Nine jerseys

In the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuetla a España, there have been many different classifications. In the end, they converged to more or less the same system: a general classsification (G), a points classification (P) and a mountains classification (M).

Below is a ranking of the leaders of all these nine classifications. On top is, as expected, Eddy Merckx. Added together, he was leader of these classifications for 372 stages. Sometime he led multiple simultaneously; in those cases the classifications still count separately in my overview. I counted the years in which the classifications were used without jersey. I did not use years in which the classification was not held, but theoretically I could calculate who would have been leader.

There is no rider who has led all three classifications in all three Grand Tours. Two riders only miss a single classification:

• Eddy Merckx, who never led the mountain classification in the Vuelta.
• Laurent Jalabert, who never led the mountain classification in the Giro.

Six riders only miss two classifications:

• Toni Rominger, who never led the general classification and points classification in the Tour.
• Francesco Moser, who never led the mountain classification in the Tour and Vuelta.
• Miguel Indurain, who never led the points classification and mountain classification in the Vuelta.
• Alex Zülle, who never led the mountain classification in the Tour and het points classification in de Giro.
• David Millar, who never led the points classification and mountain classification in the Giro.
• Thierry Marie, who never led the points classification and mountain classification in the Giro.