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Peter Sagan          

Professional Road Bicycle Racer; 4-Time World Champion & 2016 European Champion

Peter Sagan is a Slovak professional road bicycle racer, and is considered one of cycling's greatest talents.

He has earned many prestigious victories, including three consecutive World Championships, one European Championship, two Paris–Nice stages, seven Tirreno–Adriatico stages, one in the Tour de Romandie, three and the overall classification in the Tour de Pologne, a record seventeen stages and the overall in the Tour of California, and another fifteen in the Tour de Suisse. He has won a number of classics, including the Monument races Paris-Roubaix and Tour of Flanders, three Gent–Wevelgem races and E3 Harelbeke, together with sixteen stages in Grand Tours: twelve at the Tour de France and four at the Vuelta a España. He was also the winner of the points classification in the Tour de France, in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2018; as a result, Sagan became the first rider to win the classification in all of his first five attempts and has tied the record of six of Erik Zabel.

Following his win at the 2017 UCI World Road Race Championships, Sagan wore the Rainbow Jersey, the distinctive jersey worn by the reigning world champion in a cycling discipline, for the duration of 2018 for an unprecedented third consecutive season.

Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the Junior Mountain Bike World Championship in 2008, before moving to road racing.

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My World
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Peter Sagan: World champion cyclist forced to dodge dog walker ...
Top cyclist Peter Sagan was forced to swerve off the road during a race in Italy to avoid a pedestrian walking a dog.
Peter Sagan: 'I was very surprised I won' Stage 2 | NBC Sports
Peter Sagan breaks down the final stretch of Stage 2 and explain how he was able to put himself in position for the final sprint.

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