Favorite rider from each country

[YavorD]

It's Perserton

Ooh, too much interaction with Ilmaestro

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Belgium: Tom Boonen
Denmark: Since I can't put RHD here, perhaps Asgreen
Italy: Sonny Colbrelli
Slovenia: Matej Mohoric
Great Britain: G
France: Julien Fouchard
Netherlands: MVDP because he's the most non-Dutch of em all
Australia: Robbie McEwen
United States: Quinn Simmons
Spain: Erviti/Mikel Landa
Portugal: No clue, Eulalio by lack of better riders
Norway: Christian Odd Eiking
Germany: Kittel
Switzerland: Dillier
Colombia: Daniel Jaramillo
Mexico: I only know one and I don't like his team..
Ecuador: Carapaz
Ireland: Sean Kelly
New Zealand: Bauer Jack
Austria: Gehard Schonbarcher/Michael Gogl (can't choose)
Eritrea: Veni Vidi Bini
Czech Republic: Stybar
Canada: Vallieres
Poland: Jaskula
Venezuela: Aular
Uruguay: Fabricio Ferrari
Slovakia: Juraj Sagan
Estonia: Kirisipuu
Latvia: Skuijns
Kazakhstan: Vino

FINLAND: VEIKKANEN
LITHUANIA: NAVARDAUSKAS
LUXEMBURG: JEMPY DRUCKER
SWEDEN: GOSTA PETTERSON

(added a few of my own)

Two of my podium guys sadly don't make it here: Lampaert and Vanmarcke

 

[Pantani_lives]

I'll do it in three parts: active male/retired male/female

• Belgium: Remco Evenepoel/Eddy Planckaert/Lotte Kopecky
• Denmark: Mads Pedersen/Michael Rasmussen/Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
• Italy: Filippo Ganna/Marco Pantani/Elisa Balsamo
• Slovenia: Tadej Pogačar/Tadej Valjavec/Urška Žigart
• Great Britain: Tom Pidcock/Robert Millar/Zoe Bäckstedt
• France: Paul Seixas/Bernard Hinault/Juliette Labous
• Netherlands: Mathieu van der Poel/Joop Zoetemelk/Puck Pieterse
• Australia: Ben O'Connor/Phil Anderson/Grace Brown
• United States: Neilson Powless/Greg LeMond/Chloé Dygert
• Spain: Juan Ayuso/Pedro Delgado/Joane Somarriba
• Portugal: João Almeida/Joaquim Agostinho
• Norway: Alexander Kristoff/Thor Hushovd
• Germany: Florian Lipowitz/Jan Ullrich/Hanka Kupfernagel
• Switzerland: Stefan Küng/Fabian Cancellara/Marlen Reusser
• Colombia: Nairo Quintana/Luis Herrera
• Mexico: Isaac del Toro/Raul Alcala
• Ecuador: Richard Carapaz
• Ireland: Ben Healy/Sean Kelly
• New Zealand: George Bennett
• Austria: Felix Gall/Bernhard Eisel
• Eritrea: Biniam Girmay
• Czech Republic: Mathias Vacek/Zdeněk Štybar
• Canada: Michael Woods/Ryder Hesjedal/Isabella Holmgren
• Poland: Michał Kwiatkowski/Zenon Jaskuła/Katarzyna Niewiadoma
• Venezuela: José Rujano
• Slovakia: Peter Sagan
• Estonia: Jaan Kirsipuu
• Latvia: Toms Skujiņš/Romans Vainsteins
• Kazakhstan: Alexander Vinokourov

 

[Roku]

Belgium: Laurenz Rex
Denmark: Claus Michael Moller
Italy: Marco Pantani
Slovenia: Tadej Pogacar aka GOAT
Great Britain: Geraint Thomas
France: Patrice Halgand
Netherlands: Tom Dumoulin
Australia: Evans
United States: Lance Armstrong
Spain: Valverde
Norway: Thor Hushovd
Germany: Eric Zabel
Switzerland: Aebersold / Zberg brothers / Camenzind (Edit: Forgot about Cancellara....)
Ireland: Nico Roche
Austria: Georg Totschning
Czech Republic: Jan Hirt
Poland: Majka
Slovakia: Peter Sagan
Estonia: Madis Mihkels
Latvia: Skuijns / Neilandts / Arvis Piziks
Kazakhstan: Vino
FINLAND: Veikkanen
SWEDEN: Larsson
Russia: Menchov / Tonkov / Gusev

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Let's see how many I can manage. Some of these may be changed in time, as a lot was done off the top of my head.

