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Matilda Price

Will Tadej Pogačar beat Mark Cavendish's Tour de France stage wins record? Crunching the numbers

Tadej Pogačar wins stage 3 of 2026 Tour de France at Les Angles.

Whether he intends to or not, Tadej Pogačar is a man who breaks records. His dominant win rate in all kinds of races, from Grand Tours to Monuments, has placed him not only on several pages of the metaphorical history books, but well within the conversation of being the most successful male rider of all time.

He's the first rider to win a Monument five times in a row, the first man to stand on the podium of all five Monuments in the same season, and the first to podium in the sport's 10 most important stage races. This year, he is within touching distant of matching the record of Tour de France GC victories, should he win his fifth and join the small, legendary group of five-time winners.

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