Pogacar wiki,net worth,height,weight,Instagram and cycling stats
Pogacar wiki,net worth,height,weight,Instagram and cycling stats: Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar currently is a rider with UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates at the moment. The 23-year-old has already won two Tour de France trophies and two one-day monument races. He now holds the top spot in the UCI World Ranking for men, and he concluded the 2021 season as the best-ranked road rider overall.
Tadej Pogacar, a resident of Komenda, Slovenia, was born a Virgo on September 21, 1998. He is 1.76 m (5 ft 9+12 in) tall and 66 kg in weight (146 lb; 10 st 6 lb).
Tadej Pogacar’s net worth in 2022
The main source of income for professional cyclists is usually the prize money in various competitions.
He officially banked €500,000 in prizes with the 2021 and Pogacar 2nd Tour de France trophies, which is the same sum as in 2020. He also summoned an additional €20,000 for winning the classification for young riders and a further €25,000 for winning the title of “polka dot King of the Mountains.”
In addition, Pogacar received €33,000 in prize money for winning three stages. Additionally, he earned €11,370 throughout the race, placing between second and twentieth on no less than eight occasions.
The sum of the prize money earned by the young Slovenian from climbing several mountain summits and donning leader’s jerseys during the race comes to almost €600,000.
According to the reports, the rider’s seven colleagues would also split the sum.
Tadej Pogacar has a $3 million net worth as of 2022.
Is Tadej Pogacar dating?
Pogacar has a residence in Monaco with his fiancée, 24-year-old UCI Women’s WorldTeam Team BikeExchange racer Urska Zigart, a fellow Slovenian professional cyclist. In September of 2021, they got engaged.
When they were both members of the cycling club headquartered in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana, they first connected at a training camp four years ago.
Career
Pogacar joined the Rog Ljubljana club at the age of nine, following in the footsteps of his older brother Rog Ljubljana. Andrej Hauptman, who won the Road World Championship in 2011, saw him in 2011 and is currently his coach.
Pogacar joined UAE Team Emirates in 2019. He made his team debut in the Tour Down Under, finishing 13th.
At age 20, he became the youngest rider to win the UCI World Tour when he triumphed in the Tour of California during the same season.
He made his Grand Tour debut in 2020 by winning three stages of the Vuelta a Espana, which helped him finish third overall and ahead of the young rider.
He became the first rider to win the mountains, young rider, and race overall titles concurrently when he won three stages and the race overall in his Tour de France debut. The season after that, he continued to hold the championship.
He made history in 2021 by being the first Tour de France winner to earn an Olympic road race medal the same year he finished third in the men’s road race.