Yellow Jersey Statistics after Stage Seven

Rank	Rider	Country	Yellow Jerseys	Years Rider Wore Yellow
1st	Eddy Merckx	Belgium	96	1969, 1970, 71, ’72, ’73, ’74, ‘75
2nd	Lance Armstrong	United States	83	1999, 2000, ’01, ’02, ’03, ’04, ‘05
3rd	Bernard Hinault	France	75	1978, ‘79, 1980, ’81, ’82, ’84, ’85, ‘86
4th	Miguel Indurain	Spain	60	1991, ’92, ’93, ’94, ‘95
5th	Jacques Anquetil	France	50	1957, 1961, ’62, ’63, ’64,
6th	Antonin Magne	France	38	1931, ‘34
7th	Philippe Thys	Belgium	37	1913, ’14, 1920
=7th	Nicolas Frantz	Luxembourg	37	1927, ’28, ‘29
9	André Leducq	France	35	1929, 1930, ’32, ‘38
10th	Ottavio Bottecchia	Italy	34	1923, ’24, ‘25
=10th	Louison Bobet	France	34	1948, 1953, ’54, ‘55
12th	Fabian Cancellara	Switzerland	28	2004, ’07, ’09, 2010, 2012
=13th	Sylvére Maes	Belgium	26	1936, ’37, ‘39
=13th	René Vietto	France	26	1939, 1947
15th	François Faber	Luxembourg	25	1909, 1910, 1911

Note: Riders italicised are currently still active. Years in bold indicate when the rider won the overall classification.

Bradley Wiggins becomes the fifth rider from the United Kingdom to pull on the yellow jersey following Stage Seven to La Planche des Belles Filles. Wiggins holds a 10 second lead over second place Australian Cadel Evans. Evans has been in the yellow jersey for 8 days in three different editions of the race and depending on results across Stages Eight and Nine he could slip into yellow for a few more days. However Wiggins prowess in time trials could see him leap to second of British riders to wear yellow behind Chris Boardman who wore yellow in 1994, 1997 and 1998.