{"id":302797,"date":"2025-12-07T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/302797\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T06:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:53:12","slug":"pauline-ferrand-prevot-and-tadej-pogacar-win-prestigious-velo-dor-awards-for-best-cyclists-of-the-year-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/302797\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot and Tadej Poga\u010dar win prestigious V\u00e9lo d’Or awards for best cyclists of the year in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> and Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot<\/a> swept the board at the V\u00e9lo d’Or awards in Paris on Friday night, each winning two trophies to close their successful 2025 seasons.<\/p>\n

After years away from road racing, Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot (Visma-Lease a Bike) returned to the sport this season after dominating mountain biking, winning World and Olympic titles.<\/p>\n

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Announcing her return last year, the French woman stated her ambition to win the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift<\/a>, and did so at her first attempt, a feat that earned her not only the main V\u00e9lo d’Or but also the very first Jeannie Longo Trophy for the best French female road rider.<\/p>\n

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Not only did Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot win the Tour de France, but she also had a strong Spring Classics campaign, winning Paris-Roubaix and finishing second at the Tour of Flanders.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar\u2019s season was also remarkable. Not only did the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider win a fourth Tour de France title<\/a>, but he bagged a second consecutive rainbow jersey<\/a> at the World Championships in Rwanda, the European road title, a fifth straight Il Lombardia win<\/a>, and many other wins.<\/p>\n

His successes in 2025 continued throughout the season. He started the year winning the UAE Tour and added the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 yellow jersey to the Tour one he later won in July.<\/p>\n

However, it was his results in one-day races that arguably impressed most, the Slovenian winning Strade Bianche, the Tour of Flanders, La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne and Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge, as well as taking podium places at Milan-San Remo and the Amstel Gold Race.<\/p>\n

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Tadej Pogacar wins Il Lombardia 2025 (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Perhaps his best Spring Classics ride was at Paris-Roubaix, where he finished second at his first attempt behind an irresistible Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck). Those performances saw Poga\u010dar win the Eddy Merckx Trophy for the best Classics rider, the women\u2019s version of which went to Dutch sprinter Lorena Wiebes<\/a> (SD Worx-Protime).<\/p>\n

Wiebes had a remarkable season; she was never beaten in a head-to-head sprint for victory, adding 25 victories to her already remarkable palmar\u00e8s, including wins at the first women\u2019s Milan-San Remo for 20 years, Gent-Wevelgem and the Classic Brugge-De Panne.<\/p>\n

K\u00e9vin Vauquelin<\/a> (Ark\u00e9a-B&B Hotels) was France\u2019s top finisher at July\u2019s Tour de France, taking seventh place overall in Paris and maintaining his place in the top 10 from day two in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Vauquelin, who will move to Ineos Grenadiers for 2026, bagged excellent results throughout the year and was awarded the Bernard Hinault Trophy for the best male French rider.<\/p>\n

The Paracycling V\u00e9lo d’Or went to Alexandre L\u00e9aut\u00e9 of VCP Loud\u00e9ac for the second year in a row, adding to his success in both road and track racing at the World Championships.<\/p>\n

Matteo Trentin<\/a> (Tudor) won the Gino M\u00e4der Prize for work off the bike in pursuit of environmental and social causes. The Italian has organised events in support of sick children, including the recent Beking Criteriums and the accompanying fundraising gala. He also works in schools around Monaco to raise awareness of sustainable mobility and travel.<\/p>\n

The award was created at last year\u2019s V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or in memory of Gino M\u00e4der<\/a>, who died in a crash during stage 5 of the 2023 Tour de Suisse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar and Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot swept the board at the V\u00e9lo d’Or awards in Paris on Friday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-302797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302797","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=302797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}