2012 Cycling season stats

Now that the season has come to and end it is time to go into review mode. We have in fact done our fair share of reviewing already, but here are some very interesting stats I have compiled which may bring to light who really performed this season.. and who did not..




Domestique of the year, for those riders who do not usually get all that much attention otherwise.

Position	Rider	Assists (wins by team mates)
1	Bernie Eisel	20
2	Marcel Sieberg	19
3	Daniel Oss	18
4	Greg Henderson	17
4	Christian Knees	17
6	Ted King	16
7	Freddy Canuti	15
7	Tom Veller	15
9	Bert de Backer	14
9	Jeremy Hunt	14
9	Kristijan Koren	14
9	Richie Porte	14
9	Matteo Trentin	14
9	Guillaume Van Keirsbluck	14

Number of wins per number of riders:

Position	Country	No.of riders	WT wins	Wins/rider
1	Slovakia	4	8	2
2	Great Britain	14	24	1.7
3	Sweden	3	3	1
3	Costa Rica	1	1	1
3	Estonia	1	1	1
6	Germany	18	16	0.9
7	Norway	5	4	0.8
8	Czech Republic	3	2	0.7
9	Colombia	5	3	0.6
9	Spain	61	34	0.6

One day: best team

Postion	Team	Wins	2nd-3rds
1	Omega	12	3
2	FDJ	6	9
3	Androni	6	5
4	Argos	5	8
6	Sky	5	5
7	Vaconsoleil	4	13
8	Katusha	4	12
8	Liquigas	4	12
10	Movistar	4	7

Stage racing: Best teams

Position	Team	Wins	2nd-3rds	Points	Team	KOM
1	Sky	8	10	5	8	0
2	OQPS	8	8	2	2	1
3	Movistar	6	6	4	6	1
4	Liquigas	4	6	6	1	2
5	OGRE	4	1	2	0	1
6	RANT	3	8	1	8	3
7	Garmin	3	7	2	2	1
8	Endura  ;D	3	1	2	0	0
9	BMC	2	4	2	0	0
10	Saur Sojasun	2	4	0	3	0

Home V Away (sorted by away wins)

Position	Country	Home wins	Away wins
1	Germany	2	49
2	Italy	36	45
3	GB	5	42
4	Spain	33	27
5	Dutchies	6	20
6	Belgium	12	17
7	France	35	15
8	USA	9	3

Best classic riders (rated by aggregate of top 4 classic results)

Position	Rider	MSR	GW	Flanders	PR	AGR	FW	LBL	SS	Worlds	GL	PT
1	Peter Sagan	4	2	5	-	3	-	-	-	14	-	-
2	Boonen	-	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	12	-	-
3	Voeckler	-	-	8	-	5	-	4	-	7	-	-
4	Freire	7	4	12	-	4	-	-	-	10	-	-
5	Mollema	-	-	-	-	10	7	6	5	-	7	-

Best rider not to actually win:

Position	Rider	No. of Top 10s
1	Michael Van Staeyen	25
2	Allan Davis	21

TT of the year

Position	Rider	Wins	2nds	3rds	4ths	5ths
1	Wiggins	7	3	0	0	0
2	Durbo	3	0	0	0	0
3	Martin	2	3	1	0	1
4	Cancellara	2	2	1	0	0
5	Phinney	2	2	0	1	0
6	Pinotti	2	0	0	1	1
7	Kessiakoff	2	0	0	0	2
8	Westra	1	3	0	0	1
9	Thomas	1	3	0	0	0
10	Rogers	1	1	1	1	0

TTT of the year

Position	Team	Wins	2nds	3rds	4ths	5ths
1	Garmin	3	0	1	1	0
2	OPQS	2	3	0	0	1
3	OGRE	2	0	1	0	0
4	BMC	1	1	0	1	0
5	Colnago	1	0	1	0	0

Most race days

Position	Rider	Race days
1	Adam Hansen	105
1	Ignatiev	105
3	Bouet	98
3	Minard	98
5	Bodnar	97
6	De Gendt	96
7	Dyachenko	95
7	Van Summeren	95
9	Ballan	93
9	Voeckler	93

GT perfomances (aggregate of 2 GTs)

Position	Rider	Giro	Tour	Vuelta
1	Purito	2	-	3
2	Froome	-	2	4
3	Valverde	-	20	2
4	Henao	9	-	14
5	Roche	-	12	12
6	Moreno	20	-	5
7	Monfort	-	16	14

Aussie Bunch sprinters:  ;D

Position	Rider	wins
1	Goss	1
1	Renshaw	1
3	Davis	0
3	Haussler	0

Freaky races  

Klasika Primavera

Position	Team	No.of riders in Top 9 GC
1	Movistar	4
2	Saur Sojasun	4
3	Euskaltel	1

Bayern Rundfahrt

Position	Rider	No. of stage wins/overall
1	Michael Rogers	3
1	Alessandro Pettachi	3

Stage race wins:

Position	Rider	No. of stage race wins
1	Wiggins	4
2	JTL	3
3	Boonen	2
3	Durbridge	2
3	Martin	2
3	Nibali	2
3	Quintana	2

Points classification wins

Position	Rider	Points wins
1	EBH	4
1	Sagan	4
3	Evans	2
3	Greipel	2
3	Kristoff	2
3	Nibali	2
3	JTL	2
3	Valverde	2

KOM wins

Position	Rider	KOM wins
1	Motaguti	2
1	Pedraza	2
1	Rubiano	2
4	Tonnes of other riders	1

Most wins of Small S*** races  

Position	Rider	No. of wins
1	Andre Guardini	10

Theoretical World Cup standings (if was still in effect)

Position	Rider	Points
1	Boonen	244
2	Gerrans	183
3	Gasparotto	150
4	Sagan	138
5	Purito	137
6	Samuel Sanchez	126
7	Ballan	124
8	Nibali	120
9	Terpstra	118
10	Iglinsky	118

And of course:

Most number of wins

Position	Rider	Team	Wins
1	GREIPEL Andre	LTB	19
2	SAGAN Peter	LIQ	16
3	CAVENDISH Mark	SKY	15
4	JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt	MTN	14
5	KITTEL Marcel	ARG	13
6	RICHEZE ARAQUISTAIN Ariel Maximiliano	PPO	13
7	BOONEN Tom	OPQ	13
8	DEGENKOLB John	ARG	12
9	WIGGINS Bradley	SKY	12
10	SEREBRYAKOV Alexander	TT1	11

Most number of wins for countries

Position	Country	Wins
1	Italy	154
2	France	118
3	Spain	88
4	Germany	81
5	Netherlands	64
6	Australia	63
7	Russia	60
8	Great Britain	57
9	Belgium	55
10	Colombia	45

Most number of wins per team

Position	Team	Wins
1	OmegaPharma - Quick Step	51
2	Sky Professional Cycling Team	51
3	Liquigas - Cannondale	38
4	Orica - GreenEDGE	32
5	Katusha Team	30
6	Team Argos - Shimano	30
7	Movistar Team	29
8	Lotto - Belisol	27
9	MTN - Qhubeka	25
10	Itera - Katusha	24

Note: I do not know how accurate the CQ ranking lists of wins are, as there do seem to be discrepancies with other sources.
(primarily as Sky are supposed to have 5 more wins than OPQS  >, may not count nats though)

Most of the stats were taken from cyclesport magazine