![Pogacar: Five Tours, One Legend](https://cdn.slatesource.com/2/8/f/28f3a963-51f9-42f6-9e1c-120ae948e672.webp) # Pogacar: Five Tours, One Legend - [Made in Slatesource](https://slatesource.com/@steph/pogacar-five-tours-one-legend) - By [Steph](https://slatesource.com/@steph) - Created on Jul 31, 2026 🏆🚴⚡01.09.2020 – 01.07.2026 01.09.2020First title, aged 21. Tadej Pogacar makes his Tour debut in 2020 and wins it, the second-youngest winner in the race's 117-year history, taking yellow from compatriot Primoz Roglic on the penultimate-day time trial. Margin: 59 seconds. 01.09.2020 01.07.2021Back-to-back at 22. Pogacar wins eight stages and leads from Stage 8 to Paris. Jonas Vingegaard emerges as his nearest rival but finishes nearly six minutes back. Pogacar takes the yellow, green and polka-dot jerseys. Margin: 5:20. 01.07.2021 01.07.2022First defeat. Vingegaard turns the tables. A crash on Stage 5 weakens Pogacar, and Vingegaard punishes him on Hautacam and the Col de Granon, where he cracks and loses nine minutes in an afternoon. Second, 2:43 back. He is not unbeatable. 01.07.2022 01.07.2023Second defeat. Vingegaard defeats him again, this time more decisively. Pogacar wins six stages but loses the overall by 7:29. He attacks constantly yet always comes up short in the four-minute time trial that decides the race. He vows to return stronger. 01.07.2023 01.07.2024Third title, a year after his worst defeat. Pogacar wins six stages, wears yellow from Stage 11 and finishes 6:17 clear of Vingegaard. He also wins the Giro that spring, completing cycling's most prestigious double. Margin: 6:17. 01.07.2024 01.07.2025Fourth title, three in a row. Pogacar retains yellow with another commanding ride, 5:08 clear of Remco Evenepoel. Vingegaard, still recovering from an April crash, cannot match him over three weeks. Margin: 5:08 over Evenepoel. 01.07.2025 01.07.2026Fifth title, record equalled. Pogacar wins from Barcelona to Paris, five stages and yellow from Stage 3. Vingegaard crashes out on Stage 15. Evenepoel is second, 6:26 back. At 27 he joins Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault and Indurain. 01.07.2026 ![Profile image](https://cdn.slatesource.com/2/8/f/28f3a963-51f9-42f6-9e1c-120ae948e672.webp) # Tadej Pogacar At 27 years and 309 days old, Pogacar becomes the youngest man to win five Tour de France titles. He Born: 21 September 1998, Komenda, Slovenia Tour de France wins 5 (2020, 2021, 2024, 2025, 2026) Tour stages won (career) 26 (4th all-time: Cavendish 35, Merckx 34, Hinault 28) Days in yellow jersey (career) 70 (trails Hinault 75 and Merckx 96) Age when fifth title won 27 years (youngest ever, edging Merckx by 13 months) 2026 winning margin 6 minutes 26 seconds over Remco Evenepoel 2026 stages won 5 (incl. two Alpe d'Huez summit finishes and a Tourmalet solo) Consecutive wins (current streak) 3 (2024, 2025, 2026) The five-title club has existed since 1991, when Miguel Indurain joined it. Before 2026 the other members were Jacques Anquetil (1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964), Eddy Merckx (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974), and Bernard Hinault (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985). Each of them is considered one of the greatest cyclists who ever lived. Pogacar is now among them, at an age when the others had barely begun. 2026 race notes. The Tour started in Barcelona for the first time, covering 3,321 km with 54,450 m of climbing. Vingegaard crashed out on Stage 15 with a fractured collarbone while 4:30 behind Pogacar. Florian Lipowitz also crashed out in Stage 16. Teen Mexican climber Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates) finished third overall at 23. Paul Seixas (21, France) finished fourth, the best French result at the Tour in years. Van der Poel won the final stage on the Champs-Elysees by the narrowest of mar > Yeah, seven tours already and seven times on podium and five wins. It is something that you would not even maybe write in a story book. All five Tour titles at a glance 100% 2020: won by 59 sec over Roglic. Debut year, Stage 20 time trial, age 21. 2021: won by 5:20 over Vingegaard. Eight stages, three jerseys, dominant. 2024: won by 6:17 over Vingegaard. Six stages. Double with the Giro same year. 2025: won by 5:08 over Evenepoel. Fourth title, third in four starts. 2026: won by 6:26 over Evenepoel. Record equalled. Youngest ever at five. [Official Tour de France site, 2026 results and stage archive](https://www.letour.fr/en/?utm_source=slatesource)