Jacques Anquetil

Felice Gimondi

Eddy Merckx

Bernard Hinault

Alberto Contador

Vincenzo Nibali

Chris Froome

The seven cyclists who have won all three tours. Of them, only Contador and Hinault have won each Grand Tour at least twice, and only Merckx, Hinault and Froome have won all three tours consecutively.

In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour is one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España. Collectively they are termed the Grand Tours, and all three races are similar in format, being three-week races with daily stages. They have a special status in the UCI regulations: more points for the UCI World Tour are distributed in Grand Tours than in other races,^[1] and they are the only stage races allowed to last longer than 14 days,^[2] and these differ from major stage races more than one week in duration.

All three races have a substantial history, with the Tour de France first held in 1903, Giro d'Italia first held in 1909 and the Vuelta a España first held in 1935. The Giro is generally run in May, the Tour in July, and the Vuelta in late August and September. The Vuelta was originally held in the spring, usually late April, with a few editions held in June in the 1940s. In 1995, however, the race moved to September to avoid direct competition with the Giro.

The Tour de France is the oldest and most prestigious in terms of points accrued to racers of all three,^[1] and is the most widely attended annual sporting event in the world.^[3] The Tour, the Giro and the Road World Cycling Championship make up the Triple Crown of Cycling.

The three Grand Tours are men's events, and as of 2023, no three week races currently exist on the women's road cycling circuit. The Vuelta Femenina, Giro d'Italia Women and Tour de France Femmes are sometimes considered to be equivalent races for women – taking place over shorter, smaller routes around a week in length. The Vuelta Femenina was first held under that name in 2023, the Giro d'Italia Women was first held in 1988, and various women's Tour de France events have taken place since 1984 – with the Tour de France Femmes having its first edition in 2022.

In their current form, the Grand Tours are held over three consecutive weeks and typically include two rest days near the beginning of the second and third weeks. If the opening stages are in a country not neighbouring the home nation of the race, there is sometimes an additional rest day after the opening weekend to allow for transfers. The stages are a mix of long massed start races (sometimes including mountain and hill climbs and descents; others are flat stages favoring those with a sprint finish) and individual and team time trials. Stages in the Grand Tours are generally under 200 kilometres in length.

Grand Tour events have specific rules and criteria as part of Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) regulations. For the UCI World Tour, more points are given in grand tours than in other races; the winner of the Tour de France receives 1000 points, and the winners of the Giro and Vuelta receive 850 points. Depending on the nature of other races, points vary for the winner of the overall classification^[1] The grand tours have a special status for the length: they are allowed to last between 15 and 23 days – whereas other stage races are not allowed to last longer than 14 days.^[2]

Historically, controversy surrounds which teams are invited to the event by the organiser. Typically, the UCI prefers top-rated professional teams to enter, while operators of the Grand Tours often want teams based in their country or those unlikely to cause controversy. Between 2005 and 2007, organisers had to accept all ProTour teams, leaving only two wildcard teams per Tour. However, the Unibet team, a ProTour team normally guaranteed entry, was banned from the three Grand Tours for violating gambling advertising laws. In 2008, following numerous doping scandals, some teams were refused entry to the Grand Tours: Astana did not compete at the 2008 Tour de France and Team Columbia did not compete at the 2008 Vuelta a España.

Since 2011, under the UCI World Tour rules, all UCI WorldTeams are guaranteed a place in all three events, and obliged to participate, and the organisers are free to invite wildcard teams of UCI ProContinental status to make up the 22 teams that usually compete.^{[citation needed]}

In 2023, Team Jumbo–Visma riders Primož Roglič, Jonas Vingegaard and Sepp Kuss won the Giro, Tour and Vuelta respectively, making the team the first to win all three Grand Tours in a single calendar year.^[4]

The main competition is the individual general classification, decided on aggregate time (sometimes after allowance of time bonuses). There are also classifications for teams and young riders, and based on climbing and sprinting points, and other minor competitions. Five riders have won three individual classifications open to all riders (general, mountains, young and points classifications) in the same race: Eddy Merckx in the 1968 Giro d'Italia and 1969 Tour de France and 1973 Vuelta a España, Tony Rominger in the 1993 Vuelta a España, Laurent Jalabert in the 1995 Vuelta a España, Marco Pantani in the 1998 Giro d'Italia, and Tadej Pogačar in the 2020 Tour de France and 2021 Tour de France.

