Race History
104 entries in the Tour de France compendium.
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1903 Tour de FranceSix stages, one newspaper's gamble, and a name that started a century of legends.1904 Tour de FranceGarin won on the road, lost it to the judges, and Cornet got the title four months later.1905 Tour de FrancePoints replace time, the first mountain appears, and Trousselier takes four of eleven stages.1907 Tour de FranceGeorget's borrowed bicycle handed the fifth Tour to Petit-Breton.1908 Tour de FrancePetit-Breton's second win, the first double in the Tour's history.1909 Tour de FranceFaber takes six stages and the first team-era Tour.1910 Tour de FranceThe first Pyrenean Tour, won by Lapize over his teammate Faber.1912 Tour de FranceHired as a helper, Defraye ended up winning the tenth Tour.1913 Tour de FranceChristophe's broken forks and the return of the clock.1914 Tour de FranceThys again, on a Tour that began the day Franz Ferdinand was shot.1919 Tour de FranceTen finishers, ravaged roads and the first yellow jersey.1920 Tour de FranceThys's third Tour, in a race Belgium swept top to bottom.1921 Tour de FranceScieur and the Belgians, with the Pélissiers sulking at home.1922 Tour de FranceAlavoine, Christophe and Heusghem all led; Lambot took it at Dunkerque.1923 Tour de FrancePélissier proves Desgrange wrong by half an hour.1924 Tour de FranceBottecchia in yellow from start to finish, Italy's first Tour.1925 Tour de FranceBottecchia again, as the trade teams come back.1926 Tour de FranceThe longest Tour ever run, won by Lucien Buysse.1927 Tour de FranceFrantz's first win, in the year of the team-start experiment.1928 Tour de FranceFrantz keeps yellow all the way, even on a borrowed women's bike.1929 Tour de FranceA sick De Waele wins, Fontan carries his broken bike, and the trade teams are shown the door.1930 Tour de FranceNational teams, yellow bicycles and the first publicity caravan: Leducq's year.1931 Tour de FranceMagne wins, and Max Bulla becomes the only touriste-routier ever to lead the Tour.1932 Tour de FranceLeducq's second Tour, won on bonuses by a margin that was really three seconds.1933 Tour de FranceSpeicher's Tour, and the birth of the mountains competition.1934 Tour de FranceMagne's second Tour, Vietto's sacrifice and the first time trial.1935 Tour de FranceRomain Maes leads from day one, in the Tour that killed Francisco Cepeda.1936 Tour de FranceDesgrange steps down, Goddet steps up, and Sylvère Maes wins.1937 Tour de FranceLapébie wins after the Belgians walk out.1938 Tour de FranceBartali's first Tour, on a race rebuilt around national teams.1939 Tour de FranceMaes's second Tour, the last before the war.1947 Tour de FranceRobic steals the first post-war Tour on its final day.1948 Tour de FranceBartali wins ten years on, with Italy's prime minister on the telephone.1949 Tour de FranceCoppi and Bartali, one team, first and second.1950 Tour de FranceThe Italians walk out in the Pyrenees and Kübler becomes the first Swiss winner.1951 Tour de FranceKoblet's Tour, won against the clock.1952 Tour de FranceCoppi by half an hour, the widest margin the Tour has ever seen.1953 Tour de FranceBobet's first Tour and the first green jersey.1954 Tour de FranceBobet again, with the Italians staying home.1955 Tour de FranceThree in a row for Bobet, and the first British team.1956 Tour de FranceWalkowiak, the regional rider nobody expected and few forgave.1957 Tour de FranceAnquetil's first, on a French team that won nearly everything.1958 Tour de FranceEleven changes of leader, then Gaul settles it against the clock.1959 Tour de FranceSpain's first Tour, handed to Bahamontes by a divided French team.1960 Tour de FranceNencini wins after Rivière's fall.1961 Tour de FranceAnquetil promised yellow from day one to Paris, and delivered.1962 Tour de FranceTrade teams return, Anquetil makes it three, Simpson makes history in yellow.1963 Tour de FranceShorter time trials could not stop Anquetil's fourth.1964 Tour de FranceAnquetil and Poulidor shoulder to shoulder, and a fifth Tour.1965 Tour de FranceA substitute neo-pro named Gimondi beats Poulidor.1966 Tour de FranceAnquetil's domestique wins, with Anquetil pulling for him to spite Poulidor.1968 Tour de FranceJanssen in the last time trial, at the Tour's new finish