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List of female Grand Tour winners

In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour refers to one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España. Collectively they are termed the Grand Tours, and all three races are similar in format being multi-week races with daily stages. They have a special status in the UCI regulations: more points for the UCI World Tour are distributed in Grand Tours than in other races, and they are the only stage races allowed to last longer than 14 days.

The Tour de France is the oldest and most prestigious in terms of points accrued to racers of all three, and also the world's most famous cycling race, while the Giro d'Italia is generally seen as the second most important. The Tour, the Giro and the Road World Cycling Championship make up the Triple Crown of Cycling.

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In their current form, the Grand Tours are held over three consecutive weeks and typically include two "rest" days near the end of the first and second week. The stages are a mix of long massed start races (sometimes including mountain and hill climbs and descents; others are flat stages favoring those with a sprint finish), as well as individual and team time trials and non-competitive exhibition and rest days. Unlike most one-day races, stages in the Grand Tours are generally under 200 kilometers in length.

Controversy often surrounds which teams are invited to the event. Typically, the Union Cycliste Internationale (International Cycling Union) prefers top-rated professional teams to enter, while operators of the Grand Tours often want teams based in their country or those unlikely to cause controversy. From 2005 to 2007, organisers had to accept all ProTour teams, leaving only two wildcard teams per Tour. However, the Unibet team, a ProTour team normally guaranteed entry, was banned from the three Grand Tours due to gambling advertising laws. In 2008, following numerous doping scandals, some teams were refused entry to the Grand Tours: Astana did not compete at the 2008 Tour de France and Team Columbia did not compete at the 2008 Vuelta a España. Since 2011, under the UCI World Tour rules, all ProTour teams are guaranteed a place in all three events, and obliged to participate.

The prizes include the individual general classification, the team classification, the King of the Mountains, the points classification, and often the best young rider classification, in addition to other less known classifications. The most contested ones are the individual general classification (Maillot jaune -yellow jersey- in the Tour de France, Maglia rosa -pink jersey- in the Giro d'Italia, and Jersey rojo -red jersey- in the Vuelta a España, ; king of the mountains classification (Maillot à pois rouges -red polka dotted jersey- in the Tour, Maglia Azzurra -blue jersey- in the Giro, and Jersey de puntos azules -blue polka dotted jersey- in the Vuelta); and points classification (Maillot vert -green jersey- in the Tour, Maglia Ciclamino -mauve jersey- in the Giro, and Jersey verde -green jersey- in the Vuelta). Only three riders have won all three in the same race: Eddy Merckx in the 1968 Giro d'Italia and 1969 Tour de France, Tony Rominger in the 1993 Vuelta a España and Laurent Jalabert in the 1995 Vuelta a España.

It is rare for cyclists to ride all grand tours in the same year; in 2004, 474 cyclists started in at least one of the grand tours, 68 of them rode two Grand Tours and only two cyclists started in all three grand tours. It is not unusual for sprinters and their leadout men, who do not expect to complete each race, to start each of the Grand Tours and aim for stage wins before the most difficult stages occur. Alessandro Petacchi and Mark Cavendish started all three Grand Tours in 2010 and 2011, respectively, as did some of their preferred support riders. For both riders in both years, only the Tour de France was ridden to its conclusion.

Over the years, 32 riders have completed all three Grand Tours in one year. Of these, Adam Hansen is the only one to do so five times. Marino Lejarreta has done it four times, Bernardo Ruiz three times, Eduardo Chozas and Carlos Sastre twice each, and 27 more riders have achieved the feat once.

The only riders to have finished in the top 10 in each of the three tours during the same year are Raphaël Géminiani in 1955 and Gastone Nencini in 1957.

Grand Tour winners
From 1984 to 1989, the Tour de France Women was the curtain raising event for the men's event. This event is organised by the Tour de France Society, organiser of the men's Tour de France. In 1990, the event changed its name and format, becoming the Tour of the EEC Women, which ceased in 1993.

In 1992, a new race was created, the Tour cycliste féminine, organised in August by Pierre Boué. In 1998 the event name was changed to the Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale, due to the fact the use of Tour was prohibited due to it being the intellectual property of the Société du Tour de France

Most Grand Tour wins per rider

 * Active riders marked in bold.

Winners of two or more consecutive Grand Tours

 * 🇮🇹 Fabiana Luperini (ITA): 6 Grand Tours - Tour Féminine 1995, Giro 1995, Tour Féminine 1996, Giro 1996, Tour Féminine 1997, Giro 1997
 * 🇪🇸 Joane Somarriba (ESP): 4 Grand Tours - Giro 1999, Tour Féminine 2000, Giro 2000, Tour Féminine 2001
 * 🇮🇹 Maria Canins (ITA): 2 Grand Tours - Tour de France 1985, Tour de France 1986
 * Leontien van Moorsel: 2 Grand Tours - Tour de France 1992, Tour Féminine 1992
 * Marianne Vos: 2 Grand Tours - Giro 2011, Giro 2012

Winners of two Grand Tours in a season

 * 1995: 🇮🇹 Fabiana Luperini (ITA)
 * 1996: 🇮🇹 Fabiana Luperini (ITA)
 * 1997: 🇮🇹 Fabiana Luperini (ITA)
 * 2000: 🇪🇸 Joane Somarriba (ESP)

Tour Féminine
In 1993 Leontien van Moorsel won both the Super Trophée de Pyrénées and Trophée Orangina.

Giro d'Italia

 * In 2006, Ol'ga Sljusareva won the Sprints classification - denoted with a blue jersey.