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This article summarizes the most impressive stats, performances, and records of one of the greatest cyclists of all time, Tadej Pogačar. I created them based on several sources and also my own calculations. These stats are updated yearly at the end of the cycling season.
Hopefully, you will like them. Please contact me or comment below if you know of any other records or interesting stats about Tadej.
NOTES
- Most of the following statistics are based on Tadej Pogačar’s professional career at the World Tour level, where he has been riding since 2019.
- I update these stats once a year at the end of the season. Last update: 25th of October, 2024
Tadej Pogačar Victories and Win Rates
During his career, Tadej Pogačar has won 88 races from 327 race days, an incredible win rate of 26.9%! He has won 18 one-day races, 7 of which have been monuments, 16 GCs, 47 stages, and 7 time trials. He wins about every 4th race (or stage) he enters! This stat is mindblowing.
His top 3 and 10 rates are even more impressive. Since 2019, he has finished in the top 3 in 42.5 % and in the top 10 in 62.4% of races (or stages) he completed1.
In 2024, Tadej Pogačar won 6 one-day races, including 2 monuments, 3 GCs, 14 stages (of which 6 Giro and 6 TdF stages (!)), and one time trial. His win rate was, brace yourself, 43.9%, meaning that, on average, he won almost every 2nd race2 he entered. He finished 63.2% of this year’s races on the podium and 68.4% in the top 10!
Tadej’s 2024 season can be considered the greatest season of all time. Just check out his palmares:
- 6 × Tour de France stage
- 6 × Giro d’Italia stage
- 2 × Monument wins (+ 3rd at Milano-Sanremo)
- World Championships win
- 4 × Volta Ciclista a Catalunya stage
- Strade Bianche win
- Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
- Giro dell’Emilia
Tadej Pogačar has only 6 DNFs in his WT career. He finished all the races he started in 2020.
Tadej Pogačar won the UCI ranking 4 times in a row (2021-2024).
Tadej Pogačar averages about 9180 racing kilometers per year.
The longest race that Tadej Pogačar has ever ridden was Milan–San Remo (2020), at 305 km long.
The shortest race that Tadej Pogačar rode was the 9th stage of the 2019 La Vuelta España from Andorra la Vella to Cortals d’Encamp, and it was only 94.4 km long.
The highest average speed of Tadej Pogačar in a race or stage3 that he won was 49.376 km/h (!). It was the 6th stage of the 2022 Tour de France from Binche to Longwy.
Tadej loves racing in Italy, and he has participated in 30 different races here. His next-most visited countries for racing are Belgium (13) and Spain (10).
The longest ride Tadej Pogačar did, according to Strava, was 305.03 km long (Milan–San Remo [2020]).
According to his Strava profile, the biggest climb he completed was the Teide from El Medano section. He gained 2322m in about 51 km.
Tadej Pogačar in Grand Tours
Tadej Pogačar has won the Tour de France GC classification 3 times (2020, 2021, and 2024). He also won the mountains and young rider classifications in 2020 and 2021. He is also the 2nd youngest Tour de France GC winner (at 21 years old), behind Henri Cornet, who won the 1904 Tour de France at age 19.
Tadej Pogačar has won 6 stages at the Giro d’Italia, 17 stages at the Tour de France, and 3 at Vuelta a España.
Tadej Pogačar has finished in the top 3 in all seven Grand Tours that he’s finished (Vuelta 2019, Tour 2020-2024, Giro 2024).
Tadej Pogačar has spent 74 days4 in the white jersey at the Tour de France. He won this classification 4 times in a row and spent 37 days in the yellow jersey.
Tadej Pogačar won the 2020, 2021, and 2024 Tour de France with a BMI of about 21.3, which is ~0.4 lower than the Tour de France GC winners’ BMI average.
Tadej Pogačar’s Most Impressive Watt Performances
The following power performances are based on calculations from Gabriel Stróżyk (NaichacaCycling) and charts from Kārlis Ozols (CyclingGraphs). Each performance is estimated in watts per kilogram (W/kg).
- Tadej Pogačar did 7.36 ᵉW/Kg for 9:05 min on Cote de la Croix Neuve in 2020.
- Tadej Pogačar did 6.97 ᵉW/Kg for 15:22 min on Col d’Eze West in 2023.
- Tadej Pogačar did 6.6 ᵉW/Kg for 24:35 min on Col de Peyresourde in 2020.
- Tadej Pogačar did 6.5 ᵉW/Kg for 35:11 min on Puy de Dome in 2023. He rode 7.00 ᵉW/Kg for 14:50 min on the steep part after doing 6.20 ᵉW/Kg for 20min.
- Tadej Pogačar did 6.98 ᵉW/Kg for 39:50 min on Plateau de Beile in 2024.
- Tadej Pogačar did 6.19 ᵉW/Kg for 51:42 min on Monte Grappa in 2024.
- Tadej Pogačar did 5.88 ᵉW/Kg for 61:15 min on Col de la Loze in 2020.
Tadej Pogačar FAQ
Sources and Notes
- cyclistshub.com (Grand Tours)
- procyclingstats.com
- firstcycling.com
- strava.com
- gazzetta.it
- Cycling Graphs and NaichacaCycling (Tadej Pogačar)
- lanternerouge.com
- Excluding TTT, points GC, KOM GC, and youth GC. ↩︎
- Includes one-day races, GCs, stages, and time trials. ↩︎
- ITTs and TTTs excluded. ↩︎
- Wikipedia lists 75 days, but they counted 22 stages in 2022, which is wrong because there were only 21 stages. PCS lists 71 days only, but it seems they don’t count the first stage as a wearing day. ↩︎
Preview image source: Sirotti
Impressive stats!