Complete Men’s Tour de France Winners List

Every sport has some major tournaments and competitions taking place through the year and in the sport of cycling, there are three such major tournaments. There’s the Vuelta a España that began in 1935 and the Giro d’Italia which began in 1909. However, the oldest and most historic of bicycle races around the world is The Tour de France which kicked off all the way back in 1903.

It’s the premier men’s elite race of the UCI World Tour which began in 2009 and the top cyclists from around the world prepare for this event each year. It typically takes place during the June-July period and this men’s annual cycling event is a highly popular one, televised across the world, and the overall prize pool being a whopping €2,500,000 in the most recent edition of The Tour.

The Tour de France winners list

The oldest of the three grand tours, the event has also been known to be called as La Grande Boucle and Le Tour over the years. 110 editions have taken place since inception of his multiple-stage bicycle race in 1903, and the annual event has only been cancelled twice, for the respective first couple of World Wars in the early 20th Century.

The races include clockwise and counterclockwise circuits through the various stages and typically, they involve passage through the Pyrenees mountain chains and the Alps, with a finish on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The race length has often changed over time but modern races are typically around 3,500 kilometers, with around 20-22 teams participating each year (8 riders each).

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There are multiple contests held within the Tour like points classification for sprinters (green jersey), mountains classification for climbers (polka dot jersey), young rider classification for those under 26 years of age (white jersey), and the team classification, for the first three finishers of each team at each stage. The race leader in terms of time wears the iconic yellow jersey of the Tour de France.

Talking about the yellow jersey, the one with the lowest time at the end of the race which is typically between 23-24 days long, is the Tour de France winner. It takes a lot of effort to emerge as winner of this Grand Tour and you can see below for our complete Tour de France winners list, last updated 22nd July 2023, towards the end of the 2023 Tour de France race:

Men’s Tour de France winners list

*Winners were usually selected based on accumulated time but between 1905-1912, the organisers experimented with choosing winners by points, based on their placing at the end of each day. Initially, anyone who wanted could participate, with the entry fee being as low as 10 francs for the first event in 1903. But that rule, like many others, changed over time.

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A lot of the race took place between night to the next afternoon but there was rampant cheating and sometimes, the riders were even beaten by rivals in spots which were difficult to watch over by the judges. Hence, night races were cancelled by 1904 itself. Typically, there are around 21 day-long stages in every year’s race, while this number has also been experimented with many times over the decades.

The most successful athletes in the Tour de France history have been Jacques Anquetil (France), Eddy Merckx (Belgium), Bernard Hinault (France), and Miguel Induráin (Spain), each of them having won Tour de France on five (5) occasions each, in the order of them being mentioned in this list. From them, Spain’s Induráin remains the only to win his 5 titles in 5 consecutive years as well.

All winners of the Tour de France

In the history of the Tour de France, there’s one name that has always popped up and won’t be forgotten anytime soon. We’re talking about Lance Armstrong who is arguably one of the greatest men’s cyclists of all time. He is the epitome of success in this tournament, with as many as seven consecutive wins in the Tour de France between 1999-2005, only for him to lose it all later.

In 2012, a United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) investigation concluded that he used performance-enhancing drugs right through his cycling career, which meant he had to be stripped of all his wins in this tournament, which was not given to anyone else for those years either. As we mentioned before, doping, cheating, and the use of illegal steroids has plagued this sport right from the start of time.

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