Tadej Pogačar age: How old is Tadej Pogačar?

Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogaar, who was born on September 21, 1998, competes for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates at the moment.

Tadej was born and reared in the Slovenian town of Komenda, which is 20 kilometres north of Ljubljana. Prior to joining Tadej’s former team Ljubljana Gusto Santic as a member of their management team in 2021, his father Mirko held management positions in a chair manufacturing company. Marjeta, his mother, teaches French. Tadej, is the third of four siblings.

Pogaar resides in Monaco with Urka Igart, a Slovenian competitive cyclist. They got engaged in the end of September 2021. Alberto Contador is a good example for him. He also looked up to Fränk and Andy Schleck when he was younger. Pogaar is a natural speaker of Slovenian who also speaks fluent English and Italian.

He achieved a milestone not witnessed in more than 40 years by winning three distinct jerseys on each Tour de France, which he did in 2020 and again in 2021.

By winning the Tour of California at the age of 20, he made history by being the most youthful rider to take home a UCI World Tour title. Pogaar won three stages of the Vuelta a Espaa, his first Grand Tour, later that year, finishing third overall and taking home the young rider award.

He was the only cyclist to win the top spot in the mountains, young rider, and overall classifications in both his Tour de France debut and the following year. He won three stages and finished first overall in both years. The record for the youngest winner is held by Henri Cornet, who won at age 19 in 1904 and is now 21 years old. He is also the first champion of Slovenia. He is the only cyclist in UCI World Ranking history with more than 6,000 points in the road category.

He has won the Liège-Bastogne-Liège once, the Giro di Lombardia twice, and the Tirreno-Adriatico three times each.

He made history by becoming the first Tour de France champion to win an Olympic medal in the men’s road race in 2021, the same year he won the Tour de France and took home a bronze medal.

He finished the season as the best-ranked road cyclist in 2021, spending a total of 61 weeks at the top of the UCI road racing world rankings for men.

Tadej Pogačar age: How old is Tadej Pogačar?

Tadej Pogaar turned 24 this year and was born on September 21, 1998.