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Mark Cavendish and Eddy Merckx hold the top position on the all-time list of stage winners, each with an impressive 34 victories. Here is the full list of riders with 10 or more wins.

A total of thirty-four riders have won 10 or more stages at the road cycling 's Tour de France.

Belgian legend Eddy Merckx and British sprinter Mark Cavendish currently share the record for most wins (34 each).

Below is the complete list, with an asterisk indicating active riders.

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The most stage wins in the Tour De France is 34 and was achieved by Eddie Merckx (Belgium) between 1969 and 1978. This was equalled by Mark Cavendish (UK) between 2007 and 2021.

Mark Cavendish AKA 'the Manx Missile' won the 13th Stage of the 2021 Tour De France equalling Eddy Merckx all-time record for stage wins.

Tour de France: Winners and records

The Tour de France has 4 jerseys on offer for the various competitions that take place within the race. The most prestigious jersey is the yellow jersey of the GC leader, which unfortunately has been tainted on a few occasions since the turn of the century (see table below). The green jersey is the points classification sought after by sprinters and classics men. The polka dot jersey recognizes the rider who obtains the most mountain points, while the white jersey is a GC for riders under 26.

* Initially Alberto Contador was the winner. He had to give back his title after charges of doping.

** Lance Armstrong’s victories (1999 t/m 2005) have been taken from him due to the use of doping. No new winner was declared.

Tour de France Records

Four riders remain in the record books for having won the Tour de France five times: Eddy Merckx, Bernhard Hinault, Miguel Indurain and Jacques Anquetil .

Anquetil pulled off the unthinkable in 1961 when he held the yellow jersey from the first day of the race right up until the end.

Peter Sagan holds the record for green jersey wins with seven.

Richard Virenque is the King of the Mountains in the Tour de France. He won the polka dot jersey 4 times in a row from 1994-1997, and added a further three jerseys in 1999, 2003 and 2004.

Tadej Pogacar took home the white jersey four times, while Andy Schleck and Jan Ullrich both won the young riders classification three times.

In 1969, Eddy Merckx won the yellow jersey, the green jersey and the polka dot jersey, the only man ever to do so in a single Tour de France. He also has the most stage wins with 34, a record that he shares with Mark Cavendish.

The youngest winner ever was Henri Cornet, winning the 1904 Tour at 19 years of age. The oldest winner is Firmin Lambot, who was 36 years when he won in 1922.

Cadel Evans is the oldest winner post WWII – in 2011 he was 34 when he finally won his yellow jersey after years of trying.

Tadej Pogacar is the youngest post-WW2 Tour de France winner. He turned 22 the day after he won the 2020 edition.

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Mark Cavendish became only the second rider in Tour de France history to reach 30 stage wins in the race, when he outsprinted Marcel Kittel to win stage 14 of the 2016 Tour.

The Manx Missile started the race on 26 stage wins before taking that tally to 27 with  victory on the opening stage at Utah Beach – pulling on the yellow jersey for the first time in the process. Cavendish then moved level with Hinault after edging out Andre Greipel by the narrowest margin in Angers on stage three.

Victory on stage six Cavendish move clear of Hinault with 29 wins to further underline his reputation as cycling’s greatest ever sprinter, and stage 14 saw him reach the 30 mark.

Cavendish’s four stage wins in this year’s race, alongside victories for team-mate Steve Cummings and Chris Froome have also taken the British tally to 65 – overtaking Switzerland (60) as the eighth-most successful nation at the Tour de France in the process.

Here’s a closer look at the other riders in the all-time top ten list for Tour de France stage wins.

1) Eddy Merckx (34)

With 525 victories in an 18-year professional cycling career, there isn’t an awful lot Eddy Merckx, the Cannibal , failed to achieve in cycling.

Therefore, it’s no surprise to see the five-time former Tour de France winner top of the tree when it comes to all-time Tour stage wins, with 34 stage wins to his name in all.

