Previous winners
Tour de France winners since the event was first staged in 1903 (no races during the World Wars):
2012 Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain)
2011 Cadel Evans (Australia)
2010 Andy Schleck (Luxembourg) *
2009 Alberto Contador (Spain)
2008 Carlos Sastre (Spain)
2007 Contador
2006 Oscar Pereiro (Spain)**

2005 Lance Armstrong (US - pictured)
2004 Armstrong
2003 Armstrong
2002 Armstrong
2001 Armstrong
2000 Armstrong
1999 Armstrong
1998 Marco Pantani (Italy)
1997 Jan Ullrich (Germany)
1996 Bjarne Riis (Denmark)
1995 Miguel Indurain (Spain - pictured)
1994 Indurain
1993
Indurain
1992
Indurain
1991
Indurain
1990 Greg LeMond
(US)
1989
LeMond
1988 Pedro Delgado
(Spain)
1987 Stephen Roche
(Ireland)
1986
LeMond
1985 Bernard Hinault
(France - pictured)
1984 Laurent Fignon
(France)
1983
Fignon
1982
Hinault
1981
Hinault
1980 Joop Zoetemelk
(Netherlands)
1979
Hinault
1978
Hinault
1977 Bernard Thevenet
(France)
1976 Lucien Van Impe
(Belgium)
1975
Thevenet
1974 Eddy Merckx
(Belgium - pictured)
1973 Luis Ocana
(Spain)
1972
Merckx
1971
Merckx
1970
Merckx
1969
Merckx
1968 Jan Janssen
(Netherlands)
1967 Roger Pingeon
(France)
1966 Lucien Aimar
(France)
1965 Felice Gimondi
(Italy)
1964 Jacques Anquetil
(France)
1963
Anquetil
1962
Anquetil
1961
Anquetil
1960 Gastone Nencini
(Italy)
1959 Federico Bahamontes
(Spain)
1958 Charly Gaul
(Luxembourg)
1957
Anquetil
1956 Roger Walkowiak
(France)
1955 Louison Bobet
(France)
1954
Bobet
1953
Bobet
1952 Fausto Coppi
(Italy)
1951 Hugo Koblet
(Switzerland)
1950 Ferdi Kubler
(Switzerland)
1949
Coppi
1948 Gino Bartali
(Italy)
1947 Jean Robic
(France)
- World War 2
1939 Sylvere Maes
(Belgium)
1938
Bartali
1937 Roger Lapebie
(France)
1936 Sylvere Maes
(Belgium)
1935 Romain Maes
(Belgium)
1934 Antonin Magne
(France)
1933 Georges Speicher
(France)
1932 Andre Leducq
(France)
1931
Magne
1930
Leducq
1929 Maurice De Waele
(Belgium)
1928 Nicolas Frantz
(Luxembourg)
1927
Frantz
1926 Lucien Buysse
(Belgium)
1925 Ottavio Bottecchia
(Italy)
1924
Bottecchia
1923 Henri Pelissier
(France)
1922 Firmin Lambot
(Belgium)
1921 Leon Scieur
(Belgium)
1920 Philippe Thys
(Belgium)
1919
Lambot
- World War 1
1914
Thys
1913
Thys
1912 Odile Defraye
(Belgium)
1911 Gustave Garrigou
(France)
1910 Octave Lapize
(France)
1909 Francois Faber
(Luxembourg)
1908 Lucien Petit-Breton
(France)
1907
Petit-Breton
1906 Rene Pottier
(France)
1905 Louis Trousselier
(France)
1904 Henri Cornet
(France)
1903 Maurice Garin
(France)
* Spaniard Alberto Contador was stripped of the title after testing positive for the banned anabolic agent
clenbuterol during the 2010 race.
** American Floyd Landis was stripped of the title after testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone
during the 2006 race.