It is rare for cyclists to ride all grand tours in the same year; in 2004, 474 cyclists started in at least one of the grand tours, 68 of them rode two Grand Tours and only two cyclists started in all three grand tours.^[5] It is not unusual for sprinters to start each of the Grand Tours and aim for stage wins before the most difficult stages occur. Alessandro Petacchi and Mark Cavendish started all three Grand Tours in 2010 and 2011, respectively, as did some of their preferred support riders. For both riders in both years, only the Tour de France was ridden to its conclusion.

Over the years, 36 riders have completed all three Grand Tours in one year: Adam Hansen did so six years in a row. The only riders to have finished in the top 10 in each of the three tours during the same year are Raphaël Géminiani in 1955 and Gastone Nencini in 1957. In 2023 Sepp Kuss became the first rider since Nencini to start and finish all three tours in one year, while winning one of them - in Kuss' case the 2023 Vuelta a España.

Riders from the same country winning all three Grand Tours in a single year has happened only on four occasions. It first occurred in 1964 with French riders Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor, with the second occurrence in 2008 with Spanish riders Alberto Contador and Carlos Sastre. 2018 marked the only time three different riders from the same country won all three Tours, these being British riders Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas and Simon Yates. In 2024 Slovenian riders Tadej Pogačar (winning the Giro and the Tour) and Primož Roglič (winning the Vuelta) repeated the accomplishments of the aforementioned French, Spanish and British riders.

On four occasions, each of the three Grand Tours in the same year was won by a home rider, that is, an Italian winning the Giro, a Frenchman winning the Tour and a Spaniard winning the Vuelta. The last occasion this occurred was 1975.

As of 2024^[update], no three week races currently exist on the women's road cycling circuit. Historically, women have participated in three week long stages races, with various women's Tour de France events taking place since 1984.^[6][7] In the contemporary UCI Women's World Tour, the Giro d'Italia Women (first held in 1988), the Tour de France Femmes (first held in 2022) and the Vuelta Femenina (started in 2015, gaining its current name in 2023) are sometimes considered to be equivalent races for women – taking place over shorter, smaller routes around a week in length.^[8][9] The Vuelta Femenina takes place in May, the Giro d'Italia Women is generally run in late June / early July and the Tour de France Femmes is held in late July following the men's Tour de France.

Some media and teams have referred to these women's events as Grand Tours, as they are the biggest events in the women's calendar.^[10][9][11] However, they are not three week stage races, they do not have a special status in the rules and regulations of cycling (such as more points in the UCI Women's World Tour, or allowing an increased number of stages),^[12][13] and some have argued that the races need to visit high mountains (such as the Alps) or contain time trial stages to be considered an equivalent event.^[10][14]

Campaign groups such as Le Tour Entier and The Cyclists' Alliance continue to push organisers and the UCI to allow for longer stage races for women,^[13] as well as to improve the quality and economic stability of the women's peloton to allow for three week long races in future.^[14][15]

