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Sven Nys
Sven Nys won the cyclocross World Championship twice, in 2005 and again in 2013 at age 37, and topped the sport's World Cup overall standings seven times across his career — in 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, and 2008-09 — a record that stood for years as effectively unbeatable. He retired with more than 300 individual race wins and nine Belgian national championships, in a country where cyclocross draws crowds and television audiences comparable to a major team sport, plus five additional national mountain bike titles reflecting his off-road versatility beyond cyclocross specifically. Nicknamed "the Cannibal of Baal" after his hometown, Nys continued winning major races into his late thirties before retiring, and his seven-time World Cup overall record stood until Mathieu van der Poel eventually broke his career World Cup win total years later. His combination of two World Championship titles and his seven-time World Cup overall record has made Nys the rider most universally regarded as the greatest in Belgian cyclocross history.
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Wout van Aert
Wout van Aert won three consecutive cyclocross World Championships — 2016 in Heusden-Zolder, 2017 in Bieles, Luxembourg, and 2018 in Valkenburg — before shifting the bulk of his focus to road racing, where he's since won ten Tour de France stages, including the green points classification in 2022. His road palmarès also includes wins at Milano-Sanremo, Strade Bianche, and the Amstel Gold Race, along with stage wins across the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España, a breadth of classics and grand-tour success rare for a rider who built his early reputation entirely off-road. His rivalry with fellow Belgian-Dutch star Mathieu van der Poel, carried over directly from their cyclocross duels into road racing's cobbled classics, became one of professional cycling's most closely followed individual storylines through the 2020s. His combination of three consecutive cyclocross world titles and his subsequent ten-stage Tour de France career has made van Aert one of the most complete cyclists of his generation, elite in two related but distinct disciplines.
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