{"id":232209,"date":"2025-10-22T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232209\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:42:08","slug":"velo-dor-finalists-the-best-men-and-women-in-cycling-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232209\/","title":{"rendered":"V\u00e9lo d&#8217;Or finalists: the best men and women in cycling in 2025 &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>V\u00e9lo d&#8217;Or, the annual cycling trophy awarded by the French magazine V\u00e9lo Magazine, has announced the list of finalists for the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s category. Considered the equivalent of Ballon d&#8217;Or in the world of cycling, V\u00e9lo d&#8217;Or is given in France but has a worldwide recognition. And you&#8217;ve probably guessed who the favourites are this year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar, winner of Tour de France this year, as well as dozen of races this year, including most recently World Championship, European Championship and Il Lombardia, is the frontrunner this year. He also won in 2024 and 2021, while Jonas Vingegaard won in 2023 and Remco Evenepoel won in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s side, we also have the Tour de France winner, Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot as the favourite, in a lost that also has Demi Vollering, winner in 2023. Last year&#8217;s winner Lotte Kopecky is not on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Below, you can read the list of finalists in men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s V\u00e9lo d&#8217;Or, as well as the Eddy Mercks trophy, awarded for the best classics rider.<\/p>\n<p>The winners will be announced by V\u00e9lo Magazine in Paris on December 5. Who do you think will winn V\u00e9lo d&#8217;Or 2025?<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e9lo d&#8217;Or 2025 (men)<br \/>Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step)<br \/>Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates)<br \/>Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike)<br \/>Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike)<br \/>Tim Merlier (Soudal-Quick Step)<br \/>Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)<br \/>Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)<br \/>Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)<br \/>Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost)<br \/>Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek)<br \/>V\u00e9lo d&#8217;Or 2025 (women)<br \/>Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t (Visma-Lease a bike)<br \/>Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez)<br \/>Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx)<br \/>Kimberley Le Court (AG Insurance -Soudal Team)<br \/>Puck Pieterse (Fenix Deceuninck)<br \/>Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ)<br \/>Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon-Sram)<br \/>Marlen Reusser (Movistar)<br \/>Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a bike)<br \/>Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx)<br \/>Eddy Merckx Trophy (men)<br \/>Remco Evenepoel (BEL, Soudal-Quick Step)<br \/>Mads Pedersen (DAN, Lidl-Trek)<br \/>Tadej Pogacar (SLN, UAE Emirates)<br \/>Wout Van Aert (BEL, Visma-Lease a bike)<br \/>Mathieu Van der Poel (HOL, Alpecin-Deceuninck)<br \/>Eddy Merckx Trophy (women)<br \/>Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t (FRA, Visma-Lease a bike)<br \/>Puck Pieterse (HOL, Fenix Deceuninck)<br \/>Elisa Balsamo (ITA, Lidl-Trek)<br \/>Demi Vollering (HOL, FDJ-Suez)<br \/>Lorena Wiebes (HOL, SD Worx)<br \/>Para cycling trophy<br \/>Mathieu Bosredon (Cofidis)<br \/>Florian Jouanny (Grenoble M\u00e9tropole Cyclisme 38)<br \/>Alexandre L\u00e9aut\u00e9 (VCP Loud\u00e9ac)<br \/>Mattis Lebeau (CC Is\u00e8re Cyclisme)<br \/>Ana\u00efs Vincent (VC Rumilien)<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1622113-4708983\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/89\/_4708983b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/89\/_4708983_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1622113','4708983',false,'2e52b27f007c04eb4bd7a2eca12f0dd8');\" height=\"427\" alt=\"V\u00e9lo d'Or finalists: the best men and women in cycling in 2025\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-38d553545a44b84e0ad52eb8-=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"V\u00e9lo d&#8217;Or, the annual cycling trophy awarded by the French magazine V\u00e9lo Magazine, has announced the list of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-232209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}