Tour De France White Jersey Winners

A brief history of the 22-year-old rider, who took the 2020 race by storm

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Tour De France White Jersey Winners 2018

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Tour De France White Jersey Winners 2017

Finishing 22 minutes behind yellow jersey winner Geraint Thomas, burgeoning AG2R La Mondiale star Pierre Latour rode into Paris to claim the white jersey as the best young rider of the 2018 Tour de. The Jerseys of the Tour de France By Melanie Clancy As if professional cycling weren't confusing enough on its own, what with its unspoken rules of the peloton and occasionally mystifying strategies, the Tour de France has a number of awards beyond just the overall winner in the general classification. Colombia's Egan Bernal, wearing the best young's white jersey rides during the eighteenth stage of the 106th edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Embrun and Valloire, in Valloire, on.

Tour De France White Jersey Winners Since

Tadej Pogacar is a name that has sprung to international attention since he won the 2020 Tour de France.

Tour De France White Jersey Winners Results

This year's race was always going to be different - coronavirus ensured that. It prompted masked team presentations in Nice and forced director Christian Prudhomme to self-isolate after testing positive for the virus. But it turned into one of the most enthralling races for years, thanks in no small part to eventual winner, Slovenian rider Pogacar - who won the race from compatriot Primoz Roglic, who finished second.

But who is the young racer from Komenda, who now lives in Monaco with his partner, fellow Slovenian professional cyclist Urska Zigart?

According to one story, he was spotted by Road World Championship medallist Andrej Hauptman, who is also head coach and head of selectors for the Slovenian national cycling team in 2011, when he was riding some 100m behind a group of much older riders in a race.

Thinking the young rider was struggling to keep up, Hauptman urged race organisers to provide some assistance - only to be told the younger rider was in fact about to lap the group he was chasing.

Here are five things you may not know about the very different rookie winner of the very different 2020 Tour de France.

• He is the youngest winner of the Tour de France since 1904. He turned 22 the day after he stood on the podium at the Champs-Elysées. Henri Cornet remains the youngest with a record that will probably never be beaten - he was 19 and 354 days old when he won the second-ever race. Interestingly, 30-year-old Roglic was the same age as Pogacar is now when he started cycling, having been a hugely promising ski jumper as a youth
• As well as the yellow jersey for overall winner, Pogacar also claimed the white jersey for best-placed rider under 25, and the King of the Mountains' polka dot jersey. Only one other rider has won three jerseys in a single Tour - the great Eddie Merckx, in 1968, also on his first Tour.
• Pogacar, who only turned pro two years ago, is the first Slovenian to win the Tour de France - and one of five competitors in the race from the country of just two-million people that supplied both the winner and runner-up in this year's race
• He was already the youngest winner of a WorldTour stage race when he triumphed at the Tour of California in 2019
• On his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a España last year, he won three stages, to finish third in the General Classification behind winner Roglič and veteran Alejandro Valverde. He also finished fourth in this year's Criterium.

The polka dot jersey is the special cycling jersey given to the 'King of the Mountains' in the Tour de France. The jersey is white with red spots, called polka dots. There is also space for the logo of the cycling team the winner belongs to.

The King of the Mountains is the rider who has collected the most points in the hill-climbing sections of each stage. Points are given to the first riders to reach the top. More points are given for difficult climbs. Difficulty is judged by the length of the climb and the average steepness of the climb.

The King of the Mountains competition at the Tour de France was started in 1933. The polka dot jersey for the winner was introduced in 1975.^[1]

Richard Virenque has won the jersey seven times, more than any other cyclist. In 2014 the winner was Rafał Majka. In 2015 an Eritrean rider, Daniel Teklehaimanot, became the first African who won a Polka dot jersey.

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1. ↑Bill Mallon; Jeroen Heijmans (2011). Historical Dictionary of Cycling. Scarecrow Press. ISBN0810873699. Retrieved August 11, 2014.