The Slovenian Tadej Pogacar put an end to a great season this Saturday with so many wins at Il Lombardiain what was his fourth consecutive victory in the ‘dead leaves classic’.
The leader of UAE Team Emirates He closed this campaign with 25 wins after competing on a total of 58 days. Let’s review his season with the numbers below:
1
The first in history
Pogacar is the first rider in history to win the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, World Championship and even a cycling monument in the same year. In addition, he also won two of these cycling classics, such as Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Lombardy. As it could not happen, and after a great campaign, ‘Pogi’ tops the rankings of the International Cycling Union (UCI) with an iron hand.
2
Two exceptions
Of all the races he’s entered this year, he’s only failed to win two, but there’s an explanation. After showing off in the Strade Bianche, he was 3rd in Milan-Sanremo after fighting the Belgian Jasper Philipsen, winner, in a sprint, and then he was 7th in the Québec Cycling Grand Prix, which served as a warm- up for the Montréal Cycling Grand Prix 3 days later
3’16”
Historical margin
This is the distance by which Pogacar overtook Evenepoel in Lombardy, the widest margin between the winner and runner-up in the event since Eddy Merckx’s 3’31” in 1971
4
Fourth Lombardy in a row
Pogacar won his fourth consecutive Lombardy on Saturday, a feat achieved only in the late 1940s by the myth of Fausto Coppi, who leads the record of victories in the event with five victories, while Tadej is in second place with four, tied with din. Italian Alfredo Binda
7
Cycling monuments
The number of cycling monuments that appear in the Slovenian record, after winning four editions of Lombardy (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), two Liège-Bastogne-Liège (2021, 2024) and the Tour of Flanders (2023 ). He just needs to win Milan-Sanremo, where he is 3rd this year, and Paris-Roubaix, where he has yet to make his debut.
8
Giro-Tour double
This season, Pogacar faced a challenge that seemed impossible, to achieve a double streak of two grand tours for the first time in his sporting career; This time at the Giro d’Italia, where he made his debut, and at the Tour de France, where he achieved his third victory in five participations, along with two other second places. With this double, which no one has achieved since Marco Pantani in 1998, Pogacar becomes the eighth cyclist in history to achieve it.
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In Lomardía as world champion
Pogacar is the eighth cyclist in history to win Il Lombardía wearing the world champion jersey on his shoulders, the first since Paolo Bettini in 2006. The others are Alfredo Binda, Tom Simpson, Eddy Merckx, Felice Gimondi, Giuseppe Saronni and Óscar Camenzind
12
There is no rival in the Giro and Tour
Not only did Pogacar sweep the two major cycling tours he contested this season, the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France, but in both he achieved six partial victories for a total of 12
25
Number of wins in 2024
This is the number of victories he has achieved this season in 58 days of competition, equaling the 21st century record of Italian sprinter Alessandro Pettacci. Since his debut in the Radenska Club ranks in 2015, Pogacar has a total of 88 wins. Furthermore, ‘Pogi’ has finished second five times and third twice. The second cyclist with the most victories this season is Belgian Tim Merlier, with 16
48.4
lone ranger
This is the distance he completed alone this Saturday in Lombardy to achieve his fourth consecutive victory in the dead leaves classic. This is the second longest distance traveled alone by a test winner, behind only Swiss Tony Rominger’s 113 kilometers in 1989, surpassing the 31 kilometers he had in 2023.
81.1
Specializing in solo filming
If Pogacar has been characterized especially this season, but also throughout his season, it is the many kilometers he rode alone until he achieved victory. The longest distance is 81.1 km at Strade Bianche, followed by 51.7 at the World Championships in Switzerland or 59.2 at Strade Bianche
11,655
Undisputed leader
Pogacar’s UCI points he has accumulated after a great campaign, more than double the number 2 in the world, Remco Evenepoel (5677.57). If we measure his season in ranking points, Pogacar occupies second place with 420 points, behind Eddy Merckx, with 492
Source: La Verdad
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