Mental or random cycling statistics

[tobydawq]

Now that Mareczko doesn't have a pro contract, Iván Sosa holds the coveted title of having the most pro wins without ever winning on the WorldTour among the current pros.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Francisco Galván's highest finishes in races .1 and above:
3rd - GP La Marseillaise 2022
3rd - GP La Marseillaise 2025
4th - GP La Marseillaise 2021

 

[Squire]

Francisco Galván's highest finishes in races .1 and above:
3rd - GP La Marseillaise 2022
3rd - GP La Marseillaise 2025
4th - GP La Marseillaise 2021

Le jour de gloire est arrivé!

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Magnier has now won his first race of the season two years in a row. That must be a quite rare feat, so who - besides Pogacar of course - is the last to do so?

Just to clarify: I don't have the answer - I'm looking for it 😁

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Magnier has now won his first race of the season two years in a row. That must be a quite rare feat, so who - besides Pogacar of course - is the last to do so?

Just to clarify: I don't have the answer - I'm looking for it 😁

It's surprisingly obvious: Luke Plapp, 2021, 2024 and 2025 Aussie TT championships and 2022 and 2023 road race. Five years running!

 

[Hugo Koblet]

It's surprisingly obvious: Luke Plapp, 2021, 2024 and 2025 Aussie TT championships and 2022 and 2023 road race. Five years running!

Of course! I should have thought of him. Thanks!

 

[Squire]

Magnier has now won his first race of the season two years in a row. That must be a quite rare feat, so who - besides Pogacar of course - is the last to do so?

Just to clarify: I don't have the answer - I'm looking for it 😁

He's not the last to do that feat, but I want to mention Alessandro Petacchi here for someone who didn't have it as easy as Plapp.

We're starting in 2002, when his first race of the season was the TTT in Paris-Nice where he was on the winning team. Then he won his first race in 2003 (Trofeo Luis Puig), 2004 (Stage 1 of Giro della Provincia di Lucca), 2005 (GP Costa degli Etruschi) and 2006 (again GP Costa degli Etruschi). That's five years of winning his first race of the season.

Then in 2007 he made the huge mistake of riding the Tour of Qatar, where he started off with three 2nd places in a row. If he had just stuck to his normal schedule, he would have continued his streak as he again won the GP Costa degli Etruschi shortly after Qatar.

In 2008 he again failed in the non-sprint friendly first stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia, before winning three stages later in the race. In 2009 he finally came to his senses again, starting off with the customary victory in the GP Costa degli Etruschi, popularly known as GP Alessandro Petacchi. In 2010 he also won it, but he had ridden the Giro della Provincia di reggio Calabria before, which had a mountain stage on the first day. He did win two stages there however.

So in total, he has a streak of five years of winning his first race, then another to take his total to six. And it could have been so much more if he had stayed away from those pesky stage races with tough opening stages.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Brazilian cycling legend Nilceu Aparecido Santos won the UCI 1.2 one day race Copa America de Ciclismo four times in a row 2005-2008, always held between 6 January and 9 January, and back then always the first UCI one day race of the year.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Brazilian cycling legend Nilceu Aparecido Santos won the UCI 1.2 one day race Copa America de Ciclismo four times in a row 2005-2008, always held between 6 January and 9 January, and back then always the first UCI one day race of the year.

It was legal to have a sub-40k UCI sanctioned one-day road race back then? Wow.

 

[Netserk]

He's not the last to do that feat, but I want to mention Alessandro Petacchi here for someone who didn't have it as easy as Plapp.

We're starting in 2002, when his first race of the season was the TTT in Paris-Nice where he was on the winning team. Then he won his first race in 2003 (Trofeo Luis Puig), 2004 (Stage 1 of Giro della Provincia di Lucca), 2005 (GP Costa degli Etruschi) and 2006 (again GP Costa degli Etruschi). That's five years of winning his first race of the season.

Then in 2007 he made the huge mistake of riding the Tour of Qatar, where he started off with three 2nd places in a row. If he had just stuck to his normal schedule, he would have continued his streak as he again won the GP Costa degli Etruschi shortly after Qatar.

In 2008 he again failed in the non-sprint friendly first stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia, before winning three stages later in the race. In 2009 he finally came to his senses again, starting off with the customary victory in the GP Costa degli Etruschi, popularly known as GP Alessandro Petacchi. In 2010 he also won it, but he had ridden the Giro della Provincia di reggio Calabria before, which had a mountain stage on the first day. He did win two stages there however.

So in total, he has a streak of five years of winning his first race, then another to take his total to six. And it could have been so much more if he had stayed away from those pesky stage races with tough opening stages.

Also Boonen in Qatar from 2006 to 2008.

 

[RedheadDane]

Dunno why I never realised this before.

Bernal wore number 1 in the 2021 Giro - because Ineos was the team of defending champion Geoghegan Hart, though he himself didn't ride - the race he of course then went on to win. He basically got to wear it "pre-emptively", quite nice, considering that he didn't get to wear it in 2022.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Fastest time trials in Lido di Camaiore:
Filippo Ganna (2025) - 56.174 km/h
Filippo Ganna (2023) - 55.348 km/h
Filippo Ganna (2022) - 54.528 km/h

Ayuso's second place today is the next best.

 

[RedheadDane]

Here's the most storming head-to-head in the coming years!

Theodor Storm versus Storm Ingebrigtsen

Head to head career results between Theodor Storm and Storm Ingebrigtsen. The overal score is 2.4% for Theodor Storm versus 97.6% for Storm Ingebrigtsen. A comparison on same race results, time trial points and the points per age.

www.procyclingstats.com

(Of course, T. Storm's "first pro season" was the negated one last year.)

