CYCLIST

Alejandro Valverde

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Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (born 25 April 1980) is a Spanish cyclist, who competed as a professional in road bicycle racing from 2002 2010 and from 2012 to 2022, and now competes in gravel cycling for the Movistar Team Gravel Squad. During his road racing career, Valverde took 133 professional victories, with some of his biggest wins having been the Vuelta a España in 2009, the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2008 and 2009, the Tour of the Basque Country in 2017, the Volta a Catalunya in 2009, 2017 and 2018, Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2006, 2008, 2015 and 2017, La Flèche Wallonne in 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, the Clásica de San Sebastián in 2008 and 2014, the 2006 and 2008 UCI ProTours, the 2014 and 2015 UCI World Tours, and the road race in the 2018 World Championships. Prior to his Worlds win, he already held the record for most medals won at World Championships – he twice collected the silver medal in the World Championships, in 2003 and 2005, as well as the bronze four times in 2006, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alejandro Valverde has received more than 1,004,108 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Alejandro Valverde is the 216th most popular cyclist (down from 100th in 2019), the 1,661st most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,229th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Spanish Cyclist.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Alejandro Valverde ranks 216 out of 1,613. Before him are Jean Dotto, Giuseppe Enrici, Franco Balmamion, Franco Bitossi, Erik Pettersson, and Laurent Jalabert. After him are Johny Schleck, Antonio Bailetti, Michel Rousseau, Abraham Olano, Carlo Oriani, and Michael Rasmussen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Alejandro Valverde ranks 101. Before him are Emir Spahić, Zach McGowan, Jason Schwartzman, Ricardo Oliveira, Didier Zokora, and Kareena Kapoor. After him are Alistair Overeem, Nick Carter, Nikola Žigić, Eliza Dushku, Juan Carlos Navarro, and Katrine Lunde.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Alejandro Valverde ranks 1,661 out of 3,355. Before him are Jaume Collet-Serra (1974), Arnaldo Otegi (1958), Luis González-Bravo y López de Arjona (1811), Paco Jémez (1970), Iñigo Martínez (1991), and Marcelo González Martín (1918). After him are Enric Miralles (1955), Núria Espert (1935), Joaquín Vázquez (1897), Luis Tosar (1971), Pilar Miró (1940), and Gregorio María Aguirre y García (1835).

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Among CYCLISTS In Spain

Among cyclists born in Spain, Alejandro Valverde ranks 17. Before him are Bernardo Ruiz (1925), Carlos Sastre (1975), Vicente Trueba (1905), Emilio Rodríguez (1923), Delio Rodríguez (1916), and Domingo Perurena (1943). After him are Abraham Olano (1970), Óscar Freire (1976), Antonio Suárez (1932), Jesús Loroño (1926), Roberto Heras (1974), and Marino Lejarreta (1957).

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