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Tadej Pogačar shattered a 26-year record held by Marco Pantani on Sunday’s horrid summit finale at Plateau de Beille at the Tour de France as he narrows in on another record he’s trying to equal.

Pantani is the last male rider to win the Giro d’Italia and Tour in one season, and on Sunday, Pogačar was faster than the Italian’s record set in 1998 by nearly four minutes.

The UAE Team Emirates star swatted away the “Killer Bees” like flies as he withstood an all-in barrage from Jonas Vingegaard and Visma-Lease a Bike to win another stage and put himself in pole position for overall victory.

“It has been an incredible day,” said Pogačar, who widens his lead to 3:09 to the two-time defending champion. “I would have never imagined this kind of outcome seeing how the second week began.”

The UAE star finished off back-to-back stage wins after countering a massive attack from Visma-Lease a Bike that was meant to put the Slovenian on the defensive when Vingegaard jumped with 10km to go.

Pogačar responded with 5km to go when the Dane looked drained from the hard effort to try to put him into the red.

“I was a bit on the limit when he first attacked, but afterwards I could feel he was suffering a bit,” he said. “He tried to drop me one more time and I saw he didn’t have the legs to do it, so I gave it a go myself even though I was aware I might crack as well. Luckily, it went well.”

Luck isn’t having much to do with it so far in this Tour de France.

Pogačar leaves the Pyrénées with two more stage wins to his growing haul of victories, along with a tightening grip on the yellow jersey.

Unless Vingegaard can find wings in the coming week, Pantani’s double — the last of seven male riders to win the Giro and Tour in the same season across cycling’s long history — is looking more vulnerable than ever with six days of racing left.

Faster than Pantani on Plateau de Beille

Pogačar wrote a new page in cycling history Sunday by smashing the climbing record, set in 1998 in the same year Pantani pulled off the double.

The official time from Tour de France officials has yet to be confirmed, but several observers clocked him on the 15.8km ascent with a time of 39 minutes and 44 seconds.

Plateau de Beille (15,74km; 7,94%; 1250m) 2024 | 39’44 | T.Pogacar – RECORD 2015 | 45’31 | 9 riders 2011 | 46’20 | Vanendert 2007 | 44’07 | Contador, Rasmussen 2004 | 45’31 | Armstrong, Basso 2002 | 45’55 | Armstrong 1998 | 43’28 | Pantani Greatest performance ever. pic.twitter.com/uqXHJYWPBy — MF Na1chaca (@NaichacaCycling) July 14, 2024

When asked about the new climbing record, Pogačar pointed out that Visma-Lease a Bike did most of the heavy lifting during the grueling, five-climb stage featuring nearly 5,000m of climbing.

“I don’t know how fast Pantani rode back in the day, that’s almost 30 years ago,” Pogačar said. “Today Visma set a super, super strong pace from the beginning, and Jonas did most of the work until the moment where I attacked.

“I pushed my limit and I am super happy to take the win,” he said. “I am not thinking about the Strava segments.”

Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel, second and third on the stage, also broke the Pantani record time on Plateau de Beille. Mikel Landa, who crossed the line fourth, missed it by a few seconds.

Surviving the heat

Visma-Lease a Bike knows that Pogačar can suffer in summer, and with temperatures pushing into the low 90s on Sunday, the “Killer Bees” were trying to the stage into a hornet’s nest.

The team railed it all day, and UAE did what it could to keep their king cool and protected on the five-climb, 197.7km “queen stage.”

“It was a super hard and super hot day, and I normally struggle a bit with warm weather,” he said. “My team did a super job with all the cooling down strategies.”

Vingegaard surprised many by going relatively far with about 10km to go when he rode off the wheel of American Matteo Jorgenson. Pogačar cooly marked his wheel and bided his time.

“It was fair racing, and it sat well with us as we had already created some meaningful gaps yesterday,” he said. “I was never worried. All I cared about was keeping myself cool, hydrating and eating enough.”

A rest day and the final push

Pogačar’s been in the driver’s seat since this Tour began.

On Sunday, he answered with a searing counter-attack with 5km to go that buried Vingegaard and widened the gap to the entire peloton suffering in his wake.

Pogačar drove the wedge all the way to the line.

“The Visma team knew that the final climb was so steep that using somebody’s slipstream was not so influential, and they were probably hoping that I wouldn’t survive Jonas’ strong pace all the way to the finish,” he said.

UAE teammate João Almeida said the mood inside the bus is euphoric, but cautious.

“I think they probably lost a bit of morale today,” he said of rivals Visma. “They saw that Tadej is stronger. They have nothing to lose in the end, for sure they will try but we have a strong team.

“Of course anything can happen, you never know,” said Almeida, who slots into fourth overall at 10:54 back. “For sure they will try something eventually, but we are going to be prepared.”

The gaps are growing — he added more than two minutes to his lead since Friday — and so is Pogačar’s confidence with each passing stage.

