Tour de France records and statistics

This is a list of records and statistics in the Tour de France, road cycling's premier competitive event.

The only rider to approach the feat of winning the green, polka dot and yellow jersey in the same Tour was Bernard Hinault in 1979, where he won the race and the points classification, but finished 2nd in the mountains competition.

After Merckx in 1972 no other rider would win three distinctive jerseys in a single Tour until Tadej Pogačar in 2020, a feat he repeated the following year.

Maurice Garin did it during the Tour's first edition, 1903; he repeated the feat the next year, but the results were nullified in response to widespread cheating.

After dominating the ITT during Stage 1B of the 1961 Tour de France Jacques Anquetil held the Maillot Jaune from the first day all the way to Paris.

René Pottier, Roger Lapébie, Sylvère Maes, Fausto Coppi and Bradley Wiggins all won the Tour de France the last time they appeared in the race.

Largest number of riders leaving the race: 93 in 1998 (96 classified at the finish out of 189 starters) Between 1920 and 1985, Jules Deloffre (1885 – 1963)[3] was the record holder for the highest number of Tour de France participations, with 14, and was sole holder of this record until 1966[4] with the fourteenth and last participation of André Darrigade.

George Hincapie had held the mark for the most consecutive finishes with sixteen, having completed every Tour de France that he participated in except his first one, but was disqualified in October 2012 from the 2004, 2005 and 2006 editions of the race for his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

[6][7] Joop Zoetemelk and Chavanel jointly hold the record for the most finishes with sixteen each, with the former having completed all 16 of the Tours that he started.

[13] The longest successful post-war breakaway by a single rider was by Albert Bourlon in the 1947 Tour de France.

[19] The fastest time-trial is Rohan Dennis's stage 1 of the 2015 Tour de France in Utrecht, won at an average pace of 55.446 km/h (34.5 mph).

[23] The table below shows the top 26 riders who have won the most stages (including half-stages, excluding Team Time Trials).

The table below shows the top 26 riders with the most podium finishes (including half-stages, excluding Team Time Trials).

Pre-WW2 has been excluded due to changing national borders, the route being less varied than today and, except for stages to Geneva, usually taking place entirely within France anyway.