Spain's Alberto Contador won the 2010 Tour de France as the three-week race ended Sunday on the Champs Elysees in Paris, dpa reported.
Contador edged out Andy Schleck of Luxembourg by only 39 seconds, one of the slimmest winning margins in Tour history, to grab the third Tour title of his career.
The championship was decided in Saturday's 52-km individual time trial from Bordeaux to Pauillac, in which the 27-year-old Spaniard beat his younger rival by 31 seconds.
Sunday's stage, 102.5 km from Longjumeau to the French capital, was basically a leisurely victory parade during which Contador sipped champagne and accepted the congratulations of the public.
Contador becomes one of the few riders to have won a Tour de France without winning a single stage.
He might have won Thursday's 17th stage, the final race in the Pyrenees Mountains, but he appeared to ease up and let Schleck score the victory after the two dueled for much of the 19.9-km climb to the Col du Tourmalet.
This gesture was generally regarded as Contador's apology for breaking an unwritten rule of the Tour two days earlier, when he raced ahead on the final climb of the 15th stage after the chain of Schleck's bicycle popped out of the derailleur.
Contador gained 39 seconds on his rival that day, the exact margin of his victory.
Sunday's stage included nine circuits of the Champs Elysees, and ended in a mass sprint to the finish on the fabled avenue. It was won by Mark Cavendish, his fifth stage win of this year's Tour and the 15th of his career.
The stage was also the final competitive appearance of seven-time winner Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France. After suffering an improbable series of mishaps he finished in 23rd place, nearly 40 minutes behind Contador.
The race started late because Armstrong and his Radio Shack teammates were forced by Tour officials to change their jerseys. They had donned new jerseys bearing the number 28, representing the 28 million people around the world afflicted with cancer.
Since surviving the disease, the 38-year-old Armstrong has run a foundation, Livestrong, to aid cancer research and care.