His first arrived in 1969, after an attack on the Ballon d’Alsace, and by the time the race finished he had a further five to his name including a solo win on stage 17 when his effort striking out alone over the Tourmalet, Soulur and Aubisque saw him finish the stage suffering with the effects of hypoglycaemia.

After finishing that Tour as overall winner by nearly 18 minutes, points classification winner, King of the Mountains, combination prize winner and the combativity award, Merckx went on to win 34 Tour de France stages in all, and 64 across all three Grand Tours – both still records today.

2)  Mark Cavendish (30)

Mark Cavendish was written off in some quarters before the 2016 Tour de France having only picked up one stage win in the previous two Tours.

His 2014 race ended with a crash on the first stage while in 2015 he was regularly outsprinted by Andre Greipel, despite appearing to be the form sprinter prior to the race, and ‘only’ picked up a single win.

The Manx Missile has roared back this year, however, winning both the first and third stages to first claim his first ever yellow jersey before moving level with Bernard Hinault on 28 career stage wins. Cavendish then extended that tally to 29 on stage six, outsprinting rival Marcel Kittel in a head-to-head drag race and beat Kittel again on stage 14.

The yellow jersey was the first of three major targets for Cavendish in 2016 , with the Rio 2016 Olympic Games ( Cavendish has been selected as part of Great Britain’s track team ) and the UCI Road World Championships also on the agenda.

3) Bernard Hinault (28)

Le Blaireau remains the last French winner of the Tour de France, having picked up his fifth overall title in 1985.

Between 1978 and 1986, Hinault also picked up 28 stage wins, and prior to Alberto Contador was the only rider to win all three Grand Tours twice.

Hinault won three times at his final Tour in 1986, despite riding as domestique to Greg Lemond – two were in individual time trials, but he also won on Alpe d’Huez after a stinging attack, crossing the finish line arm in arm with Lemond.

Hinault would go on to finish that race in second place meaning, between 1978 and 1986, every Grand Tour he finished was in either first or second place.

4) Andre Leducq (25)

Andre Leducq was one of France’s foremost cyclists in the interwar period, winning the Tour twice and picking up 25 stage wins in the process.

A former amateur world road race champion, Leducq was in seemingly unstoppable form in the 1932 edition, winning the third stage in Bordeaux to claim the race lead and maintaining it all the way to Paris, picking up five more stage wins in the process.

The time bonuses awarded for stage winners at the time,meant the Frenchman won by more than 24 minutes overall, though had the race been decided on overall time alone, Germany’s Kurt Stopel would have only been three seconds back.

That race also saw him pass 20 stage wins – only the second rider ever to do so after Nicolas Frantz. Victory in Paris on the final stage confirmed his place as the race’s most successful rider up until that point.

5) Andre Darrigade (22)

Prior to Mark Cavendish, 1959 world champion Andre Darrigade was the Tour’s best ever sprinter – collecting 22 stage wins in all.

Dubbed the greatest French sprinter of all time by journalist Raphael Geminiani, Darrigade’s success also saw him win the Tour’s opening stage five times – wearing the yellow jersey 16 times in all as a result.

Racing in an era when national teams rode the Tour de France, with Louison Bobet and Jacques Anquetil the French GC riders, but Darrigade remained a popular figure thanks to his sprinting ability.

Comfortable sprinting from a long way out, he was simply peerless in his generation.

6) Nicolas Frantz (20)

Nicolas Frantz was the first rider to reach 20 stage wins at the Tour de France, which he did across six editions from 1924 to 1929.

The Luxembourg rider was a two-time back-to-back Tour de France champion too, and held the yellow jersey from start to finish in the 1928 race.

He clocked his 20th stage victory in Paris on the final day of the following year’s race, but only raced one more time at the Tour de France when national teams were introduced – finishing 45th in 1932.

7) Francois Faber (19)

Though born in France, and considering himself a Frenchman, Faber’s father was from Luxembourg, making Faber the first foreign winner of the Tour de France in 1909.

