332 wins leaving the peloton - Five notable riders set to bow out in 2025

Alexander Kristoff is set to go down as one of the legends of Norwegian cycling, beginning his career with his local club team, Stavanger SK, in 2005. Kristoff would go on to race for eight other teams, with his longest stint coming at Team Katusha alongside fellow Norwegian, Sven Erik Bystrøm and where he would take his two famous monument victories. 

That first monument victory came at Milan-San Remo in 2014, where Kristoff powered over the line ahead of Fabian Cancellara and Ben Swift, with his second monument victory arriving a year later in 2015 at the Tour of Flanders in what was to put it simply was an absolute classic. On that day in early April, Kristoff succeeded ahead of two-time monument winner, Niki Terpstra.

After bowing out in 2025, Kristoff ends his career with 98 victories coming ever so short to reaching the 100 victory mark but the Norweigan sprinter can certainly look be fondly on his wonderful victories.

France is set to lose one of its best-ever sprinters, with Arnaud Démare set to call an end to his career with a whopping 97 wins, many of which came in Grand Tours since he began his professional career with FDJ in 2011. Démare was a master of the sprints at the Giro with eight stage wins and two green jerseys to go along with it, unstoppable. 

Not only that, but Démare was able to take two stage wins at the Tour de France in the late 2010's but he could have got even more as he couldn't quite extend his tally. Other notable victories included the 2016 Milan-San Remo and multiple wins at Paris-Tours, amongst the 97 victories to his name, which is an astounding achievement similar to Kristoff's, and he is bound to inspire a new generation of up-and-coming French sprinters.

Elia Viviani ends his cycling career with 90 victories to his name after breaking out onto the scene on the UCI WorldTour level back in 2010 with Liquigas - Doimo, where they became Cannondale from 2013. Viviani in 2015 would join the cycling empire of Team Sky, where he would spend three seasons before two seasons at QuickStep, two seasons at Cofidis and then with a return to Ineos (Team Sky), before ending his career with Lotto, as he chased one last Grand Tour stage win.

Viviani was able to complete the Grand Tour treble in his career, completing it in 2019 with a stage win in Nancy ahead of Alexander Kristoff and Caleb Ewan. To complete the Grand Tour treble, it took Viviani four years, with his first victory coming in 2015 at La Vuelta.

2019 was a great year for Viviani, who also won the European Championships Road Race in Alkmaar, proving himself to be one of the top sprinters of his generation with an immense track pedigree as well, as he was an Olympic Gold medallist.

Giacomo Nizzolo first made his WorldTour appearance in 2011 with Leopard Trek, with whom he spent eight long years, until a three-year stint with Dimension Data / NTT pro cycling / Team Qhubeka NextHash. Nizzolo would then go on to spend the latter part of his career with Israel - Premier Tech and Q36.5 pro cycling.

Notable victories for Nizzolo included the European Championships Road Race in 2020, the points jersey at the Giro in 2015 and 2016, and with somehow, the Italian only taking a stage win at the Giro only once in his career, which came in 2021. Nizzolo managed to finish second in eleven stages across his career at the Giro, pretty impressive.

Nizzolo's final professional victory came at the 2024 Sibu Cycling Tour in Romania, with the Italian taking a stage win on the fourth and final stage of that edition. In total, Nizzolo accomplished 31 wins across his career.

Michael Woods was a late bloomer to cycling. He only transitioned to cycling in his mid-twenties after receiving a bike from his parents, now 39 years old and set to retire at the end of the 2025 season, his last race was a fitting end to a man who put on some wonderful attacking performances, the Tour de France. 

Woods made his WorldTour debut at 29-years-old and went on to take three stage wins at the Vuelta, a stage at the Tour atop of the mythical Puy de Dôme and close to further glory with a 2nd at Liège - Bastogne - Liège in 2018 and a third at the 2018 World Championships Road Race.

Woods across his career managed to pick up 16 victories in his career with the Canadian National Championships road race back in 2024, his last ever professional win.