{"id":615956,"date":"2025-12-06T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/615956\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:00:23","slug":"pogacar-and-ferrand-prevot-voted-best-cyclists-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/615956\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogacar and Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot voted best cyclists of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the end of 2025 approaches and many riders are already preparing for the new season, L\u2019\u00c9quipe took one last look back at the cycling year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Cyclisme-sur-route\/Actualites\/Pogacar-ferrand-prevot-leaute-le-palmares-complet-du-velo-d-or-2025\/1614843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or ceremony<\/a> \u2013 cycling\u2019s equivalent of the Ballon d\u2019Or \u2013 was held in Paris, where the sport\u2019s top awards were handed out.In the men\u2019s category, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/tadej-pogacar\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tadej Pogacar<\/a> once again claimed the top prize. The Slovenian superstar won practically everything there was to win in 2025, finishing ahead of Mathieu van der Poel, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel in the voting. It marks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/who-else-tadej-pogacar-and-lotte-kopecky-win-velo-dor-maybe-my-name-will-be-on-the-trophy-someday\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">third consecutive year<\/a> in which the world champion has secured the V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or. And he wasn\u2019t done yet.<\/p>\n<p>Pogacar also received the Eddy Merckx Trophy, awarded to the best Classics rider of the season. He won three Monuments and reached the podium in the other two. The UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG leader did not attend the ceremony but shared a recorded message: &#8220;Hello everyone, it is a great honour and pleasure to receive this award. Unfortunately I did not feel well enough to come and celebrate with you all. I\u2019m very sorry about that, but thank you for the support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other men\u2019s awards included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/kevin-vauquelin\" title=\"K\u00e9vin Vauquelin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">K\u00e9vin Vauquelin<\/a>, who was named best French rider, and Matteo Trentin, who received the Gino M\u00e4der Trophy for his social and humanitarian engagement. A new award was also announced: starting in 2026, the Mark Cavendish Trophy will honour the season\u2019s best sprinter.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading below the photo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mark-cavendish-6933dcb5898e5.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"mark cavendish\"\/>Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot and Wiebes among the winnersThe women\u2019s category proved far more competitive. Demi Vollering and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/lorena-wiebes\" title=\"Lorena Wiebes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lorena Wiebes<\/a> were both strong contenders for the top honour, but the award ultimately went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/pauline-ferrand-prevot1\" title=\"Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot<\/a>. Returning to road racing, the French star won both the Tour de France Femmes and Paris-Roubaix, earning herself the prestigious V\u00e9lo d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot also claimed the prize for best French rider. Wiebes did not leave empty-handed either: after winning races such as Milan\u2013Sanremo and Gent\u2013Wevelgem, she received the Eddy Merckx Trophy as the season\u2019s best Classics rider. And who knows &#8211; when Wiebes eventually retires, might the award for best sprinter become the Lorena Wiebes Trophy? One can only hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the end of 2025 approaches and many riders are already preparing for the new season, L\u2019\u00c9quipe took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[4230,2000,299,36,110652,70438,11184,16152],"class_list":{"0":"post-615956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-kevin-vauquelin","13":"tag-lorena-wiebes","14":"tag-pauline-ferrand-prevot","15":"tag-tadej-pogacar"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115672752836049619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}