Mark Cavendish now sits second in the Tour de France stage winners list with 30 victories. He started winning in 2008 and with the exception of 2014 (crash) and 2015 (just one win) has always won multiple stages in each Tour he has ridden.
His most successful Tour is hard to nail down. He took six wins in 2009, his most, but in 2011 he won the green jersey along with five stages.
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He also holds the record for the numbers of wins on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, with four consecutive victories from 2009 to 2011.
We decided to plot all of his 30 wins on a map. Click on each one and for a brief description and link to our original report.
Mark Cavendish’s Tour de France stages wins
Cavendish’s age at the time of the victory in brackets.
1. Chateauroux. July 7, 2008 Team Columbia (23)
2. Toulouse, July 12, 2008 Team Columbia (23)
3. Narbonne, July 17, 2008 Team Columbia (23)
4. Nimes, July 18, 2008 Team Columbia (23)
5. Brignoles, July 5, 2009 Team Columbia – HTC (24)
6. La Grand-Motte, July 6, 2009 Team Columbia – HTC (24)
7. Issoudun, July 14, 2009 Team Columbia – HTC (24)
8. Saint-Fargeau, July 15, 2009 Team Columbia – HTC (24)
9. Aubenas, July 24, 2009 Team Columbia – HTC (24)
10. Paris, Champs-Élysées, July 26, 2009 Team Columbia – HTC (24)
11. Montargis, July 8, 2010 Team HTC – Columbia (25)
12. Gueugnon, July 9, 2010 Team HTC – Columbia (25)
13. Bourg-Lés-Valence, July 15, 2010 Team HTC – Columbia (25)
14. Bordeaux, July 23, 2010 Team HTC – Columbia (25)
15. Paris, Champs-Élysées, July 25, 2010 Team HTC – Columbia (25)
16. Cap Fréhel, July 6, 2011 HTC – Highroad (26)
17. Châteauroux, July 8, 2011 HTC – Highroad (26)
18. Lavaur, July 13, 2011 HTC – Highroad (26)
19. Montpellier, July 17, 2011 HTC – Highroad (26)
20. Paris, Champs-Élysées, July 24, 2011 HTC – Highroad (26)
21. Tournai (Bel), July 2, 2012 Team Sky (27)
22. Brive-la-Gaillarde, July 20, 2012 Team Sky (27)
23. Paris, Champs-Élysées, July 22, 2012 Team Sky (27)
24. Marseille, July 3, 2013 OmegaPharma – Quickstep (28)
25. Saint-Amand-Montrond, July 12, 2013 OmegaPharma – Quickstep (28)
26. Fougéres, July 10, 2015 Etixx – Quick Step (30)
27. Utah Beach, July 2, 2016 Dimension Data (31)
28. Angers, July 4, 2016 Dimension Data (31)
29. Montuban, July 7, 2017 Dimension Data (31)
30. Villard-les-Dombes Parc Oiseaux, July 16, 2016 Dimension Data (31)
Tour de France stage winners
1. Eddy Merckx (Bel) 34
2. Mark Cavendish (GBr) 30*
3. Bernhard Hinault (Fra) 28
4. André Leducq (Fra) 25
5. André Darrigade (Fra) 22
6. Nicolas Frantz (Lux) 20
7. François Faber (Lux) 19
8. Jean Alavoine (Fra) 17
=9. Jacques Anquetil (Fra) 16
=9. René Le Greves (Fra) 16
=9. Charles Pelissier (Fra) 16
=23. André Greipel (Ger) 10*
*Denotes current rider