Year	Giro d'Italia	Tour de France	Vuelta a España
1903	started in 1909	Maurice Garin (1/1)	started in 1935
1904		Henri Cornet (1/1)
1905		Louis Trousselier (1/1)
1906		René Pottier (1/1)
1907		Lucien Petit-Breton (1/2)
1908		Lucien Petit-Breton (2/2)
1909	Luigi Ganna (1/1)	François Faber (1/1)
1910	Carlo Galetti (1/3)	Octave Lapize (1/1)
1911	Carlo Galetti (2/3)	Gustave Garrigou (1/1)
1912	Team Atala (Carlo Galetti (3/3), Giovanni Micheletto (1/1) & Eberardo Pavesi (1/1))	Odile Defraye (1/1)
1913	Carlo Oriani (1/1)	Philippe Thys (1/3)
1914	Alfonso Calzolari (1/1)	Philippe Thys (2/3)
1915	Not contested during World War I
1916
1917
1918
1919	Costante Girardengo (1/2)	Firmin Lambot (1/2)
1920	Gaetano Belloni (1/1)	Philippe Thys (3/3)
1921	Giovanni Brunero (1/3)	Léon Scieur (1/1)
1922	Giovanni Brunero (2/3)	Firmin Lambot (2/2)
1923	Costante Girardengo (2/2)	Henri Pélissier (1/1)
1924	Giuseppe Enrici (1/1)	Ottavio Bottecchia (1/2)
1925	Alfredo Binda (1/5)	Ottavio Bottecchia (2/2)
1926	Giovanni Brunero (3/3)	Lucien Buysse (1/1)
1927	Alfredo Binda (2/5)	Nicolas Frantz (1/2)
1928	Alfredo Binda (3/5)	Nicolas Frantz (2/2)
1929	Alfredo Binda (4/5)	Maurice De Waele (1/1)
1930	Luigi Marchisio (1/1)	André Leducq (1/2)
1931	Francesco Camusso (1/1)	Antonin Magne (1/2)
1932	Antonio Pesenti (1/1)	André Leducq (2/2)
1933	Alfredo Binda (5/5)	Georges Speicher (1/1)
1934	Learco Guerra (1/1)	Antonin Magne (2/2)
1935	Vasco Bergamaschi (1/1)	Romain Maes (1/1)	Gustaaf Deloor (1/2)
1936	Gino Bartali (1/5)	Sylvère Maes (1/2)	Gustaaf Deloor (2/2)
1937	Gino Bartali (2/5)	Roger Lapébie (1/1)	Not contested during the Spanish Civil War
1938	Giovanni Valetti (1/2)	Gino Bartali (3/5)
1939	Giovanni Valetti (2/2)	Sylvère Maes (2/2)
1940	Fausto Coppi (1/7)	Not contested during World War II
1941	Not contested during World War II		Julián Berrendero (1/2)
1942			Julián Berrendero (2/2)
1943			Not contested during World War II
1944
1945			Delio Rodríguez (1/1)
1946	Gino Bartali (4/5)		Dalmacio Langarica (1/1)
1947	Fausto Coppi (2/7)	Jean Robic (1/1)	Edward Van Dijck (1/1)
1948	Fiorenzo Magni (1/3)	Gino Bartali (5/5)	Bernardo Ruiz (1/1)
1949	Fausto Coppi (3/7)	Fausto Coppi (4/7)	Not contested for lack of interest
1950	Hugo Koblet (1/2)	Ferdinand Kübler (1/1)	Emilio Rodríguez (1/1)
1951	Fiorenzo Magni (2/3)	Hugo Koblet (2/2)	Not contested for lack of interest
1952	Fausto Coppi (5/7)	Fausto Coppi (6/7)
1953	Fausto Coppi (7/7)	Louison Bobet (1/3)
1954	Carlo Clerici (1/1)	Louison Bobet (2/3)
1955	Fiorenzo Magni (3/3)	Louison Bobet (3/3)	Jean Dotto (1/1)
1956	Charly Gaul (1/3)	Roger Walkowiak (1/1)	Angelo Conterno (1/1)
1957	Gastone Nencini (1/2)	Jacques Anquetil (1/8)	Jesús Loroño (1/1)
1958	Ercole Baldini (1/1)	Charly Gaul (2/3)	Jean Stablinski (1/1)
1959	Charly Gaul (3/3)	Federico Bahamontes (1/1)	Antonio Suárez (1/1)
1960	Jacques Anquetil (2/8)	Gastone Nencini (2/2)	Frans De Mulder (1/1)
1961	Arnaldo Pambianco (1/1)	Jacques Anquetil (3/8)	Angelino Soler (1/1)
1962	Franco Balmamion (1/2)	Jacques Anquetil (4/8)	Rudi Altig (1/1)
1963	Franco Balmamion (2/2)	Jacques Anquetil (6/8)	Jacques Anquetil (5/8)
1964	Jacques Anquetil (7/8)	Jacques Anquetil (8/8)	Raymond Poulidor (1/1)
1965	Vittorio Adorni (1/1)	Felice Gimondi (1/5)	Rolf Wolfshohl (1/1)
1966	Gianni Motta (1/1)	Lucien Aimar (1/1)	Francisco Gabica (1/1)
1967	Felice Gimondi (2/5)	Roger Pingeon (1/2)	Jan Janssen (1/2)
1968	Eddy Merckx (1/11)	Jan Janssen (2/2)	Felice Gimondi (3/5)
1969	Felice Gimondi (4/5)	Eddy Merckx (2/11)	Roger Pingeon (2/2)
1970	Eddy Merckx (3/11)	Eddy Merckx (4/11)	Luis Ocaña (1/2)
1971	Gösta Pettersson (1/1)	Eddy Merckx (5/11)	Ferdinand Bracke (1/1)
