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Tour de France 2022 sprinters: Analysing the form of the fast-men so far

A closer look at the form of the key sprinters at the 2022 Tour de France

Words: Stephen Puddicombe

There's still a long way to go in the Tour de France 2022, but there could be quite a wait until we see the next full-on bunch finish if the sprint teams can't get it together on stage four. Until week two in fact.

Stages two and three in Denmark gave us two sprint showdowns, with two Dutch winners; Fabio Jakobsen and Dylan Groenewegen. Both looked back to their best, while others languished in chaotic finishes or simply didn't have the strength to match them.

Here we'll analyse the form of the sprinters of the Tour so far, and who looks best set to take the victory the next time the peloton reaches a sprint finish.

Fabio Jakobsen

It’s been a tale of two final corners for Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl in the sprints so far — the first on stage two, when Yves Lampaert and Michael Mørkøv led the peloton to help deliver Fabio Jakobsen to victory; and the second the following day, when the team once again made it to the decisive bend at the front with Florian Sénéchal and Mørkøv, only for Jakobsen to lose their wheel and fall out of contention.

Fabio Jakobsen celebrates victory on stage two of the 2022 Tour de France (Getty Images)

Despite looking so strong to get into these front positions, the famed Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl lead-out hasn’t been firing on all cylinders come the final metres of the sprints by their own very high standards. Usually so aware and attentive, Mørkøv confessed to not realising that Jakobsen wasn’t on his wheel when he proceeded to lead out the sprint on stage three, and even when Jakobsen won the day before he had to come from a few wheels behind to do so.

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The way the Dutchman stormed past the riders ahead of him to take his first ever Tour stage win that day regardless suggests he’s in flying form, and you sense that if Quick-Step can perfect the lead-out, then he’ll be very difficult to beat in the future sprints. 

Dylan Groenewegen

When Dylan Groenewegen abandoned the Critérium du Dauphiné last month, having been unceremoniously dropped on all three of the stages he might have hoped to sprint for victory on, the prospects of taking a stage at the Tour de France looked remote. But having struggled so much there, Groenewegen suddenly looked like his old self on stage three, where he produced a lethal acceleration to take his first WorldTour victory since his ban in 2020. 

Dylan Groenewegen sprints to victory on stage three of the 2022 Tour de France  (James Startt)

The flat parcours in Denmark certainly helped his chances, and he’ll have a harder time during the hillier potential sprint stages to come. But BikeExchange-Jayco’s decision to prioritise leading him out for the sprints rather than target the green jersey with Michael Matthews has been justified, and Groenewegen can at last be counted among the world’s elite pure sprinters once again. 

Wout van Aert

Though the rather fanciful notion that all-rounder extraordinaire Wout van Aert could in theory win every stage of the Tour de France has become impossible this year, he is currently on track to finish second-place in every stage. 

Wout van Aert in yellow after stage two of the 2022 Tour de France  (James Startt)

This string of runner-up finishes might be frustrating the Belgian, who dearly wants a stage win to his name, but it does mean he’s well on his way to achieving his target of winning the green jersey. His ability to always be in the mix and position himself every sprint despite the unpredictable rough and tumble of a bunch finish is reminiscent of Peter Sagan during his run of seven victories in that classification, and his grip on the jersey — as well as his chances of a stage win —should be strengthened by the parcours of the more selective sprint stages to come. 

Peter Sagan

Due to the emergence of new stars and his own underwhelming form, Peter Sagan entered this Tour de France with perhaps the least amount of fanfare of any of his nine appearances. But it hasn’t taken him long to be back among the headlines, particularly when he directed an accusatory finger wag towards Wout van Aert after the stage three sprint, followed by his Jose Mourinho-esque ‘I cannot comment” post-race interview.  

Peter Sagan at the start of stage two of the 2022 Tour de France (James Startt)

His form has looked good too, sprinting for sixth in Nyborg and fourth in Sønderborg in the manner in which he used to hoover up points in the points classification. The real test for him will come in the hillier terrain, considering that he was routinely dropped at the recent Tour de Suisse on the kind of climbs he used to relish. If he can, then he’ll be a contender to regain his points classification crown, and a mouth-watering contest between him as the old master against new pretender Van Aert could be on the cards.  

Jasper Philipsen  

Having been selected ahead of Tim Merlier, who won stages in both of his Grand Tour appearances last year, Jasper Philipsen is under pressure to perform for Alpecin-Deceuninck. So far he hasn’t made much of an impression, finishing fifth in Nyborg and third in Sønderborg, but the amount of ground he made up sprinting from far back in the latter suggests the 24-year-old has strong legs. 

He hasn’t been contesting the intermediate sprints, indicating that stage wins are his sole ambition this Tour. If he can position himself better in the future sprints — perhaps with the assistance of the one and only Mathieu van der Poel, whose match was burnt a little early on stage three in a drag race against Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl's lead-out a few kilometres from the finish — that feat is certainly attainable. 

Mads Pedersen

More than anything, Mads Pedersen would have dearly loved to have either taken a stage or wore the yellow jersey while still on his home Danish roads. He seriously threatened to do so on stage two when he opened up the sprint and remained at the front until the very last metres, when Van Aert and then Jakobsen edged him out of victory.

Mads Pedersen finishes third on stage two of the 2022 Tour de France (Getty Images)

But while his primary ambition for this year’s race has been left unfulfilled, his ride that day proves he can mix it up with the very best sprinters in a pure bunch sprint. He’ll still be on the hunt for stage wins, and opportunities await not just in the classics specialist-friendly stages, but also the flat sprinter stages. 

Ewan must have felt he was due a break after his string of misfortune recently, but whichever Gods he has displeased are clearly not yet appeased. On stage two he suffered yet another ill-timed mechanical during the sprint, and was then denied a smooth run to the line the following day when he was boxed into the barrier by Peter Sagan.

Caleb Ewan at the 2022 Tour de France (Getty Images)

Still, this constitutes a better start than either of his last two Grand Tours, in which by this point he had already suffered a bad crash. In truth we still don’t know what kind of form he’s in, but the fact he’s been chasing green jersey points at the intermediate sprints suggests he believes himself to be in good nick, and intends to make it all the way to Paris.  

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Jasper Philipsen and Jonas Vingegaard crowned in Paris

Jasper Philipsen took the title of most successful sprinter of the 109th Tour de France as he became the only one of them to score for the second time. The Belgian outclassed former Champs-Élysées winners Dylan Groenewegen and Alexander Kristoff to emulate his childhood hero Tom Boonen who also won his second Tour de France stage in Paris at the age of 24 in 2004. Wout van Aert didn’t contest the last sprint to celebrate Jonas Vingegaard ’s first overall victory.

1 LAST KOM POINT FOR SIMON GESCHKE

135 riders started stage 21 at 16.46 at Paris La Défense Arena. 3 non-starters: Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Michael Woods and Guillaume Boivin (Israel-Premier Tech). Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), the super combative of the 109th Tour de France, symbolically attacked from the gun one last time but it was for a laugh along with Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar. As per tradition, the peloton rode slowly for the first fifty kilometres or so. Polka dot jersey wearer Simon Geschke was allowed by the rest of the riders to symbolically take the last KOM point up for grab at côte du Pavé des Gardes. Also as per tradition, Jumbo-Visma, the team of the Maillot Jaune, entered Paris in the lead of the peloton.

BREAKAWAY GROUPS ON THE CHAMPS-ELYSEES Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-EasyPost) and Stan De Wulf (AG2R-Citroën) attacked with 45km to go. They were joined in several waves by Jan Tratnik (Bahrain Victorious), Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies), Dani Martinez (Ineos Grenadier), Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar), Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Mikkel Honoré (Quick Step). It was all together again with 33km to go. The next leading group involved Schachmann again. The German was accompanied by Jonas Rutsch and Owain Doull (EF Education-EasyPost), Antoine Duchesne and Olivier Le Gac (Groupama-FDJ). The quintet got a 25’’ lead with 25km to go as their maximum advantage. It went down to 15’’ with 15km remaining. Schachmann and Rutsch were the last to surrender and it was all together again with 6.8km left.

ONE LAST ATTACK BY TADEJ POGACAR White jersey holder Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) attacked but Filippo Ganna reacted for Ineos Grenadier and the peloton was strung out in the run in to the last 3-km. Alpecin-Deceuninck seized the reins of the peloton. BikeExchange-Jayco took over at the red flame. Dylan Groenewegen launched from far out and Jasper Philipsen had the situation under control. He sped up on the right hand side to take his second stage win at the age of 24, eighteen years after Tom Boonen, the last Belgian green jersey winner before Wout van Aert, did so on the Champs-Elysées. Both hail from Mol and Philipsen has often been touted as the next Boonen. Last year’s Champs-Elysées winner Wout van Aert remained quietly at the back of the pack, along with Jonas Vingegaard who took home his first Tour de France trophy.

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Preview: Tour de France. World's best climbers and sprinters go head to head in a seasonal climax

From the 1st to the 24th of July the peloton will be in the roads of France, Denmark and Switzerland for the 109th edition of the Tour de France . The most iconic, popular and one of the most important races for most of the riders and teams, who will be fighting for meaningful wins over the course of three weeks.

Over the course of the three weeks there will be several classifications that the riders will be fighting for. The General Classification will see the race's best stage-racers go head to head on every single stage as they attempt to take time on each other - specially in the mountains, as will the Youth Classification contenders. In the Points Classification, the sprinters will go head to head in the bunch sprints, aswell as the intermediate sprints spread throughout the 19 road stages. As for the King of the Mountain Classification, it will be decided in the race's highest mountains, toughest Alpine and Pyrenean passes between those who go over them first.

You can check the profile and details of every stage here , the updated startlist with all the names expected to be in the race here , and the prize money that will be distributed between all teams here .

General Classification battle

The preliminary startlist will see general classification contenders as follows: Ben O'Connor, Rigoberto Urán, Damiano Caruso, Jack Haig, Jakob Fuglsang, Michael Woods, Giulio Ciccone, Louis Meintjes, Daniel Martínez, Adam Yates, Geraint Thomas, Aleksandr Vlasov, Alexey Lutsenko, Primoz Roglic , Jonas Vingegaard , Tadej Pogacar , David Gaudu, Guillaume Martin, Enric Mas and Nairo Quintana.

