read more
The Tour de France stage, that started at 9 pm
In the early days of road cycling races, when the courses were over 300 km long or even longer and the riders sat in the saddle for a half a day (or even longer), it was usual, that the race started in the middle of the night or very early at dawn. It was the … Read more
He won the Tour de France, but lost his money to gambling
Louis Trousselier (1881-1939), the winner of the 3rd Tour de France (1905) was an entertaining person, for sure. He even shouldn’t have been there, when he won the race, because his official leave from the French army ended days before. But he stayed a bit longer and won the general classification of the Tour de … Read more
The first hilltop finish of Tour de France
Although smaller climbs were parts of the program since the beginning, and both the Pyrenees (1910) and the Alps (1911) were intruduced to the race during the pre-WW1 period, there were no hilltop finishes at the Tour de France till 1952. Alpe d’Huez ( in the Western Alps) was a ski station in the first … Read more
8 stage victories during a single Tour de France edition
There are only three riders who managed to win eight stages during a single Tour de France edition. One of them is Eddy Merckx, of course. He achieved it twice, in 1970 and 1974. The other two cyclists are Charles Pelissier (1930) and Freddy Maertens (1976). Charles Pelissier (1930) Charles Pelissier, the youngest brother in … Read more
Most days in yellow jersey
The iconic yellow jersey of Tour de France was introduced to the race in 1919. Eugène Christophe was the first rider to wear it. Of course, on the top of the list there are those riders, who won 5 times the Tour de France. Also, there are cyclists, like Fabian Cancellara or René Vietto, who … Read more
The fastest Tour de France
Everyone, who followed Tour de France 2022 day by day, expected it, but after the last stage it’s finally official: the 109th Tour de France was the fastest edition ever. Overall winner Jonas Vingegaard ( Jumbo-Visma) rode 3,350,1 km in 79h 33′ 20″, thus realising an overall speed of 42.457 km/h (26.381 mph).
Plateau de Beille at Tour de France
Plateau de Beille, located in the Pyrenees, is a realtively newcomer in the world of Tour de France climbs. It was introduced to the race in 1998, the first rider on the top was Marco Pantani. List of riders winning a stage up to Plateau de Beille 2015 Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) 2011 Jelle Vanendert (BEL) … Read more
The Tour de France stage, that started at 9 pm
In the early days of road cycling races, when the courses were over 300 km long or even longer and the riders sat in the saddle for a half a day (or even longer), it was usual, that the race started in the middle of the night or very early at dawn. It was the … Read more
He won the Tour de France, but lost his money to gambling
Louis Trousselier (1881-1939), the winner of the 3rd Tour de France (1905) was an entertaining person, for sure. He even shouldn’t have been there, when he won the race, because his official leave from the French army ended days before. But he stayed a bit longer and won the general classification of the Tour de … Read more
The first hilltop finish of Tour de France
Although smaller climbs were parts of the program since the beginning, and both the Pyrenees (1910) and the Alps (1911) were intruduced to the race during the pre-WW1 period, there were no hilltop finishes at the Tour de France till 1952. Alpe d’Huez ( in the Western Alps) was a ski station in the first … Read more
8 stage victories during a single Tour de France edition
There are only three riders who managed to win eight stages during a single Tour de France edition. One of them is Eddy Merckx, of course. He achieved it twice, in 1970 and 1974. The other two cyclists are Charles Pelissier (1930) and Freddy Maertens (1976). Charles Pelissier (1930) Charles Pelissier, the youngest brother in … Read more
Most days in yellow jersey
The iconic yellow jersey of Tour de France was introduced to the race in 1919. Eugène Christophe was the first rider to wear it. Of course, on the top of the list there are those riders, who won 5 times the Tour de France. Also, there are cyclists, like Fabian Cancellara or René Vietto, who … Read more