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 99 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 Primož Roglič after he won stage 10 of the 2019 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 64 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.
Mark Cavendish ranks third overall and first among active riders with 48 Grand Tour stage wins since 2008.


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 [8][9]
Alessandro Petacchi Italy 2000–2011 22 6 20 48 [10]
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 [11]
12 Laurent Jalabert France 1992–2001 3 4 18 25 [12]
Rik Van Steenbergen Belgium 1949–1957 15 4 6 25 [13]
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 [14][15]
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
Alejandro Valverde Spain 2003–2019 1 4 12 17 [16][17]
25 Fiorenzo Magni Italy 1948–1955 6 7 3 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
Vincenzo Nibali Italy 2010–2019 7 6 1 14 [18][19]
Joaquim Rodríguez Spain 2003–2015 2 3 9 14 [20]
Marcel Wüst Germany 1995–2000 1 1 12 14 [21]
Alex Zülle Switzerland 1993–2000 3 2 9 14 [22][23]
36 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
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 2007–2012 3 2 6 11 [24]
Jeroen Blijlevens Netherlands 1995–1999 2 4 5 11 [25]
Philippe Gilbert Belgium 2009–2019 3 1 7 11 [26][27]
Miguel María Lasa Spain 1970–1981 3 2 6 11 [28]
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
54 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
58 Tom Dumoulin Netherlands 2015–2018 4 3 2 9
Dimitri Konyshev Russia 1990–2001 4 4 1 9
Elia Viviani Italy 2015–2019 5 1 3 9
61 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 [29]
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 [30]
Nairo Quintana Colombia 2013–2019 3 3 2 8 [31][32]
Matteo Trentin Italy 2013–2019 1 3 4 8 [33][34]
71 Erik Breukink Netherlands 1987–1992 2 4 1 7
Caleb Ewan Australia 2015–2019 3 3 1 7 [35][36]
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
Simon Yates United Kingdom 2016–2019 3 2 2 7 [37][38]
77 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 [39]
Massimo Ghirotto Italy 1988–1994 3 2 1 6
Charly Mottet France 1986–1991 1 3 2 6
Thibaut Pinot France 2012–2019 1 3 2 6 [40][41]
Michel Pollentier Belgium 1974–1984 1 3 2 6
Primož Roglič Slovenia 2016–2019 3 2 1 6 [42]
87 Pablo Lastras Spain 2001–2012 1 1 3 5 [43]
Vicente López Carril Spain 1971–1976 1 3 1 5
Robert Millar United Kingdom 1983–1989 1 3 1 5 [44]
Serguei Outschakov Ukraine 1993–1999 2 1 2 5 [45]
Jesper Skibby Denmark 1989–1995 1 1 3 5
92 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
Thomas De Gendt Belgium 2012–2019 1 2 1 4 [46]
97 Juan Manuel Gárate Spain 2001–2009 1 1 1 3 [47]
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][48]
1958 Pierino Baffi Italy 1 3 2 6 [1][48]
2003 Alessandro Petacchi Italy 6 4 5 15 [1][48]

Ullrich and Contador
Jan Ullrich (pictured in Pisa during his winning time trial at the 2006 Giro) and Alberto Contador retroactively lost their place on the all-time list after being stripped of their Giro stage wins.

Two more riders, Jan Ullrich and Alberto Contador, have won stages in all three Grand Tours, but both were retroactively stripped of their stage wins in the Giro d'Italia.

  • Alberto Contador is one of seven riders who won the general classification at all Grand Tours. Contador won two stages and the general classification of the 2011 Giro d'Italia, but lost his 2011 results due to a positive test for clenbuterol in the 2010 Tour de France.[52] The CAS initially suspended Contador on 25 January 2011, but he appealed the decision, allowing him to compete in the 2011 Giro d'Italia and Tour de France. He lost his appeal on 6 February 2012 and was given a two-year ban with retroactive effect, starting from the day of his positive doping test on 21 July 2010, and was thereby stripped of his Giro results.[53] Contador also won the Giro d'Italia in 2008 and 2015, but did so without winning a stage on both occasions.

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