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
Grand Tour results timeline
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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 (no started 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]
Legend
| — |
Did not compete |
| DNF |
Did not finish |
| DSQ |
Disqualified |
Monuments results timeline
Source:[1][3]
Major stage race general classification results timeline
Source:[1][3]
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%
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- 1969: 33%
- 1970: 37%
- 1971: 45%
- 1972: 39%
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- 1973: 37%
- 1974: 27%
- 1975: 25%
- 1976: 13%
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References