Cycling - Tour de France Winners
The Tour de France is a long distance cycle race around France (and often neighbouring countries as well). The race takes place over three weeks and tests a cyclists abilities to compete in a variety of cycling disciplines including individual and team sprint time trials, mountain climbing, and flat racing spread over a number of stages.
Below lists all the past winners of the Tour de France including their nationality, their team they were riding in and the total time it took to complete the race, along with the total distance raced.
| Year | Winning Cyclist | Nationality | Winning Time | Distance (km) |
Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | The 2006 Tour de France takes place on the 1st of July | 3639 | ? | ||
| 2005 | Lance Armstrong | USA | 86h 15m 02s | 3607 | Discovery |
| 2004 | Lance Armstrong | USA | 83h 36m 02s | 3391 | US Postal - Berry Floor |
| 2003 | Lance Armstrong | USA | 83h 41m 12s | 3427 | US Postal - Berry Floor |
| 2002 | Lance Armstrong | USA | 82h 05m 12s | 3278 | US Postal Service |
| 2001 | Lance Armstrong | USA | 86h 17m 28s | 3453 | US Postal Service |
| 2000 | Lance Armstrong | USA | 92h 33m 08s | 3662 | US Postal Service |
| 1999 | Lance Armstrong | USA | 91h 32m 16s | 3687 | US Postal Service |
| 1998 | Marco Pantani | Italy | 92h 49m 46s | 3850 | Mercatone Uno - Bianchi |
| 1997 | Jan Ullrich | Germany | 100h 30m 35s | 3950 | Team Deutsche Telekom |
| 1996 | Bjarne Riis | Denmark | 95h 57m 16s | 3753 | Team Deutsche Telekom |
| 1995 | Miguel Indurain | Spain | 92h 44m 59s | 3535 | |
| 1994 | Miguel Indurain | Spain | 103h 38m 38s | 3972 | |
| 1993 | Miguel Indurain | Spain | 95h 57m 9s | 3720 | |
| 1992 | Miguel Indurain | Spain | 100h 49m 30s | 3983 | |
| 1991 | Miguel Indurain | Spain | 101h 1m 20s | 3915 | |
| 1990 | Greg LeMond | USA | 90h 43m 20s | 3449 | |
| 1989 | Greg LeMond | USA | 87h 38m 35s | 3250 | |
| 1988 | Pedro Delgado | Spain | 84h 27m 53s | 3300 | |
| 1987 | Stephen Roche | Ireland | 115h 27m 42s | 4235 | |
| 1986 | Greg LeMond | USA | 110h 35m 19s | 3833 | |
| 1985 | Bernard Hinault | France | 113h 24m 23s | 4006 | |
| 1984 | Laurent Fignon | France | 112h 3m 40s | 3900 | |
| 1983 | Laurent Fignon | France | 105h 7m 52s | 3750 | |
| 1982 | Bernard Hinault | France | 92h 8m 46s | 3573 | |
| 1981 | Bernard Hinault | France | 96h 19m 38s | 3740 | |
| 1980 | Joop Zoetemelk | Netherlands | 109h 19m 14s | 3996 | |
| 1979 | Bernard Hinault | France | 103h 6m 50s | 4108 | |
| 1978 | Bernard Hinault | France | 108h 18m 0s | 4103 | |
| 1977 | Bernard Thevenet | France | 115h 38m 30s | 4096 | |
| 1976 | Lucien Van Impe | Belgium | 116h 22m 23s | 4016 | |
| 1975 | Bernard Thevenet | France | 114h 35m 31s | 3999 | |
| 1974 | Eddy Merckx | Belgium | 116h 16m 58s | 4098 | |
| 1973 | Luis Ocana | Spain | 122h 25m 34s | 4140 | |
| 1972 | Eddy Merckx | Belgium | 108h 17m 18s | 3847 | |
| 1971 | Eddy Merckx | Belgium | 96h 45m 14s | 3689 | |
| 1970 | Eddy Merckx | Belgium | 119h 31m 49s | 4367 | |
| 1969 | Eddy Merckx | Belgium | 116h 16m 2s | 4102 | |
| 1968 | Jan Janssen | Netherlands | 133h 49m 42s | 4675 | |
| 1967 | Roger Pingeon | France | 136h 53m 50s | 4780 | |
