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6: A HISTORICALLY DOMINANT TOUR
With a 6th stage win to cap off his 3rd overall triumph, Tadej Pogacar beats Laurent Fignon’s reference from 1984 (the overall + 5 stage wins) and follows the tracks of Bernard Hinault, winner of 7 stages when he won the race in 1979. Pogacar is the 7th rider to win at least 6 stages and the overall: - François Faber, 6 stages in 1909 - André Leducq, 6 stages in 1932 - Gino Bartali, 7 stages in 1948 - Eddy Merckx, 6 stages in 1969, 8 stages in 1970, 6 stages in 1972 and 8 stages in 1974 - Luis Ocaña, 6 stages in 1973 - Bernard Hinault, 7 stages in 1979 Tadej Pogacar is also the first rider since Charles Pélissier in 1930 to win the last 3 stages. But the Frenchman was 9th overall that year. With his 17th stage win since his debut in the Tour 2020, Pogacar joins Jean Alavoine at the 8th spot of the all-time ranking. No rider had ever won that many stages before turning 26 (Cavendish and Faber had 15).
25: THE YOUNGEST 3-TIME WINNER
At 25 years and 10 months, Tadej Pogacar is the 8th rider to claim a 3rd overall victory in the Tour de France, and the youngest to do so: - Eddy Merckx took his 3rd win at 26 years, 1 month and 1 day - Bernard Hinault, 26 years, 8 months and 5 days - Jacques Anquetil, 28 years, 6 months and 7 days - Miguel Indurain, 29 years and 9 days - Greg LeMond, 29 years and 26 days - Philippe Thys, 29 years, 9 months and 20 days - Louison Bobet, 30 years, 4 months and 18 days - Chris Froome, 31 years, 2 months and 4 days
8: POGACAR REVIVES THE GIRO-TOUR DOUBLE
75 years after Fausto Coppi was the 1st rider to win both the Giro and the Tour de France in the same season, Tadej Pogacar became the 8th, reviving a feat that had not been achieved this century. The Slovenian cannibal was born 50 days after the last Giro-Tour double was achieved and, at 25 years and 10 months, he is the 2nd youngest rider to do so, behind Eddy Merckx (25 years, 1 month and 2 days). The list of riders who achieved the double: - Fausto Coppi (1949, 1952) - Jacques Anquetil (1964) - Eddy Merckx (1970, 1972, 1974) - Bernard Hinault (1982, 1985) - Stephen Roche (1987) - Miguel Indurain (1992, 1993) - Marco Pantani (1998) - Tadej Pogacar (2024) En route to his double triumph, Pogacar claimed 39 leader’s jerseys (19 Maillot Jaune, 20 Maglia Rosa), more than any rider ever did in a single season. Eddy Merckx had 37 in 1970.
1-2: POGACAR - VINGEGAARD, A HISTORIC SHARED RULE
Jonas Vingegaard winning two Tours (2022, 2023) right after Tadej Pogacar did so (2020, 2021) was already an unprecedented series in the Tour de France. Now the duo extend their rule to a 5th overall victory in a row. They are also the 2 riders who have featured the most often together at the very summit of the Tour: - 4 times together in the first 2 places of the Tour, Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) - 3, Bernard Hinault and Joop Zoetemelk (1978, 1979, 1982) - 2, Firmin Lambot and Jean Alavoine (1919, 1922), Eddy Merckx and Joop Zoetemelk (1970, 1971), Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond (1985, 1986), Chris Froome and Nairo Quintana (2013, 2015). 1: GIRMAY, A GREEN LIGHT FOR AFRICA Already a history maker as the first Eritrean stage winner (stages 3, 8 and 12) and the first African leader of the points standings, Biniam Girmay brings the green jersey home and thus becomes the first African rider to win a standing in the Tour de France. With 17 green jerseys, he has the 33rd highest tally in the history of the race. Jasper Philipsen is just one jersey away, with the 18 he claimed in 2023.
12: CARAPAZ, AN ATTACKER AND A HISTORY MAKER
After he overcame a 67th categorised climb - adding up to 438.8km of climbing, that he covered at an average of 22.3km/h - on the final stage of the Tour 2024, Richard Carapaz brings Ecuador their first victory in a Tour standing, after he already gave his nation a first Maillot Jaune and a first stage win. 11 nations had won the polka-dot jersey so far in the history of the race. French climbers lead the way with 20 victories, while Slovenia was the latest addition, with Tadej Pogacar’s successes in 2020 and 2021. Richard Carapaz was also named the most combative rider of the Tour 2024, after he spent 575km at the front of the race.
24: EVENEPOEL DELIVERS FOR BELGIUM
At 24 years, 5 months and 26 days, Remco Evenepoel succeeds Tadej Pogacar as the best young rider of the Tour de France and becomes the youngest Belgian to finish in the overall top-3 since Eddy Merckx (24 years, 1 month and 3 days) won the race in 1969. Without considerations for the age, Jurgen Van den Broeck was the last Belgian to step on the overall podium of the Tour (3rd), in 2010.
1-2-3: A TRIO ALREADY SET IN HISTORY
The Tour de France finished with an ITT for the 10th in the history and the last battle confirmed the dominance of Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel. The “big 3” finished together in the stage top-3 for the 4th time this year (after stages 11, 14, and 15) before they stepped together on the overall podium. They match the record set by Lucien Petit-Breton, Georges Passerieu and François Faber in the Tour 1908: 4 times together in stages top-3 and then in the overall. No other trio in the history of the race has featured so many times together in the top-3, even across several editions.
35-141: CAVENDISH, LEADER AND LANTERNE ROUGE
Taking the start of a Tour de France stage for the 227th time of his career, Mark Cavendish completed his 15th Tour de France participation with an emotional farewell. The stage, two weeks after he claimed a historic 35th win, was only a matter of making it to the finish for the British icon, who registered the 134th time on the day… and thus dropped to the 141st and last position in the overall standings. For the first time of his career, Cavendish is the lanterne rouge of the Tour!
8: A GLOBAL TOUR
The Tour de France 2024 has crowned stage winners from 8 different nations, the lowest value since 2014. But 2 of these countries - Biniam Girmay’s Eritrea and Richard Carapaz’s Ecuador - claimed their maiden win, becoming the 35th and 36th nations to win in the Tour. Denmark has won stages in the last 3 editions, Great Britain in the last 4, Slovenia in the last 5, Belgium in the last 6, the Netherlands in the last 9… And France in the last 25, i.e. in every edition this century. There are only 2 editions with French win: 1926 and 1999. In between, French riders achieved their longest winning streak: 65 editions in a row. Belgians won in 71 consecutive editions, from 1911 to 1993.