Monday’s rest day and a likely sprint stage Tuesday sets up the final five decisive and unpredictable stages in and around the Alps.

“The Tour GC is looking really good right now,” Pogačar said. “We have a comfortable lead and just need to keep focused on these final six days of racing.”

More records could fall before this Tour is over, and Pogačar looks on track to join Pantani and others in the elusive “Giro-Tour double club.”

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Pogacar, 25, is the first cyclist to win the giro d’italia and tour de france in the same year since 1998., published july 21, 2024 • updated on july 21, 2024 at 4:03 pm.

Tadej Pogacar won the Tour de France for the third time and celebrated in style with a victory in Sunday's final stage — a time trial ending in Nice.

The 25-year-old Slovenian rider became the first cyclist to secure the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same year since the late Marco Pantani in 1998.

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Two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark was second overall. He also finished the 21st and final stage in second place.

Pogacar won the 34-kilometer (21-mile) time trial on the French Riviera's roads from Monaco to Nice in 45 minutes, 24 seconds. Vingegaard was 1 minute, 3 seconds behind him and Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel 1:14 back in third spot.

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In the overall standings, Vingegaard finished 6:17 behind Pogacar and Evenepoel was third overall, 9:18 behind Pogacar — whose other Tour wins came in 2020 and 2021.

The race did not finish in Paris as it usually does because of the Olympic Games. Nice mayor Christian Estrosi called the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the southern French Alps “perfect cycling territory.”

From early Sunday morning, fans camped along the popular Promenade des Anglais in Nice to guard a spot that would offer the best glimpse of cyclists.

Some fans chanted “Remco, Remco” as the race-against-the-clock specialist zoomed past them.

They may have been surprised to see Pogacar going flat out.

After his explosive attack on Friday, Pogacar said he would not try to win Saturday’s stage. But the UAE Team Emirates rider could not resist and won that to become the second man to win five mountain stages in one Tour after Italian rider Gino Bartali in 1948.

Pogacar had no need to attack on Sunday, either, considering he led Vingegaard overnight by more than five minutes.

But the lure of another stage win proved too strong and he flew down the winding roads past picturesque Èze and Villefranche-sur-Mer on the approach to Nice, where the route flattened out again.

Pogacar held out three fingers as the finish line and a sixth stage win approached on this year’s Tour — the same number of stages he won when dominating the Giro d’Italia.

It was Pogacar’s biggest winning margin of his three Tour wins — beating the 5:20 gap on Vingegaard three years ago, but below the 7:29 victory margin Vingegaard enjoyed over Pogacar last year.

The battle with Vingegaard was not as close as it might have been in different circumstances.

The 27-year-old Vingegaard was hospitalized for nearly two weeks in April following a high-speed crash in the Tour of the Basque Country. He resumed competitive racing only on this Tour.

Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz won the best climber's polka dot jersey while Eritrea's Biniam Girmay won the top sprinter's green jersey and the 24-year-old Evenepoel capped a fine debut Tour with the white jersey for best young rider.

Associated Press writer Barbara Surk in Nice contributed to this report.

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The latest news and race results from Italy's Grand Tour, covering everything from the start lists to the race winners.

The Giro d'Italia 2024 marks the 107th edition of the Italian Grand Tour. Starting on May 4th, 2024, at the Venaria Reale, just outside Turin, the route heads south towards Naples before travelling back north and into the Dolomites. Day 21 and the final stage sees a city circuit around the streets of Rome on May 26th, 2024.

The three-week event is the opener in the trio of Grand Tours, followed by the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España .

The key riders for the Giro were influenced by a series of high profile crashes, with Wout van Aert crashing at Dwars door Vlaanderen , putting him out of contention for the race in May. Read the whole start list here .

Total distance : 3,400.8 kilometres Average stage distance:  161.9km Total altitude gain : 44,650 metres Possible sprint stages : 7

Wales' own Geraint Thomas has set his sights on a Giro/Tour double , and rode the Tour of the Alps in April in preparation. However, he'll have incredibly stiff competition from Slovenian Tadej Pogačar, who announced his intention to ride the Giro in December 2023 , and has proven unstoppable so far this year, winning Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Strade Bianche , the latter in an 81 kilometre attack.

This year, Cycling Weekly will be covering the race with daily race reports, reactions following each stage, and analysis as the Italian showdown progresses.  

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Giro d'Italia 2024: Overview

Stage-by-stage reports from the giro d'italia 2024.

