Tadej Pogačar Statistics, Records, Watts, and More: Is Tadej the Most Talented Cyclist Ever?

Tadej Pogačar after winning a Tour de France stage. Source: Sirotti

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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: 12th of October 2025

Tadej Pogačar Victories and Win Rates

GT Victories
WT Victories
Monument Victories

During his career, Tadej Pogačar has won 108 races from 377 race days, an incredible win rate of 28.6%! He has won 18 one-day races, 10 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 46.8 % and in the top 10 in 64.9% of races (or stages) he completed1.

In 2025, Tadej Pogačar won 8 one-day races (including 3 monuments, World and European Championships), 3 GCs, 8 stages (of which 6 Giro and 6 TdF stages (!)), and one time trial. His win rate was, brace yourself, 40%, meaning that, on average, he won almost every 2nd race2 he entered. He finished 72% of this year’s races on the podium and 80% in the top 10!

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2025 Win Rate
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2025 Podium Rate
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2025 Top 10 Rate

Tadej’s 2024 season was already one of the greatest seasons of all time. But in 2025, he moved the bar even higher. Just check out his palmarès:

2024 season

  • 6 × Tour de France stage + GC
  • 6 × Giro d’Italia stage
  • 2 × Monument victories (+ 3rd at Milano-Sanremo)
  • World Championships victory
  • 4 × Volta Ciclista a Catalunya stage
  • Strade Bianche victory
  • Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal victory
  • Giro dell’Emilia victory

2025 season

  • 4 × Tour de France stage + GC
  • 3 × Monument victories (+ 2nd at Paris-Roubaix and 3rd at Milano-Sanremo)
  • 3 × Critérium du Dauphiné stage + GC
  • World Championships victory
  • European Championships victory
  • 3 × UAE Tour stages + GC
  • Strade Bianche victory
  • La Flèche Wallonne victory

Tadej Pogačar is the first rider to win the Tour de France and the UCI World Championship road race in two consecutive years (2024 and 2025).

Tadej Pogačar is the only rider who has finished on the podium in all 5 monuments in one season.

Tadej Pogačar has only 6 DNFs in his WT career. He finished all the races he started in 2020, 2024, and 2025.

Tadej Pogačar won the UCI ranking 5 times in a row (2021-2025).

Tadej Pogačar averages about 9100 racing kilometers per year.

Line chart showing Tadej's Pogačar Racing Kilometers between 2019 and 2025.
Tadej Pogačar Racing Kilometers

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 4 times (2020, 2021, 2024, and 2025). He also won the young rider classifications 4 times (in years 2020–2023), and the mountain classification 3 times (in 2020, 2021, and 2025). 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, 21 stages at the Tour de France, and 3 at Vuelta a España.

Tadej Pogačar has finished in the top 3 in all eight Grand Tours that he’s finished (Vuelta 2019, Tour 2020-2024, Giro 2024, Tdf 2025).

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, 2024, and 2025 Tour de France with a BMI of about 21.3, which is ~0.4 lower than the Tour de France GC winners’ BMI average.

The BMIs of the Tour de France general classification winners
General Classification Winner BMI

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 7.53 ᵉW/Kg for 17:31 min on Peyragudes from Estarvielle in 2025.
  • Tadej Pogačar did 6.74 ᵉW/Kg for 35:11 min on Hautacam in 2025.
  • 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 6.44 ᵉW/Kg for 54:30 min on Mont Ventoux in 2025.
  • Tadej Pogačar did 5.88 ᵉW/Kg for 61:15 min on Col de la Loze in 2020.

Tadej Pogačar FAQ

Sources and Notes

  1. Excluding TTT, points GC, KOM GC, and youth GC. ↩︎
  2. Includes one-day races, GCs, stages, and time trials. ↩︎
  3. ITTs and TTTs excluded. ↩︎
  4. 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

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German Lynch
German Lynch
1 year ago

Impressive stats!

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