List of career achievements by Eddy Merckx
Introduction Eddy 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 a record of 28 classic cycle races, in addition to a prolific career as an amateur and on the track.
Career achievements ===Major results===Limited list, only mentioning 1st places. Source:===Road===;1961 (Debutant):1st Petit-Enghien;1962:1st 20px Road race, National Junior Road Championships: 1st 20px Overall Liège-La Gleize;1963 (Amateur):1st Rund um Sebnitz:1st Overall Tour of Limburg amateur race:1st Kampioenschap van Brabant (TTT);1964:1st 20px Road race, UCI Amateur Road Championships: 1st Brussels-Opwijk: 1st GP Affligem;1965 (Solo-Supéria): 1st GP Stad Vilvoorde: 1st Omloop van het Houtland (Torhout): 1st Trofee Luc Van Biesen : 1st Kampioenschap van Brabant (TTT): 1st GP Itterbeek: 1st Wezembeek-Oppem: 1st Kessel-Lo: 1st Critérium du Renaix: 1st Nederbrakel: 1st Critérium de Visé: 1st Critérium de St. Jansteen ;1966 (Team Peugeot–BP): 1st Milan–San Remo: 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Ferdinand Bracke): 1st 20px Overall Escalada a Montjuïc::1st Stage 1b: 1st Circuit des Frontières: 1st 20px Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen: 1st Geraardsbergen-Viane: 1st Boucles de l'Aulne: 1st Druivenkoers Overijse: 1st Overall Tour of Morbihan::1st Stages 3 & 4 : 1st Stage 2 Grand Prix du Midi Libre: 1st Wattrelos–Meulebeke: 1st GP Pino Cerami: 1st Helchteren: 1st Rousiès: 1st Denderleeuw: 1st Rumes: 1st GP Le Télégramme à Châteaulin: 1st Criterium de Puteaux;1967 (Team Peugeot–BP): 1st link=Rainbow jersey Road race, UCI Road World Championships: Giro d'Italia::1st Stages 12 & 14: 1st Milan–San Remo: 1st La Flèche Wallonne: 1st Gent–Wevelgem: 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Ferdinand Bracke): 1st Critérium des As: 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs: 1st Stage 3 Paris–Luxembourg: 1st Omloop der Zennevallei: 1st Tour du Condroz: Paris–Nice::1st Stages 2 & 6: Giro di Sardegna::1st Stages 6 & 7: 1st Critérium de Camors: 1st GP Salvarani: 1st GP du Tournaisis: 1st Nandrin: 1st Simpelveld: 1st Enter: 1st Liedekerkse Pijl: 1st La Clayette: 1st Critérium de La Panne: 1st Critérium de St. Lenaarts: 1st Kampioenschap van Brabant: 1st Critérium de Liedekerke: 1st Critérium d'Armentières: 1st Putte-Kapellen;1968 (Team Faema): 1st 20px Overall Giro d'Italia::1st 20px Points classification::1st 20px Mountains classification::1st Stages 1, 2, 8, & 12: 1st 20px Overall Giro di Sardegna::1st Stages 1 & 5b: 1st Paris–Roubaix: 1st 20px Overall Tour de Romandie::1st Stage 1: 1st 20px Overall À travers Lausanne::1st Stages 1a & 2a: 1st 20px Overall Volta a Catalunya::1st Stages 1 & 6: 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Paris–Luxembourg: 1st Tre Valli Varesine: 1st Gran Premio di Lugano: 1st Stage 2 Tour of Belgium: 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme: 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Paris–Nice: 1st Rombano Lombardo: 1st Salsiomaggiore: 1st La Clayette: 1st Bornem: 1st Woluwé-St Lambert: 1st La Panne: 1st Ohain: 1st Alsemberg: 1st GP Malderen: 1st Kampioenschap van Brabant: 1st Roue d'Or: 1st Trofeo Dicen;1969 (Team Faema): 1st 20px Overall Tour de France::1st 20px Points classification::1st Mountains classification::1st 20px Combination classification::1st 20px Combativity award::1st Stages 1b (TTT), 6, 8a (ITT), 11, 15 (ITT), 17 & 22b (ITT): Giro d'Italia::1st Stages 3, 4 (ITT), 7 & 15 (ITT): 1st Milan–San Remo: 1st Tour of Flanders: 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège: 1st 20px Overall Vuelta a Levante::1st Points Classification::1st