Eddy Merckx

Eddy Merckx

Grand Tours

Tour de France

General Classification (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974)

Points Classification (1969, 1971, 1972)

Mountain Classification (1969, 1970)

Combativity award (1969, 1970, 1974, 1975)

Combination Classification (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974)

34 Individual Stages (1969–1975)

Giro d'Italia

General Classification (1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974)

Points Classification (1968, 1973)

Mountain Classification (1968)

24 Individual Stages (1968–1974)

Vuelta a España

General Classification (1973)

Points Classification (1973)

Combination Classification (1973)

6 Individual Stages

Stage Races

Paris–Nice

General classification (1969, 1970, 1971)

Tour de Suisse

General classification (1974)

Single-Day Races and Classics

Road Race World Championships (1967, 1971, 1974)

Belgian National Road Race Championship (1970)

Milan – San Remo (1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976)

Ronde van Vlaanderen (1969, 1975)

Paris–Roubaix (1968, 1970, 1973)

Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975)

Giro di Lombardia (1971, 1972)

Super Prestige Pernod International (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975)

Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (born 17 June 1945 in Meensel-Kiezegem), better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional cyclist. The French magazine Vélo called him "the most accomplished rider that cycling has ever known." The American publication VeloNews called him the greatest and most successful cyclist of all time. He won the Tour de France five times, won all the monuments of cycling at least twice, with 19 monument victories in all, won the Giro d'Italia five times and the Vuelta a España once, won the world championship once as an amateur and three times as a professional, and broke the world hour record.