Few, very few, or almost none can count their successes in the top competition with 50% effectiveness. Toni Bou achieved this outstanding figure in Portugal, to which is added the extraordinary data of the indoor competition or X-Trial, more than 70%.
Considered the greatest of contemporary athletes, the Jamaican Usain Bolt is also one of the athletes most admired by
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for his eleven gold medals won in World Championships and 8 in Olympic Games, in addition to breaking the world record on several occasions. Edwin Moses is also another athletics legend. King of the 400-meter hurdles, he was unbeaten for 10 years (1977-1987), achieving 122 consecutive victories.
In swimming, Michael Phelps, winner of 14 Olympic gold medals, the most in the history of swimming. He has achieved 29 world records in different individual styles.
The most admired figure in boxing, Cassius Clay or also known by his last name, Muhammad Ali, set a milestone by winning a total of 56 fights out of 61, with only 5 defeats in his entire career as a boxer.
Although if we talk about feats, Rafa Nadal has indisputably earned a place on the podium of the greatest Spanish athletes, with a total of 903 matches won, 187 lost (20%) and 79 ATP titles as well as 11 trophies in the Paris arena.
In motor racing, and in different specialties, there are several remarkable feats: from the 13 Dakars of Stéphane Peterhansel to the American Supercross and Motocross rider, Ricky Carmichael: 7 AMA MX450 titles and 5 AMA 250 titles with 150 victories and 48 victories in Supercross, quite a feat for the Greatest Of All Times.
Riders who come close to some of Toni’s numbers, such as crosser Stefan Everts, with 10 World Championship titles in 125, 250 and 500/MX1 and a total of 101 victories, or Antonio Cairoli, with a total of 94 victories in MX1/MXGP.
The quintessential name in the world of speed is Giacomo Agostini. The legendary Italian rider is the rider who has accumulated the most victories throughout his history in the top competition: 159, although this is in different categories. In the premier class he achieved a total of 68 victories.
Marc Márquez, a six-time World Champion (4 in MotoGP), has achieved 39 victories in the top class in a total of 98 races. Finally, we would also like to highlight the 12+1 times World Champion Angel Nieto, who accumulated a total of 90 victories in the World Championship in different categories.
And finally, from two wheels to four: the German Michael Schumacher played a total of 308 races with a balance of 91 victories, 30% effectiveness.
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TONI BOU HAS ACHIEVED 100 VICTORIES IN 200 TRIALGP RACES (50%) AND 57 VICTORIES IN 81 X-TRIAL RACES (70.37%) THIS YEAR.
On his debut in the Trial World Championship, in 2003, in Ireland, Toni Bou scored his first point in the championship. Three years and forty-five races later, he won his first race, in Nigrán, Spain. Like that victory, and until last weekend, 99 more to break one of the data that he waited the longest to be beaten: the highest number of victories in the top competition: 100. And he did it in the 200th GP of his career.
-Congratulations, Toni. You have once again made history in this sport that is as technical as it is exciting: 100 victories out of 200 participations in the World Cup. Unusual!
-Yes, thank you very much. I’m very happy and excited about the race this past Sunday, how everything went and, also, to get to the magic number. To win 100 races is sensational, but to do it in 200 races, it’s incredibly effective. I’ve been very excited to achieve it and I think it’s the result of the great work we’ve been doing for more than ten years with the team. But one thing is clear to me: I will continue to fight for future successes.
Has the feeling of the first victory, in 2006, been repeated this weekend as well? Were you aware that you were marking a global milestone?
“I don’t know if I could describe the emotions. A mixture of joy, satisfaction, also taking a weight off my shoulders, because sometimes, wanting to break a record can turn against you… But yes, from the moment I won the 100th race, I was happy, a lot. Although we have to be aware that we are only halfway through the championship: there is still a long way to go…
-Your data is stratospheric; Very few athletes have achieved such excellent figures in any of the competitions.
-The most important thing about all this is the great luck of being able to be at a high level of shape, which means that you can stay among the first on a regular basis. We’ve had a lot of wins, so many that you lose count. In fact, if it doesn’t happen because the people on my team who wear it tell me to, I don’t know what numbers I have, because it’s something that I prefer not to have in my head. These are spectacular numbers, yes. I have to be grateful to the people who have helped me to do this, to the whole team, and above all, since I was a child; The space to thank them would have to be very large. That’s why I’m very happy and, what’s more, motivated. Yes, motivated to achieve more success and to be able to grow these numbers.
-Are there many elite athletes on the list that you admire?
“Yes, many! Usain Bolt, Phelps, Schumacher, Cairoli… There are many idols. To be on a list with them makes me especially excited. So many successes in such a short space of time is a big deal.
-Who do you like or would you have liked to see live?
-Bolt is one of those I’ve always liked to see in action: his power and dominance of the race is spectacular. I would also have liked to see Mohammad Ali, who has a lot of wins and few losses. Another of those I like, because he is a contemporary of mine, is Antonio Cairoli, also with similar figures, and we see him frequently at the FIM galas. He had years with major injuries and has been able to return with as much or more strength to the competition and win the world championship again.
-It seems obvious to think that you remember the first victory… But will you remember number 100?
-Yes, sure. The first one is unforgettable, I remember perfectly where and how it was, and so will be the 100th because this year is also special: the injury and breaking Lampkin’s record. There was talk of it in Japan, and it couldn’t be, but both the race in Andorra, where I won the 99th, and the one in Portugal, with the 100th, are races that I will never forget.
