Chris Froome: Four-time Tour de France winner retires

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has ended his illustrious career in professional cycling.

The 41-year-old British driver has not raced since a serious crash in August 2025, when he collided head-on with a road sign at more than 30 miles per hour and suffered five broken ribs, a collapsed lung and fractured lumbar vertebrae.

Froome’s wife later said doctors discovered a pericardial rupture (an injury in which the sac surrounding the heart ruptures) during surgery and were able to repair it.

“Unfortunately there was an accident last summer, I didn’t want it to end that way. But even then I knew it was over,” Froome told Belgian broadcaster Sporza.

The Kenyan-born rider retired as one of the most decorated cyclists in history, winning seven Grand Tours with Team Sky (now Team Ineos).

The four Tour de France victories were achieved in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Only four men – Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain and Eddy Merckx – have won more Tour de France titles.

He also won the Giro d’Italia in 2018, the Vuelta a Espana in 2011 and 2017, and has two Olympic bronze medals in the individual time trial in 2012 and 2016.

Froome was awarded the OBE title in 2015 for his services to cycling.