What is the maximum number of Tour de France championships won by the same person and team?
What is the maximum number of Tour de France championships won by the same person and team? The Tour de France is a road bicycle race that takes place every year in July and lasts for 23 days. The Tour is the best-known and most prestigious of the three “Grand Tours” of cycling. Started by the newspaper L’Auto in 1903, the race comprises multiple stages that last one day each. At the end of the race, the winner is decided by adding up each participant’s time at the end of each stage. Every year, the course changes, but it always ends in Paris. Since 1975, it has ended along the Champs-Élysées.
How many times have multiple Tour de France championships been won?
The riders on this list have won the Tour de France at least twice. Alberto Contador had won three Tours, but one of them was taken away because he broke the rules against doping. Lance Armstrong was taken off the top of the list after he was found guilty of doping many times and had all seven of his Tour victories taken away. Jan Ullrich would have joined the list of people who have won the Tour if his tainted wins had been given to the second-placed rider in each race, like Floyd Landis and Alberto Contador’s wins were. But the race organizers, ASO, decided not to change the titles won in those years. They did this because doping was a big problem in cycling at the time, and Ullrich had been banned for doping. So, Ullrich has only one Tour de France win to his name.
Winners More Than Once – General Classification
Cyclist | Total | Years |
Jacques Anquetil (FRA) | 5 | 1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 |
Eddy Merckx (BEL) | 5 | 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 1974 |
Bernard Hinault (FRA) | 5 | 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985 |
Miguel Indurain (ESP) | 5 | 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 |
Chris Froome (GBR) | 4 | 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 |
Philippe Thys (BEL) | 3 | 1913, 1914, 1920 |
Louison Bobet (FRA) | 3 | 1953, 1954, 1955 |
Greg LeMond (USA) | 3 | 1986, 1989, 1990 |
Lucien Petit-Breton (FRA) | 2 | 1907, 1908 |
Firmin Lambot (BEL) | 2 | 1919, 1922 |
Ottavio Bottecchia (ITA) | 2 | 1924, 1925 |
Nicolas Frantz (LUX) | 2 | 1927, 1928 |
André Leducq (FRA) | 2 | 1930, 1932 |
Antonin Magne (FRA) | 2 | 1931, 1934 |
Sylvère Maes (BEL) | 2 | 1936, 1939 |
Gino Bartali (ITA) | 2 | 1938, 1948 |
Fausto Coppi (ITA) | 2 | 1949, 1952 |
Bernard Thévenet (FRA) | 2 | 1975, 1977 |
Laurent Fignon (FRA) | 2 | 1983, 1984 |
Alberto Contador (ESP) | 2 | 2007, 2009 |
Tadej Pogačar (SVN) | 2 | 2020, 2021 |
Winners More Than Once – By Nationality
Country | No. of wins | No. of winning cyclists |
France | 36 | 21 |
Belgium | 18 | 10 |
Spain | 12 | 7 |
Italy | 10 | 7 |
Great Britain | 6 | 3 |
Luxembourg | 5 | 4 |
United States | 3 | 1 |
Switzerland | 2 | 2 |
Netherlands | 2 | 2 |
Slovenia | 2 | 1 |
Ireland | 1 | 1 |
Denmark | 1 | 1 |
Germany | 1 | 1 |
Australia | 1 | 1 |
Colombia | 1 | 1 |
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