Ranking Grand Tour winners
Just decided to do this, basing this off
wikipedia facts for winners
- Eddy Merckx- 11 grand tour wins, most of anyone, winner
of all grand tours, 5 time tdf winner, checks almost all the boxes
- Bernaud Hinault- Almost put Hinault higher but I just
couldn’t, 10 gt wins, winner of all the grand tours twice, the badger has
5 tdfs to his name
- Jacques Anquetil- For such a great rider he’s the name
we hear the least, 5 time tour winner, winner of all the grand tours and
has 8 to his name
- Indurain- Would’ve been in third had he been able and
willing to win his home grand tour, 5 tdf wins, 2 giros, gets the nod
ahead of the other 7 grand tour owners because of his success at the tour
- El Pistolero- 7 grand tours, 2 tours, 3 giros, 2 Vueltas. Gets the nod ahead of Coppi because he’s won all the grand tours
twice
- Fausto Coppi- Also 7 time grand tour winner, fun fact,
he won his first grand tour in 1940 and then was forced to wait 7 years
because of WWII to win his second, 5x giro winner + 2 tours
- Chris Froome- 4x tour winner with a Vuelta as well,
placed at the top of the 5x grand tour winners because of his tour
dominance and because of the Tour-Vuelta that he completed 4 days ago,
funny how in 3 months he went from one trick pony 3x tour winner to 7th all
time
- Gino Bartali- takes second among the 5x winners for the
second most amount of tours out of the group with 2, along with 3 giro
wins
- Felice Gimondi- The forgotten winner of all the grand
tours, 1 tour, 3 giros, 1 Vuelta, takes 9th ahead of Binda for his tour
win
- Alfredo Binda- 5 giros, only reason he is ahead of all
the guys with 4 is because none of them have multiple tour wins
- Vincenzo Nibali- Takes first among the 4x gt winners
because of his tour win, also has 2 in the giro and 1 in the vuelta, will
probably end his career in the top 10, I think he can win one more grand
tour, but it’ll be tough
- Tony Rominger- Ahead of Heras because he won the giro,
another 4x grand tour winner with 3 vueltas
- Robert Heras- The man who capitalized off of Lance’s
lack of caring about anything other than the tour, of course Armstrong
would have had Vuelta wins stripped but as we know, nobody ever cares enough
to re-award grand tour victories
- Greg Lemond-Takes the top step among 3x grand tour
winners because of the drama he went through along with the competition. At first having to beat Bernaud Hinault with him as a teammate attacking him, and then getting
shot, recovering and winning 2 more tours
- Louis Bobet- Sneaks into the top 15 because of his
three straight tour wins, also because the other 3x tour winner won them
in the very early 1900s, less signifigant
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