British Tour de France Winners and Grand Tour Champions
Every British Tour de France winner and Grand Tour champion, from Wiggins in 2012 to Simon Yates at the 2025 Giro, with the UK riders who wore yellow before them.
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- First British winner
- Bradley Wiggins, 2012
- British Tour wins to 2025
- 6
- Chris Froome Grand Tour wins
- 7
- Cavendish Tour stage wins
- 35
Paris, 22 July 2012. A rider from Kilburn in north-west London stood on the top step of the podium on the Champs-Élysées, with his team-mate Chris Froome on the step below. Bradley Wiggins had just become the first British winner of the Tour de France, at the 99th time of asking.
Three British riders have won the Tour de France: Bradley Wiggins in 2012, Chris Froome in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, and Geraint Thomas in 2018. That is six British wins in seven editions after 98 races without one. Add the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España and the British total of Grand Tour titles reaches twelve by the end of the 2025 season, seven of them Froome's. The tally can move with every summer, and this page records it to that point.
What follows is the list, the races behind it, the riders who came close in the decades before, and the reasons the wins arrived in a cluster rather than spread across a century.
Six British Tour de France wins in seven years, after 98 editions without one
The shape of the record is the striking thing. From the first Tour in 1903 to 2011, no British rider won the race. From 2012 to 2018, a British rider won six times out of seven. Vincenzo Nibali in 2014 was the only interruption, and Froome had abandoned that race after crashing twice in the rain on the cobbled stage to Arenberg in northern France, before the race reached the Alps.
All six wins came with the same British-registered team, launched in 2010 as Team Sky and later renamed INEOS. Wiggins and Thomas had come through the British Cycling track programme at the velodrome in Manchester, and both were Olympic champions on the track before they won anything of note on the road. Froome arrived by another route entirely, from Kenya and South Africa by way of a continental professional team.
| Year | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Bradley Wiggins | Chris Froome | Vincenzo Nibali |
| 2013 | Chris Froome | Nairo Quintana | Joaquim Rodríguez |
| 2015 | Chris Froome | Nairo Quintana | Alejandro Valverde |
| 2016 | Chris Froome | Romain Bardet | Nairo Quintana |
| 2017 | Chris Froome | Rigoberto Urán | Romain Bardet |
| 2018 | Geraint Thomas | Tom Dumoulin | Chris Froome |
The table carries a second story inside it. In 2012 and 2018 two British riders finished on the same podium, and in both years they rode for the same team. That team's method — a deep squad able to ride tempo on the front of the race for hours, a leader protected until the final climb or the time trial, and a scientific approach to pacing — became the defining style of the decade. Rivals called it dull. It won.
A word on nationality, because a British reader will ask. Wiggins was born in Belgium to an Australian father and raised in London. Froome was born in Kenya, grew up partly in South Africa and switched his racing licence to Britain in 2008. Thomas is Welsh, from Cardiff. All three raced for Great Britain at Olympic Games and world championships, and the Tour's records list them as British. None was English-born in the narrow sense, which is worth knowing if the search that brought you here was for English winners specifically: the honest answer is that the Tour's English champion is Wiggins, by upbringing rather than by birthplace.
- 98Editions before a British win
- 6British overall wins
- 3Different British winners
- 35Mark Cavendish stage wins
Figures to the end of the 2025 Tour. Editions before the first win counts every Tour from 1903 to 2011.
The length of the gap before 2012 is not an accident of chance. Britain simply did not produce riders who raced continental professional cycling in numbers until the 1990s, and the handful who did were usually on French, Belgian or Spanish teams that would not build a three-week race around them. Our guide to how long the Tour de France is explains why a three-week race favours a team built for it, which is precisely what Britain lacked.
Bradley Wiggins in 2012: time trials, a controlling team and Hampton Court
Wiggins won the 2012 Tour the way a pursuiter would design a bike race if he were allowed. The route that year carried about 95 kilometres of individual time trialling in two long stages, on top of the opening prologue in Liège, and relatively few summit finishes. He won both: at Besançon on stage nine and at Chartres on the penultimate day. The second of those confirmed a winning margin of a little over three minutes over Froome.
He took the yellow jersey on stage seven, at La Planche des Belles Filles in the Vosges, the race's first summit finish. Froome won the stage. Wiggins never gave the jersey back.
