List of career achievements by Eddy Merckx

This is a list of career achievements by Eddy Merckx. Merckx is widely considered to be the greatest bicycle racer in history. His eleven Grand Tour victories are the most ever, and he also won one of the classic cycle races 28 times, in addition to a prolific career as an amateur and on the track.

Records

Most career victories by a professional cyclist: 525.
Most stage victories in the Tour de France: 34.
Most stage victories in one Tour de France: 8, in 1970 and 1974 (shared with Charles Pélissier in 1930 and Freddy Maertens in 1976).
Most days with the yellow jersey in the Tour de France: 96.
The only cyclist to have won the general classification, points classification and mountains classification in the same Tour de France (1969).
Most victories in classics: 28.
Most victories in one single classic: 7 (in Milan–San Remo).
Most victories in Grand Tours: 11

Grand Tour results timeline

	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977
Tour	DNE	DNE	1	1	1	1	DNE	1	2	DNE	6
Stages won	—	—	6	8	4	6	—	8	2	—	0
Mountains classification	—	—	1	1	3	2	—	2	2	—	11
Points classification	—	—	1	2	1	1	—	2	2	—	5
Giro	9	1	DSQ	1	DNE	1	1	1	DNE	8	DNE
Stages won	2	3	4	3	—	4	6	2	—	0	—
Mountains classification	3	1	DSQ	4	—	2	2	2	—	7	—
Points classification	2	1	DSQ	3	—	2	1	4	—	2	—
Vuelta	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE	1	DNE	DNE	DNE	DNE
Stages won	—	—	—	—	—	—	6	—	—	—	—
Mountains classification	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	—	—	—	—
Points classification	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—

Legend
1	Winner
2–3	Top three-finish
4–10	Top ten-finish
11–	Other finish
DNE	Did not enter
DNF-x	Did not finish (retired on stage x)
DNS-x	Did not start (not started on stage x)
HD	Finished outside time limit (occurred on stage x)
DSQ	Disqualified
N/A	Race/classification not held
NR	Not ranked in this classification

Track races

17 six-day races
3× European championship
7× Belgian madison championship (with Patrick Sercu)

Palmarès

Source:^[1]^[2]^[3]

1961: 1st Petit-Enghien
1964: 1st Amateur road race, UCI Road World Championships; 1st Amateur madison, Belgian National Championships (with Patrick Sercu)
1965: 1st Amateur madison, Belgian National Championships (with Patrick Sercu); 1st GP Stad Vilvoorde; 1st Rocourt Madison; 1st Roubaix Omnium; 1st Omloop van het Houtland; 1st Itterbeek; 1st Wezembeek; 1st Kessel-Lo; 1st Critérium du Renaix; 1st Nederbrakel; 1st Critérium de Visé; 1st Critérium de St. Jansteen; 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu)

1966

1st

Madison, Belgian National Championships (with Patrick Sercu)

1st Milan–San Remo

1st Anvers omnium (with Patrick Sercu)

1st GP Pino Cerami

1st Rocourt omnium (with Patrick Sercu)

1st Ostende omnium (with Patrick Sercu)

1st Brussels-Meulebeke

1st Helchteren

1st Rousiès

1st Denderleeuw

1st Rumes

Tour of Morbihan

1st General classification

1st Stages 3 & 4

1st Druivenkoers a Overijse

1st GP Le Télégramme à Châteaulin

1st Championship of Flanders

1st Viane

1st Brussels omnium (with Rik van Looy and Edward Sels)

1st Anvers individuelle

1st Circuit des Frontieres a Templeuve-Baisieux

1st Criterium de Puteaux

Escalada a Montjuich

1st General classification

1st Stage 1b

1st Brussels omnium (24 October) (with Patrick Sercu)

1st Gent omnium (1 November) (with Walter Godefroot)

1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Ferdinand Bracke)

1st Gent omnium (7 November) (with Rik Van Steenbergen, Patrick Sercu, & Noël Van Clooster)

1st Brussels omnium (15 November) (with Rik Van Steenbergen)

