Tour de France records and statistics

The Tour de France is road cycling's premier competitive event. Since the first event in 1903, one rider has been King of the Mountains, won the combination classification, combativity award, the points competition, and the Tour in the same year - Eddy Merckx in 1969, which was also the first year he participated. Only two other riders have approached the feat of winning the green, polka dot and yellow jerseys in the same Tour. Bernard Hinault won the race and the points classification in 1979, but finished second in the mountains competition, while Tadej Pogačar won the race and the mountains competition in 2025, but finished second in the points classification. After Merckx in 1972 no other rider won three separate jerseys in a single Tour, until Tadej Pogačar won the yellow, polka-dot and white jerseys in 2020, a feat he repeated the following year. The white jersey signifies the best young rider and was introduced in 1975. The Tour has been won on two occasions by a racer who never wore the yellow jersey until the race was over. In 1947, Jean Robic overturned a three-minute deficit on a 257 km final stage into Paris. In 1968, Jan Janssen of the Netherlands secured his win in the individual time trial on the last day. In addition to 1947 and 1968, in 1989 Greg LeMond overcame a +:50 deficit to Laurent Fignon on the last day of the race in Paris to win the race on the final day, however Lemond had worn the yellow jersey earlier in the race. This was the final time the last stage in Paris was held as an individual time trial. The Tour has been won four times by a racer who led the general classification on the first stage and held the lead all the way to Paris. Maurice Garin did it during the Tour's first edition, 1903; he repeated the feat the next year, but the results were nullified in response to widespread cheating. Ottavio Bottecchia completed a GC start-to-finish sweep in 1924. In 1928, Nicolas Frantz also led the GC for the entire race, and the final podium was made up of three riders from his Alcyon–Dunlop team. Lastly, Belgian Romain Maes took the lead in the first stage of the 1935 tour, and never gave it away. Similarly, there have been four tours in which a racer has taken over the GC lead on the second stage and held the lead all the way to Paris. After dominating the ITT during Stage 1B of the 1961 Tour de France Jacques Anquetil held the Maillot Jaune from the first day all the way to Paris. René Pottier, Roger Lapébie, Sylvère Maes, Fausto Coppi and Bradley Wiggins all won the Tour de France the last time they appeared in the race. Mark Cavendish is the all-time leader in individual stage wins with 35.