Sixteen Greatest Cyclists
		Merckx, Eddy	Hinault, Bernard	Anquetil, Jacques	Coppi, Fausto	Gimondi, Felice	Indurain, Miguel	Armstrong, Lance	Contador, Alberto
	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)	3 (07,09,10)
	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)		1 (08)
	All Jerseys, GdI4	1 (68)			(see note 4)
	Vuelta a Espana	1 (73)	2 (78,83)	1 (63)		1 (68)			1 (08)
	All Jerseys, VaE5
	World Championship	3 (67,71,74)	1 (80)		1 (53)	1 (73)		1 (93)
	Monuments6	19	5	1	9	4
	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	Master Jacques	Campionissimo	Italian Bobet	Big Mig	Texan	El Pistolero
		Bartali, Gino	Binda, Alfredo	Rominger, Tony	Roche, Steven	Fignon, Laurent	Bobet, Louis	Zoetemelk, Joop	Lemond, Greg
	Tour de France	2 (38,48)			1 (87)	2 (83,84)	3 (53-55)	1 (80)	3 (86,899,90)
	All Jerseys1, TdF
	Giro d'Italia	3 (36,37,46)	53 (25,27-29,33)	1 (95)	1 (87)	1 (89)
	All Jerseys, GdI4	(see note 4)	(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)
	Monuments6	9	6	2		2	4	2
	Classics7					1		2
	World Hour Record			55.3 (94)
	Triple Crown8				1 (87)
	Nickname	Gino the Pious	1st World's	Swiss	Dubliner	Intellectual	Louison	16x TdFs	First American10
	NOTES:
	1. "All Jerseys" designation means that a rider won all three (leader, points, and climber) 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. Binda probably would have won the Giro in 1930 had the organizers not asked him to sit out the race (and paid him the winner's purse not to ride) -- thereby extending his record to six wins.
	4. While Merckx is the only "official" winner of all three jerseys of the Giro, the first point 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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