Four Tour de France titles — and the crash that left him with 80 injuries but only temporarily stopped him.
Christopher Clive Froome was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985. He moved to Britain as a teenager to pursue his cycling career. He won four Tour de France titles and became the most dominant Grand Tour rider of the 2010s. In June 2019 he suffered a catastrophic crash during a Critérium du Dauphiné recon ride — fracturing his sternum, ribs, right femur and hip, shattering his elbow and rupturing his lungs. He lost 1.7 litres of blood in surgery. He returned to professional cycling in 2021. He tested positive for salbutamol at the 2017 Vuelta a España — the case was later closed with no adverse finding, but generated significant debate.
Tour de France 4x (2013,2015,2016,2017)
Career Honours
- Tour de France 4x (2013,2015,2016,2017)
- Giro d'Italia 2018
- Vuelta a España 2011