A1. The Giro d’Italia. Jacques Anquetil won the Giro in 1960 and 1964. Eddy Merckx won it five times, in 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973 and 1974. Bernard Hinault claimed the maglia rosa in 1980, 1982 and 1985. Miguel Induráin won the Giro in 1992 and 1993, and Pogačar added his first Giro title in 2024.
Anquetil, Merckx and Hinault also won the Vuelta a España, making them winners of all three Grand Tours. Induráin never won the Vuelta, despite several attempts and a runner-up finish in 1991. Pogačar has entered the Vuelta only once, in 2019, when he won three stages, finished third overall, and won the best young rider classification. For now, the Vuelta remains one of the few major gaps on his résumé.
A2. The Critérium du Dauphiné. Anquetil won the Dauphiné in 1963 and 1965. Merckx, surprisingly, won it only once, in 1971. Hinault won it three times, in 1977, 1979 and 1981. Induráin claimed the French stage race in 1995 and 1996. Pogačar won it for the first time in 2025.
A3. There isn’t one. Induráin is the outlier. His career centered on time trials, Grand Tours and weeklong stage races, and his only major one-day victory was the Clásica San Sebastián.
That race did not exist during Anquetil’s or Merckx’s careers, although it debuted in 1981 while Hinault was still racing. The closest shared answer is Liège–Bastogne–Liège: Pogačar, Merckx, Hinault and Anquetil all won it, while Induráin finished fourth there in 1991.
A4. Bernard Hinault. Among the riders in this group, Merckx leads with 34 Tour de France stage wins. Hinault ranks next with 28. Pogačar currently sits at 21, already ahead of Anquetil’s 16 individual Tour stage wins and Induráin’s 12.
Mark Cavendish now holds the all-time Tour de France stage-win record with 35, but within the five-time Tour winner club, Merckx remains the clear leader.
A5. Jacques Anquetil. Anquetil never wore the rainbow jersey as elite men’s road race world champion, and the individual time trial world championship did not exist during his career. He did, however, win the Grand Prix des Nations — widely regarded in its era as an unofficial time trial world championship — a staggering nine times between 1953 and 1966.
Merckx won the world road title three times, in 1967, 1971 and 1974, and also won the Grand Prix des Nations in 1973. Hinault won the road world championship in 1980 and captured the Grand Prix des Nations five times. Induráin won the world time trial title in 1995 and came close in the road race, finishing third in 1991 and second in both 1993 and 1995.
More recently, Pogačar won the elite men’s road race world championship in 2024 and 2025. The world time trial title, so far, has eluded him.
