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Which rider would win the Tour de France if the standings were decided by the least sum of results
CyclingMonday, 24 July 2023 at 13:34
With the Tour de France concluded, stat geeks can finally rub their hands and go through the immense amount of data from this year's race. Another interesting statistic is that of which rider would win the Tour de France if the race was not decided by overall classification but instead on the lowest sum of each stage result combined.
If that were to be the case, Tadej Pogacar would end up taking his third title, often sprinting on hilly and flat stages close to the front, whilst holding his own in the mountains and time-trial naturally. He would have 359 points, whilst Jonas Vingegaard would finish second with 419. Vingegaard lost 72 points to Pogacar on the final day however as he celebrated with is team, so until stage 20 he had a very tight lead.
Without surprise, the Top10 is made out of GC riders who, as the name suggests, need to remain consistent throughout the whole race and finish well on all stages to avoid time losses. Jai Hindley, Carlos Rodríguez and Adam Yates would finish in the Top5, whilst the best rider who at no point contested the GC would be Valentin Madouas in 13th place.
Order - Name - Sum of stage results
1 POGAČAR Tadej 359
2 VINGEGAARD Jonas 419
3 HINDLEY Jai 495
4 RODRÍGUEZ Carlos 507
5 YATES Adam 534
6 GAUDU David 623
7 YATES Simon 649
8 BILBAO Pello 686
9 MARTIN Guillaume 689
10 O'CONNOR Ben 735
11 PIDCOCK Thomas 748
12 KUSS Sepp 796
13 MADOUAS Valentin 797
14 PINOT Thibaut 801
15 GALL Felix 804
16 LANDA Mikel 866
17 BERTHET Clément 1005
18 KELDERMAN Wilco 1040
19 JUNGELS Bob 1057
20 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan 1059
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- Most of these have nothing to do with rider safety or are completely unachievablevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Depends on how fast the Cipressa would be beforehand and in what condition Philipsen would bevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Some things sound crazy until they aren't, what if he's actually right? 🤷vappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Why make a comment to state the obvious? Of course MvdP is much better at CX than Pogacar, does anyone doubt that But that wasn't his pointvappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- If you look at road alone obvi Pogacar is the better rider. But maybe MVDP is the better overall rider since he can win in three plus disciplines?mobk23-12-2024
- Correction on 2021 Olympics. It was mainly the Dutch ladies who didn’t know who was leading the race. Other teams like the Germans and Italians knew that Kiesenhofer was out front.mobk23-12-2024
- A champion turning into a sore loser. Or is he on coke again?
UltimateOpportunist23-12-2024 - If you look at the major races they’ve both been in, van der Poel had the early edge as lately Pogacar has had the advantage. It’s all on procyclingstats.RidesHills23-12-2024
- I wouldn’t assume Tadej can’t win at cross. He did a cross race, not a World Cup, a few years ago and crushed the field. It was a minor race. But he can win anywhere.mij23-12-2024
- I wonder what would happen if Pogacar attacked on the Cipressa instead of the Poggio in San Remo? Would MvdPoel still be able to follow?Ride197423-12-2024