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Tour de France records and statistics

Tour de France records and statistics: overall and stage wins, participation, classifications, team and speed records. Cavendish 35 stage wins; Pogačar five titles; Chavanel 18 starts; LeMond's 8-second margin.

Tour de France stage winners by nationality

Tour de France stage winners by nationality is a statistical record of which countries stage-winning riders represent, led by France with 721 wins ahead of Belgium.

Tour de France stages in the early era (1903–1939)

The Tour de France stages in the early era covers stage lists from the first 1903 Tour, won by Maurice Garin, to the last pre-war edition in 1939.

Tour de France stages in the mid-century era (1947–1997)

Tour de France stages of 1947–1997 record the race's fifty post-war years, when it shortened from 4,640 km in 1947 to 3,950 km in 1997.

Tour de France stages in the modern era (1998–present)

Tour de France stages from 1998 to the present, with per-stage tables, speed records like the 50.36 km/h 1999 Laval–Blois stage, and doping annulment handling.

Tour de France: Unchained

Tour de France: Unchained (Au cœur du peloton) is a Netflix docuseries by Box to Box Films and Quadbox covering the 2022-2024 Tours in three eight-episode seasons, ending in 2025 after weak French viewership.

Tour de Gresset

Tour de Gresset, a Roman-period site at Fréteval, Loir-et-Cher, France, listed in Barrington Atlas Map 14 (CAG 41.174) and the Roman Gaul catalogue; near the Tour de Grisset temple cella.

Tour de Pharmacy

Tour de Pharmacy: 2017 HBO sports mockumentary by Andy Samberg and Murray Miller, directed by Jake Szymanski, satirizing doping at a fictional 1982 Tour de France; premiered July 8, 2017, with Lance Armstrong cameo.

Tour de Ski

Tour de Ski, FIS Cross-Country World Cup stage race held annually since 2006/07, modeled on the Tour de France; ends with the Alpe Cermis Final Climb in Val di Fiemme; record four titles each for Cologna, Kowalczyk, Klæbo, and Johaug.

Tour du Mont Blanc

Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB): ~170 km, ~10,000 m ascent hiking circuit around the Mont Blanc massif through France, Italy, and Switzerland, usually 7–12 days, highest point Grand Col Ferret 2,537 m, season mid-June to mid-September.

Tour F

Tour F, also known as F Tower, is a 421-meter, 75-floor office skyscraper under construction in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed to become the tallest building in Africa.

Tour First

Tour First is a 231-meter office skyscraper in the La Défense business district west of Paris, rebuilt in 2011 and the tallest building in France until 2025.

Tour Ma Vie World Tour

Tour Ma Vie World Tour (My Life World Tour), Doja Cat's third concert tour promoting her fifth album Vie, ran November 18, 2025 (Auckland) to December 1, 2026 (Madison Square Garden), her first headline run across Oceania, Asia, and Latin America.

Tour Magne

Tour Magne (Turris Magna), the only surviving tower of Nîmes' Augustan wall: an octagonal Roman tower, 32.70 m high today, built around an 18 m Gallic dry-stone tower on Mont Cavalier.

Tour Montparnasse

Tour Montparnasse, also called Tour Maine-Montparnasse, is a 210-meter office skyscraper in Paris, inaugurated in 1973 over the Montparnasse railway station and still the tallest building within the city limits.

Tour of Duty (TV series)

Tour of Duty is a CBS drama (1987-1990, 58 episodes), the first U.S. network series about the Vietnam War, following a 1967 infantry platoon led by Sgt. Zeke Anderson (Terence Knox), created by veterans Steve Duncan and L. Travis Clark.

Tour of Flanders

The Tour of Flanders, also known as the Ronde van Vlaanderen or De Ronde, is a one-day professional road race in Belgium, first organized in 1913 and nicknamed Flanders' Finest.

Tour of Flanders for Women

Tour of Flanders for Women (Ronde van Vlaanderen voor vrouwen): women's cobbled Monument classic first held 2004, UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016, run same day as the men's race over ~163-169 km in Oudenaarde; Lotte Kopecky record three-time winner.

Tour Saint-Jacques

Tour Saint-Jacques: flamboyant Gothic bell tower (1509–1523), 54 m tall, sole remnant of the destroyed Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie church in Paris; via Turonensis pilgrimage start, Pascal experiments, UNESCO-listed, closed for works until 2027.

Touradji Capital Management LP

Touradji Capital Management LP is a commodity-focused hedge fund founded by Paul Touradji in 2005 and later based in Boca Raton, Florida, once the largest U.S. commodities hedge fund.

Touran Biosphere Reserve

Touran Biosphere Reserve (Khar Turan), a 1.46-million-hectare UNESCO MAB reserve in Semnan Province, Iran, designated 1976-1977; Iran's largest protected-area complex and the main refuge of the Asiatic cheetah.

Tourbiere

Tourbiere (French tourbière) means peatland: a waterlogged wetland where undecayed plants form peat. Bogs are rain-fed, fens groundwater-fed; peatlands cover 3% of land yet store 20% of soil carbon.

Tourbières et lacs du Cézallier et de l'Artense

Tourbières et lacs du Cézallier et de l'Artense: Ramsar site no. 2600, designated 1 September 2026 as France's 58th Ramsar wetland; over 122,500 ha of lakes and peatlands above 1,000 m in the Auvergne volcanoes, Cantal and Puy-de-Dôme.

Tourbillon

The tourbillon (French for "whirlwind") is a watch mechanism, patented by Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris in 1801, that rotates the balance and escapement in a cage to offset gravity's errors.

Tourcoing

Tourcoing, commune in Nord, France (INSEE 59599), near Belgium in the Lille metropolis; former textile city, 98,772 residents in 2023, MUba museum, Bourgogne renewal, Extramobile tramway.

Tourette syndrome

Tourette syndrome (Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, maladie des tics) is a neurodevelopmental disorder of multiple motor and vocal tics, onset ages 5-10, prevalence about 0.5%, treated with CBIT and medication, described by Gilles de la Tourette in 1885.

Touring After the Apocalypse

Touring After the Apocalypse (終末ツーリング, Shuumatsu Touring) is Sakae Saito's post-apocalyptic slice-of-life manga about Youko and Airi touring ruined Japan on a solar-powered Yamaha Serow; serialized in Dengeki Maoh since 2020, published in English by Yen Press, adapted as a 12-episode Nexus anime in 2025.

Touring bicycle

A touring bicycle is a bicycle designed to carry a rider and heavy luggage over long distances, distinguished by a stable frame, steel construction, rack mounts, and low gearing.

Touring car

A touring car is a closed, production-derived race car run in close, cost-controlled championships, from the BTCC to the FIA TCR World Tour, today's global top tier.

Touring car racing

Touring car racing: production-based saloon and hatchback circuit racing, from the 1958 British Saloon Car Championship to TCR (2-litre turbo, 350 bhp, FWD), BoP, and the FIA TCR World Tour.