The race in between was a study in control. Sky's riders set a steady, high pace on the climbs, which discouraged attacks because an attacker had to go from a speed already near his limit. Wiggins rarely attacked anyone himself. He did not need to. His strength was holding a fixed output for an hour, which made the time trials his and the mountains a matter of limiting loss.
The La Toussuire moment
Stage 11, to La Toussuire in the Alps, produced the episode people still argue about. Froome accelerated near the top, opened a gap on his own leader and was told over the radio to wait. He did. Froome later wrote and spoke about believing he could have won that Tour. Whether he could is a question nobody can settle; the team's orders were clear, and Wiggins rode the final time trial to put the result beyond debate.
Ten days later
The Tour ended on 22 July. On 1 August, Wiggins won the Olympic road time trial at Hampton Court Palace in front of crowds lining the roads of south-west London, with Froome taking bronze. It was his fourth Olympic gold, after the individual pursuit in Athens and the individual and team pursuits in Beijing, and he added a fifth in the team pursuit in Rio in 2016.
Few summers in British sport compare. Wiggins was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year that December and was knighted in the 2013 New Year Honours. He never rode the Tour again as a contender. His attempt at the 2013 Giro d'Italia ended early, and by the end of that season the team had settled on Froome as its Grand Tour leader.
One detail of the record books needs explaining. Wiggins had finished fourth in 2009, and when Lance Armstrong's results were later struck out, Wiggins was promoted to third. He did not stand on the podium in Paris that year, though, which is why 2012 is still described as the first time a Briton stood there on the final day.
How many times has Chris Froome won the Tour de France? Four, plus the Giro and two Vueltas
Froome won the Tour de France four times: 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. No British rider has won it more often, and only four riders in the history of the race have won it five times.
2013 and Mont Ventoux
The race reached Mont Ventoux on 14 July, Bastille Day. Froome attacked on the upper slopes, around Chalet Reynard where the forest gives way to bare limestone, and rode away from Alberto Contador with a rapid, seated acceleration that became his trademark. He caught and passed Nairo Quintana and won the stage alone. He had already taken yellow in the Pyrenees, at Ax 3 Domaines, and he reached Paris with a margin of several minutes.
The Ventoux matters to British readers for another reason. It is the mountain on which Tom Simpson died in 1967, and a memorial to him stands near the summit. Froome's win there, by a British rider in yellow, was read in Britain as closing a circle.
2015 to 2017
The 2015 win was built on one stage: the first summit finish, at La Pierre-Saint-Martin in the Pyrenees, where he gained big margins on every rival. He spent the rest of the race defending, and won the polka-dot jersey as best climber along the way.
2016 was the year he attacked on a descent, tucking on his top tube off the Peyresourde to win at Bagnères-de-Luchon, and the year a crowd-related crash with a motorbike on the Ventoux left him running up the road without a bike until a neutral replacement arrived. The commissaires restored his time. He won the race by a comfortable margin.
2017 was the narrowest. Froome won that Tour without winning a single stage, finishing 54 seconds ahead of Rigoberto Urán. It was the race that showed the method at its most defensive and its most effective.
All three at once
Froome then won the 2017 Vuelta a España, which runs from late August, becoming the first rider to win the Tour and the Vuelta in the same year since the Spanish race moved to the end of the season. In May 2018 he won the Giro d'Italia. That made him holder of all three Grand Tours simultaneously, which only Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault had managed before him.
His Vuelta record grew afterwards. He had finished second in 2011 behind Juan José Cobo; in 2019 Cobo was disqualified for an anti-doping violation and the 2011 title was awarded to Froome. That makes seven Grand Tour wins: four Tours, two Vueltas and one Giro.
One more fact belongs in the record. An adverse analytical finding for the asthma drug salbutamol at the 2017 Vuelta led to a UCI case that was closed without sanction on 2 July 2018, days before the Tour started, and his results from that period stand. Froome finished third at that Tour behind Thomas.
Geraint Thomas in 2018: Alpe d'Huez in yellow, and the podiums that followed
Thomas went to the 2018 Tour as Froome's co-leader, a status the team described carefully and the public treated with some scepticism. Froome had just won the Giro. Thomas had never finished a Grand Tour higher than fifteenth.