Important Stages

The fifth stage is a highly antecipated day. A short stage with only 153 kilometers on the menu, however 19.4 of those will take place over cobbled roads. 11 sectors to be exact, all of which in the second half of the stage. It will be an important day for the overall classification, as the tension will rise to an all-time high and crucial losses can be had if something goes wrong.

Stage seven will have the riders race into the Vosges. As is traditional the Planche des Belles Filles (7Km; 8.7%) will be the first real summit finish of the race. It will be the first opportunity for the climbers to make differences in their terrain, and will be a good gauge to measure who will be capable of fighting for the win and podium in the end.

Stage 11 will see the first big high-mountain stage. The menu isn’t complicated, with the Lacets de Montvernier (3.4Km; 8.2%), Col du Telegraphe (11.9Km; 7.1%) and Col du Galibier (17.7Km; 6.9%) taking the riders through high altitude. It will be a brutal day, as the riders will descend into Briançon and climb the Col du Granon (11.3Km; 9.2%) for the highest stage finish in the race.

Stage 12 will be the final in the Alps, as a hattrick of ascents will mark the day. The riders will early on climb the Col du Galibier (23Km; 5.1%) via the opposite direction, followed by the Col de la Croix the Fer (29Km; 5.2%), and the return of the Alpe d’Huez (13.8Km; 7.9%) for the stage finish.

Stage 17 will have a pan-flat first half, and a very hard second half. A very short stage with only 129 kilometers on the menu, however featuring the Col d’Aspin (12Km; 6.5%), the Hourquette d’Ancizan (8.2Km; 5%) and the Col de Val Louron-Azet (10.7Km; 7.7%) before the final climb. That will be into Peyragudes (8Km; 7.2%), where more gaps will be established, with the finale in the brutal ramps of the local airfield.

The final mountain day comes right after. The formula is exactly the same as the day before, with a flat first half, short distances and a combination of similar climbs in the second half with a summit finish. Here however they will be longer, with the Col de Aubisque (16.4Km; 7.1%) opening things up for the day, the Col de Spandelles (10.3Km; 8.3%) dealing further damage and then the summit finish at Hautacam (13.6Km; 7.8%) being the last ascent where the climbers can do real differences.

The final time-trial of the race will come on it’s penultimate day. The 40.7-kilometer individual challenge will be ridden between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadour, a rolling time-trial which is far from ideal for the specialists, with a hilly finale. Rocamadour is no stranger to high-level pro races, and the final hilltop is a familiar sight, albeit with added importance on this day.

Cycling UpToDate prediction:

**** Tadej Pogacar

*** Primoz Roglic, Jonas Vingegaard

** Daniel Martínez, Aleksandr Vlasov, Enric Mas

* Jack Haig, Geraint Thomas, Jakob Fuglsang, Adam Yates

Points Classification battle

As for the sprinters who will be hunting stages and the green jersey: Magnus Cort Nielsen, Mads Pedersen, Jasper Philipsen, Alexander Kristoff, Caleb Ewan, Wout van Aert , Fabio Jakobsen , Bryan Coquard, Dylan Groenewegen, Michael Matthews and Peter Sagan.

The two first bunch sprints will come in Denmark, after the initial time-trial. The cities of Nyborg and Sønderborg will host the finales, although tension will be sky-high and the second stage is particularly vulnerable to crosswinds.

In the fourth day of racing the peloton returns to familiar French roads. This will be a day for the sprintes, however it includes quite a few hilltops throughout the day that may spark some surprises in northwestern France.

Stage 13 will have the peloton travel from the Alps into the Massif Central. A day for the sprinters, likely, however a lot can happen and besides the possibility of a breakaway succeeding, the several rolling hills will provide platforms for attacks to surge.

The final day of the second week will see the riders travel south, from Rodez into Carcassonne. It is another day designed for the sprinters however with plenty obstacles that may see a surprise pop out.

Stage 19 will be a transition day, as the riders head north for a flat stage. It is a day on paper for the sprinters, however this late into the race it will always be more complicated to chase down breakaways.

And as traditional, the final day will feature soft distances and the classic final circuit inside of Paris, where the riders will finish the race off within the Champs-Élysées.

CyclingUpToDate prediction:

**** Wout van Aert

*** Fabio Jakobsen, Mads Pedersen

** Jasper Philipsen, Michael Matthews, Peter Sagan

* Caleb Ewan, Alexander Kristoff, Bryan Coquard, Dylan Groenewegen

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Tour de France 2022: 10 best riders as Jonas Vingegaard misses out on top spot - Blazin’ Saddles

Updated 26/07/2022 at 12:42 GMT

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard was a fitting winner of a Tour de France that started in Copenhagen – but was the 25-year-old even the best rider in the race? With the dust now settled on the Champs-Elysees, Felix Lowe takes a look back at an intense three weeks and picks out the best riders of a pulsating 109th edition of the world’s biggest bike race.

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Form ranking: Tour de France 2022 contenders

Who is on track to threaten Tadej Pogacar at this year's Grand Boucle?

The Tour de France is still three and a half months away but the season is in full flow and the yellow jersey contenders have all had a chance to showcase their early form. 

What’s more, after the scattered appointments of January and February, the past week saw the world’s best riders convene in France and Italy for concurrent editions of Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico - two of the most prestigious week-long races on the calendar. 

There’s still plenty of time to rectify the situation for those who’ve had slow starts but, as one rider told us recently: "It’s never too early to win nowadays."

That’s certainly the case for the winner of the past two Tours, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), who has stormed out of the blocks with seven wins to his name already. At this point, he looks as big a favourite as you could possibly imagine. 

While Pogačar was winning Tirreno-Adriatico, his compatriot Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) was winning Paris-Nice, and it’s the two Slovenians who once again top our first ‘form ranking’ of 2022. 

But who else has impressed, and who’s got ground to make up? Read on for our analysis of the riders who’ll be battling it out in July. 

1.  Tadej Pogacar  (UAE Team Emirates)

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• 1st, Tirreno-Adriatico (2 stage wins)
• 1st, Strade Bianche 
• 1st, UAE Tour (2 stage wins)

The winner of the past two editions of the Tour de France has done nothing to suggest he can’t win a third. In fact, he has made that prospect feel almost like an inevitability.

With seven wins already this season – a figure many a sprinter would be proud of come the end of the campaign – Pogačar has reached a level of dominance that would seem to justify the otherwise unwelcome comparisons with the ‘Cannibal’, Eddy Merckx.

Pogačar started the year with COVID-19 but it clearly hasn’t held him back, as he went to the UAE Tour and won his team’s home race for the second year running, triumphing on both summit finishes and placing third in the time trial. 

After that, he went to Strade Bianche and attacked alone from 50km out to underline his Classics credentials after his Monument brace of 2021. And now he returns from a successful defence of his Tirreno-Adriatico crown, where he again won two stages.

He has never once looked in any trouble. He is so much better than anyone that his he often appears to be racing against himself. At the start of the season he was the overwhelming favourite for the 2022 yellow jersey, for now it’s hard to see how anyone else stands a chance.

2. Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma)

• 1st, Paris-Nice (1 stage victory)
• 28th, Drôme Classic
• 26th, Faun-Ardèche Classic

Such is Pogačar’s dominance, most riders on this list could be forgiven for setting the podium as the ceiling of their ambitions this July, but Roglič is widely considered the only rider who can challenge Pogačar. That notion of a two-horse race was only strengthened by Roglič winning Paris-Nice on the same day his compatriot lifted the Tirreno trident.

Roglič once again showed he can put time into his rivals against the clock and in the mountains, while the collective strength of his Jumbo-Visma team meant he was able to strike in the crosswinds and on the punchy terrain. 

And yet, once every so often, Roglic looks exposed. While Pogačar strolled home in Italy, Roglič laboured to victory in France, where he was essentially bailed out by his teammate Wout van Aert. Having lost the title on the final day the previous year, not to mention his brutal defeat at the hands of Pogačar on the penultimate day of the 2020 Tour, a theme has definitely emerged: Roglič can be vulnerable while trying to close out a race.

And so, despite seeing off a top field to win his ninth week-long stage race of 11, it all came with a caveat, and perhaps a glimmer of hope for his rivals. He’s a clear second on the Cyclingnews list, but maybe more and more of a distant second.

3. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma)

• 2nd, Tirreno-Adriatico
• 1st, Drôme Classic
• 33rd, Faun-Ardèche Classic

Leading the way after the ‘big two’ is another member of one of their own teams, and therein may lie Jumbo-Visma’s greatest hope of toppling Pogačar at the Tour de France. 

Vingegaard deputised incredibly when Roglič crashed out of contention at last year’s Tour, the Dane not only going on to place second overall but also briefly dropping Pogačar on Mont Ventoux.

That might have been a flash in the pan from a 24-year-old who could need more time to embed himself as a Grand Tour contender, but so far that doesn’t appear to be the case. He won the Drôme Classic on his second race day of the season and was the ‘best of the rest’ at Tirreno. He was disappointing in the time trial – this is a rider who placed third in both Tour time trials last year – but then was runner-up behind Pogačar on the two key climbing stages.

Vingegaard has so far shown that he belongs at the top level and that Jumbo-Visma’s talk of two leaders is justified. Roglič, a three-time winner of the Vuelta, is the more obvious candidate but you feel that Jumbo-Visma’s only hope is to get creative and use both cards.

4. Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers)

• 3rd, Paris-Nice
• 3rd, Volta ao Algarve
• 1st, National Championships Colombia ITT

With Pogačar having won the past two Tours, Ineos Grenadiers’ hold over the yellow jersey – after securing seven in eight years – is over, and it’s difficult to see them regaining their perch this year. 

Egan Bernal, winner of the 2019 Tour and 2021 Giro, was widely regarded as the only other rider who could be considered in the Pogačar/Roglič bracket, but he’s out for the long term after his life-threatening crash in January.

In his place, Adam Yates has seemingly been handed the reins, and it was interesting to note that Rod Ellingworth told Cyclingnews the team were ‘all-in’ for the Briton in July. 

