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context: events for the forthcoming season. Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara (2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010) and Germany's Tony Martin (2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016) have won the most competitions with four each. Australia's Michael Rogers (2003, 2004 and 2005) comes in next in terms of victories, with three wins; Rogers and Martin are the only people to take 3 wins in successive years. Bradley Wiggins is the oldest winner; he was 34 years and 149 days old when he won in 2014. The youngest winner is Rogers; he was 23 years and 293 days old when he won in 2003. Germany's Michael </s> 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. Only three countries have won all three Grand Tours in a single year: France (1964), Spain (2008) and Great Britain (2018). Out of those three countries, Great Britain completed the set with three different riders. For the UCI </s> former having completed all 16 of the Tours that he started. Zoetemelk held the record for the most Tour de France stages completed with 365, a record that was broken when Chavanel finished Stage 18 of the 2018 Tour de France. Riders who are still active are indicated in bold. In the early years of the Tour, cyclists rode individually, and were sometimes forbidden to ride together. This led to large gaps between the winner and the number two. Since the cyclists now tend to stay together in a peloton, the margins of the winner have become smaller, as the
question: greatest number of tour de france stage wins