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Mathieu van der Poel
Mathieu van der Poel has won eight elite cyclocross World Championships — 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 — surpassing Sven Nys and Marianne Vos's respective records, while also winning both the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix in the same 2024 season, only the 13th rider ever to complete that "cobbled double." In 2023, he became the first rider in history to win both cyclocross and road racing's world championship, adding the road title in Glasgow — the first Dutch men's road world champion in nearly 40 years — to that year's Milano-Sanremo and Paris-Roubaix victories. His cycling lineage runs three generations deep: his father Adri van der Poel was also a professional cyclist, and his grandfather Raymond Poulidor remains one of French road racing's most beloved competitors, giving van der Poel a family connection to the sport's highest level across more than half a century. His combination of a record eight cyclocross world titles and his unprecedented cyclocross-and-road world championship double has made van der Poel one of the most statistically dominant cyclists across any discipline in the sport's history.
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Marianne Vos
Marianne Vos won the elite women's cyclocross World Championship eight times between 2006 and 2022, a record for the discipline until Mathieu van der Poel later matched and surpassed it on the men's side. She's also won two Olympic gold medals in two different disciplines — the points race on the track in Beijing in 2008, and the road race in London in 2012 — plus three elite road World Championship titles, first in Salzburg in 2006, then back-to-back in 2012 and 2013. That combination of Olympic gold on both the track and the road, alongside a record-setting cyclocross career run across 16 years, gave Vos a genuinely rare cross-discipline résumé that few cyclists of any era, male or female, have matched. Her combination of eight cyclocross world titles and gold medals in two separate Olympic disciplines has made Vos widely regarded as one of the most complete all-around cyclists in the sport's history.
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