{"id":206230,"date":"2025-10-11T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206230\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:32:07","slug":"tadej-pogacar-makes-cycling-history-with-fifth-consecutive-il-lombardia-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206230\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar makes cycling history with fifth consecutive Il Lombardia victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49710_4618720_chagbf_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Tadej Pogacar makes cycling history with fifth consecutive Il Lombardia victory\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"uploaded-jshare-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tadej Pogacar makes cycling history with fifth consecutive Il Lombardia victory<\/p>\n<p>Tadej Pogacar etched his name in cycling history with a fifth consecutive Il Lombardia win, matching Fausto Coppi\u2019s all-time record.<\/p>\n<p>Slovenian cyclist sped ahead of the leading group of top competitors with 38 kilometers remaining.<\/p>\n<p>As per BBC Sports, he caught up to Quinn Simmons, the last rider from an earlier breakaway and then rode alone to win the final Monument of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Pogacar now made history by becoming the first cyclist to win the same Monument race five times in a row and the first to place on the podium in all five Monuments in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Besides this, he also joined Eddy Merckx as the only rider to win three Monuments, the Tour de France, and the world championship in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To win five times in a row&#8230; every time I start it feels like this race is suited to me, but also at the same time that with such a good team around me we can pull it off,&#8221; said Pogacar.<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;I always say, seven years in a row now, this is my best season, and again I can say this is the best season so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Belgium\u2019s Remco Evenepoel finished in second place while Australia\u2019s Michael Storer finished in third place far behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar makes cycling history with fifth consecutive Il Lombardia victory Tadej Pogacar etched his name in cycling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-206230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}