Cycling Ranking

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Cycling Ranking
File:Cyclingranking-logo.jpg
Type of site
Online All-Time Pro-Cycling Ranking Website
Available inEnglish
OwnerPrivate-owned
Created byPeter van Uijtregt
URLcyclingranking.com
CommercialNo
RegistrationNo registration needed.
LaunchedJune 6, 1971; 54 years ago (1971-06-06)
Current statusActive

Cycling Ranking is an online database that offers insight into the yearly and overall career performances of professional road racing cyclists. The database contains race data going back to year 1869.[1] Its aim is to provide historical context to rider's performance over time by means of an all-time ranking for male road-racing cyclists based on their results in professional road races.[2] The site and his ranking have been used by writers of cycling literature in order to make a selection of historical riders to be represented in their books.[3][4][5]

Rider Rankings

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The main part of the database provides access to the individual rider rankings. It offers range of different views into the history of professional cyclists and a personal page for each of the riders. Different individual ranking are:

  • Yearly Rankings.
  • Top 10-Year Average Ranking, that attempts to correct the ranking for riders that have exceptionally long careers.
  • Contemporary Rankings, where cyclists are being compared to their contemporaries.

The main ranking is the Overall Individual Ranking, that currently has the following top 10:

Rank[6] Name From To
1 File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1965 1978
2 File:Flag of Spain.svg Alejandro Valverde (ESP) 2002 2022
3 File:Flag of Ireland.svg Sean Kelly (IRL) 1977 1994
4 File:Flag of Italy.svg Gino Bartali (ITA) 1934 1954
5 File:Flag of Italy.svg Francesco Moser (ITA) 1973 1988
6 File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Joop Zoetemelk (NED) 1970 1987
7 File:Flag of France.svg Raymond Poulidor (FRA) 1960 1977
8 File:Flag of Slovenia.svg Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia) 2017 2025
9 File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Roger De Vlaeminck (BEL) 1969 1988
10 File:Flag of Italy.svg Felice Gimondi (ITA) 1965 1979

Country Rankings

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The Country Rankings give a historical overview of the performances of countries respective to each other and rankings of individual riders for each country, both yearly and overall since 1869. Currently the overall Top 10 Country Ranking is as follows

Rank[7] Country
1 File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy
2 File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium
3 File:Flag of France.svg France
4 File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain
5 File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
6 File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland
7 File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany
8 File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
9 File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
10 File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States

Team Rankings

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Besides individual and country rankings the database attempts to offer a historical overview of the commercial trade teams, its directors and its managers, again, both yearly and overall. At the moment the most successful trade team is the Peugeot Cycling Team,[8] the top team manager, Patrick Lefevere[9] and the top directeur sportif, Lomme Driessens.[10]

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