{"id":745289,"date":"2026-06-18T21:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/745289\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:28:10","slug":"pogacar-hits-another-huge-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/745289\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogacar hits another huge milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe ten races included in this statistic, courtesy of Cycling Statistics<\/a>, are:Giro d\u2019ItaliaTour de FranceVuelta a Espa\u00f1aParis\u2013NiceTirreno\u2013AdriaticoVolta a CatalunyaItzulia Basque CountryTour de RomandieCrit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 (now Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes)Tour de Suisse<\/p>\n

The stat also highlights how exclusive the feat is. For over two decades, Jalabert stood alone as the only rider to win stages in all ten major stage races. Quintana became the second to do so, and now, six years later, Pogacar is the third.<\/p>\n

\"Laurent<\/p>\n

Laurent Jalabert, a legend of world cycling<\/p>\n

Pogacar\u2019s first wins in the 10 leading stage races<\/p>\n

With this victory, the Slovenian adds another landmark to a palmar\u00e8s that already featured stage wins in the three Grand Tours and the rest of the one-week WorldTour races. His success in Switzerland closes the only gap left in this select historical list.<\/p>\n

His first win within this elite group of the 10 major stage races came at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a 2026, the race where he announced himself to the wider public by finishing third overall. He won three stages, the first on Stage 9 between Andorra la Vella and Cortals d\u2019Encamp, dropping everyone to win solo ahead of Nairo Quintana and Primoz Roglic.<\/p>\n

The second also arrived at another Grand Tour, the 2020 Tour de France that he would snatch from Roglic in the La Planche des Belles Filles time trial. He raised his arms at the Grande Boucle for the first time on Stage 9, a day starting in Pau and finishing in Laruns. He won the sprint of the favourites ahead of Roglic and Hirschi.<\/p>\n

In 2021 he added two more firsts in new races, his initial successes in shorter stage races: he won Stage 4 of Tirreno\u2013Adriatico at Prati di Tivo and Stage 3 of Itzulia at Ermualde.<\/p>\n

In 2022 he did not add any new events to the list, but in 2023 he opened his Paris\u2013Nice account by winning Stage 4 to La Loge des Gardes. From 2024 he began to fine-tune his calendar to close the circle, winning at the Volta a Catalunya on Stage 2 to Vallter 2000 and, on his Giro d\u2019Italia debut, also on Stage 2 at the Santuario di Oropa.<\/p>\n

At the Dauphin\u00e9 he won Stage 1 in 2025 at Montlu\u00e7on, leaving only the two Swiss stage races, both of which he has raced in 2026. After blowing up Romandie, he has started the Tour de Suisse by sealing the set. It\u2019s worth noting these are stage wins; as for general classifications, if he wins Switzerland as expected, only Itzulia would remain for him to further elevate an already incredible palmar\u00e8s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ten races included in this statistic, courtesy of Cycling Statistics, are:Giro d\u2019ItaliaTour de FranceVuelta a Espa\u00f1aParis\u2013NiceTirreno\u2013AdriaticoVolta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,358635,179344,85,6494,203798],"class_list":["post-745289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-laurent-jalabert","tag-nairo-quintana","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-tour-de-suisse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745289","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=745289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}