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Best men's WorldTour bikes of 2023: Which brand won the most races?

Canyon and Colnago dominated at the Monuments, but there was no stopping Cervélo and Specialized at the Grand Tours

Tom Hallam-Gravells

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Who was the most successful bike brand in 2023?

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Who was the most successful bike brand in 2023?

The 2023 men’s WorldTour season is already disappearing into the rear-view mirror, but it will live long in the memory. It was a year that delivered historical success for Jumbo-Visma as they became the first team to win all three Grand Tours in a single season , while Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel duked it out for Monument supremacy.

Although the riders are the stars of the show, none of their success would be possible without the bikes that helped guide them to victory. To ensure that these bikes receive fair recognition, we’ve tallied up all of the wins each bike brand amassed during the 2023 WorldTour season.

Who came out on top? Here’s a breakdown of Monument, Grand Tour and overall victories.

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Which bikes won the most Monuments?

=1st: canyon aeroad (alpecin-deceuninck).

2 wins: Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix

Mathieu van der Poel winning Milan-San Remo

Mathieu van der Poel took two Monument victories on the Canyon Aeroad

With Mathieu van der Poel among its riders, Canyon is virtually guaranteed a Monument victory each season. The Dutchman has only failed to win a Monument in one of the last four seasons. He went one better in 2023 by doubling up for the first time, winning Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix.

Incredibly, those were his only WorldTour wins in 2023 - the Dutchman clearly knows how to dial in his form for exactly when he needs it. That was proven once again at the World Championships where he powered to victory , becoming road world champion for the first time.

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=1st: Colnago V4Rs (UAE Team Emirates)

2 wins: Tour of Flanders and Il Lombardia

Tadej Pogačar and his Colnago V4Rs at Il Lombardia

Tadej Pogačar and his Colnago V4Rs at Il Lombardia

It could have been three Monuments for Mathieu van der Poel if it wasn’t for that pesky Tadej Pogačar. The Slovenian is equally as prolific for Colnago, although that’s previously been at either Liège-Bastogne-Liège or Il Lombardia.

This year he conquered the cobbles for the first time, winning the Tour of Flanders after cracking Van der Poel late in the race, before becoming only the third rider to win Il Lombardia three times in a row, joining Fausto Coppi and Alfredo Binda in a very esteemed list.

Both Pogačar and Van der Poel have now won three of the five monuments; can either complete the set?

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3rd: Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL7 (Soudal Quick-Step)

1 win: Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Remco Evenepoel won Liège-Bastogne-Liège atop the Specialized Tarmac SL7 which has since been upgraded with the Tarmac SL8

Remco Evenepoel won Liège-Bastogne-Liège atop the Specialized Tarmac SL7 which has since been upgraded with the Tarmac SL8

There are only five Monuments up for grabs each season. With Colnago and Canyon doubling up, that only leaves one spot on the podium, and it goes to Specialized , courtesy of Remco Evenepoel ’s second consecutive victory at Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

The Belgian blew hot and cold at times throughout the season, with his Grand Tour general classification hopes stalling at both the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España. However, there was no stopping him at the Belgian Monument as he delivered another dominant victory after surging away from Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers). That was atop the Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL7 but it has since been replaced by the S-Works Tarmac SL8 .

  • Read more: Stiffer, lighter, more aerodynamic – Specialized launches new Tarmac SL8

Grand Tours: Which bikes took the most wins at the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España?

1st: specialized.

12 stage wins: Bora-Hansgrohe, Soudal Quick-Step, TotalEnergies

Specialized made its numerical team advantage count at the Grand Tours this season by topping the pile with 12 wins. Most of those were delivered by Bora-Hansgrohe and Soudal Quick-Step , but TotalEnergies contributed one victory in their Grand Tour outing at the Tour de France, where the ProTeam regularly receives an invite.

While its 12 wins are impressive, Specialized is missing an overall Grand Tour victory from its palmarès in 2023. Those expectations were planted firmly on the shoulders of Remco Evenepoel, but his Giro d’Italia plans were scuppered by COVID-19, before his Vuelta a España defence quickly crumbled.

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2nd: Cervélo

7 stage wins, 3 overall victories: Jumbo-Visma

Sepp Kuss and his teammates completed a Grand Tour clean sweep in 2023

Sepp Kuss and his teammates completed a Grand Tour clean sweep in 2023

Few would argue that Jumbo-Visma weren’t the best team of 2023, even if the UCI’s rankings don’t reflect that. The team was successful year-round, but it was the Grand Tours where they really stamped their authority on the season, making history in the process by becoming the first team to win all three in a single season.

Primož Roglič delivered the first at the Giro d’Italia, Jonas Vingegaard added to it by defending his Tour de France title, before Sepp Kuss surprised everyone by winning the Vuelta a España.

With stage wins added in, Cervélo enjoyed 10 victories at Grand Tours, and each of them was delivered by one of those three riders. It could have been even more if Wout van Aert hadn’t endured a rare Grand Tour barren spell .

