Cycling Ranking Explained

Cycling Ranking
Commercial:No
Type:Online All-Time Pro-Cycling Ranking Website
Registration:No registration needed.
Language:English
Owner:Private-owned
Author:Peter van Uijtregt
Current Status:Active

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

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] Name From To
1 1965 1978
2 1977 1994
3 2002 2022
4 1934 1954
5 1973 1988
6 1970 1987
7 1960 1977
8 1969 1988
9 1965 1979
10 1952 1969

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
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

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]

References

  1. Web site: Cycling Ranking Year Ranking 1869. cyclingranking.com.
  2. News: The Outer Line: Ranking the greatest cyclists of all time. VeloNews.com. Daniel de Visé. February 20, 2019.
  3. Book: Kampioenen twijfelen niet. Aart Aarsbergen & Peter Nijssen. Singel Uitgevers. 2004.
  4. Book: De grootste wielerkampioenen. Aart Aarsbergen & Peter Nijssen. Muntinga. 2010.
  5. Book: The Comeback. Daniel de Visé. Atlantic Monthly Press. 2018.
  6. Web site: All-time Cycling Ranking . cyclingranking.com.
  7. Web site: All-time Country Ranking . cyclingranking.com.
  8. Web site: All-time Team Ranking . cyclingranking.com.
  9. Web site: All-time Team Manager Ranking . cyclingranking.com.
  10. Web site: All-time Directeur Sportif Ranking . cyclingranking.com.