LAST WORD
100 YEARS IN YELLOW
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1
1
The number of times that Eddy
Merckx wore the Tour de France
leader’s jersey (half-stages
included, or 93 days in yellow).
4
The number of five-
time winners of the
Tour de France:
Jacques Anquetil,
Eddy Merckx,
Bernard Hinault and
Miguel Indurain.
16 266
The number
of riders
who have
abandoned
the Tour while
wearing the
yellow jersey.
The number
of different
riders who
have worn the
yellow jersey
between 1919
and 2018.
3
years old and 328 days: the age of Belgian Roman Maes,
the youngest wearer of the yellow jersey in 1935.
The number of holders of the yellow jersey at the start of the eighth
stage of the 1929 Tour. The day before, Nicolas Frantz, Victor Fontan and
André Leducq were tied at the finish of the seventh stage in Bordeaux.
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37
The age of Eugene
Christophe, who wore the
first-ever yellow jersey in 1919,
when he donned the garment
for the last time in 1922.
The number of riders who won the
Tour de France on the final stage and
therefore didn’t wear the yellow jersey
once during the race: Jean Robic in
1947 and Jan Janssen in 1968.
2
The number of consecutive stages during which Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg
wore the yellow jersey during the 1928 race, in other words, for the entire duration
of the race. In 1924, Italy’s Ottavio Bottechia had already achieved the feat of
wearing the yellow jersey from start to finish, but on a Tour with 15 stages.