Also known as: the four-time Tour de France winner · the 27-year-old Slovenian
Tadej Pogacar — cyclist who won the 2026 Tour de France for a fifth time, equalling Merckx, Hinault, Indurain, and Anquetil.
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The Namibian
Tadej Pogacar sealed overall success in the Tour of Switzerland
“Tadej Pogacar took his third stage victory this week as the world champion sealed overall success in the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday after catching French climber Lenny Martinez 800 metres from the line.”
Pogacar wins final stage to seal Tour of Switzerland successThe Namibian
Tadej Pogacar extended his overall lead
“Frenchman Romain Gregoire won the second stage of the Tour of Switzerland on Thursday as world champion Tadej Pogacar extended his overall lead.”
Gregoire wins Swiss tour 2nd stage as Pogacar extends leadThe Namibian
Tadej Pogacar won the opening stage of the Tour of Switzerland
“World champion Tadej Pogacar sent out an ominous warning to his Tour de France rivals with a jaw-dropping dominant victory on the opening stage of the Tour of Switzerland on Wednesday.”
Pogacar crushes rivals on opening Tour of Switzerland stageThe Namibian
Tadej Pogacar finished 2min 14sec ahead of Richard Carapaz in second
“The four-time Tour de France winner decided to push on and finished 2min 14sec ahead of Ecuador's Richard Carapaz in second with Italian Andrea Bagioli coming home third at 2:29 and the rest of the potential overall contenders losing more than four minutes.”
Pogacar crushes rivals on opening Tour of Switzerland stageThe Namibian
Four-time champion Tadej Pogacar will be aiming for a record-equalling fifth success
“Four-time champion Tadej Pogacar will be aiming for a record-equalling fifth success but he is likely to face stiff competition from a rejuvenated two-time former winner Jonas Vingegaard and teenage prodigy Paul Seixas.”
Favourites keep apart in lead up to Tour de FranceThe Namibian
Tadej Pogacar will be at this year's Tour de France
“Superstar Pogacar will be at this year's Tour and the battle between the pair is expected to be fierce on the "Grande Boucle", the sport's most prestigious event.”
Vingegaard on verge of Giro glory after powering to penultimate stageThe Namibian
Tadej Pogacar has nine stage wins
“On Tuesday, Vingegaard secured his tenth win of the season, more than any other rider in the peloton including Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, who has nine.”
Vingegaard climbs to his fourth stage win to tighten grip on GiroThe Namibian
Pogacar is sitting out this year's edition
“Already a two-time Tour winner, Vingegaard is the clear favourite for the Giro, with Pogacar sitting out this year's edition, and the Dane has been in great form this season.”
Vingegaard begins bid for Giro Tour double with Pellizzari boosting home hopesThe Namibian
Tadej Pogacar surged to the line for fourth win in five full stages at Tour of Romandie
“Tadej Pogacar surged to the line Sunday for the fourth win in five full stages to complete an emphatic victory in the Tour of Romandie.”
Pogacar ends dominant Tour of Romandie with fourth winThe Namibian
Pogacar rides for UAE
“The winning time bonus gave Pogacar, who rides for UAE, a final overall margin of 42 seconds over Lipowitz of Red Bull-Bora.”
Pogacar ends dominant Tour of Romandie with fourth winMexican Isaac Del Toro, 22, won the white jersey for best young rider at the Tour de France, narrowly edging 19-year-old French rider Paul Seixas to third place overall. Seixas became the youngest rider to start the Tour since 1937 and finished fourth, mounting a close challenge that saw just 24 seconds between them before the final alpine stage.
26 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Mexican Isaac Del Toro, 22, won the white jersey for best young rider at the Tour de France, narrowly edging 19-year-old French rider Paul Seixas to third place overall. Seixas became the youngest rider to start the Tour since 1937 and finished fourth, mounting a close challenge that saw just 24 seconds between them before the final alpine stage.
26 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar, 27, became the fifth cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, joining Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Miguel Indurain. His rivals Vingegaard and Evenepoel have called him the greatest cyclist of all time, though debate remains over how he compares to predecessors like Merckx.
26 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar won stage 19 of the Tour de France on Friday with a record-breaking time of 35min 26sec on Alpe d'Huez, breaking Italian Marco Pantani's 31-year-old record and extending his overall race lead.
24 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Jasper Philipsen won stage 17 of the Tour de France on Wednesday, ending what he described as a "horrible" run of near misses at the race. The 28-year-old won his 11th Tour stage victory overall, and has now won at least one stage in each of the last five editions of the Tour.
22 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel won the 26.1km individual time-trial stage 16 at the Tour de France, finishing 28 seconds ahead of Tadej Pogacar and cutting the reigning champion's overall lead to 4min 32sec. The victory marked Evenepoel's second successive stage win and came on Belgium's national day.
21 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel won the 15th stage of the Tour de France, outsprinting race leader Tadej Pogacar at the finish of an 11km climb. Vingegaard, who was second overall, crashed out 20km from the finish.
19 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar won the mountainous 14th stage of the Tour de France on Saturday, extending his overall lead to four and a half minutes over Jonas Vingegaard. It was Pogacar's fourth stage win in the 113th edition of the race and his 25th Tour stage victory since his 2020 debut.
18 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Swiss rider Mauro Schmid overcame cramps to beat Colombian Harold Tejada in a two-man sprint finish to win the 13th stage of the Tour de France on Friday. Briton Tom Pidcock finished third and moved up to fourth overall, now 4 minutes 15 seconds behind race leader Tadej Pogacar.
17 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Soren Waerenskjold of Norway won the 11th stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday at an average speed of 50.91kph, the fastest road stage in the race's 113 editions. Dutchman Olav Kooij finished second and Belgian Milan Fretin third.