Missed a stage of the Giro d'Italia 2024? We've got you covered! Read up on the results of each stage: 

• Stage one: Jhonatan Narváez outsprints Maximilian Schachmann and Tadej Pogačar to win the opening stage of the Giro d’Italia
• Stage two: Tadej Pogačar crashes, remounts to win Giro d'Italia stage 2 and take pink jersey
• Stage three: Tim Merlier outsprints Jonathan Milan to win Stage 3 of the Giro d'Italia
• Stage four: Jonathan Milan surges to victory on stage 4 of Giro d’Italia
• Stage five: Benjamin Thomas wins stage 5 of Giro d'Italia as breakaway beats peloton
• Stage six: Pelayo Sánchez wins stage 6 of Giro d'Italia as breakaway makes it again
• Stage seven: Tadej Pogačar extends Giro d’Italia lead with stunning time trial victory on stage 7
• Stage eight: Tadej Pogačar claims back-to-back wins at Giro d'Italia with stage 8 victory atop Prati di Tivo
• Stage nine: Olav Kooij pips Jonathan Milan to the win on stage nine of the Giro d’Italia after a late attack from Jhonatan Narváez
• Stage 10: Valentin Paret-Peintre climbs to victory on stage 10 of Giro d’Italia as Pogačar keeps race lead
• Stage 11: Jonathan Milan doubles up with sprint victory on stage 11 of Giro d'Italia
• Stage 12: Julian Alaphilippe storms to victory on stage 12 of Giro d'Italia as Pogačar keeps overall lead
• Stage 13: Jonathan Milan sprints to Giro d'Italia stage 13 victory after surviving crosswinds
• Stage 14: Filippo Ganna triumphs over Tadej Pogačar to win stage 14's time trial
• Stage 15: Tadej Pogačar doubles Giro d'Italia lead with solo mountaintop victory on stage 15

Giro d'Italia week one overview

Many expected Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) to dominate, but with a lead of 2:40 over second placed Dani Martínez (Bora-Hansgrohe) at the end of the opening week was still incredible.

The Slovenian waited until the second day to secure the pink jersey, as Jhonatan Narváez (Ineos Grenadiers) out-sprinted him. Pogačar extending his lead throughout the week with bonus seconds, before blowing his rivals out of the water won stage seven's time trial, putting two minutes into Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers). He took the summit finish the next day for a bonus too, meaning he had won three of the opening nine stages.

The sprints were evenly shared, with wins for Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek), Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) across the nine days, with two wins for the breakaway.

Giro d'Italia week two overview

Things continued in much the same vein in week two of the 2024 Giro, with sprint wins for Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) and mountain wins for Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), as the latter continued to tighten his grip on the pink jersey.

The week began with a win for the breakaway, one of just two in the six stages, as Valentin Paret-Peintre (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) won stage 10. Stage 11 saw Milan's second win of the Giro, a feat he would repeat on stage 13, which was briefly threatened by crosswinds. In between the pair of Milan victories, Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal Quick-Step) reminded everyone of his swashbuckling best with a stunning ride on stage 12.

General classification action resumed on stage 14, the second individual time trial, which was won by Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers), but Pogačar stretched his lead again. On stage 15, the last before the rest day, the Slovenian stamped his authority on the race, doubling his lead on the queen stage.

Giro d'Italia 2024: The route 

The Giro d'Italia 2024 route was unveiled on October 13, 2023. 

The race began in Piemonte on 4 May - and will include two time trials, six mountain finishes, and a final week in the Dolomites.

The iconic  Passo dello Stelvio will make an appearance, as well as a new climb, and the route also includes gravel sections. 

For full details, see our Giro d'Italia 2024 route page. 

Giro d'Italia 2024 route: Stage-by-stage

Giro d'italia 2024: the jerseys.

The rider wearing the pink jersey (maglia rosa) at the Giro d'Italia 2024 will be the one leading the general classification. This is the rider who has accumulated the fastest time around the route so far, inclusive of time bonuses collected. On the final day, it is awarded to the overall general classification winner along with the Trofeo Senza Fine.

There are other jerseys up for grabs too. The purple (ciclamino) jersey is awarded to the rider who has accumulated the most points. More points are offered at the end of flatter, punchier stages than on mountain finishes, so this is a jersey for the sprinters. The blue (azzura) jersey goes to the rider who accumulates the most points on classified climbs, and the white (bianca) jersey is like the pink jersey but given to the best young rider under 26.

Read about the Giro d'Italia jerseys here.

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Tadej Pogacar won the Giro d’Italia by the largest margin in 59 years and in a little over a month will begin a bid to become the first cyclist since 1998 to win the Giro and the Tour de France in the same year.

“This was the big goal for the first part of the season. Now finally I’ll have a bit of rest before the second part, which could be the more important part,” he said. “We’ll see.”

Pogacar, a 25-year-old from Slovenia, dominated the three-week event in Italy, considered by many the second-most prestigious stage race after the Tour de France.

Pogacar won six stages, including a time trial and four mountain stages.

He took the lead on the second stage and held it through the 21st and final stage Sunday, prevailing by 9 minutes, 56 seconds over Colombian Dani Martinez.

The margin of victory was the largest in a Grand Tour (Giro, Tour de France, Vuelta a Espana) since Laurent Fignon won the 1984 Tour de France by 10:32 and the largest at the Giro since Vittorio Adorni won the 1965 edition by 11:26, according to ProCyclingStats.com.

