Can you name the winners of the Tour de France (since WWII)?

Year	Winner	Nationality
1947		France
1948		Italy
1949		Italy
1950		Switzerland
1951		Switzerland
1952		Italy
1953		France
1954		France
1955		France
1956		France
1957		France
1958		Luxembourg
1959		Spain
1960		Italy
1961		France
1962		France
1963		France
1964		France
1965		Italy
1966		France
1967		France
1968		Netherlands

Year	Winner	Nationality
1969		Belgium
1970		Belgium
1971		Belgium
1972		Belgium
1973		Spain
1974		Belgium
1975		France
1976		Belgium
1977		France
1978		France
1979		France
1980		Netherlands
1981		France
1982		France
1983		France
1984		France
1985		France
1986		USA
1987		Ireland
1988		Spain
1989		USA
1990		USA

Year	Winner	Nationality
1991		Spain
1992		Spain
1993		Spain
1994		Spain
1995		Spain
1996		Denmark
1997		Germany
1998		Italy
1999		USA
2000		USA
2001		USA
2002		USA
2003		USA
2004		USA
2005		USA
2006		Spain
2007		Spain
2008		Spain
2009		Spain
2010		Spain
2011		Australia

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Tour de France Winners Quiz

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Published: October 15th, 2008
Category: Sports
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Tags: winner, france, nationality, tour, wwii

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	Ben:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 04:25 GMT	4 points
	Hmm.. for Van Impe i typed in his last name and it did not work.. but his first plus last did...

	cysion:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 08:32 GMT	2 points
	Great Quiz ^_^ Thanks! Still a bit rusty on the one-time winners in the 40's-60's but practice creates skills I guess :)

	davidr:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 08:37 GMT	4 points
	@Ben: "Impe" works, though it shouldn't, since his surname is, as you say, "Van Impe".

	chodanutz:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 14:42 GMT	13 points
	Man...i killed 1999-2005, but other than that, i got the big goose egg

	Ben:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 15:37 GMT	1 point
	choda.. lol... and yeah david.. i realized that after i tried it a few times :) Oh well

	C_W_Browne:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 16:48 GMT	-2 points
	Man Lance did well.

	Laly:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 17:40 GMT	1 point
	Perhaps the quiz could be extended back to 1903? You know...for even more names I don't remember!

	davidr:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 18:24 GMT	7 points
	Yeah but every winner in the history of Le Tour has, in fact, been Lance Armstrong wearing a disguise. ;-)

	Laly:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 18:48 GMT	8 points
	@davidr- He not only invented the bicycle, but also went on to direct, produce, and star in "tour de france" the musical ;)

	davidr:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 22:04 GMT	5 points
	Wasn't he also the first man to cycle to the moon?

	Laly:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 22:22 GMT	3 points
	I think you'll find that he did it with nothing more than a lungful of air and a smile on his face.

	davidr:	Oct 16th, 2008 at 20:14 GMT	-3 points
	Man, it's hard to get a good score if you acquire a complete mental block on how to spell Bernard H's surname! (There's an area of north London with a very similar name, which doesn't help.)

	davebesag:	Oct 30th, 2008 at 23:14 GMT	1 point
	Had the same problem with Jacques.

	Luke:	Jan 6th, 2009 at 21:07 GMT	-1 points
	Great quiz - i was delighted with 40/62. Bar Coppi and Antequil I didn't have a clue until 1969.

	adal:	Feb 12th, 2009 at 12:44 GMT	1 point
	I like the ones where three names get you to 17 straight away. :) Then I got three more, but they only got me to 20.

	y2jdilemma:	May 9th, 2009 at 11:23 GMT	0 points
	Thought Id do a little better. Armstrong, Indurain and LeMond were gimmies. Ullrich was a pure guess, and I finally got Mercx right before the buzzer. That was it.

