Young rider classification the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia. The Vuelta a España introduced an award for the best young rider in its 2017 edition, although the awardee did not wear a white jersey, but a red number bib instead. The Tour/Giro double has been achieved by two riders: The Giro/Vuelta double has been achieved by one rider: Young rider classification Young rider classification () is a cycling jersey competition in multi-day stage race events, such as the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and many others, which awards the current leader by overall time for riders below the age of twenty-five
1997 Tour de France lead the classification, and was identified with a polkadot jersey. The fourth individual classification was the young rider classification, which was not marked by a jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders under 26 years were eligible. For the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. After Ullrich's domination of the 1997 Tour de France at his young age, it was believed that Ullrich would dominate the Tour de France for the next