1972	Eddy Merckx (6/11)	Eddy Merckx (7/11)	José Manuel Fuente (1/2)
1973	Eddy Merckx (9/11)	Luis Ocaña (2/2)	Eddy Merckx (8/11)
1974	Eddy Merckx (10/11)	Eddy Merckx (11/11)	José Manuel Fuente (2/2)
1975	Fausto Bertoglio (1/1)	Bernard Thévenet (1/2)	Agustín Tamames (1/1)
1976	Felice Gimondi (5/5)	Lucien Van Impe (1/1)	José Pesarrodona (1/1)
1977	Michel Pollentier (1/1)	Bernard Thévenet (2/2)	Freddy Maertens (1/1)
1978	Johan De Muynck (1/1)	Bernard Hinault (2/10)	Bernard Hinault (1/10)
1979	Giuseppe Saronni (1/2)	Bernard Hinault (3/10)	Joop Zoetemelk (1/2)
1980	Bernard Hinault (4/10)	Joop Zoetemelk (2/2)	Faustino Rupérez (1/1)
1981	Giovanni Battaglin (2/2)	Bernard Hinault (5/10)	Giovanni Battaglin (1/2)
1982	Bernard Hinault (6/10)	Bernard Hinault (7/10)	Marino Lejarreta (1/1)
1983	Giuseppe Saronni (2/2)	Laurent Fignon (1/3)	Bernard Hinault (8/10)
1984	Francesco Moser (1/1)	Laurent Fignon (2/3)	Éric Caritoux (1/1)
1985	Bernard Hinault (9/10)	Bernard Hinault (10/10)	Pedro Delgado (1/3)
1986	Roberto Visentini (1/1)	Greg LeMond (1/3)	Álvaro Pino (1/1)
1987	Stephen Roche (1/2)	Stephen Roche (2/2)	Luis Herrera (1/1)
1988	Andrew Hampsten (1/1)	Pedro Delgado (2/3)	Sean Kelly (1/1)
1989	Laurent Fignon (3/3)	Greg LeMond (2/3)	Pedro Delgado (3/3)
1990	Gianni Bugno (1/1)	Greg LeMond (3/3)	Marco Giovannetti (1/1)
1991	Franco Chioccioli (1/1)	Miguel Induráin (1/7)	Melcior Mauri (1/1)
1992	Miguel Induráin (2/7)	Miguel Induráin (3/7)	Tony Rominger (1/4)
1993	Miguel Induráin (4/7)	Miguel Induráin (5/7)	Tony Rominger (2/4)
1994	Eugeni Berzin (1/1)	Miguel Induráin (6/7)	Tony Rominger (3/4)
1995	Tony Rominger (4/4)	Miguel Induráin (7/7)	Laurent Jalabert (1/1)
1996	Pavel Tonkov (1/1)	Bjarne Riis (1/1)	Alex Zülle (1/2)
1997	Ivan Gotti (1/2)	Jan Ullrich (1/2)	Alex Zülle (2/2)
1998	Marco Pantani (1/2)	Marco Pantani (2/2)	Abraham Olano (1/1)
1999	Ivan Gotti (2/2)	No winner[A]	Jan Ullrich (2/2)
2000	Stefano Garzelli (1/1)	No winner[A]	Roberto Heras (1/4)
2001	Gilberto Simoni (1/2)	No winner[A]	Ángel Casero (1/1)
2002	Paolo Savoldelli (1/2)	No winner[A]	Aitor González (1/1)
2003	Gilberto Simoni (2/2)	No winner[A]	Roberto Heras (2/4)
2004	Damiano Cunego (1/1)	No winner[A]	Roberto Heras (3/4)
2005	Paolo Savoldelli (2/2)	No winner[A]	Roberto Heras (4/4)
2006	Ivan Basso (1/2)	Óscar Pereiro (1/1)[16]	Alexander Vinokourov (1/1)
2007	Danilo Di Luca (1/1)	Alberto Contador (1/7)	Denis Menchov (1/2)
2008	Alberto Contador (2/7)	Carlos Sastre (1/1)	Alberto Contador (3/7)
2009	Denis Menchov (2/2)	Alberto Contador (4/7)	Alejandro Valverde (1/1)
2010	Ivan Basso (2/2)	Andy Schleck (1/1)	Vincenzo Nibali (1/4)
2011	Michele Scarponi (1/1)	Cadel Evans (1/1)	Chris Froome (1/7)[16]
2012	Ryder Hesjedal (1/1)	Bradley Wiggins (1/1)	Alberto Contador (5/7)
2013	Vincenzo Nibali (2/4)	Chris Froome (2/7)	Chris Horner (1/1)
2014	Nairo Quintana (1/2)	Vincenzo Nibali (3/4)	Alberto Contador (6/7)
2015	Alberto Contador (7/7)	Chris Froome (3/7)	Fabio Aru (1/1)
2016	Vincenzo Nibali (4/4)	Chris Froome (4/7)	Nairo Quintana (2/2)
2017	Tom Dumoulin (1/1)	Chris Froome (5/7)	Chris Froome (6/7)
2018	Chris Froome (7/7)	Geraint Thomas (1/1)	Simon Yates (1/1)
2019	Richard Carapaz (1/1)	Egan Bernal (1/2)	Primož Roglič (1/5)
2020	Tao Geoghegan Hart (1/1)	Tadej Pogačar (1/4)	Primož Roglič (2/5)
2021	Egan Bernal (2/2)	Tadej Pogačar (2/4)	Primož Roglič (3/5)
2022	Jai Hindley (1/1)	Jonas Vingegaard (1/2)	Remco Evenepoel (1/1)
2023	Primož Roglič (4/5)	Jonas Vingegaard (2/2)	Sepp Kuss (1/1)
2024	Tadej Pogačar (3/4)	Tadej Pogačar (4/4)	Primož Roglič (5/5)
Year	Giro d'Italia	Tour de France	Vuelta a España

