{"id":193454,"date":"2025-10-11T19:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193454\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:39:09","slug":"pogacar-shatters-records-on-passo-di-ganda-il-lombardia-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193454\/","title":{"rendered":"Poga\u010dar Shatters Records on Passo di Ganda | Il Lombardia 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without anyone challenging him, Tadej Poga\u010dar won his fifth consecutive Il Lombardia, destroying the previous Passo di Ganda record.<\/p>\n

\"\"Il Lombardia 2025 profile<\/p>\n

The last monument of the 2025 season had zero suspense, with Tadej Poga\u010dar on the line supported by an immensely strong team: Rafa\u0142 Majka in his career\u2019s last race, Jay Vine, Isaac Del Toro, Pavel Sivakov, Adam Yates, and Domen Novak. Despite Poga\u010dar completing the most dominant classics season ever seen, Red Bull\u2013Bora\u2013Hansgrohe 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 Poga\u010dar\u2019s 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\u2019s pull ended, Poga\u010dar accelerated, with no one even planning to follow his attack.<\/p>\n

\"\"Como \u2013 Italy \u2013 cycling \u2013 cyclisme \u2013 radsport \u2013 wielrennen \u2013 Passo di Ganda \u2013 Tadej Pogacar (SLO \u2013 UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG) \u2013 Jay Vine (AUS \u2013 UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG) during a one day race between Bergamo an Como (241km) on 11\/10\/2025 \u2013 Photo: Luca Bettini\/SCA\/Cor Vos \u00a9 2025<\/p>\n

The Slovenian delivered very likely the best October race performance ever, climbing Passo di Ganda in 21:22 minutes at 7.22 \u1d49W\/kg. In the 2023 Lombardia, he did the climb in 23:08 minutes at 6.34 W\/kg, crossing it together with Aleksandr Vlasov, Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d, 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, Poga\u010dar has become immune to fatigue, making him unbeatable on such courses.<\/p>\n

With 2020 not being a COVID year and Lombardia happening during the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, 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 Poga\u010dar in his last race with Soudal Quick-Step.<\/p>\n

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