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3rd: Canyon

9 stage wins: Alpecin-Deceuninck, Movistar

Canyon bikes dominated sprints at the Grand Tours in 2023

Canyon bikes dominated sprints at the Grand Tours in 2023

Alpecin-Deceuninck did most of Canyon’s heavy lifting at the Grand Tours in 2023 or, more specifically, Jasper Philipsen and Kaden Groves did. The sprint duo amassed eight of the German brand’s nine wins, with Einer Rubio ’s victory on stage 13 of the Giro d’Italia providing Movistar’s sole contribution towards this tally.

While their wins weren’t enough to top the rankings, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Canyon were undoubtedly the sprint kings at the Grand Tours in 2023.

  • Read more: Vuelta a España pro bike: Kaden Groves’ Canyon Aeroad CFR

Which bikes took the most wins in the 2023 men's WorldTour?

The Grand Tours and Monuments are cycling’s premier events, but littered amongst them are a wealth of prestigious races, each providing the opportunity for a coveted WorldTour win.

Here’s the complete bike rankings for the 2023 WorldTour season, including every individual race, stage and general classification victory.

As you may expect, the same brands dominate once again, plus some non-WorldTour brands make an appearance in the form of Aurum, Factor and Ridley, whose ProTeams all picked up WorldTour wins in 2023.

  • 1st. 38 wins — Cervélo — Jumbo-Visma
  • 2nd. 31 wins — Specialized — Bora-Hansgrohe, Soudal Quick-Step, TotalEnergies
  • 3rd. 28 wins — Colnago — UAE Team Emirates
  • 4th. 20 wins — Canyon — Alpecin-Deceuninck, Movistar
  • 5th. 12 wins — Merida — Bahrain Victorious
  • 6th. 9 wins — Pinarello — Ineos Grenadiers
  • 7th. 8 wins — Trek — Lidl-Trek
  • 8th. 5 wins — Scott — dsm-firmenich
  • =9th. 4 wins — Cannondale — EF Education-EasyPost
  • =9th. 4 wins — Cube — Intermarché-Circus-Wanty
  • =9th. 4 wins — Giant — Jayco-AlUla
  • =9th. 4 wins — Look — Cofidis
  • 13th. 3 wins — BMC — AG2R Citroën
  • =14th. 2 wins — Lapierre — Groupama-FDJ
  • =14th. 2 wins — Ridley — Lotto Dstny
  • =16th. 1 wins — Aurum — Eolo-Kometa
  • =16th. 1 wins — Factor — Israel-Premier Tech
  • =16th. 1 wins — Wilier Triestina — Astana Qazaqstan

Which bike brands won the most races in the Women’s WorldTour in 2023? We’ll be releasing the full rankings soon.

Keep up to date with the latest tech news, features and pro bikes on the GCN website, linked here .

Alpecin-Deceuninck

Alpecin-Deceuninck

  • Nationality Belgium
  • Founded 2009
  • Team Principal Christoph Roodhooft & Philip Roodhooft
  • UCI Code ADC
  • Bike Sponsor Canyon

UAE Team Emirates

UAE Team Emirates

  • Nationality United Arab Emirates
  • Founded 2017
  • Team Principal Mauro Gianetti
  • UCI Code UAD
  • Bike Sponsor Colnago

Jumbo-Visma

Jumbo-Visma

  • Nationality Netherlands
  • Founded 1984
  • Team Principal Richard Plugge
  • UCI Code TJV
  • Bike Sponsor Cervélo

Mathieu van der Poel

Mathieu van der Poel

  • Team Alpecin-Deceuninck
  • UCI Wins 51
  • Height 1.84m

Tadej Pogacar

Tadej Pogacar

  • Team UAE Team Emirates
  • Nationality Slovenia
  • UCI Wins 73
  • Height 1.76m

Remco Evenepoel

Remco Evenepoel

  • Team Soudal Quick-Step
  • UCI Wins 54
  • Height 1.71m

Jonas Vingegaard

Jonas Vingegaard

  • Team Team Visma | Lease a Bike
  • Nationality Denmark
  • UCI Wins 35
  • Height 1.75m

Canyon

Canyon Bicycles GmbH is a German manufacturer of road bikes, mountain bikes, hybrid bikes, triathlon bikes and e-bikes based in Koblenz, Germany.

Colnago

One of the most iconic Italian bike brands, Colnago has supplied bikes to some of the best riders in the world, including Eddy Merckx and Tadej Pogačar.

Specialized

Specialized

Specialized is a bike manufacturer based in California, USA. The company produces bicycles and components for a wide variety of cycling disciplines. Specialized also sells a range of premium products under its S-works brand.

Pinarello

Pinarello is a bike manufacturer based in Treviso, Italy. It produces a range of high-end bikes for road, track, mountain and electric disciplines. The company takes pride in being the most decorated bike manufacturer in Tour de France history.

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Most cycling Grand Tour wins

Most cycling Grand Tour wins

The most cycling Grand Tour wins is 11, achieved by Eddy Merckx (Belgium) between 1968 and 1974.

