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Tadej Pogačar (born 21 September 1998), also known as Pogi, is a Slovenian professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. His victories include three Tours de France (2020, 2021 and 2024), the 2024 Giro d’Italia, and six one-day Monuments (Tour of Flanders once, Liège–Bastogne–Liège twice and Giro di Lombardia three times), as well as the World Championship Road Race. Comfortable in time-trialing, one-day classic riding and grand-tour climbing, he has been compared to legendary all-round cyclists such as Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault as one of the sport’s greatest. In 2024 he became only the third male cyclist, after Eddie Merckx in 1974 and Stephen Roche in 1987, to win the triple crown of cycling, completing the Giro, Tour, and World Championships treble in the same year.

Born in Komenda, Slovenia, Pogačar was a successful junior rider, winning the 2018 Tour de l’Avenir. Aged 20 in 2019, he became the youngest cyclist to win a UCI World Tour race at the Tour of California,[9] and won three stages of the Vuelta a España en route to an overall third-place finish and the young rider title. In both his 2020 debut at the Tour de France and the following year, he won three stages and the race overall, as well as the mountains and young-rider classifications, becoming the only rider to win these three classifications simultaneously. 2021 also saw Pogačar’s first successes in the major Monument one day races, at the Giro di Lombardia and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Subsequent seasons saw further wins in these, with the Tour of Flanders also added to his palmarès in 2023. Meanwhile in the Grand Tours, Pogačar had consecutive 2nd place finishes in the Tour de France to Jonas Vingegaard, with whom his rivalry is considered to be one of the greatest of all time. This run ended in 2024 when he completed the first Giro d’Italia and Tour de France double since 1998, winning 12 stages across both races. After winning the 2024 UCI Road World Championships, he became juste the third cyclist to win the Triple Crown of Cycling, the others being Eddy Merckx and Stephen Roche.

Pogačar has been praised for his attacking riding style, an approach which Pogačar himself has jokingly referred to as a “stupid instinct” during a time when many others have ridden more conservatively to manage energy levels. His aim to be competitive across both the Monuments and Grand Tours has been labelled as a return to “classic” bike racing of the 1960s–1980s, and this success across multiple fronts has led to him being the UCI road racing world No.1 for a record total number of weeks and record number of consecutive weeks.

Early career

Pogačar followed his older brother Tilen in joining the Rog Ljubljana club at the age of nine. In 2011 he came to the attention of Road World Championship medallist Andrej Hauptman, who is, as of 2021, his coach and head coach and selector for the Slovenian national cycling team. Hauptman watched Pogačar pursuing a group of much older teenagers from 100 meters behind. Thinking that Pogačar was struggling to keep up with the older riders, he told the race organisers that they should provide some assistance to Pogačar: the organisers explained that the younger rider was in fact about to lap the group he was chasing. Hauptman subsequently managed Pogačar as an under-23 rider with the Rog–Ljubljana team, before joining UAE Team Emirates as a directeur sportif in May 2019, after Pogačar joined the team.

Source: Wikipedia

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