Richard Carapaz has insisted on riding the Giro d'Italia, and at this point 2018 Tour winner Geraint Thomas’ role remains unclear. There has similarly been little made of Daniel Martínez, with Ineos not making any public statement about where he fits into their Grand Tour plans. However, the fact he’s down to ride this week’s GP de Denain (a cobbled semi-Classic) alongside Yates is a surefire indicator he’s brushing up ahead of the Tour’s visit to the pavé on stage 5 of this year’s race.

In his debut season for Ineos, Martínez placed fifth overall at last year’s Giro while supporting Bernal, and is considered capable of his own podium attempt. He has certainly started the season in fine form, claiming the Colombian time trial title before heading to Europe to record podiums at Volta ao Algarve and Paris-Nice.

The 25-year-old has a strong time trial in his locker (top 10 on stage 4 of Paris-Nice) and is also comfortable on big climbs (2nd on stage 7 of Paris-Nice), and may well be riding himself into a protected role this July.

5. Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers)

• 4th, Paris-Nice
• 2nd, UAE Tour

Yates may be the rider Ineos are backing at the Tour, according to Ellingworth, yet he’s a touch below Martínez on current form. 

Martínez was third in France and Yates was fourth – still a strong result even if he did lag behind the Colombian on the weekend’s climbs. Before that, Yates was a strong second to Pogačar at the UAE Tour, where he also reminded us that his time trialling has improved in Ineos colours.

Yates’ consistency in the past year or so has been striking. The question now is whether he can build and turn his top-fives into an assault on a major title, but he has so far underlined that he’s a classy and consistent top-level operator.

6. Nairo Quintana (Arkéa-Samsic)

• 5th, Paris-Nice
• 1st, Tour du Var (1 stage win)
• 1st, Tour de la Provence (1 stage win)

The Colombian has finished on the Tour de France podium three times but his so-called ‘yellow dream’ has faded over a rollercoaster few years. He’s maybe not back at that old status but he has nevertheless thrown down some pretty resounding climbing performances already this season.

His start is remarkably similar to how he stormed out of the blocks in his first season with Arkéa-Samsic, winning the Tour de la Provence and Tour du Var before placing top-six at Paris-Nice. The only difference was that he didn’t win a stage at this year’s Paris-Nice, and in fact some of the gloss was taken off when he was dropped by Simon Yates, Wout van Aert, and Roglič on the Col d’Eze, even if he finished alongside all the other big names.

The pandemic curtailed Quintana’s early-season run in 2020 and he’d go on to crash out of contention at the Tour de France before undergoing knee surgery.

Is the 32-year-old about to pick up where he left off? The season so far has already shown his time trialling remains a major Achilles heel – and it’s a huge barrier in a Tour with 53km of time trialling – but there could well be some flourishes in the mountains.

7. Enric Mas (Movistar)

• DNF, Tirreno-Adriatico
• 4th, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
• 12th, Trofeo Pollença-Port d'Andratx
• 7th, Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana

Enric Mas didn’t finish Tirreno-Adriatico but had he done, he would have been third overall. The Spaniard was away with Jonas Vingegaard, Richie Porte and Mikel Landa as a chasing quartet behind Pogačar over the second ascent of Monte Carpegna, only to crash on the run down to the finish, taking a chunk of flesh out of his arm.

It was a mishap that deprived him of a decent result on his palmarès but won’t seriously dent his confidence or credentials for the Tour de France. Coming after a fourth-place finish at the Volta a Valencia, Mas has clearly had a good winter under his belt. 

Mas didn’t immediately find his feet at Movistar, and he hasn’t immediately kicked on from his breakthrough podium at the 2018 Vuelta, but his Grand Tour record in the past couple of years is rock solid: 5th and 6th at the past two Tours, 5th and 2nd at the past two Vueltas.

8. Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious)

• 3rd, Tirreno-Adriatico
• 32nd, Ruta del Sol

The Spaniard will target the Giro d’Italia before the Tour de France this season, bringing all the usual question marks, but he has outlined his intentions to target the overall title at both races and he has started out strongly.

Landa had been a quiet presence at the Ruta del Sol and indeed for much of Tirreno, until he emerged on the key mountain stage to place third. Pogačar had flown but he finished alongside Jonas Vingegaard, well clear of the rest.

It was also telling that Landa was one of the six riders able to finish alongside Pogačar on the ‘wall’ stage to Bellante.

9. Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious)

• 6th, Paris-Nice
• 6th, Ruta del Sol

It has been a strong start to the year for Jack Haig, with a number of positive entries on the ledger as he has always been there or thereabouts with the key favourites when the road turns up. 

At the very start of his season, on the steep twisting uphill finish to Alcalá la Real he took fourth. Then on the queen stage at Paris-Nice Haig came over the line atop Col de Turini in seventh place, ahead of both Adam Yates and Guillaume Martin. The 28-year-old Australian has also levelled up a spot on the results table with his sixth places in the opening races of the season. If that leads to another powerful performance in the lead in to the Tour, like we saw at the Critérium du Dauphiné last year, Haig is a rider that has ample potential to move up the rankings, particularly after he proved his Grand Tour bona fides with a Vuelta a España podium last year.

10. Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe)

• DNF, Paris-Nice
• 4th, UAE Tour
• 1st, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (1 stage win)
• 82nd, Trofeo Playa de Palma-Palma
• 3rd, Trofeo Pollença-Port d'Andratx

The Russian has already racked up 22 race days as he sets his sights on a Tour de France debut after two appearances apiece at the Giro and Vuelta. 

He kicked off with a podium at Challenge Mallorca before winning the uphill gravel finish at the Volta a Valenciana en route to his first overall stage race title. He was then a solid fourth at the UAE before crashing out of Paris-Nice on the final day.

At Paris-Nice, he was sitting seventh overall after the penultimate stage, although he was a relatively disappointing 12th on that Col de Turini summit finish. On the final day, he crashed on a descent and was forced to abandon, but avoided serious injury.

After that early flourish in Valencia, it’s been solid rather than spectacular, but the 25-year-old is still only in his third season at WorldTour level and is still establishing himself in the top stage racing tier.

11. Guillaume Martin (Cofidis)

• 9th, Paris-Nice
• 2nd, Drôme Classic
• 5th, Faun-Ardèche Classic
• 3rd, Tour du Var
• 22nd, GP La Marseillaise

The French philosopher has had a really decent start to the season on home soil, picking up a number of top-fives. Things changed a little when he arrived at Paris-Nice and encountered a much deeper field, but he still claimed a respectable top 10.

In some ways, the season so far hasn’t shown us anything we didn’t already know. Guillaume Martin is good going uphill and downhill, and is never too shy to attack, but lacks the all-round ability needed to seriously challenge for the upper reaches of a Grand Tour general classification. 

He was 57th in the Paris-Nice time trial – the worst of the GC contenders and 1:17 down on Roglič over just 13.4km. And that was two days after he was caught out in the crosswinds on stage 2.

12. David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ)

• DNF, Trofeo Laigueglia
• 5th, Volta ao Algarve (1 stage win)

The Frenchman started out nicely with a stage win and fifth overall in a strong field at the Volta ao Algarve, but his Paris-Nice ambitions were ruined by a crash on stage 2, where he finished dead last after the race split in the crosswinds. Gaudu lumbered his way through before deciding not to start the final stage. 

He didn't do anything spectacular last year at Paris-Nice either, and also pulled the pin on the last stage, but then went on to deliver a much more solid run of results leading into the Tour. That means we won't be discounting his chances based on Paris-Nice.

13. Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ)

• 8th, Tirreno-Adriatico
• 49th, Strade Bianche
• 24th, Tour du Var
• 11th, Etoile de Bessèges
• 37th, GP La Marseillaise

Unlike Gaudu, Pinot doesn’t have a win to his name this season, but he does have a more upward trajectory after the crucial past week. 

After an attacking display at Tour du Var, he placed 8th at Tirreno-Adriatico, which is his first WorldTour top 10 since the 2020 Dauphiné. He had a poor opening time trial and wasn’t wholly convincing on the punchy stuff in Bellante and Fermo, but the double ascent of Monte Carpegna on stage 6 was a truer test and he came through it in seventh place. He was nearly two minutes down on Pogačar, but on a similar level to plenty of big names.

Pinot's crash on the opening day of the 2020 Tour de France effectively ruined the past 18 months of his career but he now seems back on track. 

“I’ve not felt this good since the 2020 Dauphiné,” Pinot said after Tirreno, describing his morale as “nine out of 10”. 

Others have more eye-catching results but for someone with such injury troubles – plus COVID-19-related issues at the start of the year – stringing together 17 solid race days like that is a very encouraging sign indeed.

14. Ben O'Connor (AG2R Citroën Team)

• 7th, Ruta del Sol

O'Connor is another of the many riders within the peloton that has been struck down with flu, leaving Paris-Nice just before the climbing began and before the time trial on stage 4. 

It would have been a handy indicator to see how he stacked up in his first race against the clock this season as with all three of those on the podium at the Tour last year faster than him in the time trials its an obvious area where a bit of a step up would go a long way into turning last year's fourth-placed rider into a consistent podium contender.  

Still, seventh at Ruta del Sol was a good start to the season as was the strength on show in his attacking display on stage 4, which delivered the steepest climbs at the start of the day's racing.  

15. Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan)

• DNF, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
• 9th, Ruta del Sol
• 1st, Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior

It still feels a little strange to feature Lutsenko as a Tour de France contender but the Kazakhstani all-rounder did finish 7th overall last year and wants to target the podium in this new career direction of his. 

It also feels a little strange that we’ve got so far down this list of big names without mentioning illness, such is the spread of flus and colds at the moment. Lutsenko is one rider who has laid low, forced to skip Paris-Nice in what is a significant setback, especially considering he has several spring Classics on his schedule.

Still, he won the new Clásica Jáen gravel race on his season debut, and then placed top-10 at Ruta del Sol, before his bad luck began with a crash at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

New teammate Miguel Angel López will also ride the Tour but has said that his main aim for the season will be the Giro d'Italia. He has podiums at the Giro and Vuelta on his palmarès, as well as a stage win at the 2020 Tour, so the Colombian is definitely one to keep in mind.

