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5: POGACAR’S STREAK CONTINUES
Tadej Pogacar is up to 12 Tour stage wins, matching the likes of Louis Trousselier, Jean Aerts, Gino Bartali or Peter Sagan with the 15th highest tally in the history of the race. The Slovenian has now won stages in his first five Tours de France. Here are the riders with stage wins in (at least) their first five Tours:
- 9 André Leducq
- 8 Bernard Hinault
- 7 Walter Godefroot
- 6 Nicolas Frantz, André Greipel, Eddy Merckx
- 5 Gino Bartali, Fiorenzo Magni, Tadej Pogacar
24: THE YOUTH RISES
With an average of 24 years and 7 days, Tadej Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel and Juan Ayuso make for the youngest top-3 of a Tour de France mountain stage this century. The previous record was set at Peyragudes two years ago: Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Brandon McNulty combined for an average age of 24 years and 217 days.
Juan Ayuso also becomes the youngest Spaniard to finish in the top-3 of a Tour stage, beating Miguel Indurain (21 years, 9 months and 16 days vs 21 years, 11 months and 25 days).
50’47”: POGACAR'S SPEEDS ON THE GALIBIER
50'47'': Pogacar smashes the Galibier, up and down With UAE Team Emirates setting a blazing pace until he pounced over the top, Tadej Pogacar tamed the ascent to the Col du Galibier with an average of 27.1 km/h, which represents a time of 50’47’’, faster than the Strava KOM set by Thibaut Pinot during the Tour 2019 (52’46’’). With his speeds tracked by NTT Data, the Slovenian star also impressed on the way down, to gain 30’’ on Jonas Vingegaard from the summit to the finish. Pogacar averaged 63.7 km/h on the downhill, with a top speed of 89.2 km/h. Vingegaard did 62.0km/h and 84.6km/h.
7: RACKING UP GT STAGE WINS
Tadej Pogacar has now won 7 stages between the Giro and the Tour this year. Since WWII, excluding the sprinters, these are the best values among riders who won in both races:
- Eddy Merckx, 11 in 1970 / 10 in 1969, 1972, 1974
- Fausto Coppi, 8 in 1952
- Bernard Hinault, 8 in 1982
106: PIDCOCK SPEEDS UP ON THE WAY DOWN
As the race got to Briançon and the ascent of the Galibier, Tom Pidcock reminded everyone how fast he can be on downhills as he hit the top speed recorded by the NTT Data trackers so far in the Tour de France 2024: 106.6 km/h, at km 84.
In 2022, the Brit won stage 12 of the Tour, starting from Briançon, and he had an impressive downhill from the Galibier to join the attackers before he went solo up L’Alpe d’Huez.
2: POGACAR JOINS ROGLIC
Created in 1947 to honour the first director of the Tour de France, the Souvenir Henri Desgrange has had different locations in the Tour de France but the Col du Galibier is where it has been most often awarded - 30 times after today’s stage. And that’s where Primoz Roglic (in 2017) and Tadej Pogacar (today) became the two Slovenian winners of the Souvenir.
23: POGACAR MATCHES BARTALI
After Richard Carapaz’s short reign as the first Ecuadorian rider to lead the Tour, Tadej Pogacar collects his 23rd Maillot Jaune. He thus matches Gino Bartali’s record. And now he eyes Jonas Vingegaard’s record: 27 Maillots Jaunes.
30: It’S NOT ALL ABOUT POGACAR
UAE Team Emirates, as a continuation of Lampre, are now up to 30 Maillot Jaune:
- 23 for Tadej Pogacar (2020, 2021, 2022, 2024)
- 4 for Adam Yates (2023)
- 2 for Rubens Bertogliati (2002)
- 1 for Alexander Kristoff (2020)
