Jacques Anquetil

The first five-time Tour winner (1957 and 1961 to 1964), Anquetil also won two Giros and the 1963 Vuelta. He won by calculation: take minutes in the time trials, then limit losses in the mountains. His 1964 duel with Raymond Poulidor on the Puy de Dôme, shoulder to shoulder, is the classic image of that defensive method under pressure.