Mark Cavendish

Thirty-five Tour stages, the most in the race's history.

Sir Mark Cavendish (born 21 May 1985) is a retired Manx cyclist, a sprinter on the road and a madison, points-race and scratch-race specialist on the track, widely rated among the greatest road sprinters ever. On the track he won the madison world title in 2005 with Rob Hayles and in 2008 with Bradley Wiggins, the scratch race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games for the Isle of Man, a third madison world title with Wiggins in 2016 and omnium silver at the 2016 Olympics. He turned professional on the road in 2005 and won eleven races in his first season. Between 2008 and 2024 he won 35 Tour de France stages, the most of any rider, within a total of 55 Grand Tour stage wins, the third-highest ever. He won the 2011 world road race, the second British man to do so after Tom Simpson, and has won the points classification in all three Grand Tours.