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

The Grand Tours are the three most prestigious multi-week stage races in professional road bicycle racing.^[1][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]

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.

Winning a stage in a Grand Tour is significant achievement and winning a stage in each Grand Tour is a rare feat that only 96 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 Thibaut Pinot after he won stage 15 of the 2018 Vuelta a España.

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 first 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. Djamolidine Abdoujaparov is the only Asian cyclist on the list.

Eddy Merckx, with 65 victories, has won the most stages at the Grand Tours. Mario Cipollini is second with 57, Mark Cavendish and Alessandro Petacchi are joint 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 (39 stages) but he failed to win any stages in the Tour de France or Giro d'Italia and is thus not represented in this list.^[5]

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.

Jean-Paul van Poppel won a total of 22 stages at the Grand Tours.

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 won a stage in each Grand Tour

Rank	Cyclist	Country	Winning span	Giro	Tour	Vuelta	Total	Ref(s)
1	Eddy Merckx	Belgium	1967–1975	24	34	6	64
2	Mario Cipollini	Italy	1989–2003	42	12	3	57	[6][7]
3	Mark Cavendish	United Kingdom	2008–2016	15	30	3	48
	Alessandro Petacchi	Italy	2000–2011	22	6	20	48	[8]
5	Bernard Hinault	France	1978–1986	6	28	7	41
6	Rik Van Looy	Belgium	1958–1969	12	7	18	37
7	Freddy Maertens	Belgium	1976–1981	7	15	13	35
8	Marino Basso	Italy	1967–1975	15	6	6	27
	Francesco Moser	Italy	1973–1986	23	2	2	27
10	Guido Bontempi	Italy	1981–1993	16	6	4	26
	Miguel Poblet	Spain	1955–1960	20	3	3	26	[9]
12	Laurent Jalabert	France	1992–1999	3	4	18	25	[10]
	Rik Van Steenbergen	Belgium	1949–1957	15	4	6	25	[11]
14	Roger De Vlaeminck	Belgium	1972–1984	22	1	1	24
15	Jacques Anquetil	France	1957–1964	5	16	1	22
	André Greipel	Germany	2009–2017	7	11	4	22
	Jean-Paul van Poppel	Netherlands	1986–1994	4	9	9	22
18	Gerben Karstens	Netherlands	1965–1976	1	6	14	21
	Tony Rominger	Switzerland	1988–1996	5	3	13	21
20	Marcel Kittel	Germany	2011–2017	4	14	1	19
21	Rudi Altig	Germany	1962–1969	4	8	6	18
	Nino Defilippis	Italy	1952–1964	9	7	2	18
23	Djamolidine Abdoujaparov	Uzbekistan	1991–1996	1	9	7	17
24	Fiorenzo Magni	Italy	1948–1955	6	7	3	16
	Alejandro Valverde	Spain	2003–2018	1	4	11	16
26	Gianni Bugno	Italy	1988–1998	9	4	2	15
	Felice Gimondi	Italy	1965–1976	7	7	1	15
	Rik Van Linden	Belgium	1972–1977	9	4	2	15
29	Chris Froome	United Kingdom	2011–2018	2	7	5	14
	José Manuel Fuente	Spain	1971–1974	9	2	3	14
	Thor Hushovd	Norway	2001–2011	1	10	3	14
	Joaquim Rodríguez	Spain	2003–2015	2	3	9	14	[12]
	Marcel Wüst	Germany	1995–2000	1	1	12	14	[13]
	Alex Zülle	Switzerland	1993–2000	3	2	9	14	[14][15]
35	Pierino Baffi	Italy	1955–1963	4	5	4	13
	Laurent Fignon	France	1982–1992	2	9	2	13
