{"id":828856,"date":"2026-07-27T08:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828856\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:49:12","slug":"tadej-pogacar-wins-tour-de-france-for-a-record-equalling-fifth-time-cycling-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828856\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar wins Tour de France for a record-equalling fifth time | Cycling News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tour triumph marks the Slovenian\u2019s third win in a row and draws him level with four others on the all-time list<\/p>\n

Published On 27 Jul 202627 Jul 2026<\/p>\n

Slovenia\u2019s Tadej Pogacar secured a record-equalling fifth Tour de France title on Sunday after safely navigating the final stage, won by Mathieu van \u2060der Poel, to seal a third consecutive crown in cycling\u2019s greatest race.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old UAE Team Emirates XRGcyclist, affectionately known as \u201cPogi\u201d, only needed to avoid a race-ending mishap on the run into Paris to join Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and \u2060Miguel Indurain as a five-time Tour champion.<\/p>\n

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Belgium\u2019s Remco Evenepoel finished second overall, while Mexico\u2019s Isaac del Toro rounded out the overall podium in third.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to all the fans and to all of France for hosting this great race,\u201d Pogacar said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to my competitors for putting on a great show. We fought hard over the last three weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van der Poel takes final stage<\/p>\n

Pogacar \u200cand Van der Poel broke away on the final ascent of Montmartre with about 10km (6 miles) remaining and took a slender advantage into the run to the Champs-Elysees as the chasing group closed relentlessly.<\/p>\n

The Slovenian\u2019s challenge faded inside the final kilometre, but Van der Poel pressed on to secure victory in a photo finish ahead of Alpecin-Premier Tech teammate Jasper Philipsen, with Mads Pedersen of Lidl-Trek in third.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was sick last year, and I had to watch the stage on television, I was already thinking about this moment,\u201d Van der Poel, 31, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way it went, it\u2019s a dream. It\u2019s \u2060incredible. It was super hard, and to be up there with the best rider in \u2060the world, all my respect for Tadej.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we were going to get caught back, then I was just thinking about this moment. I put my head down in the last 500 metres. I just went as hard as I could.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m super happy. I have a few races \u2060I still wanted to win in my career, and this was one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CyclingPremier Tech\u2019s Mathieu Van Der Poel holds a bouquet on the podium after winning stage 21 [Papon Bernard\/Reuters]Supreme Pogacar<\/p>\n

Pogacar underlined his supremacy throughout the Tour by claiming five stage victories.<\/p>\n

His path to a third \u2060straight yellow jersey became less complicated when two-time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard, \u2060widely regarded as his principal challenger, withdrew after a crash on Stage 15.<\/p>\n

The Tour\u2019s traditional finale in Paris was shortened after security forces were redeployed to help tackle wildfires<\/a> near Bordeaux. As a result, Stage 21, which customarily takes the peloton into Paris before several laps of the Champs-Elysees, was reduced \u200cto 89km from the 133km originally scheduled.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s race also produced a remarkable first: no rider from France, Italy or Spain won a stage, making it the first Tour de France without a stage victory from any of the \u200cthree \u200cnations that created and host cycling\u2019s Grand Tours.<\/p>\n

Pogacar\u2019s latest triumph caps three weeks of racing since the Grand Depart in Barcelona and further cements his status as the dominant rider of his generation.<\/p>\n

\"CyclingUAE Team Emirates XRG\u2019s Tadej Pogacar, wearing the yellow jersey, and UAE Team Emirates XRG\u2019s Isaac Del Toro, wearing the white jersey, celebrate with their teammates after stage 21 [Garnier Etienne\/Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tour triumph marks the Slovenian\u2019s third win in a row and draws him level with four others…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,3456,637,44,457,82],"class_list":["post-828856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828856","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=828856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}