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The Sixteen Greatest |
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The Sixteen Greatest |
| Merckx, Eddy | Hinault, Bernard | Anquetil, Jacques | Coppi, Fausto | Gimondi, Felice | Indurain, Miguel | Armstrong, Lance | Bartali, Gino | |||
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| Tour de France | 5 (69-72,74) | 5(78,79,81,82,85) | 5 (57,61-64) | 2 (49,52) | 1 (65) | 5 (91-95) | 7 (99-05) | 2 (38,48) | ||
| All Jerseys1, TdF | 1 (69) | (see note 2) | ||||||||
| Giro d'Italia | 5 (68,70,72-74) | 3 (80,82,85) | 2 (60,64) | 5(40,47,49,52,53) | 3 (67,69,76) | 2 (92,93) | 3 (36,37,46) | |||
| All Jerseys, GdI4 | 1 (68) | (see note 4) | (see note 4) | |||||||
| Vuelta a Espana | 1 (73) | 2 (78,83) | 1 (63) | 1 (68) | ||||||
| All Jerseys, VaE5 | ||||||||||
| World Championship | 3 (67,71,74) | 1 (80) | 1 (53) | 1 (73) | 1 (93) | |||||
| Monuments6 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 9 | ||||
| Classics7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| World Hour Record | 49.4 kph (72) | 46.2 (56) | 45.9 (42) | 53.0 (94) | ||||||
| Triple Crown8 | 1 (74) | |||||||||
| Nickname | Cannibal | Badger | Monsieur Chrono | Campionissimo | Italian Bobet | Big Mig | Texan | Gino the Pious | ||
| Binda, Alfredo | Rominger, Tony | Roche, Steven | Fignon, Laurent | Bobet, Louis | Zoetemelk, G.J. | Lemond, Greg | Moser, Francesco | |||
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| Tour de France | 1 (87) | 2 (83,84) | 3 (53-55) | 1 (80) | 3 (86,899,90) | |||||
| All Jerseys1, TdF | ||||||||||
| Giro d'Italia | 53 (25,27-29,33) | 1 (95) | 1 (87) | 1 (89) | 1 (84) | |||||
| All Jerseys, GdI4 | (see note 4) | |||||||||
| Vuelta a Espana | 3 (92-94) | 1 (79) | ||||||||
| All Jerseys, VaE5 | 1 (93) | |||||||||
| World Championship | 3 (27,30,32) | 1 (87) | 1 (54) | 1 (85) | 2 (83,89) | 1 (84) | ||||
| Monuments6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||
| Classics7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||||
| World Hour Record | 55.3 (94) | 51.2 (84) | ||||||||
| Triple Crown8 | 1 (87) | |||||||||
| Nickname | 1st World's | Swiss | Dubliner | Professeur | Louison | Joop | First American10 | Man of the Hour | ||
| NOTES: | ||||||||||
| 1. "All Jerseys" designation means that a rider won all three (leader, points, and mountains) jerseys of a given Grand Tour. | ||||||||||
| 2. Hinault is the only racer other than Merckx to win all three jerseys (yellow, green, & polka dot) of the TdF -- but, he did not accomplish it in the same year. | ||||||||||
| 3. In 1930, the organizers of the Giro "asked" Binda to sit out the race (and paid him the winner's purse not to ride). | ||||||||||
| 4. While Merckx is the only "official" winner of all three jerseys of the Giro, the first points jersey competition of the Giro was not held until 1966 -- after Bartali, Binda, and Coppi had already retired. | ||||||||||
| 5. Laurent Jalabert ('95) is the only competitor other than Rominger to have won all three jerseys in the Vuelta. | ||||||||||
| 6. Merckx, Rik Van Looy, and Roger de Vlaeminck are the only cyclists to win all 5 Monuments: Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, and Tour of Lombardy. | ||||||||||
| 7. Merckx won 4 of the 8 "Classics" (even though two of them* did not exist until after he retired): Het Volk, Gent-Wevelgem, Fleche Wallone, Amstel Gold Race, HEW Cyclassics*, San Sebastian | ||||||||||
| Classic*, Championship of Zurich, and Paris-Tours. | ||||||||||
| 8. While only Merckx and Roche completed the Triple Crown (TdF, GdI, and World Championship in the same year) -- Indurain came close in 1993, placing 2nd to Lance in the WCRR. | ||||||||||
| 9. Lemond's 8 second victory over Fignon in the '89 TdF was the smallest margin of victory for any Grand Tour. | ||||||||||
| 10. Lemond was not only the first American to win the Tour de France -- he was the first non-European. | ||||||||||
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