“He’s the best I’ve raced with, I think, and I’ve raced with a lot of good guys,” said Geraint Thomas, the 2018 Tour de France champion who placed third at the Giro at age 38. “Just he’s so versatile and aggressive all year round as well.”

In his Giro debut, Pogacar added his first Giro title to his wins at the Tour de France in 2020 and 2021. He was runner-up at the Tour the last two years behind Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark.

In six career Grand Tour starts, Pogacar has finished in the top three every time.

He will now hope to become the eighth cyclist to win the Giro and the Tour in the same year and the first since Italian Marco Pantani in 1998.

The Tour starts June 29 in Italy, crossing into France on stage four.

Vingegaard hasn’t competed since breaking his collarbone and several ribs in an April 4 race crash and undergoing surgery.

In a video published May 7 , Vingegaard said he hoped to race the Tour. He can bid to join a select group of men to win three consecutive Tours, most recently Chris Froome, Miguel Indurain and Eddy Merckx.

“We don’t know exactly how my shape and how my recovery will go, but I will do everything I can to get there in my top shape,” Vingegaard said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Tour, Giro, and Vuelta: Cycling Grand Tours Statistics Compared (2023)

I love cycling, and I enjoy playing with numbers. One day, I asked myself: What if I combine these two hobbies? What if I create a comparison of cycling Grand Tours statistics?

The result is a unique comparison of all three Grand Tours: Tour de France , Giro d’Italia , and Vuelta a España .

I am sure you will see some of these stats for the first time.

Below, you will find comparisons of all edition distances, average stage lengths, general, mountain, and points classification winners’ height and weight data, rider BMI, and many more interesting stats.

Abbreviations used: GC – General Classification, GT – Grand Tour, TdF – Tour de France, BMI – Body Mass Index

I used publicly available data from sites such as wikipedia.org , procyclingstats.com , and official GT websites letour.fr , giroditalia.it , and lavuelta.es for the statistics and charts below. Some data is not available (especially the rider’s weights/heights).

Please, also remember the following:

• The Tour de France did not take place between 1915-1918 and 1940-1946.
• Giro d’Italia did not take place between 1915-1918 and 1941-1945.
• Vuelta a España did not take place between 1937-1940, 1943-1944, and 1951-1954.
• Lance Armstrong was stripped of all his results and prizes from 1 August 1998. No alternative winners of TdF 1999-2005 were declared yet.
• The actual rider’s racing weight could vary.

I update this article once a year once all Grand Tours are finished.

Grand Tours Total Distance

Let’s start with the basics. The chart below shows the total distance of individual Grand Tour editions. The Tour de France was the longest Grand Tour for decades.

The average Grand Tour length of all editions is 3,747 km . It was around 3,680 km between 1960-1980, 3,720 km between 1980-2000, and “only” 3,390 km between 2000-2020. The average length of the 2023 Grand Tours is 3,297 km .

Number and Length of Grand Tours Stages

The number of stages experienced an opposite trend to the average length. While the first Tour de France editions had only six stages, this number multiplied in the following decades and oscillated around 21 for the past decades.

The average Grand Tour stage length of all editions is 200 km (time trials included).

It was a whopping 278 km between 1909-1939 and 191 km between 1949-1979 (excluding Vuelta because its first edition took place in 1935). The average stage length of the 2023 Grand Tours is 157 km .

Grand Tours Average Speed

The average Grand Tours speed of all editions is 35.42 km/h .

It increased dramatically over time, mainly thanks to technological progress, better training methods, and nutrition—it exceeded the mighty 40 km/h mark.

The average speed of the 2023 Grand Tours was 40.49 km/h .

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Grand Tours (Historical Extremes)

What about the longest and shortest editions ?

Unsurprisingly, the Tour de France was the longest Grand Tour ever in 1926. Riders had to cover 5,745 km (about the same distance from New York to London).

The longest Giro d’Italia took place in 1954 (4,337 km), and the longest Vuelta a España was in 1936 (4,407 km).

The shortest Grand Tour ever was also the Tour de France.

The first two editions (1903 and 1904) were the same length of 2,428 km .

The shortest Giro was 15 km longer (1912), and the Vuelta 14 km longer (1963), resulting in 2,443 and 2,443 km.

Speaking of length, here is another “best” for the Tour de France.

The longest Grand Tour stage ever ( 482 km ) was the 5th stage in the 1919 edition.

Meanwhile, the longest Giro stage (stage 3 in 1914) was 52 km shorter. Vuelta falls behind with only a 310 km stage (stage 6 in 1935).

However, Vuelta holds a record for the fastest Grand Tour edition ever. Riders covered the 58th edition of Vuelta a España (2003) with an average speed of 42.53 km/h .

The fastest TdF was in 2022 (41.84 km/h) and Giro in 2011 (41.86 km/h).

The title for the slowest Grand Tour holds Giro d’Italia. 1914 Giro was ridden at an average speed of 23.37 km/h .

