Who is Tadej Pogaar's father?

Publish date: 2024-06-23

54996749 303 1Tadej Pogačar is a Slovenian cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. He won the 2020 and 2021 editions of the Tour de France, winning three different jerseys during each Tour, something unseen in nearly four decades.

In 2019, he became the youngest cyclist to win a UCI World Tour race with the Tour of California win at the age of 20. Later in the year, in his debut Grand Tour, Pogačar won three stages of the Vuelta an España en route to an overall third-place finish and the young rider title.

In both his Tour de France debut and the following year, he won three stages and the race overall, as well as the mountains and young-rider classifications, becoming the only rider to win these three classifications simultaneously.

Who is Tadej Pogačar’s father Mirko Pogačar?

Pogačar joined the UAE Team Emirates for the 2019 season, a deal that was made ahead of the 2018 Tour de l’Avenir, which he won. He made his debut for the team at the Tour Down Under, where he finished 13th overall.

He went on to win the Volta ao Algarve, taking the race lead after winning the second stage. his father Mirko formerly worked in management at a chair factory before joining Tadej’s former team Ljubljana Gusto Santic as part of their management team in 2021.

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