Jacques Anquetil won five tours. First in 1957 and then four times in a row from 1961 to 1964.
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Hinault won the Tour de France 5 times between 1978 and 1985Miguel Indurain won five times in a row; he won 1991 to 1995.Lance Armstrong won seven times, in a row too. But was stripped of his titles due to doping
Jacques Anqueti from France won the race
Vincenzo Nibali, from Messina, Sicily, Italy, won the 2014 Tour de France. The race featured 21 stages and covered a distance of 2,276 miles.
GREG LEMOND.JOCK BOYER was the first American to compete at least in modern timesGreg LaMondIn 1986, Greg LeMond from Reno Nevada, became the first American to win the Tour de France. He also won in 1989 and 1990 after having to take a break from cycling in 1987 to recover from wounds he received when he was accidentally shot by his brother-in-law while they were out hunting.
TdF isn't a race between nations, it's a race between teams of professional riders. These teams will usually have members of several different nationalities.While a team may be based in France, and even have majority of French riders, it's still not a team officially representing France.