Teams & Riders The Amazing Race to Most Top10 Without a Win

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If someone made a nice trophy and gave it to the winner, I'm sure the competition would soon get the recognition it deserves.
 
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Coquard definitely wins. Having taken the lead yesterday, he was smart enough to simply not be in the front of the Boucles de L'Aulne today.

And with 23 he also got more than Almeida had when he cracked, so there's no doubt about it.

I hope Coquard finally gets that first major victory. He's off to a great start.

And I decided to back the right rider for once.
 
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Apols if it's been covered before - do we have an all-time record of most top 10s in a year without a win?
From the OP of the thread, Caruso got 30 in 2014. I don’t know how far back into the sands of time and archives of L’Equipe and Gazzetta that research has gone to determine a true all-time list.
 
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2014 is as far back as I've gone. Pozzovivo was on 25 after the Italian nationals but only had 2 more race days for the rest of the year and dropped to 4th.
 
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Standings
23 - B. Coquard
22 - M. Matthews
18 - M. Teunissen
16 - F. Bonnamour, G. Ciccone, L. Mozzato, S. Aniołkowski, J. Haig
15 - N. Bouhanni, V. Albanese, M. Sarreau, H. Hofstetter, M. Walscheid
14 - J. Degenkolb, A. Pasqualon, P. Allegaert, W. Kelderman
13 - A. Dainese, M. Mørkøv, G. Van Avermaet, S. Higuita, F. Fiorelli, G. Vermeersch, Q. Pacher
12 - A. Covi, T. Van der Sande, E. Grosu, M. Kwiatkowski, A. Capiot
11 - F. Masnada, S. Consonni, O.C. Eiking, B. McNulty, O. Rodríguez, J. Lastra, S. Oldani, D. de la Cruz, A. Turgis, M. Skjelmose, R. Barbier, R. Adriá, G.Martín Sanz
10 - N. Oliveira, C. Rodríguez Cano, J. Amezqueta, J. Shaw, L. Hamilton, T. Benoot
9 - E. Affini, R. Oliveira, D. McLay, A. Vuillermoz, R. Janse Van Rensburg, K. Aasvold, G. Carboni, I. Van Wilder, R. Thalmann, G. Lonardi, R. Minali

Most top 10 before first win
22 - J. Almeida
17 - M. Trentin
14 - A. Vlasov, M. Cattaneo
13 - D. van Poppel, A. Kristoff, M. Menten
12 - P. Ackermann, F. Gaviria, M. Hirschi, K. Halvorsen, B. Welten
11 - J. Aberasturi, N. Politt, R. Bardet, M. Landa
10 - R. Porte, H. Carthy, C. Champoussin
9 - A. Greipel, D. Caruso, M. Mohorič, B. O'Connor, J. Steimle
8 - B. Hermans, N. Schultz, W. Barguil, O. Kooij
 
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Durbridge, Christie-Johnson and Dyball should be removed because the Santos Festival of Cycling fails to attract UCI points.
 
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Durbridge, Christie-Johnson and Dyball should be removed because the Santos Festival of Cycling fails to attract UCI points.

In fact, if cat.2 races don't count, then this race should definitely not count.
 
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Even though I'm happy for him, I'm also a bit disappointed with Coquard. But if you have to go out eventually, it's obviously better to do it early on instead of going nuclear when your name is already written on the trophy, like Almeida did.
 
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