1st Stage 2, Grand Prix du Midi Libre

1967 (Team Peugeot-BP): 1st Road race, Road World Championships; 1st Madison, Belgian National Championships (with Patrick Sercu); 1st Milan–San Remo; 1st Critérium de Camors; 1st Gent–Wevelgem; 1st GP Salvarani; 1st Gent omnium (with Edward Sels & Rik Van Looy); 1st Aulnay-sous-Blois omnium (with Ferdinand Bracke); 1st Milano omnium; 1st GP du Tournaisis; 1st La Flèche Wallonne; 1st Nandrin; 1st Simpelveld; 1st Lorient omnium (Rudi Altig, Tom Simpson, & Howling); 1st Roubaix omnium; 1st Ostende omnium (with Patrick Sercu); 1st Enter; 1st La Clayette; 1st Critérium de La Panne; 1st Critérium de st Lenaarts; 1st Championship du Brabant; 1st Critérium de Liedekerke; 1st Critérium d'Armentières; 1st Ostende madison (with Patrick Sercu); 1st Rocourt madison (with Patrick Sercu); 1st Anvers omnium; 1st Anvers individuelle; 1st Gent omnium (with Daniel Van Ryckeghem); 1st Madrid madison (with Jan Janssen); 1st Prix de Cloture Critèrium de As; 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Ferdinand Bracke); 1st Gent omnium (with Ferdinand Bracke); 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu); 1st Stage 3, Paris–Luxembourg; 1st Stages 12 & 14, Giro d'Italia; 1st Stages 2 & 6, Paris–Nice; 1st Stages 6 & 7, Giro di Sardegna; 1st Putte-Kapellen; 1st Omloop der Zennevallei

1968 (Team Faema)

1st

Madison, Belgian National Championships (with Patrick Sercu)

Giro d'Italia

1st Charleroi

1st Anvers omnium

Giro di Sardegna

1st General classification

1st Stages 1 & 5b

1st Rombano Lombardo

1st Gent omnium (with Patrick Sercu)

1st Paris–Roubaix

1st Anvers omnium (with Rik Van Looy)

Tour de Romandie

1st General classification

1st Stage 1

1st Milan omnium (with Vittorio Adorni)

Giro d'Italia

1st

General classification

1st

Points classification

1st Mountains classification

1st Stages 1, 2, 8, & 12

1st Rocourt omnium

1st Ostende omnium (with Patrick Sercu)

1st Salsiomaggiore

1st La Clayette

1st Bornem

1st Ostende omnium

1st Woluwé-St Lambert

1st La Panne

1st Rocourt omnium

1st Ohain

1st Tre Valli Varesine

1st Alsemberg

1st Championship du Brabant

1st Milan omnium (with Rudi Altig, Lucien Aimar, & Jean Jourdan)

Volta a Catalunya

1st General classification

1st Stages 1 & 6

1st Rome omnium (with Vittorio Adorni

1st Milan pursuit

1st Milan omnium (with Rudi Altig)

1st Gran Premio di Lugano

1st Roue d'Or

1st Gent omnium (with Guido Reybrouck)

A travers Lausanne

1st General classification

1st Stages 1a & 2a

1st Six Days of Charleroi (with Ferdinand Bracke)

1st Stage 6b, Volta a Catalunya

1st Trofeo Dicen

1969 (Team Faema)

1st Ronde du Carnaval d'Aix en Provence

Vuelta a Levante

1st General Classification

1st Points Classification

1st Stages 3, 4 & 5

Paris–Nice

1st General Classification

1st Stages 2, 3b & 7b

1st Milan–San Remo

1st Gand omnium (with Roger De Vlaeminck & Walter Godefroot)

1st Tour of Flanders

1st Anvers omnium

1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1st Rome omnium

1st Stages 3, 4, 7 & 15 Giro d'Italia

1st La Roche-sur-Yon (with R. Lelangue & F. Mintjens)

