List of career achievements by Peter Sagan

List of career achievements by Peter Sagan

Sagan at the 2016 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France Points classification (2012–2016, 2018, 2019) Combativity award (2016) 12 individual stages (2012, 2013, 2016–2019) Giro d'Italia Points classification (2021) 2 individual stages (2020, 2021) Vuelta a España 4 individual stages (2011, 2015) Stage races Tour de Pologne (2011) Tour of California (2015) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (2015, 2016, 2017) European Road Race Championships (2016) National Road Race Championships (2011–2015, 2018, 2021, 2022) National Time Trial Championships (2015) Tour of Flanders (2016) Paris–Roubaix (2018) Gent–Wevelgem (2013, 2016, 2018) E3 Harelbeke (2014) GP de Montréal (2013) GP de Québec (2016, 2017) Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (2017) Brabantse Pijl (2013) Other UCI World Tour (2016) UCI World Ranking (2016) Vélo d'Or (2016)
Medal record Representing  Slovakia Men's road bicycle racing World Championships 2017 Bergen Elite road race 2016 Doha Elite road race 2015 Richmond Elite road race European Championships 2016 Plumelec Elite road race Men's mountain bike racing World Championships 2008 Val di Sole Junior cross-country European Championships 2008 Sankt Wendel Junior cross-country 2007 Cappadocia Junior cross-country Men's cyclo-cross World Championships 2008 Treviso Junior European Championships 2007 Hittnau Junior

This is a list of career achievements by Peter Sagan, a Slovak professional racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam, Team TotalEnergies. Originally a cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing competitor as a junior, Sagan has also competed on the road as a professional since 2009. Sagan is a noted cycling sprinter and Classics specialist, and as such is a prolific winner of individual stages in stage races as well as winning World and European titles. Sagan has eighteen Grand Tour stage victories, and is a seven-time winner of the points classification in the Tour de France, an all time record.

2010

• Sagan wins his first World Tour stage at the 2010 Paris–Nice, on the third stage.^[1] He won another stage later in the race,^[2] as well as the points classification.

2011

• Sagan wins his first Grand Tour stages, winning three during the Vuelta a España.^[3][4][5]

2012

• After a fourth successive stage win in the 2012 Tour of California, Sagan establishes a record number of stage wins at the race, with seven.^[6]
• Sagan wins the opening road stage of the 2012 Tour de France, his first Tour, aged 22 years, 157 days. As a result, Sagan became the youngest rider to win a Tour stage since Lance Armstrong in the 1993 Tour de France.^[7]
• Sagan becomes the ninth rider to win the points classification in the Tour de France in his first appearance in the race.^[8]

2013

• Sagan wins a total of 22 races, the most for any professional rider in 2013.^[9]

2015

• Sagan becomes the first Slovak rider to win the World Road Race Championships, soloing to victory in Richmond, Virginia.^[10]

2016

• Sagan becomes the first Slovak rider to win a Monument classic, winning the 2016 Tour of Flanders.^[11] In the process, he assumes the number one position in the UCI World Ranking.^[12]
• Sagan surpasses Hugo Koblet and Ferdinand Kübler for most stage wins at the Tour de Suisse, with his twelfth victory coming on the second stage of the 2016 Tour de Suisse.^[13]
• Sagan becomes the second rider to win the points classification in the Tour de France five times.^[14][15]
• After the event is opened to elite riders for the first time, Sagan becomes the inaugural winner of the men's road race at the 2016 European Road Championships.^[16][17]
• Sagan tops the individual rankings for the 2016 UCI World Tour, doing so for the first time.^[18]
• Sagan retains the World Road Race Championships in Qatar,^[19] becoming the first rider to retain the world title since Paolo Bettini in 2006 and 2007.^[20]

2017

• Sagan takes 100th professional career win at Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.
• Sagan becomes the first rider to win the elite men World Championship road race three years in a row and also the first one to win three titles on three different continents, by winning the road race in Bergen.^[21] He also becomes the fifth and the youngest rider to win three career titles.

2018

• Sagan wins his second Monument by winning the 2018 Paris–Roubaix after attacking from the peloton 54 km from the finish.^[22]
• After stage 15 in the 2018 Tour de France Sagan received his 100th green jersey.
• Sagan becomes the second rider to win points classification in the Tour de France six times.

2019

• Sagan becomes the first rider to win points classification in the Tour de France seven times.

2020

• Sagan becomes the 100th rider to win stages in all three Grand Tours.

2021

• Sagan wins the points classification in the Giro d'Italia, his first points classification in a Grand Tour other than the Tour de France.

Source:^[23]

Stage race general classification results
Race	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Tour Down Under	28	—	—	—	—	—	—	71	32	55	—	Not held		—
Tour of Qatar	—	—	39	—	—	6	—	Race discontinued
Tour of Oman	—	—	36	DNF	49	51	—	—	—	—	Not held		—	—
Paris–Nice	16	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF	—	—	—
Tirreno–Adriatico	—	—	43	33	29	50	2	47	43	105	—	130	DNF	98
Volta a Catalunya	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	NH	126	—	—
Tour de Romandie	12	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		77	—	—
Tour of California	8	35	42	56	55	1	35	39	58	79	Not held
Critérium du Dauphiné	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF	—	—	—
Tour de Suisse	DNF	50	65	48	68	30	111	72	76	76	NH	—	DNF	98
Tour de Pologne	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	35	—	—	—	—	—	—
/ Benelux Tour	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	7	—	—	—	42	NH	—

Event		2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Olympic Games	Road race	Not held			34	Not held			—	Not held				—	Not held
	Cross-country				—				35					—
World Championships	Team time trial	Not held			4	7	9	27	—	—	—	Race did not exist
	Road race	—	DNF	12	14	6	43	1	1	1	DNF	5	—	26	7	DNF
European Championships	Road race	Elite race did not exist							1	—	DNF	—	—	DNF	—	—
National Championships	Time trial	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	Road race	10	—	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	4	—	1	1	2

This table includes number of wins, second-, third-, top 10-place finishes, Points classification wins and race days per year excluding UCI level 2 races.

• Slovak Sportsperson of the Year: 2013, 2015, 2017
• International Flandrien of the Year: 2015,^[38] 2016^[39]
• Vélo d'Or: 2016^[40]

• Peter Sagan at Cycling Archives (archive)
• Peter Sagan at CQ Ranking
• Peter Sagan at ProCyclingStats
• Peter Sagan at WVcycling
• Peter Sagan at Cyclocross24