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Famous cycling champions - Statistics
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| During his career won 19 monument classics and 65 grand tours stages. | BEL | Eddy Merckx | 91%
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| 4 Grand Tours (3 Vueltas, 1 Giro d'Italia); but also a monument classic: the 2020 Liegi. | SVN | Primož Roglič | 91%
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| "El pistolero" is one of the only two cyclists ever able to win at least twice all three the grand tours. | ESP | Alberto Contador | 88%
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| Called "il campionissimo", won 5 Giro d'Italia, 2 Tour de France and the 1953 world title | ITA | Fausto Coppi | 88%
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| Called "the badger", won 5 Tour de France, 3 Giro d'Italia and 2 Vuelta: only one cyclist won more grand tours than him. | FRA | Bernard Hinault | 84%
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| With the title of world champion, one Sanremo and 54 grand tours stages, "Cannonball" is definitively one of the greates sprinter ever. | GBR | Mark Cavendish | 84%
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| Three times in a row world champions. Several times green jersey at the Tour the France. Flanders. Roubaix. One of the greatest cyclists of all time - and what a personality! | SVK | Peter Sagan | 81%
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| One of the only seven cyclists able to win all three the grand tours, he also won the Milano-Sanremo and two Giro di Lombardia. At the 2016 Olympics he felt while heading the race. | ITA | Vincenzo Nibali | 81%
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| He won also four Tour de France and one Vuelta, but maybe the highlight of his career is the astonishing win of the 2018 Giro d'Italia with the senseless action on the Colle delle Finestre. | GBR | Chris Froome | 75%
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| Phenomenal in time trials, he won both world and olympic gold in that speciality. And seven (!) grand tours - but not the one in his country, la Vuelta. | ESP | Miguel Indurain | 75%
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| The only Australian cyclist to win the road race at the world championships, he also won the 2011 Tour the France. | AUS | Cadel Evans | 66%
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| Could be enough the year: 1987. | IRL | Stephen Roche | 66%
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| Two times winner of the UCI World Tour, in his palmares there are two Giro di Lombardia and the 2012 La Flèche Wallonne | ESP | Joaquim Rodríguez | 56%
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| The "angel of the mountain" won a Tour de France and two Giro d'Italia; in the 1956 edition of the "corsa rosa" he won a famous stage with a terrible weather on Bondone mount, near Trento, despite being semi-frozer at the arrival. | LUX | Charly Gaul | 53%
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| He won the 1979 Vuelta and the 1980 Tour the France; than in 1985 he became world champion. | NLD | Joop Zoetemelk | 53%
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| Again, 4 Grand Tours (3 Vueltas, 1 Giro d'Italia) and a monument classic: in this case the Giro di Lombardia. But two times: 1989 and 1992. | CHE | Tony Rominger | 53%
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| Called "the eagle of Toledo", won the 1959 Tour de France and eleven grand tours stages. | ESP | Federico Bahamontes | 44%
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| In his rich palmares there are 4 Paris-Roubaix, 3 Milano-Sanremo, 2 Giro di Lombardia and 22 stages at Giro d'Italia: it seems he loved racing in Italy. | BEL | Roger De Vlaeminck | 44%
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| 8 Grand Tours, the 1966 Liegi and several other wins, such as Paris-Nice, Tour of Basque Country, Gand-Wevelgem. One of the greatest cyclists of all time. | FRA | Jacques Anquetil | 41%
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| Three Tour de France and four different monument classics: what a palmarès for one of the greatest cyclists of the post WWII years. | FRA | Louison Bobet | 41%
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| Only a champion could win all three the Grand Tours in the years when "the cannibal" ruled. | ITA | Felice Gimondi | 38%
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| One of the only three riders able to won all the monument classics and the only one who also won the Paris-Tours (two times: 1959 and 1967) | BEL | Rik Van Looy | 34%
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| 5 monument classics, 25 grand tour stages, 3 times world champions (last one in 1957). | BEL | Rik Van Steenbergen | 31%
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| After his 1929 total domine, the Giro d'Italia organization paid him to not partecipate in the next edition. He was called "the lord of the mountains". | ITA | Alfredo Binda | 22%
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| Maybe Germany (West Germany, in this case) is not a country full of cycling champions; but this guy won a Vuelta, one Sanremo, one Flanders and became world champion in 1966. | FRG | Rudi Altig | 22%
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