Afghanistan: Fariba Hashimi
Albania: Ylber Sefa
Algeria: Yacine Hamza
Andorra: Gina del Rio (XC skiing representing!!!)
Angola: Igor Silva
Antigua and Barbuda: Tamiko Butler
Argentina: Eduardo Sepúlveda
Armenia: Stepan Grigoryan
Australia: Neve Bradbury
Austria: Mika Vermeulen (NoCo representing!!!)
Azerbaijan: Maksim Averin (sons of Peace Race winners representing!!!)
Bahamas: Liam Holowesko
Bahrain: Ahmed Madan
Bangladesh: ?
Barbados: Amber Joseph
Belarus: Stanislau Bazhkou (husbands of biathletes representing!!!)
Belgium: Lucien van Impe
Belize: Derrick Chavarria
Benin: ?
Bermuda: Kaden Hopkins
Bhutan: ?
Bolivia: Óscar Soliz
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Seid Lizde
Botswana: ?
Brazil: "Tota" Magalhães
Brunei: ?
Bulgaria: Nencho Staykov (Peace Race heroes representing!!!)
Burkina Faso: Paul Daumont
Burundi: ?
Cambodia: ?
Cameroon: Michel Boris Tientcheu
Canada: Olivia Baril
Cabo Verde: Patrick Cruz
Central African Republic: ?
Chad: ?
Chile: Arantza Villalón
China: Lü Xianjing
Colombia: Nairo Quintana
Comoros: ?
DR Congo: ?
R Congo: ?
Costa Rica: Kevin Rivera
Côte d'Ivoire: Issiaka Cisse
Croatia: Mia Radotić
Cyprus: Antri Christoforou
Czechia: Jiří Škoda
Denmark: Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
Djibouti: ?
Dominica: ?
Dominican Republic: Steven Polanco
Ecuador: Richard Carapaz
Egypt: ?
El Salvador: Evelyn García
Equatorial Guinea: ?
Eritrea: Merhawi Kudus
Estonia: Aavo Pikkuus
Eswatini: ?
Ethiopia: Mulu Kinfe Hailemichael
Fiji: ?
Finland: Lotta Lepistö/Henttala
France: Pierrick Fédrigo
Gabon: Géoffroy Ngandamba
The Gambia: ?
Georgia: Omar Pkhakadze
Germany: Claudia Häusler/Lichtenberg
Ghana: ?
Greece: Georgios Bouglas
Grenada: Red Walters
Guatemala: Juan Mardóqueo Vásquez
Guinea: ?
Guinea-Bissau: ?
Guyana: ?
Haïti: ?
Honduras: Luís Fernando López
Hong Kong: Cheung King-Lok
Hungary: Blanka Kata Vas
Iceland: Hafsteinn Ægir Geirsson
India: ?
Indonesia: Jamal Hibatullah
Iran: Mirsamad Pourseyedi
Iraq: ?
Ireland: Séan Kelly
Israel: Omer Shapiro
Italy: Gino Bartali
Jamaica: ?
Japan: Mayuko Hagiwara
Jordan: ?
Kazakhstan: Andrey Kashechkin
Kenya: Suleiman Kangangi
Kiribati: ?
Kuwait: ?
Kyrgyzstan: Eugen Wacker
Laos: Alex Ariya Phounsavath
Latvia: Krists Neilands
Lebanon: ?
Lesotho: ?
Liberia: ?
Libya: Mohamed Ali Ahmed
Liechtenstein: Daniel Rinner
Lithuania: Edita Pučinskaitė
Luxembourg: Charly Gaul
Macau: ?
Madagascar: ?
Malawi: ?
Malaysia: Azizulhasni Awang
Maldives: ?
Mali: Yaya Diallo
Malta: Andréa Mifsud
Mauritania: ?
Mauritius: Kimberley Le Court
Mexico: Edgar Cadena
Micronesia: ?
Moldova: Alexandre Pliușchin
Monaco: Victor Langelotti
Mongolia: Jambaljamts Sainbayar
Montenegro: Aleksandar Radunović
Morocco: Adil Jelloul
Mozambique: ?
Myanmar: ?
Namibia: Dan Craven
Nauru: ?
Nepal: ?
Netherlands: Demi Vollering
Netherlands Antilles / Curação: Marc de Maar
New Zealand: Mikayla Harvey
Nicaragua: Argenis de la Concepción Vanegas
Niger: ?
Nigeria: Ese Ukpeseraye
North Korea: ?
North Macedonia: Stefan Petrovski
Norway: Jørgen Nordhagen
Oman: ?
Pakistan: ?
Palau: ?
Palestine: ?
Panama: Christofer Robin Jurado
Papua New Guinea: ?
Paraguay: Agua Marina Espiñola
Peru: Royner Navarro
Philippines: Ronald Lomotos
Poland: Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney
Portugal: Hernâni Brôco
Puerto Rico: Abner González
Qatar: ?
Romania: Ana Maria Covrig
Russia: Sergey Sukhoruchenkov
Rwanda: Joseph Areruya
St Kitts and Nevis: Kathryn Bertine
St Lucia: ?
St Vincent and the Grenadines: ?
Samoa: ?
San Marino: Daniela Veronesi
São Tomé and Principe: ?
Saudi Arabia: Hani al-Marhoon
Senegal: ?
Serbia: Jelena Erić
Seychelles: ?
Sierra Leone: ?
Singapore: Chelsie Tan Wei-Shi
Slovakia: Milan Jurčo (senior)
Slovenia: Primož Čerin
Solomon Islands: ?
Somalia: ?
South Africa: Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio
South Korea: Gong Hyo-Suk
South Sudan: ?
Spain: José Manuel Fuente
Sri Lanka: ?
Sudan: ?
Suriname: ?
Sweden: Emma Johansson
Switzerland: Alex Zülle
Syria: Osama Sbahi
Taiwan: Huang Ting-Ying
Tajikistan: ?
Tanzania: ?
Thailand: Jutatip Maneephan
Timor-Leste: ?
Togo: ?
Tonga: ?
Trinidad and Tobago: Teniel Campbell
Tunisia: Rafâa Chtioui
Turkey: Ahmet Örken
Turkmenistan: Gennady Lebedev
Tuvalu: ?
Uganda: Jordan Schleck Ssekanwagi
Ukraine: Tetyana Riabchenko
UAE: Safia Alsayegh
UK: Emma Pooley
USA: Katie Hall
Uruguay: Thomas Silva
Uzbekistan: Shakhid Zagretdinov
Vanuatu: ?
Vatican City: Rien Schuurhuis
Venezuela: Lilibeth Chacón
Vietnam: Trần Tuấn Kiệt
Yemen: ?
Zambia: ?
Zimbabwe: Timothy Jones