In cycling, the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España races are known collectively as the Grand Tours.

Widely regarded as the most successful competitive cyclist in history, Eddy Merckx won five Tours de France (1969–72, 1974) and five Giros d’Italia (1968, 1970, 1972–74) – both joint records. He also triumphed at the 1973 Vuelta a España.

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'This is so much more than a number': Six of the best Ineos Grenadiers wins as team claims 500th race victory

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot took the 500th team win at the weekend

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Ineos Grenadiers claimed its 500th race victory this weekend, thanks to Pauline Ferrand-Prévot winning a French Cup mountain bike race in France. 

Since its days as Sky, the squad has become one of the biggest and most successful cycling teams in the world. Amongst its haul of accolades, the team has won multiple Grand Tour titles, including seven Tours de France. From the Tour of Britain to the Arctic Race of Norway, Ineos have won across the world.

Sir Bradley Wiggins won the team’s first Grand Tour, the 2012 Tour de France , and the team has dominated the biggest race in the world for a number of years through Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas, and more recently Egan Bernal . 

As well as Grand Tour titles, the team has also won a range of major one day races including Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Paris-Roubaix and Strade Bianche. Almost all of the team's wins have been from men, with Ferrand-Prévot only joining in 2023.

"This is so much more than a number - it's the output of so many people, riders, support staff and partners, especially Pinarello and Kask who've been part of every single win - each of whom has given everything for the team," John Allert, the team's CEO said to Cycling Weekly . "To all of them I say a massive thank you." 

To mark the team's 500th win,  we have picked out six of the most memorable in recent times.  

Tom Pidcock - Strade Bianche 2023  

Tom Pidcock

Winning on Alpe d’Huez at the Tour de France in 2022 was undoubtedly one of Tom Pidcock’s career defining moments to date, although to some, his Strade Bianche victory several months later was arguably more significant and one of Ineos’ biggest successes in recent times. 

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Pidcock had already won a major one-day race, Brabantse Pijl - and gone close at Amstel Gold - so all the signs pointed to an imminent major one day victory for the Yorkshireman. 

In a typical gutsy showing from the then 23-year-old, it arrived in blockbuster fashion on the white gravel roads of Tuscany. 

Pidcock took flight on the race’s key gravel sector, the Monte Sante Marie, before powering away towards Siena and a famous victory. At times, it appeared like the select group of chasers were going to reel him in, but Pidcock masterfully controlled the gap to hold on for the win. 

Chris Froome - Giro d’Italia 2018, stage 19

Chris Froome

Chris Froome went into the 2018 Giro as one of the hot favourites for victory but, as can happen in any of the Grand Tours, luck wasn’t on his side in the early stages. 

Froome crashed during the recon of the opening time trial in Jerusalem and various other events appeared to halt his progress in the race in the opening period. The British rider won the stage that finished on Monte Zoncolan, but going into the mountainous stage 19, he was still significantly down in the general classification on the pink jersey wearer at that time, Simon Yates. 

What happened next was simply breathtaking. Froome attacked 80 kilometres from the stage finish on the Colle delle Finestre before going on to win the stage by more than three minutes ahead of second placed Richard Carapaz. 

As a result of his huge exploits, Froome pulled on the leader's jersey and eventually went on to take a memorable overall win in Rome.  

Geraint Thomas - Tour de France 2018, stage 12

Geraint Thomas

Going into stage 12, finishing on Alpe d’Huez, the GC boat had been well and truly rocked at Team Sky after Geraint Thomas had won the first stage of a Tour alpine double header at La Rosière. 

Prior to the race, Chris Froome was seen by many as being the team’s leader at the Tour. That undoubtedly changed in the mountains after Thomas left the Alps in the race leader's yellow jersey and with two more stage wins to add to his collection after doubling up on the slopes of the famous mountain. 

Speaking after the stage, Thomas ruled out his chances of overall victory in Paris. 

He said: "Honestly no, I just want to enjoy this victory. It's unbelievable. Even when I was crossing the line I was thinking 'surely there's someone in front'. It was just nuts."

Thomas went on to win the race overall, and famously dropped the microphone at the end of his winners speech on the Champs-Élysées in the French capital. 

Egan Bernal - Giro d’Italia 2021, stage 9

Egan Bernal

All eyes were on Bernal ahead of the 2021 Giro, as he looked to prove he was much more than just a one off winner of the Tour de France. 

The Colombian won Paris-Nice and the Tour in 2019 and many expected him to add a further Grand Tour win to his collection in the years that followed. At the Corsa Rosa , Bernal didn’t disappoint, and further underlined his credentials as one of the most exciting young prospects in cycling at that point. 

Bernal took control of the race on stage nine, attacking on the steep final gravel climb to Campo Felice to take a first-ever Grand Tour stage win. He also pulled on the race leader's pink jersey for his troubles and put time into another pre race favourite, Remco Evenepoel. 

