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The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the best-known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]
Axelle Étienne (born 26 March 1998 in Bondy) is a French cyclist who competes in the BMX. Axelle was born in Bondy and grew up in Vaujours, in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis. Her parents are from the island of Guadeloupe. Her brother Patrick also competes in BMX racing with both showing promise at a young age.
Contador is the youngest, at 25 years, to win every Tour. [4] It is rare for cyclists to ride all Grand Tours in the same year; in 2004, for example, 474 cyclists started in one of the Grand Tours, 68 rode two and only two cyclists started all three. [5] Cyclists are ranked on the basis of their total wins in the three Grand Tours.
List of cyclists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics; List of cyclists at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships; List of cyclists at the 2017 UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships; List of Grand Tour general classification winners; List of Grand Tour mountains classification winners; List of Grand Tour points classification winners
The majority of stage winners across the three tours have come from Europe, however, there have been a few non-European cyclists who have accomplished this feat. Colombian Luis Herrera was the first non-European rider to win a stage in each of the Grand Tours when he completed the triple with his victory in stage 13 at the 1989 Giro d'Italia .
"Combo'" shows the winners of the combination classification, This classification is calculated by adding the numeral ranks of each cyclist in the general, points, and mountains classifications (a rider must have a score in all). The "Most recent" column shows the cyclist of the country that wore the leader's jersey most recently.
Angelino Soler is the youngest winner of the Vuelta at 21 years and 168 days old when he won in 1961. Chris Horner is the oldest winner of the Vuelta, winning the 2013 edition at the age of 41 years and 328 days old. [8] Spanish cyclists have won the most Vueltas; 23 cyclists have won 32 Vueltas between them.
The Giro d'Italia is one of cycling's three Grand Tours. A stage race that generally lasts for three weeks, it awards a number of jerseys for winners of certain classifications – the current competitions that award a jersey are: General classification, for the fastest rider to complete the race. The winner wears the maglia rosa (pink jersey).