Faber, who also won Bordeaux-Paris in 1911 and Paris-Roubaix in 1913 relished increment conditions, and that paid off when he won the Tour.

Second the previous year, having won his first four stages, Faber starred in 1909 in foul weather for racing – bagging victory on the second day after a 200km solo effort on the 398km stage to Metz.

That set the tempo for the rest of the race, with the Luxembourg rider winning again the following day in freezing conditions after attacking on the Ballon d’Alsace with more than 100km still to race.

In all, Faber won five consecutive stages – still a Tour record – and would surely have been the first to 20 career wins were it not for the First World War, where he was killed in action.

8) Jean Alavoine (17)

Frenchman Jean Alavoine’s career was also disrupted by the Great War, with the two-time French champion collecting six stage wins pre-war and then a further 11 after the war.

Also a two-time Giro d’Italia stage winner – where he also finished third overall in 1920 – Alavoine’s most notable successes came in the first Tour de France after the war.

Winner of the fourth stage, Alavoine made it two from two the following day in Bayonne; the 482km (300-mile) stage was the longest in Tour history.

A versatile rider, Alavoine also won a mountain stage to Perpignan in the 1919 race before two further victories in Marseille and Paris – the latter, on the final day, seeing him snatch second place from Eugene Christophe overall.

Alavoine was second overall again in 1922, after three consecutive stage wins – again including the 482km stage from Les Sables d’Olonne to Bayonne, and two wins in the mountains – but lost his chance of winning the race after suffering from a cold and several mechanical issues.

9) Jacques Anquetil (16)

Jacques Anquetil was the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, which he did with success in 1957 and four consecutive victories between 1961 and 1964.

Anquetil won 16 stages in all, 11 of which were in individual time trials – highlighting the phenomenal ability against the clock which brought him his Tour stage wins.

His long-running rivalry with Raymond Poulidor defined the era in French cycling, almost dividing the country in terms of who the public supported.

Anquetil’s final stage win at the Tour de France came on the final stage of the 1964 race, a 27km individual time trial from Versailles to Paris, and helped him beat Poulidor by just 55 seconds, the smallest winning margin in the race’s history at that point.

9=) Rene Le Greves (16)

A silver medallist on the track in 1932, French sprinter Rene Le Greves turned professional on the road in 1933 and won his first Tour de France stage that same year in Caen.

Usually stronger in the second half of the Tour, Le Greves picked up another 15 stage wins in all, including six in 1936, which he rode as French national champion.

His final victory arrived in 1939 before, like so many of his peers, his professional cycling career was to be curtailed by the war.

9=) Charles Pelissier (16)

Three-time French cyclo-cross champion Charles Pelissier was the younger brother of French riders Francis and former Tour winner Henri but clocked more stage wins than both of them combined.

His record of eight stage wins in the 1930 Tour still stands today, shared with Eddy Merckx and Freddy Maertens, and Pelissier also pulled on the yellow jersey three times thanks to his stage wins.

His success in 1930 saw him win the first stage to wear the yellow jersey and then – after a further three stage victories – finish with four consecutive wins in the final four stages too.

Only Mario Cipollini in 1999 has matched those four consecutive wins since, and Pelissier’s record is even more remarkable when you consider he was in the top three on 18 of the 21 stages.

It was only in the high mountains that he lost time, with the 50 minutes he ceded to Andre Leducq between Nice and Grenoble costing him any hope of overall victory.

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Mark Cavendish equals Merckx’s record with 34th Tour de France stage win

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Mark Cavendish equalled the long-standing Tour de France stage win record, held by the five-times winner Eddy Merckx, with the 34th stage win of his career that ended in Carcassonne on Friday.

Once again the 36-year-old Cavendish, wiping away the sweat and the tears, confounded those who had written him off, after snatching his fourth win in this year’s race having almost quit the sport at the end of 2020.

