Tour De France Doping Winners
Since 1998 more than a third of the top finishers of the tour de france have admitted to using performance enhancing drugs in their careers or have been officially linked to doping.
Tour de france doping winners. Established in 1903 by newspaper l auto the tour is the most well known and prestigious of cycling s three grand tours. The grid shows the original top 10 placements in each of the past 15 years. This includes lance armstrong who was revered as one of the greatest cyclists of all time.
The most successful rider in the tour de france was lance armstrong who finished first seven times before his wins were removed from the record books after being found guilty of doping by the usada in 2012 at this stage no winner has been named to replace him for those years. Rather than doping and cheating alberto contador was stripped of his 2010 title earlier this year for failing a drug test the news. The organizers of the tour de france said that they no longer consider him to be the winner.
Tour de france winners list. A number of the winners in the past twenty years have been stripped of their titles due to doping. Tour de france titles won between 1999 2005 were formerly allocated to lance armstrong usa but stripped after he was found guilty of doping.
Anquetil pulled off the unthinkable in 1961 when he held the yellow jersey from the first day of the race right up until the end. The race usually covers approximately 3 500 kilometres 2 200 mi. Bjarne riis has admitted to doping during the 1996 tour de france.
Lance armstrong may be the most famous name associated with doping in the famous endurance race but he is far from the first or last. T he reputation of international cycling has been inextricably ensnared in the practice of doping and no where is this more true than the tour de france. Eddy merckx bernhard hinault miguel indurain and jacques anquetil.
The winners of the tour de france are regarded as the best of their time and are remembered long after their day on the podium on the champs elysées in paris. Together with those who failed tests but never sanctioned 68 of the winners evidently used doping as detailed in the table below. Four riders remain in the record books for having won the tour de france five times.
However union cycliste internationale has so far refused to change the official status because a lot of time has passed since his win. This is a list of the tour de france general classification winners the tour de france is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in july. No alternative winner has been announced for these years.
The others are the giro d italia and the vuelta a españa. Events cycling tour de france winners list. Tour de france records.
T he tour de france 2012 has been almost scandal free so far.
