Cycling Weekly have created a new table ranking the Brits and Robert Millar comes top, above Tom Simpson.
CYCLING WEEKLY'S ALL-TIME RANKING
Last update July 27, 2010. Ranking will be updated regularly.
1 ROBERT MILLAR 2,900 points
Pro: 1980-95
2 Tom Simpson 2,545 points
Pro: 1958-1967
3 Chris Boardman 1,965 points
Pro: 1993-2000
4 Mark Cavendish 1,585 points
Pro: 2007-present
5 Barry Hoban 1,455 points
Pro: 1962-1981
6 David Millar 1,215 points*
Pro: 1997-present
7 Michael Wright 800 points
Pro: 1962-1976
8 Max Sciandri 675 points **
Pro: raced as a British rider 1995-2004
9 Sean Yates 635 points
Pro: 1982-1996
10 Brian Robinson 605 points
Pro: 1952-1963
11 Bradley Wiggins 345 points
Pro: 2002-present
12 Malcolm Elliott 380 points
Pro: 1984-1997
13 Roger Hammond 235 points
Pro: 1998-present
14 Jeremy Hunt 230 points
Pro: 1996-present
15 Vin Denson 155 points
Pro: 1959-1969
16 Alan Ramsbottom 150 points
Pro: 1961-1966
17= Graham Jones 120 points
Pro: 1979-1988
17= Paul Sherwen 120 points
Pro: 1978-1987
ANALYSING CW'S RANKING
Scotland's Robert Millar, who is ninth in the table of British pro winners, with 16 victories, tops the ranking. In 16 years as a professional (1980-1995), Millar was one of the finest climbers in the peloton.
He's the only British rider to have finished on the podium at the Giro d'Italia (second in 1987) and the Vuelta a Espana (second in 1985 and 1986). Millar's fourth place in the 1984 Tour de France is the highest by a British rider. That year he also won the polka-dot jersey as king of the mountains.
That Millar was Britain's greatest ever stage racer can be in little doubt. But it wasn't just in the grand tours that Millar excelled. He also won the Dauphiné Libéré (1990) and Tour of Catalonia (1985). His best one-day performances were sixth in the World Road Race Championships in Barcelona in 1984, and third in the 1988 Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
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