The 5 magical cycling records that Tadej Pogacar can achieve beyond 2025
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After completing the best year in cycling history in 2024, many might think that Tadej Pogacar has little left to do in his career. However, at just 26 years old, the sky is the limit for the UAE Team Emirates star and there are plenty goals that may pop up later in his career.
In collaboration with CiclismoAlDia, we have explored this question. In addition to the fact that he has yet to win some of the most mythical races of the cycling season, such as the Vuelta a España, Milano-Sanremo or Paris-Roubaix, Pogacar has several historic records in his sights that he could break in the near future.
5. Record number of victories in a single Tour de France.
In the Tour de France 2024, Tadej Pogacar won his third title after sweeping an edition where he took 6 stage victories. The all-time record is 8, held by Eddy Merckx, Charles Pélissier and Freddy Maertens. It seems that, as he continues to grow as a cyclist, the Slovenian will break that record sooner rather than later.
4. Record number of victories in Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Tadej Pogacar currently holds 2 Liège-Bastogne-Liège titles. It is worth remembering that he could have more. In 2022 he did not race due to the death of his mother-in-law, and in 2023, when he was favorite to win, he suffered a fall that caused his injury. The best historical record is held by Eddy Merckx, with 5 victories in this monument. As there is no one who can come close to Pogacar in this race, if the Slovenian's luck smiles on him, it won't be long before he overtakes the Belgian legend.
3. Record number of world champion titles
In 2024, Tadej Pogacar opened his personal tally of World Championship wins. With a historic performance, the Slovenian took his first rainbow jersey by attacking 100 kilometers from the finish line. Peter Sagan, Rik van Steenbergen, Oscar Freire, Alfredo Binda and Eddy Merckx hold the overall record with three victories. The UAE Team Emirates' star has stated that the World Championships in Rwanda 2025 will be one of his main objectives. If he wins it, he would be already 2 and only 27 years old.
2. Record number of victories in Il Lombardia
Pogacar closed this last season with his fourth Il Lombardia title. The Slovenian tied Alfredo Binda. But he still has to beat Fausto Coppi, who currently holds the record in the classic of the dead leaves, with 5 victories. This is one of the records that the Slovenian is most likely to beat in the short term.
1. Record number of titles in the Tour de France
To have won the Tour de France 3 times at only 26 years of age is a real achievement. Even more so considering that the absolute record is set at 5 titles, something that Miguel Induráin, Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault achieved at the time.
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- yeah, that’s a more fair assessment. “reaching mathieu’s level” doesn’t mean you’re planning to replicate his whole career. the former IS doable, potentially. it’s just the latter that likely is not.OCexile25-12-2024
- That’s not entirely true. Every person follows their own development path and peaks differently. Remco and Primoz had hardly started cycling before elite level. Jonas was pretty much under the radzr until he unexpectedly had to take over responsibility at JV. Some guys only get real good in their thirties others have peaked mid-twenties. You can’t tell in advance how and upto what level they will progress, obviously his career might not have MVDPs length but nothing says he could not end up doing a few seasons at his level.Mistermaumau25-12-2024
- well, del grosso is 21 right now. when mathieu was a year younger than that, he was already winning elite level world championships, not U23. i think del grosso will be a very good pro for years, but if he was really going to be the next van der poel someday, he’d already have to be at that level right NOW. van der poel was showing signs of true greatness when he was 15-16. THAT’S what generational talent looks like.OCexile25-12-2024
- Yeah.... gear 😅.mikolajjj24-12-2024
- It shouldn’t be about expectations in the first place should it? Besides, if you look at everyone’s calculations as a whole they don’t add up in the first place. There’ll be 2-3 riders with a 50% chance, a dozen with 10 or 20% and dozens more with a 5% so we’re expecting at least 2 if not 3 winners. Remind me again who won before her? Says it all about using data to decide on participation.Mistermaumau24-12-2024
- Ok, happy I’m not too interested in this team coz’ the account of what happened is really hard to follow.Mistermaumau24-12-2024
- The UCI is worse than USA CyclingVeganpotter24-12-2024
- It's not like they wanted her to not win😅 She had an outstanding Olympics. But there's a reason why she wasn't expected to win the road race and that's ok. Things like this happen and it's great...better than seeing expected winners win.Veganpotter24-12-2024
- Bruyneel ? The man with a lifetime ban from cycling...why do you keep giving him and his doper mate, Armstrong, a platform?DJ24-12-2024
- yeah, agree. on the subject of being a “complete rider,” i do think that’s getting more interesting. mathieu seems to have decided he wants to get much better at climbing the the high mountain passes. he appears to be looking for new challenges, which should be interesting to watch. in most cases you’d dismiss a goal like that at age 30, but it’s mvdp. he’s never going to climb with the real climbers, but if he can improve enough it could open up stage wins when the parcours isnt just purely toothy and punchy.OCexile24-12-2024