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This is an incomplete list of professional racing cyclists, sorted alphabetically by decade in which they won their first major race.[1]
Cyclists by country
[edit]Cyclists by decade
[edit]Of the 1880s
[edit]Of the 1890s
[edit]- Georgios Aspiotis
- Edward Battell
- Hélène Dutrieu
- Léon Flameng
- August von Gödrich
- Bert Harris
- Miltiades Iatrou
- Georgios Koletis
- Aristidis Konstantinidis
- Konstantinos Konstantinou
- Charles "Mile-a-Minute" Murphy was the first man ever to ride a bicycle for one mile in less than a minute. He performed this feat in 1899 by drafting behind a Long Island Rail Road boxcar between Farmingdale and Babylon on Long Island.[2]
- Dora Rinehart
- Major Taylor (26 November 1878 – 21 June 1932) was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile (1.6 km) track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the first African-American athlete to achieve the level of world champion and only the second black man to win a world championship—after Canadian boxer George Dixon.
- Frank E. Weaver
Of the 1900s
[edit]Of the 1910s
[edit]- Jean Alavoine
- Marcel Buysse
- Eugène Christophe
- Oscar Egg
- Frederick Grubb
- Firmin Lambot
- Rudolph "Okey" Lewis
- Henri Pélissier
- Fritz Schallwig (1890–1916), champion German cyclist. He was born on 7 May 1890 in Spandau in Berlin, Germany and was killed in World War I.
- Carl Schutte
- Philippe Thys
Of the 1920s
[edit]- Honoré Barthélémy
- Alfredo Binda
- Ottavio Bottecchia
- Lucien Buysse
- Giovanni Brunero
- Tullio Campagnolo
- Fernand Canteloube
- Gösta Carlsson
- Michael Collins
- Maurice De Waele
- Nicolas Frantz
- Costante Girardengo
- René Hamel
- Hector Heusghem
- Henri Hoevenaers
- Lucien Michard
- Piet Moeskops
- Henri Pélissier
- Léon Scieur
- Félix Sellier
- Frank Southall
- Harry Stenqvist
- Alfonsina Strada
Of the 1930s
[edit]Of the 1940s
[edit]Of the 1950s
[edit]- Federico Bahamontes
- Ercole Baldini
- Louison Bobet
- Ray Booty
- Fausto Coppi
- Wim van Est
- Charly Gaul
- Raphaël Géminiani
- Ted Jorgensen (unicyclist)
- Hugo Koblet
- Ferdy Kübler
- Lucien Lazaridès
- Fiorenzo Magni
- Antonio Maspes
- Stan Ockers
- Rik Van Looy
- Gerrit Voorting
- Roger Walkowiak
- Eileen Sheridan
- Galina Yermolayeva
Of the 1960s
[edit]Of the 1970s
[edit]Of the 1980s
[edit]Of the 1990s
[edit]- Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
- Niki Aebersold
- Frankie Andreu
- Lance Armstrong
- Félicia Ballanger
- Michele Bartoli
- Joseba Beloki
- Chris Boardman
- Johan Bruyneel
- Francesco Casagrande
- Fabio Casartelli
- Ángel Casero
- Mario Cipollini
- Ludo Dierckxsens
- Jens Fiedler
- Fernando Escartín
- Laurent Gané
- Niki Gudex
- Tyler Hamilton
- Roger Hammond
- George Hincapie
- Tristan Hoffman
- Miguel Induráin
- Laurent Jalabert
- Shane Kelly
- Kevin Livingston
- Olaf Ludwig
- Bob Mionske
- Christophe Moreau
- Graeme Obree
- Abraham Olano
- Marco Pantani
- Bjarne Riis
- Fred Rompelberg
- Florian Rousseau
- Marco Serpellini
- Marla Streb
- Rolf Sørensen
- Andrea Tafi
- Pavel Tonkov
- Arnaud Tournant
- Rebecca Twigg
- Jan Ullrich
- Kathy Watt
- Diana Žiliūtė
Of the 2000s
[edit]- Kristin Armstrong
- Lance Armstrong (now stripped of Tour de France medals)
- Judith Arndt
- Emilie Aubry
- Dede Barry
- Ivan Basso
- Grégory Baugé
- Mark Beaumont
- Lyne Bessette
- Paolo Bettini
- Michael Boogerd
- Tom Boonen
- Santiago Botero
- Fabian Cancellara
- Sara Carrigan**
- Mark Cavendish
- Alberto Contador
- Nicole Cooke
- Katheryn Curi
- Gunn-Rita Dahle
- Tom Danielson
- Mike Day
- Ellen van Dijk (NED), multiple road and track world champion
- Alex Dowsett
- Alison Dunlap
- Chris Eatough
- Cadel Evans
- Niki Gudex
- Liz Hatch
- George Hincapie
- Chris Horner
- Chris Hoy
- Thor Hushovd
- Timothy Jones
- Bobby Julich
- Jill Kintner
- Andreas Klöden
- Floyd Landis
- Levi Leipheimer
- Danny MacAskill
- Kaarle McCulloch
- Anna Meares
- Axel Merckx
- Rune Monstad
- Johan Museeuw
- Andris Naudužs
- Manfred Nepp
- Stefan Nimke
- Adrien Niyonshuti
- Stuart O'Grady
- Joseph M. Papp
- Victoria Pendleton
- Taylor Phinney
- Jeremy Powers
- Jennie Reed
- Mark Renshaw
- Donny Robinson
- Peter Sagan
- Andy Schleck
- Fränk Schleck
- Alexandr Shefer
- Marla Streb
- Jan Ullrich
- Sarah Ulmer
- Rigoberto Urán
- Alejandro Valverde
- Tejay van Garderen
- Jonathan Vaughters
- Alexander Vinokourov
- Richard Virenque
- Jens Voigt
- Marianne Vos
- Sam Whittingham
- Bradley Wiggins
- Erik Zabel
- David Zabriskie
- Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel
- Grant Potter
Of the 2010s
[edit]Of the 2020s
[edit]See also
[edit]- Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Former Team CSC staff, from 1998 to present.
- Madonna del Ghisallo, patroness of cyclists.
- Tour of Britain
- Giro d'Italia
- Tour de France
- Vuelta a España
- List of racing cyclists and pacemakers with a cycling-related death
References
[edit]- ^ As recorded at Cycling Archives
- ^ "Charlie Murphy, Set Cycling Mark; Famous Rider Who Sped Mile in 57 4/5 Seconds in 1899 Dies in Queens at 79". The New York Times. 18 February 1950. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
Charles M. (Mile-a-Minute) Murphy of 160-12 Union Turnpike, Flushing, Queens, famous as a bicycle rider at the turn of the century, died yesterday in Queens General Hospital, Jamaica, after an illness of several months. His age was 79. ...