Briton Chris Froome solidified his status as one of the best Tour de France riders when he secured his third title on Sunday following a three-week rough ride.
Germany's Andre Greipel won the 21st and last stage, a 113-km ride from Chantilly finishing on the Champs Elysees in Paris.
The Team Sky rider survived two crashes and even a run up a mountain street to add to his 2013 and 2015 triumphs to wind up the main rider to hold his title following Miguel Indurain in 1995.
American Lance Armstrong won seven titles in progression from 1999 yet was eradicated from the victors' rundown in the wake of confessing to doping.
Frenchman Romain Bardet completed second generally speaking in front of Colombian Nairo Quintana.
Shaft Rafal Majka won the spotted pullover for the mountain grouping and his Tinkoff fellow team member, best on the planet Peter Sagan, secured a fifth green shirt for the focuses order.
Sagan, who won three phases, was additionally voted the most forceful rider in the three-week race while Adam Yates demonstrated Britain was brimming with assets, winding up fourth by and large and winning the white shirt for the best Under-25 rider.
Another Briton, Mark Cavendish, additionally guaranteed four phases however he hauled out of the race on the second rest day to get ready for the Olympics, where he will contend on the track.
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