There are several other team leaders who have either yet to start their seasons, yet to get up to speed, or haven't confirmed their race plans. 

These include Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers), Romain Bardet (Team DSM), Chris Froome (Israel-Premier Tech), Rigoberto Urán (EF Education-EasyPost), Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo), and Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies).

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Not all sprinters are created equal. So, let’s delve into the tactical genius and prowess of the peloton’s best mad men and women.

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But what about the green and purple jerseys , those awarded to the leaders and winners of the points classifications, often, though not always, noted sprinters?

These are men and women capable of making unfathomable watts, often after four, five, and sometimes six-plus hours of racing, who are held at bay all day, only to unleash their greatest skills for barely a few hundred meters. They’re often the ones who give us the biggest thrills and the narrowest victories (or defeats).

While we focus on the speed and raw power of sprinters, one thing that’s often overlooked is how well they race; how the best sprinters are often the most patient riders, waiting until the perfect moment to launch their attacks. Theirs is often a game of cat-and-mouse, a strategic battle as much as a power-based one. Given the blazing speed at which these riders can sprint, it’s easy to forget that they’re some of the savviest riders in the peloton.

So, who are they? Let’s take a deeper look at the riders going for those green jerseys and points competitions at the Giro d’Italia , Tour de France , and Vuelta a España this summer.

Men’s Top Sprinters

Jasper philipsen – alpecin-deceuninck.

The young Belgian, once derided as “Jasper the Disaster,” is the best sprinter in the world right now. Possessing the perfect combination of strength, racing know-how, and the patience required to win a bunch sprint, he has to be the favorite heading into any stage suited to sprinters. After a second-place finish at Roubaix , the reigning Tour de France green jersey will head into this year’s Grande Boucle as the heavy favorite to repeat.

Mads Pedersen – Lidl-Trek

Unlike most others on this list, Mads Pedersen is hardly a pure sprinter. Rather, the one-day specialist has shown that he’s most at home when launching attacks from a long way out. In fact, just a few weeks ago, he did something most people didn’t think was possible when he stayed with Mathieu van der Poel for some fifty kilometers in Ghent-Wevelgem , only to outsprint the Dutch superstar in the closing meters. There isn’t a team in the men’s peloton looking quite as strong as Lidl-Trek is right now, so expect Mads to compete for at least a few bunch sprint wins in his scheduled Tour and Vuelta appearances.

Tim Merlier – Soudal-Quick-Step

By the metric of the modern peloton, Tim Merlier is getting a bit long in the tooth. The 31-year-old from Flanders only has two Grand Tour stage wins to his name: one in the Giro and one in the Tour . But, as most of Merlier’s early career was focused on cyclocross racing, he very well could just be coming into his prime. In the last three seasons, Merlier has won the Belgian National Road Race and Brugge-De Panne, and, from 2022 to this year, three-peated in Nokere Koerse. Maybe, like a great sprinter does, he’s waiting until the perfect moment to launch.

Mark Cavendish – Astana Qazaqstan

In 2024, Cav is sitting on the precipice between these two categories. The Manx Missile was coaxed out of retirement not once but twice with the promise of nabbing Eddy Merckx’s longstanding record of 34 Tour de France stage wins. And while his early-season returns have been anything but stunning, we’re talking about the greatest sprinter of all time here. And so, for that very reason, we have to consider Cav, a two-time Tour de France green jersey winner, in the upper echelon here.

Dylan Groenewegen – Jayco AlUla

Groenewegen has five Tour de France stage wins. But four of them came before 2020 and one in 2022. Much of that drought likely has to do with the nine-month ban he received from the UCI after it was determined he caused the crash that put Fabio Jakobsen in an induced coma for two days. Still, Groenewegen has shown form early this season with a ninth-place finish in Ghent-Wevelgem and a few strong stages in Paris-Nice and the UAE Tour.

Kaden Groves – Alpecin-Deceuninck

Groves, the four-time Vuelta a España stage winner and reigning green jersey champion of that race, will likely contest again for several of that race’s sprint stages. Groves has shown a predilection for hilly stages that tend to thin the herd over the course of the day, stages that are becoming increasingly common in the modern Grand Tour.

Arnaud Démare – Arkéa–B&B Hotels

Though he didn’t get any last year, Arnaud Démare has won ten Grand Tour stages: eight in the Giro and two in the Tour . He’s also a two-time points champion in the Giro. And though his spring campaign has been nothing to write home about, he’s an expert at positioning when the bunch really starts charging. Given as much, he should have more than a few opportunities to outsprint the bunch in this summer’s Tour.

Fabio Jakobsen – dsm firmenich PostNL

Like a few others on this list, Jakobsen’s results don’t necessarily match his strength. Easily one of the fastest sprinters in the peloton, Jakobsen will definitely find his way to the bunch in this year’s Giro and Tour, where he’ll try to add to his palmarès, which already counts five Vuelta stage wins. Of course, he hasn’t gotten one of those since 2021, so you either think he’s washed or he’s due.

Dark Horses

Sam Bennett (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) - Outside of Mark Cavendish, Sam Bennett is the most decorated racer on this list. His palmarès includes five stage wins at the Vuelta , three at the Giro , and two at the Tour . He was also the Tour’s 2020 green jersey. And though his last two seasons have been hardly spectacular, it’s easy to predict that Sam Bennett could be in the mix for stage wins, especially after he was left off AG2R’s Tour roster last year.

Caleb Ewan (Jayco AlUla) - The man who was once a sure-fire bet to take a Grand Tour sprint stage—he’s won ten in his career—has fallen to the bottom of this pack simply because he hasn’t been able to nab a stage win since the 2021 Giro d’Italia . Of course, he’s still one of the strongest sprinters on Earth and always a threat to take a win, which, over the last three years, he’s been ever so close to. Despite his recent cold streak, Ewan is truly one of the riders you can never, ever count out.

Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) - After a historic stage win in the 2022 Giro d’Italia and a third-place finish behind Jasper Phillipsen and Mark Cavendish in stage 7 of last’s Tour de France, the Eritrean rider showed a lot of promise as a Grand Tour sprinter. Now confirmed for the Giro, we hope to see Girmay bring on the heat to the favorites.

Alberto Dainese (Tudor Pro Cycling) - While still early in his professional career, Dainese has already demonstrated his potential as a top-level sprinter and is definitely one to watch. In 2023, the Italian sprinter won two Giro stages and one Vuelta stage.

On the women’s side of the coin, there’s far less separation between the heavy favorites, the maybe-they-could, and the sprinters who might steal a stage here or there. And much of that has to do with the fact that there’s much more parity in general in the women’s WorldTour (which is why we should all be watching a lot more women’s races!). But there is still the cream of the crop and everyone else.

Lotte Kopecky – SD Worx-Protime

You could easily argue that Lotte Kopecky is the strongest bike racer in the world, regardless of gender. Her ability to sustain efforts and grind her opponents into dust behind her is matched only by the likes of Mathieu van der Poel . As she heads into this summer as the reigning Tour de France points champion, all eyes will be on the 28-year-old to rack up more stage wins.

Lorena Wiebes – SD Worx-Protime

It’s no secret that SD Worx is sitting on an embarrassment of riches right now. This is evidenced by the fact that Lotte Kopecky is racing on the same team as Lorena Wiebes , perhaps the strongest pure sprinter in the women’s peloton. The 25-year-old Dutchwoman has won Ronde van Drenthe four years in a row and just added to her palmarès with a Gent-Wevelgem victory last weekend. In a heads-up sprint, Wiebes is as tough as out there is.

Elisa Balsamo – Lidl-Trek

With wins at Brugge-De Panne and Trofeo Alfredo Binda and second-place finishes at Paris-Roubaix , Ronde van Drenthe, and Ghent-Wevelgem , the Italian one-day specialist is having a world-class spring campaign. She’s had a bit of success in stage races, nabbing a pair of wins at the 2022 Giro Donne and another pair at 2023’s Setmana Ciclista Valenciana. But at just 26 years old, Balsamo could be on the precipice of a breakout summer.

Charlotte Kool – dsm firmenich PostNL

At just 24 years old, Charlotte Kool seems to be hitting her prime. She won her first Grand Tour stage in last year’s Vuelta and was fighting for wins in Brugge-De Panne and Ghent-Wevelgem, where she finished second and fourth, respectively. She won the points classification in last year’s UAE Tour and should rack up plenty of points over the course of the summer.

Emma Norsgaard – Movistar

Though Norsgaard’s spring has been inauspicious at best, she’s always a tough out when it comes to sprints. With a pair of stage wins to her name (a Giro stage in 2021 and a Tour stage in 2023), she knows how to win from the bunch. She just needs to find her way to the front and put herself in a position to compete. If she can get there, there’s no doubt she’s got the legs.

Marianne Vos – Visma-Lease a Bike

So long as there’s a bike race, and so long as Marianne Vos is in that bike race, it’s just plain stupid to count her out. To list her palmarès would take all of the space this story has, so just accept the fact that she’s likely to be there at the end, whether the stage calls for a breakaway, a punchy climb, or a bunch sprint. And though she’s one of the women’s peloton’s elder stateswomen at age 36, with recent wins at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Dwars door Vlaanderen , she’s still proving week after week that she can race with—and beat—the best.

Elisa Longo Borghini – Lidl-Trek

Between Mads Pedersen , Elisa Balsamo, and Longo Borghini, Lidl-Trek’s cup runneth over with one-day talent. But to win one-day races, you need to be able to create and sustain attacks, and there are few better in the women’s bunch at that than Longo Borghini. Hardly a pure sprinter, she’ll need to use her well-honed racing acumen if she’s going to take a stage win.

Chloé Dygert – Canyon//SRAM

Dygert is back. After suffering a training setback late last year, stemming from an injury sustained earlier in 2023, Dygert returned to the peloton with a sixth-place finish in Brugge-De Panne. And while she’s known more for her time-trialing acumen than her pure sprint ability, she can put down and sustain boatloads of power. If she and her teammates can put her in the right position, look for the American star to steal a stage here or there.

