As of 2025, Mark Cavendish held the record for the most stage wins in the Tour de France, with a total of **. Meanwhile, second-placed Eddy Merckx held the record for the most overall Tour de France wins along with three other riders.

As of 2025, the Tour de France had been won by French riders more often than any other country, with a participant from the host nation winning on ** occasions. Belgium ranked second, with ** wins in total, while Spain ranked third.

As of 2025, the Tour de France had seen more French winners than any other nationality, with the Tour being won by a French rider on ** occasions. Meanwhile, ** runners-up came from France.

Context

The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists of 21 day-long stages over the course of 23 days. It has been described as "the world’s most prestigious and most difficult bicycle race".

Content

The data this week comes from Alastair Rushworth's Data Package, tdf, and Kaggle.

Alastair has a very nice walkthrough of his data package at his blog!

I've added the Kaggle data which goes through 2017 for some additional stage-specific data not captured in his dataset. Please note that for the most part these datasets COULD be joined by year/edition.

Some other stats and records can be found on Wikipedia.

Acknowledgements

The data was downloaded and cleaned by Thomas Mock for #TidyTuesday during the week of April 7th, 2020. You can see the code used to clean the data in the #TidyTuesday GitHub repository.

In 2024, the winner of the Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar, maintained an average speed of around ***** kilometers per hour. The Slovenian cyclist also won the famous event in 2021 with an average speed of ***** kilometers per hour.

Context

A Breakaway is an integral part of a cycle road race stage. They are interesting, they keep riders alert and viewers engaged. A typical Breakaway is a bunch of riders attacking the peloton i.e. main bunch of riders in the early part of the stage race. These breakaway riders then try to establish a time gap between them and the main Peloton and try to maintain this gap till the end so that the stage winner is from this breakaway. Most of the time these breakway riders are caught by the peloton but some times this breakaway or few riders from the breakaway survive and eventually one of them wins the stage.

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The training data consist of data from the stages of 2014, 2015 & 2016 Grand tours(Giro, Tour de France(TDF), Vuelta) and we have two test data, first 2017 Giro stages which was held in May for which we have actual result so that we can compare with our prediction and second 2017 TDF which is in progress till July 23 2017.

NOTE:- Time Trail Stages are excluded since there are no Breakaway in these stages.

The training data( GT_stage_data) consist of 11 variables and 169 observations. variables are stage distance in Km, elevation in meters i.e height from sea level at start and end points of the stage, also maximum and minimum elevation in the race. Then there are 5 categories of climbs in the race, Cat 4 climb is the easiest and HC climb is the hardest. The last column is the Breakaway_win which has the actual result of the stage, whether the stage was won by the rider in the breakaway(i.e 1 ) or not (i.e 0). The test data (2017_Giro_stages and 2017_TDF stages) also have same variables with additional Stages column at the start for stage number reference. 2017_TDF stages test data does not have Breakaway_win column since 2017 tour is in progess.

Inspiration

It's a simple data just for fun , find out whether the breakaway will survive or not for each stage of 2017 tour de France.

As of 2020, Fausto Coppi (Italy), Alfredo Binda (Italy), and Eddy Merckx (Belgium) were the cyclists recording the highest number of victories at the Giro d'Italia. Each of them won the prestigious Italian cycling race **** times. Moreover, Tao Geoghegan Hart (UK) won the ***** edition of the Giro, held in 2020. That was the second Giro d'Italia won by a British rider.

The Giro d'Italia is a renowned bicycle race organized in Italy since 1909. Together with the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, it is part of the so-called Grand Tours, ones of the most important cycling races worldwide. Originally, the race started and finished in Milan. However, for the last fifty years, the starting and finishing stages have changed annually.

Between 1909 and 2020, Italy won the Giro d'Italia 68 times, ranking second 65 times and third 70 times. As of the survey period, Belgium and France followed in the ranking, winning the Giro seven times and six times, respectively. In 2020, the British cyclist Tao Geoghegan Hart won the race, giving the UK its second victory since the start of the competition.

The Giro d'Italia is a renowned bicycle race organized in Italy since 1909. Together with the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, it is part of the so-called Grand Tours, ones of the most important cycling competitions worldwide. Originally, the race started and finished in Milan. However, for the last fifty years, the starting and finishing stages have changed annually.

In 2020, the Giro d'Italia started from Monreale, Sicily, and ended in Milan. The British cyclist Tao Geoghegan Hart won the ***** edition of the prestigious Italian race. He was running for the team Ineos Grenadiers, which won the highest prize money at the Giro (******* euros). The Team Sunweb recorded the second-highest figure, winning a total of ******* euros.The Giro d'Italia is a renowned bicycle race organized in Italy since 1909. Together with the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, it is part of the so-called Grand Tours, ones of the most important cycling races worldwide. Originally, the race started and finished in Milan, while for the last fifty years the starting and finishing stages have changed annually. Occasionally, the Giro d'Italia starts and passes through other countries too. In 2020, the Giro was supposed to start in Budapest on May 9. However, due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the race has been postponed to October 2020 and eventually started in Sicily.