Tadej Pogacar dominated 2025 season, but he is not the one who's won the most - Top10 riders by wins 2025 season

The 2025 road season has been finished and a few riders have stood out this year in terms of victories. There have been a few notable faces that have stood out, specially towards the end of the year bringing in victories left and right. Most would believe Tadej Pogacar is the one who has raised his arms in glory the most this year but that would be incorrect...

In combined 10th place we've got several riders who have won on 11 occasions this year, of different categories and genders. On the men's side there is Denmark's Alexander Salby who has raced for the Chinese Li Ning Star team this year and benefitted from the Asian calendar to spark his career back up. From March to October, Salby has managed to win on several races and score enough UCI points to also put him close to the Top100.

In the World Tour Olav Kooij has had a stellar season, leading Visma to 11 wins total including the Tour of Oman, Tirreno-Adriatico, Giro d'Italia, Tour de Pologne, Renewi Tour, Tour of Britain and the GP d'Isbergues. At age 24 (recently turned, in reality this was achieved at 23) the Dutchman already has 47 pro wins and will move to Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale next season.

On the women's side, Marlen Reusser and Demi Vollering both won 11 races this year. But these were at the absolute top of the cycling world. The Swiss rider has titles in the World, national and European Championships time trial events, Trofeo Palma, Vuelta a Burgos (stage+GC), Tour de Suisse (stage+GC), Giro Donne - and was close to bringing in many others during the year. Vollering on the other hand won the European Championships road race, the Strade Bianche Donne, The Vuelta Femenina (stages+GC), Itzulia Women (stage+GC), Volta a Catalunya (stage+GC) also also the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana (stage+GC). She was also second at the Tour de France Femmes.

The most successful out of the under-23 riders this season, Jarno Widar has had a few disappointing moments but also many of success. The Belgian rider is still discovering his specialty as a combination between classics rider and climber, but has had the chance to obtain 13 wins this year. At age 19, he was perhaps the biggest figure in the under-23 ranks in 2025. He is the reigning European Champion, won two stages at the Tour de l'Avenir alongside second in GC; won the Giro della Valle d'Aosta alongside three of it's four stages, won a stage and GC at the Ronde de l'Isard, won a stage at the under-23 Giro, won the under-23 Liège-Bastogne-Liège and also the Flèche Ardennaise. Next season he's racing for the Lotto-Intermarché team, making his debut at World Tour level.

Rajovic is not an unknown name, but makes his way into the list after moving from the World Tour-level Bahrain - Victorious to the Italian Team Solution Tech - Vini Fantini team. The Italian team however selected a very Asian-heavy calendar which suits the sprinters and the Serbian 27-year old took full advantage of it. He's won 14 times this year, with victories accumulated in the UAE, Croatia, China, Bosnia, Japan and also in the time trial national championships in Serbia. Without a doubt one of the most diverse winners of the year too.

With 14 wins this year is also Lidl-Trek's Mads Pedersen, although on so many occasions the Dane was close to increasing this number. In what was arguably his best season to Date, the 29-year old was on a winning streak all year long. He won a stage and GC at the Tour la Provence, a stage at Paris-Nice, Gent Wevelgem, four stage wins at the Giro d'Italia, the Danish time trial national championships and right after the Tour of Denmark alongside three stage wins... And lastly he had a triumph at the Vuelta a España. Although it does not count towards the list, Pedersen also won the points classification at both the Vuelta and the Giro d'Italia, as well as finishing on the podium of the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.

The British rider is one that carries extreme talent and potential and has won on 14 occasions this year, despite having only 19 years of age throughout most of the year and racing for a World Tour team in the European calendar. Brennan carries a very strong sprint but also impressive climbing ability. Some of these wins were with the team's development ranks (although he was under an elite contract) such as Le Tour des 100 Communes, GP de la Ville Lilers and Run um Köln (ahead of Biniam Girmay), but from March onwards he mostly only raced with the elite team.

He won at the Volta a Catalunya twice, Tour de Romandie, twice at the Tour of Norway where he won the overall classification too; The Tour de Pologne, Deutschland Tour and Tour of Britain. An overwhelming season for Visma's new head sprinter, who has had leadouts from Wout van Aert but has also led out Olav Kooij at times.

