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List of cyclists

This is an incomplete list of professional racing cyclists, sorted alphabetically by decade in which they won their first major race.[1]

Cyclists by country

Cyclists by decade

Of the 1880s

Of the 1890s

  • Georgios Aspiotis
  • Edward Battell
  • Hélène Dutrieu
  • Léon Flameng
  • August von Gödrich
  • Bert Harris
  • Miltiades Iatrou
  • Georgios Kolettis
  • Aristidis Konstantinidis
  • Konstantinos Konstantinou
  • 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.[2]
  • Dora Rinehart
  • Major Taylor (26 November 1878 – 21 June 1932) was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile (1.6 km) 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.
  • Frank E. Weaver

Of the 1900s

Of the 1910s

Fritz Schallwig, the German cyclist in 1915-1916

Of the 1920s

Of the 1930s

  • Leo Amberg
  • Gino Bartali
  • Bernhard Britz
  • Francesco Camusso
  • Victor Cosson
  • Jef Demuysere
  • Learco Guerra
  • Charles Holland
  • Roger Lapébie
  • Andre Leducq
  • Romain Maes
  • Silvere Maes
  • Leonard Maffei
  • Antonin Magne
  • Giuseppe Martano
  • Ambrogio Morelli
  • Attilo Pavesi
  • Antonio Pesenti
  • Jef Scherens
  • Guglielmo Segato
  • Georges Speicher
  • Kurt Stöpel
  • Felicien Vervaecke
  • Mario Vicini
  • Lucien Vlaemynck

Of the 1940s

Of the 1950s

Of the 1960s

Of the 1970s

Of the 1980s

Of the 1990s

Of the 2000s

Of the 2010s

  • Matthijs Büchli
  • Jeffrey Hoogland
  • Harrie Lavreysen
  • François Pervis
  • Kristina Vogel
  • Miriam Welte

See also

References

  1. ^ As recorded at Cycling Archives
  2. ^ "Charlie Murphy, Set Cycling Mark; Famous Rider Who Sped Mile in 57 4/5 Seconds in 1899 Dies in Queens at 79". The New York Times. 18 February 1950. Retrieved 24 April 2011. Charles M. (Mile-a-Minute) Murphy of 160-12 Union Turnpike, Flushing, Queens, famous as a bicycle rider at the turn of the century, died yesterday in Queens General Hospital, Jamaica, after an illness of several months. His age was 79. ...
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