He took yellow at La Rosière on stage 11, attacking from the group of favourites to win the stage. The next day, on Alpe d'Huez, he won again — in the yellow jersey, sprinting from a small group of the strongest riders in the race up the last of the mountain's 21 hairpins. A rider leading the Tour seldom wins a summit finish there. Thomas won two in two days.
From that point the question was not whether Thomas could hold his lead, but whether the team would let Froome challenge him. It did not come to that. Tom Dumoulin was the stronger threat, and Thomas rode the final time trial in the Basque Country to secure the race with a margin of nearly two minutes. He became the first Welsh winner of the Tour, and the third British one.
A track rider who became a Tour winner
Thomas's background is the clearest example of how the British programme worked. He won Olympic gold in the team pursuit in Beijing in 2008 and again in London in 2012, and was a world champion in the event. He won the Commonwealth Games road race for Wales in Glasgow in 2014. On the road, for years, he was the rider who rode for others: a domestique in the mountains for Wiggins and Froome, a contender in one-week races and Classics in his own right.
After 2018
What followed is underrated. Thomas finished second at the 2019 Tour behind his team-mate Egan Bernal, and third in 2022. At the 2023 Giro d'Italia he held the pink jersey into the final weekend and lost it on the mountain time trial up Monte Lussari to Primož Roglič, finishing second by 14 seconds. He was third at the Giro in 2024. For a rider who had come to Grand Tour leadership late, a record of a win and four further podiums across the two races is substantial.
The detail of how mountain stages are built — summit finishes, descents, the role of the final climb — is covered in our guide to Tour de France stage types, and it explains why a rider like Thomas, steady over long climbs, could win on Alpe d'Huez without being a pure climber.
British winners of the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España
The British record outside France is shorter in count and, in places, more dramatic.
The Giro d'Italia
Chris Froome, 2018. Stage 19 is the reason this race is remembered. Froome began the day more than three minutes down on the leader, Simon Yates, who had held the pink jersey for most of the race. On the gravel climb of the Colle delle Finestre, about 80 kilometres from the finish, Froome attacked and rode alone over the Finestre, the Sestriere and up to Bardonecchia. Yates had cracked earlier on the Finestre. Froome took the pink jersey and kept it to Rome. Solo raids of that length are rare in modern stage racing and rarer still from a rider whose career had been built on control.
Tao Geoghegan Hart, 2020. A rider from Hackney in east London won a Giro postponed to October by the pandemic, and won it in an unusual way. He had not worn the pink jersey at all until the final day. After stage 20 to Sestriere, which he won, he and Jai Hindley were level on time, with Hindley in pink on countback, the Giro's tie-break for riders level on time. The final time trial in Milan decided it. Geoghegan Hart beat Hindley and won the race.
Simon Yates, 2025. Seven years after the Finestre ended his own Giro, Yates won the race on the same climb. On the penultimate stage he attacked on the gravel slopes, rode clear of Isaac del Toro and Richard Carapaz, and took the pink jersey into the final procession to Rome. For a rider whose career had carried the memory of 2018, the choice of mountain was hard to miss.
The Vuelta a España
Chris Froome, 2011 and 2017. The first was awarded in 2019, as described above. The second completed the Tour–Vuelta double in a single season.
Simon Yates, 2018. A few months after losing the Giro late, Yates won the Vuelta, controlling the race through its final mountain weekend in Andorra. He was the first British Grand Tour winner who had not ridden for the British team that produced the others; he rode for an Australian-registered team.
| Race | Year | British winner |
|---|---|---|
| Vuelta a España | 2011 | Chris Froome (awarded 2019) |
| Vuelta a España | 2017 | Chris Froome |
| Giro d'Italia | 2018 | Chris Froome |
| Vuelta a España | 2018 | Simon Yates |
| Giro d'Italia | 2020 | Tao Geoghegan Hart |
| Giro d'Italia | 2025 | Simon Yates |
Simon Yates and his twin brother Adam, both from Bury in Greater Manchester, are the outliers in this history. They came through the British track system but turned professional with an overseas team, and they proved that a British Grand Tour winner did not need the British team to build the race around him.
