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This article summarizes Wout van Aert’s most impressive stats, performances, and records. I created them based on several sources and also my own calculations. These stats are updated once a year at the end of the cycling season.
Hopefully, you will like them. If you know of any other records not listed or interesting stats about Wout, please contact me or comment below.
I update these stats once a year at the end of the season. Last update: February 14th, 2025.
Wout van Aert Road Cycling Statistics
The following statistics are based on Wout van Aert’s professional road cycling career, which started in 2013.
Wout van Aert Victories and Win Rates
During his career, Wout van Aert has won 49 races from 366 race days. He has won 15 one-day races, including 1 monument, 22 stages, and 9 time trials. His win rate is an incredible 13.4%! He wins about every 7th race (or stage) he enters.
His podium and top 10 rates are even more impressive. He finished on the podium in 25.4% of races (or stages) and 37.1% in the top 10!1.
In 2024, Wout van Aert won 1 one-day race and 4 stages (3 ×Vuelta stage). His win rate was 9.1%. He won every 10th race2 he entered. He finished 29.1% on the podium and
38.2% in the top 10.
Wout van Aert had only 7 DNFs in his WT career and 1 DNS. This DNS was in 2023 TdF when he decided to leave because of the birth of his son.
Wout van Aert has never won the UCI ranking but has been second twice in a row (2021-2022).
Wout van Aert averaged about 5197 racing kilometers per year, but this figure almost doubled to 8600 km in recent years.
The longest race that Wout van Aert rode was Milan–San Remo (2020). It was 305 km long.
The shortest race Wout van Aert rode was the 5th stage of the Int. Österreich-Rundfahrt-Tour of Austria. It was only 92.9 km long.
The highest average speed of Wout van Aert in the race or stage3 he won was 48.96 km/h. It was the Bruges Cycling Classic 2017. He finished the 216 km route in 4:24:41.
Wout loves racing in Belgium. He participated in 33 different races here. His next-most visited countries for racing are Italy (9), France (8), and Netherlands (7).
Wout van Aert in Grand Tours
Wout van Aert has won 9 stages at the Tour de France and 3 at the Vuelta a España. He hasn’t won a stage at the Giro yet because he has never raced it.
Wout van Aert spent 4 days in the yellow jersey and 19 days in the green jersey. He won the points classification at the Tour de France once.
Wout van Aert’s Most Impressive Watt Performances
According to this leaked power profile, Wout van Aert can:
- Peak 1800W
- Maintain 1500W for 10s
- Maintain 1250W for 30s
- Maintain 990W for 1 minute
- Maintain 700W for 3 minutes
- Maintain 600W for 5 minutes
- Maintain 478W for 20 minutes
- Maintain 455W for 1 hour (~5.83W/kg)
Wout van Aert did ~9.75 W/Kg for 1:45 min on Cote du Cap Blanc-Nez during the 4th stage of the 2022 TdF.
According to Geraint Thomas, WvA told him he averaged ~370W (~4.74 w/kg) for 3-4 hours during his 2022 TdF stage 6 breakaway.
Wout van Aert Cyclocross Statistics
The following statistics are based on Wout van Aert’s results since the 2014/15 CX season (U23 results are excluded).
During his professional CX career, Wout van Aert has won 87 races from 217 race days. That’s a win rate of an incredible 40.1%! His podium rate is 86.6%, and his top 10 rate is 99.5%!
His 2017/18 season was the most successful. He won 18 of 57 races he entered (31.6% win rate). His highest season win rate was in the 2021/22 season. He won 9 of 10 races (90% win rate).
When Wout starts a CX race, he is almost always in the top 10. Furthermore, he has finished all the CX races he has entered, with a race completion rate of 100%(!).
Wout van Aert is 3 times CX World Champion (he was 2nd 5 times behind MVDP) and 5 times CX National Champion. He won the World Cup 3 times, European Championships 3 times, and Superprestige once. He w
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Sources and Notes
- Excluding gravel races and TTT. ↩︎
- Excluding TTT, points GC, KOM GC, and youth GC. ↩︎
- ITTs, TTTs, and prologues excluded. ↩︎
Preview picture source: Sirotti
