If you are a big fan of the bicycle racing then you need to know some of the best racers that the world has seen and who have put all odds in their favor to become such champions. Here given below are descriptions of some of the champions.
Lance Edward Armstrong is one of the best professional bicycle racers and was born in the year 1971. He was a swimmer at first and then he took up triathlon but when he won his first bicycle competition in the year 1991 then he got to know of the magic he got and afterwards he made history by winning the prestigious Tour de France for about seven consecutive times.
Alberto Contador Velasco is a professional road bicycle racer born in the year 1982. He has an amazing record in the field of bicycle racing and is one of the greatest in the game. He is the first Spaniard and the fifth racer in the entire world to win all the three Grand tours of road cycling.
Laurent Fignon was a cycle racer during 1980s and won Tour de France and Giro d’ Italia. A very calm and focused racer, he was originally a footballer but after his friends suggested him to be a cyclist then there was no looking back.
Lucien Van Impe is also one of the famous bicycle racers who won the mountain classifications of the Tour de France six times along with mountain classification of Giro d’ Italia twice.