Before the wins: Robinson, Simpson and Hoban
Brian Robinson, from Mirfield in West Yorkshire, was one of the first two British riders to finish the Tour de France, in 1955, along with Tony Hoar, who came home last. In 1958 Robinson became the first Briton to win a stage, in Brittany, a win awarded to him after the Italian Arrigo Padovan was relegated for irregular sprinting. The following year he won a stage outright at Chalon-sur-Saône, alone and with a margin of around twenty minutes, which left no room for argument.
Those wins mattered because nothing in the British sport pointed towards the Tour. Road racing on open roads had been effectively suppressed in Britain for decades by the governing body of the time, which feared it would provoke a ban on cycle racing altogether, and British competition ran instead on time trials held early in the morning under codenames. A British rider who wanted to race in mass-start events on the continent had to go and live there.
Tom Simpson
Simpson, from the Durham coalfield and later Harworth in Nottinghamshire, went further than anyone before him. He won the Tour of Flanders in 1961, Milan–San Remo in 1964, the world road race championship in 1965 and the Tour of Lombardy the same autumn. In 1962 he became the first British rider to wear the yellow jersey, holding it for a day in the Pyrenees, and finished sixth overall, a British best that stood until the 1980s.
He died on the slopes of Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour. The investigation that followed found amphetamines in his body, and his death was one of the events that led the sport towards drug testing. Both facts are part of his record, and the memorial near the summit is visited every summer by British riders who have ridden up from Bédoin.
Barry Hoban
Hoban, from Wakefield, won eight Tour stages between 1967 and 1975, including the stage the day after Simpson's death, when the peloton allowed a member of the British team to win in his memory. Eight was the British record for more than three decades. It fell to Mark Cavendish in 2009.
- 1955Brian Robinson and Tony Hoar become the first British riders to finish the race
- 1958Robinson wins a stage in Brittany, the first British stage win
- 1962Tom Simpson wears the yellow jersey for a day and finishes sixth overall
- 1984Robert Millar wins the mountains classification and finishes fourth
- 2011Mark Cavendish wins the green jersey of the points classification
- 2012Bradley Wiggins wins the race, with Chris Froome second
Each step is the first time a British rider achieved the result named. Dates are the year of the Tour concerned.
The near misses: Millar's 1984 Tour and two Vueltas that got away
The best British Tour result before Wiggins belongs to the Glaswegian who raced as Robert Millar and now writes as Philippa York. In 1984 she won the King of the Mountains classification and finished fourth overall, along with a stage win at Guzet-Neige in the Pyrenees. Fourth stayed the best British finish at the Tour until Wiggins matched it in 2009, a result later upgraded to third.
The Vuelta came closer to a win. In 1985 she led the race into its penultimate day and lost it in a stage that has become notorious: a combination of Spanish teams rode together behind a breakaway that included Pedro Delgado, and York, isolated and without team-mates able to help, lost the jersey. Second again in 1986. Second at the Giro in 1987, with the mountains classification there too. Three Grand Tour podiums, and none of them on the top step.
Why nobody else got near the podium
Several things stood in the way. British riders before the 1990s tended to arrive on the continent alone, joined French or Belgian teams in a support role and stayed there. A rider whose team is built around somebody else does not finish fourth at the Tour, however good he is. Climbers in particular need protection in the valleys and on the flat, and a lone Briton in a foreign team rarely got it.
The 1990s produced strong British prologue and time trial riders, notably Chris Boardman, but a prologue specialist and a three-week contender are different animals. Boardman led the Tour more than once and never finished near the top of the general classification. David Millar won Tour stages and wore yellow in 2000, and was then banned for doping in 2004, a fact he has written about at length since.
Wiggins's 2009 ride was the first sign of change. A pursuiter who had lost several kilograms, riding for a team that was not even British, finished fourth on the road. Within three years he had won the race.
