Cycling Legends
Tour de France champions and cycling's greatest names.
The All-Time Greatest Cycling Cyclists
Ranked by career honours, records and our FSP GOAT Score.
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Browse 75 of the greatest cycling cyclists of all time.
Spanish
Alberto Contador
Road Cyclist
A dominant climber and time-trialist who won seven Grand Tour titles between 2007 and 2015, one of…
Dutch
Amy Pieters
Road/Track Cyclist
An all-rounder who won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Ronde van Drenthe before a severe 2021 training…
Luxembourgish
Andy Schleck
Road Cyclist
A gifted climber who finished on the Tour de France podium four consecutive years (2008-2011) and…
Dutch
Anna van der Breggen
Road Cyclist
One of the most dominant all-rounders in women's cycling, winning Olympic gold, two world titles,…
Dutch
Annemiek van Vleuten
Road Cyclist
A dominant all-rounder who won road-race and time-trial world titles, Olympic gold, and multiple…
French
Bernard Hinault
Road Cyclist
A dominant all-rounder of the late 1970s-1980s who won 147 professional races including 10 Grand…
Eritrean
Biniam Girmay
Road Cyclist (Sprinter/Classics)
A powerful sprinter and classics rider who became the first African to win a Grand Tour stage and a…
British
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Road/Track Cyclist
A dual road/track specialist who won the 2012 Tour de France and Olympic time trial gold in the…
Australian
Cadel Evans
Road/Mountain Bike Cyclist
A versatile former mountain biker turned road racer who became Australia's first Tour de France…
Australian
Caleb Ewan
Road Cyclist (Sprinter)
A diminutive but explosive Australian sprinter nicknamed 'The Pocket Rocket' who won stages across…
Dutch
Chantal Blaak
Road Cyclist
A Dutch classics specialist who captured the rainbow jersey in 2017 and won major cobbled/hilly…
British
Chris Froome
Road Cyclist (GC)
A British stage-race specialist who won seven Grand Tour titles across the Tour de France, Vuelta a…
Canadian
Clara Hughes
Road Cyclist
A Canadian road racer who won two bronze medals in cycling at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics before…
British
Dame Laura Kenny
Track Cyclist
A British track specialist who dominated the team pursuit, omnium, and madison disciplines across…
Dutch
Demi Vollering
Road Cyclist
A Dutch climber/puncheur who won the Tour de France Femmes in 2023 and has repeatedly won the…
Dutch
Dylan Groenewegen
Road Cyclist (Sprinter)
A powerful Dutch sprinter who has repeatedly won bunch-sprint stages at the Tour de France for over…
Belgian
Eddy Merckx
Road Cyclist
A Belgian racer who won 11 Grand Tours and all five Monuments, amassing over 500 professional…
Colombian
Egan Bernal
Road Cyclist
A Colombian climber who became the youngest Tour de France winner since 1909 and later added a Giro…
Italian
Elisa Longo Borghini
Road Cyclist (Classics/Climber)
A versatile Italian classics specialist and climber who has won two Giro d'Italia Women titles and…
British
Emma Pooley
Time Trialist / Road Cyclist
A climbing and time-trial specialist, Pooley won Olympic silver in the 2008 time trial and the…
Swiss
Fabian Cancellara
Road/Time Trial Cyclist
One of the greatest time-trialists and cobbled-classics riders ever, Cancellara won Paris-Roubaix…
Italian
Fausto Coppi
Road Cyclist
Nicknamed 'Il Campionissimo,' Coppi is considered one of cycling's greatest all-rounders, excelling…
British
Geraint Thomas
Road Cyclist (GC/Track background)
Starting as a track team pursuit specialist, Thomas transitioned to a top road GC rider, winning…
Italian
Gino Bartali
Road Cyclist
A devout Catholic and rival of Fausto Coppi, Bartali combined elite racing success with wartime…
American
Greg LeMond
Road Cyclist
LeMond overcame a near-fatal hunting accident (1987) to win three Tours de France and two World…
French
Jacques Anquetil
Road Cyclist (Time Trialist)
A master time-trialist, Anquetil became the first rider to complete the Tour-Giro-Vuelta treble…
German
Jan Ullrich
Road Cyclist
Ullrich won the 1997 Tour de France and later Olympic gold, but his legacy is clouded by a 2013…
Belgian
Jasper Philipsen
Road Cyclist (Sprinter)
Belgian sprinter who has dominated bunch sprints and claimed his first Monument at the 2024…
Belgian
Johan Museeuw
Road Cyclist (Classics)
Belgian classics legend of the 1990s who won the road world championship in 1996 and dominated the…
Danish
Jonas Vingegaard
Road Cyclist (GC)
Danish GC rider who became the eighth cyclist in history to win all three Grand Tours.