 

[ingsve]

I'll stick to current riders.

Belgium: Jarno Widar
Denmark: Magnus Cort
Italy: Filippo Ganna
Slovenia: Jakob Omrzel
Great Britain: Zoe Bäckstedt
France: Paul Seixas
Netherlands: Thymen Arensman
Australia: Michael Storer
United States: Quinn Simmons
Spain: Carlos Rodriguez
Portugal: Antonio Morgado
Norway: Jörgen Nordhagen
Germany: Florian Lipowitz
Switzerland: Mauro Schmid
Colombia: Egan Bernal
Mexico: Isaac Del toro
Ecuador: Richard Carapaz
Ireland: Ben Healy
New Zealand: Laurence Pithie
Austria: Felix Gall
Eritrea: Biniam Girmay
Czech Republic: Mathias Vacek
Canada: Derek Gee
Poland: Rafal Majka
Venezuela: Orluis Aular
Uruguay: Antonio Fagundez
Slovakia: Lukas Kubis
Estonia: Rein Taaramäe
Latvia: Toms Skujins
Kazakhstan: Alexey Lutsenko
Sweden: Jakob Söderqvist

 

[memyselfandI]

Well..

Belgium: Tommeke
Denmark: Chris Anker Sørensen
Italy: Scarponi
Slovenia: Roglič
Great Britain: Cav
France: Alaphilippe
Netherlands: MVDP
Australia: Stuey O'Grady
United States: Chris Horner
Spain: El Gato
Portugal: Almeida
Norway: Boasson Hagen
Germany: Jensie
Switzerland: Nino Schürter
Colombia: Rigo
Mexico: Del Toro
Ecuador: Carapaz
Ireland: Kelly
New Zealand: Henderson
Austria: Eisel
Eritrea: Bini
Czech Republic: Vakoč
Canada: Hesjedal
Poland: Kwiato
Venezuela: Aular
Uruguay: ?
Slovakia: Sagan
Estonia: Kirsipuu
Latvia: Skujins
Kazakhstan: Vino

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Let's see how many I can manage. Some of these may be changed in time, as a lot was done off the top of my head.