British riders in the yellow jersey who did not win the race
Wearing yellow and winning the Tour are separate achievements. Prologues and opening stages hand the jersey to specialists who have no intention of keeping it, which is why the list of British leaders is longer than the list of winners.
| Rider | Year(s) in yellow | How the lead was taken |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Simpson | 1962 | Took the lead in the Pyrenees, held it one day |
| Chris Boardman | 1994, 1997, 1998 | Won the opening prologue each time |
| Sean Yates | 1994 | Took the lead for a single day in the first week |
| David Millar | 2000 | Won the opening time trial at Futuroscope |
| Mark Cavendish | 2016 | Won the opening sprint stage at Utah Beach |
| Adam Yates | 2020, 2023 | Inherited it after a penalty in 2020; won stage one at Bilbao in 2023 |
Boardman's 1994 prologue in Lille was the fastest prologue ridden at the Tour to that point, and he was the first Briton in yellow since Simpson. Sean Yates was a famous domestique whose single day in the lead in 1994 was one of the more popular results in the race that year. Cavendish took yellow only once, despite all his stage wins, because the Tour rarely opens with a flat stage.
Adam Yates has led the race twice. In 2020 he inherited the jersey when Julian Alaphilippe received a time penalty for taking a feed in the final kilometres, and he kept it for four days. In 2023 he won the opening stage in Bilbao, with his brother Simon second, and wore it again.
Then add the winners. Wiggins, Froome and Thomas all wore yellow in their winning years, and Thomas had already worn it in 2017 after winning the opening time trial in Düsseldorf. Counted together, nine British riders had led the Tour by the end of the 2025 race, and a single day in yellow after a prologue counts as much as a week.
The rule worth knowing: a rider who leads the Tour after a stage wears yellow on the next one. The jersey belongs to the leader of the general classification, a calculation of total time with bonus seconds deducted and any time penalties added.
Mark Cavendish and the Tour de France stage-win record
Thirty-five. Mark Cavendish, from the Isle of Man, won 35 stages of the Tour de France, more than any other rider in its history. He passed Eddy Merckx's 34 at Saint-Vulbas on 3 July 2024, in his final Tour, having equalled the record at Carcassonne in 2021.
The years tell the story of a career with two halves and a long gap in the middle.
The first five years were a period of near-total dominance in the bunch sprint. A lead-out train delivered him to the final 200 metres, and his low, aerodynamic position on the bike gave him a speed few could match from that distance. Four of his wins in that spell came on the Champs-Élysées, where he won four years in a row from 2009 to 2012.
In 2011 he won the green jersey of the points classification, the first British rider to do so, after the points system was rewritten to give more weight to stage finishes and a single intermediate sprint. He won the green jersey again in 2021, ten years later, in a comeback few had expected. He was world road race champion in 2011 as well, on a circuit in Copenhagen.
The 2021 return deserves its place. Cavendish had gone three years without a win before the 2021 season began, and was only selected for the Tour when another rider was injured. He won four stages, equalled Merckx, and took the green jersey to Paris. Three years later he came back for one more Tour, won stage five, and retired at the end of the season. He was knighted in 2024.
The British stage-winning list
Hoban's eight, Robinson's two and Cavendish's 35 are joined by many others: Wiggins, Froome, Thomas, the Yates twins, Boardman, David Millar, York and more, as well as riders such as Steve Cummings and Tom Pidcock, the latter of whom won on Alpe d'Huez in 2022. The British record at the Tour is broad, which is why a reader looking at overall wins alone sees only part of it.
British women in the biggest stage races
The women's side of this history has a different shape because the races themselves came and went. A women's Tour de France was held in various forms in the 1980s and later under the Grande Boucle Féminine name, then disappeared. The Giro d'Italia Femminile has run continuously for longer and was the most important women's stage race for much of that time.
Nicole Cooke, from Wick in the Vale of Glamorgan, won the Giro d'Italia Femminile in 2004 and the Grande Boucle Féminine in 2006 and 2007. In 2008 she won the Olympic road race in Beijing and the world championship road race in Varese in the same year, the first rider of either sex to hold both titles in the same season. Cooke was winning the biggest stage races in the women's sport years before any British man won a Grand Tour.
Emma Pooley, Olympic time trial silver medallist in 2008 and world time trial champion in 2010, was among the best climbers of her generation. She was also one of the founders of the campaign that led the Tour's organisers to stage La Course, a women's race on the final day of the men's Tour, from 2014.
Lizzie Deignan, from Otley in West Yorkshire, won Olympic silver in the road race in London in 2012, the world championship in Richmond, Virginia, in 2015, and the first women's Paris–Roubaix in 2021. She won La Course in 2020 and the Women's Tour in Britain twice.
