{"id":554079,"date":"2025-11-07T01:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554079\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:18:13","slug":"91-races-and-no-grand-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554079\/","title":{"rendered":"91 races and no Grand Tours…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 season is now over and it is possible to make the math of the riders who have raced the most this year. Often unsung heroes, these are not usually the riders who take the big wins, but usually work horses or riders who love the Grand Tours and race a heavy calendar all-year long. The one who has raced the most accumulated a total of 91 race days…<\/p>\n

This was Julius Johansen<\/a> of UAE Team Emirates – XRG, signed to be a workhorse and having fulfilled his job. The Dane did not race a single grand tour but has had a stacked calendar from January to October with little breaks. He filled gaps for the world’s top team, and worked as an efficient domestique.<\/p>\n

Johansen has raced in Australia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Belgium, Great Britain, Croatia and China throughout the past few months. Not a schedule that any rider can follow.. He had 91 races days, aided by the likely lack of illnesses and injuries. Closely behind are a few riders, the gaps are small between all other riders.<\/p>\n

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Nicola Conci of XDS Astana Team raced 89 days and with 88 is Cofidis’ Sergio Samitier. The riders outside the World Tour who have raced the most were Bardiani’s Enrico Zanoncello and Burgos’ Mario Aparicio, both with 84 race days – although both did benefit from racing the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a respectively; Whilst the rider at continental level who has raced the most was Terengganu Cycling Team’s Adne van Engelen who had 32 race days, fully in Asia.<\/p>\n

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Julius Johansen was the rider who raced the most in 2025. And he did not ride a single Grand Tour. @Sirotti<\/p>\n

Riders with the most race days in 2025\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\nRider<\/td>\nTeam<\/td>\nRace Days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1<\/td>\n\u00a0JOHANSEN Julius<\/td>\nUAE Team Emirates – XRG<\/td>\n91<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2<\/td>\n\u00a0CONCI Nicola<\/td>\nXDS Astana Team<\/td>\n89<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n3<\/td>\n\u00a0SAMITIER Sergio<\/td>\nCofidis<\/td>\n88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n4<\/td>\n\u00a0SEP\u00daLVEDA Eduardo<\/td>\nLotto<\/td>\n87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n5<\/td>\n\u00a0GARC\u00cdA CORTINA Iv\u00e1n<\/td>\nMovistar Team<\/td>\n87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n6<\/td>\n\u00a0THOMAS Benjamin<\/td>\nCofidis<\/td>\n86<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n7<\/td>\n\u00a0RICKAERT Jonas<\/td>\nAlpecin – Deceuninck<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n8<\/td>\n\u00a0MAAS Jan<\/td>\nCofidis<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n9<\/td>\n\u00a0ZANONCELLO Enrico<\/td>\nVF Group – Bardiani CSF – Faizan\u00e8<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n10<\/td>\n\u00a0APARICIO Mario<\/td>\nBurgos Burpellet BH<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n11<\/td>\n\u00a0VAN UDEN Casper<\/td>\nTeam Picnic PostNL<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n12<\/td>\n\u00a0BILBAO Pello<\/td>\nBahrain – Victorious<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n13<\/td>\n\u00a0GRO\u00dfSCHARTNER Felix<\/td>\nUAE Team Emirates – XRG<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n14<\/td>\n\u00a0VAN ENGELEN Adne<\/td>\nTerengganu Cycling Team<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n15<\/td>\n\u00a0FORTUNATO Lorenzo<\/td>\nXDS Astana Team<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n16<\/td>\n\u00a0ARMIRAIL Bruno<\/td>\nDecathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n17<\/td>\n\u00a0VINOKUROV Nicolas<\/td>\nXDS Astana Team<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n18<\/td>\n\u00a0BUCHMANN Emanuel<\/td>\nCofidis<\/td>\n82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n19<\/td>\n\u00a0SOLER Marc<\/td>\nUAE Team Emirates – XRG<\/td>\n82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n20<\/td>\n\u00a0TURNER Ben<\/td>\nINEOS Grenadiers<\/td>\n82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 season is now over and it is possible to make the math of the riders who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-554079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115505785386744585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}