Chris Froome became Britain's first three-time winner of the Tour de France when he reached the finish line of the 21-stage race in Paris on Sunday.
The Team Sky rider, who won the 2013 and 2015 races, is the first man to defend his title in more than 20 years.
He finished arm-in-arm with his team-mates behind the peloton after Andre Greipel won the final sprint finish.
"It's an amazing feeling, it could be the first Tour all over again," Froome had said prior to the final stage.
Froome's three victories in four years follows Sir Bradley Wiggins becoming the first Briton to win the race in 2012.
He ended up beating Romain Bardet of France by more than three minutes with Colombia's Nairo Quintana in third and Britain's Adam Yates fourth.
The traditional final stage to Paris began with a processional ride from Chantilly, in northern France, with the winners of the four main jerseys leading the peloton.
Froome, in the yellow jersey, was joined by Yates in the white jersey as best young rider, Slovak Peter Sagan in the green points top and Poland's Rafal Majka in the polka dot king of the mountains jersey.
When the riders reached Paris the pace was increased for nine 6.8km laps of the city centre which culminated in a bunch sprint on the Champs-Elysees.
Froome joining the greats
He becomes just the eighth rider to win at least three Tours de France, joining Belgium's Phillipe Thys, Louison Bobet of France and American Greg LeMond on three.
With disgraced Lance Armstrong's seven 'wins' between 1999-2005 expunged from the record books after he admitted to doping, the record of five Tour wins, held jointly by Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault, Belgium's Eddy Merckz and Miguel Indurain of Spain, is very much in Froome's sight.
Indurain was the last man to successfully defend the title, winning five successive Tours from 1991.
"It would be my dream to keep coming back for the next five or six years and give myself the best opportunity of winning again," said Froome after finishing stage 20.
"I can't say the novelty is wearing off. It's such an incredible event and to be in the yellow jersey is every cyclist's dream and the biggest honour in our sport.
"I hope I can be back next year to fight for it again."
How did the other Brits get on?
Yates not only won the race for the best rider under the age of 25, he also finished fourth overall in only his second Tour.
The 23-year-old Orica BikeExchange rider impressed in the mountains and was second for six stages and third for six more before dropping to fourth on stage 19.
"I maintained the white jersey and I'm super happy with that," he said.
"The podium would have been nice but this is the Tour de France. It's only my second attempt. I'm happy with my performance and the team is too."
Mark Cavendish did not make it to Paris this year, abandoning the race to focus on his attempts to win an Olympic medal on the track in Rio next month.
Before he left though, the Dimension Data rider won an incredible four stages to move second overall on 30 - only Merckx has won more with 34.
His victory on stage one saw him wear the yellow jersey as race leader for the first time.
Steve Cummings, a team-mate of Cavendish, finished more than four hours adrift of Froome but won the second Tour stage of his career with a brilliant solo ride on stage seven.
His win was one of a record-equalling seven for British riders, matching the haul in 2012.
Sprinter Dan McLay surprised many with four top-10 finishes in the first week and although the Fortuneo - Vital Concept rider tired as the race wore on the 24-year-old made it to Paris on his Tour debut.
Team Sky trio Geraint Thomas, Luke Rowe and Ian Stannard all rode selflessly to help Froome win the race.
Thomas, who was one of the key riders in the mountains, gave up his bike when Froome crashed on stage 19, while Rowe and Stannard helped shelter their team leader on flatter stages.
He took the race lead after an unexpected attack on the descent into the finish at Bagneres de Luchon on stage eight and extended his lead with a similarly surprising attack in crosswinds with Sagan on stage 11.
However, his good work was nearly undone on the Bastille Day ascent of Mont Ventoux when he crashed into the back of rival Richie Porte, who had collided with a motorbike. With his own bike unusable and a replacement on his team car several minutes away, the race leader began running up the mountain.
After holding off the challenge of rivals Nairo Quintana, Bauke Mollema and Yates in the Swiss Alps on stage 17, Froome won the second individual time trial to build a commanding lead of almost four minutes.
Despite crashing on a treacherous descent on stage 19 and borrowing team-mate Geraint Thomas' bike to ride the final 12km to the finish, Froome managed to extend his overall lead and then defend it on the final stormy day in the Alps, setting up the processional ride in to Paris.
Who won the other jerseys?
World champion Sagan continued his domination of the points classification, which rewards consistently high finishes on each stage.
The Slovak won three stages, had five top-five finishes and won six intermediate sprints to win a fifth green jeresy and is now just one behind Germany's Erik Zabel, who won a record six from 1996.
Majka, who is a Tinkoff team-mate of Sagan, won the polka dot king of the mountains jersey for a second time, beating Thomas de Gendt by 79 points.
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