The Tour de France Femmes returned in 2022 as a stage race of a little over a week, run by the men's Tour organisers. Its winners to 2025 were Annemiek van Vleuten, Demi Vollering, Katarzyna Niewiadoma and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. No British rider had won it by that point, and British riders had featured mainly as stage hunters and team workers rather than as overall contenders. The gap between the British record in men's Grand Tours and in the modern women's equivalent is real, and it reflects how much later women's road racing received the same team investment.
Why the British wins came when they did
The pattern has a clear cause. The National Lottery began funding elite sport in 1997, and British Cycling used its share to build a performance programme centred on the track at the Manchester velodrome, which had opened a few years earlier. The track was chosen because medals there were winnable with a measurable, controllable approach: equipment, aerodynamics, power, and a small number of events in which a well-funded nation could dominate.
The programme worked on the track first. Britain topped the cycling medal table at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and again in London in 2012, and Team GB track cycling became the model other nations copied.
A British road team
In 2010 a British-registered team was launched at the top level of the road sport, run by the same management that had built the track programme. Its stated aim was a British winner of the Tour de France within five years, with clean riders. It took three.
The team's approach transferred the track methods to the road: detailed power data, altitude camps, nutrition planning, and a recruitment policy that took British track riders — Wiggins, Thomas, Ian Stannard, Pete Kennaugh, Luke Rowe and others — and turned them into a support squad for a single leader.
What else made the difference
Money. The team spent heavily, which allowed it to hire some of the best climbers in the world as domestiques, riders who could have led other teams. Rivals complained that this made the race predictable, and they were not wrong; the defence is that every team was free to spend what it could raise. The rules on team funding and licensing, and how they shape who rides which race, are covered in our explainer on the UCI points system.
The team's later years brought scrutiny, including a parliamentary select committee inquiry into the use of therapeutic use exemptions and a medical package delivered to the team in 2011. The committee's report was critical of the team's record-keeping; no anti-doping rule violation was found against Wiggins. Those episodes are part of the period's record, and a complete account of British success has to include them.
The judgement this page makes is that the wins came from a decision rather than a golden generation. The talent was real, but Britain had produced talented riders before. What it had never had was a system designed, funded and staffed to win three-week races, and the moment it built one, the drought ended.
Every British Grand Tour win and the Tour's other jerseys in one place
The full list of British overall wins in the three Grand Tours, to the end of the 2025 season, runs to twelve titles shared among five riders. The Tour accounts for half of them, all in a seven-year window.
| Race | British overall winners and years |
|---|---|
| Tour de France | Bradley Wiggins 2012; Chris Froome 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017; Geraint Thomas 2018 |
| Giro d'Italia | Chris Froome 2018; Tao Geoghegan Hart 2020; Simon Yates 2025 |
| Vuelta a España | Chris Froome 2011, 2017; Simon Yates 2018 |
The Tour's other jerseys
The overall win is one of four individual classifications at the Tour. British riders have won each of the other three.
| Classification | Jersey | British winners and years |
|---|---|---|
| Points | Green | Mark Cavendish 2011, 2021 |
| Mountains | Polka dot | Robert Millar 1984; Chris Froome 2015 |
| Best young rider | White | Adam Yates 2016; Simon Yates 2017 |
| General classification | Yellow | Wiggins 2012; Froome 2013, 2015-2017; Thomas 2018 |
The white jersey is awarded to the best-placed rider aged 25 or under in the general classification, which is why the Yates twins won it in consecutive years in their early twenties. Adam finished fourth overall in 2016 and went one better in 2023, third behind Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar, the best Tour finish by a British rider outside the three winners.
What is not in the list
Three things. Stage wins, which run to many dozens for British riders across the three races and would need a page of their own. Team classifications, which are recorded by team, not nation. And the women's races, whose separate history is set out above, because grouping the Giro Donne of 2004 with the men's Giro of 2018 would compare races of different lengths, fields and eras.
For the next step down, the British stage race at home, our guide to the Tour of Britain cycling race covers its format and its own list of British winners. For the one-day races in which several of the riders on this page also made their names, there is the guide to the five Monuments of cycling, and the wider cycling section collects the rest of our coverage.