The Ineos Grenadiers rider went on to win the race overall, adding a second stage victory on a snow affected stage to Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Dolomites. 

Ian Stannard - Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2015  

Ian Stannard

One of Team Sky’s most memorable one day victories was Ian Stannard’s second successive triumph at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. 

In a four up breakaway, Stannard outfoxed his three compatriots - three Etixx-QuickStep riders, including Tom Boonen - to power away to victory in Ghent. 

During the race, the odds seemed very much stacked against the British rider, with Belgian fans rubbing their hands together with glee at the prospect of victory for Boonen. 

However, Stannard had the last laugh, distancing two of his rivals, including Boonen, before outsprinting Terpstra for the win. 

"I’m certainly not the smartest, but hopefully one of the stronger ones," he joked afterwards as he reflected on his surprise win. 

Michał Kwiatkowski - Milan-San Remo 2017 

Michal Kwiatkowski

Nowadays, Michał Kwiatkowski is perhaps not one of the headline names at Ineos Grenadiers, often taking a support role as opposed to team leadership in races. But in the team's days as Team Sky, the Polish rider played a significant role at the head of the action.

That was particularly evident in 2017, when Kwiatkowski started his Spring campaign with a bang at Strade Bianche before going on to take a bigger prize, a Milan-San Remo victory. 

Kwiatkowski helped the team take a masterful win at the longest race of the year. 

After tracking accelerations on the Poggio from his former rival at junior and under-23 level, Peter Sagan, Kwiatkowski outsmarted the Slovakian and Julian Alaphilippe in a three-up sprint on the Via Roma to claim one of the most sought after trophies in men’s professional cycling. 

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Tom joined Cycling Weekly in early 2022 and his news stories, rider interviews and features appear both online and in the magazine. 

He has reported from some of professional cycling's biggest events and races including the Tour de France and the recent Glasgow World Championships. He has also covered races elsewhere across the world and interviewed some of the biggest stars in the sport including Tom Pidcock, Wout van Aert, Primož Roglič and Lizzie Deignan. 

When not writing news scoops from the WorldTour, or covering stories from elsewhere in the domestic professional scene, he reports on goings on at bike shops up and down the UK, where he is based when not out on the road at races. He has also appeared on the Radio Cycling podcast. 

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We Rank the Top 2024 Grand Tour Stage Hunters

Breaking down where each major grand tour stage win contender stands as we kick off the 2024 season..

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Even with the 2024 WorldTour season kicking off last week at the Tour Down Under , I wanted to continue to look forward to the upcoming major races of the 2024 racing season. To build off last month’s tiering of the top 2024 grand tour and one-day contenders, today we are finishing off this three-part series separating the top grand tour stage-winning riders into five tiers.

Ranking the Top 2024 Grand Tour Stage Contenders

When I initially sat down last year to do this exercise, I wanted this to be a breakdown of the sport’s top sprinters. But after sorting their grand tour stage results from recent seasons, it became clear that the most prolific modern winners don’t necessarily fall into a pure ‘sprinter’ category (i.e. Wout van Aert) and some, like Tadej Pogačar , have been able to become the sport’s top stage hunters while balancing GC ambitions.

Since the ultimate point of employing a sprinter is to maximize your team’s chances of winning the largest possible volume of races, it only seems fair to weigh sprinters against all other potential stage winners. Unfortunately, outside of making this project much more difficult, this expansion meant that many talented (especially young) riders had to be left off.

Why This Is Helpful

As I outlined last week, the purpose of this exercise is to attempt to cut through the noise objectively and see who the best riders in each discipline are. This is especially important in the modern landscape, where there can be an odd inversion of a rider’s results and the media coverage they receive, and the general narrative can be incredibly slow when it comes to recognizing that riders have passed their prime and are no longer consistent contenders and that certain riders win at an incredibly high rate (i.e., Mads Pedersen).

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The Criteria

To delineate them into tiers, I am taking into account 1) top three results in grand tour stages over the past four seasons, with results generated recently given greater emphasis, 2) their age, and, most importantly 3) their likelihood to generate results (wins) in grand tour stages across the 2024 season.

While there is a nearly endless array of established and emerging stage-winning talents,  a rider must have won a grand tour stage in the past two seasons to qualify for a spot in the five tiers.  Some younger riders, like Derek Gee, Olav Kooij, Quinn Simmons, and Arnaud de Lie, may go on to win multiple grand tour stages in 2024, but for the sake of this exercise and to keep the list from ballooning to an unmanageable size, we are only focusing on riders who have ticked this box.

  • Additionally, since every grand tour doesn’t have the same level of competition, Tour de France stage wins are weighted above wins at the two other ‘lesser’ grand tours (Giro & Vuelta).

One major thing that stood out while poring over these results was the undeniable trend in the modern iteration of the sport where pure sprinters struggle to dominate the stage-win count as the rise of more challenging courses, and more versatile superstars squeeze their opportunities for stage wins.