| 1966 | Lucien Aimar | France | 117h 34m 21s | 4329 | |
| 1965 | Felice Gimondi | Italy | 116h 42m 6s | 4176 | |
| 1964 | Jacques Anquetil | France | 127h 9m 44s | 4505 | |
| 1963 | Jacques Anquetil | France | 113h 30m 5s | 4141 | |
| 1962 | Jacques Anquetil | France | 114h 31m 54s | 4274 | |
| 1961 | Jacques Anquetil | France | 122h 1m 33s | 4394 | |
| 1960 | Gastone Nencini | Italy | 112h 8m 42s | 4172 | |
| 1959 | Federico Bahamontes | Spain | 113h 50m 54s | 4363 | |
| 1958 | Charly Gaul | Luxembourg | 116h 59m 5s | 4319 | |
| 1957 | Jacques Anquetil | France | 135h 44m 42s | 4665 | |
| 1956 | Roger Walkowiak | France | 124h 1m 16s | 4528 | |
| 1955 | Louison Bobet | France | 130h 29m 26s | 4495 | |
| 1954 | Louison Bobet | France | 140h 6m 50s | 4855 | |
| 1953 | Louison Bobet | France | 129h 23m 25s | 4479 | |
| 1952 | Fausto Coppi | Italy | 151h 57m 20s | 4707 | |
| 1951 | Hugo Koblet | Switzerland | 142h 20m 14s | 4474 | |
| 1950 | Ferdinand Kubler | Switzerland | 145h 36m 56s | 4776 | |
| 1949 | Fausto Coppi | Italy | 149h 40m 49s | 4813 | |
| 1948 | Gino Bartali | Italy | 147h 10m 36s | 4813 | |
| 1947 | Jean Robic | France | 148h 11m 25s | 4648 | |
| * * * No Tour de France - World War II * * * | |||||
| 1939 | Sylvere Maes | Belgium | 132h 3m 17s | 4224 | |
| 1938 | Gino Bartali | Italy | 148h 29m 12s | 4694 | |
| 1937 | Roger Lapebie | France | 138h 58m 31s | 4415 | |
| 1936 | Sylvere Maes | Belgium | 142h 47m 32s | 4442 | |
| 1935 | Romain Maes | Belgium | 141h 32m 0s | 4302 | |
| 1934 | Antonin Magne | France | 147h 3m 58s | 4363 | |
| 1933 | Georges Speicher | France | 147h 51m 37s | 4395 | |
| 1932 | Andre Leducq | France | 154h 11m 49s | 4502 | |
| 1931 | Antonin Magne | France | 177h 10m 3s | 5095 | |
| 1930 | Andre Leducq | France | 172h 12m 10s | 4818 | |
| 1929 | Maurice De Waele | Belgium | 186h 39m 16s | 5286 | |
| 1928 | Nicolas Frantz | Luxembourg | 192h 48m 58s | 5377 | |
| 1927 | Nicolas Frantz | Luxembourg | 198h 16m 42s | 5348 | |
| 1926 | Lucien Buysse | Belgium | 238h 44m 25s | 5475 | |
| 1925 | Ottavio Bottecchia | Italy | 219h 10m 13s | 5430 | |
| 1924 | Ottavio Bottecchia | Italy | 226h 18m 21s | 5427 | |
| 1923 | Henri Pelissier | France | 222h 15m 30s | 5386 | |
| 1922 | Firmin Lambot | Belgium | 222h 8m 6s | 5378 | |
| 1921 | Leon Scieur | Belgium | 221h 50m 0s | 5484 | |
| 1920 | Philippe Thys | Belgium | 228h 36m 0s | 5503 | |
| 1919 | Firmin Lambot | Belgium | 231h 7m 15s | 5560 | |
| * * * No Tour de France - World War I * * * | |||||
| 1914 | Philippe Thys | Belgium | 200h 28m 49s | 5414 | |
| 1913 | Philippe Thys | Belgium | 197h 54m 0s | 5387 | |
| 1912 | Odile Defraye | Belgium | 184h 50m 0s | 5229 | |
| 1911 | Gustave Garrigou | France | 195h 35m 25s | 5544 | |
| 1910 | Octave Lapize | France | 163h 52m 38s | 4700 | |
| 1909 | Francois Faber | Luxembourg | 156h 55m 10s | 4497 | |
| 1908 | Lucien Petit-Breton | France | 156h 9m 31s | 4488 | |
| 1907 | Lucien Petit-Breton | France | 156h 22m 30s | 4488 | |
| 1906 | Rene Pottier | France | 185h 47m 26s | 4637 | |
| 1905 | Louis Trousselier | France | 112h 18m 9s | 2975 | |
| 1904 | Henri Cornet | France | 96h 5m 0s | 2388 | |
| 1903 | Maurice Garin | France | 94h 33m 0s | 2428 | |