With the season over, the teams are already thinking about 2023, with their respective concentrations (most of them in Spain), follow the balance sheets of the completed 2022 campaign. Now it’s time to see who are the cyclists who have worn a road competition number the most times. In first position is one of the most incombustible riders in the peloton. Already a veteran, but always at the top of this list: Thomas deGendt. With 97 days, the Lotto man is in first position ahead of the Italian Davide Cimolai (Cofidis), with 88 days, the same as the Dutchman Danny van Poppel, with the same number. To see the first Spanish, in this list prepared by procyclingstatsyou have to go down to 13th place, with Rubén Fernández, from Cofidis, with 82 days (I came from doing 25 in 2021).
The most striking thing among the top 100 is the large increase in competition days compared to last season in all of them. Without exception. It is also true that in 2022 the cycling calendar recovered some tests that were not held in 2021 due to the pandemic, as in 2020. For this season, normality was almost complete, and in 2023 it will be full with the classic tests in Australia, with the Tour Down Under, to start the year. Among the 100 runners who ran the most days in the season that has just ended, there are 12, with the aforementioned Rubén Fernández.
Ion Izagirre, 18th (Cofidis, 81 days), Luis León Sánchez, 30th (Bahrain, 79), Jonathan Lastra, 33rd (Caja Rural, 79), Alejandro Valverde, 36th (Movistar, 78), David González, 52 (Caja Rural , 76), Marc Soler, 59th (UAE, 75), Carlos Verona, 68th (Movistar, 74), David de la Cruz, 73rd (Astana, 74), Ander Okamika, 74th (Burgos, 74), Enric Mas, 94 (Movistar, 72), Sergio Martín, 95º (Caja Rural, 72). As a curiosity, of the three Grand Tour winners this year (Hindley, in the Giro; Vingegaard, in the Tour, and Evenepoel, in La Vuelta), only the winner in Italy is on this list.. It ranks 61st, with 75 days of competition, being more than half between the Giro and La Vuelta.