{"id":228408,"date":"2025-10-27T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/228408\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:51:09","slug":"who-was-your-breakthrough-rider-of-2025-vote-now-for-cyclinguptodates-end-of-year-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/228408\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was your Breakthrough Rider of 2025? \u2014 Vote now for CyclingUpToDate’s End of Year Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIsaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG): 18 wins<\/p>\n

The Mexican prodigy confirmed every ounce of hype that followed him from his junior years, taking an extraordinary 2nd place overall at the 2025 Giro d\u2019Italia after leading the race for long stretches. He added 18 victories across the season, including multiple stage wins and late-season dominance on Italian soil. Analysts compared his all-terrain range to Tadej Pogacar, and by October, Del Toro was sitting third in the UCI World Rankings \u2014 the youngest rider ever to do so.<\/p>\n

At just 21, he\u2019s already being spoken about as the next Grand Tour superstar.<\/p>\n

Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe): 0 wins<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s new climbing sensation stunned the sport by finishing third overall at the 2025 Tour de France, right behind Pogacar and Vingegaard \u2014 and on debut, no less. He also claimed the white jersey for best young rider, plus podiums at one-week races including Paris\u2013Nice and the Dauphin\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Even German cycling legend Jens Voigt said Lipowitz had proven himself \u201cthe best of the rest\u201d behind the sport\u2019s two dominant Grand Tour champions. Now he\u2019ll head into 2026 potentially poised as Red Bull\u2019s next GC leader, sharing the stage with Remco Evenepoel and Primoz Roglic.<\/p>\n

Oscar Onley (Team Picnic PostNL): 1 win<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s brightest new GC hope came of age in July. At 22, Onley defied expectations to finish fourth overall at the Tour de France, less than a minute from the podium after matching the sport\u2019s biggest names in the high mountains. He also stood on the Tour de Suisse podium, proving that his Grand Tour breakthrough was no fluke.<\/p>\n

The youngest Brit ever to finish top 10 in Paris, Onley has firmly established himself as a genuine GC rider for the next decade.<\/p>\n

Paul Seixas (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team): 0 wins<\/p>\n

Still a teenager for much of the year, the French phenomenon delivered one of the most remarkable debut seasons of the decade. He won the Tour de l\u2019Avenir, finished top 10 at the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, and clinched bronze at the European Championships behind Pogacar and Evenepoel.<\/p>\n

Seixas is already being hailed as France\u2019s long-awaited Grand Tour heir \u2014 and he hasn\u2019t even started one yet. Expect that to change in 2026.<\/p>\n

\"Paul<\/p>\n

Seixas celebrates his elite European bronze<\/p>\n

Paul Magnier (Soudal \u2013 Quick-Step): 19 winsNo rider won more often than Paul Magnier<\/a> in 2025, except Pogacar. The 21-year-old French sprinter racked up 19 victories, including five from five stages at the Tour of Guangxi, plus wins at Dwars door het Hageland, GP de Fourmies, and across Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

He proved he\u2019s more than just raw speed: Magnier survived gravel and cobbles to win selective classics-style races, then bossed bunch sprints on the WorldTour stage. France\u2019s next sprint king has arrived.<\/p>\n

\"Magnier\"\/<\/p>\n

Magnier has been a winning machine in 2025<\/p>\n

Matthew Brennan (Team Visma | Lease a Bike): 12 wins<\/p>\n

Another British talent to burst through, Brennan became a WorldTour stage winner in his debut season \u2014 triumphing at both the Tour de Pologne and Deutschland Tour, before sealing the Tour of Norway overall title. He also impressed at Catalunya, where he stepped in for Vingegaard and won a mountain stage against seasoned pros.<\/p>\n

At 20, he already has more than a dozen pro wins and the look of Visma\u2019s next all-terrain finisher \u2014 equally lethal in reduced sprints or punchy climbs.<\/p>\n

A season that reshaped the future<\/p>\n

From Grand Tour podiums to first pro wins, the 2025 season didn\u2019t just introduce a single new star \u2014 it unveiled an entire generation. The balance of power in men\u2019s cycling is shifting fast, and these seven riders are at the centre of it.<\/p>\n

So, who impressed you most? Vote below for your Breakthrough Rider of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG): 18 wins The Mexican prodigy confirmed every ounce of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-228408","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\/228408","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=228408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}