Most podiums in GTs

[SafeBet]

Tadej Pogacar becomes the first rider in history to podium each of his first 7 GTs. Will this streak ever end?

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[Leinster]

That 'consecutive' streak has 3 DNFs in it.

He did say “GTs he has finished.”

In the GTs where he crashed out, I think we can all agree it was likely he would have been on the podium at the finish. Except maybe this Tour; I think Remco probably was stronger than him.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Indeed too bad Rogla DNF or start in the last 4 Tour editions. He would be a strong candidate to at least podium in all of them. Well, maybe in next 4 editions then!

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Tadej Pogacar becomes the first rider in history to podium each of his first 7 GTs. Will this streak ever end?

OP has been updated.

7/7 is great but the probability of him DNF due to a crash at some point of his career is still high. This is cycling after all.

 

[AmRacer]

7/7 is great but the probability of him DNF due to a crash at some point of his career is still high. This is cycling after all.

You saw what he did when he saw the sign.
Rogla would've crashed into the sign.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

You saw what he did when he saw the sign.
Rogla would've crashed into the sign.

Still, luck factor is always important. He couldn't avoid his bad LBL crash and the same can happen in any race (also a GT).

 

[SHAD0W93]

You saw what he did when he saw the sign.
Rogla would've crashed into the sign.

Still, luck factor is always important.

That sign was lucky Pogacar didn’t break it in half. Only thing he showed mercy to.

 

[will-10]

He did say “GTs he has finished.”

In the GTs where he crashed out, I think we can all agree it was likely he would have been on the podium at the finish. Except maybe this Tour; I think Remco probably was stronger than him.

Although my post is 10 months old things haven't got much better - consecutive implies consistency, which of course poor Primoz has anything but.

 

[SafeBet]

Roglic has an open streak of 7 consecutive podiums in GTs he has finished between 2019 and now. The only longer streak this century was achieved by Chris Froome (9) between 2013 and 2018.

Make it 8 consecutive podiums when he finishes the race. Getting closer to Froome!
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[SafeBet]

Tadej Pogacar moves closer to the greats of cycling with yet another podium. That's 8 consecutive GT podiums to start his career, which had never been done before.
Also, Jonas Vingegaard has finally entered the chat with his 6th (consecutive) GT podium.


Jacques Anquetil - 13/16 partecipations - 81% of podiums - 8 wins

Bernard Hinault - 12/13 - 92% - 10 wins
Eddy Merckx - 12/16 - 75% - 11 wins
Felice Gimondi - 12/20 - 60% - 5 wins

Christopher Froome - 11/21 - 52% - 7 wins
Vincenzo Nibali - 11/27 - 41% - 4 wins

Raymond Poulidor - 10/18 - 55% - 1 win
Gino Bartali - 10/22 - 45% - 5 wins

Fausto Coppi - 9/17 - 53% - 7 wins
Miguel Indurain - 9/23 - 39% - 7 wins
Alejandro Valverde - 9/32 - 28% - 1 win

Tadej Pogacar - 8/8 - 100% - 5 wins
Primoz Roglic - 8/15 - 53% - 5 wins
Joop Zoetemelk - 8/18 - 44% - 2 wins
Pedro Delgado - 8/24 - 33% - 3 wins

Jan Ullrich - 7/12 - 58% - 2 wins
Alberto Contador - 7/14 - 50% - 7 wins
Charly Gaul - 7/14 - 50% - 3 wins
Roberto Heras - 7/16 - 44% - 4 wins
Gilberto Simoni - 7/25 - 28% - 2 wins

Jonas Vingegaard - 6/7 - 86% - 2 wins
Gustave Garrigou - 6/8 - 75% - 1 win
Giovanni Brunero - 6/9 - 66% - 3 wins
Bartolomeo Aimo - 6/9 - 66% - no wins
Alfredo Binda - 6/11 - 55% - 5 wins
Francesco Moser - 6/14 - 43% - 1 win
Greg LeMond - 6/16 - 37% - 3 wins
Luis Ocana - 6/16 - 37% - 2 wins
Nairo Quintana - 6/18 - 33% - 2 wins
Tony Rominger - 6/18 - 33% - 4 wins
Laurent Fignon - 6/18 - 33% - 3 wins
Claudio Chiappucci - 6/20 - 30% - no wins
Carlos Sastre - 6/26 - 23% - 1 win

 

[Red Rick]

Thus the Roglic streak of podium or hospital ends.

 

[SafeBet]

Thus the Roglic streak of podium or hospital ends.

To never resume again?

 

[Red Rick]

To never resume again?

It shall restart. The excitement is finding out if it's by way of podium or by way of hospital

 

[Gigs_98]

Honestly all these GT records are so incredibly low, truly only waiting for someone to completely demolish them. The fact that a rider of Nibalis caliber is only two podiums off the record is astounding.

 

[Red Rick]

Honestly all these GT records are so incredibly low, truly only waiting for someone to completely demolish them. The fact that a rider of Nibalis caliber is only two podiums off the record is astounding.

In most sports longevity actually trends up, so a metric that's basically a career volume of a certain level still stemming from the 1950s is much more shocking for me than Nibali being 2 podiums away from it.

 

[Gigs_98]

In most sports longevity actually trends up, so a metric that's basically a career volume of a certain level still stemming from the 1950s is much more shocking for me than Nibali being 2 podiums away from it.

But that's the thing, most of the top spots are not taken by modern day greats but then you have Nibali who is argubly a distant 3rd best gc rider of his own era and yet he comes so close. It's a bit as if despite the dominance of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, Murray actually held the record for most GS semifinal appearences.

Also Nibali was neither extremely young when he started scoring podiums nor is he seen as an example of extreme longevity. I just find it very curious that there has never been an outlier of someone consistently getting podiums and having a very long career. Like a version of Valverde who actually scores Vuelta podiums year in and year out (Essentially Valverde if he was as good of a gc rider as Enric Mas).

 

[Wyndbrook]

But that's the thing, most of the top spots are not taken by modern day greats but then you have Nibali who is argubly a distant 3rd best gc rider of his own era and yet he comes so close. It's a bit as if despite the dominance of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, Murray actually held the record for most GS semifinal appearences.

Also Nibali was neither extremely young when he started scoring podiums nor is he seen as an example of extreme longevity. I just find it very curious that there has never been an outlier of someone consistently getting podiums and having a very long career. Like a version of Valverde who actually scores Vuelta podiums year in and year out (Essentially Valverde if he was as good of a gc rider as Enric Mas).

Perhaps it's just to much to expect a rider to score a high percentage of podiums and high number of races.
The race window was historically a lot tighter, taking 1990 as a typical example, the Vuelta started on 24th April, the Giro started three days after the Vuelta finished and the Tour finished on 22nd July.