In their current form, the Grand Tours are held over three consecutive weeks and typically include two rest days near the beginning of the second and third weeks. 3.9 Smallest margin between 1st and 2nd placed rider.3.8 Finished in the top ten in all three Grand Tours in a single year.3.7 Winners of multiple Grand Tours in a single year.3.6 Winners of all three Grand Tours in a single year.3.5 Winners of three or more consecutive Grand Tours.The Giro Rosa, the ten stage Italian road race for women is the only race on the current women's circuit treated as broadly equivalent to a Grand Tour, although the defunct women's Tour de France was, in its time, given similar status. The three Grand Tours are men's events, and no three week races exist on the women's road cycling circuit. The Tour, the Giro and the Road World Cycling Championship make up the Triple Crown of Cycling. The Tour de France is the oldest and most prestigious in terms of points accrued to racers of all three, and is the most widely attended annual sporting event in the world. In 1995, however, the race moved to September to avoid direct competition with the Giro d'Italia. The Vuelta was originally held in the spring, usually late April, with a few editions held in June in the 1940s. The Giro d'Italia is generally run in May, the Tour de France in July, and the Vuelta a España in late August and September. They have a special status in the UCI regulations: more points for the UCI World Tour are distributed in Grand Tours than in other races, and they are the only stage races allowed to last longer than 14 days. Collectively they are termed the Grand Tours, and all three races are similar in format being three week races with daily stages. In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour is one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España. ( Tour de France) ( Giro d'Italia) ( Vuelta a España) The seven cyclists who have won all three tours.

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