Factbox on Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, who won his second consecutive Tour de France title on Sunday:
* Coached by former world road race bronze medallist and fellow Slovenian Andrej Hauptman
* 2018 is Pogacar’s breakthrough year. He wins the Tour de l’Avenir, a stage race for young riders often seen as a springboard for the Tour de France. He also won the mountains classification in that race.* He also wins the Tour of Algarve * On his grand tour debut, Pogacar wins three stages at the Vuelta a Espana to finish third overall behind Primoz Roglic and Alejandro Valverde* On the Tour de France, the Slovenian champion claims the overall lead on the penultimate day, overturning a 57-second deficit to leapfrog Roglic
* In 2021, he wins the Liege-Bastogne-Liege 'Monument' classic before triumphing at the Tour de France for a second time* Pogacar is the youngest rider to win the Tour de France since Henri Cornet in 1904, the second youngest ever* Last year he became the first rider since Eddy Merckx in 1969 to hold three distinctive jerseys .
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