I randomly decided to do a thing.
How many CQ points did the top-10 of the Junior ranking (on FirstCycling) since 2012 score the following year?
Blank spaces in the point columns means the rider was still a junior.
2012
2013
2014
*Doesn't seem to have a CQ page, so presumably didn't score in 2015, or ever...
2015
This is retroactively the saddest Junior top-10 in the period...
2016
Pogi wasn't even the best Slovenian Junior in 2016!
2017
2018
*No data for 2019
2019
2020
2021
2022
So, yeah... some riders who looked like they were destined for greatness, but faded into obscurity (or worse), and others who looked only "okay", but have definitely made up for it.
The extreme case for the latter is probably Vingegaard, though. He came in at a whopping 180th place in the 2014 ranking!
How many CQ points did the top-10 of the Junior ranking (on FirstCycling) since 2012 score the following year?
Blank spaces in the point columns means the rider was still a junior.
2012
Rider | 2013 CQ Score |
Matej Mohoric | 126 |
Mads Pedersen | |
Piotr Havik | 1 |
Idar Arslanov | 10 |
Tiesj Benoot | 30 |
Søren Kragh Andersen | 2 |
Quentin Jauregui | 0 |
Kevin Deltombe | 0 |
Mathieu Van der Poel | |
Taylor Eisenhart | 8 |
2013
Rider | 2014 CQ Score |
Mathieu Van der Poel | 168 |
Mads Pedersen | 15 |
Elie Gesbert | 0 |
Tao Geoghegan Hart | 37 |
Nathan Van Hooydonck | 0 |
David Per | 20 |
Jenthe Biermans | 0 |
Christoffer Lisson | 0 |
Stepan Kurianov | |
Mathias Rask | 0 |
2014
Rider | 2015 CQ Score |
Lennard Kämna | 89 |
Magnus Bak Klaris | 4 |
Tom Wirtgen | 35 |
Jordi Warlop | 2 |
Rayane Bouhanni | 0 |
Erlend Jordbrekk Blikra | |
Will Barta | 5 |
Aleksandr Vlasov | 8 |
Edoardo Affini | 0 |
Wiebren Plovie | 0* |
2015
This is retroactively the saddest Junior top-10 in the period...
Rider | 2016 CQ Score |
Adrien Costa | 274 |
Bjorg Lambrecht | 89 |
Thomas Vereecken | 0 |
Brandon McNulty | |
Anthon Charmig | |
Marc Hirschi | |
Pascal Eenkhoorn | 13 |
Gino Mäder | 0 |
Felix Gall | |
Max Kanter | 51 |
2016
Rider | 2017 CQ Score |
Jaka Primozic | 9 |
Marc Hirschi | 50 |
Brandon McNulty | 35 |
Jarno Mobach | 6 |
Ide Schelling | 0 |
Nils Eekhoff | 33 |
Tadej Pogacar | 135 |
Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev | 24 |
Andreas Kron | 25 |
Jakob Egholm | 0 |
2017
Rider | 2018 CQ Score |
Andreas Leknessund | 58 |
Niklas Märkl | 7 |
Tom Pidcock | 47 |
Søren Wærenskjold | |
Andrea Innocenti | 6 |
Michele Gazzoli | 0 |
Florian Kierner | 1 |
Julius Johansen | 117 |
Dan Hoole | 6 |
Tobias Bayer | 5 |
2018
Rider | 2019 CQ Score |
Remco Evenepoel | 952 |
Ilan Van Wilder | 98 |
Karel Vacek | 1 |
Søren Wærenskjold | 23 |
Andrea Piccolo | |
Marius Mayrhofer | 2 |
Xandres Vervloesem | 0 |
Ludvig Fisher Aasheim | 0* |
Alexandre Balmer | 0 |
Jacob Hindsgaul | 10 |
2019
Rider | 2020 CQ Score |
Marco Brenner | |
Quinn Simmons | 205 |
Hidde Van Veenendaal | 0 |
Maurice Ballerstedt | 22 |
Andrea Piccolo | 5 |
Hugo Toumire | 0 |
Michel Hessmann | 12 |
Sam Watson | 33 |
Andrii Ponomar | |
Vegard Stokke | 0 |
2020
Rider | 2021 CQ Score |
Tobias Lund | 13 |
Arnaud De Lie | 57 |
Marco Brenner | 31 |
Andrii Ponomar | 64 |
Max Poole | |
Kasper Andersen | 13 |
Matic Macek | 6 |
Ilia Shchegolkov | 0 |
Jordan Labrosse | 10 |
Viacheslav Ivanov | 6 |
2021
Rider | 2022 CQ Score |
Per Strand Hagenes | 66 |
Romain Grégoire | 108 |
Cian Uijtdebroeks | 253 |
Alexander Hajek | 14 |
Trym Brennsæter | 0 |
Alec Segaert | 67 |
Maxence Place | |
Tibor Del Grosso | 10 |
Moritz Kärsten | 0 |
Stian Fredheim | 25 |
2022
Rider | 2023 CQ Score |
Emil Herzog | 4 |
António Morgado | 132 |
Max Van der Meulen | 11 |
Menno Huising | 15 |
Vlad Van Mechelen | 13 |
Mathieu Kockelmann | 10 |
Thibaud Gruel | 48 |
Jørgen Nordhagen | |
Artem Shmidt | 15 |
Frank Aron Ragilo | 0 |
So, yeah... some riders who looked like they were destined for greatness, but faded into obscurity (or worse), and others who looked only "okay", but have definitely made up for it.
The extreme case for the latter is probably Vingegaard, though. He came in at a whopping 180th place in the 2014 ranking!
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