1st La Trimouille

1st Bruxelles-Muelebeke

1st Ottignies

Tour de France

1st

General classification

1st

Points classification

1st Mountains classification

1st

Combination classification

1st

Combativity award

1st Stages 1b (TTT), 6, 8a, 11, 15, 17 & 22b

1st Critérium d'Alost

1st Critérium de Woluwé-St Lambert

1st Vincennes omnim

1st Guerlesquin Tro-Ker

1st Remiremont

1st Chateau-Chinon

Paris–Luxembourg

1st General classification

1st Stage 2

1st Ostende omnium

1st Londerzeel Critérium

1st Saussignac

1st Moorslede Critérium

1st Auvelais Critérium

1st Schaerbeek

1st Alès

1st Circuit de l'Aulne a Chateaulin

1st Gand omnium (with Julien Stevens)

1st Critérium d'Europe d'américaine a Cologne (with Patrick Sercu)

1st Scorze

1st Gand omnium (with Roger De Vlaeminck)

1st Charleroi omnium (with Ferdinand Bracke)

1st G. P. de Wallonie a Charleroi individuelle

1st Anvers omnum (with Jacques Anquetil, Rudi Altig & Harm Ottenbros)

1st Coupe du Monde intermarques

1st Super Prestige Pernod International

1970 (Team Faema-Faemino)

1st

Road race, Belgian National Road Race Championships

1st Anvers omnium (with Julien Stevens)

1st Carleroi omnium

1st Charleroi americaine (with Julien Stevens)

1st Grenoble omnium

1st Sanary

Paris–Nice

1st General classification

1st Mountains classification

1st Stages 3, 7b & 8b

1st Col San Martino

1st Gent–Wevelgem

Tour de Belgique

1st General classification

1st Points classification

1st Stages 1b & 3b

1st Paris–Roubaix

1st La Flèche Wallonne

1st Lorient

1st Villafranca

Giro d'Italia

1st

General classification

1st Combination classification

1st Stages 2, 7 & 9

1st Caen

Tour de France

1st

General classification

1st Mountains classification

1st

Combination classification

1st

Combativity award

1st Prologue & Stages 3 (TTT), 7a, 10, 11b, 12, 14, 20b & 23

1st Critérium de Renxaix

Critérium de Woluwé-St Lambert

1st Overall

1st Time Trial

1st Ronde de Seignelay

1st Vailly-sur-Sauldre

1st Saint-Cyprien Critérium

1st Bilzen Critérium

1st St. Niklaas Critérium

1st Baussières

1st Varilhes

1st Dortmund G. P. Union

1st Castelfranco

1st Chateaugiron

Montjuich Escalada

1st Overall

1st Time Trial

1st Bastia

1st Critérium des As

1st Lissone Coppa Agostini

1st A travers Lausanne

1st Eeklo cyclo-cross (with Roger de Vlaeminck)

1st Super Prestige Pernod International

1971 (Team Molteni)

1st

Road race, Road World Championships

Tour de France

Overall classification

Points classification

4 stages

Milan–San Remo

Liège–Bastogne–Liège

Giro di Lombardia

Rund um den Henninger Turm

Omloop "Het Volk"

Paris–Nice

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

Grand Prix du Midi Libre

Tour of Belgium

Giro di Sardegna

Super Prestige Pernod International

1972 (Team Molteni)

Tour de France

Overall classification

Points classification

6 stages

Giro d'Italia

Overall classification

4 stages

Hour record - 49.431 km

Milan–San Remo

Liège–Bastogne–Liège

Giro di Lombardia

La Flèche Wallonne

Giro dell'Emilia

Giro del Piemonte

Scheldeprijs

Trofeo Baracchi, with Roger Swerts

Super Prestige Pernod International

1973 (Team Molteni)

Giro d'Italia

Overall classification

Points classification

6 stages

Vuelta a España

Overall classification

Points classification

Combined classification

Sprints classification

6 stages

Paris–Roubaix

Liège–Bastogne–Liège

Amstel Gold Race

Gent–Wevelgem

Grand Prix des Nations

Omloop "Het Volk"

