Race History
119 entries in the Tour de France compendium.
Race History — Era Chart
Philippe ThysThree-time Tour de France winner who overcame penalties and broken forks.Maurice GarinThe dominant favorite who outlasted the field and became the Tour's first king.Lucien Petit-BretonThe man who made the Tour de France a war of nerves and a religion of suffering.Fausto CoppiThe Campionissimo who made the Tour de France his cathedral of glory.Greg LeMondThree Tours, one hunting accident, and an American who made the peloton fear the attack.Jan UllrichNineteen, German, and already the king of the mountains in his first Tour.1903 Tour de FranceSix stages, one newspaper's gamble, and a name that started a century of legends.1905 Tour de FranceFour years in, the Tour was still a raw French road race — and Pothier made it his.1904 Tour de FranceThe race where poisons replaced courage and the finish line was a death sentence for some.1907 Tour de FranceThirteen stages, no support cars, and one Frenchman who outlasted them all.1908 Tour de FranceHenri Cornet's untouchable 1908 crown: the Tour's sixth chapter, written in French dust an1909 Tour de FranceThe year the Cornet era ended and a new French champion rose from the old guard.1910 Tour de FranceA dark horse from France stunned the cycling world with an unglamorous, relentless victory1912 Tour de FranceTen editions in, and a Belgian giant broke the Tour wide open.1913 Tour de FranceThe last peacetime Tour before the guns of 1914 silenced the roads of France.1919 Tour de FranceA broken bike, a mountain, and a man who refused to stop.1920 Tour de FranceA broken fork, a mountain walked, and a victory forged in pure will.1914 Tour de FranceThe last peacetime Tour of a century's first half, won by Belgium's Thys as war gathered o1921 Tour de FranceA broken chain, a mountain, and the most defiant act in Tour de France history.1924 Tour de FranceA Belgian giant conquers France's mountains in the Tour's raw, endurance-forged era.1925 Tour de FranceA Belgian gritted his teeth through three weeks of pain and stole the Tour from France its1923 Tour de FranceA Belgian's iron will conquered the roads of post-war France in the sixteenth Tour.1922 Tour de FranceBuysse's back-to-back crown: the Belgian king of the post-war Tour.1926 Tour de FranceOne Belgian, twenty-four stages, and the end of French monopoly on the yellow jersey.1927 Tour de FranceThree Tours, one Belgian king, and the scandal that changed cycling forever.1928 Tour de FranceThree crowns for Buysse: Belgium's mountain king sealed his Tour legacy in 1928.1929 Tour de FranceFrantz's quiet, relentless climb to a second green jersey in the Alps and Pyrenees.1930 Tour de FranceA Frenchman's crown reclaimed from the Belgians and Italians on the roads of 1930.1932 Tour de FranceLeducq's commanding ride etched the twentieth Tour into French cycling legend.1933 Tour de FranceA German's yellow jersey, a Pyrenees scandal, and a Tour that refused to be quiet.1931 Tour de FranceTwo years, one French titan: Leducq's back-to-back Tours defined an age of pure grit.1934 Tour de FrancePyrenees smoke, Barcelona sun, and Antonin Magne refusing to let go of that yellow.1936 Tour de FranceMagne's quiet, relentless French triumph in the last great pre-war Tour.1937 Tour de FranceA southern Frenchman's quiet, relentless conquest of the pre-war Tour.1938 Tour de FranceThe last peacetime Tour, where the yellow jersey outlasted the peace.1935 Tour de FranceMagne's 1935 Tour: a Frenchmaster's crown forged in Alpine fire.1939 Tour de FranceThe last Tour before the world went dark — a peacetime race in a warbound age.1947 Tour de FranceSeven years of silence, shattered by the roar of wheels on French roads.1948 Tour de FranceA war-scarred nation found its champion in the silent suffering of the mountains.1949 Tour de FranceA Swiss giant broke France's grip on the yellow jersey in the Alps.1951 Tour de