Without anyone challenging him, Tadej Pogačar won his fifth consecutive Il Lombardia, destroying the previous Passo di Ganda record.
Il Lombardia 2025 profile
The last monument of the 2025 season had zero suspense, with Tadej Pogačar on the line supported by an immensely strong team: Rafał Majka in his career’s last race, Jay Vine, Isaac Del Toro, Pavel Sivakov, Adam Yates, and Domen Novak. Despite Pogačar completing the most dominant classics season ever seen, Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe were kind enough to help control the breakaway. UAE tested their mountain train days before the race on Passo di Ganda in a training ride, and it worked perfectly today. Majka and Vine did powerful pulls, thinning the favourites group to Remco Evenepoel, Isaac Del Toro, who was sitting on Pogačar’s wheel and did not take a turn as he did not need to, Paul Seixas, and Michael Storer, with Quinn Simmons up the road as the only survivor of the breakaway, doing a very strong ride. After Vine’s pull ended, Pogačar accelerated, with no one even planning to follow his attack.
Como – Italy – cycling – cyclisme – radsport – wielrennen – Passo di Ganda – Tadej Pogacar (SLO – UAE Team Emirates – XRG) – Jay Vine (AUS – UAE Team Emirates – XRG) during a one day race between Bergamo an Como (241km) on 11/10/2025 – Photo: Luca Bettini/SCA/Cor Vos © 2025
The Slovenian delivered very likely the best October race performance ever, climbing Passo di Ganda in 21:22 minutes at 7.22 ᵉW/kg. In the 2023 Lombardia, he did the climb in 23:08 minutes at 6.34 W/kg, crossing it together with Aleksandr Vlasov, Primož Roglič, Simon Yates, and Andrea Bagioli, while in 2021 he soloed it in 23:14 minutes at 6.40 W/kg, when Fausto Masnada caught him on the descent. In the two years since his last Passo di Ganda ascent in Lombardia, Pogačar has become immune to fatigue, making him unbeatable on such courses.
With 2020 not being a COVID year and Lombardia happening during the Critérium du Dauphiné, it might have been his sixth Lombardia win, with him being as dominant in this race as Mondo Duplantis is in setting new records in pole vault. Remco Evenepoel finished second, same as in the European and World Championships, behind Pogačar in his last race with Soudal Quick-Step.
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