Stages 3, 4 & 5: 1st 20px Overall Paris–Nice::1st Stages 2, 3b & 7b:1st Wattrelos–Meulebeke: 1st 20px Overall Paris–Luxembourg::1st Stage 2:1st Boucles de l'Aulne: 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Mallorca:1st Ronde du Carnaval d'Aix-en-Provence:1st La Roche-sur-Yon (with R. Lelangue & F. Mintjens):1st La Trimouille:1st Ottignies:1st Critérium d'Alost:1st Critérium de Woluwé-St Lambert:1st Vincennes omnium:1st Guerlesquin Tro-Ker:1st Remiremont:1st Chateau-Chinon:1st Londerzeel Critérium:1st Saussignac:1st Moorslede Critérium:1st Auvelais Critérium:1st Schaerbeek:1st Alès:1st Circuit de l'Aulne a Châteaulin:1st Scorze:1st G. P. de Wallonie a Charleroi individuelle:1st Coupe du Monde intermarques: 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International;1970 (Team Faema–Faemino): 1st 20px Overall Tour de France::1st Mountains classification::1st 20px Combination classification::1st 20px Combativity award::1st Prologue (ITT) & Stages 3 (TTT), 7a, 10, 11a (ITT), 12, 14, 20b (ITT) & 23 (ITT): 1st 20px Overall Giro d'Italia::1st Combination classification::1st Stages 2, 7 & 9: 1st Paris–Roubaix: 1st La Flèche Wallonne: 1st Gent–Wevelgem: 1st 20px Overall Paris–Nice::1st 20px Points classification::1st Mountains classification::Winner Combativity award::1st Stages 3, 7b & 8b: 1st 20px Overall Tour of Belgium::1st 20px Points Classification::1st Stages 1b & 3b: 1st 20px Road race, National Road Championships: 1st GP Union Dortmund:1st Stage 1 Puy-de-Dôme: 1st 20px Overall Escalada a Montjuïc::1st Stage 2 (ITT): 1st Critérium des As:1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni: 1st 20px Overall À travers Lausanne::1st Stage 2:1st Sanary:1st Col San Martino:1st Lorient:1st Villafranca:1st Caen: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 Castelfranco:1st Chateaugiron:1st Bastia:1st Eeklo cyclo-cross (with Roger De Vlaeminck): 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International:2nd Overall Giro di Sardegna::1st Stages 2 & 5;1971 (Team Molteni):1st link=Rainbow jersey Road race, UCI Road World Championships: 1st 20px Overall Tour de France::1st 20px Points classification::1st 20px Combination classification::1st Stages 2, 13 (ITT), 17 & 20 (ITT): 1st Giro di Lombardia: 1st Milan–San Remo: 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège: 1st Omloop Het Volk: 1st 20px Overall Giro di Sardegna::1st Stages 1, 3 & 7: 1st 20px Overall Paris–Nice::1st Prologue, Stages 1, 2b (ITT) & 7b (ITT): 1st 20px Overall Tour of Belgium::1st 20px Points Classification::1st Stages 1 (ITT), 2 & 4: 1st Rund um den Henninger-Turm: 1st 20px Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré:: 1st Stages 1 (TTT), 2 & 7: 1st 20px Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre:: 1st Stages 1 & 2 : 1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore: 1st Stage 3 Cronostafetta: 1st Stadsprijs Geraardsbergen: 1st 20px Overall Escalada a Montjuïc::1st Stages 1 & 2: 1st LuK Challenge Chrono (with Herman Vanspringel): 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International: 1st Badia a Settimo: 1st Ghedi: 1st Trofeo Montorsi: 1st Cordenons;1972 (Team Molteni): 1st 20px Overall Tour de France::1st 20px Points classification::1st 20px Combination classification::1st Prologue, Stages 5b (ITT), 8, 13, 14a & 20a (ITT): 1st 20px Overall Giro d'Italia::1st Stages 12a (ITT), 14, 16 & 19b (ITT): Hour record 15px – 49.431 km: 1st Milan–San Remo: 1st La Flèche Wallonne: 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège: 1st Giro di Lombardia: 1st Brabantse Pijl: 1st Grand Prix de Momignies: 1st Scheldeprijs: 1st GP Union