in Vincennes.1969 Tour de FranceMerckx takes every jersey there was.1970 Tour de FranceMerckx's second, with only Zoetemelk inside a quarter of an hour.1971 Tour de FranceThree in a row for Merckx on the shortest Tour since 1905.1972 Tour de FranceOcaña crashes again and Merckx makes it four.1973 Tour de FranceWith Merckx away, Ocaña wins by a quarter of an hour.1974 Tour de FranceFive from five: Merckx matches Anquetil and takes the Tour to Plymouth.1975 Tour de FranceA punch, a broken cheekbone and the end of Merckx's reign.1976 Tour de FranceGuimard's threat from the team car sends Van Impe to victory.1977 Tour de FranceThévenet holds on at Alpe d'Huez for his second Tour.1978 Tour de FrancePollentier's test-cheating exit and Hinault's first Tour.1979 Tour de FranceHinault and Zoetemelk, half an hour clear of everyone else.1980 Tour de FranceHinault's knee gives way and Zoetemelk wins at the tenth attempt.1981 Tour de FranceHinault from stage 6 to Paris, growing his lead almost every day.1982 Tour de FranceHinault's fourth, on the first 170-rider Tour.1983 Tour de FranceAn eighteen-year-old Frenchman stole the yellow jersey from his own nation's king.1984 Tour de FranceFignon crushes Hinault by ten minutes as Renault takes ten stages.1985 Tour de FranceHinault's fifth, with a broken nose and a promise to LeMond.1986 Tour de FranceLeMond and Hinault, teammates at war, and a first for America.1987 Tour de FranceRoche, eight yellow jerseys and the closest race in years.1988 Tour de FranceDelgado's Tour, short, steep and shadowed by a test the rules could not punish.1989 Tour de FranceLeMond, Fignon and the aero bars: the closest Tour ever.1990 Tour de FranceThe stage-one break and LeMond's third Tour, won without a stage.1991 Tour de FranceInduráin's first, the start of a five-year reign.1992 Tour de FranceSeven countries for Maastricht, and Induráin's second.1993 Tour de FranceThree in a row for Induráin.1994 Tour de FranceLille to Paris by way of England, and a fourth straight win for Induráin.1995 Tour de FranceInduráin's fifth, in the Tour that lost Fabio Casartelli.1996 Tour de FranceRiis ends the Induráin era, in a win he later admitted was doped.1997 Tour de FranceUllrich by nine minutes, a margin nobody has matched since.1998 Tour de FranceDublin start, Festina scandal, and Pantani's comeback from a poor first week.1999 Tour de FranceThe first of the seven Tours that officially have no winner.2000 Tour de FranceHautacam, the Ventoux and a result that no longer officially exists.2001 Tour de FranceFive summit finishes in a row, Zabel's sixth green, and no official winner.2002 Tour de FranceLuxembourg to Paris by way of the Pyrenees, and a result later struck from the books.2003 Tour de FranceThe centenary Tour, Paris to Paris, with no winner left on the record.2004 Tour de FranceLiège to Paris, Voeckler's ten days in yellow, and a sixth 'win' later struck from the record.2006 Tour de FranceLandis disqualified, Pereiro declared winner of the first official Tour since 1998.2007 Tour de FranceA London start, a leader sent home, and Contador's first Tour.2009 Tour de FranceMonaco to Paris through six countries, and Contador's second.2010 Tour de FranceRotterdam cobbles, the Tourmalet twice, and a winner decided in court.2011 Tour de FranceVoeckler's long stand in yellow, then Evans against the clock.2012 Tour de FranceLiège to Paris, and Britain's first yellow jersey.2014 Tour de FranceYorkshire to Paris: Nibali by seven minutes after Froome crashes out.2015 Tour de FranceUtrecht to Paris: Froome's second, against Quintana in the Alps.2016 Tour de FranceFroome's third, from Mont Saint-Michel to Paris.2017 Tour de FranceDüsseldorf to Paris, and four for Froome.2018 Tour de FranceThomas takes yellow in the Alps and keeps it from Dumoulin.2019 Tour de FranceAlaphilippe's long summer in yellow, and Bernal's breakthrough in the Alps.2020 Tour de FranceAn empty-road coronation: Pogačar's 22-year-old masterpiece in a world on pause.2022 Tour de FranceCopenhagen to Paris: Vingegaard breaks Pogačar in the Alps.2023 Tour de FranceTen seconds after two weeks, seven minutes after the time trial: Vingegaard again.2024 Tour de FranceFlorence to Nice: Pogačar's Giro-Tour double, the first since Pantani.
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