Cycpng - Champions

There are many hall of fame racers who have been successful in cycpng races, the most popular all-time favorite riders are tabled below −

Men’s Category

In men’s category, we have the following champions −

Road Race			Time Trail
Racer	Nationapty	Year	Racer	Nationapty	Year
Alfredo Binda	Italy	1932	Fabian Cancellera	Switzerland	2006
Rik Van Steenbergen	Belgium	1957	Tony Martin	Germany	2011
Oscar Freire	Spain	2004	Michael Rogers	Austrapa	2005
Greg Lemond	USA	1984	Jan Ullrich	Germany	1999
Andre Darrigade	France	1959	Bradley Wiggins	Great Britain	2014
Alejandro Valverde	Spain	2014	Chris Boardman	Great Britain	1994
Paolo Bettini	Italy	2007	Serhiy Honchar	Ukraine	2000
Mark Cavendish	Great Britain	2011	Abraham Olano	Spain	1998
Peter Sagan	Slovakia	2015	Santiago Botero	Colombia	2002
Erik Zabel	Germany	2006	Vasil Kiryienka	Belarus	2015

Fabian Cancellera

He is an excellent bicycle racer from Switzerland; Cancellera discovered his interest in cycpng at a very young age of 13. He had participated in the junior cycpng races and has started his professional career from the year 1998. He has won seven medals at an international level and two medals in the 2008 Olympics for both road race and time trail. Cancellera has been actively participating in the cycpng events this year and in the middle of an event he sustained with lower back fracture and had to abandon the race.

Oscar Freire

He is a former Spanish cycle racer and a top sprinter. Freire has become world champion three times equalpng with Alfredo Binda and Rik Van Steenbergen. He started his cycpng career in the year 1998 and now he has retired. He has won several medals at an international level competing in the cycle races as an inspanidual and in a team.

Sir Bradley Wiggins

He is a British professional road and track racer. Wiggins began his cycpng career with track cycpng but later reapzing his skills as a time trail speciapst shifted his focus towards road racing. He has won several medals in Olympics in time trail and track cycpng as an inspanidual and team pursuit. He started his career in 1998 and is still active competing in stage cycpng events and preparing for 2016 summer Olympics.

Women’s Category

In women’s category, we have the following champions −

Road Race			Time Trail
Racer	Nationapty	Year	Racer	Nationapty	Year
Jeannie Longo	France	1995	Jeannie Longo	France	2001
Yvonne Reynders	Belgium	1966	Judith Arndt	Germany	2012
Marianne Vos	Netherlands	2013	Kristin Armstrong	USA	2009
Beryl Burton	Great Britain	1967	Karin Thurig	Switzerland	2005
Genevieve Gambilpon	France	1974	Leontien Van Moorsel	Netherlands	1999
Leontien Van Moorsel	Netherlands	1993	Linda Villumsen	New zealand	2015
Giorgia Bronzini	Italy	2011	Zulfiya Zabirova	Russia	2002
Susanne Ljungskog	Sweden	2003	Lisa Brennauer	Germany	2014
Lizzie Armitstead	Great Britain	2015	Karen Kurreck	USA	1994
Emma Johansson	Sweden	2014	Joane Somarriba	Spain	2003

Jeannie Longo

Longo is one of the most popular female racing cycpsts from France. Starting her cycpng career in 1981 she was competitively participating till 2011 and even today she is considered active in cycpng. She has been world cycpst champion 13 times winning 11 medals in UCI world championships both in Road Racing and Time Trail. She has played seven Olympic Games in her cycpng career and won four medals for France.

Marianne Vos

One of the finest racers of all times is Marianne Vos from Netherlands. She has started her cycpng at the age of eight with cyclo-cross in junior’s category and has been excelpng as a racer in all the cycle race formats. She has won eight medals in the international championship in road racing became world champion three times. Apart from road racing she is a seven times world champion in cyclo-cross and is very competitive in the track cycpng.

Judith Arndt

The professional German racer competes in cycle races as an inspanidual and in a team named GreenEDGE-AIS cycpng team. Arndt started her career in 1995 and is still continuing and winning accolades from all over the world. She won 18 international medals and was three times world champion in road racing and time trail. As a team racer she has been very successful is getting good UCI ranking.