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- Mark Cavendish. As of 2023, Mark Cavendish amassed 34 Tour de France stage wins - equalling the record set by Merckx and is the rider with the most road stage wins (excluding time trials) of all time.
- Peter Sagan. Peter Sagan claimed the points classification at the Tour de France seven times between 2012 and 2019 and won the World Championship title three years in a row.
- Erik Zabel. Before Sagan, Erik Zabel was the King of the Green Jersey with six consecutive points competition victories at the Tour de France. Zabel also claimed three points jerseys at the Vuelta and a total the 20 Grand Tour stages (12 at the Tour, 8 at the Vuelta).
- Mario Cipollini. Love him or hate him, but only few would disagree that 'Super Mario' has changed the face of modern cycling forever: not only did he win the greatest amount of Grand Tour stages ever for a pure sprinter (57 compared to Merckx's 64), he also did so with a style and charisma that are impossible to imitate.
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In the history of road cycling there have been numerous great sprinters. The guys (and girls) who often only see the front of the race for those few brief seconds as they cross the finish line with their hands held high. It takes a daring risk taker to be a successful sprinter. That and a lot of leg speed and power to force the way through to front...
It's always going to be a challenge to specifically select the best sprinter in the sport's histry. Many of the top names have dominated their own era's. How would Freddy Maertens, the record holder for the number of stage wins in a single Grand Tour compare against the raw power in the final couple of hundred metres of Mark Cavendish. Many comment...
When you look at what makes a good sprinter great you have to look at how many stages they have won in the big big races of professional cycling. The Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana are the Grand Tours and are arguably the standard by which it's easy to judge the quality of a sprinter. The rider than has won the most Grand Tour st...
Mario Cipolliniis the most successful rider in Giro d'Italia history with 42 stage victories. His emergence at the top of the sport in the late 80's and 90's saw Super Mario fashion the first sprint trains to lead him to victory across the finish line during his most successful days leading the Saeco team. Regarded as one of the greatest sprinters ...
Growing up on the Isle of Man off the coast of England, The Manx Missile knew exactly what he wanted to do with himself. He wanted to be a professional cyclist and a sprinter. Instead of taking the standard British route towards the top through track cycling Cavendish packed his bags and headed over to Europe's hotbeds of cycling to learn his trade...
2007 saw Cavendish promoted to the T Mobile Team which saw him take a number of wins across Europe including tasting high level success at Grote Schildeprijs, as well as winning stages in races like the Volta a Catalunya, Four Days of Dunkirk and the Eneco Tour. His first professional season saw Cavendish equal Alessandro Petachi's neo-Pro record o...
Cavendish started the 2008 season well with wins in sprint stages of both the Giro D'Italia and Tour de France under the newly developed Team High Road which later became Team Columbia as new sponsors came on board as T Mobile left the sport. High Road and it's later guises (Columbia and then HTC) saw the extreme potential of Mark Cavendish and gea...
Dutchwoman Marianne Vos is arguably the most versitile cyclist on the planet right now. A multiple cyclocross world champion, Olympic champion and world road race champion her palmares are the envy of her rivals. Her ability to win from sprint finishes as well as her tenacity in smaller groups maskes her a fantastically talented all-round racer. Vo...
You don't get a nickname like the Tashkent Terror without good reason. Djamolodine Abdoujaparov's sprinting style almost looked like he did more sideways than forward movement but it was exceptionally fast with a reckless nature which alarmed fellow competitors. To cycling fans the 'Uzbek Express' will most likely be known for his crash with a road...
German sprint specialist Erik Zabel is officailly the most successful rider in Tour de France Green (Sprinters) Jersey history having won the jersey six times consecutively between 1996 and 2001 as part of a strong Team Telekom (later T-Mobile) during an era which has sadly been blighted by pharmacological performance enhancement in the professiona...
Sixteen years ago, a small, stocky 23-year-old Manx sprinter turned up to the biggest bike race in the world and he won. It was on that rain soaked finish in stage eight of the 2008 Tour de France that everyone learnt the name Mark Cavendish.
Cavendish was named the Tour’s greatest ever sprinter by L’Equipe in 2012 with no other sprinter winning as many stages of the race as the Manxman – in fact, following his stage six victory ...
Widely regarded as the greatest Irish cyclist of all time, Sean Kelly was far more than a pure sprinter yet still excelled in the discipline along with many other things. The Irishman was one of the last fast men to compete for overall honours at a Grand Tour, with him taking the red jersey in 1988.
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Jul 15, 2021 · Continued success across global races cemented his position as one of the world’s top sprinters, including a history-making performance in the 2012 Tour as he won the Champs Élyéeses stage in...