Dortmund: 1st Giro del Piemonte: 1st Giro del Mendrisio: 1st 20px Overall Escalada a Montjuïc::1st Stages 1 & 2: 1st Giro dell'Emilia: 1st 20px Overall À travers Lausanne::1st Stages 1a & 2a: 1st Trofeo Baracchi, with Roger Swerts: 1st Challenge Gan: 1st Castelfranco: 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International: 2nd Overall Paris–Nice::1st Prologue, Stages 2 & 6;1973 (Team Molteni): 1st 20px Overall Giro d'Italia::1st 20px Points classification::1st Combination classification::1st Prologue, Stages 1, 4, 8, 10 & 18: 1st 20px Overall Vuelta a España::1st 20px Points classification::1st 20px Combined classification::1st Sprints classification::1st Prologue, Stages 8, 10, 15b (ITT), 16 & 17b (ITT): 1st Paris–Roubaix: 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège: 1st Omloop Het Volk: 1st Gent–Wevelgem: 1st Amstel Gold Race: 1st Trofeo Laigueglia: 1st 20px Overall Giro di Sardegna::1st Stage 4: 1st Prologue Paris–Nice: 1st Ronde van Oost-Vlaanderen: 1st Stage 1 Cronostafetta: 1st Overall Grand Prix de Fourmies::1st Stage 1: 1st Paris–Brussels: 1st 20px Overall À travers Lausanne::1st Stages 1a & 2a: 1st Grand Prix des Nations: 1st Overall Course de côte de Montecampione: 1st Challenge Gan: 1st Monsummano: 1st Pavullo: 1st Nandrin: 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International;1974 (Team Molteni): 1st link=Rainbow jersey Road race, UCI Road World Championships: 1st 20px Overall Tour de France::1st 20px Combination classification::1st 20px Combativity award::1st Prologue, Stages 7, 9, 10, 15, 19b (ITT), 21a & 22: 1st 20px Overall Giro d'Italia::1st Stages 12 (ITT) & 21: 1st Trofeo Laigueglia:1st Prologue & Stage 1 Paris–Nice : 1st Grand Prix de Momignies: 1st 20px Overall Tour de Suisse::1st 20px Points classification::1st 20px Mountains classification::1st Prologue, Stages 3 & 11 (ITT): 1st Critérium des As: 1st 20px Overall Escalada a Montjuïc::1st Stages 1 & 2:1st GP Malderen: 1st Challenge Gan: 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International: 2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme:: 1st Points classification :: 1st Mountains classification;1975 (Team Molteni): 1st Milan–San Remo: 1st Tour of Flanders: 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège: 1st Amstel Gold Race: 1st 20px Overall Giro di Sardegna:: 1st Stage 2: 1st Classica Sarda: 1st 20px Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme:: 1st Stage 4: Tour de Romandie::1st 20px Points classification:: 1st Stages 1 & 6: 1st Boucles de l'Aulne: 1st Druivenkoers Overijse: 1st 20px Overall Escalada a Montjuïc::1st ITT & TTT with Lucien Van Impe: 1st Overall Super Prestige Pernod International:1st Sassari-Cagliari:1st Stuttgart-Böblingen: 2nd Overall Tour de France::1st 20px Combativity award::1st Stages 6 (ITT) & 9b (ITT): 2nd Overall Paris–Nice:: 1st Prologue & Stage 5: 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse:: 1st Stage 8;1976 (Team Molteni): 1st Milan–San Remo: 1st Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme:: 1st Prologue & Stage 4 (ITT): 1st Omloop Leiedal: 1st Prologue (TTT) Tour de Romandie: 1st Omloop van de Westkust-De Panne: 1st Ronde van West-Vlaanderen: 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico::1st 20px Mountains classification:: 1st Stage 2;1977 (Team Fiat): 1st 20px Overall Tour Méditerranéen: 1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice:1st Tour du Condroz: 1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse:4th Overall Tour de France:: 1st Stage 9 (TTT)====Grand Tour general classification and World Championships results====1965196619671968196919701971197219731974197519761977Tour