A. ^{a b c d e f g} Lance Armstrong was declared the winner of seven consecutive Tours from 1999 to 2005. However, on 22 October 2012, he was stripped of all his titles by the UCI for his use of performance-enhancing drugs. The organizers of the Tour de France announced that the winner's slot would remain empty in the record books, rather than transfer the win to the second-place finishers each year.^[17]

Rank	Rider	Total	Giro	Tour	Vuelta
1	Eddy Merckx	11	5 (1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974)	5 (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974)	1 (1973)
2	Bernard Hinault	10	3 (1980, 1982, 1985)	5 (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985)	2 (1978, 1983)
3	Jacques Anquetil	8	2 (1960, 1964)	5 (1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964)	1 (1963)
4	Fausto Coppi	7	5 (1940, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953)	2 (1949, 1952)	–
	Miguel Indurain	7	2 (1992, 1993)	5 (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995)	–
	Alberto Contador	7	2 (2008, 2015)	2 (2007, 2009)	3 (2008, 2012, 2014)
	Chris Froome	7	1 (2018)	4 (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017)	2 (2011, 2017)
8	Alfredo Binda	5	5 (1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1933)	–	–
	Gino Bartali	5	3 (1936, 1937, 1946)	2 (1938, 1948)	–
	Felice Gimondi	5	3 (1967, 1969, 1976)	1 (1965)	1 (1968)
	Primož Roglič	5	1 (2023)	–	4 (2019, 2020, 2021, 2024)

• Active riders marked in bold.

Grand Tour general classification wins by country

Country	Giro	Tour	Vuelta	Total
Italy	69	10	6	85
France	6	36	9	51
Spain	4	12	32	48
Belgium	7	18	8	33
Great Britain	2	6	3	11
Switzerland	3	2	5	10
Slovenia	2	3	4	9
Luxembourg	2	5	0	7
United States	1	3	2	6
Netherlands	1	2	2	5
Colombia	2	1	2	5
Germany	0	1	3	4
Russia	3	0	1	4
Denmark	0	3	0	3
Ireland	1	1	1	3
Australia	1	1	0	2
Sweden	1	0	0	1
Canada	1	0	0	1
Ecuador	1	0	0	1
Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1

