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 62 of the greatest cycling cyclists of all time.
Welsh
Geraint Thomas
Road Cyclist
Welsh Tour de France champion whose dogged determination, consistent climbing ability and 2018 Grand…
British
Tom Pidcock
Road / Mountain Bike
British cycling prodigy whose extraordinary versatility — winning Olympic mountain bike gold and Par…
Colombian
Egan Bernal
Road Cyclist
Colombian climber who became the youngest Tour de France champion in 40 years when he won in 2019, a…
Ecuadorian
Richard Carapaz
Road Cyclist
Ecuadorian Grand Tour champion who won the Giro d'Italia and an Olympic gold medal in 2019, one of t…
Colombian
Nairo Quintana
Road Cyclist
Colombian climbing legend who won the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España, reaching world number one w…
Italian
Vincenzo Nibali
Road Cyclist
Italian champion of the mountains whose victories at all three Grand Tours and multiple Classics est…
Italian
Marco Pantani
Road Cyclist
Italian climbing legend nicknamed 'The Pirate' whose electrifying solo mountain attacks and emotiona…
Luxembourgish
Andy Schleck
Road Cyclist
Luxembourgish climber who won the 2010 Tour de France in controversially delayed circumstances after…
Italian
Fausto Coppi
Road Cyclist
Italian cycling legend and twice Tour de France and Giro d'Italia champion of the 1940s and 1950s, w…
Italian
Gino Bartali
Road Cyclist
Italian cycling legend and Fausto Coppi's great rival, who won three Tour de France and three Giro d…
French
Jacques Anquetil
Road Cyclist
French cycling legend who became the first rider to win five Tour de France titles, a supremely tale…
French
Louison Bobet
Road Cyclist
French cycling champion who won three consecutive Tour de France titles from 1953 to 1955, a consist…
Belgian
Tom Boonen
Road Cyclist
Belgian cycling legend and four-time Paris-Roubaix champion whose extraordinary skill on the cobbles…
Belgian
Johan Museeuw
Road Cyclist
Belgian cycling legend and three-time Paris-Roubaix champion known as 'The Lion of Flanders' whose r…
Belgian
Roger De Vlaeminck
Road Cyclist
Belgian cycling legend who won Paris-Roubaix four times and was nicknamed 'Mr. Paris-Roubaix', combi…
Belgian
Rik Van Looy
Road Cyclist
Belgian cycling legend nicknamed 'The Emperor of Herentals' who became the first rider to win all fi…
French
Laurent Fignon
Road Cyclist
French cycling legend who famously lost the 1989 Tour de France to Greg LeMond by just eight seconds…
French
Raymond Poulidor
Road Cyclist
French cycling legend nicknamed 'Poupou' who was a perennial Tour de France contender for over a dec…
Dutch
Joop Zoetemelk
Road Cyclist
Dutch cycling legend who won the 1980 Tour de France and the 1985 World Championship, the most consi…
German
Jan Ullrich
Road Cyclist
German Tour de France champion whose dominant 1997 victory and aggressive racing style made him the …
Australian
Cadel Evans
Road Cyclist
Australian Tour de France champion in 2011 and the first Oceanian winner of the race, whose consiste…
Australian
Caleb Ewan
Road Cyclist
Australian sprint legend whose explosive finishing, technical precision and consistent Grand Tour st…
Belgian
Jasper Philipsen
Road Cyclist
Belgian sprint sensation whose powerful finishing, exceptional lead-out work and consistent sprint v…
Eritrean
Biniam Girmay
Road Cyclist
Eritrean cycling pioneer whose explosive sprint performances, Tour de France stage victories and exc…
Dutch
Dylan Groenewegen
Road Cyclist
Dutch sprint specialist whose powerful lead-out charges and consistent victories in the Tour de Fran…
Dutch
Demi Vollering
Road Cyclist
Dutch women's cycling champion and Tour de France Femmes winner whose climbing brilliance, consisten…
Belgian
Lotte Kopecky
Road Cyclist
Belgian cycling superstar who has won the Tour de France Femmes, Tour of Flanders and multiple one-d…
Italian
Elisa Longo Borghini
Road Cyclist
Italian women's cycling champion whose exceptional climbing, track medal collection and multiple Cla…
Polish
Katarzyna Niewiadoma
Road Cyclist
Polish women's climbing specialist whose exceptional mountain performances and consistent Grand Tour…
British
Mark Cavendish
Road Cyclist (Sprinter)
Record holder for most Tour de France stage wins (35), surpassing Eddy Merckx.…
Belgian
Eddy Merckx
Professional Cyclist
The Cannibal — the most decorated cyclist in history, 11 Grand Tour victories.…
Spanish
Miguel Induráin
Professional Cyclist
Big Mig — five consecutive Tour de France victories through the most powerful time trial engine in t…
American
Greg LeMond
Professional Cyclist
The American who conquered the Tour — three victories and the comeback after being shot.…