15 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Mathieu van der Poel claimed his third Tour de France stage win on Sunday in the ninth stage, which was shortened due to intense heat, beating Tobias Johannessen and Tom Pidcock in a sprint amongst breakaway companions. Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar maintained his overall lead, six seconds behind the stage winner.
12 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tour de France organisers have shortened the ninth stage by 30km for the first time in the race's history due to an intense heatwave in central France, following Belgian sprinter Tim Merlier's victory in the eighth stage.
11 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Belgian Tim Merlier won the Tour de France seventh stage in a sprint finish over 175km from Hagetmau to Bordeaux on Friday, with Norwegian Soren Waerenskjold second and Eritrean Biniam Girmay third. Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar retained the race leader's yellow jersey.
10 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar won the mountainous sixth stage and reclaimed the race leader's yellow jersey, now leading Jonas Vingegaard by 2min 42sec. Pogacar achieved his 23rd Tour stage victory and broke the record for fastest time up the Tourmalet.
9 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Dutch 24-year-old Olav Kooij won the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday in a chaotic sprint finish after a crash five kilometres from the line disrupted teams' lead-out strategies. Norway's Torstein Traeen retained the yellow jersey despite being brought down in the crash.
8 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Torstein Traeen of Norway claimed the Tour de France race leader's yellow jersey while Mads Pedersen of Denmark won the fourth stage, a 182km stage from Carcassonne to Foix. Pedersen, the 2019 world champion, also took the green points jersey with his victory in the sprint finish.
7 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar won the third stage of the Tour de France to take the leader's yellow jersey from rival Jonas Vingegaard. The reigning champion and world champion finished two seconds ahead of Vingegaard and earned bonus seconds to overtake his six-second deficit from the start of the day.
6 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Mexican Isaac Del Toro won the second stage of the Tour de France in Barcelona on Sunday, ahead of reigning champion Tadej Pogacar, while Jonas Vingegaard maintained his overall lead.
5 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Jonas Vingegaard's Visma-Lease a Bike team won the opening team time-trial in Barcelona, giving the 29-year-old Dane the Tour de France yellow jersey. Vingegaard finished 8 seconds ahead of Filippo Ganna, with reigning champion Tadej Pogacar placing third.
4 July 2026 · The Namibian →
The Tour de France launches this weekend in Barcelona with a team time trial—the first in seven years and the first opening stage of its kind since 1971. The innovation is individual timing for each rider rather than the traditional approach of awarding the team's time based on the fourth or fifth finisher, creating tactical opportunities for teams to position time-trial specialists and climbers strategically.
3 July 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar claimed overall victory at the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday after catching French climber Lenny Martinez on the final climb, securing his third stage win of the week and his first victory at the race in his first appearance.
21 June 2026 · The Namibian →
Frenchman Romain Gregoire won the second stage of the Tour of Switzerland on Thursday as world champion Tadej Pogacar extended his overall lead to 2:50 over Richard Carapaz. Pogacar's girlfriend Urska Zigart was taken to hospital with a broken jaw after a crash in the women's race earlier in the day.
18 June 2026 · The Namibian →
World champion Tadej Pogacar won the opening 144km stage of the Tour of Switzerland with a solo breakaway effort, finishing 2min 14sec ahead of Richard Carapaz and ending suspense in a week of mostly mountainous racing.
17 June 2026 · The Namibian →
Tour de France favourites Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, and Paul Seixas are using different pre-Tour build-ups and have largely avoided racing each other this season, with Pogacar and Vingegaard — winners of the last six Tour editions — facing off only once since last year's race. The Tour begins July 4 in Barcelona.
4 June 2026 · The Namibian →
Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard won the Giro d'Italia on Sunday, becoming the only active rider to have won all three Grand Tours—joining the Giro victory with previous Tour de France titles in 2022 and 2023 and the Vuelta a Espana from 2025. He is the eighth man overall to achieve this cycling feat.
31 May 2026 · The Namibian →
Jonas Vingegaard won Saturday's penultimate mountain stage of the Giro d'Italia and holds a 5min 22sec lead over Felix Gall heading into Sunday's final stage around Rome, positioning him to claim his first Giro victory and join an exclusive group of eight men to win all three Grand Tours.
30 May 2026 · The Namibian →
Jonas Vingegaard soloed to victory in the 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday in Switzerland, claiming his fourth summit finish win and extending his overall lead to more than four minutes with five stages remaining. The Dane, bidding to become the eighth rider to win all three Grand Tours, has secured ten stage wins this season.
26 May 2026 · The Namibian →
Giro d'Italia leader Jonas Vingegaard is bidding to become the eighth man to win all three Grand Tours, having already won the Tour de France twice and the Vuelta a Espana. The 29-year-old said he does not see himself riding professionally past age 35.
25 May 2026 · The Namibian →
Jonas Vingegaard makes his Giro d'Italia debut on Friday as he bids to win both the Italian Grand Tour and the Tour de France in the same year. The two-time Tour winner and clear favourite, with rival Pogacar absent, says completing the triple crown of all three Grand Tours is a goal for him.
7 May 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar won the Tour of Romandie in his first appearance at the Swiss race, taking the final stage by three seconds over Florian Lipowitz and finishing with a 42-second overall margin. The win marks his first stage race of the season as he builds toward defending his Tour de France title in July.
3 May 2026 · The Namibian →
Tadej Pogacar won the mountainous 'queen stage' of the Tour of Romandie on Saturday, attacking twice on the final 8.3km climb to drop his rivals and claim his third victory in four days of the week-long race.
2 May 2026 · The Namibian →