{"id":713899,"date":"2026-07-27T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713899\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:59:23","slug":"5-records-tadej-pogacar-set-during-the-2026-tour-de-france-and-one-hes-yet-to-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713899\/","title":{"rendered":"5 records Tadej Poga\u010dar set during the 2026 Tour de France \u2013 and one he\u2019s yet to beat\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Poga\u010dar won the 2026 Tour de France with a lead of more than six minutes over Remco Evenepoel in second place and took five stage wins in the process.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar was, of course, the favourite for the yellow jersey long before the race got underway. But there is no doubt the 27-year-old won in emphatic fashion, even despite his UAE Emirates-XRG teammates falling ill and the disruption of nighttime doping controls<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here, we take a look at the records Poga\u010dar set through this year\u2019s Tour de France<\/a> \u2013 and one record he\u2019s yet to beat.<\/p>\n

The youngest rider to win the Tour de France five times\u00a0
\n\"TadejPoga\u010dar claimed his fifth Tour victory this year, joining an elite club of cycling greats. Jean Catuffe \/ Getty Images.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar has now secured his place in cycling\u2019s most exclusive club. His victory on Sunday was his fifth at The Tour de France, following his wins in 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This means Poga\u010dar joins only four other riders in the race\u2019s history to win five titles: Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indur\u00e1in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At 27 years, 10 months and 5 days, he is the youngest rider to have won the Tour five times. He takes that record from Merckx, who won his fifth when he was 29.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When asked about the record after Sunday\u2019s stage in Paris, Poga\u010dar answered in his typically humorous manner. \u201cI don\u2019t like clubbing, so let\u2019s aim to get out of this club,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

7 consecutive podium finishes\u00a0
\n\"PARIS,Poga\u010dar has reached the Tour podium seven years in a row. Jean Catuffe \/ Getty Images <\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar\u2019s fifth win means the reigning champion has reached the Tour de France podium for the seventh consecutive year, which is a new record.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Behind Poga\u010dar are Miguel Indur\u00e1in and Jonas Vingegaard, who have five consecutive podium finishes each. Indur\u00e1in won the race five years in a row between 1991 and 1995.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vingegaard beat Poga\u010dar to first in 2022 and 2023, and finished second in 2021, 2024 and 2025. The Dane may have claimed his sixth consecutive podium if he hadn\u2019t crashed out of this year\u2019s race on stage 15, but his consecutive podium count is now back to nought.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The indomitable Poga\u010dar has now reached the podium in all of the nine Grand Tours he\u2019s raced. He has further extended his lead over Anquetil, Raymond Poulidor and Hinault, who all achieved six consecutive podiums at Grand Tours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A new Alpe d\u2019Huez record
\n\"ALPECarapaz, Kuss and Martinez couldn’t hold Poga\u010dar off on stage 19’s ascent of Alpe d’Huez. Luc Claessen \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

If you want proof of Poga\u010dar\u2019s insatiable appetite for success, you needn\u2019t look further than stage 19, where the Slovenian broke Marco Pantani\u2019s 29-year-old record up Alpe d\u2019Huez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With a comfortable lead in the general classification and the Queen\u2019s Stage following on Saturday, other race leaders may have decided to conserve their efforts up Alpe d\u2019Huez\u2019s 21 bends<\/a>. Not Pogi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u00a0hit the final climb of the stage 3 minutes behind the breakaway and the gap was down to 1 minute with 5.6km to go.<\/p>\n

There was little the leading trio of Sepp Kuss, Lenny Martinez and Richard Carapaz could do once Poga\u010dar reached them, except try to hold on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar attacked in the final kilometre, leaving Carapaz and Martinez behind, to win the stage and set a new record of 35 minutes and 27 seconds up the iconic climb.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And another on the Tourmalet
\n\"TOPSHOTTadej Poga\u010dar climbing the Tourmalet on stage 6 of the 2026 Tour de France. Bernard Papon \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar\u2019s record up Alpe d\u2019Huez followed another in the French Pyrenees. Stage six of the Tour started in Pau and finished in Gavarnie-G\u00e8dre, taking in the Col du Tourmalet on the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar set a new fastest time up the Tourmalet of 43 minutes and 12 seconds, beating his own previous record of 45 minutes and 32 seconds, which he set with Vingegaard during the 2023 Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UAE Emirates-XRG set a blistering pace up the hors categorie climb, which whittled down the GC group before Poga\u010dar launched an attack 4km from the summit and rode solo for 40km to win the stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the stage, Pogacar said<\/a>: \u201cI was really, really excited for today. All the guys were really hyped so I knew it would be a good day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day was sweetened by winning the yellow jersey back from Torstein Tr\u00e6n<\/a> and claiming the Souvenir Jacques Goddet award, which is given to the first rider to reach the top of the Tourmalet and comes with a \u20ac5,000 prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fastest Tour de France\u00a0
\n\"ALPEThe 2026 Tour de France was the fastest edition ever. Tim de Waele \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

These achievements and the general theme of recent Tours might make this record seem far from surprising, but the 2026 Tour de France was the fastest on record.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar completed the race in 73 hours, 56 minutes and 26 seconds with an average speed of 43.326kph.<\/p>\n

This is the second year in a row when the Tour de France has set a new fastest time, after the 2025 Tour achieved an average speed of 42.8491kph<\/a> and took the record from the 2022 edition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Grand Boucle also saw the fastest stage in its history this year. Uno-X Mobility\u2019s S\u00f8ren W\u00e6renskjold won stage 11<\/a> from Vichy to Nevers with a remarkable speed of 50.9kph.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Days in yellow
\n\"EddyEddy Merckx at the 1971 Tour de France. Horstm\u00fcller \/ Getty Images.<\/p>\n

Despite having one of the most impressive palmares in professional cycling, there is one Tour de France record Poga\u010dar is yet to call his own: days in yellow.<\/p>\n

The young Slovenian has worn the maillot jaune on 71 occasions. That means he\u2019s closing in on Hinault\u2019s count of 79 days in yellow, but he\u2019s still behind Merckx\u2019s record of 111 yellow jerseys.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year, Poga\u010dar wore yellow for 16 stages, so he\u2019d have to repeat that achievement two and a half times to equal the Cannibal’s record. Merckx, at least for now, remains the greatest of all time<\/a> for most.<\/p>\n

There is another record Poga\u010dar\u2019s yet to claim \u2013 most stage wins. He may have added five to his tally this year, but he\u2019s still nine behind Mark Cavendish\u2019s record of 35<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar won the 2026 Tour de France with a lead of more than six minutes over Remco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713899","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\/713899","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=713899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}