Mental cycling statistics

[lemon cheese cake]

LENNARD KAMNA is the only rider at this year's Tour de France whose name contains the letters of the name of the grand depart host country.

Pello Bilbao will have to race next year to continue this.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

I'm surprised this thread is so full of stats as if they're mental statistics everyone should be keeping them in their heads.

 

[Ricco']

It's also the only Tour of that decade (2010-2019) without a british stage winner.

And the only Tour since 2006 until now without a british rider or team winning a stage.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Which basically all amounts to yet another way of rubbing France's nose in it over their drought...

Speaking of the French drought: they still haven't had a rider place higher than third on any stage this Tour.

The last time this was true at this point in the race was in 2013, when they incredibly hadn't placed better than fifth in the first thirteen stages (excluding riders on foreign teams in the TT).

 

[Mosul]

The French drought is the best known but the national tours of Italy, Spain, and Switzerland are also going through their longest droughts without a home winner.

 

[Panda Claws]

Meanwhile Belgians are casually crushing their home Tour.

 

[Finn84]

I recall that Thor Hushovd won Tour de France stage:

• Finishing solo (2011 Lourdes)
• From the small group (2002 Bourg-en-Bresse, 2010 Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, 2011 Gap)
• From the mass sprint (2004 Quimper, 2006 Champs-Elysees, 2007 Joigny, 2008 Saint-Brieuc, 2009 Barcelona)
• Time trial (2006 Strasbourg)

I count top 2 to 10 riders with the same time as a small group.

How many others have had the same? WvA currently doesn't have small group win. (5 mass sprints, 2 solos, 1 TT)

 

[tobydawq]

I recall that Thor Hushovd won Tour de France stage:

• Finishing solo (2011 Lourdes)
• From the small group (2002 Bourg-en-Bresse, 2010 Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, 2011 Gap)
• From the mass sprint (2004 Quimper, 2006 Champs-Elysees, 2007 Joigny, 2008 Saint-Brieuc, 2009 Barcelona)
• Time trial (2006 Strasbourg)

I count top 2 to 10 riders with the same time as a small group.

How many others have had the same? WvA currently doesn't have small group win. (5 mass sprints, 2 solos, 1 TT)

Well, if that means a mass sprint is 11 riders or more on same time, and that you're counting as a solo winner if you don't have the same time as number 2, then Pogacar qualifies.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Simon Geschke has now finished 6th, 7th and 9th on stage finishes in Mende. Has anyone else achieved three results in the lower half of the top 10 in the same town without getting better results as well?

 

[tobydawq]

Simon Geschke has now finished 6th, 7th and 9th on stage finishes in Mende. Has anyone else achieved three results in the lower half of the top 10 in the same town without getting better results as well?

That's a hard one to check

 

[QueenStagiaire]

That's a hard one to check

I‘ll be very surprised if someone finds another rider.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I‘ll be very surprised if someone finds another rider.

If Jasper Stuyven finishes 9th or 10th on Champs-Élysées once and never makes the top 10 there again, he'll achieve it. He came 6th in 2016 and 8th in 2019.

 

[Parker]

The bizarre cycling hierarchy of the British honours system when it comes to cycling (not complete and doesn't include paralympics)

Sir/Dame: Bradley Wiggins, Laura Kenny, Jason Kenny, Chris Hoy
CBE: Victoria Pendleton
OBE: Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas, Ed Clancy
MBE: Nicole Cooke, Mark Cavendish, Owain Doull, Matt Walls, Ethan Hayter, Pete Kennaugh etc

Nothing: Lizzie Armitsted, Tao Geoghegan Hart, Simon Yates

 

[Mosul]

I‘ll be very surprised if someone finds another rider.

My list of German Champs Elysees riders comes in handy sometimes...
Robert Förster - 7th, 9th and 10th in Paris.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Simon Geschke has now finished 6th, 7th and 9th on stage finishes in Mende. Has anyone else achieved three results in the lower half of the top 10 in the same town without getting better results as well?

When did Geschke finish 7th in Mende?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

When did Geschke finish 7th in Mende?

Someone on german TV said that but as it turns out: Don‘t trust cycling commentators.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Simon Geschke has now finished 6th, 7th and 9th on stage finishes in Mende. Has anyone else achieved three results in the lower half of the top 10 in the same town without getting better results as well?

Richie Porte - 6th, 7th and 6th in consecutive stages to Alpe d'Huez. He climbed it on one other occasion where he missed the top 10.

 

[Mosul]

Bauke Mollema - 6th, 7th, 9th at Mûr-de-Bretagne

 

[Red Rick]

Primoz Roglic is undefeaten in ITTs on Spanish soil.

Meanwhile his ONLY ITT win in France was in the Vuelta.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Primoz Roglic is undefeated in ITTs on Spanish soil.

So am I.

 

[tobydawq]

Marcel Kittel winning four Giro stages and almost finishing his career without one pro win on Italian soil (that only happened in Tirreno 2018).

Cancellara winning the opening Tour stage five times but never in France.

 

[rallybanana]

Countries that have never won a grand tour stage even though grand tour stage winners have been born there.
Malta - David Millar
Morocco - Richard Virenque
Kenya - Chris Froome
Japan - Chris Horner
Greece - Lucien Lazaridès

if you include team time trial winners
Finland - Charly Wegelius

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Number of women who have raced the men‘s Tour de France: 1

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Number of (known) women, who have raced the men‘s Giro d'Italia: 1

 

[Parker]

Countries that have never won a grand tour stage even though grand tour stage winners have been born there.
Malta - David Millar
Morocco - Richard Virenque
Kenya - Chris Froome
Japan - Chris Horner

if you include team time trial winners
Finland - Charly Wegelius

Also Argentina - Juan Antonio Flecha