British
Bradley Wiggins
Cyclist
The first Briton to win the Tour de France — and an Olympic gold cyclist across two very different d…
British
Chris Froome
Professional Cyclist
Four Tour de France titles — and the crash that left him with 80 injuries but only temporarily stopp…
Slovenian
Tadej Pogačar
Professional Cyclist
Pogi — three Tour de France titles and the most exciting cyclist since Merckx.…
Danish
Jonas Vingegaard
Professional Cyclist
Two consecutive Tour de France titles — the quiet Dane who ended Pogačar's dominance.…
Dutch
Anna van der Breggen
Professional Cyclist
The most dominant women's cyclist of her era — Olympic champion and multiple world champion.…
Belgian
Wout van Aert
Road/Track Cyclist
The most versatile cyclist since Eddy Merckx — classics winner, Tour de France stage winner and Olym…
Dutch
Mathieu van der Poel
Road/Track Cyclist
Three generations of cycling royalty — grandson of Poulidor, son of Adrie, himself the finest classi…
Slovenian
Primož Roglič
Road Cyclist
The ski jumper who became cycling's most dominant Grand Tour racer.…
Belgian
Remco Evenepoel
Road Cyclist
Belgium's next cycling superstar — World Champion, Olympic champion and Grand Tour winner at 23.…
French
Bernard Hinault
Road Cyclist
The Badger — five Tour de France victories and the most ferocious competitor professional cycling ha…
British
Victoria Pendleton
Track Cyclist
Britain's most successful female track cyclist — Victoria Pendleton's two Olympic gold medals in the…
Scottish
Robert Millar
Road Cyclist
Scotland's finest professional road cyclist and the most successful British climber of the pre-Wiggi…
Scottish
Sir Chris Hoy
Track Cyclist
Six Olympic gold medals — Britain's most decorated Olympian at the time of his retirement and the de…
British
Dame Laura Kenny
Track Cyclist
Britain's most decorated female Olympian with five gold medals — married to Sir Jason Kenny, togethe…
Spanish
Alberto Contador
Road Cyclist
Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España victories — one of only six cyclists ever to win a…
Irish
Sean Kelly
Road Cyclist
World number one for six consecutive years in the 1980s — the greatest Irish athlete of his generati…
Irish
Stephen Roche
Road Cyclist
The only cyclist to win the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and World Championship in the same year — …
Dutch
Marianne Vos
Road/Track Cyclist
The greatest all-round cyclist in women's history — Olympic gold on track and road, world titles in …
Slovakian
Peter Sagan
Road Cyclist
Seven World Championship rainbow jerseys — the most by any rider in the race's history.…
Swiss
Fabian Cancellara
Road Cyclist
Spartacus — Paris-Roubaix and Tour of Flanders three times each, the greatest cobbled classics speci…
British
Tom Simpson
Road Cyclist
Britain's greatest road cyclist — World Champion in 1965, he died on Mont Ventoux during the 1967 To…
American
Lance Armstrong
Road Cyclist
Seven Tour de France titles — all stripped — Lance Armstrong's cancer survival made him a global ico…
Dutch
Annemiek van Vleuten
Road Cyclist
The greatest women's road cyclist in history — World Champion three times, Olympic champion, winner …
American
Kristin Armstrong
Road Cyclist (Time Trial)
The greatest time trialist in women's Olympic cycling history — three Olympic gold medals in the tim…
British
Lizzie Deignan
Road Cyclist
Britain's greatest women's road cyclist — World Champion in 2015, winner of the inaugural Paris-Roub…
Canadian
Clara Hughes
Road/Track Cyclist and Speed Skater
The only athlete in history to win multiple Olympic medals in both the Summer and Winter Games — Hug…
British
Emma Pooley
Road Cyclist/Time Trialist
Britain's most versatile female cyclist — World Champion in the time trial, winner of La Flèche Wall…
Dutch
Amy Pieters
Road/Track Cyclist
A world-class Dutch cyclist who excelled both on the road and track — World Champion in the team spr…
Dutch
Chantal Blaak
Road Cyclist
The Dutch cycling powerhouse who conquered the cobbles — winner of the inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femme…
Cycling Nations
British
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Belgian
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Dutch
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Italian
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French
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American
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Colombian
2
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Australian
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