Afghanistan: Fariba Hashimi
Albania: Ylber Sefa
Algeria: Yacine Hamza
Andorra: Gina del Rio (XC skiing representing!!!)
Angola: Igor Silva
Antigua and Barbuda: Tamiko Butler
Argentina: Eduardo Sepúlveda
Armenia: Stepan Grigoryan
Australia: Neve Bradbury
Austria: Mika Vermeulen (NoCo representing!!!)
Azerbaijan: Maksim Averin (sons of Peace Race winners representing!!!)
Bahamas: Liam Holowesko
Bahrain: Ahmed Madan
Bangladesh: ?
Barbados: Amber Joseph
Belarus: Stanislau Bazhkou (husbands of biathletes representing!!!)
Belgium: Lucien van Impe
Belize: Derrick Chavarria
Benin: ?
Bermuda: Kaden Hopkins
Bhutan: ?
Bolivia: Óscar Soliz
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Seid Lizde
Botswana: ?
Brazil: "Tota" Magalhães
Brunei: ?
Bulgaria: Nencho Staykov (Peace Race heroes representing!!!)
Burkina Faso: Paul Daumont
Burundi: ?
Cambodia: ?
Cameroon: Michel Boris Tientcheu
Canada: Olivia Baril
Cabo Verde: Patrick Cruz
Central African Republic: ?
Chad: ?
Chile: Arantza Villalón
China: Lü Xianjing
Colombia: Nairo Quintana
Comoros: ?
DR Congo: ?
R Congo: ?
Costa Rica: Kevin Rivera
Côte d'Ivoire: Issiaka Cisse
Croatia: Mia Radotić
Cyprus: Antri Christoforou
Czechia: Jiří Škoda
Denmark: Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
Djibouti: ?
Dominica: ?
Dominican Republic: Steven Polanco
Ecuador: Richard Carapaz
Egypt: ?
El Salvador: Evelyn García
Equatorial Guinea: ?
Eritrea: Merhawi Kudus
Estonia: Aavo Pikkuus
Eswatini: ?
Ethiopia: Mulu Kinfe Hailemichael
Fiji: ?
Finland: Lotta Lepistö/Henttala
France: Pierrick Fédrigo
Gabon: Géoffroy Ngandamba
The Gambia: ?
Georgia: Omar Pkhakadze
Germany: Claudia Häusler/Lichtenberg
Ghana: ?
Greece: Georgios Bouglas
Grenada: Red Walters
Guatemala: Juan Mardóqueo Vásquez
Guinea: ?
Guinea-Bissau: ?
Guyana: ?
Haïti: ?
Honduras: Luís Fernando López
Hong Kong: Cheung King-Lok
Hungary: Blanka Kata Vas
Iceland: Hafsteinn Ægir Geirsson
India: ?
Indonesia: Jamal Hibatullah
Iran: Mirsamad Pourseyedi
Iraq: ?
Ireland: Séan Kelly
Israel: Omer Shapiro
Italy: Gino Bartali
Jamaica: ?
Japan: Mayuko Hagiwara
Jordan: ?
Kazakhstan: Andrey Kashechkin
Kenya: Suleiman Kangangi
Kiribati: ?
Kuwait: ?
Kyrgyzstan: Eugen Wacker
Laos: Alex Ariya Phounsavath
Latvia: Krists Neilands
Lebanon: ?
Lesotho: ?
Liberia: ?
Libya: Mohamed Ali Ahmed
Liechtenstein: Daniel Rinner
Lithuania: Edita Pučinskaitė
Luxembourg: Charly Gaul
