“The ideal Tour would be a Tour in which only one rider survives the ordeal.”
Henri Desgrange (father of the TdF)

  July 2006
   
 

 

By Graham Jones
CyclingRevealed Historian

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CyclingRevealed's First Impressions '06

**Tour de France Question Stage 13**

Who is the rider with the most TdF starts?

Answer:

Most Tour de France starts per rider

16 Joop Zoetemelk (Ned) [1970 through 1973-1975 through 1986]

15 Guy Nulens (Bel) [1980 through 1994]
15 Lucien Van Impe (Bel) [1969 through 1981, 1983, 1985]
15 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) [1990 through 1998, 2000 through 2004, 2006]

14 André Darrigade (Fra) [1953 through 1966]
14 Jules Deloffre (Fra) [1908 through 1914, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1925 through 1928]
14 Sean Kelly (Irl) [1978 through 1985, 1987 through 1992]
14 Raymond Poulidor (Fra) [1962 through 1970, 1972 through 1976]

 
         
   

 


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