	Walter Godefroot	Belgium	1967–1975	1	10	2	13
	Hugo Koblet	Switzerland	1950–1956	7	5	1	13
	Eddy Planckaert	Belgium	1981–1989	1	2	10	13
	Guido Reybrouck	Belgium	1965–1970	3	6	4	13
	Dietrich Thurau	Germany	1976–1979	2	6	5	13
	Vincenzo Nibali	Italy	2010–2017	7	5	1	13
43	John Degenkolb	Germany	2012-2018	1	1	10	12
	Julio Jiménez	Spain	1964–1968	4	5	3	12
Nicola Minali	Italy	1994–1998	2	3	7	12
46	Federico Bahamontes	Spain	1957–1964	1	7	3	11
	Daniele Bennati	Italy	2007–2011	3	2	6	11	[16]
	Jeroen Blijlevens	Netherlands	1995–1999	2	4	5	11	[17]
	Miguel María Lasa	Spain	1970–1981	3	2	6	11	[18]
	Gilberto Simoni	Italy	2000–2007	8	2	1	11
	Ján Svorada	Czech Republic	1994–2001	5	3	3	11
	Lucien Van Impe	Belgium	1972–1983	1	9	1	11
53	Guido Carlesi	Italy	1958–1965	7	2	1	10
	David Millar	United Kingdom	2001–2012	1	4	5	10
	Edward Sels	Belgium	1964–1969	1	7	2	10
	Jean Stablinski	France	1957–1967	2	5	3	10
57	Tom Dumoulin	Netherlands	2015–2018	4	3	2	9
	Philippe Gilbert	Belgium	2009–2015	3	1	5	9
	Dimitri Konyshev	Russia	1990–2001	4	4	1	9
60	Fabio Baldato	Italy	1993–2003	4	2	2	8
	Jean-François Bernard	France	1986–1990	4	3	1	8
	Paolo Bettini	Italy	2000–2008	2	1	5	8	[19]
	Luis Herrera	Colombia	1984–1992	3	3	2	8
	Marino Lejarreta	Spain	1982–1991	2	1	5	8
	Thierry Marie	France	1986–1992	1	6	1	8
	Michael Matthews	Australia	2013-2017	2	3	3	8
	Denis Menchov	Russia	2004–2012	2	1	5	8	[20]
68	Erik Breukink	Netherlands	1987–1992	2	4	1	7
	Aitor González	Spain	2002–2004	3	1	3	7
	Ercole Gualazzini	Italy	1969–1977	4	2	1	7
	Bernardo Ruiz	Spain	1948–1955	1	2	4	7
	Matteo Trentin	Italy	2013–2017	1	2	4	7
73	Fabio Aru	Italy	2014–2017	3	1	2	6
	Giovanni Battaglin	Italy	1975–1981	4	1	1	6
	Rino Benedetti	Italy	1952–1962	4	1	1	6
	Laudelino Cubino	Spain	1987–1995	2	1	3	6
	Tyler Farrar	United States	2009–2012	2	1	3	6	[21]
	Massimo Ghirotto	Italy	1988–1994	3	2	1	6
	Charly Mottet	France	1986–1991	1	3	2	6
	Michel Pollentier	Belgium	1974–1984	1	3	2	6
Nairo Quintana	Colombia	2013–2018	3	2	1	6
82	Pablo Lastras	Spain	2001–2012	1	1	3	5	[22]
	Vicente López Carril	Spain	1971–1976	1	3	1	5
	Robert Millar	United Kingdom	1983–1989	1	3	1	5	[23]
	Serguei Outschakov	Ukraine	1993–1999	2	1	2	5	[24]
	Thibaut Pinot	France	2012–2018	1	2	2	5
	Jesper Skibby	Denmark	1989–1995	1	1	3	5
88	Rohan Dennis	Australia	2015–2018	1	1	2	4
	Seamus Elliott	Ireland	1960–1963	1	1	2	4
	Simon Gerrans	Australia	2008–2013	1	2	1	4
	Oliverio Rincón	Colombia	1993–1996	1	1	2	4
92	Thomas De Gendt	Belgium	2012–2017	1	1	1	3	[25]
	Juan Manuel Gárate	Spain	2001–2009	1	1	1	3	[26]
	Tyler Hamilton	United States	2002–2004	1	1	1	3
	David Zabriskie	United States	2004–2011	1	1	1	3

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 who have won a stage in each Grand Tour in a single year

Year	Cyclist	Country	Giro Stage Wins	Tour Stage Wins	Vuelta Stage Wins	Total	Ref(s)
1956	Miguel Poblet	Spain	4	1	3	8	[1][27]
1958	Pierino Baffi	Italy	1	3	2	6	[1][27]
2003	Alessandro Petacchi	Italy	6	4	5	15	[1][27]

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