page_title: List of Grand Tour mountains classification winners
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: List of Grand Tour mountains classification winners / Winners
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Richard Virenque, in maglia a pois di leader della classifica GPM, all'arrivo dell'8a tappa del Tour de France 2003, Sallanches - L'Alpe d'Huez.
context_page_description: The Grand Tours are the three most prestigious multi-week stage races in professional road bicycle racing. The competitions are the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España, contested annually in that order. They are the only stage races permitted to last longer than 14 days. No cyclist has won all three Grand Tours's mountains classifications in the same year; the only cyclists to win all three Grand Tours's mountains classifications in their career are Federico Bahamontes and Luis Herrera. It is rare for cyclists to ride all Grand Tours in the same year; in 2004, 474 cyclists started in one of the Grand Tours, 68 rode two and two cyclists started all three.
  Cyclists are ranked on the basis of their total wins in the three Grand Tours. When there is a tie between cyclists they are listed alphabetically by the Grand Tour they won. The majority of winners have come from Europe, however there have been a few notable victories for cyclists from other continents. Colombia, Australia, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela are the only non-European countries to have a rider win a mountains classification, with twenty-two victories shared between the five countries.
caption: Richard Virenque won seven mountains classifications at the Grand Tour races he competed in, all in the Tour.
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