Thread of statistics related to the favorite 500.
- ..The favorite500 ranking of only riders that are at least 5 years retired from professional cycling.show 30 more lines
- ..Most popular riders in that were active in the period 1990-2000.
# Rider % lists 1 VALVERDE Alejandro 26.5 2 BOONEN Tom 22.2 3 CANCELLARA Fabian 18.6 4 INDURÁIN Miguel 17.7 5 GILBERT Philippe 17.2 6 PANTANI Marco 11.9 7 KELLY Sean 11.6 8 ARMSTRONG Lance 10.9 9 ULLRICH Jan 9.2 10 JALABERT Laurent 8.4 - ..Highest voted rider by voters from country.
Country Rider Italy POGAČAR Tadej Netherlands VAN DER POEL Mathieu Belgium VAN AERT Wout Spain POGAČAR Tadej France VAN DER POEL Mathieu Great Britain CAVENDISH Mark Denmark PEDERSEN Mads Australia POGAČAR Tadej Germany POGAČAR Tadej Slovenia POGAČAR Tadej Norway HUSHOVD Thor Poland KWIATKOWSKI Michał Slovakia SAGAN Peter United States POGAČAR Tadej Switzerland POGAČAR Tadej Austria POGAČAR Tadej Portugal POGAČAR Tadej Czech Republic POGAČAR Tadej Canada POGAČAR Tadej Hungary VALTER Attila only nations where top rider has over 50 votes - ..Most international voter base.show 10 more lines
- ..Fav500 ranking excluding own nation votes.
show 30 more lines# Prev +/- Rider Votes 1 1 - POGAČAR Tadej 2 2 - VAN DER POEL Mathieu 3 4 ▲1 SAGAN Peter 4 3 ▼1 VAN AERT Wout 5 6 ▲1 PEDERSEN Mads 6 10 ▲4 ROGLIČ Primož 7 5 ▼2 EVENEPOEL Remco 8 8 - CONTADOR Alberto 9 9 - VALVERDE Alejandro 10 7 ▼3 MERCKX Eddy 11 11 - VINGEGAARD Jonas 12 13 ▲1 CAVENDISH Mark 13 15 ▲2 CANCELLARA Fabian 14 14 - ALAPHILIPPE Julian 15 12 ▼3 BOONEN Tom 16 19 ▲3 NIBALI Vincenzo 17 17 - VOS Marianne 18 20 ▲2 FROOME Chris 19 16 ▼3 INDURÁIN Miguel 20 23 ▲3 KELLY Sean 21 18 ▼3 GILBERT Philippe 22 25 ▲3 ARMSTRONG Lance 23 27 ▲4 DEL TORO Isaac 24 24 - HINAULT Bernard 25 22 ▼3 PANTANI Marco 26 28 ▲2 PIDCOCK Thomas 27 21 ▼6 ALMEIDA João 28 35 ▲7 HEALY Ben 29 31 ▲2 COPPI Fausto 30 30 - VAN VLEUTEN Annemiek 31 37 ▲6 VOLLERING Demi 32 43 ▲11 CARAPAZ Richard 33 34 ▲1 THOMAS Geraint 34 32 ▼2 JALABERT Laurent 35 29 ▼6 ULLRICH Jan 36 26 ▼10 PINOT Thibaut 37 48 ▲11 SCHLECK Andy 38 38 - CIPOLLINI Mario 39 33 ▼6 DE VLAEMINCK Roger 40 45 ▲5 YATES Simon - ..Highest climbers in ranking.show 30 more lines
- ..Highest PCS ranked riders that not made it into the favorite500 in 2025.
show 15 more lines# Rider PCS Ranking 1 STRONG Corbin 36 2 JEANNIÈRE Emilien 37 3 VELASCO Simone 57 4 LÓPEZ Harold Martín 63 5 CHAMPOUSSIN Clément 64 6 GODON Dorian 66 7 FRETIN Milan 73 8 KANTER Max 75 9 WATSON Samuel 76 10 TIBERI Antonio 78 11 GATE Aaron 79 12 MALUCELLI Matteo 80 13 PIGANZOLI Davide 83 14 DELETTRE Alexandre 92 15 LECERF Junior 93 16 TEJADA Harold 95 17 CHRISTEN Fabio 96 18 ROMO Javier 97 19 PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien 100 20 ASKEY Lewis 102 - ..Highest ranked riders in Fav500 that never reached top-50 in the PCS ranking.
