Sean Kelly, Erik Zabel, and Tom Boonen and... Diego Ulissi? Italian racer joins cycling legends in setting a record with one-day race victory in Italy
35-year-old's triumph at the๊ Giro dell'Appennino puts him in rare company in cycling history

Tuesday's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro dell'Appennino was a minor event on the June racing calendar, a 1.1-ranked race stretching 199km from Nov🐽i Ligure to Genoa on Italy's Ligurian coast. A handful of WorldTour teams mingled among Italian ProTeams and a slew of Continental teꦗams, including eight home-based squads.
With no international television coverage and none of cycling's star names on the startlist, it's understandable if the 86th edition of the race passed fans by. However, the 2025 Giro dell'Appennino hosted a historic win as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Diego Ulissi soloed home.
The XDS-Astana rider scored a valuable 120 points for his Kazakhstani team in their battle against 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:WorldTour relegation. How💯ever, Ulissi's achievement on the day has put his name in🍌 the record books, with the win continuing a streak of victories that now dates back 16 years.
Ulissi has now won a race in every season since he turned p🧸rofessional with Lampre-Farnese Vini back in 2010, hi🅠s streak holding strong even as a nine-month ban for the asthma drug salbutamol ruled him out for portions of the 2014 and 2015 seasons.
His first win came in September 2010 at the GP Industria e Commercio di Prato, and his streak has included 14 at WorldTour level, including eight stages of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia and the 2017 GP de Montréal.
Ulissi🌠, who back in May wore the maglia rosa at the Giro d'Italia for the first time in his career, now holds the longest year-on-year win streak in the current peloton, with Norwegian veteran Alexander Kristoffꦗ (Uno-X Mobility) having won for the 15th year in a row at the Vuelta a Andalucía back in February.
French sprinter Arnaud Dé♎mare (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) is on a 13-year streak, though the 3💯3-year-old still needs a win this year to extend that to 14 years.
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Historically, Ulissi has now moved one year clear of Francesco Moser, who held a 15-year streak from 1973 to 1987. He's equal with Sean Kelly (1977-1992), Erik Zabel (1993-2008), and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Boonen (2002-2017), and lies one year short of three more riders &nda👍sh; Rik Van Looy, Jacques Anquetil (both 1953-1969), and Mar𒐪io Cipollini (1989-2005).
Other riders who completed notable streaks in recent history include Elia Viviani and Annemiek van Vleuten (both 2010-2023) on 14 years, and Peter Sagan (2010-2022) and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Cavendish (2006-2018), who won races for♊ 13 years in a row.
Ulissi is currently in the first year of 🧸a two-year deal at XDS-Astana following a move from UAE Team Emirates over the winter, meaning he'll have the 2026 s💙eason to try and equal Van Looy, Anquetil, and Cipollini.
His latest victory, nine seconds ahead of Ukrainian racer Andrii Ponomar as Astana teammate Simone Velasco took third, saw him go solo 50km from the finish, passing⛄ the break while cresting the penultimate climb of the race, before riding alone for over 30km to the finish.
"We had a pretty young team today, with guys from XDS-Astana Devo Team, some of them had just come back from✃ the Giro Next Gen,🅰" Ulissi said after the finish. "Everyone did a great job, and we controlled the early breakaway.
"Thꦛen, on the hardest climb, with around 5♍0km to the finish, I attacked. It was quite tough with the headwind, but I managed to gain some advantage and take this win. Up next, we have the Italian National Championships, and I think we have a strong team there, so we will try to give it a proper battle."

Dani Ostanek is Senior News Writer a💯t Cyclingnews, having joined in 2017 as a freelance contributor and later being hired full-time. Before joining the team, she had written for numerous major publications in the cycling world, including CyclingWeekly and Rouleur. She writes and edits at Cyclingnews as well as running newsletter, social media, and how to watch campaigns.
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