Triple Crown of Cycling

The Triple Crown of Cycling in road bicycle racing denotes the achievement of winning three major titles in the same season: the UCI Road World Championships Road Race, the Tour de France general classification, and the Giro d'Italia general classification. It is considered one of the most difficult and prestigious achievements in the sport, with journalists calling it "cycling’s most elite club" and "all but impossible in the modern age."

The men's triple crown has been achieved by three riders: Eddy Merckx in 1974, Stephen Roche in 1987 and Tadej Pogačar in 2024. In women's cycling, where there are no three-week grand tours, the definition can vary between sources. Annemiek van Vleuten is widely credited as achieving a comparable triple crown in 2022, when she won the Tour de France Femmes, Giro d'Italia Women and the World Championship Road Race. The term "triple crown" is occasionally used more broadly; van Vleuten also won the 2022 Challenge by La Vuelta (the predecessor to the La Vuelta Femenina), sweeping the three major women's tours in a single year, an achievement sometimes referred to as a triple crown. The phrase "triple crown" is occasionally used for other feats as well, such as winning all three Grand Tours over a rider's career, winning consecutive Grand Tours, or winning world championships across different disciplines of cycling.

Despite the prestige and recognition associated with these achievements, the Triple Crown of Cycling is not an official title awarded by cycling's governing bodies, and there is no physical award for its accomplishment.

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