Mental cycling statistics

[hayneplane]

Inspired by something I read on Twitter about Rigoberto Uran never having won a stage race as an elite rider despite being 2nd in both Tour and Giro.

My offering:
Andy Schleck never won a stage race (depending on your view of the 2010 Tour) apart from very tiny races as a 20 year old. Never even finished on the podium in any stage race outside of Grand Tours.

 

[Parker]

Arguably the two most successful British cyclists ever - Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish - were born on consecutive days

Also, since 2000 Maindy Flyers youth cycling club in Cardiff has produced more Olympic gold medallists (cycling only) than the whole of France.

 

[BigCoward]

Arguably the two most successful British cyclists ever - Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish - were born on consecutive days

Arguably our 2 greatest Olympic cyclists (Hoy and Kenny) share a date of birth (along with Farah and Redgrave).

 

[gregrowlerson]

Somewhat similar to Uran, Klöden and Porte never won a GT stage (I don't count TTT).

 

[Anderis]

PCS database has 6 different riders named either Dan Martin or Daniel Martin and they come from 5 different countries.

Garmin had 75% rate of winning team classification if they sent Dan Martin, Peter Stetina and Tom Danielson to the same race.

 

[RedheadDane]

PCS database has 6 different riders named either Dan Martin or Daniel Martin and they come from 5 different countries.

What if we add an extra 'ez'?




I thought this thread was about statistics involving mental health in cycling...

 

[Anderis]

I thought this thread was about statistics involving mental health in cycling...

That was my first thought, too.

 

[hayneplane]

What if we add an extra 'ez'?




I thought this thread was about statistics involving mental health in cycling...

No, but that would be a very valid idea for a thread especially given the travails in recent years of very high profile riders like Kittel and Tom Dumoulin.

 

[laarsland]

In the last decade, AG2R have signed two Valentins who are both the younger brothers of professional cyclists.

 

[Mosul]

Wout Van Aert achieved the same number of TDF second place stage finishes in the first three days of this year's tour as Mark Cavendish has had in his entire life.

Since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 there has always been at least one German rider finishing in the top 10 of the Champs-Elysees stage. That's 32 consecutive years with 14 different riders.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Marianne Vos has ridden 11 Giri and won at least one stage in each of them.

Miguel Indurain never won a Vuelta stage. Neither did Greg LeMond

Bernard Hinault never finished outside the podium in a GT he finished, and he lead the race at some point in all those he rode. He never won Paris-Nice.

Eddy Merckx won pretty much everything except for Paris-Tours. Both he and Hinault had a 6th place as their best result in that race.

Freddy Maertens never won a monument.

Not only did Jaan Kirsipuu never finish a GT in 15 starts, he never even made it to the third week of one.

The runner-up in the Tour de France have had a given name starting with J 23 times. J first names are also most common among thrid place finishers with 19.
The race has been won by someone with a given name starting with L 20 (or13) times. The 2000 and 2001 Tours are the only ones to have had an L winner, a J runner-up and a J in third place.

 

[fox]

Wout Van Aert achieved the same number of TDF second place stage finishes in the first three days of this year's tour as Mark Cavendish has had in his entire life.

Since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 there has always been at least one German rider finishing in the top 10 of the Champs-Elysees stage. That's 32 consecutive years with 14 different riders.

Marc Cavendish has 34 stages in TDF and only 3 second places? That is crazy.

 

[Parker]

Marc Cavendish has 34 stages in TDF and only 3 second places? That is crazy.

And for one of those second places he won the bunch sprint behind the lone winner.

 

[Potomac]

99.9% of people who post in this forum are whack jobs.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

The gap between Frank Vandenbroucke's second-to-last and last UCI win was nine years, six months and eleven days.

Andrea Tafi, Steffen Wesemann and Nick Nuyens never won a race again after winning the Ronde van Vlaanderen.

Ivan Gotti has won only four five UCI races, two of which were the GCs of the Giro d'Italia.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Vincenzo Nibali has gone longer without a stage win in the Giro than in both the Tour and the Vuelta.

Alberto Contador never won another Tour stage after 2009, meaning his last-ever Tour stage victory was a TT. He also doesn't officially have a Giro stage to his name as those in 2011 were stripped.

By taking his eighth Tour stage on Friday, Tadej Pogacar now has more Tour stage wins than any other Tour GC winner since Pantani, who also has eight (not including Armstrong's stripped results). He also has more professional wins than Cavendish did at this age, and just four less than Froome managed in his entire career.

Joaquim Rodriguez never won the GC in a professional race outside of Spain.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Oh, and a bonus statistic that might come to fruition soon: if Mauri Vansevenant starts a Tour before Cofidis score another stage win, their dry streak will comprise stages that both Mauri and his father took part in. Same goes for Igor Arrieta.

 

[Parker]

Remco Evenepoel's dad, Mathieu Van der Poel's dad and Wout Van Aert's dad's cousin where all teammates at Collstrop in 1994

When Thomas de Gendt rode the 2021 Tour of Norway it was the first non-World Tour race he had ridden for four years (excluding Belgian nationals)

Andy Schleck's last victory was before Chris Froome's first victory. But Froome is a month older than Schleck.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The gap between Frank Vandenbroucke's second-to-last and last UCI win was nine years, six months and eleven days.

Andrea Tafi, Steffen Wesemann and Nick Nuyens never won a race again after winning the Ronde van Vlaanderen.

Ivan Gotti has won only four UCI races, two of which were the GCs of the Giro d'Italia.

Gotti won 5 UCI wins: two Giro stages and two Giro GCs as well as a stage in the Volta a Catalunya.

Both PCS and FirstCycling also says he won the 1999 GP Nobili Rubinetterie. PCS list it as having been a 1.1 race, but FC says it was national event. However Wikipedia claims Salvatore Commesso won it.

Anyone here who watched the race and can confirm the actual result?

 

[noob]

That was my first thought, too.

Me too. I am so confused now :O

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Tadej Pogacar has never beaten Fausto Masnada in a grand tour.

 

[memyselfandI]

Remco Evenepoel's dad, Mathieu Van der Poel's dad and Wout Van Aert's dad's cousin where all teammates at Collstrop in 1994

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[RedheadDane]

99.9% of people who post in this forum are whack jobs.

I have no idea what you're basing that statement on!

 

[Red Rick]

Contador not racing a Giro or Vuelta wothout winning until he was 33 is pretty mental

Chris Froome won his final GT before he won his first GT

 

[Netserk]

Gotti won 5 UCI wins: two Giro stages and two Giro GCs as well as a stage in the Volta a Catalunya.

According to @fox, his GC wins don't count, so he only has 3 wins.