{"id":534128,"date":"2026-04-16T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534128\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:12:22","slug":"revealed-the-american-buyer-who-paid-e95100-for-tadej-pogacars-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534128\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: the American buyer who paid \u20ac95,100 for Tadej Poga\u010dar\u2019s jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The crash-battered world champion\u2019s skinsuit that Tadej Poga\u010dar wore when riding to victory in Milan-San Remo has been sold at auction for \u20ac95,100.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the end of March, when we first reported on the auction<\/a>, with 13 days until it closed, the highest bid was \u20ac60,100. With the auction now over, the winning bid of \u20ac95,100 makes the skinsuit one of the most valuable cycling jerseys ever.<\/p>\n

The skinsuit\u2019s new owner is American Karl McDonell, CEO of a US education and tech company, who will be presented with the jersey at this year\u2019s Pogi Challenge<\/a> in Slovenia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say meeting Tadej in person and receiving the jersey from him will be one of the most special moments of my life, a true bucket-list event, that I will forever remember and tell friends and family about for years,\u201d says McDonell.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Pogi Challenge takes place at the end of July and has a simple premise: participants set off up Poga\u010dar\u2018s favourite 15km, 1,189m elevation-gain climb in Slovenia six minutes before Poga\u010dar and try not to be overtaken by him.<\/p>\n

Last year, of 1,189 riders only one reached the top ahead of him. Andrew Feather, a 40-year-old British lawyer, arrived at the finish line more than three minutes ahead of Poga\u010dar<\/a>. Feather does have form though, having been UK hill climb champion in 2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"The skinsuit will be presented to McDonell by Poga\u010dar at this year’s Pogi Challenge. GalaBid.com<\/p>\n

McDonell already owns Poga\u010dar\u2019s white jersey from the 2023 Tour de France, when he was GC runner-up to Jonas Vingegaard, and intends to have the ripped skinsuit framed and mounted alongside it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar has pledged to match the winning bid, with the proceeds going to his Tadej Poga\u010dar foundation, which supports children and young people facing serious illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am truly thrilled that the jersey reached such an incredible price. It means a lot to me to see this level of support, and I am deeply grateful that the funds will be directed into the programs of the Tadej Poga\u010dar Foundation,\u201d Poga\u010dar says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crash-battered world champion\u2019s skinsuit that Tadej Poga\u010dar wore when riding to victory in Milan-San Remo has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-534128","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\/534128","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=534128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}