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

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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 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

A man wear a cycling jersey near a bike.
Eddy Merckx won over 60 stages between the Grand Tours during his racing years.
File:Bernard Hinault - Critérium du Dauphiné 2012 - Prologue.jpg
Bernard Hinault won 41 stages at the Grand Tours between the years 1978 and 1986.
File:Miguel Poblet - Giro d'Italia 1960 - Saint Vincent.JPG
Miguel Poblet (center) won 26 stages between all three Grand Tours during his professional racing career.
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Jean-Paul van Poppel won a total of 22 stages at the Grand Tours.
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Djamolidine Abdoujaparov won seventeen stages between the Grand Tour races that he competed in during his cycling career.
File:Federico Bahamontes.jpg
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 Belgium 1967–1975 24 34 6 64
2 Mario Cipollini Italy Italy 1989–2003 42 12 3 57 [7][8]
3 Alessandro Petacchi Italy Italy 2000–2011 22 6 20 48 [9]
4 Mark Cavendish United Kingdom United Kingdom 2008–2015 15 26 3 44 [10]
5 Bernard Hinault France France 1978–1986 6 28 7 41
6 Rik Van Looy Belgium Belgium 1958–1969 12 7 18 37
7 Freddy Maertens Belgium Belgium 1976–1981 7 15 13 35
8 Marino Basso Italy Italy 1967–1975 15 6 6 27
Francesco Moser Italy Italy 1973–1986 23 2 2 27
10 Guido Bontempi Italy Italy 1981–1993 16 6 4 26
Miguel Poblet Spain Spain 1955–1960 20 3 3 26 [11]
12 Laurent Jalabert France France 1992–1999 3 4 18 25 [12]
Rik Van Steenbergen Belgium Belgium 1949–1957 15 4 6 25 [13]
14 Roger De Vlaeminck Belgium Belgium 1972–1984 22 1 1 24
15 Jacques Anquetil France France 1957–1964 6 16 1 23
16 Jean-Paul van Poppel Netherlands Netherlands 1986–1994 4 9 9 22
17 Gerben Karstens Netherlands Netherlands 1965–1976 1 6 14 21
Tony Rominger Switzerland Switzerland 1988–1996 5 3 13 21
19 André Greipel Germany Germany 2009–2016 6 10 4 20
20 Rudi Altig Germany Germany 1962–1969 4 8 6 18
Nino Defilippis Italy Italy 1952–1964 9 7 2 18
22 Djamolidine Abdoujaparov Uzbekistan Uzbekistan 1991–1996 1 9 7 17
23 Fiorenzo Magni Italy Italy 1948–1955 6 7 3 16
24 Gianni Bugno Italy Italy 1988–1998 9 4 2 15
Felice Gimondi Italy Italy 1965–1976 7 7 1 15
Joaquim Rodríguez Spain Spain 2003–2015 3 3 9 15 [14]
Rik Van Linden Belgium Belgium 1972–1977 9 4 2 15
28 José Manuel Fuente Spain Spain 1971–1974 9 2 3 14
Thor Hushovd Norway Norway 2001–2011 1 10 3 14
Alejandro Valverde Spain Spain 2003–2016 1 4 9 14
Marcel Wüst Germany Germany 1995–2000 1 1 12 14 [15]
Alex Zülle Switzerland Switzerland 1993–2000 3 2 9 14 [16][17]
33 Pierino Baffi Italy Italy 1955–1963 4 5 4 13
Laurent Fignon France France 1982–1992 2 9 2 13
Walter Godefroot Belgium Belgium 1967–1975 1 10 2 13
Marcel Kittel Germany Germany 2011–2016 4 8 1 13 [18]
