{"id":330405,"date":"2025-12-05T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330405\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:51:08","slug":"pogacar-and-ferrand-prevot-named-best-cyclists-of-2025-in-paris-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330405\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogacar and Ferrand-Prevot named best cyclists of 2025 in Paris ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-typoNewsPerex\" itemprop=\"description\">Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, winner of the women&#8217;s race, were named cyclists of the year at a ceremony in Paris on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Slovenian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/pogacar-tadej\/IeUEUzYg\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pogacar<\/a> won the Velo d&#8217;Or award for the third time after claiming a fourth Tour de France crown this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old also picked up the Eddy Merckx award for the top classics rider after storming to victory in three of the sport&#8217;s five one-day &#8216;Monuments&#8217; &#8211; the Tour of Flanders, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the Tour of Lombardy.<\/p>\n<p>Pogacar enjoyed a sensational season with 20 victories in total, including a second world championship.<\/p>\n<p>His goal for 2026 is a record-equalling fifth Tour de France and trying to add the two Monuments missing from his trophy cupboard &#8211; Milan-SanRemo and Paris-Roubaix.<\/p>\n<p>Already the Olympic champion in mountain biking and a world champion in four cycling disciplines &#8211; road, cyclo-cross, gravel and mountain biking &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/ferrand-prevot-pauline\/hdN5HgYG\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrand-Prevot<\/a> added to her impressive achievements by winning Paris-Roubaix and the Tour de France Femmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, winner of the women&#8217;s race, were named cyclists of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-330405","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\/330405","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=330405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}