Dutch
Joop Zoetemelk
Road Cyclist (GC)
Dutch stage-race specialist whose longevity produced a record 16 Tour de France finishes and a…
Polish
Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney
Road Cyclist (GC)
Polish GC rider who claimed the Tour de France Femmes title in 2024 after three near-misses on the…
American
Kristin Armstrong
Road Cyclist / Time Trialist
American time-trial specialist who won Olympic ITT gold at three consecutive Games, becoming the…
American
Lance Armstrong
Road Cyclist (GC)
American rider whose seven Tour de France titles were annulled by the UCI in October 2012 following…
French
Laurent Fignon
Road Cyclist (GC)
French GC rider nicknamed 'Le Professeur' who won the Tour de France twice and the Giro d'Italia…
British
Lizzie Deignan
Road Cyclist
British all-rounder who won the road race world title in 2015 and later became the first-ever…
Belgian
Lotte Kopecky
Road/Track Cyclist
Belgian all-rounder who has won Paris-Roubaix, Tour of Flanders, Strade Bianche, multiple track…
French
Louison Bobet
Road Cyclist
French road racer who became the first man to win three straight Tours de France and also captured…
Italian
Marco Pantani
Road Cyclist (Climber)
Italian climbing specialist regarded as one of the greatest mountain riders ever, whose career was…
Dutch
Marianne Vos
Road/Track/Cyclo-cross Cyclist
Dutch multi-discipline star with Olympic gold in both track and road racing plus a record 8+…
British
Mark Cavendish
Road Cyclist (Sprinter)
British sprinter who surpassed Eddy Merckx's long-standing record by winning his 35th Tour de…
Dutch
Mathieu van der Poel
Cyclo-cross/Road Cyclist
Dutch all-rounder, grandson of Raymond Poulidor, who has won multiple Monuments and world titles…
Spanish
Miguel Induráin
Road Cyclist
Spanish rider whose five consecutive Tour de France titles and Giro-Tour doubles made him a…
Colombian
Nairo Quintana
Road Cyclist (Climber)
Colombian climber who won the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España and finished on the Tour de France…
Slovak
Peter Sagan
Road Cyclist (Classics/Sprinter)
Slovak all-rounder who dominated the points classification and one-day classics through the 2010s…
Slovenian
Primož Roglič
Road Cyclist (GC/Time Trial)
A former ski jumper who turned to cycling after an injury and became one of the most dominant Grand…
French
Raymond Poulidor
Road Cyclist
One of France's most beloved cyclists, he finished on the Tour de France podium eight times without…
Belgian
Remco Evenepoel
Road Cyclist (GC/Time Trial)
A prodigious talent who became the first Belgian Grand Tour winner since 1978 and swept both road…
Ecuadorian
Richard Carapaz
Road Cyclist (GC)
Ecuador's greatest cyclist, he combined a Giro d'Italia title with an Olympic road race gold and…
Belgian
Rik Van Looy
Road Cyclist (Classics)
A dominant Classics rider of the late 1950s/60s, he became the first man to win every Monument and…
Scottish
Robert Millar
Road Cyclist (Climber)
Britain's best Grand Tour climber for decades, he won the Tour de France mountains classification…
Belgian
Roger De Vlaeminck
Road Cyclist (Classics)
Regarded as one of the greatest Classics riders ever, he dominated the cobbled races and won every…
Irish
Sean Kelly
Road Cyclist (Classics/All-rounder)
One of the most versatile riders in history, dominating one-day Classics and stage races through…
British (Scottish)
Sir Chris Hoy
Track Cyclist (Sprinter)
The most successful track sprinter in Olympic history at his retirement, winning gold across…
Irish
Stephen Roche
