Former world champions in the Tour this year.

[ingsve]

The post about national champion bands on jersey sleeves made me think of the rainbow bands that former world champions are allowed to wear and that in the past at least you saw them on a lot of riders who had won junior/U-23/MTB/track worlds etc. I'm not sure if the rules have changed or not but you don't see that as much anymore.

Edit: The rules have been changed and you are now only allowed to wear the bands during the type of event you won the world championship for.

I'm wonder how many riders in the current Tour peloton is a former world champion in any cycling event and would thus be allowed to wear a rainbow stripe on their sleeve if the old rules still applied.

Here is what I have come up with:

Thor Hushovd
Fabian Cancellara
Cadel Evans
Tom Boonen
Jakob Fuglsang
Stuart O'Grady
Mark Cavendish
Bradley Wiggins
Gertaint Thomas
Bert Grabsch
Peter Velits
Gerald Ciolek
Adriano Malori
Lars Boom
Mikhail Ignatiev
Janez Brajkovic
Roman Kreuziger
Tomas Vaitkus
Jürgen van den Broeck
Danny Pate
Yaroslav Popovych
Damiano Cunego
Ivan Basso
Vasil Kiryenka
Matthew Goss
Mark Renshaw
Jose Ivan Gutierrez

If anyone knows someone else who is a former world champion please let me know and I'll add them to the list. I'm not too familiar with junior and U-23 Track and MTB results so there might be some from those types of races.

 

[greenedge]

Nice list. When did Kreuziger/ Vaitkus win???

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Nice list. When did Kreuziger/ Vaitkus win???

juniors and espoirs (u19 and u23)

 

[greenedge]

Ok. Thx for that. They just closed that "Rubaix thread" wah. I know it's Roubaix.

 

[ingsve]

I had forgotten Jose Ivan Gutierrez. For some reason I thought he had retired years ago. I must have confused him with someone else.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I had forgotten Jose Ivan Gutierrez. For some reason I thought he had retired years ago. I must have confused him with someone else.

José Enrique Gutiérrez, aka El Bufalo. He ended up riding for Rock, then retired, then resurfaced this year with Orgullo Paísa in Colombia.

 

[ak-zaaf]

Edit: The rules have been changed and you are now only allowed to wear the bands during the type of event you won the world championship for.

I think that's a shame.
You were a World champion cyclist at one point. You should always be aloud to wear those stripes on any bike.