Year	Country	Giro	Tour	Vuelta
1964	France	Jacques Anquetil	Jacques Anquetil	Raymond Poulidor
2008	Spain	Alberto Contador	Carlos Sastre	Alberto Contador
2018	United Kingdom	Chris Froome	Geraint Thomas	Simon Yates
2024	Slovenia	Tadej Pogačar	Tadej Pogačar	Primož Roglič

Seven cyclists have won all three of the Grand Tours during their career:^[18]

Rider	Total	Giro	Tour	Vuelta
Jacques Anquetil	8	2 (1960, 1964)	5 (1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964)	1 (1963)
Felice Gimondi	5	3 (1967, 1969, 1976)	1 (1965)	1 (1968)
Eddy Merckx	11	5 (1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974)	5 (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974)	1 (1973)
Bernard Hinault	10	3 (1980, 1982, 1985)	5 (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985)	2 (1978, 1983)
Alberto Contador	7	2 (2008, 2015)	2 (2007, 2009)	3 (2008, 2012, 2014)
Vincenzo Nibali	4	2 (2013, 2016)	1 (2014)	1 (2010)
Chris Froome	7	1 (2018)	4 (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017)	2 (2011, 2017)

Hinault and Contador are the only cyclists to have won each Grand Tour at least twice.

• Fausto Coppi: 3 Grand Tours – Giro (1952), Tour (1952), Giro (1953).
• Eddy Merckx: 4 Grand Tours – Giro (1972), Tour (1972), Vuelta (1973), Giro (1973).
• Bernard Hinault: 3 Grand Tours – Giro (1982), Tour (1982), Vuelta (1983).
• Chris Froome: 3 Grand Tours – Tour (2017), Vuelta (2017), Giro (2018).

No rider has won all three Grand Tours in a single year in any classification (general, points, mountain, young rider). Few riders have even finished all three in a single year; of those who have, two finished in the top ten in each: Raphaël Géminiani (4th, 6th and 3rd in the Giro, Tour and Vuelta in 1955) and Gastone Nencini (1st, 6th and 9th in 1957).

Eleven riders have achieved a double by winning two grand tours in the same calendar year.^[18]

Giro d'Italia and Tour de France 1949 Fausto Coppi 1952 Fausto Coppi 1964 Jacques Anquetil 1970 Eddy Merckx 1972 Eddy Merckx 1974 Eddy Merckx 1982 Bernard Hinault 1985 Bernard Hinault 1987 Stephen Roche 1992 Miguel Induráin 1993 Miguel Induráin 1998 Marco Pantani 2024 Tadej Pogacar

Tour de France and Vuelta a España 1963 Jacques Anquetil 1978 Bernard Hinault 2017 Chris Froome

Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España 1973 Eddy Merckx 1981 Giovanni Battaglin 2008 Alberto Contador

Of the above eleven, Pantani, Roche and Battaglin's doubles were their only Grand Tour victories in their careers.

The margins between the winner of a Grand Tour and the runner-up are often narrow, and rarely larger than a few minutes.

As of 2021, there have been 54 Grand Tours with a winning margin less than one minute. The smallest margins are as follows:

Rank	Winner	Time	Runner-up	Margin	Race
1	Éric Caritoux	90h 08' 03""	Alberto Fernández	+00h 00' 06"	Vuelta a España (1984)
2	Greg LeMond	87h 38' 35"	Laurent Fignon	+00h 00' 08"	Tour de France (1989)
3	José Manuel Fuente	86h 48' 18"	Joaquim Agostinho	+00h 00' 11"	Vuelta a España (1974)
	Fiorenzo Magni	124h 51' 52"	Ezio Cecchi		Giro d'Italia (1948)
5	Eddy Merckx	113h 08' 13"	Gianbattista Baronchelli	+00h 00' 12"	Giro d'Italia (1974)
6	Angelo Conterno	105h 37' 52"	Jesús Loroño	+00h 00' 13"	Vuelta a España (1956)
	Fiorenzo Magni	108h 56' 12"	Fausto Coppi		Giro d'Italia (1955)
8	Augustín Tamames	88h 00" 56'	Domingo Perurena	+00h 00' 14"	Vuelta a España (1975)
	Primož Roglič	85h 29" 02'	Geraint Thomas		Giro d'Italia (2023)
10	Ryder Hesjedal	91h 39' 02"	Joaquim Rodríguez	+00h 00' 16"	Giro d'Italia (2012)

The biggest winning margin in a Grand Tour was 2h 59' 21" in Maurice Garin's win at the first Tour de France in 1903. The biggest margin in the history of Giro d'Italia was in 1914 when Alfonso Calzolari won by 1h 57' 26", and the biggest margin in the history of Vuelta a España was in 1945 when Delio Rodríguez finished 30' 08" clear.

