1. Dylan Groenewegen has won six individual Tour de France stages and one team time trial stage.
16 Facts About Dylan Groenewegen
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In 2020, Groenewegen received considerable attention for causing a serious crash at the Tour de Pologne, which put Fabio Jakobsen in hospital, and for which Groenewegen received a nine-month ban from racing.
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At the age of 17, Dylan Groenewegen went to a trade school in order to follow his previous three generations as a frame-builder.
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Dylan Groenewegen said in an interview that he had to choose between Team Roompot or BMC Racing Team to join in 2014.
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Dylan Groenewegen chose the former as they gave him "a lot of confidence".
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Dylan Groenewegen came fourth on the second stage which finished in Harrogate.
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Dylan Groenewegen produced two more top-10 results in the first week, with sixth in stages 6 and 7.
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Dylan Groenewegen won the final stage of the race on the last stage on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
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Dylan Groenewegen held the general classification lead until the third stage when he was penalised 20 seconds after illegally drafting behind his team's car after suffering a mechanical fault.
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The blue jersey, given to the race leader, was lost to Elia Viviani who started the day two seconds behind Dylan Groenewegen, who dropped out of the top 10.
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Dylan Groenewegen won stage 8, beating Sagan and John Degenkolb in Amiens.
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Dylan Groenewegen beat Caleb Ewan and Sagan, giving him his fourth Tour de France stage win.
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Dylan Groenewegen won stages 1,3 and 5 of the Tour of Britain, beating Davide Cimolai, Mathieu van der Poel, and Matthew Walls on the respective stages.
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Dylan Groenewegen was disqualified from the race and fined CHF 500.
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In November 2020, Dylan Groenewegen was handed a nine-month ban for causing the crash, backdated to the day of the incident, meaning the ban ended on 7 May 2021.
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Dylan Groenewegen won stage 6 of the 2024 Tour de France in a photo finish after a mass sprint.