Cycling Ranking
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Type of site | Online All-Time Pro-Cycling Ranking Website |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Private-owned |
| Created by | Peter van Uijtregt |
| URL | cyclingranking |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No registration needed. |
| Launched | June 6, 1971 |
| 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 an all-time ranking for road-racing cyclists based on their results in professional road races, in order to offer a way to compare riders' performances over time.
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:
- 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[2] | Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Eddy Merckx (BEL) |
1965 | 1978 |
| 2 |  Gino Bartali (ITA) |
1934 | 1954 |
| 3 |  Sean Kelly (IRL) |
1977 | 1994 |
| 4 |  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) |
2002 | |
| 5 |  Joop Zoetemelk (NED) |
1970 | 1987 |
| 6 | Francesco Moser (ITA) |
1973 | 1988 |
| 7 | Felice Gimondi (ITA) |
1965 | 1979 |
| 8 | Roger De Vlaeminck (BEL) |
1969 | 1988 |
| 9 |  Raymond Poulidor (FRA) |
1960 | 1977 |
| 10 | Bernard Hinault (FRA) |
1975 | 1986 |
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[3] | Country |
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| 1 | Italy
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| 2 | Belgium
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| 3 | France
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| 4 | Spain
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| 5 | Netherlands
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| 6 |  Switzerland
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| 7 |  Germany
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| 8 |  Australia
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| 9 |  United Kingdom
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| 10 |  United States
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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,[4] the top team manager, Patrick Lefevere[5] and the top directeur sportif, Lomme Driessens.[6]
References
- ^ "Cycling Ranking Year Ranking 1869". cyclingranking.com.
- ^ "All-time Cycling Ranking". cyclingranking.com.
- ^ "All-time Country Ranking". cyclingranking.com.
- ^ "All-time Team Ranking". cyclingranking.com.
- ^ "All-time Team Manager Ranking". cyclingranking.com.
- ^ "All-time Directeur Sportif Ranking". cyclingranking.com.