Sunday 5 October, 2025
90 victories on the board in 2025 for Emirati squad
Pogačar, McNulty & Yates deliver triple success
UAE Team Emirates–XRG has enjoyed yet another memorable day in its history, with Tadej Pogačar capturing the European Road Race Championship, Brandon McNulty consolidating his overall lead at the CRO Race, and Adam Yates taking a powerful solo victory at the Coppa Agostoni.
In a commanding display, Tadej Pogačar, representing the Slovenian national team, launched a bold 75-kilometre solo attack in the European Championships road race, eventually riding clear to take the European title. His strength was evident from start to finish, and in doing so he adds continental gold to his palmarès after recent World Championship success.
In similar style to last week in Kigali, nobody could stick the pace of the 27 year old, dropping Remco Evenepoel and the rest of the contenders, and held a sustained advantage all the way to the finish in Guilherand-Granges where he crossed the line 31” up on Evenepoel of Belgium and 3’41” on third place Paul Seixas of France.
Pogačar: “I found myself in the front and I tried to keep a good gap around one minute. It was a comfortable gap. I don’t think it was super dominant. Remco was chasing me and I couldn’t give up until the finish line. I had to push really, really hard. I’m happy it’s over and another title.
Obviously we knew that the race would be the hardest on the third climb. They started to attack on the second time and we started to lose some teammates. Domen and Matevz were still going really strong to keep everything together.
On the third lap I saw there was four or five Belgians and I was alone, so it was better to be on the attack than together with too many guys who can attack you, so I tried and I succeeded.”
European Championships Men’s RR results
1.Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia) 4:59:29
2.Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) +31”
3.Paul Seixas (France) +3’41”
