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Legend No. Starting number worn by the rider during the Tour Pos. Position in the general classification: Time Deficit to the winner of the general classification: Denotes riders born on or after 1 January 1999 eligible for the young rider classification
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]
176 riders across 22 eight-member teams took part in the 2022 Tour de France. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Twenty-seven [ a ] nationalities took part, with the largest percentage being French (11% of the peloton). [ 3 ] 135 riders finished the event.
Twenty-three teams participated in the 2021 Tour de France. All nineteen UCI WorldTeams were entitled and obliged to enter the race, and they were joined by four second-tier UCI ProTeams . Alpecin–Fenix , the best performing UCI ProTeam in 2020, received an automatic invitation, while the other three teams were selected by Amaury Sport ...
L'Étape du Tour (French for 'stage of the Tour') is an organised mass participation cyclosportive event that allows amateur cyclists to race over the same route as a Tour de France stage. First held in 1993, and now organised by the ASO, in conjunction with Vélo Magazine , it takes place each July, normally on a Tour rest day.
This is a list of records and statistics in the Tour de France, road cycling's premier competitive event.. One rider has been King of the Mountains, won the combination classification, combativity award, the points competition, and the Tour in the same year - Eddy Merckx in 1969, which was also the first year he participated.
The 1962 Tour de France design of the yellow jersey, as worn by Tom Simpson on stage thirteen as leader of the general classification. Since the establishment of the competition in 1903, nine British riders have led the general classification in the Tour de France at the end of a stage during one of the 103 editions of the Tours de France.
Additionally, the organisers of the Tour, the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), invited three second-tier UCI ProTeams to participate in the event. Two of the three French teams have participated in the race before, while B&B Hotels–Vital Concept made their Tour de France debut.