de France DNE DNE DNE DNE 1 1 1 1 DNE 1 2 DNE 6Stages won — — — — 6 8 4 6 — 8 2 — 0Mountains classification — — — — 1 1 3 2 — 2 2 — 11Points classification — — — — 1 2 1 1 — 2 2 — 5Giro d'Italia DNE DNE 9 1 DSQ 1 DNE 1 1 1 DNE 8 DNEStages 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 a España DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE DNE 1 DNE DNE DNE DNEStages won — — — — — — — — 6 — — — —Mountains classification — — — — — — — — 2 — — — —Points classification — — — — — — — — 1 — — — —World Championship 29 12 1 8 DNF 29 1 4 4 1 8 5 33Source:====Monuments results timeline====Source:Monument196619671968196919701971197219731974197519761977 Milan–San Remo'''1''''''1''' 31'''1'''8'''1''''''1''' — —'''1''''''1''' 98 Tour of Flanders DNF'''3'''9'''1''''''3''' 767'''3''''''3''''''1''' 17 DNF Paris–Roubaix 158'''1''''''2''''''1'''57'''1'''4'''2'''6 11 Liège–Bastogne–Liège8'''2''' —'''1''''''3''''''1''''''1''''''1''' —'''1'''66 Giro di Lombardia'''2'''7'''3''' —4'''1''''''1''' DSQ'''2'''6 — —====Major stage race general classification results timeline====Source: Race196619671968196919701971197219731974197519761977 20px Giro di Sardegna — 28'''1''' —'''2''''''1''' 33'''1'''4'''1'''8 20  Paris–Nice410 DNF'''1''''''1''''''1''''''2''''''3''''''3''''''2''' — DNF 20px Tirreno–Adriatico — — — — — — — — — —'''2''' —  Tour of Belgium 11 — DNF — — ? — — 26 —   Grand Prix du Midi Libre 11 — — — —'''1''' — — — —'''3'''7   Tour de Romandie — —'''1''' — — — — — — 14'''3'''7  Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré — — — — —'''1''' — — —10 —8  Tour de Suisse — — — — — — — —'''1''''''2''' — 12+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish===Track===;1963: 1st   Madison, National Amateur Championships (with Patrick Sercu);1964: 1st   Madison, National Amateur Championships (with Patrick Sercu);1965: 1st   Madison, National Amateur Championships (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Rocourt Madison;1966: 1st  Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Roubaix Omnium: 1st Brussels Omnium (with Rik Van Looy and Edward Sels): 1st Antwerpen individual;1967: 1st  Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Gent Omnium (with Edward Sels & Rik Van Looy): 1st Aulnay-sous-Blois omnium (with Ferdinand Bracke): 1st Milan Omnium: 1st Ostende Madison (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Rocourt Madison (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Antwerpen Omnium: 1st Gent Omnium (with Daniel Van Ryckeghem): 1st Madrid Madison (with Jan Janssen): 1st Antwerpen Omnium (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Rocourt Omnium (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Ostende Omnium (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Brussels Omnium (24 October) (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Gent Omnium (1 November) (with Walter Godefroot): 1st Gent Omnium (7 November) (with Rik Van Steenbergen, Patrick Sercu, & Noël Van Clooster): 1st Brussels Omnium (15 November) (with Rik Van Steenbergen): 1st Lorient Omnium (Rudi Altig, Tom Simpson, & Howling): 1st Roubaix Omnium: 1st Ostende Omnium (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Gent Omnium (with Ferdinand Bracke);1968: 1st  Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Charleroi (with Ferdinand Bracke): 1st Antwerpen Omnium: 1st Gent Omnium (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Antwerpen Omnium (with Rik Van Looy): 1st Milan Omnium (with Vittorio Adorni): 1st Rocourt Omnium: 1st Ostende Omnium (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Ostende