There is no such thing as a doubt that UAE Workforce Emirates is the primary crew on the planet, as they’ve sat atop the UCI World Rankings since February. However the crew of World Champion, Tour de France, and Giro d’Italia winner Tadej Pogačar apparently broke a report held since 2000 after they received their 76th race with 20 totally different riders.
Juan Sebastian Molano claimed stage 2 of the CRO Race on Wednesday, changing into the twentieth rider of UAE Workforce Emirates’ 30-rider roster to get pleasure from a victory this 12 months.
In accordance with UAE Workforce Emirates’ press launch, the earlier report for particular person wins amongst an expert crew was 19, held by Mapei-Quickstep since 2000.
HTC-Colombia received probably the most victories by a crew in a single 12 months in current reminiscence, with 85 wins in 2009, nevertheless it was received by 16 totally different riders.
This 12 months, 22 of the crew’s wins have come from Pogačar – the world’s #1 rider since mid-2021 – who started the season by profitable Strade Bianche after which received the Volta a Catalunya with 4 stage wins. He continued his victory streak at Liège-Bastogne-Liège after which received the Giro d’Italia by virtually 10 minutes, taking six stage wins alongside the best way.
Within the Tour de France, he received the general and 6 levels as nicely earlier than taking a well-deserved break. He got here again with a win within the GP de Montréal earlier than he soloed for nearly 100 kilometres en path to profitable the elite males’s street race on the UCI Street World Championships.
Marc Hirschi was the next-most prolific winner with eight together with the San Sebastian Basic thus far, whereas Brandon McNulty received seven together with the opening time trial of the Vuelta a España. Adam Yates received six races, and Juan Ayuso claimed 4.
Three races had been received by Isaac Del Toro, Finn Fisher-Black, Antonio Morgado, Diego Ulissi and Tim Wellens. João Almeida received two, and single-race winners embrace Molano, Nils Politt, Domen Novak, Marc Soler, Pavel Sivakov and Jay Vine.
The crew is way from performed for the season. Pogačar is scheduled to debut his new rainbow jersey on the Giro dell’Emilia on Saturday and can proceed to compete on the Tre Valli Varesine on October 8 and Il Lombardia on October 12.
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