The Slovakian-born driver, who turns 34 on 26 January, has been one of the defining racing drivers of the past ten years. The fact that he is a gifted prankster and has made headlines with the odd escapade somewhat conceals the immense palmares he has created for himself. Peter Sagan over the course of his career. The statistics website procylingstats.com lists 121 victories in his professional career, which began in 2010 with Team Liquigas in the World Tour.
His three consecutive world championship titles from 2015 to 2017 are outstanding; he is the only professional in cycling history to have achieved this triple so far. Another record is his seven green jerseys at the Tour de France between 2012 and 2019; he also has twelve stage wins at the Tour of France to his name. In the most successful years of his career between 2015 and 2019, Sagan became one of the best one-day racers of his generation and won the cycling monuments Tour of Flanders (2016) and Paris-Roubaix (2018). After retiring from road cycling, Sagan plans to take part in the Olympic Games in Paris as a mountain biker.