Eddy Merckx achieved 34 individual stage wins in the Tour de France.
The Belgian champion collected those victories across six of his seven Tour participations, from 1969 through 1975. He won the race’s general classification five times—in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1974—and his stage total reflects his unusual range: he could win sprints, mountain finishes, and time trials.
Merckx’s total is sometimes confused with his 64 individual stage victories across all three Grand Tours: 34 in the Tour de France, 24 in the Giro d’Italia, and 6 in the Vuelta a España. Team time-trial stages are also counted separately in some career summaries, which can create different-looking totals.
His dominance was especially clear in 1970, when he won eight Tour stages, a record he shared with Charles Pélissier and Freddy Maertens. Merckx also won the points and mountains classifications in the 1969 Tour, making him the only rider to take the general, points, and mountains titles in the same edition.