{"id":330718,"date":"2025-12-06T03:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330718\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:24:11","slug":"tadej-pogacar-named-best-cyclist-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330718\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar Named Best Cyclist Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, winner of the women\u2019s race, were named cyclists of the year at a ceremony in Paris on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Slovenian Pogacar won the Velo d\u2019Or 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\u2019s five one-day Monuments \u2014 the Tour of Flanders, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the Tour of Lombardy.<\/p>\n<p>Tadej Pogacar Claims Multiple Honors After Dominant Season<\/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-equaling fifth Tour de France title and an attempt to add the two Monuments missing from his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 \u2014 Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/66bb37d386e4f.png\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto;\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dii\"\/>Pauline Ferrand-Prevot Adds Another Historic Season<\/p>\n<p>Already the Olympic champion in mountain biking and a world champion in four cycling disciplines \u2014 road, cyclo-cross, gravel and mountain biking \u2014 Pauline Ferrand-Prevot added to her 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\u2019s race, were named cyclists of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-330718","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\/330718","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=330718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}