Grand Tour (cycling)
Country Giro Tour Vuelta Total
Italy 69 10 6 85
France 6 36 9 51
Spain 4 12 32 48
Belgium 7 18 7 32
Switzerland 3 2 5 10
Great Britain 1 6 3 10
Luxembourg 2 5 0 7
United States 1 3 1 5
Netherlands 1 2 2 5
Colombia 1 1 2 4
Germany 0 1 3 4
Russia 3 0 1 4
Ireland 1 1 1 3
Sweden 1 0 0 1
Canada 1 0 0 1
Ecuador 1 0 0 1
Australia 0 1 0 1
Denmark 0 1 0 1
Kazakhstan 0 0 1 1
Slovenia 0 0 1 1
Statistics -- Wins by country
In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour is one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. Collectively they are termed the Grand Tours, and all three races are similar in format being three week races with daily stages. They have a special status in the UCI regulations: more points for the UCI World Tour are distributed in Grand Tours than in other races, and they are the only stage races allowed to last longer than 14 days. The Giro d'Italia is generally run in May, the Tour de France in July, and the Vuelta a España in late August and September. The Vuelta was originally held in the spring, usually late April, with a few editions held in June in the 1940s. In 1995, however, the race moved to September to avoid direct competition with the Giro d'Italia. The Tour de France is the oldest and most prestigious in terms of points accrued to racers of all three, and is the most widely attended annual sporting event in the world. The Tour, the Giro and the Road World Cycling Championship make up the Triple Crown of Cycling. The three Grand Tours are men's events, and no three week races exist on the women's road cycling circuit. The Giro Rosa, the ten stage Italian road race for women is the only race on the current women's circuit treated as broadly equivalent to a Grand Tour, although the defunct women's Tour de France was, in its time, given similar status.