Chiara Consonni (UAE Team ADQ) - This is only Consonni’s second year at the WorldTour level, but she’s shown in recent times that she has the legs and the know-how to go elbow-to-elbow with the best of the bunch. Her best result is arguably a third-place finish in the points classification in this year’s UAE Tour. Look for her to steal a stage win or two (or three) as the summer progresses.

Rachele Barbieri (dsm firmenich PostNL) - For all of the success Rachele Barbieri has enjoyed on the track, she’s had little on the road. Her best finishes in major races are a pair of second-place finishes in stages in the Giro and UAE Tour and two fourth-place finishes in Tour stages. However, anyone who can make the kind of power Babieri is capable of making can and should not be counted out. Look for her to snag a sleeper win at some point this year.

Michael Venutolo-Mantovani is a writer and musician based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He loves road and track cycling, likes gravel riding, and can often be found trying to avoid crashing his mountain bike. 

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The route leads mainly through the Parc Naturel Régional des Caps et Marais d’Opale, or The Regional Nature Park of the Opal Capes and Marshes. It’s rarely flat, but at the same time the undulations are nothing to be scared of. Yet, the combination with strong winds could turn out to be very hostile.

Which way the wind is – literally – blowing on Tuesday 5 July, we are likely to see the teams of the likes of Wout van Aert and Mads Pedersen to up the pace in the last 50 kilometres to make the finale as hard as possible. At that point there are still a number of short climbs at approximately 5% remaining before the last 10 kilometres are entirely flat.

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Another Tour de France stage earmarked for the sprinters, another day where the victor did not come from a bunch sprint.

After crossing the Pyrenees during the week, the peloton’s fast men were confident of contesting stage 19’s finish into Cahors, but instead Jumbo-Visma’s Christophe Laporte took the honours , the Frenchman attacking inside the final uphill 500 metres to deny the sprinters.

Regardless of the outcome of Sunday’s expected ceremonial stage in Paris, the 2022 Tour de France will be recorded as the edition with the least number of bunch sprints in it this century with a maximum of four.

Ahead of the final weekend, bunch sprints have only been contested on three occasions, only one of which took place on French soil, last Sunday’s stage in Carcassonne won by Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck).

A deflated Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) finished 3-28 behind, and he told Cycling Weekly at the finish that he was disappointed about the paucity of sprint opportunities in the race this year.

“Frustrating day, I don’t know?” the Dutchman said. “I think so far in this Tour de France we’ve only had two [three - ed] bunch sprints, because with finals like this it’s not really a bunch sprint. At least not for the pure sprinters, but it is what it is. 

"It’s up to the organisation; it’s their choice. But like this year there aren’t many chances for sprinters which would automatically mean that maybe there won’t be as many sprinters in the Tour [in future years], but we will wait for the parcours next year. 

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“If you ask my opinion, of course [he’d say he wants more sprints] because I’m a sprinter. But this Tour there has been a lot of uphill, probably more a Tour for Julian Alaphilippe and you see that we are missing him.”

Lotto-Soudal’s Caleb Ewan was succinct with his verdict of stage 19. “I felt good, a perfect finish for me, so I’m very disappointed. [I’m] confident still [about Paris] but disappointed that it was another s**t sprint.”

Dylan Groenewegen won stage three of the race and his BikeExchange-Jayco team were hoping that he could double up on Friday’s stage.

But they were aware of the uphill finish of the stage, with Matt White, the team’s DS, saying: “We knew it was a uphill kick from the corner. We did a recon on the course, and [fellow DS] Mat Hayman drove the course a couple of weeks before the Tour de France so we had videos and we knew everything.

“Laporte played it tactically very well. We knew it would be a dangerous race to control today, just because we’re so late in the race and the way the race has been run there is a lot of tired boys. 

“You seen the explosion in the final there: one because it was hilly, and two because of the load the guys have had over the last couple of weeks. Also, we knew it was a tactical run-in and when guys are tired, wheels get let go. I don’t know how many guys there were contesting the sprint but there was probably about 20 guys.”

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In de maand december blikt  WielerFlits  traditioneel terug op het afgelopen wielerseizoen met de reeks Eindejaarslijstjes. Wat waren de hoogte- en dieptepunten van het afgelopen jaar en welke renners verdienen nog een eervolle vermelding voor 2022? Elke werkdag is er een nieuwe lijst met bijbehorende poll. Vandaag staat centraal: de beste sprinter van 2022.

Wout van Aert

We doen Wout van Aert natuurlijk tekort om hem (‘slechts’) als een sprinter te bestempelen, maar de Belgische alleskunner kan nu eenmaal ook ontzettend snel aankomen, zeker na een zware koers. Dat demonstreerde hij ook in 2022 weer met enige regelmaat, maar ook in de écht vlakke sprintetappes liet hij zich van zijn beste kant zien. Op zijn eerste sprintzege moest hij nog wel even wachten, die kwam er pas in het Critérium du Dauphiné. De (toen nog) Belgische kampioen kwam in de Franse ronde tot twee keer toe als sprintwinnaar uit de bus. Nee, hij versloeg er niet meteen de allersnelste mannen, maar je moet het toch maar even doen.

Vervolgens smeet hij zich ook in de Tour de France met volle overgave in het sprintgeweld. In de eerste etappes op Deense bodem kwam hij twee keer verduiveld dicht bij de overwinning, maar moest hij in millimetersprints zijn meerdere erkennen in eerst Fabio Jakobsen en vervolgens Dylan Groenewegen . Toch hield Van Aert wel iets over aan de Tourtrip door Denemarken: de gele trui. Door zijn jaloersmakende regelmaat en veelzijdigheid won hij drie weken later met groot machtsvertoon – en voor het eerst in zijn carrière – de groene puntentrui. Van Aert was misschien niet de snelste sprinter in de Tour, maar wel de meest veelzijdige.

Na een uitermate succesvolle Ronde van Frankrijk boekte Van Aert in de resterende koersmaanden nog één sprintzege. In de Bretagne Classic-Ouest France denderde de kopman van Jumbo-Visma met een uitgedunde groep naar de streep en versloeg hij op knappe wijze Axel Laurance , Alexander Kamp en opkomend sprinttalent Arnaud De Lie . Het tekent nog maar eens de veelzijdigheid van de man, die eerder in het jaar ook Omloop Het Nieuwsblad en de E3 Saxo Bank Classic wist te winnen en in het hooggebergte ploegmaat Jonas Vingegaard aan een eerste Tourzege wist te helpen.

Belangrijkste sprintresultaten in 2022

foto: Cor Vos

Arnaud Démare

Arnaud Démare is een renner die je makkelijk over het hoofd ziet, als het gaat om een verkiezing als ‘de beste sprinter van 2022’. En dat is eigenlijk wel onterecht, want de rappe Fransman kan terugkijken op een uitstekend seizoen. Er zijn maar weinig renners die kunnen zeggen dat ze dit jaar drie etappes in een grote ronde hebben gewonnen. Arnaud Démare wél. Het wielerjaar 2022 begon niet al te denderend voor de sprinttroef van Groupama-FDJ. Er waren wel de nodige ereplaatsen, maar Démare slaagde er maar niet in om een koers te winnen. En dat begon toch te knagen bij een pure winnaar als Démare.

In de Giro d’Italia kwam dan eindelijk die verlossende zege. In de derde etappe, met aankomst in het Hongaarse Balatonfüred, moest hij nog zijn meerdere erkennen in Mark Cavendish , maar twee dagen later was het wél raak voor Démare. In Messina rekende hij af met Fernando Gaviria en Giacomo Nizzolo , en bleek hij meteen vertrokken voor een buitengewoon succesvolle Ronde van Italië. Het bleef namelijk niet bij één overwinning voor de Fransman. Ook in de zesde etappe naar Scalea (voor Caleb Ewan en Cavendish) en de dertiende rit naar Cuneo (ten koste van Phil Bauhaus en opnieuw Cavendish) was het prijs.

En dat was nog niet alles, want Démare mocht na drie weken koers ook La Maglia Ciclamino, de paarse puntentrui, afhalen. Démare ging ook na de Giro verder met zijn favoriete hobby, het winnen van wielerkoersen, door in La Route d’Occitanie, de Ronde van Polen en de Grand Prix d’Isbergues naar de zege te snellen. Tel daarbij de talloze ereplaatsen op in kleinere rittenkoersen en eendagswedstrijden en je mag concluderen dat Démare een uitstekend najaar heeft afgewerkt. De kers op de taart kwam er in Parijs-Tours. In deze vermaarde najaarsklassieker kwam Démare, na een sprint, als winnaar uit de sportieve strijd.

Dylan Groenewegen

Het jaar 2022 stond voor Dylan Groenewegen in het teken van de sportieve wedergeboorte als topsprinter, als veelwinnaar, als een van de vaandeldragers van het Nederlandse sprintersgilde. De Amsterdammer kon in het tenue van zijn nieuwe werkgever BikeExchange-Jayco met een schone lei beginnen, en dit wierp al snel zijn vruchten af. Ondanks de nodige opstartproblemen met zijn nog verre van geoliede sprinttrein boekte hij in zijn eerste wedstrijd van het seizoen, de Saudi Tour, al twee sprintzeges. Groenewegen rekende onder meer af met Caleb Ewan , Alberto Dainese en Fernando Gaviria . Toch niet de minste namen.

Groenewegen moest vervolgens een tijdje wachten op een nieuwe overwinning. In de UAE Tour en Parijs-Nice liep het niet naar wens, terwijl hij in de Minerva Classic Brugge-De Panne nipt werd verslagen door Tim Merlier . In de Ronde van Hongarije was het dan wél weer raak: in de voorlaatste rit rekende hij ogenschijnlijk eenvoudig af met landgenoot Fabio Jakobsen . Groenewegen had de smaak weer te pakken en ging ook in de Veenendaal-Veenendaal Classic en de Ronde van Slovenië met winst aan de haal. Maar nog belangrijker: de rappe man kende een uitstekende aanloop naar de Tour de France.

