Wikipedia / List of cyclists
Wikipedia / List of cyclists
This is an incomplete list of professional racing cyclists, sorted alphabetically by decade in which they won their first major race.
Cyclists by country
Cyclists by decade
Of the 1880s
Of the 1890s
Charles "Mile-a-Minute" Murphy was the first man ever to ride a bicycle for one mile in less than a minute. He performed this feat in 1899 by drafting behind a Long Island Rail Road boxcar between Farmingdale and Babylon on Long Island.
Major Taylor (26 November 1878 – 21 June 1932) was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile (1.6km) track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the first African-American athlete to achieve the level of world champion and only the second black man to win a world championship—after Canadian boxer George Dixon.
Of the 1900s
Of the 1910s
Fritz Schallwig (1890–1916), champion German cyclist. He was born on 7 May 1890 in Spandau in Berlin, Germany and was killed in World War I.
Of the 1920s
Of the 1930s
Of the 1940s
Of the 1950s
Ted Jorgensen (unicyclist)
Of the 1960s
Of the 1970s
Of the 1980s
Of the 1990s
Of the 2000s
Lance Armstrong (now stripped of Tour de France medals)
Ellen van Dijk (NED), multiple road and track world champion
Of the 2010s
Of the 2020s
See also
Former Team CSC staff, from 1998 to present.
Madonna del Ghisallo, patroness of cyclists.
List of racing cyclists and pacemakers with a cycling-related death
References