{"id":218686,"date":"2025-10-22T20:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218686\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:37:10","slug":"pauline-ferrand-prevot-and-tadej-pogacar-headline-2025-velo-dor-award-shortlists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218686\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot and Tadej Poga\u010dar headline 2025 V\u00e9lo d’Or award shortlists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The French V\u00e9lo Magazine has announced the finalists for its yearly V\u00e9lo d’Or award, with 10 men and 10 women up for the prestigious season-end prize.<\/p>\n

On the men’s side, it’s no surprise that Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) heads the selection, with the Slovenian in line for his third V\u00e9lo d’Or trophy after another dominant road racing season.<\/p>\n

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The women’s field could see Demi Vollering<\/a> (FDJ-Suez) come away with her second trophy after winning the prize in 2023, though Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot<\/a>(Visma-Lease a Bike) is the favourite to come out on top.<\/p>\n

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Poga\u010dar, who won the award in 2021 and last year, is the overwhelming favourite to win again at the ceremony in Paris on December 5. The 27-year-old won 20 races during the 2025 season, including the Tour de France, World and European Championships, the Tour of Flanders, Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge, Strade Bianche, Il Lombardia, La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne, and the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9.<\/p>\n

He’ll face competition from Remco Evenepoel<\/a> (Soudal-QuickStep), who won national, world and European time trial titles during his final season at Soudal-QuickStep. Mathieu van der Poel<\/a> (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who won Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix, and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), Tour runner-up and Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a winner, are also in the running.<\/p>\n

The men’s shortlist is completed by Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep), Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike), Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), Jo\u00e3o Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), and Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost).<\/p>\n

Over in the women’s competition, Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot looks to be the hot favourite after winning Paris-Roubaix and becoming the first Frenchwoman to win the modern iteration of the Tour de France Femmes.<\/p>\n

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Vollering \u2013 who won the European road title, La Vuelta Feminine, the Volta a Catalunya, Strade Bianche, and Itzulia Women in addition to taking second at the Tour \u2013 is another major contender.<\/p>\n

Sprinter Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime), who won the most races in the world this season with 25<\/a>, including Milan-San Remo, Gent-Wevelgem, and four stages of the Giro and Tour, is also in the running. Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime), who won the Tour of Flanders but struggled with a back injury at the Giro and Tour, is a major omission from the shortlist, meanwhile.<\/p>\n

Other women in the running for the prize include Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx-Protime), Kim Le Court-Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal), Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck), Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ), Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto), Marlen Reusser (Movistar), and Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike).<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, five rider shortlists for the Eddy Merckx Trophy \u2013 which rewards the best Classics rider of the season \u2013 have also been finalised.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar and Van der Poel look set to go head-to-head for the men’s award, with Pedersen, Evenepoel, and Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) also on the list. In the women’s shortlist, Wiebes and Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot figure to be the favourites, while Vollering, Pieterse, and Le Court-Pienaar are also in the running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The French V\u00e9lo Magazine has announced the finalists for its yearly V\u00e9lo d’Or award, with 10 men and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-218686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}