  • This is especially prevalent at the Tour de France, where the higher level of talent, increasing stakes, ever-challenging courses, and, for the most part, the death of the pancake-flat transition stage, have made it tougher and tougher for pure sprinters to rack up wins.

Below, each rider is listed in their BTP designated tier along with the age they will be racing at in 2024:

Reserved for riders who have proven an ability to win multiple stages at the sport’s top grand tours against the toughest competition and, most importantly, have the ability to do so in 2024. Just at a glance, it becomes clear this is an incredibly elite group of riders with the rare combination of elite talent and recent real-world results to back that talent up.

Primož Roglič (34)

  • 2023:  1xGiro wins (2xGiro podiums), 2xVuelta wins (4xVuelta podiums)
  • 2022:  1xLaVuelta wins (2xLaVuelta podiums), 0xTdF wins (1xTdF podium)
  • 2021:  2xLaVuelta wins (6xLaVuelta podiums), 0xTdF wins (2xTdF podiums)
  • Totals : 10xGT stage wins (6xLaVuelta, 1xTdF), 27xGT stage podiums

Jasper Philipsen (25)

  • 2023:  4xTdF wins  ( 6xTdF podiums)
  • 2022:  2xTdF wins (5xTdF podiums)
  • 2021:  2xLaVuelta wins (3xLaVuelta podiums), (6xTdF podiums)
  • Totals : 9xGT stage wins (6xTdF 3xVuelta), 22xGT stage podiums

Tadej Pogačar (25)

  • 2023:  2xTdF win (7xTdF podium)
  • 2022:  3xTdF win (5xTdF podium)
  • 2021:  2xTdF win (3xTdF podium)
  • Totals:  9xGT stage wins (9xTdF), 19xGT total stage podiums

Remco Evenepoel (24)

  • 2023:  2xGiro win (2xGiro podiums), 3xLaVuelta wins (6xLaVuelta podiums)
  • 2022:  1xLaVuelta stage win (3xLaVuelta podium)
  • Totals:  6xGT stage win (4xLaVuelta, 2xGiro), 11xGT stage podiums

Riders who have both won in the past, and could again in 2024, multiple grand tour stages, but, their Tour de France success either lacks the required volume (Vingegaard & Pedersen), or recency (Van Aert) to land them in the top tier. Still, these riders will be considered serious potential stage winners across any grand tour they take part in during the 2024 season.

Mads Pedersen (28)

  • 2023:  1xGiro win (3xGiro podium), 1xTdF win (1xTdF podium)
  • 2022:  3xLaVuelta win (7xLaVuelta podium), 1xTdF win (3xTdF podium)
  • Totals : 6xGT stage win (3xLaVuelta, 1xGiro, 2xTdF), 16xGT stage podiums

Wout van Aert (29)

  • 2023:  0x wins  ( 4xTdF Podium)
  • 2022:  2xTdF wins (6xTdF podium)
  • 2021:  2xTdF wins (3xTdF podium)
  • Totals : 6xGT stage wins (6xTdF), 17xGT stage podiums

Jonas Vingegaard (27)

  • 2023:  1xTdF win (4xTdF podium), 2xLaVuelta win (4xLaVuelta podium)
  • 2022 : 2xTdF wins (4xTdF podium)
  • 2021 : 0xTdF stage wins (2xTdF podium)
  • Totals:  5xGT stage wins (3xTdF, 2xLaVuelta), 14xGT stage podiums

The level of talent in this tier is absurdly high, as evidenced by world-class riders sprinters like Groves, a multi-time world champion in Filippo Ganna, and a superstar in the form of Mathieu van der Poel. While they are all capable of winning multiple stages at any grand tour they enter, up until this point, they have lacked either the volume or recency of success at the Tour de France needed to crack a higher tier. The 2024 season will present a major opportunity for every rider in this tier to increase their standing, but with so much quality occupying the tiers above them and the youth in the ranks below them, this will prove to be no easy feat.

Filippo Ganna (27)

  • 2023:  0xGiro wins (1xGiro podiums), 1xLaVuelta win (4xLaVuelta podium)
  • 2021:  2xGiro wins (2xGiro podiums)
  • Totals : 7xGT stage wins (6xGiro, 1xLaVuelta), 11xGT stage podiums

Magnus Cort (31)

  • 2023:  1xGiro win  ( 2xGiro podium)
  • 2022 : 1xTdF win (1xTdF podium), (1xGiro podium)
  • 2021 : 3xLaVuelta win (4xLaVuelta podium), (1xTdF podium)
  • Totals:  6xGT stage win (4xLaVuelta, 1xTdF, 1xGiro), 10xGT stage podium

Kaden Groves (25)

  • 2023:  1xGiro win (3xGiro podium), 3xLaVuelta win (5xLaVuelta podium)
  • 2022:  1xLaVuelta win (1xLaVuelta podium)
  • Totals : 5xGT stage win (1xGiro, 4xLaVuelta), 9xGT stage podium

Michael Matthews (33)

