Mental or random cycling statistics

[rallybanana]

It's possible there are as many as 7 nationalities in the top-5 of the Elite Men's World Championship Road Race. Yes, you read that correctly.

Küng is also Liechtensteiner, and I suppose you could argue that Van der Poel is also French.

Thanks for the info. I watched the race live on the internet last Sunday and today I finally find out who finished 5th.

 

[tobydawq]

It's possible there are as many as 7 nationalities in the top-5 of the Elite Men's World Championship Road Race. Yes, you read that correctly.

Küng is also Liechtensteiner, and I suppose you could argue that Van der Poel is also French.

It's more. As is established, Mads Pedersen has many different nationalities. American, Japanese, Swedish, you name it.

 

[rallybanana]

Belarus were ranked 20th in the UCI rankings (elite men) at the end of 2015.

Today they are ranked 120th

 

[RedheadDane]

It's more. As is established, Mads Pedersen has many different nationalities. American, Japanese, Swedish, you name it.

Excuse me! I think you'll find that what has actually been established, is that Mads Pedersen is Danish, and absolutely no other nationality. His thread title clearly says so!

 

[Pantani_lives]

Jean-Pierre Monseré was born two years after Joop Zoetemelk, but won the world title fifteen years before him.

Greg LeMond was born fifteen years after Joop Zoetemelk, but won the world title two years before him.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Luis Angel Maté had to wait 12 years to get his 3rd pro victory, but is that longest drought anyone has had in-between victories?

 

[SHAD0W93]

Luis Angel Maté had to wait 12 years to get his 3rd pro victory, but is that longest drought anyone has had in-between victories?

Only one that I can think is close, but no cigar, is Zubeldia who’s at a 10 year gap.

 

[tobydawq]

Only one that I can think is close, but no cigar, is Zubeldia who’s at a 10 year gap.

@Samu Cuenca

Geoffrey Soupe is also at 12 (he actually won twice this year, but only had one other win in 2011).
Anthony Delaplace is at 11 years after wins in 2011 and 2022.

Zubeldia is next on the list of riders who retired less than seven years ago (I don't have data from before).

 

[tobydawq]

@Samu Cuenca

Geoffrey Soupe is also at 12 (he actually won twice this year, but only had one other win in 2011).
Anthony Delaplace is at 11 years after wins in 2011 and 2022.

Zubeldia is next on the list of riders who retired less than seven years ago (I don't have data from before).

Okay, that's not quite true.
There's also Morabito on 11.

 

[gunara]

Belarus were ranked 20th in the UCI rankings (elite men) at the end of 2015.

Today they are ranked 120th

After the end of the likes of Kiryienka, Siutsou, Hutarovich, Kuschynski, or Samoilau, their national championships were again won by an ancient Yauhen Sobal among riders from Minsk.
Anyway, is Riabushenko their only pro today?

 

[BigCoward]

Jean-Pierre Monseré was born two years after Joop Zoetemelk, but won the world title fifteen years before him.

Greg LeMond was born fifteen years after Joop Zoetemelk, but won the world title two years before him.

I have to know how you discovered that.

 

[Pantani_lives]

I have to know how you discovered that.

It came from the question whether Van Aert can still win a world title in spite of being older than Evenepoel. Zoetemelk winning after Kuiper came to mind, so I checked those numbers, comparing him to younger winners.

Another weird example is Horner winning the Vuelta fourteen years after Ullrich, in spite of being two years older.

 

[SHAD0W93]

It came from the question whether Van Aert can still win a world title in spite of being older than Evenepoel. Zoetemelk winning after Kuiper came to mind, so I checked those numbers, comparing him to younger winners.

Another weird example is Horner winning the Vuelta fourteen years after Ullrich, in spite of being two years older.

To be fair, Horner hit his prime by 2010.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Groupama's Vuelta lineup has a median age (on the day the race starts) of 22 years and 37.5 days. For comparison, the median age of stage winners in this year's Avenir so far is 22 years and 14 days.

 

[wansteadimp]

The Anglocentric Sky/Ineos team have as many different Grand Tour stage winners born in Ecuador as they do born in England (excluding TTTs). And its not changing in the Vuelta,

 

[RedheadDane]

The Anglocentric Sky/Ineos team have as many different Grand Tour stage winners born in Ecuador as they do born in England (excluding TTTs). And its not changing in the Vuelta,

The miracle could happen, with G winning a couple of stages, and it still wouldn't change.
He's Welsh, born in Cardif. Health and safety recommend that you do not refer to Wales as "England".

 

[wansteadimp]

The miracle could happen, with G winning a couple of stages, and it still wouldn't change.
He's Welsh, born in Cardif. Health and safety recommend that you do not refer to Wales as "England".

???? Well aware of that, hence the comment. It’s not like he’s Tony Copsey pretending to be Welsh.

 

[Red Rick]

This isn't purely a cycling statistic, but Michael Boogerd was classmates in middle school with 1996 Wimbledon winner Richard Krajicek.

 

[RedheadDane]

???? Well aware of that, hence the comment. It’s not like he’s Tony Copsey pretending to be Welsh.

I thought you were making a reference to the fact that G most definitely isn't going to win a stage.

 

[wansteadimp]

I thought you were making a reference to the fact that G most definitely isn't going to win a stage.

Nah, no English born riders in the team.

 

[hayneplane]

I know it was only the juniors but has anyone else ever won 3 times in the same day (ITT/split stage/GC) as Felix Orn Kristoff did last week as part of also winning every single stage of the race.

 

[wansteadimp]

I know it was only the juniors but has anyone else ever won 3 times in the same day (ITT/split stage/GC) as Felix Orn Kristoff did last week as part of also winning every single stage of the race.

Not quite but his brother won the overall, 3 stages and was 3rd in the ITT in the 2015 3 days of de Panne.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I know it was only the juniors but has anyone else ever won 3 times in the same day (ITT/split stage/GC) as Felix Orn Kristoff did last week as part of also winning every single stage of the race.

Others may also have done something similar, but I know Roger De Vlaeminck beat Merckx in a time trial and in a road stage to win the 1975 Tour de Suisse on the last day.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I know it was only the juniors but has anyone else ever won 3 times in the same day (ITT/split stage/GC) as Felix Orn Kristoff did last week as part of also winning every single stage of the race.

On the final day of the Critérium International in 2004, Voigt won the hilly stage in the morning and the TT in the afternoon en route to winning the GC.

 

[RedheadDane]

The last non-French rider to win a GT stage for FDJ was Hutarovich, back in the 2010 Vuelta.
On the flipside, it took ten years from their first GT stage win by a French rider, Mengin in 1997, to the second, Casar in 2007. In the meantime, they had stage wins by an Italian, and a couple of Australians.

Intermarche has five GT stage wins so far, all won by riders of different nationalities: Dutch, Estonian, Eritrean, Czech, and South African.

Out of the 51 individual GT stage wins Astana has gotten over the years, only nine have been won by riders from Kazakhstan, most of those (six) by Vinokourov.

The last six GT stage wins by Trek were won by a Dane.

Arkea is the only WT team without any GT stage wins.