Also, I'm not sure what's going on here:

2023-06-11

LVM Saarland Trofeo | Stage 4

991

991

If you click the "view all same race results" link it says "NR", for - I think - Not Recorded (and apparently Ingebrigtsen did it better...)

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Here's the most storming head-to-head in the coming years!

Theodor Storm versus Storm Ingebrigtsen

Head to head career results between Theodor Storm and Storm Ingebrigtsen. The overal score is 2.4% for Theodor Storm versus 97.6% for Storm Ingebrigtsen. A comparison on same race results, time trial points and the points per age.

www.procyclingstats.com

(Of course, T. Storm's "first pro season" was the negated one last year.)

Also, I'm not sure what's going on here:

2023-06-11

LVM Saarland Trofeo | Stage 4

991

991

If you click the "view all same race results" link it says "NR", for - I think - Not Recorded (and apparently Ingebrigtsen did it better...)

35th LVM Saarland Trofeo (2.Ncup)
Stage 4 (Final)»Niedergailbach›Niedergailbach(115km)
Final stage has been neutralised due to a crash

 

[RedheadDane]

Yes, I know it's because the stage was neutralised.
Like I wrote; if you go to the full "same race results" list it uses the "NR", which seems to be the one used for cases like that.
My question was; why 991?

 

[Breh]

Slow day at work so naturally I was scrolling through results from the 2022 CRO race and stumbled upon the following results:

Stage 3:

1	VINGEGAARD Jonas	Jumbo-Visma	14	20	10″	3:31:28
2	ONLEY Oscar	Team DSM	5	12	6″	,,
3	MOHORIČ Matej	Bahrain - Victorious	3	7	4″	0:02

Stage 5:

1	VINGEGAARD Jonas	Jumbo-Visma	14	20	10″	3:31:28
2	ONLEY Oscar	Team DSM	5	12	6″	,,
3	MOHORIČ Matej	Bahrain - Victorious	3	7	8″	0:02

Same podiums probably happen once or twice a season but twice in three days with the same riders at 2seconds twice? That's probably abit more rare.

Bonus points for Albanese coming 4th on both occasions aswell, albeit on 3seconds and 5seconds.
Ruining my symmetry he obviously didn't deserve to be in my copy/paste.

 

[rallybanana]

Same podiums probably happen once or twice a season but twice in three days with the same riders at 2seconds twice? That's probably abit more rare.

The icing on the cake is both stages being won in 3 hours, 31 minutes, and 28 seconds

 

[shalgo]

The icing on the cake is both stages being won in 3 hours, 31 minutes, and 28 seconds

CQ ranking has a different finishing time for stage 5: https://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=40691

 

[Devil's Elbow]

CQ ranking has a different finishing time for stage 5: https://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/race.asp?raceid=40691

So do PCS, Breh just pasted the same table twice.

 

[Breh]

I *** up the formatting and the copy/paste.

 

[Pantani_lives]

How dominant can two riders be in the monuments?

From Liège 1971 to Liège 1975 there were 21 monuments. Eddy Merckx won 10 of them; Roger De Vlaeminck won 5. So these two together won 15 out of 21 monuments. On average that's 5 out of 7.

From Flanders 2022 to Lombardia 2024 there were 14 monuments. Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel both won 5 of them. So these two together won 10 out of 14 monuments. On average that's 5 out of 7.

 

[Peyroteo94]

How dominant can two riders be in the monuments?

From Liège 1971 to Liège 1975 there were 21 monuments. Eddy Merckx won 10 of them; Roger De Vlaeminck won 5. So these two together won 15 out of 21 monuments. On average that's 5 out of 7.

From Flanders 2022 to Lombardia 2024 there were 14 monuments. Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel both won 5 of them. So these two together won 10 out of 14 monuments. On average that's 5 out of 7.

During that period, Belgium won 18 out of 21 races.
From 1967 to 1976, Belgium won 39 out of 50 monuments. Italy got 7/50, 3/50 was won by dutch riders and Germany won 1/50.
This shows how small was cycling back in the 60s and 70s. Almost a national sport, ruled by Belgium. It is just cringe to read quotes like "Competition was good back in that era". We see monuments (in the 70s) and the entire top10 (or close to) are just belgian riders.

 

[Wyndbrook]

During that period, Belgium won 18 out of 21 races.
From 1967 to 1976, Belgium won 39 out of 50 monuments. Italy got 7/50, 3/50 was won by dutch riders and Germany won 1/50.
This shows how small was cycling back in the 60s and 70s. Almost a national sport, ruled by Belgium. It is just cringe to read quotes like "Competition was good back in that era". We see monuments (in the 70s) and the entire top10 (or close to) are just belgian riders.

Just shows we currently have a very weak generation of Belgians, they will soon bounce back.

 

[YavorD]

During that period, Belgium won 18 out of 21 races.
From 1967 to 1976, Belgium won 39 out of 50 monuments. Italy got 7/50, 3/50 was won by dutch riders and Germany won 1/50.
This shows how small was cycling back in the 60s and 70s. Almost a national sport, ruled by Belgium. It is just cringe to read quotes like "Competition was good back in that era". We see monuments (in the 70s) and the entire top10 (or close to) are just belgian riders.

Can we stop with "competition in that era was..." nonsense?
The level of competition nowadays is so high that ski-jumpers become multiple GT winners.

 

[AmRacer]

Can we stop with "competition in that era was..." nonsense?
The level of competition nowadays is so high that ski-jumpers become multiple GT winners.

But...but...but whatabout the farmers....😖