2022 Super Grand Tour Update

Way back in 2019, we debuted the SUPER GRAND TOUR. It was a simple concept: combine riders’ overall times across all three grand tours to declare a Super Grand Tour champion.

(Want more detail? There are more details, and a joke about killing the Pope, in that link above.)

Of course, riding all three grand tours is rare. Simon Yates and Thomas De Gendt were the only two riders to start the 2019 Vuelta after completing that year’s Giro and Tour, and only De Gendt finished. Which meant all our hard work calculating cumulative times across three grand tours was for nothing.

The competition returns after a couple of seasons of Covid-related pro cycling schedule disruptions. Ten riders remain eligible for the sport’s greatest prize* after the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France.

Pos	Name	Team	Overall Time
1	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	169:30:18
2	Joe Dombowski	Astana	169:54:46
3	Giulio Ciccone	Trek-Segafredo	170:53:43
4	Chris Hamilton	Team DSM	170:59:57
5	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	172:10:37
6	Jonathan Castroviejo	INEOS Grenadiers	172:20:26
7	Pierre-Luc Perichon	Cofidis	174:13:41
8	Anthony Perez	Cofidis	174:23:36
9	Alberto Dainese	Team DSM	176:00:25
10	Christopher Juul-Jensen	BikeExchange-Jayco	176:01:31

It’s pretty close in those top four places! Not that it fucking matters at all, because it’s almost certain that the number of finishers will be either zero or one.

In fact, of the remaining ten contenders, only Martijn Tusveld has been named as a Vuelta participant at the time of writing. Maybe we’re remembering why we stopped doing this.

*We’ll deliver some framed artwork if the winner is someone we have contact with either directly or through their management