FranceThe year Switzerland's mountain king finally claimed the yellow jersey.1950 Tour de FranceThree weeks, two nations, one Swiss legend who flew over France in the yellow.1952 Tour de FranceTwo Italians, one mountain, and a rivalry that defined an era of the Tour.1953 Tour de FranceTwo giants, three weeks, one yellow jersey—Coppi and Bobet in the 1953 Tour.1954 Tour de FranceA twenty-two-year-old from Luxembourg conquered the mountains and wrote history in 1954.1955 Tour de FranceA Grand Duchy of two hundred thousand claimed the world's greatest race.1956 Tour de FranceA 22-year-old from a tiny Grand Duchy stole the yellow jersey and rewrote the Tour's recor1957 Tour de FranceThe year the Red Devil proved a time trial could conquer the mountains.1958 Tour de FranceThe year Paris gave the world its most feared time-trialist and the Tour its new king.1959 Tour de FranceThe year the Spider strangled the mountains with a time-trialist's patience.1961 Tour de FranceLe Gaulois turned the clock into a weapon and left the mountains in his dust.1962 Tour de FranceTwo giants, one road, and a rivalry that would haunt French cycling for a decade.1963 Tour de FranceThe Stag galloped through the Alps and took his fourth yellow jersey in 1963.1960 Tour de FranceAnquetil's time-trial thunder met the mountains' fury in a Tour that defined its era.1965 Tour de FranceThe Ant held the line, but the Young King had already shown his teeth.1966 Tour de FranceA French rider seized the yellow jersey in a Tour defined by mountain grit and national pr1967 Tour de FranceA Frenchman's triumph in the year before the Merckx era swallowed the peloton whole.1964 Tour de FranceThe Diable Rouge's final coronation over the Éternel Second.1969 Tour de FranceThe year the Cannibal first showed the world what hunger truly meant in the mountains.1968 Tour de FranceA Dutch unknown in a Belgian jersey conquered the mountains and stole the Tour.1971 Tour de FranceOne man, three weeks, no mercy: Merckx devoured the 1971 Tour like it was a training ride.1970 Tour de FranceThe Cannibal devoured the 1970 Tour with the same hunger that made him legend.1972 Tour de FranceFour consecutive Tours: Merckx devoured 1972 with the same appetite as the years before.1973 Tour de FranceOne man, twenty stages, and a yellow jersey that never truly wavered.1974 Tour de FranceThe Cannibal devoured the 1974 Tour with the calm of a man eating his lunch.1977 Tour de FranceThe year a 22-year-old Breton took the yellow jersey and never truly let go.1976 Tour de FranceBelgian mountains, two yellow jerseys in a row, and the dawn of Hinault's reign.1975 Tour de FranceThe last time the Cannonball wore the yellow jersey as champion of the world.1978 Tour de FranceTwo titans, one shattered collarbone, and a yellow jersey that never wavered.1980 Tour de FranceDublin to Paris: the Tour leaves France for the first time, and Hinault rides it into the 1979 Tour de FranceTwo years, two yellow jerseys, one Breton storm that the peloton could not break.1981 Tour de FranceHinault's second yellow: proof that the French king of the 1980s had only just begun.1982 Tour de FranceHinault's fifth yellow jersey: the Frenchman's crown sealed in the mountains of 1982.1983 Tour de FranceAn eighteen-year-old Frenchman stole the yellow jersey from his own nation's king.1984 Tour de FranceFignon's coronation: a young Frenchman dethroned the king in the Tour's most storied duel.1986 Tour de FranceOne Irishman, three crowns, and a season that redefined what a cyclist could achieve.1987 Tour de FranceOne Irishman, three Grand Tours, one unforgettable summer of 1987.1985 Tour de FranceA giant's farewell: five Tours, one final yellow, and a peloton that never quite caught hi1988 Tour de FranceAn American in yellow: LeMond's 1988 Tour broke a 69-year European stranglehold.1990 Tour de FranceAn American's first yellow, a three-man Paris sprint, and a new era in the