My humble guess is that this record won’t be broken – 8 out of 12 stages were classified as mountain stages.

The slowest Tour de France took place in 1924 (5,425 km). The winner, Ottavio Bottecchia, reached the winning time of 226h 18′ 21″, resulting in an average speed of 23.97 km/h.

The slowest Vuelta a España (25.72 km/h) took place in 1948. It took the winner 155h 06′ 30″ to cover the 3,990 km.

IMPORTANT NOTE : Many websites (including Wikipedia) list the 1919 Tour de France as the slowest TdF ever. This figure is incorrect because the winning time of Firmin Lambot was 231h 07′ 15″. The 1919 edition was 5,560 km long. When we do some math, it is easy to calculate that the average speed was 24.0567 km/h.

Rider’s Height, Weight, and BMI (Over Time)

How do the rider’s height, weight, and BMI develop over time? How do these data differ between riders for the general classification, climbers, and sprinters?

Unfortunately, the weights and heights of riders from the past century are often missing. So, the resulting trends can be skewed.

General Classification Winners

Are GC riders getting taller and leaner?

The past decades have shown that even riders above 1.85m can win Grand Tours—to name a few: Chris Froome, Bradley Wiggins, Miguel Indurain, Fabio Aru, or Tom Dumoulin, who are all tall riders.

The GC winner’s height oscillates around 179 cm (±10 cm). Giro and Vuelta seem to be more “short riders friendly.” More riders below 175 cm won these Grand Tours in the past decades.

The trend for the lower weight also seems not to be a myth.

Although many heights and weight data are not available, the following chart shows that riders are really getting leaner on average .

An average GC winner’s weight was 67.67 kg between 1980-2000, while only 64.33 kg between 2000-2020.

The most interesting chart of the series of these 3 is probably the following BMI chart. BMI uses your height and weight to work out if your weight is healthy. ( Source )

Here is a quick guide on how to interpret the values:

• Below 18.5 – underweight,
• 18.5-24.9 – normal,
• 25.0-29.9 – overweight,
• 30.0 and above – obese.

The GC winner’s BMI has varied between 21 and 19 in recent decades, averaging around 20.11 . For example, Chris Froome’s BMI was around 19.08 when he won his Grand Tours, and Sepp Kuss’s (Vuelta 2023 winner) was even lower at 18.42.

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Mountain Classification Winners

The height data of the winners of mountain classification is also exciting. The average height of the GT mountain classification winner is 1.74 m .

Vuelta is, according to some people, considered the toughest GT. However, based on data, the average weight of the Giro mountain classification winner is 64.4 kg.

The average weight of the GT mountain classification winner is 64.4 kg .

The average BMI of mountain classification winners is 21.19 .

We can see a similar trend like with GC winners. Nowadays, climbers have a lower BMI on average than at the beginning of this classification. The average BMI of mountain classification winners is lower than the BMI of GC winners (21.51).

Points Classification Winners

Sprinters and all-around riders’ height rarely goes below 1.70 m or exceeds 1.85 m . The average height of a points classification winner is 1.79 m .

Not surprisingly, sprinters and all-around riders are heavier than climbers. The average weight of a GT points classification winner is 71.3 kg .

The average BMI of points classification winners is 22.3 . However, the BMI variance of individual winners has been relatively significant in recent years.

Rider’s Height, Weight, and BMI (Historical Extremes)

The following stats are focused on historical extremes. You can easily compare your own height and weight with Grand Tour GC winners.

The average height of a Grand Tour GC winner is 1.77 m .

The tallest GC winner ever is Bradley Wiggins (TdF 2012). He is 1.90 m tall.

The shortest GC winner ever was Romain Maes (Tour de France 1935 winner). He was 1.60 m tall.

The average weight of a Grand Tour GC winner is 67.4 kg .

The heaviest GC winner was Tour de France 1909 winner François Faber. He weighed 88 kg .

The lightest GC winner was Marco Pantani. He won the Tour de France and Giro in the same year (1998), weighing just 57 kg .

A GC winner has an average BMI of 21.51 .

A GC winner with the highest BMI was François Faber. He won the 1909 Tour de France with a BMI of 27.77 (1.78 m, 88 kg).

A GC winner with the lowest BMI was Sepp Kuss. He won the 2023 Vuelta with a BMI of 18.42 (1.82 m, 61 kg).

The average height of a mountain classification GT winner is 1.74 m .

The tallest mountain classification winner ever was Mauricio Soler (TdF 2007). He is 1.90 m tall.

The shortest mountain classification winner ever was Mariano Díaz (Vuelta 1967). He was 1.59 m tall.

The average weight of a mountain classification winner is 64.4 kg .

The heaviest mountain classification winner was the Giro d’Italia 1933 mountain classification winner Alfredo Binda. He weighed 77 kg .

The lightest mountain classification winner was José Rujano. He won the 2005 Giro mountain classification, weighing just 48 kg .

A mountain classification winner has an average BMI of 21.19 .

