TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 21
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES – PARIS CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES
2X3: AN UNPRECEDENTED RIVALRY
Never before the Tour saw the same two riders take the first two positions in three consecutive editions. It’s also the first time we see a rider (Tadej Pogacar) win two editions in a row before another one (Jonas Vingegaard) emulates him.
The last time a rider won the Tour two years in a row with the same runner-up was in 1978-79, when Bernard Hinault got the best of Joop Zoetemelk on both occasions.

7’29”: THE BIG GAP
Jonas Vingegaard’s winning margin for this Tour is 7’29” (over Tadej Pogacar): the largest since 2014, when Vincenzo Nibali won with 7’37” over Jean-Christophe Peraud.

1: WINNING FROM THE WINNERS
First Tour de France win for Jordi Meeus, at his first win in a Grand Tour. This year he had won the Circuit de Wallonie on the 18th of May. In France, he had won the 2021 edition of the Paris-Bourges.
Jordi Meeus won from two winners of the Champs-Elysées: Jasper Philipsen (2022) and Dylan Groenewegen (2017).

2: VINGEGAARD’S 2ND WIN
Jonas Vingegaard joins 13 riders who have won the Tour twice.
Among them, here are the ones who have done it in two consecutive years:
• Lucien Petit-Breton, 1907-08,
• Ottavio Bottecchia, 1924-25,
• Nicolas Frantz, 1927-28
• Laurent Fignon, 1983-84
• Tadej Pogacar, 2020-21
• Jonas Vingegaard, 2022-23

17: WINS UP FOR GRABS
There have been 17 different stage winners in this Tour. Considering only individual stages, it’s the highest value since 2008.
Only two riders won more than once in this edition: Jasper Philipsen and Tadej Pogacar, something that hadn’t happened since 2015 (André Greipel 4, Joaquim Rodriguez 2).

11: CLOSE TO THE RECORD!
11 different countries have won at this Tour. It’s the second value in history, recorded 6 times in the past, and just one short of the record of 12 set in 2007 and equalled in 2020.
Great Britain (Adam Yates), France (Victor Lafay), Belgium (Jasper Philipsen), Australia (Jai Hindley), Slovenia (Tadej Pogacar, Matej Mohoric), Denmark (Mads Pedersen, Jonas Vingegaard, Kasper Asgreen), Canada (Michael Woods), Spain (Pello Bilbao, Ion Izagirre, Carlos Rodriguez), Poland (Michal Kwiatkowski), Netherlands (Wout Poels), Austria (Felix Gall).

T – 75: POGACAR LEAVES HIS MARK ON THE WHITE JERSEY
Winner of the best young rider standings in his first four Tour de France participations, Tadej Pogacar collected 75 of the 84 (89%) white jerseys on offer since the beginning of the 2020 edition. From next year, the Slovenian wonderkid won’t be part of the best young rider competition anymore.

6: AN EARLY RULER
Jonas Vingegaard took the yellow jersey on day 6 and kept it all the way to Paris. It’s the first time since 1981 the winner of the race powers to the GC lead so early and it only happened six times in the whole history of the Tour. In recent years, Chris Froome took the yellow jersey for good on stage 7 both in 2012 and 2015.

70 & 40: DENMARK 70 TIMES IN YELLOW
70th Maillot Jaune for Denmark: the first came 40 years ago on the 3rd stage, Kim Andersen in Roubaix (4th of July).