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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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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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