With World Team riders focused on the upcoming start of the 2023 season, the year 2022 with the last pages of the calendar remaining leaves Jumbo-Visma and UAE Emirates as the leaders in victories with 48 eachclosely followed by Quick Step-Alpha Vynil with 47.
The only Spanish formation in the first category, Movistar, closed the year in twelfth place with 19 victorieswhere six came in the last part of the campaign in what was an arreón in search of avoiding any kind of threat to avoid the drop from the elite that finally went to Israel-Premier Tech and Lotto-Soudal .
The most successful cyclist in the world peloton was the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) with sixteen partial victories, although he was left without his most coveted goal, his third Tour de France in the hands of Danish Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo -Visma), followed by Belgian Remco Evenepoel (Quick Step-Alpha Vynil) with fifteen, including the last red jersey of the Tour of Spain.
For the UAE, Pogacar’s sixteen victories did not prevent it from becoming the formation that has given the most victories to its members., as 16 of its 34 constituents have raised their arms this year. A figure former powerhouse Ineos-Grenadiers have also matched with Briton Ethan Hayter leading the group with six.
In the case of the British, who became the fourth team with the most wins with 39, the hourly record is not included in these results. starring the Italian Filippo Ganna in the velodrome of the Swiss city of Grenchen, where he signed a new mark of 56.792 kilometers in sixty minutes.
The rest of the teams are clearly behind, with Jumbo-Visma having twelve individual victories and one team time trial., although Quick Step squads have a dozen winning cyclists, with Evenepoel and Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen (13) totaling 28; the Bahrain-Victorious; and Movistar, with the Colombian Iván Ramiro Sosa with four and the retired Alejandro Valverde with three, the first three of the year, as the most successful.
Individually, only five cyclists achieved ten victories this year, the aforementioned Pogacar (16), Evenepoel (15) and Jakobsen (13), in addition to the Dutch sprinter from Jumbo-Visma Olav Kooij (12) and the Danish Trek Segafredo Mads Pedersen (10).
In Pedersen’s case, it is notable that he alone managed to add more than half of the victories achieved by the rest of his teammates to a total of 19 tests won.
Neither of the two losers in the category are among the least successful teams in 2022, as Lotto-Soudal is the sixth team to have won the most tests with 25, nine of which were achieved by Belgian Arnaud de Lie , and Israel recorded 15 wins to finish in fourteenth place.
This classification is closed by Astana (5) and Education First (9), the only two not reaching the ten-win barrier.
Having been invited to compete throughout the world calendar, the Alpecin-Fenixseason also stands out with a total of 34 victories achieved with thirteen cyclists with the Belgian Jasper Philipsen as the main protagonist with nine.
The World Tour 2023 calendar starts in just one month in Australia with the contention of the Santos Tour Down Under and all the teams have already started working hard and for this the Valencian Community is once again the main favorite destination for most of the World Team groups to carry out the preparation.
Up to fourteen of the eighteen who make up the elite of international men’s cycling have chosen a location on this area of the Mediterranean coast to finish their set-up, where they will either compete for the first time or start -fine-tune. their preparation for those who have something to do later.
In addition, the remaining formations will not be exceeded either, since the chosen destinations of concentration are Mallorca, Almería and Girona.
Source: La Verdad
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