Most Milano-Sanremo victories

Fausto Coppi was the first rider to win the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France in the same year (1949) In 2024, 26 years after Marco Pantani’s double victory, Tadej Pogacar managed to win both Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same year. The list of the riders Fausto Coppi (ITA) 1949… Read More »Giro d’ Italia -Tour de France doubles

1969 was Eddy Merckx firts appearance at the Tour de France. He was already a Giro d’Italia winner (1968) and cemented his fame with severwl Monumment victories, especially at Milano-Sanremo. No wonder Merckx was considered also one of the favourites of Tour de France 1969. It took 6 stages (and a prologue) him to take… Read More »4 July 1969 Eddy Merckx takes the yellow jersey for the very first time

There are only four riders who led the general classification of Giro d’Italia thtough the entire race. Although the number of days they spent in leadeship differs due to the different stucture of the race though the years. Costante Girardengo 1919 (10 stages) During the first edition of Giro d’Italia after World War I Girardengo… Read More »Cyclists led the Giro d’Italia general classification from start to finish

Of course, they weren’t called “monuments” those days, but here are some interesting stuff about the winners of the first editions of the five most important one-day races. Léon Houa, Liége -Bastogne-Liége (1892) Belgian cyclist Léon Houa (1867-1918) actually won the first three editions of La Doyenne. The first two of them were amateur events.… Read More »The first monument winners

Eddy Merckx leads the list of cyclists with the most Milano-Sanremo victories with seven occasions.  Fun fact: at the time of Merckx’s big  triumphs Cipressa was not introduced to the race yet . (It happened only in 1982.) Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976 Costante Girardengo (ITA) 1918, 1921, 1923, 1925,… Read More »Most Milano-Sanremo victories

2000 Andrei Tchmil (Lotto–Adecco) 2001 Gianluca Bortolami (Tacconi Sport–Vini Caldirola) 2002 Andrea Tafi (Mapei–Quick-Step) 2003 Peter van Petegem (Lotto–Domo) 2004 Steffen Wesemann (T-Mobile Team) 2005 Tom Boonen (Quick-Step–Innergetic) 2006 Tom Boonen (Quick-Step–Innergetic) 2007 Italy Alessandro Ballan (Lampre–Fondital) 2008 Stijn Devolder (Quick-Step) 2009 Stijn Devolder (Quick-Step) 2010 Fabian Cancellara (Team Saxo Bank) 2011 Nick Nuyens (Saxo… Read More »Ronde van Vlaanderen winners since 2000