Belgium top in 2024: where have we already won 21 times?

The Belgian riders have made an excellent start to 2024. A look at professional cycling statistics shows that Lorenz Rix's victory yesterday in Le Sammin was already the 21st victory in the first two months of this year. No country is better, with Great Britain and France in second place with 13. Colombia and New Zealand complete the podium with 12 victories.

Not only does it feel like the Belgians have started the cycling year well, the numbers prove it. If we look at the races in the Premier, Pro and WorldTour categories, we come up with 21 victories.

They are divided into 11 passengers. Tim Merlier is the leader with 5 sprint wins, followed by Remco Evenepoel and Lennert van Eetvelt with 3 laurel wreaths.

Great Britain is the country with the second highest number of victories: 9 riders have 13 victories. Joseph Blackmore is the best with 3 wins in Rwanda, Simon and Adam Yates each with 2. Lenny Martinez also gave France a 13th success today with the Trofeo Laigueglia.

If we look back over the past decade and stop the counter at the history of GP Le Samyn (one of the last days of February or the first days of March), we see that Belgium's performance has never been better.

Last year, we counted 14 victories in the same period, and in the end we reached 90. Including the second category competitions, we even reached 124. This made us victorious over the course of an entire year.