Tour de France past champions: Winners list, American winners, winners by country, fastest times
But before the 112th winner of the Tour de France takes his place atop the podium, let's dive into some history about the winners of this legendary race.
Tour de France American winners
Only one rider from the USA has won the Tour de France: the legendary Greg LeMond. His first win came in 1986 before winning back-to-back in 1989 and 1990. He was the first non-European man to win the Tour de France, and has since been joined only by Australia's Cadel Evans (2011) and Colombia's Egan Bernal (2019).
Winners by country
The Tour de France has been won by riders representing 15 different countries, with the host nation of France also boasting the most winners at 36. This is double the number of winners produced by Belgium, the nation that has produced the second-most winners.
Tour de France Fastest times
Jonas Vingegaard posted the fastest average time by a winning rider, traversing 3,349.8 km in 79 hours, 33 minutes and 20 seconds. This means that on average, Vingegaard was moving at a speed of 42.102 km/h (26.161 mph). Along the same vein, Stage 4 of the 1999 Tour de France was the fastest in history, covering 194.5 km at an average speed of 50.36 km/h (31.29 mph). Italy's Mario Cippolini won this stage with a time of 3 hours, 51 minutes and 45 seconds.
On the other hand, the slowest Tour de France in history was the 1919 edition, which also saw Belgium's Firmin Lambot become the oldest GC winner in race history at age 36 despite averaging a speed of just 24.1 km/h.
Tour de France champions
Since the first race in 1903, the Tour de France has been raced 111 times before, having suspended competition from 1915-19 for World War I and 1940-46 for World War II. Additionally, the races from 1999-2005 officially have no winner after Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven consecutive titles in 2012 following a doping investigation.
Here's a list of every Tour de France winner, from most recent to furthest in the past:
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