Cycling: Statistics are rather rare in cycling. But looking back at a whole season, you can definitely derive a lot from it. And even if not – they are always interesting.
Cycling statistics from the 2020 season
The 2020 cycling season is over, at least on the road. After a long Corona break from March to August, a few races could still be held at the end of the year. This results in numerous data, which lead to interesting statistics. The website www.procyclingstats.com we were able to extract some of them and would like to bring them closer to you in our article.
WorldTour teams with most wins
Not surprisingly: In the 2020 season, the professionals of the Deceuninck - Quick-Step team were allowed to cheer most often. He has a whopping 39 wins "wolf pack" retracted. That's 29 fewer than last season. However, it should be noted that significantly fewer races were held due to the corona pandemic. For comparison. The weakest value of Deceuninck Quick-Step in the past eight seasons was 50 wins in 2012. Somewhat surprisingly in second place in 2020 is the UAE team with 33 wins. With just two wins this season, Movistar is 19th and last. This is the logical one consequence of the hard upheaval and tactical mistakes.
1. Deceuninck - Quick-Step 39 wins
2.UAE 33
3. Jumbo - Visma 23
4. Bora – hansgrohe 21
5. Groupama – FDJ 20
6. Ineos 19
7.EF 17
8. Sunweb 16:XNUMX
9.Mitchelton-Scott 16
10. Astana 15
11th Lotto – Soudal 12th
12 Bahrain – McLaren 9
13. Trek - Segafredo 9
14.CCC9
15. Israel Start Up Nation 9
16th NTT 8th
17. AG2R La Mondiale 5
18. Cofidis 2
19. Movistar 2
Drivers with the most wins
14 of 20 victories for the French Equipe Groupama – FDJ has brought in Arnaud Démare. So he can certainly use the title "Best Sprinter of the Season" be awarded. Pascal Ackermann was able to celebrate eight times as the best German. Brutal: The only 20-year-old Remco Evenepoel is fourth in his first real professional season and has won no less than 9 races. Few readers will know Stanisław Aniołkowski, who came in seventh. The 23-year-old Pole drove for the CCC Continental team and won seven races. Next year he drives for the higher-class team Bingoal - Wallonie Bruxelles.
1. Arnaud Démare (Groupama – FDJ) 14 wins
2. Primoz Roglic (Jumbo – Visma) 12
3. Tadej Pogacar (UAE) 9
4. Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck – Quick Step) 9
5. Pascal Ackermann (Bora – hansgrohe) 8
6. Sam Bennett (Deceuninck - Quick Step) 7
7. Stanislaw Aniołkowski (CCC Development Team) 7
8.Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) 7
9. Filippo Ganna (Ineos) 7
10. Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) 6
Pros with the most race days
Who worked the most for their money? Pello Bilbao tops the list this season. The Spaniard was also quite successful. After all, he was fifth overall at the Giro d'Italia. Impressive: At the age of 40, Alejandro Valverde is still in 65th place with 10 racing days. However, the Spaniard could not claim a single win.
1. Pello Bilbao (Bahrain – McLaren) 71 days of racing
2. Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Soudal) 69
3.Michael Valgren (NTT) 69
4. Michael Morkov (Deceuninck – Quick Step) 69
5. Luis Leon Sanchez (Astana) 68
6. Sam Bennett (Deceuninck - Quick Step) 68
7. Felix Grossschartner (Bora – hansgrohe) 67
8. Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) 67
9. Elijah Viviani (Cofidis) 67
10. Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) 65
Drivers with the fastest and slowest average speeds
One statistic that says relatively little about the successes and performance of the pros is the one that presents us with the fastest and slowest average speeds. Leonardo Basso, for example, was always very fast at 43,5 kilometers, but only really made an impression on very few spectators. His best finish was 13th on a stage of the Vuelta a San Juan. Tony Martin, on the other hand, is known as the locomotive. Its comparatively low average speed of 37,3 km/h comes about because it usually takes it easy after the work is done and rolls to the finish line as effortlessly as possible.
1. Leonardo Basso (Ineos) 43,5 km/h (2.850 km driven)
2. Carlos Betancur (Movistar) 43,1 km/h (1.893 km)
3. Travis McCabe (Israel Start-Up Nation) 43,0 km/h (3.005)
4. Oscar Gatto (Bora – hansgrohe) 42,6 km/h (2.083)
5. Patrick Schelling (Israel Start-Up Nation) 42,6 km/h (2.523)
1. Nicolas Roche (Sunweb) 36,8 km/h (5.091 km driven)
2. Tony Martin (Jumbo – Visma) 37,3 km/h (6.819 km)
3. Brent Bookwalter (Mitchelton - Scott) 37,5 km/h (3.661 km)
4. Anthony Perez (Cofidis) 37,6 km/h (4.295 km)
5. Guy Niv (Israel Start-Up Nation) 37,8 km/h (6.078 km)
Most vertical racing kilometers driven
We can get some interesting numbers from these statistics. This is how Luis Leon Sanchez covered 182,51 vertical kilometers of racing this season. This distance roughly corresponds to the linear distance between Munich and Stuttgart.
1. Luis Leon Sanchez (Astana) 182,51 vertical kilometers of racing
2. Pello Bilbao (Bahrain – McLaren) 178,12km
3. Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) 175,97 km
4. Felix Großschartner (Bora – hansgrohe) 174,67 km
5.Michael Valgren (NTT) 172,98km
6. Omar Fraile (Astana) 170,76 km
7. Rémi Cavagna (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) 170,43 km
8. Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) 168,97 km
9. Thomas De Gendt (Lotto – Soudal) 168,06 km
10. Nans Peters (AG2R La Mondiale) 166,60km