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Fabiana Luperini won 4 tours of Italy and 3 tours of France back to back. It's a record that still stands today, but Luperini went on to win another tour of Italy in 2008. It's been 13 years since here first Giro win in 1995. Only Gino Bartali has won two grand tours that span 10 years apart or greater. Also she has won many of the classics and is considered to be possibly the greatest climber in history. She won the Giro Del Trentino 5 times and Fleche Wallonne three times, and those records also remain unbroken. She won Tour De Aude in 1998, won the nationals in 1996 and 2004, which was perhaps her most spectacular victory where she broke away from the pack, and stayed away the entire race with a solo win in front of her hometown crowd.