Macau: ?
Madagascar: ?
Malawi: ?
Malaysia: Azizulhasni Awang
Maldives: ?
Mali: Yaya Diallo
Malta: Andréa Mifsud
Mauritania: ?
Mauritius: Kimberley Le Court
Mexico: Edgar Cadena
Micronesia: ?
Moldova: Alexandre Pliușchin
Monaco: Victor Langelotti
Mongolia: Jambaljamts Sainbayar
Montenegro: Aleksandar Radunović
Morocco: Adil Jelloul
Mozambique: ?
Myanmar: ?
Namibia: Dan Craven
Nauru: ?
Nepal: ?
Netherlands: Demi Vollering
Netherlands Antilles / Curação: Marc de Maar
New Zealand: Mikayla Harvey
Nicaragua: Argenis de la Concepción Vanegas
Niger: ?
Nigeria: Ese Ukpeseraye
North Korea: ?
North Macedonia: Stefan Petrovski
Norway: Jørgen Nordhagen
Oman: ?
Pakistan: ?
Palau: ?
Palestine: ?
Panama: Christofer Robin Jurado
Papua New Guinea: ?
Paraguay: Agua Marina Espiñola
Peru: Royner Navarro
Philippines: Ronald Lomotos
Poland: Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney
Portugal: Hernâni Brôco
Puerto Rico: Abner González
Qatar: ?
Romania: Ana Maria Covrig
Russia: Sergey Sukhoruchenkov
Rwanda: Joseph Areruya
St Kitts and Nevis: Kathryn Bertine
St Lucia: ?
St Vincent and the Grenadines: ?
Samoa: ?
San Marino: Daniela Veronesi
São Tomé and Principe: ?
Saudi Arabia: Hani al-Marhoon
Senegal: ?
Serbia: Jelena Erić
Seychelles: ?
Sierra Leone: ?
Singapore: Chelsie Tan Wei-Shi
Slovakia: Milan Jurčo (senior)
Slovenia: Primož Čerin
Solomon Islands: ?
Somalia: ?
South Africa: Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio
South Korea: Gong Hyo-Suk
South Sudan: ?
Spain: José Manuel Fuente
Sri Lanka: ?
Sudan: ?
Suriname: ?
Sweden: Emma Johansson
Switzerland: Alex Zülle
Syria: Osama Sbahi
Taiwan: Huang Ting-Ying
Tajikistan: ?
Tanzania: ?
Thailand: Jutatip Maneephan
Timor-Leste: ?
Togo: ?
Tonga: ?
Trinidad and Tobago: Teniel Campbell
Tunisia: Rafâa Chtioui
Turkey: Ahmet Örken
Turkmenistan: Gennady Lebedev
Tuvalu: ?
Uganda: Jordan Schleck Ssekanwagi
Ukraine: Tetyana Riabchenko
UAE: Safia Alsayegh
UK: Emma Pooley
USA: Katie Hall
Uruguay: Thomas Silva
Uzbekistan: Shakhid Zagretdinov
Vanuatu: ?
Vatican City: Rien Schuurhuis
Venezuela: Lilibeth Chacón
Vietnam: Trần Tuấn Kiệt
Yemen: ?
Zambia: ?
Zimbabwe: Timothy Jones

I don't agree with all your choices, but I can from memory add Ebtissam Zayed as a possible Egyptian option.

I feel like I wouldn't be the only one who would appreciate seeing a list of your least favourite riders from each nation.