“I don’t think I can ever be compared to the great Eddy Merckx, the greatest male road cyclist of all time,” he said, “but I think to equal him with the record number of stage victories, for people who don’t follow cycling a lot, is something they can understand and put into perspective. If that inspires them to get on a bike, because a British rider has done that, then it’s the biggest thing I can take from it.”

The defending Tour champion, Tadej Pogacar, who held on to his race lead after another tricky stage, punctuated by crashes, admitted that he had watched Cavendish “as a kid”.

“What he is doing now is really crazy,” the Slovenian said. “All respect to him.”

Merckx, speaking to the Italian media, was less impressed. “Of course there’s a difference between us,” the Belgian, now 76, said. “I won 34 Tour stages by winning sprints, in the mountains, in time trials and going on the attack on the descents. Let’s not forget the five yellow jerseys I’ve got at home plus the 96 days I wore it. Does that not seem much?”

Cavendish described his memorable win in Carcassonne as “one of the hardest”. He said: “I never go too well in the heat and today was hot, with heavy roads. It was just nervous and there was a slightly uphill drag on the last kilometre and that’s not ideal for me as a punchy sprinter. The drag uphill in a big gear was not meant for short legs.”

But despite his dislike of discussing the stage win record, Cavendish admitted that his momentous win had been his most demanding success since the start of the race in Brittany on 26 June.

“It’s part and parcel of being a leader,” he said, “shouldering the responsibility for the success of the team. It’s not just having the legs to sprint, it’s having the head to deal with the pressure. Ironically sprinters probably do the least amount of work of anybody in the team at the Tour de France , and in most cases they get paid the most money, except for the guys who can finish in the top 10 overall.”

“But that’s what you get paid for,” Cavendish said, “to shoulder those expectations. Even if the team doesn’t deliver, you’re expected to deliver. My team delivers every single time and that puts the pressure on me. Sometimes that can be hard especially if you don’t feel great.”

Cavendish’s winning streak began in 2008. Over the years he has suffered droughts, although nothing compared with the years in the wilderness, isolated by illness and poor form, that his current winning streak in Fougères ended, 10 days ago.

“I wish all the teammates I have had since 2008 were here to share this with me. But we still have work to do. It gets hard again tomorrow and we don’t have time to reflect on it. There’s plenty of time after this Tour de France to reflect on what we have done and the history we’ve made.”

Cavendish also addressed his sometimes difficult relationship with the media. “I’m not going to lie – I think sometimes I have been personally picked at, but on the same level, I have also been a prick,” Cavendish said. “That’s what happens when you’re young. For many years I suffered the consequences of being brash and young and without an education of how to behave with the media.

“As you grow older and you have a family and responsibility, you learn how to behave and unfortunately some people didn’t want to let go of what I was like when I was younger, even though I had changed. It maybe took time away for me to get that chip off my shoulder. I’m a grown-up now: I’m not a 20-year old-boy who wanted to fight the world.”

On his way to his record equalling sprint in Carcassonne, Cavendish survived a mass crash, a late bike change and the injuries of his team-mate, Tim Declercq, one of the fallers in the crash that forced Simon Yates’s withdrawal from this year’s Tour. The crash came with 62 kilometres remaining, as the peloton picked up speed and descended alongside a wooded ravine.

As some, including Yates, fell hard on the rough road, others tumbled into the trees and disappeared from view. The British Team Bike Exchange rider sat on the road for several minutes, briefly remounting, before quitting the race.

Not for the first time Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas was also among the fallers. The Welshman, winner of the Tour in 2018, was distanced by the speeding peloton in the final few kilometres as, ahead of him, the sprint teams picked up pace and Cavendish delivered for his own team yet again.

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• Date: 18 July 2021
• Start time: 16:30
• Avg. speed winner: 40.748 km/h
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
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Tour de France stage winner in intensive care after being hit by car driver on training ride

Tour de France stage winner Lennard Kämna is in intensive care after he was struck by a car driver on a training ride in Tenerife.