In de Ronde van Frankrijk zagen we dan echt de terugkeer van Groenewegen aan de absolute sprinttop. In de derde etappe naar het Deense Sønderborg leek hij net te laat te komen voor de winst, maar met een ultieme jump wist hij geletruidrager Wout van Aert nog net de loef af te steken. Al snel neemt de emotie het over van het verstand. “Fysiek was het geen strijd om terug te komen, maar mentaal was het een moeilijke periode (doelt onder meer op de crash met Fabio Jakobsen in de Ronde van Polen, red.) natuurlijk. Na alles wat er is gebeurd, ook met mijn familie. Dit is voor mijn vrouw en zoon. Het betekent heel veel voor me.”

Fabio Jakobsen

Het jaar 2021 stond voor Fabio Jakobsen in het teken van weer op niveau komen na zijn verschrikkelijke crash in de Ronde van Polen, 2022 was het jaar van de bevestiging. En of dat is gelukt! Met dertien overwinningen ontpopte Jakobsen zich tot een van de veelwinnaars van het peloton. Het begon allemaal al zeer vroeg. In zijn eerste koers van het seizoen, de Ronde van Valencia, trok hij twee keer aan het langste sprinteind. Dat was ook de buit in de Volta ao Algarve. En Jakobsen bleef maar winnen in de eerste koersmaanden van 2022. In Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne klopte hij met machtige pedaalslagen Caleb Ewan .

De renner van (toen nog) Quick-Step-Alpha Vinyl had de smaak te pakken en dus was het niet lang wachten op een nieuwe oppergaai. Seizoenszege nummer zes kwam er in Parijs-Nice, maar dat bleek ook meteen een kantelpunt in het seizoen van Jakobsen. De pijlsnelle Nederlander stond vervolgens ruim twee maanden droog, al reed hij na Parijs-Nice ook niet zoveel wedstrijden meer. Zijn vizier stond al gericht op de Tour de France. In aanloop naar de Franse ronde wist hij in de Ronde van Hongarije (twee ritoverwinningen) en de Baloise Belgium Tour (één etappezege) weer het nodige vertrouwen te tanken.

In zijn allereerste Ronde van Frankrijk hoefde Jakobsen niet lang te wachten op zijn eerste overwinning. Wat heet, in de eerste de beste sprinterskans was het meteen raak voor de Tourdebutant. In Nyborg bleek er geen kruid gewassen tegen de pure sprintsnelheid van Jakobsen. De cirkel was rond, goed twee jaar na zijn verschrikkelijke val in de Ronde van Polen stond Jakobsen (weer) op de top van de sprintersrots. In het najaar kwam er nog één zeer prestigieuze overwinning bij voor de man uit Heukelum: in het Duitse München spurtte hij op overtuigende wijze, na een perfecte lead-out van Danny van Poppel , naar de Europese titel.

Elia Viviani weet het zeker: de Italiaan – zelf toch ook geen onaardige sprinter – voorspelt een grote toekomst voor Olav Kooij . “Voor de toekomst is hij de meest complete sprinter. Hij is zeer consistent en heeft nog ruimte om progressie te boeken.” Mooie woorden van de man die inmiddels 87 professionele zeges achter zijn naam heeft staan. Olav Kooij is nog maar één jaar beroepswielrenner, maar heeft toch ook al vijftien overwinningen op zijn erelijst prijken. Het geeft aan dat we hier te maken hebben met een absoluut toptalent, een veelwinnaar die het nu al gewoon is om als eerste over de streep te komen.

De nog altijd maar 21-jarige Nederlander van Jumbo-Visma wist in zijn eerste volledige seizoen bij de profs maar liefst twaalf wedstrijden te winnen. Nee, het waren misschien niet de meest tot de verbeelding sprekende koersen, maar indrukwekkend is het zeker. Vergeet ook niet dat Kooij in zijn eerste wedstrijden van het seizoen, tegen de absolute sprinttop, ook al heel wat ereplaatsen wist te verzamelen. Na een succesvolle vuurdoop tegen de grote sprintkanonnen in de UAE Tour en Tirreno-Adriatico kwamen de eerste triomfen in het Circuit de la Sarthe, gevolgd door ritwinst in de Ronde van Hongarije.

Kooij bleef in de daaropvolgende weken en maanden maar doorgaan met winnen. In de ZLM Tour won hij maar liefst drie etappes en kroonde hij zich tevens tot eindwinnaar. En ook op een hoger niveau was het raak: in de Ronde van Polen versloeg hij niemand minder dan Phil Bauhaus , Mark Cavendish en Arnaud Démare . Wat opvalt, is dat Kooij dit jaar bijna elke topsprinter wel een keer op een nederlaag heeft getrakteerd. Zo was hij in de Ronde van Denemarken twee keer te snel voor Jasper Philipsen en in de Sparkassen Münsterland Giro – tevens zijn laatste overwinning van 2022 – spurtte hij Philipsen, Sam Bennett , Fabio Jakobsen én Dylan Groenewegen genadeloos uit het wiel.

Arnaud De Lie

Als we puur kijken naar de overwinningen van Arnaud De Lie , dan komt de Belgische neoprof wellicht niet in aanmerking voor de titel ‘beste sprinter van 2022’. Het piepjonge goudhaantje van Lotto Dstny won zijn wedstrijden op een wat lager niveau, maar deed dit dan wel weer op een indrukwekkende manier. En wie had voor het seizoen nu gedacht, dat Arnaud De Lie in 2022 zou uitgroeien tot een van de veelwinnaars in het peloton? Kortom, de razendsnelle Waal hoort absoluut in dit rijtje thuis. En we zijn er zeker van dat hij in de toekomst nog vaker zal terugkeren in dit soort rubrieken.

Het wonderseizoen van Arnaud De Lie begon op het Spaanse eiland Mallorca. In de Challenge Mallorca was het al een eerste keer raak voor de rappe De Lie. In de Trofeo Playa de Palma won hij met royaal verschil de sprint van onder meer Juan Sebastián Molano , Michael Matthews en Giacomo Nizzolo . Dit bleek absoluut geen eenmalige uitschieter, want een maand na zijn eerste profzege was het ook raak in de Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré. De Lie bleek vertrokken voor een zeer succesvolle periode. In de Volta Limburg Classic bleek er opnieuw geen kruid gewassen tegen de Waal, die bovendien liet zien veel meer te kunnen dan alleen sprinten.

De Lie bleek in 2022 de ongekroonde koning van de (Belgische) 1.1-koersen, want ook na afloop van de Marcel Kint Classic, Heistse Pijl, Ronde van Limburg, Schaal Sels en de Egmont Cycling Race stond hij op het hoogste schavotje. De Lie versloeg er bovendien bewezen topsprinters. Zo rekende hij in de Heistse Pijl af met Mark Cavendish en Nizzolo, in de Ronde van Limburg was hij te snel voor Sam Bennett en in de Egmont Cycling Race moest Arnaud Démare zijn meerdere erkennen in de toekomst van Lotto Dstny. Met negen overwinningen én een verbeterd contract, kon De Lie met een zeer tevreden gevoel de wintermaanden in.

Mads Pedersen

Als we denken aan Mads Pedersen , denken we toch vooral aan het dokkeren over kasseien. Het afzien in helse weersomstandigheden of zijn nimmer aflatende aanvalslust. Maar toch niet meteen aan pure massasprints. Toch was de Deense ex-wereldkampioen in 2022 ook erg succesvol op sprintgebied. De renner van Trek-Segafredo moet het zeker niet hebben van zijn pure snelheid, in vergelijking met jongens als Fabio Jakobsen en Dylan Groenewegen , maar kan zich zeker wel plaatsen. En mochten de pure sprinters onderweg niet in staat zijn om te volgen, is het aan Mads Pedersen om te profiteren.

Pedersen kende in 2022 een uitstekend seizoen, ook op sprintgebied. Zo was hij in Parijs-Nice één keer de snelste van het pak. In de derde etappe naar Dun-le-Palestel bleek hij op een hellende aankomstrook te sterk voor Bryan Coquard en Wout van Aert . Zijn tweede sprintsucces volgde eveneens op Franse bodem, in het Circuit de la Sarthe, ten koste van niemand minder dan Mark Cavendish . Pedersen en Franse wielerkoersen bleek dit jaar een goede combinatie, want ook in de Tour de France was er dagsucces, al was dat niet na een massaspurt. Pedersen wist zich in de eerste sprintritten echter ook goed te plaatsen: zo werd hij derde in Nyborg.

Zijn meest succesvolle wielerweken moesten echter nog komen. In de Vuelta a España ontpopte de oersterke Deen zich tot een van de smaakmakers. Pedersen bleef aanvankelijk nog steken op enkele ereplaatsen, maar in de dertiende etappe was het dan eindelijk raak. In Montilla versloeg hij na een lastige finale Bryan Coquard en Pascal Ackermann in een oplopende sprint. In zijn enige tweede ronde van 2022 pakte de Deen niet een, niet twee, maar wel liefst drie zeges. In de zestiende en negentiende etappe bleek hij eveneens over de snelste benen te beschikken, waarmee hij ook de groene puntentrui wist veilig te stellen.

Jasper Philipsen

De laatste renner die in aanmerking komt voor het predicaat ‘beste sprinter van het voorbije wielerseizoen’, is Jasper Philipsen . De Belg van Alpecin-Deceuninck kwam in 2022 uit op negen seizoensoverwinningen. Philipsen schoot al meteen raak op zijn eerste koersdag: in de openingsetappe van de UAE versloeg hij de complete wereldtop in het sprinten. Ook in de vijfde etappe van de meerdaagse wielerronde was er succes voor Philipsen. De sterren leek goed te staan voor een straffe zegereeks, maar in de daaropvolgende koersmaanden was het toch wel stilletjes rond de snelle man van de gebroeders Roodhooft.

Philipsen moest toch een maand of twee wachten op zijn derde zege van het seizoen, maar die kwam er uiteindelijk wel in de Ronde van Turkije. Zijn vierde overwinning volgde in de Baloise Belgium Tour, waarmee Philipsen een goede generale kende richting de Tour de France. In de Franse ronde werd het geduld van Philipsen behoorlijk op de proef gesteld, maar na heel wat ereplaatsen kwam de verlossing in de vijftiende etappe naar Carcassonne. In de Zuid-Franse plaats verwees hij zijn landgenoot Wout van Aert naar de meest ondankbare ereplaats: de eerste Tourzege van Philipsen was daarmee een feit.

