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Youngest and oldest winners of Tour de France. Youngest # Rider Age Season; 1: CORNET Henri: 19y + 354d: 1904: 2: POGAČAR Tadej
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Sep 19, 2020 · Pogačar has been a massive talent since his Under-23 days, winning races like the Tour de l’Avenir—the so-called Tour de France for young riders—and other prestigious races. He joined the...
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photo source: thefamouspeople.com Laurent Fignon is one of the most enigmatic French road cyclists to ever race in the Tour de France competition. He won the 1984 and 1983 Tour de France, as well as the 1989 Giro d’Italia. Fignon nearly won the Tour De France trophy in 1989, but was edged by Greg LeMond by a close margin of 8 seconds. Fignon won mu...
photo source: wikipedia.org Philippe Thys was a Belgian professional cyclistwho competed internationally in road cycling competitions. He had dozens of trophies under his name, including three Tour de France trophies and circuit François Peugeot. Thys participated in and won Belgium’s national cyclo-cross 1910 competition, aged 20 years. Two years ...
photo source: thetimes.co.uk Popularly nicknamed “The Phoenix,” Felice Gimondi was an award-winning Italian racing cyclist. He was the son of a postmistress and a transport manager, which kickstarted his cycling career – he used to ride his mom’s post-bicycle to school, and eventually assisted delivering mail on it. Gimondi competed in the road rac...
photo source: cyclingarchives.com Octave Lapize was a renowned French pro-road-racing and track cyclist. He is best-known for his Tour de France win in 1910, as well as winning a bronze medal in the men’s 100 kilometers at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He also won the Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Brussels one-day classics three times. Lapize dropped out of ...
photo source: cyclingnews.com Egan Bernal is a Colombian cyclist who is currently riding for UCI World-Team INEOS Grenadiers. Bernal won the 2019 Tour de France, aged 22 years and 196 days. This feat qualified him as the first-ever Latin American trophy winner, and the youngest since 1909. Bernal began his career as a junior road cycle racer, and w...
photo source: wikipedia.org Born in 1887, François Faber was the first Luxembourgian racing cyclist to compete in the coveted Tour de France. He holds a remarkable record of winning five consecutive Tour de France stages. Faber professionally cycle-raced for eight years, and achieved a record of 27 race wins. Before winning the 1909 tour de France,...
photo source: theguardian.com Tadej Pogačar is the youngest Tour de France winner currently alive. Pogačar, who was born in 1998, has won two Tours de France, two one-day Monuments (Giro di Lombardia and Liège–Bastogne–Liège), and an Olympic bronze medal in Tokyo. He is the youngest Slovenian professional racing cyclist to win Grand Tour 3rd stage ...
photo source: kids.kiddle.co Henri Cornet is the youngest Tour de France winner of all time. Cornet’s Tour de France win was associated with great controversy because of the many cheating allegations proposed against several other lead cyclists in the race. Although Cornet reached the finish line in fifth position and with two flat tires, he was de...
The youngest Tour de France winner is Henri Cornet (France, b. 4 August 1884), who triumphed on 24 July 1904 aged 19 years 355 days. Cornet actually finished the race in fifth position but was awarded the victory after the first four riders – Maurice Garin, Lucien Pothier, César Garin and Hippolyte Aucouturier – were all disqualified ...
The youngest Tour de France stage winner is Fabio Battesini, who was 19 when he won stage 3 in the 1931 Tour de France. The oldest Tour de France stage winner is Pino Cerami , who won stage 9 of the 1963 edition at 41 years old.
Henri Cornet became the winner after the dispute was settled; he is the youngest to win the Tour. Following the scandals in 1904, the scoring system was changed from being time-based to a point-based system, in which the cyclist who has the fewest points at the end of the race is victorious.
Quintana is the only rider to win the classification in non-consecutive years. Pogačar holds the absolute record of wearing the white jersey for 75 days in total. Tadej Pogačar also has the record of leading the young rider classification for 72 consecutive stages, between stage 13 of the 2020 Tour de France and the end of the 2023 Tour de ...