The Bora-Hansgrohe rider is in a stable condition and awake after the incident, which took place on Tuesday, but the extent of his injuries is unknown, just that they are "numerous". His team said that members of his family were with him at a hospital on the island.

He was on Tenerife preparing for the Giro d'Italia this year, with the Tour of the Alps, where he has won stages for the past two years , supposed to be his next race.

The German rider was hit by a driver who turned left into his lane, according to a spokesperson for Bora. The team sent out an initial message on Wednesday afternoon saying that the Kämna had gone to hospital for "further examinations" after the crash, but updated their message on Thursday afternoon.

"Lennard Kämna is in a stable condition, he is awake, responsive and able to communicate," a message from Bora read. "Lennard Kämna suffered numerous injuries in yesterday's training accident on Tenerife. He is receiving very good care in the hospital on Tenerife and will be monitored in the intensive care unit over the next few days. Members of his family and the team are with him.

"According to initial findings on the accident, the driver of an oncoming vehicle turned left into Lennard Kämna's lane and collided with him. At the time, he was riding with the training group, which was accompanied by team coaches. No other team riders or coaches were involved in the accident."

 "We are relieved that Lennard's condition has stabilized after this serious accident and that he is doing well under the circumstances," Ralph Denk, the team manager of Bora said on Thursday. "The whole team feels for him, and we all wish him a speedy recovery. 

"From the team side, we will continue to do everything necessary to ensure that he makes a full recovery from this accident. That's all that matters now - anything else can wait."

The 27-year-old announced himself with stage wins at the Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de France in 2020 , before winning a stage of the Giro d'Italia in 2022 , and at the Vuelta a España last year .

In 2021, he took a break from the sport, explaining to German outlet  Weser-Kurier  that his "stress increased and I could no longer manage it".

Last year, Belgian 22-year-old  Tijl De Decker, winner of the under-23 Paris-Roubaix, died in a training crash . In 2021, seven Bora-Hansgrohe riders were hit by a driver while on a training ride in Italy. 

Tour de France stage 1: Adam Yates wins ahead of twin brother Simon in Bilbao

Côte de Pike too tough for Classics men as Yates brothers nail two-up breakaway

Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) beat his brother Simon Yates (Jayco-Alula) to the first yellow jersey of the Tour de France after they escaped together following the Côte de Pike in the finale of stage 1 to Bilbao.

The pair fended off an elite group of 13 chasers in the final 9km before Adam Yates pulled away from Simon on the last drag to the line to claim stage victory by 4 seconds.

Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) won the sprint for third place, 12 seconds down, and the Slovenian crossed the line with his arms held aloft. He was celebrating his teammate’s stage win and yellow jersey, of course, but he will also have been pleased to have snaffled an early time bonus from defending champion Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma).

A breathless afternoon of racing saw a high rate of attrition in the general classification race. Enric Mas (Movistar) was forced out by the same crash that saw Richard Caparaz (EF Education-EasyPost) lose 15 minutes , while Egan Bernal (Ineos), Romain Bardet (DSM) and Ben O’Connor (AG2R Citroën) both lost more than half a minute when they were distanced on the final climb.

Inevitably, Pogacar and Vingegaard were to the fore in the finale of the toughest opening stage in living memory. On the short ascent of the Pike, UAE Team Emirates shattered an already reduced peloton, with only Vingegaard and Victory Lafay (Cofidis) able to match the tempo of Adam Yates and Pogacar.

Vingegaard took second behind Pogacar at the summit before the strongest of the chasers managed to scramble their back up over the top. When Adam Yates made a speculative dig on the false flat over the other side, his brother didn’t hesitate to follow, and they quickly built up a 10-second lead.

Jumbo-Visma’s Wilco Kelderman and Sepp Kuss led the chasing group in support of Wout van Aert and Vingegaard, with Thibaut Pinot, David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious) and Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) also on board, but they couldn’t make significant inroads into the Yates brothers’ advantage.