De Limburger leek bevrijd en een week na zijn eerste zege in Carcassonne volgde een tweede Tourtriomf, en dat op de Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Parijs. Philipsen snelde in de meest iconische sprint van het jaar op indrukwekkende wijze naar de zege. Na een zeer succesvolle Tour trok de rappe man van Alpecin-Deceuninck de goede lijn moeiteloos door en waren er nog overwinningen in de Ronde van Denemarken, Omloop van het Houtland en Parijs-Bourges. Philipsen wil echter meer . Volgend jaar wil de Belg nog vaker zegevieren. “Als ik mijn tweede plaatsen om kan zetten in overwinningen, scheelt dat een hoop.” De concurrentie is gewaarschuwd.

Opvallende afwezigen

Heel wat sprinters wisten zich in 2022 weer te onderscheiden, maar toch zijn er een paar buiten de boot gevallen. En dat zijn toch niet de minste namen met Caleb Ewan , Sam Bennett , Mark Cavendish en Fernando Gaviria . Ewan en Cavendish wisten dit jaar wel een aantal zeges te boeken, maar kenden toch zeker niet het beste seizoen uit hun carrière.

Ewan kwam nog uit op zeven overwinningen in 2022, maar die werden toch voornamelijk behaald op een wat lager niveau. In de grote rondes was het, mede door pech en/of fysieke malheur, kommer en kwel voor de sprintkopman van Lotto Dstny. Cavendish won dit jaar wél een etappe in een grote ronde: in de Giro d’Italia was hij de snelste in de eerste sprintconfronatie. Ook won de ervaren Brit Milaan-Turijn en een rit in de Tour of Oman en UAE Tour, maar bleef hij over een heel seizoen steken op ‘slechts’ vijf overwinningen.

Mark Cavendish was dit jaar nog de snelste in een Giro-rit – foto: Cor Vos

Sam Bennett deed het met drie zeges zelfs nog slechter, al won hij wel Eschborn-Frankurt en twee etappes in de Vuelta a España. Toch verwachten we (veel) meer van intrinsiek toch een van de beste sprinters in het peloton. Dit gaat ook op voor Tim Merlier en Fernando Gaviria . Die laatste moest het dit jaar doen met twee ritten in de Tour of Oman. De ooit zo succesvolle Colombiaan hoopt nu bij Movistar zijn carrière nieuw leven in te blazen.

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Tour de France | Dit zijn alle sprintersetappes van 2022

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Tijdritten, kasseien, heuvels, bergopaankomsten en sprintersetappes. De 2022 editie van de Tour de France heeft alles. De beste sprinters ter wereld reizen naar de meest prestigieuze wedstrijd van het jaar om zichzelf aan de wereld te tonen. Dit zijn de etappes waar zij mogelijk kunnen gaan strijden voor de dagzege en die felbegeerde groene trui.

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Even though both Mark Cavendish and Sam Bennett will watch this year’s Tour de France from the comfort of their respective sofas, there’s still an incredible depth of talent when it comes to the sprinters and the favorites for the green jersey in this year’s race.

From Fabio Jakobsen and Caleb Ewan to Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert , the startline is packed with options for the flat stages and the race for the green.

A number of the sprinters will not have designs on the green jersey, and the smart money will be on van Aert taking green to Paris if his knee remains pain free.

That said, who better to analyze the fastmen and points chasers than five time stage winner and four time green jersey holder Sean Kelly .

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“Jakobsen for me is going to be the best sprinter at the Tour,” Kelly told VeloNews on the eve of the Tour de France. “Then you have Jasper Philipsen for consideration as well. What gives Jakobsen the edge is that he has by far the best lead out in the race. Sometimes though, in the Tour, you can be looking good in the build up and then all of a sudden another rider gets incredible form at the right time.”

The Eurosport commentator acknowledges that Jakobsen had never raced the Tour de France, and that the pressure in July is altogether something different to that of the Vuelta, where the Dutch rider has been successful in the past. Not to mention the fact that Quick-Step’s roster has gone all-in on Jakobsen with no GC rider or back-up sprinter. For Kelly, that’s both a positive and a negative.

“For Jakobsen, the team is entirely for him. Like I said, he has the best lead out by far. There’s no GC card at QuickStep, so it’s all for the Dutch rider. He’s the boy to beat, and if you beat Jakobsen you’ve probably won. I do think that Philipsen will push him close though. It’s always about getting it perfectly right in the sprints and Philipsen is capable of that.”

On the subject of pressure, Kelly highlighted Caleb Ewan as a person of interest. The Australian has struggled for major wins this year and left the Giro d’Italia empty-handed back in May. Coupled with the fact that Lotto-Soudal are struggling for the WorldTour existence and that Ewan will head to the race with a make-shift leadout train, Kelly believes that the 27-year-old will need to prove a point and turn his campaign around at the Tour.

“For Ewan, I think that he could be under a lot of pressure,” Kelly told VeloNews .

“Especially after the Giro that he had. He has to take something out of this Tour, otherwise it’s starting to look like a really disastrous season for him. He needs the best leadout possible and I’m not sure that we can actually call it that. I think the plan will be to drop him off at a certain point and then let him follow the other trains. I don’t think Lotto can do that.”

Kelly also tipped two under-the-radar sprinters for possible success with Dylan Groenewegan, making his first Tour start since 2019, and Alberto Dainese, who won his maiden grand tour stage at the Giro earlier this year.

“For me, Groenewegen is one rider who could come good,” Kelly said. “He’s been doing good races, difficult races, and that might give him a good run of form at the right time. We just need to see if he can reach that top, top level again. Dainise can come out of the pack and take a stage maybe but to be consistent everyday you have to get through the mountains and the guys like him who raced the Giro might really suffer in the second half of the Tour.”

According to Kelly, while there are number of world class sprinters on the startline, none of them should trouble van Aert for the green jersey.

Despite a nagging knee injury on the eve of the Tour de France the Belgian is the red hot favorite to win the green jersey. He can sprint, he can attack from the bunch, and he can climb with the best, as he showed during a dramatic Ventoux stage win in last year’s race.

Van Aert may not have the pure speed of some of the sprinters, Kelly told VeloNews , but his all-round consistency is second to none.

“Then you have van Aert who is going for a lot of the sprints too. When you look at the team, and the guys around him who can give him a good turn and put him into position, he’s a guy who can be dropped off in the last kilometer and he can even win against the fastest guys. Especially if the sprint is slightly uphill,” said Kelly.

“Van Aert has to be the favorite for the green jersey. We saw that he’s capable of it in 2021 when he was in the breaks and racing for the sprints. He’s not like the pure sprinters who sit back and wait, he can pick up points in the big mountain stages. He’s an all-rounder so unless he’s put at the complete services of Roglic, he’s the rider to beat. I think he’ll get a free-hand for his own race. I think that van Aert will dominate, a bit like Sagan did. I think that after two weeks the green jersey will be over for everyone else.”

On paper Mathieu van der Poel might have pushed van Aert for the green jersey but the fact that the Dutch rider already raced the Giro and that Philipsen will lead Alpecin-Fenix in the sprints effectively neutralizes one of van Aert’s potential rivals.

“For van der Poel, as we saw at the Giro, he didn’t get too involved in the bunch sprints. Instead he waited and he picked his days and went in breaks. He’s the one who just gets bored easily and then goes in the break and blows up the race. He’ll have to race more conservatively if he’s thinking of green but for any sprint that’s slightly uphill, he has a good chance. On the real pure sprint stages I can’t see him up there fighting for the win.”

And on Peter Sagan, the rider who has set the record for green jersey wins with seven, Kelly believes that the 32-year-old is unlikely to take a stage or compete properly for green due to recent health issues and a decline in his power over the last few years.

“No, no, no. I don’t think so. He will be there with fourth and fifth, but if he can win against these guys then it would be a huge surprise to me. It would be a major turnaround and I don’t think he has that sprint anymore. And for green, I think that he’ll struggle on the flatter stages, and then on the stages where he would have once picked up points in the medium mountains, I don’t think that he’ll be there,” Kelly said.

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Top 10 Sprinters - Tour de France 2023

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Who's going to take the most number of stages of the sprinters for this year's Tour de France. Are there enough sprint stages that Cavendish will be able to nab one to claim the record over Mercx? As he wants us all to know, and fairly so, that he has the record for the most stage wins at the Tour, it just so happens Mercx got their first. But they're on equal footing he wants us to know 🙃

Suffice to say, according to PCS Cavendish isn't even in the top ten sprinters headed to the Tour, which makes a lot of sense given the abysmal form, lack of sprint train or combination of both he's shown in the early season. The Giro win seems to have cured everyone's mind of that though. Not PCS though, and not us. We're not silly enough to fall prey to recency bias. Said us never. We're human. PCS isn't.

That being said, this ranking has a bias in the fact that PCS will lean to promote riders who have raced more this season. So sprinters like Biniam Girmay who just recently started their comeback (nice 4th @ Brussels Classic Girmay!) after a nasty sprint crash, won't be making this list despite their calibre.

Sprinters should stick around to at least either stage eight or stage twelve depending on how good they are at hill climbing. Stage nine has Puy de Dôme on it, and it's not the toughest climb in the book, but not every sprinter can climb like Pedersen proved remarkably adept at in the Giro. Stage thirteen has Grand Colombier, and if any sprinter wanted to bow out before the classic Tour climb we wouldn't blame them.

After doing all the research for this article we also decided that we should probably also do a top ten best victory poses. Some of these riders can really bust a move on the line. But on with the show! We were told by multiple people to do these backwards now to build up the suspense so let's do just that.