  • 2023:  1xGiro win (2xGiro podium)
  • 2022 : 1xTdF win (3xTdF podium)
  • 2021 : 0xLaVuelta wins (2xLaVuelta podium), 0xTdF wins (2xTdF podium)
  • Totals:  2xGT stage wins (1xGiro, 1xTdF), 11xGT stage podiums

Mathieu van der Poel (29)

  • 2022:  1xGiro win (2xGiro podium)
  • 2021:  1xTdF stage win (1xTdF podium)
  • Totals : 2xGT stage wins (1xTdF, 1xGiro), 3xGT stage podiums

These are riders who are either veterans impressively holding onto their past dominance (Cavendish), solid stage-hunting careerists who have emerged as consistent performers in the past few years (Mohorič), mid-career stars attempting to recover from a disappointing 2023 (Carapaz), or young riders who make up for their lack of volume with scorching-hot upward trajectories and qualities of wins (Pidcock) that indicate they will continue to build on their existing stage win palmares in 2024.

Fabio Jakobsen (27)

  • 2022:  1xTdF win (1xTdF podium)
  • 2021:  3xLaVuelta win (5xLaVuelta podiums)
  • Totals : 4xGT stage wins (1xTdF, 5xVuelta), 6xGT stage podiums

Jonathan Milan (23)

  • 2023:  1xGiro win (5xGiro podium)
  • Totals : 1xGT stage wins (1xGiro), 5xGT stage podiums

Matej Mohorič (29)

  • 2023:  1xTdF win (2xTdF podium)
  • 2021:  2xTdF wins (2xTdF podiums)
  • Totals : 3xGT stage wins (3xTdF), 4xGT stage podiums

Tom Pidcock (24)

  • Totals : 1xGT stage win (1xTdF), 1xGT stage podium

Richard Carapaz (30)

  • 2022:  3xLaVuelta wins (3xLaVuelta podium), (2xGiro podiums)
  • 2021 : (2xTdF podiums)
  • Totals:  3xGT stage wins (3xLaVuelta), 12xGT total stage podiums

Mark Cavendish (39)

  • 2023:  1xGiro stage win (2xGiro podium), (1xTdF podium)
  • 2022 : 1xGiro stage win (3xGiro podium)
  • 2021 : 4xTdF stage win (5xTdF podium)
  • Totals:  6xGT stage wins (4xTdF, 2xGiro), 11xGT stage podiums

A collection of the sport’s top stage winners who either are struggling to win at the same rate they have in the past (Bennett, Groenewegen, Démare) but are still amongst the elite group of riders capable of winning Tour stages and riders who have won memorable stages at grand tours but lack the ability to rack up the volume of riders in higher tiers (Asgreen ) .

Arnaud Démare (32)

  • 2022:  3xGiro win (4xGiro podium)
  • 2021:  0xLaVuelta wins  ( 1xLaVuelta podium)
  • Totals : 7xGT stage wins (7xGiro), 9xGT stage podiums

Sam Bennett (33)

  • 2022:  2xLaVuelta win (2xLaVuelta podium)
  • Totals:  5xGT stage wins (3xLaVuelta, 2xTdF), 9xGT stage podiums

Dylan Groenewegen (30)

  • 2023:  (2xTdF podium)
  • 2022:  1xTdF win (2xTdF podium)
  • Totals : 1xGT stage win (1xTdF), 4xGT stage podiums

Kasper Asgreen (29)

  • 2022:  0xTdF win (1xTdF podium)
  • Totals : 1xGT stage wins (1xTdF), 3xGT stage podiums

Simon Yates (31)

  • 2023 : 0xTdF wins (2xTdF podium)
  • 2022 : 1xGiro win (1xGiro podium)
  • 2021 : 1xGiro win (2xGiro podium)
  • Totals:  2xGT stage wins (2xGiro), 5xGT stage podiums

Adam Yates (31)

  • 2023 : 1xTDF win, (2xTdF podium)
  • 2021 : (1xLaVuelta podium)
  • Totals:  1xGT stage wins (1xTDF), 4xGT stage podiums

Notable omissions due to not meeting recent-win criteria:

Tim Merlier (31): 2020-2023 Totals:  2xGT stage win (1xTdF, 1xGiro), 5xGT podiums Julian Alaphilippe (31):   2020-2023 Totals:  2xGT stage wins (2xTdF), 2xGT stage podiums Caleb Ewan (29): 2020-2023 Totals:  4xGT stage wins (3xTdF, 2xGiro), 7xGT stage podium Derek Gee (26):   2020-2023 Totals:  4xGT stage podiums

Key Takeaways

1) Tadej Pogačar is undeniably the best rider in the sport

  • If Pogacar can continue his current run of dominance for a full decade (no easy feat),  he has a real opportunity to match the palmares of the seemingly untouchable Eddy Merckx .

