List: The cyclists who have achieved the most success this season, there are surprises

It never ceases to amaze. That ‘Superman’ López, suspended by the International Cycling Union (UCI), is the cyclist with the most wins this season is still remarkable. These are the ten cyclists who have achieved the most success in this exercise.

Miguel Angel Lopez

29 years old, Team Medellín-EPM

The UCI suspended him for “the use and possession of a prohibited substance in the weeks before the 2022 Giro d’Italia”, but this suspension did not act as a brake on Colombian Miguel Ángel López, who finished the season as the cyclist with the most wins. (20), to which the six second place must be added. It is true that many of them are minor, but among them is a stage victory and the overall victory of the Vuelta a San Juan Internacional (Argentina), in addition to the Vuelta a Colombia, among others.

2

Jasper Philipsen

25 years old, Alpecin-Deceuninck

19 wins and six second places have been achieved by the Belgian rider from Alpecin, in a great final sprint of the season, with up to four Tour of Turkey victories and second places. Philipsen has already started with two wins in Tirreno-Adriatico, and his record this year includes victories in classics such as Brugge-De Panne, the Elfstedenronde or the Paris-Chauny, but among all his victories are the four which he achieved in the Tour. de France, which could be six after being second several times. Compared to last season, Philipsen’s leap in quality was remarkable, as he went from nine wins in 2022 to 19.

3

Yacine Hamza

26 years old, Dubai Police Cycling Team

Probably, many fans do not know his existence until now, but this season the Algerian Hamza got 17 victories, five second places and four third places, although most of them were achieved in 2.2 races, like of the Vuelta to Algeria (4), the Tour of Bénin (3) or the Tour of Cameroon (3).

4

Tadej Pogacar

25 years, UAE Team Emirates

The Slovenian finished the season with one more victory than last year (17 compared to 16 last year), to which should be added four second places and six third places, but in the final classification of wins he was relegated to fourth place, in 2022 it was the 1st. This year he started with a bang, with victories in the interesting Jaén Paraíso Interior, three wins in the Vuelta a Andalucía and the general classification, which he repeated in Paris-Nice and among his victories were the Tour of Flanders, the Amstel Gold Race. , the Fleche Wallonne, two stages of the Tour de France or Il Lombardía.

5

Jonas Vingegaard

26 years old, Jumbo-Visma

The winner of the Tour de France and 2nd place in the Vuelta behind his Jumbo-Visma teammate Sepp Kuss closed this campaign with 15 victories, seven second places and four third places. Three of these 15 victories were achieved in the O Gran Camiño, to which we must add the three in the Critérium del Dauphiné, the ones he achieved in the Tour de France or the two in the Vuelta. The Dane’s leap in quality is evident, as he went from 7 wins in 2022 to 15 this year.

6

Primoz Roglic

33 years old, Jumbo-Visma

Surprisingly, Roglic completed the same number of victories as his partner until the end of this year in Jumbo-Vima, the Danish Jonas Vingegaard, three of them achieved in Tirreno-Adriatico, two in Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, one in the Giro that was enough for him to win the ‘Corsa Rosa’, three in the Vuelta a Burgos and two in the Vuelta, to which we must add the Giro dell’Emilia to the autumn classics tour in Italy.

7

Remco Evenepoel

23 years old, Soudal-Quick Step

A priori one might think that the Belgian ‘cannibal’ retreated in this training, from 15 victories in 2022 to 13 this year, but, be careful, he added up to 12 second places, which will be crowned he is the cyclist with the most wins this season. Three of these victories were achieved in the Vuelta, to which we must add the World Time Trial Championship, the San Sebastián Classic, the Liège-Bastogne-Liège or the two Giro d’Italia events before packing his bags .

8

Olav Kooij

22 years old, Jumbo-Visma

Third rider of the Dutch Jumbo-Visma formation to appear in the top positions of this classification. The cyclist from Numansdorp added the same victories as Evenepoel, 13, and a second position, less, 11, which speaks of his high reliability, and that is that Kooij did not achieve his first individual victory until March 11, in the fifth stage of Paris-Nice, on the 17th day of the competition. He shone in the 4 Days of Dunkirk with two wins and especially in the Tour of Britain, where he won the first four stages, in an eight-day race.

9

Tim Merlier

30 years, Soudal-Quick Step

Ninth place for the Belgian Tim Merlier, with 11 victories, among which stand out the three won in the UAE Tour, where he took the points classification, the first in Paris-Nice and the two won the Vuelta a Slovakia, the victory achieved in the fourth stage was the decisive victory that made it the 11th, out of 34 accumulated by the Wortegem-Petegem rider as a professional.

10

Arnaud De Lie

21 years old, Lotto Dstny

Meritorious top ten for the Belgian cyclist, who finished this season with ten wins and four second places. In his case, it is worth noting that seven of the ten victories were achieved in one-day races – starting with the first one in 1969 Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana -, and the other three in five-stage races, in his country’s Tour of Wallonia or in the Etoile de Bessèges.