Hugo Koblet Switzerland Switzerland 1950–1956 7 5 1 13
Eddy Planckaert Belgium Belgium 1981–1989 1 2 10 13
Guido Reybrouck Belgium Belgium 1965–1970 3 6 4 13
Dietrich Thurau Germany Germany 1976–1979 2 6 5 13
41 Julio Jiménez Spain Spain 1964–1968 4 5 3 12
Nicola Minali Italy Italy 1994–1998 2 3 7 12
Vincenzo Nibali Italy Italy 2010–2016 6 5 1 12
44 Federico Bahamontes Spain Spain 1957–1964 1 7 3 11
Daniele Bennati Italy Italy 2007–2011 3 2 6 11 [19]
Jeroen Blijlevens Netherlands Netherlands 1995–1999 2 4 5 11 [20]
Miguel María Lasa Spain Spain 1970–1981 3 2 6 11 [21]
Gilberto Simoni Italy Italy 2000–2007 8 2 1 11
Ján Svorada Czech Republic Czech Republic 1994–2001 5 3 3 11
Lucien Van Impe Belgium Belgium 1972–1983 1 9 1 11
51 Guido Carlesi Italy Italy 1958–1965 7 2 1 10
David Millar United Kingdom United Kingdom 2001–2012 1 4 5 10
Edward Sels Belgium Belgium 1964–1969 1 7 2 10
Jean Stablinski France France 1957–1967 2 5 3 10
Jan Ullrich Germany Germany 1996–2003 1 7 2 10
56 Dimitri Konyshev Russia Russia 1990–2001 4 4 1 9
Philippe Gilbert Belgium Belgium 2009–2015 3 1 5 9
58 Fabio Baldato Italy Italy 1993–2003 4 2 2 8
Jean-François Bernard France France 1986–1990 4 3 1 8
Paolo Bettini Italy Italy 2000–2008 2 1 5 8 [22]
Luis Herrera Colombia Colombia 1984–1992 3 3 2 8
Marino Lejarreta Spain Spain 1982–1991 2 1 5 8
Thierry Marie France France 1986–1992 1 6 1 8
Denis Menchov Russia Russia 2004–2012 2 1 5 8 [23]
65 Erik Breukink Netherlands Netherlands 1987–1992 2 4 1 7
Aitor González Spain Spain 2002–2004 3 1 3 7
Ercole Gualazzini Italy Italy 1969–1977 4 2 1 7
Bernardo Ruiz Spain Spain 1948–1955 1 2 4 7
69 Giovanni Battaglin Italy Italy 1975–1981 4 1 1 6
Rino Benedetti Italy Italy 1952–1962 4 1 1 6
Laudelino Cubino Spain Spain 1987–1995 2 1 3 6
Tyler Farrar United States United States 2009–2012 2 1 3 6 [24]
Massimo Ghirotto Italy Italy 1988–1994 3 2 1 6
Charly Mottet France France 1986–1991 1 3 2 6
Leonardo Piepoli Italy Italy 2004–2008 3 1 2 6
Michel Pollentier Belgium Belgium 1974–1984 1 3 2 6
77 Pablo Lastras Spain Spain 2001–2012 1 1 3 5 [25]
Vicente López Carril Spain Spain 1971–1976 1 3 1 5
Robert Millar United Kingdom United Kingdom 1983–1989 1 3 1 5 [10]
Serguei Outschakov Ukraine Ukraine 1993–1999 2 1 2 5 [26]
Jesper Skibby Denmark Denmark 1989–1995 1 1 3 5
82 Seamus Elliott Republic of Ireland Ireland 1960–1963 1 1 2 4
Simon Gerrans Australia Australia 2008–2013 1 2 1 4
Oliverio Rincón Colombia Colombia 1993–1996 1 1 2 4 [27]
85 Tyler Hamilton United States United States 2002–2004 1 1 1 3
Juan Manuel Gárate Spain Spain 2001–2009 1 1 1 3 [28]
David Zabriskie United States 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 with a blue background and in bold are still active.

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 Spain 4 1 3 8 [1][29]
1958 Pierino Baffi Italy Italy 1 3 2 6 [1][29]
2003 Alessandro Petacchi Italy Italy 6 4 5 15 [1][29]

References

Citations
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