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| Full name | Peter Sagan |
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| Nickname | - "Peťo"
- "Peter The Great"
- "Three-Pete"
- "Tourminator"
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| Born | (1990-01-26) 26 January 1990
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| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) |
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| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb; 12 st 4 lb) |
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| Current team | Pierre Baguette Cycling |
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| Role | Rider |
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| Rider type | Puncheur
Sprinter
Classics specialist |
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| 2009 | Dukla Trenčín–Merida |
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| 2010–2014 | Liquigas–Doimo |
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| 2015–2016 | Tinkoff |
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| 2017–2021 | Bora–Hansgrohe |
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| 2022–2023 | Team TotalEnergies |
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| 2024 | Pierre Baguette Cycling |
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Grand Tours
- Tour de France
- Points classification
(2012–2016, 2018, 2019)
- 12 individual stages
(2012, 2013, 2016–2019)
- Combativity award (2016)
- Giro d'Italia
- Points classification (2021)
- 2 individual stages (2020, 2021)
- Vuelta a España
- 4 individual stages (2011, 2015)
Stage races
- Tour de Pologne (2011)
- Tour of California (2015)
One-day races and Classics
- World Road Race Championships
(2015, 2016, 2017)
- European Road Race Championships (2016)
- National Road Race Championships
(2011–2015, 2018, 2021, 2022)
- National Time Trial Championships (2015)
- Tour of Flanders (2016)
- Paris–Roubaix (2018)
- Gent–Wevelgem (2013, 2016, 2018)
- E3 Harelbeke (2014)
- GP de Montréal (2013)
- GP de Québec (2016, 2017)
- Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (2017)
- Brabantse Pijl (2013)
Other
- UCI World Tour (2016)
- UCI World Ranking (2016)
- Vélo d'Or (2016)
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Peter Sagan (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈpeter ˈsaɡan]; born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak former professional cyclist who competed in road bicycle racing and mountain bicycle racing. Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the junior cross-country race at the 2008 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships, before moving to road racing. He ended his cycling career in 2024.
Sagan is considered a generational talent, having earned many prestigious victories out of a total of 121 professional wins. His most notable achievements were an unprecedented three consecutive men's road race World Championships from 2015-2017 inclusive, and his record seven Points classifications in the Tour de France. He also won two of cycling's monuments, the Tour of Flanders (2016) and Paris–Roubaix (2018), and was awarded the prestigious Vélo d'Or in 2016, the season when he also topped the UCI World Ranking.