Paris–Brussels

Giro di Sardegna

Grand Prix de Fourmies

Super Prestige Pernod Trophy

1974 (Team Molteni)

1st

Road race, Road World Championships

1st

Madison, Belgian National Championships (with Patrick Sercu)

Tour de France

Overall classification

Combativity award

8 stages

Giro d'Italia

General classification

2 stages

Tour de Suisse, including

Points classification

King of the Mountains

3 stages

Critérium des As

Super Prestige Pernod Trophy

1975 (Team Molteni): 1st Madison, Belgian National Championships (with Patrick Sercu); Milan–San Remo; Tour of Flanders; Liège–Bastogne–Liège; Amstel Gold Race; Catalan Week; 2 stages, Tour de France; 1 stage, Tour de Suisse; Giro di Sardegna; Super Prestige Pernod Trophy; Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu)

1976 (Team Molteni): 1st Madison, Belgian National Championships (with Patrick Sercu); Milan–San Remo; Catalan Week

1977 (Team Fiat): 1 stage, Tour de Suisse; Tour Méditerranéen; Six Days of Munich (with Patrick Sercu); Six Days of Zürich (with Patrick Sercu); Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu)

Grand Tour general classification and World Championships results timeline

Source:^[1]^[3]

Race	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977
Giro d'Italia	—	—	9	1	DSQ	1	—	1	1	1	—	8	—
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	1	1	1	1	—	1	2	—	6
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—
World Championship	29	12	1	8	DNF	29	1	4	4	1	8	5	33

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish
DSQ	Disqualified

Monuments results timeline

Source:^[1]^[3]

Monument	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977
Milan–San Remo	1	1	31	1	8	1	1	—	—	1	1	98
Tour of Flanders	DNF	3	9	1	3	76	7	3	3	1	17	DNF
Paris–Roubaix	15	8	1	2	1	5	7	1	4	2	6	11
Liège–Bastogne–Liège	8	2	—	1	3	1	1	1	4	1	6	6
Giro di Lombardia	2	7	3	—	4	1	1	—	2	6	—	—

Major stage race general classification results timeline

Source:^[1]^[3]

Race	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977
Paris–Nice	4	10	DNF	1	1	1	2	3	3	2	—	DNF
Giro di Sardegna	—	28	1	—	2	1	33	1	4	1	8	20
Tour of Belgium	11	—	DNF	—	1	1	—	?	—	—	26	—
Grand Prix du Midi Libre	11	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	3	7
Tour de Romandie	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	14	3	7
Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	10	—	8
Tour de Suisse	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	2	—	12

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

Win rate

In his best year, Merckx won almost every other race he rode. Merckx won the equivalent of a race a week for six years.^[4] This table shows his strike rate of wins as a percentage of races undertaken.

1965: 13%
1966: 21%
1967: 23%
1968: 24%

1969: 33%
1970: 37%
1971: 45%
1972: 39%

1973: 37%
1974: 27%
1975: 25%
1976: 13%

1977: 14%
1978: 0%

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Cycling - Eddy Merckx". The-Sports.org. Québec, Canada: Info Média Conseil. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
^ "Eddy Merckx". Cycling Archives. de Wielersite. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Palmarès de Eddy Merckx (Bel)". Memoire du cyclisme (in French). Retrieved 8 May 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
^ "The Independent, Friday 6th July, 2007, Tour de France: Alternative view of the ultimate road race". The Independent. UK. 6 July 2007. Archived from the original on 4 July 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2010. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[the-sports-1] "Cycling - Eddy Merckx". The-Sports.org. Québec, Canada: Info Média Conseil. Retrieved 6 May 2015.

[cycling-archives-2] "Eddy Merckx". Cycling Archives. de Wielersite. Retrieved 19 April 2013.

[memoire-3] "Palmarès de Eddy Merckx (Bel)". Memoire du cyclisme (in French). Retrieved 8 May 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)

[Independent,_alt_view-4] "The Independent, Friday 6th July, 2007, Tour de France: Alternative view of the ultimate road race". The Independent. UK. 6 July 2007. Archived from the original on 4 July 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2010. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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