Pinno’s extra tricky Christmas quiz 2023 number eleventy twelve.

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1.   How many times has the tre Cime de Lavaredo been climbed in the Giro?

2.   Which year did Fausto Coppi win the world championships?

3.   A) What year saw the first cable pull rear mech in the peloton and B) Who made it?

4.   Which race is not held over 5 or 6 days?

5.   What was officially and originally called the ‘Slavjantour’?

6.   Which team did Alejandro Valverde sign with and in the process turn professional?

7.   In recent editions, which is the longest climb in Liege Bastogne Liege.

8.   Name the year, the race and the placing which was Dylan Teuns best finish in a monument.

9.   Name the first 3 riders in this years UCI world gravel championships.

10.  At the end of 2017, who held the UCI men’s number 1 ranking spot?

11.  Who is in the top spot of the current women’s elite rankings?

12.  Which year did Esteban Chavez win the Tour de l'Avenir?

13. What was Sergio Henao’s final time gap at the end of the 2017 Paris-Nice?

14. Who was the last Dutchman to win Classica San Sebastian?

15.  Why was Cipollini kicked out of the 2000 Vuelta e España?

16. What can Giant be credited for as a first?

17. Clues: last run in 2004 and won by a German. Chris Boardman won it in 1996. Name the event.

18. Fill in the cycling ‘team genealogy’ blank: Vini Caldirola > Tacconi sport > Vini Caldirola > Liquigas-Bianchi > ……………

19. ‘Eschborn–Frankfurt’ formerly known originally as?

20. Who was runner up to Sagan in the points classification in the 2014 edition of the TdF?

21. Being the youngest ever winner of the TdF, Egan Bernal broke this record held since when?

22. Between 1999 and 2000 it was called Memorial Cecchi Gori while it was also previously held as Giro di Sardegna and Giro di Sicilia. Name the event.

23. Sean Yates won the ITT on stage 6 of the 1988 TdF. What was the distance?

24. Who was ‘Mr Clean’?

25.  How many times has Elisa Longo Borghini won her national time trial championship?

26.  Only 7 riders have won the double of Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liege. Name as many as you can.

27. Name Dylan Van Baarle’s only win in 2021.

28. Complete the final podium in the 2011 TdF.

29.  Who was the first British rider to win a stage of the Giro?

30.  Men’s Olympic TT in Rio: complete the podium.

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