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LeMond won the Tour de France thrice and the Road Race World Championship twice, becoming the only American male to win the former. LeMond began his professional cycling career in 1981. Two years later, he became the first American male cyclist to win the Road World Championship.
- An Epic Tour de France Battle Brews
- 1989 Tour de France Day One
- The Early Lead
- Trading Blows
- The Battle to The Bitter End of The 1989 Tour de France
Even before the Tour de France began in 1989, cyclists knew a showdown was fast approaching among three of the top riders in the world: American Greg LeMond, France’s Laurent Fignon, and Spaniard Pedro Delgado. Delgado won the Tour de France the year before, so he was a key contender straight out of the gate. Fignon won the Tour de France in 1983 a...
The 1989 Tour de France began with a 5-mile prologue time trial in which riders set out alone to race for position against the clock. Of the three men in the spotlight, LeMond hit the road first. He made a statement on the opening stage with a time of just more than 10 minutes, putting him in second place. At the end of LeMond’s run, he was behind ...
With Fignon and LeMond opening their tours with solid performances, Delgado faced a tremendous challenge from the outset. Pulling back enough time would take multiple stages of the race, and nobody intended to just give it to him. He would have to stay on his game the entire race if he hoped to make a comeback. He did himself no favors in the first...
Stage 10, another romp through the mountains, proved to be hectic. Fignon struggled, while Delgado appeared to remain on form to clinch another second-place stage finish. LeMond, who had 5 seconds on Fignon, also seemed to be in difficulty but hung with Fignon for most of the stage, Near the end of the stage, Fignon attacked and dropped LeMond, fin...
Fignon attacked again on Stage 18. He showed confidence and power deep into the 3-week race. He won the stage and pulled another 24 seconds ahead, leaving him with a total cumulative time of 50 seconds over LeMond. The day led almost everyone to count LeMond out. The large deficit was not impossible to overcome, but with only three stages left, it ...
May 31, 2019 · Thirty years ago this July, American Greg LeMond won the closest Tour de France in history, completing the 2,000-mile race with a victory margin of only eight seconds. Many cycling fans consider...
Apr 25, 2024 · Greg LeMond is an American bicycle racer who was the first non-European rider to win the Tour de France, the most celebrated and challenging event in cycling. In his career he won the Tour de France three times (1986, 1989, 1990) and twice won the World Road Race Championship (1983, 1989).
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Apr 24, 1992 · Victory ranking. Greg LeMond has 31 career victories. The biggest victories were Tour de France in 1989 and Tour de France in 1990.
Aug 22, 2023 · Greg LeMond in the Yellow Jersey in the 1986 Tour de France on stage 21 to the summit of the Puy de Dôme. Joop Zoetemelk, the reigning world champion at the time, is on his wheel. LeMond went on to win the 1986 Tour de France.
Oct 28, 2013 · The handlebar was strategically utilized by Greg LeMond , when he beat Laurent Fignon by nearly a minute in the 24.5km final time trial and won the Tour de France with the narrowest margin in its history: eight seconds.