The Tour/Giro/Vuelta triple has been achieved by five riders – Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Mark Cavendish, Laurent Jalabert, Eddy Merckx and Alessandro Petacchi.

Rank	Rider	Total	Giro	Tour	Vuelta
1	Erik Zabel	9	0	6 (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)	3 (2002, 2003, 2004)
2	Sean Kelly	8	0	4 (1982, 1983, 1985, 1989)	4 (1980, 1985, 1986, 1988)
	Peter Sagan	8	1 (2021)	7 (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)	0
4	Laurent Jalabert	7	1 (1999)	2 (1992, 1995)	4 (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997)
5	Eddy Merckx	6	2 (1968, 1973)	3 (1969, 1971, 1972)	1 (1973)

The Tour/Giro/Vuelta triple has been achieved by two riders – Federico Bahamontes and Luis Herrera.

Rank	Rider	Total	Giro	Tour	Vuelta
1	Gino Bartali	9	7 (1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947)	2 (1938, 1948)	0
	Federico Bahamontes	9	1 (1956)	6 (1954, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964)	2 (1957, 1958)
3	Lucien Van Impe	8	2 (1982, 1983)	6 (1971, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1983)	0
4	Richard Virenque	7	0	7 (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004)	0
5	Julio Jiménez	6	0	3 (1965, 1966, 1967)	3 (1963, 1964, 1965)

The Tour/Giro double has been achieved by three riders – Egan Bernal, Nairo Quintana and Andy Schleck. The Giro/Vuelta double has been achieved by one rider – Miguel Ángel López. The Tour/Vuelta double has been achieved by two riders – Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel.

Rank	Rider	Total	Giro	Tour	Vuelta
1	Tadej Pogačar	5	0	4 (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)	1 (2019)
2	Andy Schleck	4	1 (2007)	3 (2008, 2009, 2010)	0
3	Jan Ullrich	3	0	3 (1996, 1997, 1998)	0
	Nairo Quintana	3	1 (2014)	2 (2013, 2015)	0
	Miguel Ángel López	3	2 (2018, 2019)	0	1 (2017)

Three cyclists have won stages in all three of the Grand Tours in the same season: Miguel Poblet in 1956, Pierino Baffi in 1958 and Alessandro Petacchi in 2003.^[19] The rider with the most Grand Tour stage wins in one season is Freddy Maertens who won 20 stages in 1977: 13 in the Vuelta a España and 7 in the Giro d'Italia.

Cyclists whose names are in bold are still active.

This list is complete up to and including the 2024 Vuelta a España.^[20]

Rank	Rider	Total	Giro	Tour	Vuelta	Years
1	Eddy Merckx	64	24	34	6	1967–1975
2	Mario Cipollini	57	42	12	3	1989–2003
3	Mark Cavendish	55	17	35	3	2008–2024
4	Alessandro Petacchi	48	22	6	20	2000–2011
5	Alfredo Binda	43	41	2	0	1925–1933
6	Bernard Hinault	41	6	28	7	1978–1986
7	Learco Guerra	39	31	8	0	1930–1937
	Delio Rodríguez	39	0	0	39	1941–1947
9	Rik Van Looy	37	12	7	18	1958–1969
10	Freddy Maertens	35	7	15	13	1976–1981
11	Fausto Coppi	31	22	9	0	1940–1955
12	Costante Girardengo	30	30	0	0	1919–1923
13	Gino Bartali	29	17	12	0	1935–1954
14	Marino Basso	27	15	6	6	1969–1975
	Francesco Moser	27	23	2	2	1973–1986
16	Guido Bontempi	26	16	6	4	1981–1993
	Raffaele Di Paco	26	15	11	0	1930–1938
	Miguel Poblet	26	20	3	3	1955–1961
	Tadej Pogačar	26	6	17	3	2019–2024
	Giuseppe Saronni	26	24	0	2	1978–1985
21	Franco Bitossi	25	21	4	0	1964–1975
	Laurent Jalabert	25	3	4	18	1992–2001
	André Leducq	25	0	25	0	1927–1938
	Rik Van Steenbergen	25	15	4	6	1949–1957
25	Roger De Vlaeminck	24	22	1	1	1970–1984
	Robbie McEwen	24	12	12	0	1999–2007
27	André Darrigade	23	1	22	0	1953–1964
28	Jacques Anquetil	22	5	16	1	1957–1964
	Primož Roglič	22	4	3	15	2016–2024
	André Greipel	22	7	11	4	2008–2017
	Jean Paul van Poppel	22	4	9	9	1986–1994

