The Tour de France has set cycling fans’ pulses racing for more than a century, with the world-renowned bike race taking place in July each year. The Tour sees riders compete for the iconic yellow jersey, given to the leaders and eventual winners of the race. Despite its name, the Tour de France is an international affair, with routes often going through different countries and participants hailing from all over the world – after France, the
is Belgium, with previous winners also coming from Colombia and Australia. In 2024, the men’s race was won by Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar, while the Tour de France Femmes was won by Kasia Niewiadoma of Poland.
What are the all-time records in the Tour de France?
The first men’s Tour took place in 1903, and many records have been set and broken since then. The
riders with the most Tour de France victories are Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Miguel Indurain, with each rider winning the race on five occasions. Lance Armstrong won seven consecutive Tours from 1999 to 2005, yet all his titles were later stripped due to
doping. Meanwhile, the race has become significantly higher paced, with the
average speed of Tour de France winners regularly exceeding 40 kilometers per hour. By comparison, Maurice Garin, winner of the first Tour, had an average speed of around 25.7 kilometers per hour. Today’s high-speed excitement attracts an equally high number of TV viewers, with the
total European audience of the 2024 Tour amounting to nearly 150 million.
What is the Tour de France Femmes?
While previous women’s races existed, such as La Course, there has only been a ‘full’ women’s Tour de France since 2022. To date, there have been three different
winners of the Tour de France Femmes, with the inaugural Tour being won by Annemiek van Vleuten. Nevertheless, the women’s Tour is still in many ways a work in progress, and a
comparison of Tour de France prize money shows a large disparity between men and women - even when accounting for each Tour’s different lengths. Looking to the future, fans of the sport will hope that the women’s Tour can close this gap in coming years.
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