Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France Stage Wins

Below is a list of stages that Armstrong won at the Tour over the seven years he won the GC with the second place rider on the stage in italics.There is also the TTT he won with Astana in 2009. Jan Ullrich, Alex Zülle and Ivan Basso would be the cyclists who would benefit the most from the results being reassigned to the second place getter however all three have been implicated in doping. 

In 1998 Alex Zülle admitted to using EPO to satisfy his sponsors and was back in the Tour the very next year where he was runner up overall to Lance Armstrong as well as finishing behind the American in his four stage wins. Ulrich is a similar story as CAS has retroactively annulled his results from 2005 which included his podium finish in Paris. Armstrong’s dominance over this seven year period is reflected in his 23 stage wins and 83 days in yellow. To work out who should have worn yellow in place of Armstrong would be incredibly difficult and if ceremonies were to take place so that the cyclists robbed of wearing yellow on the road could have a memento, it would be expensive and time consuming so say the very least. There may not be any riders who would want such a memento and as several teams have since disappeared since the Armstrong era, even the reproduction of team jersey on the maillot juane would be fraught. 

Note: not all second place results reflect clean riders and is therefore why the ASO is keen on drawing a black line through 1999-2005. In some cases they would need to reassign stage victories to 3rd place or lower as well as classification jerseys.

1999
Prologue Alex Zülle
Stage 8 (ITT) Alex Zülle
Stage 9 Alex Zülle
Stage 19 (ITT) Alex Zülle

2000
Stage 19 (ITT) Jan Ullrich

2001
Stage 10 Jan Ullrich 
Stage 11 (ITT) Jan Ullrich 
Stage 13 Jan Ullrich
Stage 18 (ITT) Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano 

2002
Prologue Laurent Jalabert 
Stage 11 Joseba Beloki 
Stage 12 Roberto Heras
Stage 19 Raimondas Rumšas

2003
Stage 4 (TTT) ONCE-Eroski 
Stage 15 Iban Mayo 

2004
Stage 4 (TTT) Phonak
Stage 13 Ivan Basso
Stage 15 Ivan Basso
Stage 16 (ITT) Jan Ullrich 
Stage 17 Andreas Klöden 
Stage 19 (ITT) Jan Ullrich 

2005 (Discovery Channel)
Stage 4 (TTT) Team CSC 
Stage 20 (ITT) Jan Ullrich

2009 (Astana)

Stage 4 (TTT) Garmin-Slipstream