Adam proved the stronger of the pair when the road climbed again in the final kilometre, and he eased away within sight of the line to take the first Grand Tour stage win of his career and move into the yellow jersey.

“I don’t even know what to say, we tried to set the climb up for Tadej. He attacked but then there was headwind on the descent,” Adam Yates said afterwards. “I came back from behind and then my brother came across to me and then we started working together. At first, I didn’t know if I should work with him. I asked on the radio and they said, ‘Yeah, go for it.’ I’m speechless.”

Prior to the race, UAE Team Emirate manager Mauro Gianetti indicated that Yates would set out as co-leader due to the uncertainty over Pogacar’s fitness after he broke his wrist at Liège-Bastogne-Liège . The Slovenian looked at ease on his first test here, but Yates certainly presents UAE with a fascinating tactical option. With winner’s time bonus factored in, he is 22 seconds clear of Vingegaard in the general classification, while Pogacar lies third overall at 18 seconds after he nabbed the seconds on offer for third place.

“I want to keep my feet on the ground,” Adam Yates said. “We’re here for Tadej, the boss. He’s shown he’s the best in the world and over the next few weeks, I’m sure he’s going to show that.”

The grand opening of this Tour, however, belonged to the Yates twins. Simon, who skipped the Giro d’Italia for the first time since 2017 to prepare for this race, showcased his form by making up significant ground over the top of the Pike.

“I was caught a little behind when UAE made the initial push and I couldn’t get around because the crowds were so big, but that’s how it goes,” said Simon Yates, who then found himself off the front with his brother.

“When he saw it was me coming across, I think he was put in a difficult situation, and he asked on the radio, ‘Can I roll through?’ Normally on a finish like that I wouldn’t be beating Pogacar or Vingegaard or those guys in a sprint. To get away with Adam, there was maybe a chance. Unfortunately, he got the better of me but there are more chances coming up.”

How in unfolded

The Grand Départ brought the Tour to one of the great heartlands of cycling and, as ever in this corner of the world, the Basque faithful turned out in their thousands to welcome the great bike race. After the peloton was waved away from the San Mamés stadium, the cathedral of Basque football, the race proceeded to thread its way through some of the holy places of Basque cycling, taking in the climbs of Laukiz and San Juan de Gaztelugatxe in the opening kilometres.

A five-man break featuring Lilian Calmejane (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Simon Guglielmi (Arkéa-Samsic), Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto-Dstny), Jonas Gregaard (Uno-X) and Valentin Ferron (TotalEnergies) escaped early on, building a maximum lead of 2:30, but the brisk pace of the peloton meant they were never likely to pull off a surprise.

With Jumbo-Visma and Alpecin-Deceuninck especially prominent at the head of the bunch, the escapees were swept up with 50km remaining, just ahead of the Col de Morga.

The pace on that climb saw the first selection, with most of the sprinters promptly dropped. On the following Alto del Vivero, so familiar from Itzulia Basque County, Mikkel Bjerg took up the reins for his leader Pogacar, setting a hyperactive pace that split the peloton still further.

When Bjerg swung off midway up the climb, Jumbo-Visma grouped en masse at the front on behalf of Vingegaard, as the shadow boxing between the two overwhelming Tour favourites continued before Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) won the sprint for the mountains points at the top to secure a stint in the polka dot jersey.

On the other side, however, EF Education-EasyPost’s Tour took a disastrous turn, when Carapaz crashed heavily on the descent in the company of Enric Mas (Movistar). Although Carapaz gingerly remounted, he lost more than a quarter of an hour, while Mas became the first rider to abandon the race.

The Tour is a cruel business, but a relentless one too. Up ahead, the race for the yellow jersey was already beginning to ignite, as Pogacar and Vingegaard traded their first blows of the three weeks. 

There will, of course, be many more to come, but there was already considerable collateral damage for some of their rivals. At this rate, Sunday’s tough stage 2 to San Sebastian should reveal much more.

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Barry Ryan is Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is the author of The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling’s Golden Generation , published by Gill Books.

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