The Year’s Best – Netherlands best Cycling nation in 2019
In this article on the final 2019 sport group rankings, we look at Cycling, a group that aggregates the results of five different disciplines: Road Cycling, Track Cycling, MTB, BMX and Cyclocross. The Netherlands, winner in 2018, did it again in 2019, topping the Cycling ranking with a healthy 130-point margin over France, which pipped Australia into second place by a mere 4 points.
Since 2015, the Netherlands has always been on the podium in this sport group, going from third place in 2015 to second in 2016 and then first for the next three years in succession!
The flying Dutchmen and women dominated the sport group in 2019, winning Cyclocross, BMX and Road Cycling, and finishing second in Track Cycling, behind Australia. France won the remaining discipline, MTB, ahead of Switzerland. The Dutch victory was comprehensive, since the country triumphed in both the men’s and women’s sport group rankings.
In 2019, 37 different countries scored points in Cycling across the five disciplines, sharing a total of 2,964 points, equivalent to a 4.3% share of all GSN points awarded in the year.
Cycling sport group 2019 – top 20
|
Place
|
Country
|
Points
|
Points %
|
|
1
|
Netherlands
|
466
|
15.7%
|
|
2
|
France
|
336
|
11.3%
|
|
3
|
Australia
|
332
|
11.2%
|
|
4
|
Great Britain
|
241
|
8.1%
|
|
5
|
Italy
|
202
|
6.8%
|
|
6
|
Germany
|
195
|
6.6%
|
|
7
|
United States
|
140
|
4.7%
|
|
8
|
Switzerland
|
129
|
4.4%
|
|
9
|
Russia
|
100
|
3.4%
|
|
10
|
Belgium
|
83
|
2.8%
|
|
11
|
Denmark
|
80
|
2.7%
|
|
12
|
New Zealand
|
78
|
2.6%
|
|
13
|
Spain
|
64
|
2.2%
|
|
14
|
Slovenia
|
60
|
2.0%
|
|
15
|
Colombia
|
50
|
1.7%
|
|
16
|
Hong Kong
|
48
|
1.6%
|
|
17
|
Poland
|
46
|
1.6%
|
|
18
|
Czech Republic
|
42
|
1.4%
|
|
19
|
Canada
|
42
|
1.4%
|
|
20
|
Japan
|
32
|
1.1%
|
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