A mountain classification winner with the highest BMI was Mariano Díaz. He won the 1967 Vuelta a España mountain classification with a BMI of 24.92 (1.59 m, 63 kg).

A mountain classification winner with the lowest BMI was José Rujano. He won the 2005 Giro mountain classification with a BMI of 18.29 (1.62 m, 48 kg).

The average height of a points classification GT winner is 1.79 m .

The tallest points classification winner ever was Tom Boonen (TdF 2007). He is 1.92 m tall.

The shortest points classification winner ever was Stan Ockers (TdF 1955 and 1956). He was 1.65 m tall.

The average weight of a points classification winner is 71.3 kg .

The heaviest points classification winner was Rik Van Steenbergen. He won Vuelta a España 1956 points classification weighing 83 kg .

The lightest points classification winner was Joaquim Rodríguez. He won the 2012 Giro points classification, weighing just 57 kg .

A points classification winner has an average BMI of 22.3 .

A points classification winner with the highest BMI was Walter Godefroot. He won the 1970 Tour de France points classification with a BMI of 24.94 (1.71 m, 73 kg).

A points classification winner with the lowest BMI was Chris Froome. He won the 2017 Vuelta points classification with a BMI of 19.08 (1.86 m, 66 kg).

Overall Victories & Stage Wins

Eddy Merckx is the rider with the most Grand Tour GC wins (11). He won TdF and Giro 5 times, as well as Vuelta once.

The following table shows the three riders with the most stage wins for a given Grand Tour.

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We have a song in the Czech Republic that goes like this:

“Statistics are boring, but it has valuable information…”

I have never enjoyed statistics, but spending dozens of hours putting this comparison together was fun. I was surprised to see some Grand Tour data visualized. The riders’ height, weight, and BMI data points are pretty interesting. What do you think about these cycling Grand Tours statistics?

I hope you like this comparison. If so, don’t forget to share it with your friends.

You can also check out my other articles dedicated to individual Grand Tours that go into more detail:

• Tour de France Statistics
• Giro d’Italia Statistics
• Vuelta a España Statistics

Cycling Grand Tours FAQ

Yes, several riders won all three Grand Tours at least once (TdF Wins, Giro Wins, Vuelta Wins): Eddy Merckx (5, 5, 1) Bernard Hinault (5, 3, 2) Jacques Anquetil (5, 2, 1) Chris Froome (4, 1, 2) Alberto Contador (2, 2, 3) Felice Gimondi (1, 3, 1) Vincenzo Nibali (1, 2, 1) No rider has won all three Grand Tours in the same calendar year.

The Giro d’Italia proves to be challenging, mainly due to the demanding Alp and Appennine climbs, as well as frequent inclement weather. The Tour de France stands out as the premier cycling event worldwide, drawing significant attention and placing considerable mental strain on riders. Nevertheless, there’s a consensus among some that the Vuelta a España is the toughest because it serves as the final Grand Tour of the season, with riders already exhausted. I’ll let you decide, but it’s evident that no Grand Tour can be considered easy.

Depending on how you define “the greatest.” However, the rider with the most GT wins is Eddy Merckx. He won 11 GT (5 times Tour de France, 5 times Giro d’Italia, and once Vuelta a España).

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4 thoughts on “tour, giro, and vuelta: cycling grand tours statistics compared (2023)”.

Great work! Can you add a cumulative vertical meters comparison to each GT? And create a weighted index according to Cumulative distance – Cumulative ascent – Average speed.

Thanks a lot. – Eran

Hi Eran, I thought about doing something like you describe. Unfortunately, total vertical meters are unavailable for many editions. Therefore, I decided not to include it. But you are right, that would be interesting!

You’re the guy to do it, you’re Great! I’d like to see day by day where riders have gained or lost time to the current GC leader. Does that make sense? I think it would be interesting as hell! Thanks for doing such a great job at what you do!!!

Hi Dan, Thank you for your trust and appreciation. I am afraid this is beyond my time capacity. However, this would be interesting data. 🙂 – Petr

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The Challengers of the 2024 Giro d’Italia and Tour de France

We look beyond Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard and into the riders who are set to bring the heat to this year’s Grand Tours.

Remco Evenepoel

Primož roglič, cian uijtdebroeks, ben o’connor, geraint thomas, alexsandr vlasov, simon yates, jai hindley, sepp kuss, juan ayuso, and adam yates.

As we grow nearer to Grand Tour season, the story is no doubt going to center around cycling’s two biggest names: Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard. Can Pog pull off the Giro/Tour double? If he’s going to, he’ll have to vanquish Vingegaard, the only rider who’s been able to go toe-to-toe with Pogačar. On the other side of the coin, can Vingegaard go three-for-three, becoming just the ninth rider to win at least three Tours (and the sixth to win three consecutively)?

But what about the other riders in the peloton who have a real chance at dethroning the two-headed monster? Surely there are more names to watch than just Pogi and Jonas, more riders who— like Sepp Kuss did in last year’s Vuelta —can shock the world by taking down the giants.

