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With 525 career victories, Eddy Merckx is the most successful rider in cycling history. Highlights of his storied career include winning eleven Grand Tours, all five Monument races, three professional road World Championships, the hour record, every major one-day race (except Paris-Tours), and many track racing victories.
Bernard Hinault, nicknamed “The Badger” for his aggressive riding style, won the Tour de France five times, the Giro d’Italia three times, and the Vuelta a España twice during this long and successful career. Hinault rode for the Renault-Gitane-Campagnolo Team from 1978 – 1983.
Miguel Induráin won five consecutive Tours de France from 1991 to 1995, the fourth, and last, to win five times. He won the Giro d’Italia twice (1992 & 1993), becoming one of seven people to achieve the Giro-Tour double in the same season. Since the revoking of Lance Armstrong’s seven wins, he now holds the record for the most consecutive Tour de France wins and shares the record for most wins with Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault, and Eddy Merckx.
Lance Armstrong was a dominant professional cyclist, best known for winning seven consecutive Tour de France titles from 1999 to 2005 after surviving testicular cancer. He became a global sports icon and symbol of resilience, but his career was overshadowed by a doping scandal. In 2012, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) found him guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs, leading to his lifetime ban from cycling and the stripping of his titles. Armstrong later admitted to doping in a 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey, marking one of the biggest scandals in sports history.
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