Cycling Ranking

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Cycling Ranking
Cyclingranking-logo.jpg
Type of site
Online All-Time Pro-Cycling Ranking Website
Available inEnglish
OwnerPrivate-owned
Created byPeter van Uijtregt
URL cyclingranking.com
CommercialNo
RegistrationNo registration needed.
LaunchedJune 6, 1971;52 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]

Contents

Rider Rankings

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:

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

Rank [6] NameFromTo
1Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Eddy Merckx  (BEL)19651978
2Flag of Ireland.svg  Sean Kelly  (IRL)19771994
3Flag of Spain.svg  Alejandro Valverde  (ESP)20022022
4Flag of Italy.svg  Gino Bartali  (ITA)19341954
5Flag of Italy.svg  Francesco Moser  (ITA)19731988
6Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Joop Zoetemelk  (NED)19701987
7Flag of France.svg  Raymond Poulidor  (FRA)19601977
8Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Roger De Vlaeminck  (BEL)19691988
9Flag of Italy.svg  Felice Gimondi  (ITA)19651979
10Flag of France.svg  Jacques Anquetil  (FRA)19521969

Country Rankings

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
1Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
2Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
3Flag of France.svg  France
4Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
5Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
6Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
7Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
8Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
9Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
10Flag of the United States.svg  United States

Team Rankings

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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References

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