{"id":248388,"date":"2025-11-07T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248388\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:06:09","slug":"91-races-and-no-grand-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248388\/","title":{"rendered":"91 races and no Grand Tours&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This was <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/julius-johansen\" title=\"Julius Johansen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julius Johansen<\/a> of UAE Team Emirates &#8211; 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&#8217;s top team, and worked as an efficient domestique.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Nicola Conci of XDS Astana Team raced 89 days and with 88 is Cofidis&#8217; Sergio Samitier. The riders outside the World Tour who have raced the most were Bardiani&#8217;s Enrico Zanoncello and Burgos&#8217; Mario Aparicio, both with 84 race days &#8211; although both did benefit from racing the Giro d&#8217;Italia and Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a respectively; Whilst the rider at continental level who has raced the most was Terengganu Cycling Team&#8217;s Adne van Engelen who had 32 race days, fully in Asia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/johansen-68503f1a98da1.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"johansen\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Julius Johansen was the rider who raced the most in 2025. And he did not ride a single Grand Tour. @Sirotti<\/p>\n<p>Riders with the most race days in 2025\u00a0RiderTeamRace Days1\u00a0JOHANSEN JuliusUAE Team Emirates &#8211; XRG912\u00a0CONCI NicolaXDS Astana Team893\u00a0SAMITIER SergioCofidis884\u00a0SEP\u00daLVEDA EduardoLotto875\u00a0GARC\u00cdA CORTINA Iv\u00e1nMovistar Team876\u00a0THOMAS BenjaminCofidis867\u00a0RICKAERT JonasAlpecin &#8211; Deceuninck848\u00a0MAAS JanCofidis849\u00a0ZANONCELLO EnricoVF Group &#8211; Bardiani CSF &#8211; Faizan\u00e88410\u00a0APARICIO MarioBurgos Burpellet BH8411\u00a0VAN UDEN CasperTeam Picnic PostNL8412\u00a0BILBAO PelloBahrain &#8211; Victorious8313\u00a0GRO\u00dfSCHARTNER FelixUAE Team Emirates &#8211; XRG8314\u00a0VAN ENGELEN AdneTerengganu Cycling Team8315\u00a0FORTUNATO LorenzoXDS Astana Team8316\u00a0ARMIRAIL BrunoDecathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team8317\u00a0VINOKUROV NicolasXDS Astana Team8318\u00a0BUCHMANN EmanuelCofidis8219\u00a0SOLER MarcUAE Team Emirates &#8211; XRG8220\u00a0TURNER BenINEOS Grenadiers82<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 season is now over and it is possible to make the math of the riders who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-248388","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}