Legendary Riders
43 entries in the Tour de France compendium.
Bernard HinaultFive Tours, eleven Grands: the Badger never let the peloton breathe.Jacques AnquetilThe first five-time Tour winner, who wore the yellow jersey from day one in 1961 and earned the name…Laurent FignonThe Professor who won back-to-back Tours and lost the closest Tour in history by eight seconds.Lance ArmstrongSeven yellow jerseys, one confession, and a legacy the peloton still debates.Miguel IndurainFive Tours, one metronome: the quiet Spaniard who made domination look like breathing.Vincenzo NibaliThe Shark who bit the yellow jersey and never let go.Alberto ContadorSeven Grand Tours, two of them taken away, and a habit of attacking when it hurt.Chris FroomeThe British rider who won four Tour de France titles and made the yellow jersey his own in the mid-2010s.Tadej PogačarThe Slovenian who turned every mountain stage into a war and the peloton into an audience.Marco PantaniThe Pirate who conquered the mountains with relentless, off-the-saddle attacks.Louison BobetFirst rider to win the Tour de France in three successive years, 1953 to 1955.Fausto CoppiThe upright king who made the mountains kneel and the peloton hold its breath.Gino BartaliGiro and Tour champion on both sides of the war, and Righteous Among the Nations.Geraint ThomasThe Welshman who turned time-trial steel into a yellow jersey and a mountain legend.Cadel EvansSecond twice, then first: Australia's Tour winner at 34.Nairo QuintanaThe Condor of the Andes: Giro and Vuelta winner, twice second at the Tour.Stephen RocheTour, Giro and rainbow jersey in one season: Ireland's 1987.Felice GimondiThe Phoenix: Tour winner as a first-year pro, and the second man to win all three Grand Tours.Charly GaulThe Angel of the Mountains, who won the 1958 Tour in the cold and the rain.Sylvère MaesTwo Tours for Belgium, and one he walked away from while in yellow.Henri PélissierThe 1923 champion who fought Desgrange harder than the peloton.Gustaaf DeloorWinner of the first two Vueltas, later a mechanic at Cape Canaveral.André LeducqTwo Tours and 25 stage wins for the joker from Saint-Ouen.Erik ZabelSix green jerseys in a row, nine Grand Tour points titles in all.Mario CipolliniThe Lion King: 42 Giro stages, 12 Tour stages and the 2002 rainbow jersey.Alex ZülleTwice second at the Tour, twice a Vuelta winner, and a confessed EPO user.Richard VirenqueSeven polka-dot jerseys and the face of the Festina affair.Claudio ChiappucciThree Tour podiums and three polka-dot jerseys, starting with the 1990 breakaway.Sean KellyNine Monuments, seven Paris-Nice and four green jerseys from the farm at Curraghduff.Jan JanssenThe man in glasses who won the 1968 Tour on its very last day.Andy SchleckLuxembourg's Tour winner by the verdict of a court, twice second on the road.Raymond PoulidorPou-Pou, the Eternal Second: fourteen Tours, eight podiums, never a day in yellow.Bradley WigginsFrom the velodrome to the first British yellow jersey in 2012.Bernard ThevenetThe Burgundy farm boy who ended Merckx's reign in 1975.Peter SaganSeven green jerseys and three rainbow jerseys in a row, from a grocer's family in Žilina.Mark CavendishThirty-five Tour stages, the most in the race's history.Philippe ThysFirst three-time Tour de France winner.Maurice GarinThe chimney sweep from the Aosta Valley who won the first Tour and lost the second.Lucien Petit-BretonA false name, a lottery bicycle and the Tour's first double winner.Greg LeMondThree Tours, one hunting accident, and an American who made the peloton fear the attack.Jan UllrichGermany's 1997 Tour winner, whose career ended in doping sanctions.Eddy MerckxThe most successful rider in cycling history, with 525 victories including five Tour de France titles.Roger WalkowiakThe unknown who won the world's greatest cycling race.
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