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1454:Cadel Evans
1365:Jan Ullrich
1356:Bjarne Riis
1334:Greg LeMond
1303:Greg LeMond
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1090:Charly Gaul
1041:Hugo Koblet
940:Romain Maes
824:Léon Scieur
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59:5 June 1879
1573:Categories
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567:Quoted in
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529:References
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723:1907
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