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Fausto Coppi
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Coppi won the Giro five times and the Tour in 1949 and 1952, the first rider to win both in the same year. His style was the long solo mountain attack, often launched far from the finish over several passes, at a time when roads were unpaved and team support thin. He also set the hour record in 1942.
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Jacques Anquetil
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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.
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Eddy Merckx
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"The Cannibal" won five Tours, five Giros and the 1973 Vuelta, and was rarely content to defend: he won mountain stages, time trials and sprints in the same race. His 1969 Tour, won by almost eighteen minutes with a long solo over the Tourmalet, is the reference for total dominance.
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Bernard Hinault
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"The Badger" won five Tours, three Giros and two Vueltas between 1978 and 1985. He was a strong time triallist who also raced aggressively and acted as patron of the peloton, controlling when others could attack. His 1980 Liège win in snow shows the same stubbornness that defined his stage races.
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Greg LeMond
LeMond won the Tour in 1986, 1989 and 1990, the 1989 edition by eight seconds after using triathlon aero bars in the final time trial while Laurent Fignon did not. He came back from a near-fatal hunting accident in 1987 to do it, and his openness to new equipment changed how Grand Tour time trials were ridden.
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Miguel Induráin
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Induráin won five consecutive Tours (1991 to 1995) and the Giro in 1992 and 1993, mostly by winning the long time trials and then riding steadily with the climbers. Tall and heavy for a stage racer, he rarely attacked in the mountains, and his career shows how much the route's time-trial kilometres shaped who could win.
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Marco Pantani
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Pantani won the Giro and Tour in 1998 as a pure climber, standing on the pedals and attacking from the bottom of the final mountain. He was thrown out of the 1999 Giro for a high haematocrit reading, and his career sits squarely in cycling's EPO era, but no rider since has relied so completely on climbing to win a Grand Tour.
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Alberto Contador
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Contador officially holds two Tours, two Giros and three Vueltas, having been stripped of the 2010 Tour and 2011 Giro after a clenbuterol positive. His style was repeated, rhythm-breaking accelerations out of the saddle on climbs, and he kept attacking from distance even late in his career, when he could no longer outclimb the best.
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Cadel Evans
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Evans, a former mountain bike world cup champion, won the 2011 Tour by limiting his losses in the Alps and then overturning Andy Schleck's lead in the penultimate-day time trial. He was a steady, diesel climber rather than an attacker, and his win is a model of consistency over three weeks, the first by an Australian.
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Vincenzo Nibali
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"The Shark" won all three Grand Tours: the 2010 Vuelta, the Giro in 2013 and 2016, and the 2014 Tour, where he gained time on the cobbled stage to Arenberg. He was one of the finest descenders of his era and repeatedly won races by attacking downhill or in bad weather, when others were cautious.
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Bradley Wiggins
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Wiggins converted from Olympic track pursuiting to win the 2012 Tour, Britain's first, on a route with nearly 100 km of time trials. Team Sky's train set a steady pace on the climbs so he could ride at a fixed power, a team-controlled approach that defined the next decade of Tour racing.
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Chris Froome
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Froome won four Tours, two Vueltas and the 2018 Giro, the last with an 80 km solo attack over the Colle delle Finestre's gravel to overturn a three-minute deficit. Usually he won with Team Sky's control and high-cadence seated accelerations; that Finestre day showed he could also win the old-fashioned way.
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Egan Bernal
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Bernal won the 2019 Tour at 22, the first Colombian winner, and the 2021 Giro, where he rode across the gravel of the Strade Bianche stage and attacked on the highest climbs. Raised at altitude in Zipaquirá, he was strongest above 2,000 m, and his return after a near-fatal training crash in 2022 is a story in itself.
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Primož Roglič
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A former ski jumper, Roglič won the Vuelta four times and the 2023 Giro, the latter by overturning Geraint Thomas's lead in the mountain time trial on the penultimate day. He collects time bonuses with sprints from small groups on uphill finishes, a style suited to the Vuelta's many short, steep climbs.
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Tadej Pogačar
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Pogačar won his fifth Tour in 2026 by six and a half minutes, adding to the 2024 Giro, and attacks on almost any terrain: high mountains, gravel, cobbles, even flat crosswinds. He is the modern answer to Merckx in style as well as results, rarely content to defend a lead his team could protect.
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Jonas Vingegaard
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Vingegaard won the Tour in 2022 and 2023, the Vuelta in 2025 and the 2026 Giro, completing the set of all three. He is a pure climber who also time-trials well, and his best wins came from Visma's team tactics, which isolated Pogačar before he attacked on the longest, steepest climbs.
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Sepp Kuss
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Kuss, the American mountain domestique for Roglič and Vingegaard, won the 2023 Vuelta after gaining time in an early breakaway, then holding on while his own leaders finished second and third. It is the rare Grand Tour won by the team's helper, and it shows how team hierarchy can bend when a lead is earned.
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Enric Mas
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Mas won the 2026 Vuelta, the first Spanish winner since Contador in 2014, after several near misses on the podium. He is a consistent climber who rarely cracks, and his win, confirmed when the final-day standings were frozen in Granada, rewards patience over three weeks rather than a single decisive attack.
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Anna van der Breggen
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Van der Breggen won the Giro Rosa three times (2015, 2017 and 2020) as a climber who could also time-trial at world-champion level. She tended to win stage races in the mountains and then protect the lead against the clock, a balanced approach that set the standard before the women's Tour returned.
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Annemiek van Vleuten
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Van Vleuten won the Giro four times, the Vuelta more than once and the first modern Tour de France Femmes in 2022, often with solo attacks of 30 km or more on the climbs. In 2022 she won all three in one season, at 39. No rider of either sex has made the long-range mountain solo so routine.
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Demi Vollering
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Vollering won the 2023 Tour de France Femmes, taking the decisive stage on the Tourmalet after finishing second the year before. A climber with a strong sprint from small groups, she races stage races the way she races Liège: patiently, then one decisive acceleration on the final climb.
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Elisa Longo Borghini
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Longo Borghini won the Giro d'Italia Women in 2024 and 2025 as a strong all-rounder rather than a pure climber, using her time trial and descending to defend narrow leads. Her wins show how a women's Grand Tour can be won by never having a bad day rather than by one big attack.
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Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
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Ferrand-Prévot returned to the road after an Olympic mountain bike title and won the 2025 Tour de France Femmes with attacks on the final Alpine stages. Her off-road power on steep gradients translated directly to long climbs, a reminder that Grand Tour talent can come from other disciplines.
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