Only 36 riders have finished all three Grand Tours in one season. Adam Hansen has done this six times consecutively, Marino Lejarreta four times and Bernardo Ruiz achieved it in three different years, while Eduardo Chozas and Carlos Sastre have completed the accomplishment twice.^[21][22]

The rider with most participations on Grand Tours is Matteo Tosatto with 34 (12 Tours, 13 Giros and 9 Vueltas). The rider who has finished most Grand Tours is also Matteo Tosatto, with 28 (12 Tours, 11 Giros and 5 Vueltas). Adam Hansen has finished the most consecutive Grand Tours: 20 tours from 2011 Vuelta a España till 2018 Giro d'Italia. Bernardo Ruiz was the first rider to ride every tour of a season on three occasions which he completed in 1957. Marino Lejarreta completed every grand tour of the season for the 4th time in 1991 and of these 12 tours he finished in the top 10 of eight of them. His record of 4 was not passed until Adam Hansen completed the Vuelta in 2016.

Gastone Nencini (1957) and Sepp Kuss (2023) are the only cyclists to both ride all three Grand Tours and win one in the same season. The best average finish was the first time three Grand Tours were finished in one season, when Raphaël Géminiani finished 4th, 6th and 3rd in the Giro, Tour and Vuelta, respectively.

Rider	Year	Final GC position
		Giro	Tour	Vuelta
Sepp Kuss	2023	14	12	1
Thomas De Gendt	2019	51	60	56
Adam Hansen (6)	2017	93	113	95
Alejandro Valverde	2016	3	6	12
Adam Hansen (5)	2016	68	100	110
Sylvain Chavanel	2015	36	54	47
Adam Hansen (4)	2015	77	114	55
Adam Hansen (3)	2014	73	64	53
Adam Hansen (2)	2013	72	72	60
Adam Hansen	2012	94	81	123
Sebastian Lang	2011	56	113	77
Carlos Sastre (2)	2010	8	20	8
Julian Dean	2009	136	121	132
Marzio Bruseghin	2008	3	27	10
Erik Zabel	2008	80	43	49
Mario Aerts	2007	20	70	28
Carlos Sastre	2006	43	4	4
Giovanni Lombardi	2005	88	118	114
Jon Odriozola	2001	58	69	83
Mariano Piccoli	1999	38	50	58
Guido Bontempi	1992	40	75	62
Neil Stephens	1992	57	74	66
Eduardo Chozas (2)	1991	10	11	11
Marco Giovannetti	1991	8	30	18
Marino Lejarreta (4)	1991	5	53	3
Inaki Gaston	1991	23	61	14
Alberto Leanizbarrutia	1991	64	39	44
Vladimir Poulnikov	1991	11	88	66
Valerio Tebaldi	1991	47	89	87
Eduardo Chozas	1990	11	6	33
Marino Lejarreta (3)	1990	7	5	55
Marino Lejarreta (2)	1989	10	5	20
Luis Javier Lukin	1988	32	82	60
Marino Lejarreta	1987	4	10	34
Philippe Poissonnier	1985	86	90	66
José Luis Uribezubia	1971	29	50	27
Jose Manuel Fuente	1971	39	72	54
Federico Bahamontes	1958	17	8	6
Pierino Baffi	1958	23	63	37
Mario Baroni	1957	74	53	46
Gastone Nencini	1957	1	6	9
Bernardo Ruiz (3)	1957	55	24	3
Arrigo Padovan	1956	12	26	19
Bernardo Ruiz (2)	1956	38	70	31
José Serra	1956	26	81	9
Raphaël Géminiani	1955	4	6	3
Bernardo Ruiz	1955	28	22	14
Louis Caput	1955	68	54	55