Tour.1991 Tour de FranceThe year a time-trialist broke the Tour and never let go.1989 Tour de FranceNine seconds into Paris, fifty-two out — the American who broke the Tour's continental wal1993 Tour de FranceDublin to Paris, and the Iron Man made it look effortless.1992 Tour de FranceOne quiet Spaniard, five yellow jerseys, and the birth of a cycling dynasty.1994 Tour de FranceFive Tours would follow; the 1994 was the one that made the world believe it was inevitabl1995 Tour de FranceFive in a row: Indurain's final yellow crown, sealed in the summer of 1995.1996 Tour de FranceFive kings entered the mountains; only one survived the descent.1997 Tour de FranceThe Eagle of Treviso soars over the Alps and claims the yellow jersey in a Tour for the ag1998 Tour de FranceA pirate's golden crown, earned in the shadow of a sport's darkest week.2000 Tour de FranceDublin to Paris: a green island's first Tour, and a yellow jersey that would not survive t1999 Tour de FranceAmsterdam to the Pyrenees: the year yellow became a certainty, not a question.2001 Tour de FranceFrom Copenhagen's canals to Parisian boulevards, the American machine ground out its third2003 Tour de FranceFive in a row — Armstrong's Dublin-to-Paris coronation in the US Postal blue.2004 Tour de FranceDublin's green fields to Parisian boulevards—the last golden Tour before the storm.2002 Tour de FranceDublin to Paris: the year the Postal machine made five look easy.2006 Tour de FranceSeven gold jerseys, one final bow, and a silence that would outlast the applause.2007 Tour de FranceA young Spaniard, a German shadow, and a London start that changed the Tour's map forever.2009 Tour de FranceOne Spaniard's audacity, two brothers' resolve, and a Tourmalet that decided everything.2010 Tour de FranceOne team, three yellow-jersey dreams, and a scandal that rewrote the final page.2011 Tour de FranceAn Australian's dream, a crash that broke a brother's race, and a yellow jersey no one saw2012 Tour de FranceBritain's first yellow: Wiggins conquers the Tour in a Sky-blue coronation.2014 Tour de FranceOne attack in the Pyrenees, and the yellow jersey finally found its owner.2017 Tour de FranceFour yellows, one shadow: Froome's machine perfection meets the TADE storm.2016 Tour de FranceThree weeks, one dominant Sky machine, and a blood-test controversy that refused to fade.2015 Tour de FranceFroome's coronation: the year Team Sky's patience finally paid off in the mountains.2019 Tour de FranceA 22-year-old's thunderbolt in the Alps rewrote the Tour's history book.2020 Tour de FranceAn empty-road coronation: Pogačar's 22-year-old masterpiece in a world on pause.2018 Tour de FranceA Welshman's yellow: Thomas outlasted the giants in the 105th Tour.2022 Tour de FranceTwo giants, one final climb, and a victory that rewrote the pecking order.2023 Tour de FranceTwo kings, one yellow jersey, and a final-stage attack that stopped the world.Lance Armstrong Doping ScandalSeven yellow jerseys, one shattered myth, and a sport forced to reckon with itself.2024 Tour de FranceFlorence to Paris. Three weeks, 21 stages, and two riders who made the whole field look liGreen Jersey Introduction 1968The green jersey gave the peloton's gladiators a crown of their own in 1968.1989 LeMond-Fignon Final Time TrialEight seconds separated a legend from a heartbreak on the Parisian roads.Polka Dot Jersey Introduction 1975Red dots on white: the mountain king's crown, stitched into the Tour's soul since 1975.Festina Affair 1998One stopped car, one summer, and the end of an era in the peloton.Floyd Landis Controversy 2006The Tour victory that was won on the road and lost in the courtroom.Bradley Wiggins Historic Win 2012A quiet revolution in yellow: Britain's first Tour champion arrived not with a roar, but wGeraint Thomas Historic Win 2018A Welshman in yellow: the first from his homeland to conquer the Tour.
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