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 once a year at the end of the cycling season.
Hopefully, you will like them. If you know of any other records or interesting stats about Tadej, please contact me or comment below.
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.
Tadej Pogačar Victories and Win Rates
During his career, Tadej Pogačar has won 63 races from 411 race days, an incredible win rate of 15%! He has won 12 one-day races, 5 of which have been monuments, 17 GCs, 36 stages, and 6 time trials. That means he wins about every 6th race (or stage) he enters.
His top 10 rate is even more impressive. Since 2019, he has finished in the top 10 in 61.1% of races (or stages) he completed1.
In 2023, Tadej Pogačar won 6 one-day races, including 2 monuments, 2 GCs, 8 stages, and one time trial. His win rate was 34.7%, meaning that, on average, he won every 3rd race2 he entered. He finished 55.1% of last year’s races on the podium and 65.3% in the top 10!
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 3 times in a row (2021-2023).
Tadej Pogačar averages about 9000 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 28 different races here. His next-most visited countries for racing are Belgium (11) and his home country of Slovenia (9).
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 Monachil Sierra Nevada in Spain. He gained 2435m in about 30.4 km.
Tadej Pogačar in Grand Tours
Tadej Pogačar has won the Tour de France GC classification 2 times (2020 and 2021). He also won the mountains and young rider classifications in those years. 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 11 stages at the Tour de France and 3 at Vuelta a España.
Tadej Pogačar has finished in the top 3 in all of the five Grand Tours that he’s finished (Vuelta 2019, Tour 2020-2023).
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 he’s also spent 19 days in the yellow jersey.
Tadej Pogačar won the 2020 and 2021 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 6.01 ᵉW/Kg for 49:02 min on Col de Portet in 2021.
- 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!