With 16 wins, Tim Merlier has perhaps marked himself as the sprinter of the year. These are high-level wins and without a luxury leadout, the Soudal - Quick-Step man has stood out against Jonathan Milan and Jasper Philipsen. Merlier has won on two occasions at the Tour de France, but throughout the rest of the year has accumulated triumphs in all sorts of races...

Two at the AlUla Tour, two at the UAER Tour, two at Paris-Nice, Scheldeprijs, Brussels Cycling Classic, two at the Baloise Belgium Tour, two at the Renewi Tour, the Omloop van het Houtland and finally a stage at the Tour of Holland made for an impressive year.

The breakout star of the year? No-one had any doubt that Isaac del Toro carried enormous potential, but what he's achieved this year at age 21 was beyond what many thought was possible. Del Toro won 18 times this year, and this does not include the Giro d'Italia where he finished second in GC after entering the race barely considered a GC contender - and only third in line with UAE Team Emirates - XRG. Perhaps the most impressive thing is that until July, the Mexican only had two wins to his name.

Del Toro won Milano-Torino during the month of March and also won a stage, in pink, at the Giro. From there on, he took on a more modest schedule so as to farm victories, UCI points and experience as a leader, whilst not overscheduling him with a second Grand Tour. He won the Tour of Austria alongside three stages, the Classica Terres de l'Erbre, the Circuito de Getxo, the GC at the Vuelta a Burgos... And then began his Italian domination.

Del Toro raced only one-day races since mid-August and has won the GP Industria & Artigianato, Giro della Toscana, Coppa Sabatini, Giro dell'Emilia, Gran Piemonte, Giro del Veneto and finally both time trial and road race at the Mexican national championships. It will be hard to repeat such a successful end to the year, but what he's achieved is not going anywhere.

The third rider on this list is Paul Magnier who, like Del Toro, took most of his victories towards the end of the season. The Frenchman won both his last and first race day of the year, opening it up with a triumph at Etoile de Bessèges and then having an empty triumph list until... June. But then the Soudal - Quick-Step rider really ramped up his level. He won the Heistste Pijl, Dwars door het Hageland and Elfstedenronde Brugge in quick succession, and then outside of Belgium his success continued. He captured 19 wins in 2025.

He won a stage at the Tour de Pologne, but then with a more modest schedule late in the year, he absolutely dominated every race he took part in. He won the GP de Fourmies but then won four stages at the Tour of Slovakia, four stages at the Cro Race and a whole five stages out of the six at the World Tour-level Tour of Guangxi, winning the points classification in every single one of them and bringing in 14 wins in 18 race days from the 14th of September to the 19th of October, perhaps the most successful streak of winning in the history of the sport?

Tadej Pogacar was the most successful rider of the year, no-one has a doubt over that. But he is not at the top of the list... Nevertheless the World Champion has won 20 races this year and all of them at the top level. Of course, at the top of the list are his triumphs at the Tour de France where he's won also four stages, the World Championships in Kigali, the European Championships in Drôme-Ardèche, three monuments at the Tour of Flanders, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Il Lombardia... But outside of that, every other win is also at the top level.

Pogacar has won two stages and the GC at the UAE Tour, Strade Bianche, Flèche Wallonne, the Criterium du Dauphiné alongside three stage wins and also Tre Valli Varesine - his only non-World Tour race of the year.

Lorena Wiebes was the rider who has won the most in 2025, overshadowing Tadej Pogacar's success with a whole 25 wins this year. The women's peloton top sprinter has achieved a number that anyone at any level can only dream of this year, but this includes triumphs at the very top level as well.

She has 25 wins to her name but this doesn't even include the Gravel World Championships, perhaps the biggest win of her year where she beat Marianne Vos - a recurrent rival throughout the season, despite being from vastly different generations. But where did Wiebes win this much? Well from all levels of the sport, including two wins at the Tour de France Femmes, the Dutch national championships and the first edition of the women's Milano-Sanremo for a starter.

But she has also won three times at the UAE Tour, Omloop het Nieuwsblad, Le Samyn, Classic Brugge-De Panne, Gent Wevelgem, a stage at the Vuelta a Burgos and then Tour of Britain, Dwars door het Hageland, Copenhagen Sprint, two stages at the Giro Donne, GP Lucien van Impe, five stage wins and the GC at the WWT-level Simac Ladies Tour and lastly victories at La Choralis Fourmies and Binche Chimay Binche. If her wins on the gravel would be counted, this number would climb up to 27...