Here are the contenders primed to challenge cycling's dominant duo in the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France :

There’s no denying that Evenepoel is one of the most talented riders in the WorldTour ranks. And with a pair of Liège-Bastonge-Liège wins and a Vuelta win, he already has a palmarès that most riders dream of. But after a bitterly disappointing Giro abandonment last season and years of answering questions about when he’s going to race the Tour, the time may be here for Evenepoel to exorcize some of the demons and answer the questions that always seem to be following him around.

Yes, he’s won a Grand Tour, but it wasn’t the Grand Tour. Maybe 2024, his Tour debut, is the year to rectify that for and with his Soudal-Quick Step team.

With a new team in Bora-Hansgrohe, Roglič will once again be looking to avenge one of the most bitter losses in cycling history: to recapture the Tour de France win that he was just one heartbreaking stage away from in 2020.

That 2020 loss, combined with Vingegaard’s unexpected ascension, pushed Roglič to the fringes of the Grand Boucle. Now, he’ll head into France as the undisputed team leader. And while Roglič’s had a less-than-stellar season thus far, according to Bora’s performance director Rolf Aldag, all eyes are on the Tour for Roglič and his team.

Just twenty years old, Ujitdebroeks is heading into the Giro with expectations that are simultaneously high and reasonable. Early reports are that the Visma-Lease a Bike all-rounder will be chasing both stage wins and the pink jersey.

Uijtdebroeks finished eighth in last summer’s Vuelta a España and none of the seven riders ahead of him are slated to start the Giro. Of course, it’ll help his cause that he’ll have Wout van Aert, perhaps the world’s greatest domestique, working for him throughout Italy.

Last year, Ben O’Connor asked his French team, Decathlon-AS2R La Mondiale, if he could shift his focus from the Tour de France to the Giro d’Italia. After two consecutive Tours marred by crashes, sickness, and just plain bad luck, O’Connor is hoping to right his ship with a go at the pink jersey.

To the surprise of many, AG2R acquiesced and, as O’Connor has the most WorldTour points of any Giro entrants as of this writing, early returns say they may have made the right move.

Like Pogačar, Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas is targeting the Giro/Tour double. He’ll be the team’s sole GC hunter in Italy, as he aims to avenge the pink jersey he lost to Primož Roglič on the penultimate stage of last year’s Giro.

The picture in France gets a bit murkier, as Ineos will be sending Tom Pidcock and Carlos Rodríguez both to the start line in June, making Thomas’s hunt for a second yellow jersey—he won the Tour 2018—a far less straightforward proposition.

The 27-year-old Bora-Hansgrohe rider raised plenty of eyebrows at the dawn of this season when he said he would let the road decide whether he would race for or against his new teammate—and presumed team leader—Primož Roglič.

Well, the reality of that statement might come to a head sooner rather than later. Vlasov has been looking strong this spring, with his most eye-catching performance coming in Paris-Nice, where he finished fifth overall, seventh in the points classification, and fourth in the KOM race. Roglič, on the other hand, finished that race tenth, eleventh, and tenth in those very same classifications.

Whereas so many riders are bolstered by hype, Simon Yates’s chances for a surprise Tour victory are supported by the fact that he just always seems to be there, near the front, toe-to-toe with the best and the brightest. The Jayco-AlUla leader, who finished fourth overall in 2023, will be making his seventh Tour appearance, so he knows the race as well as just about any of the other contenders. But more than anything, he’ll likely need a few breaks to roll his way.

The 2022 Giro champion is expected to ride in support of Roglič in the Tour. But we all know how mercurial Roglič can be, which means Hindley may be presented with a sudden and unexpected chance to fight for the yellow jersey.

I’m combining these three, as their longshot potential to make a run at GC would depend on Vingeaard and/or Pogačar blowing up or abandoning, neither of which either does very often. Kuss has shown that he has the strength and the grit to win a Grand Tour, but his shot at the yellow jersey would wholly depend on whether or not Vingegaard is at or near the front.

The same goes for Ayuso and Yates, who will both ride in support of Pogačar this summer. Yates finished third in last year’s Tour, proving that he’s much more than just another domestique. Meanwhile, all signs have been pointing to UAE Team Emirates grooming the 21-year-old Ayuso to be something of a 1A to Pogačar.

Michael Venutolo-Mantovani is a writer and musician based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He loves road and track cycling, likes gravel riding, and can often be found trying to avoid crashing his mountain bike. 

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Pogacar, 25, is the first cyclist to win the giro d’italia and tour de france in the same year since 1998., published july 21, 2024 • updated on july 21, 2024 at 4:02 pm.

Tadej Pogacar won the Tour de France for the third time and celebrated in style with a victory in Sunday's final stage — a time trial ending in Nice.

The 25-year-old Slovenian rider became the first cyclist to secure the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same year since the late Marco Pantani in 1998.