Number 10 - Wout van Aert (28) - Jumbo Visma

Coming in at number ten is good ol' Wout van Aert. Potentially the best all arounder in the peloton today if you count cyclocross as well. But otherwise then Pogačar's got the upper hand on him just like everyone else. Apparently though Pog has done some cyclocross at the start of season, so maybe he'd best Wout van Aert there too? Regardless Wout van Aert's coming at the tour after a strong classics season despite "Woutgate" after gifting a slot to Christophe LaPorte at Gent Wevelgem.

Wout van Aert will likely be targeting the green jersey again, and winning sprints helps in that regard. But if push comes to shove with Vingegaard and he's facing the heat, then WVA will most likely have to place his Jumbo Visma domestique duties above la maillort vert. Not the worst thing, as he could just become a stage hunter at that point and win even more spints.

Number 9 - Bryan Coquard (31) - Cofidis

Cofidis may not have the strongest team, specifically the strongest general classification contender, going to the Tour, but that could prove to be their benefit, allowing them to focus on winning stages with Coquard and Geschke trying to do a repeat of basically winning KOM of the non GC riders.

Coquard has faired rather well this year taking three wins, finishing second twice, and a few top tens. Coquard did the Vuelta last year instead of the Tour, having last completed the nine stages of the sprinters Tour de France, also known as "all the stages the sprinters could do before the hills came".

And we mean, he's French, so that's got to give him a 10% boost to his stats, especially on the first day when the French come out in numbers.

Coquard doesn't necessarily like a lead out, and manages to perform well regardless of whether he gets one or not, managing to slipstream himself through the final bunch.

Number 8 - Jordi Meeus (24) - BORA

Why is BORA bringing two top sprinters to the same tour? Are they going to swap every day who's leading out who? Probably not going to work super well given that being a solid lead out bae like Danny van Poppel isn't the same as being the top sprinter.

We'll see BORA's strategy when the action kicks off, but we're still a little surprised. Through out the entire season BORA has actively tried to ensure the two's (Meeus and Bennett's) program's don't overlap.

The Belgian has performed well though this season, but never quite managed to nag the top slot other than a 1.1 one day race at Circuit de Charleroi Wallonie. Given it's below World Tour and Pro level we're not lending much weight to that. Trying to prove us wrong today at the Brussels Classic 1.Pro he almost snagged 1rst, but lost to a competitor further down the list.

Recently at the end of April he's managed to pick up two third slots at the Tour of Norway (which didn't have the strongest start list however). Earlier in the year he had a couple podium finishes at Volta Algarve, but his two big world tour stage races of Tirreno - Adriatico and Santos Tour Down Under (the latter he DNS to be fair) never performed superbly.

Number 7 - Sam Bennett (32) - BORA

BORA's second hotshot, the Irish sprinter has been performing decently after his little hop back and forth between BORA and Quickstep. This year, Bennet's had one win, the first race he did for the season, a Vuelta San Juan, following it up with a 4th and 3rd directly after, and then a 2nd placed finish on the penultimate stage.

Since then he's started to drag his feet a little - but not by much. Bennett followed up his performance at San Juan with a strong UAE tour, narrowly missing out winning a stage twice. Once again at Paris Nice, he almost secured the first stage and was in the running on the fifth, but never managed to take a win.

Overall though, on the stages where sprinter's could perform, he's almost always ended up on the podium or close there to it.

So we think if BORA can figure out who is riding for who, Bennett could prove to be a hot commodity in those bunch sprints.

Number 6 - Caleb Ewan (28) - Lotto Dstny

Ah, the small yet powerful Caleb! We wonder if he'll be wearing that distinctive black helmet with white dots. Or is it a white helmet with black dots? We can't remember, regardless though it's distinctive and you'll be able to pull Caleb out from the crowd. We bet that Caleb also hopes he can pull himself out from the crowd, specifically the final sprint crowd.

We were concerned with Caleb's performance earlier in the year but he's been coming into supreme form in the later season and could be peaking at just the right time. Maybe it was getting sick from all his kiddos that through him on training plan at the start.

Caleb still started decently with a 2nd at the Tour Down Under and being in contention for a few stages. He also got the short end of the stick, or short end of the bike if we dare say, at the first stage of the UAE Tour where the photo finish was 100% equal with Tim Merlier. We still stand by they should have done a 1km sprint as the UCI rules state for ties.

With decent performances at Tour de Hongrie, and finally a win at Van Merkstejin Fences Classic, followed by a second at Ronde van Limburg we're excited to see if he can translate his recent form to the Tour. At worst he can lead out Cavendish for fun 🙃

Number 5 - Arnaud Démare (31) - Groupama FDJ

Groupama is coming to the Tour with an incredibly promising team with the likes of Pinot, Madouas, Gaudu and Küng. We're really only seeing one domestique of Geniets. But what is he going to do, pull the entire stage? We guess if Küng isn't time trialing to save his contract he'll help out. And if Pinot's not too worried about his pregnant cows and sheep, and not wanting to battle Geschke for King of the Mountain he'll throw in a pull or two for Gaudu.

But we're getting sidetracked. A little bit. Because who's going to lead out Démare? Probably Küng. But we'll see. Should prove to be interesting.

Just as interesting as Démare's recent year, with him slowly building and getting up to speed it looks like, just in time for the Tour. Démare had a weak showing at the tour down in UAE at the start of the year, but has since then been in the running in a few sprints at Pays de la Loire Tour, and had a standout performance at Boucles de lay Mayenne, winning a stage, and being in the top six in all other stage, taking the green jersey to boot.

Demare tends to like to go long in sprints, which may be beneficial for the Tour given the number of quality sprinters headed there. It also may be just the opposite however, allowing the other sprinters to draft off his wheel before punching through for the win at the line.

Today, the day of writing, he managed to secure a win at the Brussel's classic with strong competition and defeated number 7 Jordi Meeus on the line. It was the 98th win of his career. Looking solid for the Tour, especially as a Frenchman.

Number 4 - Fabio Jakobsen (26) - Soudal - Quick Step

Jakobsen, the 26 year old Dutchman from Quick Step has had a strong showing at least once in almost all of the races he's entered this season. Jakobsen achieved a win at his second race of the season in San Juan and the followed that up with a second and fourth later in the stage race.

At Volta Algarve he got a fourth, at Tirreno - Adriatico a win on stage two, and at Tour de Hongri took the win, also on the second stage.

Number 3 - Mads Pedersen (27) - Lidl - Trek

Boy oh boy, has Pedersen been having a season. Not only that, but he's shown he can somewhat climb, surviving until Stage 13 at the Giro this year, the stage they had to modify due to "extreme weather". Really they modified it because the rider's were tired. We're being slightly facetious. There's a lot of gray area that needs to be dealt with respect to the CPA voting process.

And while the Giro didn't have a strong sprint crowd, he did manage to win a stage along with a second, third and two fourth place finishes. Pedersen had a strong showing at each of the spring classics he attended, which cannot be said for everyone else on this list. Pedersen finished 4th at Paris Roubaix, 3rd at RVV, 5th at Dwars door, 5th at Gent Wevelgem, and 6th at Milano San Remo. An impressive palmares already, but to top it off at the Paris Nice stage race took a stage at each spot of the podium respectively (1/2/3).

At his first stage race of the year, Tour du Gard he took a win and second on the first race of his calendar year.

Number 2 - Dylan Groenewegen (29) - Jayco Alula

What can we say about Groenewegen other than this Dutchman is fast when he gets going. Groenewegen has won five Tour de France in his career and we're sure he'd like to take even more as a newly minted 30 year old (his birthday's on the equinox).

Groenewegen took the points jersey, a stage, and a few other top slots at the sprinter's Tour de France, aka the Saudi Tour, aka the echelon Tour, Groenewegen's first stage race of the year.

Groenewegen followed that up with a win at that UAE Tour against strong competition, and almost always being in the running for every other potential sprint stage that followed.

At Tirreno Adriatico he narrowly missed taking stage seven, being just behind the next sprinter on this list. Another strong highlight was finishing fourth at Scheldeprijs. Fourth you say? That's out of the top three. Not even a podium. We wouldn't win anything on our each way bets. Fair enough, but it is colloquially known as the sprinter's World Champs, and fourth isn't too shabby.

Groenewegen most recent performances have looked strong as well, with a 1rst on stage one of Tour de Hongrie, and a win at the Veenendaal classic.

Number 1 - Jasper Philipsen - Alpecin (25) - Deceuninck

The man, the myth, the legend. Not quite. But Philipsen has had an superbly strong season thus far. He may not have completed a whole bunch of races compared to his competitors on this list, but as Matteo Jorgenson said in a recent interview, "being close doesn't matter". And that's true. Especially for our bets. And if you're concerned about your bets then Philipsen is your man.

When it's possible for a sprint, and he's in the running, he has achieved a podium in all but one event, narrowly missing it at Dwars door Vlaanderen and finished fourth.

Otherwise he's had four wins, one being at Scheldeprisj, the World Champs for sprinters. On top of that he's finished 2nd 3 times, with one of those coming at the renowned Paris Roubaix.

And the results have been at high calibre events with high calibre competitors like at Tirreno Adriatico a World Tour stage race.

Oh yah - Mark Cavendish

Yah we'll give a shout out to Cavendish. Mainly to satisfy the English speaking audience who probably only have heard of him and potentially Ewan on this list. Maybe Bennett, but that's more likely to the kerfuffle with Patrick Lefevere in the media the prior years.

At the end of the day though, we hope Cavendish picks up his thirty fifth win and solely takes the record on hit shoulders rather than Mercx. This new era of cycling needs a new champion sprinter in our opinion. Even if he is headed out the door in a few months.

Cavendish has proved remarkably adept at squeaking in to potentially close wins despite the lack of a lead out train. Cees Bol is going, unlike the Giro, and we hope the two of them can finally work their kinks out and that Cav is flying. Or Kwiatkowski can take the reins from G and lead him out on the final day.

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Points at finish, kom sprint (4) côte de la cité médiévale de lauzerte (135.7 km), kom sprint (4) côte de saint-daunès (152.6 km), youth day classification, team day classification, race information.

• Date: 22 July 2022
• Start time: 13:10
• Avg. speed winner: 48.684 km/h
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
• Distance: 188.3 km
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• Vert. meters: 1316
• Departure: Castelnau-Magnoac
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