Vincenzo Nibali won the 101st edition of the Tour de France as he finished the final stage on the Champs-Elysées in Paris safely in the peloton, reports BBC News.
The Italian is the sixth man to win all three Grand Tours - the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España.
His winning margin of seven minutes 37 seconds over Jean-Christophe Peraud in second is the biggest since Jan Ullrich won by more than nine minutes in 1997.
Germany's Marcel Kittel won Sunday's traditional final-stage sprint finish.
The Giant-Shimano rider outsprinted Norway's Alexander Kristoff to win his fourth stage of this year's Tour, with Garmin-Sharp's Lithuanian Ramunas Navardauskas in third.
For Nibali, the 21st and final stage was all about reaching the finish safely because Tour tradition dictates that the leader going into the final stage should not be challenged.
The 29-year-old Astana rider dominated the Tour from the moment he took the race lead on stage two in Sheffield and wore the race leader's yellow jersey for 18 of the race's 21 days.
He is the first Italian winner of the race since Marco Pantani in 1998.
"It's very difficult to make a comparison between Pantani's victory and my victory, because Marco won his in the last week, two days before the end," the Sicilian said.
"For me it's the contrary - I had the yellow jersey on my back after two days."
"After winning the Vuelta, the Giro and the Tour, I'll keep focusing on Grand Tours but I'd also like to crown it all with a world champion's rainbow jersey one year."
He added: "The Vuelta was perhaps the most important competition because it gave me the strength to go into the Giro and the Tour in the following year.
"The Giro was an important competition for the Italian public. Within the context of the Tour de France it's something even greater than the Giro. It's a more emotional, intense moment."
Read more of this report from BBC News.