Two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark was second overall. He also finished the 21st and final stage in second place.

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Pogacar won the 34-kilometer (21-mile) time trial on the French Riviera's roads from Monaco to Nice in 45 minutes, 24 seconds. Vingegaard was 1 minute, 3 seconds behind him and Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel 1:14 back in third spot.

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In the overall standings, Vingegaard finished 6:17 behind Pogacar and Evenepoel was third overall, 9:18 behind Pogacar — whose other Tour wins came in 2020 and 2021.

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The race did not finish in Paris as it usually does because of the Olympic Games. Nice mayor Christian Estrosi called the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the southern French Alps “perfect cycling territory.”

From early Sunday morning, fans camped along the popular Promenade des Anglais in Nice to guard a spot that would offer the best glimpse of cyclists.

Some fans chanted “Remco, Remco” as the race-against-the-clock specialist zoomed past them.

They may have been surprised to see Pogacar going flat out.

After his explosive attack on Friday, Pogacar said he would not try to win Saturday’s stage. But the UAE Team Emirates rider could not resist and won that to become the second man to win five mountain stages in one Tour after Italian rider Gino Bartali in 1948.

Pogacar had no need to attack on Sunday, either, considering he led Vingegaard overnight by more than five minutes.

But the lure of another stage win proved too strong and he flew down the winding roads past picturesque Èze and Villefranche-sur-Mer on the approach to Nice, where the route flattened out again.

Pogacar held out three fingers as the finish line and a sixth stage win approached on this year’s Tour — the same number of stages he won when dominating the Giro d’Italia.

It was Pogacar’s biggest winning margin of his three Tour wins — beating the 5:20 gap on Vingegaard three years ago, but below the 7:29 victory margin Vingegaard enjoyed over Pogacar last year.

The battle with Vingegaard was not as close as it might have been in different circumstances.

The 27-year-old Vingegaard was hospitalized for nearly two weeks in April following a high-speed crash in the Tour of the Basque Country. He resumed competitive racing only on this Tour.

Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz won the best climber's polka dot jersey while Eritrea's Biniam Girmay won the top sprinter's green jersey and the 24-year-old Evenepoel capped a fine debut Tour with the white jersey for best young rider.

Associated Press writer Barbara Surk in Nice contributed to this report.

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Tim wellens wins renewi tour as arnaud de lie takes stage 5 victory.

Two Belgians lead the way on the Muur van Geraardsbergen on race's final day

There was Belgian delight on the final stage of the Renewi Tour as Arnaud De Lie (Lotto-Dstny) took the stage 5 victory on the Muur van Geraardsbergen while Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates) – finishing in second place at five seconds – grabbed the overall win.

Wellens had 16 seconds to make up over race leader Alec Segaert (Lotto-Dstny) on the final day of the race and duly did just that as the 21-year-old Belgian dropped well out of contention with moves flying up the road late in the stage.

The overall win marks Wellens' fourth success at the race, the veteran having previously won the 2014, 2015, and 2023 editions. De Lie, meanwhile, could celebrate his sixth win of the season after the duo broke away at the front of the race in the last 5km.

With climbs of the Onkerzele Berg, Dendeoordberg, Bosberg, and Muur van Geraardsbergen dotting the day's 203km route from Menen to Geraardsbergen, the final day was always likely to be the decisive stage of the five-day race.

The early stages of the race, a strong early breakaway made it clear, with Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates) joined out front by the likes of Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Brent Van Moer (Lotto-Dstny), Matteo Trentin (Tudor), and Dries De Bondt (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale).

That strong lead group wouldn't last long, however, as the break fell apart on the hilly local laps where the battle for the win would be fought. Several riders – including Trentin, De Bondt and Van Moer – remained in the lead as the race hit the final ascent of the Muur van Geraardsbergen at 25km from the line.

Behind them, Lotto-Dstny and UAE Team Emirates led the chase on behalf of race leader Alec Segaert and GC contender Tim Wellens. The remains of the breakaway were caught on the way, leaving Wellens to make a move at the front as he sought the overall victory.

Only De Lie was able to follow along with Wellens, the Belgian pair later joined by Per Strand Hagenes (Visma-Lease A Bike), who had earlier been in the breakaway move. It was Wellens who powered the move along, picking up eight bonus seconds in the green kilometre sprints.

The trio morphed into a sextet at 15km from the line as Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious), Stan Dewulf (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Rick Pluimers (Tudor), and Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ) chased across the gap as the likes of Segaert and Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) continued to chase 15 seconds down.

This situation held until the final 7km of the race, at which point Wellens put in several accelerations which split the group. Once the dust had settled, it was Wellens and De Lie out in the lead and only the run-in to Geraardsbergen, including the final climb, to contend with.

In the end, the closing acceleration of sprinter De Lie's unsurprisingly proved too much for Wellens to contend with. The three-time winner was all too happy to take second on the stage, however, as with Segaert finishing 47 seconds down, it would mark his fourth overall victory of the race.

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