show 18 more linesPosition Rider #Votes 202 VAN DER HOORN Taco 93 209 KOPECKÝ Tomáš 87 211 NYS Sven 84 224 GAFFURI Mattia 77 292 EULÁLIO Afonso 49 311 DE VRIES Hartthijs 45 312 MASON Cameron 45 319 AERTS Toon 44 324 VAN DER HAAR Lars 43 380 LOOCKX Lander 34 401 JOHANNINK Jelle 31 403 RUTSCH Jonas 31 404 ALVARADO Ceylin del Carmen 31 414 PAULINHO Sérgio Miguel 30 432 PELIKÁN János 28 434 CONCA Filippo 28 436 BEHRENS Niklas 28 440 WEINZHEIMER Richard 27 448 KNAUP Tobias 26 452 MAIRE Adrien 26 463 VAN DER HEIJDEN Inge 25 469 GINESTRA Lorenzo 24 494 SCHIFFER Anton 22 - ..Biggest drop in position.show 40 more lines
- ..Most riders per country voted into the Favorite500 in 2025.
show 26 more lines# Country Number of riders 1 Netherlands 2 Italy 3 Belgium 4 France 5 Spain 6 Germany 7 Great Britain 8 Denmark 9 Australia 10 United States 11 Switzerland 12 Portugal 13 Poland 14 Colombia 15 Ireland 16 Slovenia 17 Czech Republic 18 Norway 19 Canada 20 Luxembourg 21 Russia 22 Sweden 23 Hungary 24 Slovakia 25 South Africa 26 Austria 27 Mexico 28 Kazakhstan 29 Eritrea 30 Ecuador 31 Japan 32 Estonia 33 New Zealand 34 Latvia 35 Uzbekistan 36 Mauritius - ..Highest all time ranking riders that not made it into the favorite500 in 2025.
show 15 more lines# Rider All time position 1 BITOSSI Franco 23 2 PERURENA Domingo 48 3 GODEFROOT Walter 49 4 BARONCHELLI Gianbattista 59 5 VERBEECK Frans 60 6 GUERRA Learco 69 7 FRANTZ Nicolas 78 8 RODRÍGUEZ Delio 84 9 MOTTA Gianni 88 10 DARRIGADE André 90 11 GAVAZZI Pierino 93 12 DANCELLI Michele 94 13 LASA Miguel María 97 14 BASSO Marino 99 15 BELLONI Gaetano 105 16 CAÑARDO Mariano 106 17 LEDUCQ André 109 18 ADORNI Vittorio 112 19 BERRENDERO Julián 115 20 BONTEMPI Guido 120 - ..Riders in the Favorite500 ranking 2025 with less than 5000 profile views on procyclingstats.com.show 37 more lines
- ..6.5% of all voters are woman.
- ..The number of riders active in decade in the favorite top 500 up to now.
- ..Number of votes and position per year for Impey Daryl in Fav500.
Year Votes Position 2025 17 - 2024 21 477 2023 27 367 2022 26 417 2021 24 394 2020 58 217 - ..Riders not in the Favorite500 for the first time ever.
show 9 more lines# Rider Highest position 1 SAGAN Juraj 56 2 OSS Daniel 68 3 DOWSETT Alex 178 4 IMPEY Daryl 217 5 TXURRUKA Amets 232 6 KIRYIENKA Vasil 240 7 KEISSE Iljo 257 8 LAISEKA Roberto 274 9 KIRCHEN Kim 292 10 LEIPHEIMER Levi 302 11 SZURKOWSKI Ryszard 303 12 BALLERINI Franco 315 13 YATES Sean 321 14 MOREAU Christophe 323 15 PEÁK Barnabás 336 16 TAARAMÄE Rein 341 17 SCHURTER Nino 345 18 SVORADA Ján 351 19 BERZIN Evgeni 365 - ..Number of retired riders voted into the Favorite 500 per year.
- ..Which riders have disappeared from the Favorite 500 ranking in 2025.
show 10 more lines# Rider Position in 2024 1 LAZKANO Oier 170 2 BROWN Grace 219 3 MARTÍNEZ Daniel Felipe 242 4 PITHIE Laurence 308 5 REALINI Gaia 323 6 WILLIAMS Stephen 327 7 SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts 334 8 TIBERI Antonio 335 9 LAMPERTI Luke 341 10 OSS Daniel 348 11 UHLIG Henri 349 12 GEORGI Pfeiffer 358 13 SVORADA Ján 362 14 FETTER Erik 368 15 SÁNCHEZ Pelayo 381 16 KEISSE Iljo 387 17 DYGERT Chloé 388 18 RYAN Archie 398 19 TAARAMÄE Rein 400 20 LAISEKA Roberto 403 - ..10251There have been 10251 lists posted in 2025.
- ..Number of women voted into the Favorite 500 per year.