Mental or random cycling statistics

[hayneplane]

Talking about Fuglsang‘s age made me wonder: What was the (WT) race with the most riders in their 40s. I was pretty amazed recently when I saw there were four riders in their 40s in the 2014 Tour: Jens, Chris Horner, Petacchi and Tosatto.

Fuglsang must have felt like he was as babysitting in the Tour of the Alps as he was older than the combined ages of two of his breakaway companions!

 

[RedheadDane]

Volta a Catalunya, Matthew Brennan got a late call-up: won stage 1.
Tour de Romandie, Samuel Watson got a late call-up: won the prologue.

 

[Keldergoat]

Not mental as in, impressive, but how on earth does Marc Hirschi still is third in the CQ ranking? Feels like the guy is having an absolute nightmare of a season and even last year I can only name a couple of nameworthy achievements.

https://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/start.asp

 

[Red Rick]

Not mental as in, impressive, but how on earth does Marc Hirschi still is third in the CQ ranking? Feels like the guy is having an absolute nightmare of a season and even last year I can only name a couple of nameworthy achievements.

https://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/start.asp

It tells you about the merit of the CQ ranking

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Not mental as in, impressive, but how on earth does Marc Hirschi still is third in the CQ ranking? Feels like the guy is having an absolute nightmare of a season and even last year I can only name a couple of nameworthy achievements.

https://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/start.asp

Tobydawq beat you to it on the previous page.

 

[Keldergoat]

Haha great minds, didn't even notice it.

 

[tobydawq]

Haha great minds, didn't even notice it.

Great that we both used the phrase "how on Earth".

 

[RedheadDane]

Now for a very silly statistic, and a record that's unlikely to be broken anytime soon:

Mads Pedersen is the cyclists with the highest number of Grand Tour stage wins in Albania.

Likewise, Elia Viviani is the cyclist with the highest number of Grand Tour stage wins in Israel.

 

[SafeBet]

Who was the last rider to keep the ciclamino jersey from start to finish?

 

[Pozzovivo]

Who was the last rider to keep the ciclamino jersey from start to finish?

Mario Cipollini 1997!

 

[Pozzovivo]

Which was more than Pedersen can do because the Giro was 22 stages!

 

[SafeBet]

Which was more than Pedersen can do because the Giro was 22 stages!

Nice trivia, thank you!

 

[SafeBet]

Seven years between winning GTs for Yates.
Gimondi did the same (Giro 1969, Giro 1976). Anybody with a longer hiatus?

 

[Finn84]

WW2 affected it but Gino Bartali (1938 Tour, 1946 Giro)

 

[tobydawq]

Make of this what you will:

If one ranks all the current professional riders by best GC result in a Grand Tour, the bottom six on that list all obtained their best GC result in the 2025 Giro (Kuzmin, Kooij, Van Uden, Zijlaard, Thijssen, Plowright).

That seems rather wild. Of course it's a testament to a high finishing rate of that race and 184 starters, but still.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Make of this what you will:

If one ranks all the current professional riders by best GC result in a Grand Tour, the bottom six on that list all obtained their best GC result in the 2025 Giro (Kuzmin, Kooij, Van Uden, Zijlaard, Thijssen, Plowright).

That seems rather wild. Of course it's a testament to a high finishing rate of that race and 184 starters, but still.

I have no idea what any of this means but you have too much time man

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Upon seeing that he had won the ES/whatever it's called in your country nowadays prediction game, I realised that Moreno Moser's first and last ever victories both came in the Trofeo Laigueglia. Which other riders have taken their first and last pro wins in the same race years apart?

 

[hayneplane]

Make of this what you will:

If one ranks all the current professional riders by best GC result in a Grand Tour, the bottom six on that list all obtained their best GC result in the 2025 Giro (Kuzmin, Kooij, Van Uden, Zijlaard, Thijssen, Plowright).

That seems rather wild. Of course it's a testament to a high finishing rate of that race and 184 starters, but still.

Surely a low finishing rate would make that easier to achieve.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Upon seeing that he had won the ES/whatever it's called in your country nowadays prediction game, I realised that Matteo Moser's first and last ever victories both came in the Trofeo Laigueglia. Which other riders have taken their first and last pro wins in the same race years apart?

I almost thought this was some rider I‘d never heard of before.

 

[tobydawq]

Surely a low finishing rate would make that easier to achieve.

No, because you need a very low GC position (to get at the bottom of my list) which can be obtained if many riders finish.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I almost thought this was some rider I‘d never heard of before.

Clearly it's not only Ilnaestro who's tired at the end of the Giro.

 

[Red Rick]

Simon Yates wins the Giro without winning a stage. The last time this happened was when Egan Bernal won the Tour of 2019 without winning a stage.

Has it ever taken this long inbetween riders winning Grand Tours without winning a stage?

 

[tobydawq]

Simon Yates wins the Giro without winning a stage. The last time this happened was when Egan Bernal won the Tour of 2019 without winning a stage.

Has it ever taken this long inbetween riders winning Grand Tours without winning a stage?

I don't know the answer to your question, but I just wanted to add to the Bernal thing and say that he to this date still has never been in the top 3 of a stage in the Tour.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Upon seeing that he had won the ES/whatever it's called in your country nowadays prediction game, I realised that Moreno Moser's first and last ever victories both came in the Trofeo Laigueglia. Which other riders have taken their first and last pro wins in the same race years apart?

Roger Walkowiak had three wins. The Tour in '56, & stage wins in the Vuelta in (may) '56 & 57.

Every win also from a breakaway...

 

[rallybanana]

Upon seeing that he had won the ES/whatever it's called in your country nowadays prediction game, I realised that Moreno Moser's first and last ever victories both came in the Trofeo Laigueglia. Which other riders have taken their first and last pro wins in the same race years apart?

Rik Van Looy