2) Pure sprinters are still the most efficient type of riders at racking up Grand Tour stage results, but the landscape is quickly shifting

  • 1xTier 1, 0xTier 2, 1xTier 3, 3xTier 4, 3xTier 5
  • 3xTier 1, 1xTier 2, 0xTier 3, 1xTier 4, 2xTier 5
  • 0xTier 1, 2xTier 2, 2xTier 3, 2xTier 4, 1xTier 5
  • In fact, illustrating just how important Philipsen’s higher level of versatility and fitness is compared to the other top sprinters, he is the only one of the sprinting Big Six (Philipsen, Jakobsen, Ewan, Bennett, Démare, and Groenewegen) to have won multiple Tour de France stages in the past three seasons.

3) The team-by-team tier breakdowns show just how much Visma has shifted their priorities towards Vingegaard’s Tour de France dominance

  • Tier Breakdowns by Team:

Alpecin : 3 (1xTier 1, 2xTier 3) Jayco:  3 (1xTier 3, 2x Tier 5 UAE:  2  ( 1xTier 1, 1xTier 5) Soudal-QuickStep:  2 (1xTier 1, 1xTier 5) Visma:  2  ( 2xTier 2) Lidl-Trek:  2 (1xTier 2, 1xTier 4) Ineos : 2 (1xTier 3, 1xTier 4)

Bora:  1 (1xTier 1) Uno-X : 1 (1xTier 3) EF : 1 (1xTier 4) DSM : 1 (1xTier 4) Bahrain : 1 (1xTier 4) Astana : 1 (1xTier 4) Groupama-FDJ : 1 (1xTier 5) AG2R:  1 (1xTier 5)

  • Another notable callout is Jayco, who has assembled an extremely solid stage-hunting roster for the 2024 season.

4) Two of the sport’s biggest stars, Wout van Aert & Mathieu van der Poel, are surprisingly bad at scoring stage wins in grand tours

  • In short, his overloaded schedule continues to siphon off a significant portion of his stage-winning potential.
  • Somewhat related to this, he has mismanaged the end of key stages (See: TdF 2023 Stages 2, 8 & 15), where he was the heavy favorite, partly due to not having support from his Jumbo team, which was (rightly) focused on the GC at the time.

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No Grand Tour stage win for a Dutch rider for first time in eight years

But Dutch WorldTour team Jumbo-Visma wins Vuelta a España for second year in a row

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Dutch newspaper the  Algemeen Dagblad  has pointed out that there was no Dutch winner of a Grand Tour stage this season for the first time since 2012. 

The nation's collective disappointment must be tempered, however, by the fact that Dutch WorldTour team Jumbo-Visma has just won the Vuelta a España for the second year in a row thanks to Slovenia's Primož Roglič, who also finished second at the Tour de France in September.

In an article published on  AD.nl  after the final stage of the Vuelta in Madrid on Sunday, the newspaper reported that after Bauke Mollema put the nation back on track in 2013 with his stage victory at the Vuelta – riding for Dutch team Belkin, which later became Jumbo-Visma – Dutch riders have since taken at least two stage wins per year across the Tour, Vuelta and Giro d'Italia, up until this season.

In 2014, Pieter Weening won a stage at the Giro and Lars Boom at the Tour, and in 2015, all four stage victories came at the Vuelta, courtesy of Danny van Poppel, Bert-Jan Lindeman and two from Tom Dumoulin.

There was then another stage victory for Dumoulin at the Giro in 2016, and two more for him at that year's Tour, while Robert Gesink won a stage at the Vuelta. Dumoulin then won twice at the 2017 Giro, and Jos van Emden won the Giro's final time trial, and Mollema and Dylan Groenewegen took wins at the Tour.

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Tom Dumoulin has been the Netherlands' most successful Grand Tour stage winner since that barren 2012, with nine stage victories across all three three-week races, as well as overall victory at the 2017 Giro, which made him the first Dutch rider to win a Grand Tour since Joop Zoetemelk at the 1980 Tour de France.

Dumoulin's fortunes may have waned a little since then, but he won another stage at the 2018 Giro en route to what was an ultimately unsuccessful defence of his title, missing out to Team Sky's Chris Froome by just 46 seconds. And at the 2018 Tour, the Dutchman took what remains his most-recent Grand Tour stage victory, while Groenewegen sprinted to two more Tour wins.

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Last year it was down to Groenewegen and Jumbo-Visma teammate Mike Teunissen to take a stage win apiece at the Tour, while Deceuninck-QuickStep's Fabio Jakobsen nabbed two stages at the Vuelta.

It would be very reasonable to have expected Jakobsen to have taken at least one more stage victory at one of this year's Grand Tours, after the Dutch sprinter's two successes during his debut at the 2019 Vuelta. However his terrible crash at the Tour de Pologne in early August put an immediate end to the 24-year-old's 2020 season.

The Netherlands' lack of a stage victory in 2020 should nevertheless be put in perspective. 

Primož Roglič isn't Dutch, but his overall 2019 Vuelta victory, his successful title defence this year and his second-place at this year's Tour – where the Slovenian only lost the yellow jersey to compatriot Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), have made for a very successful season for the Netherlands' Jumbo-Visma outfit.