Road Cyclist
Irish road cyclist who in 1987 became only the second man in history (after Eddy Merckx) to win the…
Slovenian
Tadej Pogačar
Road Cyclist (GC/Climber/Puncheur)
Slovenian road cyclist regarded as one of the greatest of his era, with four Tour de France titles…
Belgian
Tom Boonen
Road Cyclist (Classics/Sprint)
Belgian road cyclist celebrated as one of the greatest Classics riders ever, winning Paris-Roubaix…
British
Tom Pidcock
Road/Cyclo-cross/MTB Cyclist
British cyclist who has won world and Olympic titles across road, cyclo-cross and mountain bike…
British
Tom Simpson
Road Cyclist
British road cyclist who became world champion in 1965 and the first British Tour de France…
British
Victoria Pendleton
Track Cyclist (Sprinter)
British track cyclist who won Olympic gold in the sprint (2008) and keirin (2012), plus nine world…
Italian
Vincenzo Nibali
Road Cyclist (GC/Climber)
Italian road cyclist nicknamed 'The Shark of Messina,' one of only seven riders in history to win…
Belgian
Wout van Aert
Road/Cyclo-cross Cyclist
Belgian cyclist who won three consecutive cyclo-cross world titles before becoming one of road…
Spanish
Federico Bahamontes
Road Cyclist (Climber)
Spanish road cyclist known as the 'Eagle of Toledo,' the first Spaniard to win the Tour de France…
Swiss
Hugo Koblet
Road/Track Cyclist
Nicknamed 'Le Pédaleur de Charme,' Koblet dominated the 1951 Tour with a solo 130km stage win and…
Spanish
Pedro Delgado
Road Cyclist
Known as 'Perico,' Delgado won three Grand Tours and survived a masking-agent doping controversy in…
Danish
Bjarne Riis
Road Cyclist
Nicknamed 'The Eagle from Herning,' Riis won the 1996 Tour but confessed in 2007 to using EPO,…
Spanish
Alejandro Valverde
Road Cyclist
One of cycling's most versatile and durable riders, Valverde amassed 133 professional wins over a…
Belgian
Philippe Gilbert
Road Cyclist
A versatile classics specialist, Gilbert completed a rare sweep of all three Ardennes classics in a…
Danish
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
Road Cyclist
A hilly-classics specialist and popular personality in the peloton, she won a Tour de France Femmes…
French
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Road/MTB/Cyclo-cross Cyclist
One of the most versatile riders in history, she has amassed roughly 15 elite world titles spanning…
American
Leah Thomas
Road Cyclist (Time Trial specialist)
A time-trial specialist from Cupertino, California, she won the 2022 US National TT Championship…
American
Chloé Dygert
Track/Road Cyclist
A dominant time-trialist, Dygert won the 2019 Worlds TT by a record margin, survived a severe leg…
French
Julian Alaphilippe
Road Cyclist
One of the era's premier one-day racers, Alaphilippe defended his rainbow jersey in 2021, won…
French
David Gaudu
Road Cyclist
A climbing-focused GC rider for Groupama-FDJ, Gaudu's best Grand Tour result is 4th overall at the…
French
Thibaut Pinot
Road Cyclist
Spending his entire 2010-2023 career with FDJ/Groupama-FDJ, Pinot finished 3rd at the 2014 Tour de…
Cycling Nations
British
11
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Belgian
10
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Dutch
9
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French
9
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Spanish
5
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Italian
5
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American
5
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Danish
3
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