Peter Sagan

Peter Sagan
Sagan at the 2022 Tour de France
Personal information
Full namePeter Sagan
Nickname
  • "Peťo"
  • "Peter The Great"[1]
  • "Three-Pete"[2]
  • "Tourminator"[3]
Born (1990-01-26) 26 January 1990[4]
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)[4]
Weight78 kg (172 lb; 12 st 4 lb)[5]
Team information
Current teamPierre Baguette Cycling
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Mountain biking
RoleRider
Rider typePuncheur
Sprinter
Classics specialist
Professional teams
2009Dukla Trenčín–Merida
2010–2014Liquigas–Doimo
2015–2016Tinkoff
2017–2021Bora–Hansgrohe[6][7]
2022–2023Team TotalEnergies[8]
2024Pierre Baguette Cycling
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Points classification
(2012–2016, 2018, 2019)
12 individual stages
(2012, 2013, 2016–2019)
Combativity award (2016)
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

Peter Sagan (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈpeter ˈsaɡan]; born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak former professional cyclist who competed in road bicycle racing and mountain bicycle racing. Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the junior cross-country race at the 2008 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships, before moving to road racing. He ended his cycling career in 2024.

Sagan is considered a generational talent, having earned many prestigious victories out of a total of 121 professional wins.[9][10] His most notable achievements were an unprecedented three consecutive men's road race World Championships from 2015-2017 inclusive,[11] and his record seven Points classifications in the Tour de France.[12] He also won two of cycling's monuments, the Tour of Flanders (2016) and Paris–Roubaix (2018), and was awarded the prestigious Vélo d'Or in 2016, the season when he also topped the UCI World Ranking.

  1. ^ Bogaert, Dimitri Eeckhaut en Glenn (3 April 2016). "'Peter De Grote' vijfde wereldkampioen die Ronde wint, Cancellara vloekt, Vanmarcke knap op drie". Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  2. ^ "'Cycling's saviour': Why Sagan's 'three-Pete' was so significant". Eurosport. 25 September 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Fenomén Sagan: Tourminator, anjel, cyklistický Messi i Forrest Gump". Pravda (in Slovak). 5 July 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b c "Peter Sagan". Team TotalEnergies (in French). Team TotalEnergies. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Peter Sagan". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  6. ^ "With Christoph Pfingsten, BORA – hansgrohe completes its roster for 2019". Bora–Hansgrohe. Denk Pro Cycling GmbH & Co. KG. 12 October 2018. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  7. ^ Ryan, Barry (28 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Bora-Hansgrohe". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  8. ^ Farrand, Stephen (3 August 2021). "Peter Sagan signs with Team TotalEnergies for 2022 and 2023". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  9. ^ Wilcockson, John (28 February 2011). "Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: Man of the week Sagan — a Merckx in the making?". Velonews.com. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
  10. ^ Benson, Daniel (7 December 2014). "Breschel: Peter Sagan is the biggest talent in cycling". CyclingNews.com. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  11. ^ "World Championships: Peter Sagan claims second world title in 'lottery' sprint". Cyclingnews.com. 16 October 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  12. ^ "The Story of the Škoda Green Jersey and the Legend of Peter Sagan". Skoda We Love Cycling. Retrieved 14 March 2025.