Question doesn't make sense, as the winner doesn't finish last.
It used to be that the RIDER who finished last - but still remained in the race - was called "the red lantern". This was a reference to the red lamp hung at the last car of a train.
However, eventually the attention this brought became attractive by itself, and riders began to compete about that too, which the race organizers didn't like, and stopped the tradition.
France
Carlos Sastre was overall winner for Tour de France 2008.
Faustian coppi
Lowest score (either nett or gross), then if players are tied, better last 9, better last 6, better last 3, then 2 and 1. Whether the competition is nett or gross that is how the winner is decided in the better finish rule.
Whoever comes in last will receive the Red Lantern Award.
As the tournament was the 5 nations prior to this the actual first 6 nations winner was England in the year 2000. Scotland hold the title of the winner of the last 5 nations tournament.
St Etienne, with 10 titles (last in 1981). Lyon's seven-in-a-row puts them joint fourth with Monaco, one behind Marseille and Nantes.
71 signed up to take part, but only 60 started the race. 21 were sponsored, the rest private. 21 completed the course - the winner was Maurice Garin and le lanterne rouge (the last rider to finish) was Arsene Millocheau.
The 1990 winner was West Germany, 1994 was Brazil, 1998 was France, 2002 was Brazil, 2006 was Italy.
Last year's Winner gets to start in the yellow jersey, if he is doing the race.
Spain is the winner of last worldcup.
The last Lanterne Rouge winner to win a Tour stage was Jacky Durand, LR winner in 1999, although he won Stage 8 the previous year in 1998.