Anorak Question: most grand tour stage victories

yourpaceormine
yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
edited September 2010 in Pro race
...in a single season?

Thinking 8 is probably pretty high in the rankings if not at the top.

So opening gambit: Cavendish - 5 TdF 3 Vuelta and counting...

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  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    F. Maartens won 13 stages in a single Vuelta, i can't remember the year
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Cav did 9 last year anyway!
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    victorponf wrote:
    F. Maartens won 13 stages in a single Vuelta, i can't remember the year
    Add to that his 7 Giro stage wins that year, and you've got a pretty good challenge for Cav :)
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Maertens won 20 in 1977 - 13 Vuelta, 7 in the Giro. But they had daft short stages, sometimes three a day, back then

    More recently, Petacchi won 15 in 2003. 4 Tour, 6 Giro and 5 Vuelta
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  • shakey88
    shakey88 Posts: 289
    RichN95 wrote:
    Maertens won 20 in 1977 - 13 Vuelta, 7 in the Giro. But they had daft short stages, sometimes three a day, back then

    More recently, Petacchi won 15 in 2003. 4 Tour, 6 Giro and 5 Vuelta

    yeah but he was probably doped
  • stagehopper
    stagehopper Posts: 1,593
    Overall there's 7 riders with 30 or more GT stage wins:

    Edddy Merckx 64
    Mario Cipollini 57
    Alessandro Petacchi 47
    Bernard Hinault 41
    Rik Van Looy 38
    Freddy Maertens 35
    Fausto Coppi 31

    Cav currently on 23.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,473
    That list is absent of at least one name, Cipollini beat Alfredo Binda's record for Giro d'Italia stage wins, which stood at 41 stage wins.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    stagehopper wrote:
    Overall there's 7 riders with 30 or more GT stage wins:

    Edddy Merckx 64
    Mario Cipollini 57
    Alessandro Petacchi 47
    Bernard Hinault 41
    Rik Van Looy 38
    Freddy Maertens 35
    Fausto Coppi 31

    Cav currently on 23.

    The question was about GT wins in a single year - not over a career. But it's still an interesting list.
  • Bernardus
    Bernardus Posts: 136
    stagehopper wrote:
    Overall there's 7 riders with 30 or more GT stage wins:

    Edddy Merckx 64
    Mario Cipollini 57
    Alessandro Petacchi 47
    Bernard Hinault 41
    Rik Van Looy 38
    Freddy Maertens 35
    Fausto Coppi 31

    That list is incomplete

    Alfredo Binda won 43 GT stages, 41 in the Giro and 2 in the Tour
    Learco Guerra won 38 GT stages, 31 in the Giro and 7 in the Tour
    Constante Girardengo won 30 GT stages, all in the Giro

    And that's just the Italians.
  • Bernardus
    Bernardus Posts: 136
    One other with more than 30 GT stages in his career is Delio Rodriguez who won 39 Vuelta stages.

    On topic: Freddy Maertens in probably unbeatable with 20 stages in one season. The best I found are Binda in 1927 (12 Giro stages), Guerra in 1934 (10 Giro stages) and Olmo in 1936 (10 Giro stages)

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