List of Danish Tour de France stage winners
Fifteen cyclists from Denmark have won a total of 25 Tour de France stages as of the 2022 Tour de France. Bjarne Riis and Michael Rasmussen have each won four stages. Rolf Sørensen, Søren Kragh Andersen, Magnus Cort and Jonas Vingegaard have won two. Nine other Danes have won one stage.
The first Danish stage winner was Mogens Frey in 1970. His team owner Jean de Gribaldy wanted the team captain Joaquim Agostinho to win. Agostinho actually crossed the line first but was disqualified for holding back Frey by grabbing his handlebar.
Two Danes have won the general classification, Bjarne Riis in 1996 and Jonas Vingegaard in 2022.
The women's race Tour de France Femmes started in 2022 where Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig won stage 3 from Reims to Épernay.
See also
References
- "Dansk Tour de France statistik" [Danish Tour de France statistics]. CyclingWorld.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- "Her er Danmarks 23 etapesejre i Tour de France" [Here are Denmark's 23 stage victories in the Tour de France] (in Danish). TV 2. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- "Fakta: Danmark runder 21 etapesejre i Touren" [Facts: Denmark reaches 21 stage victories in the Tour] (in Danish). Jyllands-Posten. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- Mølby, Morten. "Mogens Frey fik Portugal på nakken, da han vandt Danmarks første etapesejr i Tour de France uden at køre først over stregen" [Mogens Frey got Portugal in his neck when he won Denmark's first stage victory in the Tour de France without crossing the line first] (in Danish). DR. Retrieved 15 July 2022.