Omnium: 1st Rocourt Omnium: 1st Milan Omnium (with Rudi Altig, Lucien Aimar, & Jean Jourdan): 1st Rome Omnium (with Vittorio Adorni: 1st Milan Pursuit: 1st Milan Omnium (with Rudi Altig): 1st Gent Omnium (with Guido Reybrouck);1969: 1st 15px Madison, European Championships (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Gent Omnium (with Roger De Vlaeminck & Walter Godefroot): 1st Antwerpen Omnium: 1st Rome Omnium: 1st Ostende Omnium: 1st Antwerpen Omnium (with Jacques Anquetil, Rudi Altig & Harm Ottenbros): 1st Gent Omnium (with Julien Stevens): 1st Gand Omnium (with Roger De Vlaeminck): 1st Charleroi Omnium (with Ferdinand Bracke);1970: 1st Antwerpen Omnium (with Julien Stevens): 1st Charleroi Omnium: 1st Charleroi Madison (with Julien Stevens): 1st Grenoble Omnium: 1st Milan Omnium (with Jean-Pierre Monseré);1971: 1st Six Days of Milan (with Julien Stevens): 1st Vincennes Omnium;1972: 1st Gent Omnium (with Walter Godefroot and Patrick Sercu);1973: 1st  Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Dortmund (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Grenoble (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Oostende Omnium: 1st Gent Omnium;1974: 1st Six Days of Antwerp (with Patrick Sercu) : 1st Genève Omnium: 1st Luxembourg Omnium: 1st Rotterdam Omnium: 1st Madrid Omnium;1975: 1st 15px Omnium, European Championships: 1st  Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Antwerp (with Patrick Sercu) : 1st Six Days of Grenoble (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Genève Omnium: 1st Zürich Omnium: 1st Antwerp Omnium: 1st Valkenburg Omnium;1976: 1st  Madison, National Championships (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Antwerp (with Patrick Sercu) : 1st Six Days of Rotterdam (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Marseille Omnium: 1st Antwerp Omnium (with Rik Van Linden) : 1st Gent Omnium: 1st Vincennes Omnium;1977: 1st 15px Madison, European Championships (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Munich (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Zürich (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Ghent (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Maastricht (with Patrick Sercu): 1st Six Days of Berlin (with Patrick Sercu);1978: 1st Zürich Omnium (with Patrick Sercu)
Win rate time trial stage of the Giro d'Italia. San Marino, 6 June 1968In his best year, Merckx won almost every other race he rode. Merckx won the equivalent of a race a week for six years. This table shows his strike rate of wins as a percentage of races undertaken. Year  Races  Won  Percentage''1961''''14''''1''''7,7%''''1962''''55''''23''''41,8%''''1963''''78''''28''''35,9%''''1964''''74''''24''''32,4%''1965741317,6%1966952021,1%19671132623,0%19681293224,8%19691294333,3%19701385237,7%19711205445,0%19721275039,4%19731365137,5%19741403827,1%19751513825,2%19761111513,5%19771191714,3%1978500,0%Overall: 1808 races entered, 525 wins for a win rate of 29%.1961–1964: Amateur results. 5 of the 74 races in 1965 were as amateur, of which 4 were won.
Records === Road ===See Eddy Merckx Records Overview=== Track ===* 17 Six-day races, of which 15 with Patrick Sercu. * 3 European championships (Omnium: 1975 Madison: 1969, 1977)* 8 Belgian Madison championships with Patrick Sercu: 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1973, 1975 & 1976=== World record ===Merckx during his hour record attempt in Mexico City, 1972DisciplineRecordDateEventVelodromeHour record49.431 km25 October 1972—Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome, Mexico City
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