	Toshiba Boy:	May 11th, 2009 at 19:52 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz, sadly got them all (struggled with the Spanish guys from the most recent years!). Was amazed that less than 50% of people who tried the quiz didn't know King Eddy ever won the Tour. That's like not knowing that Pele won the World Cup or that Ali was World Heavyweight boxing champion!

	dolby:	May 16th, 2009 at 10:25 GMT	1 point
	got all from 1999 onwards... plus merckx, indurain and ullrich, cant remember the others.. thanks to armstrong and sporcle know something abt cycling as well....

	darth_shrimper:	May 16th, 2009 at 11:02 GMT	2 points
	Crackin quiz, but we need one for the Vuelta A Espana now. Maybe a World Championship one too?

	Chris:	Jun 22nd, 2009 at 11:15 GMT	4 points
	A shame that more people remember Lemond, who of course was a good cyclist, than Merckx one of the all time greatest. Maybe due to the fact that this site is still a little too much US orientated.

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	GeoExpert:	Jul 26th, 2009 at 21:42 GMT	1 point
	Alberto Contador won.

	Jelle:	Sep 21st, 2009 at 17:07 GMT	3 points
	'van impe' still doesn't work for Lucien Van Impe.

	hvdm:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 20:05 GMT	2 points
	why does Alberto Contador 2007 have 51,9% and Alberto Contador 2009 only 12,3% ???

	Boycie:	Nov 27th, 2009 at 03:06 GMT	2 points
	I'm guessing because the quiz was orig pubished in 2008 and since then his 2009 win was added. So only has 12.3% of all attempts, even though it wasn't there for a considerable portion of them.

	Nosleep:	Nov 28th, 2009 at 22:04 GMT	-1 points
	@darth_shrimper: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Nosleep/world_cycling_champions :)

	LastDamnation:	Mar 10th, 2010 at 12:12 GMT	3 points
	I thought Riis was no longer regarded as the winner in 96?

	pbulkers:	Apr 7th, 2010 at 20:52 GMT	3 points
	Riis was originally written out of the record books, but put back in in July 2008 with additional notes about his admittance of doping

	xetcaf:	Jul 10th, 2010 at 08:30 GMT	6 points
	I'm not trying to take away anything from Lance Armstrong but Eddy Merckx is and will always be the greatest cyclist of all time. He not only won his first tour when he was 24 but he is also the only rider ever to win all the jerseys in one tour. And, unlike Lance Armstrong he won all the other Grand Tours and races.

	fightinchicken26:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 09:43 GMT	0 points
	@xetcaf: I don't think anyone can really argue Armstrong was a better cyclist than Merckx. Armstrong's entire post-cancer career was about the Tour. Becuase of this, I think he is the best TdF rider, but he has nothing other than this.

	asafe:	Dec 21st, 2010 at 09:45 GMT	1 point
	Óscar Pereiro Sio is the full name of the 2006 winner, and Pereiro Sio should be a correct answer as well. Same holds for the other Spanish double last names, but for Pereiro it is shown in races more often (allthough sometimes it's Carlos Sastre Candil as well)

	pstm:	Dec 22nd, 2010 at 22:43 GMT	6 points
	how come only 50% got merckx? he's the greatest road cyclist that ever lived. Armstrong only won the tour, Merckx won EVERYTHING!

	W_E_B:	Jul 23rd, 2011 at 19:51 GMT	1 point
	Time to update for Cadel Evans :)

	RichoIsGod:	Jul 24th, 2011 at 01:56 GMT	1 point
	Cadel = Legend

	Nosleep:	Jul 28th, 2011 at 06:25 GMT	2 points
	Yell for Cadel

	AlexJan:	Dec 5th, 2011 at 18:30 GMT	0 points
	I got one name. I'll let you guess who.

	wainwjos418:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 20:21 GMT	4 points
	time to update for 2010. Contador has been stripped of his title. whether Andy likes it or not, its his.

	RichoIsGod:	Feb 7th, 2012 at 00:31 GMT	1 point
	Andy Schleck-nd no more