Manager Richard Plugge and his team's efforts over the past eight years, including some canny signings – Wout van Aert in early 2019 and Dumoulin ahead of this season, for example – have rocketed the squad into the enviable position of being the best stage-racing team in the world right now, usurping the almost untouchable Ineos Grenadiers in their previous guises as Team Sky and Team Ineos.

Dutch riders will win Grand Tour stages again – no doubt as soon as next season – and, in tandem with Jumbo-Visma's continued GC ambitions, the Netherlands will remain as one of the world's foremost cycling nations.

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Tadej Pogacar signals for a fourth win of this year’s race at the finish line in Barcelona

Tadej Pogacar wins final stage to round off Volta a Catalunya dominance

  • Slovenian makes it four victories from race’s seven stages
  • Mikel Landa second overall, almost four minutes down

Tadej Pogacar completed his mastery of this year’s Volta a Catalunya, sprinting to a fourth stage win in the seven-stage race.

The Slovenian, already in total command of the Volta going into the final stage around Barcelona, left his rivals in a reduced bunch trailing once again, giving him overall victory ahead of Mikel Landa (Soudal Quick-Step) by three minutes and 41 seconds. Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers), five minutes and three seconds down, finished third.

Dorian Godon of France came closest on the line to denying the UAE Team Emirates rider, but he had to settle for second with compatriot Guillaume Martin third. Pogacar’s dominance was such that, along with topping the general classification, he also secured the points and mountains jerseys too.

“João Almeida set a good pace on the climb and we were a small group in the front,” said Pogacar afterwards. “He made a good attack on the last small climb and almost came to the finish. I wish he could arrive but I’m happy to take this win, too.”

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Meanwhile, Mads Pedersen got the better of Mathieu van der Poel in a punishing final sprint to win Gent-Wevelgem in Belgium. The pair headed towards the finish together, with the Dane leading out and holding off Van der Poel’s surge in thrilling fashion.

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Matteo Jorgenson wins Paris-Nice in historic podium for U.S. cycling

M atteo Jorgenson became the third American to win Paris-Nice, while countryman Brandon McNulty took third for a landmark podium in U.S. men's road cycling history.

Jorgenson, 24, won the storied eight-day stage race running down the heart of France, by 30 seconds over Belgian Remco Evenepoel.

"Until this year, I never would have believed that this is possible," said Jorgenson, who resides in Nice.

The 25-year-old McNulty, who began Sunday in the lead, held on for third place.

The pre-event favorites were Evenepoel, who owns a Grand Tour title (2022 Vuelta), plus world titles in the time trial (2023) and road race (2022). And Slovenian Primož Roglič, a three-time Vuelta a España winner, the reigning Giro d’Italia champion and the 2020 Tour de France runner-up.

Jorgenson and McNulty rose through the junior ranks together, sharing a coach and rooms while traveling Europe in their teens.

"We both kind of saw that pro cycling was possible together," Jorgenson said Saturday.

Paris-Nice was not only the highlight of each's career thus far, but it was also an unprecedented result for U.S. men's road cycling.

American men have never gone one-two or one-three in the three Grand Tours — Tour de France, Giro, Vuelta — nor at the Olympics, world championships or any of cycling's one-day monuments -- Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Giro di Lombardia.

Americans previously won Paris-Nice (Bobby Julich in 2005 and Floyd Landis in 2006), but neither was joined on the podium by a countryman.

American women have experienced major one-twos: Connie Carpenter-Phinney and Rebecca Twigg in the first Olympic women's road race in 1984 and Megan Guarnier and Evelyn Stevens in the 2016 Giro.

This year, Jorgenson joined the world's dominant team — Visma-Lease a Bike.

Visma boasts two-time reigning Tour de France champ Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark and Sepp Kuss, who last September captured the Vuelta to become the fourth American man to win one of the sport's three Grand Tours.

"I could barely sleep last night, to be honest with you," Jorgenson said. "I was so nervous and, yeah, I felt for the first time in my life pressure."

McNulty, the 2016 World junior time trial champion, joined UAE Team Emirates in 2020. He has become one of the biggest stars of its supporting cast around two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia.

In his Olympic debut in Tokyo, McNulty was the top American man in the road race (sixth) and time trial (24th).

Last year, McNulty won a mountain stage of the Giro, his lone Grand Tour start in 2023.

Expect Vingegaard and Pogačar, who did not race Paris-Roubaix, to lead their teams in the Grand Tour season, which begins with the Giro starting May 4. Pogačar is expected to race the Giro.

Pogačar and Vingegaard are both expected for the Tour de France, which runs from June 29 to July 21. The Tour ends in Nice rather than Paris as the French capital prepares for the Olympic Opening Ceremony on July 26.

The last U.S. Olympic men's road cycling medal was Levi Leipheimer's time trial bronze in 2008.

Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that Levi Leipheimer won the last Olympic men’s cycling medal. Americans Connor Fields, Mike Day and Donny Robinson have more recently won Olympic medals in BMX, which is also a cycling discipline.

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