Tadej Pogačar is heading off for his post-Tour holiday with a fourth maillot jaune, four stage wins, plenty of prize money and… 362 Strava KOMs.
The ride-sharing app has today revealed the damage the Tour de France peloton did to amateur riders’ dreams across France, 1,809 KOMs nabbed by the pros during the three weeks of racing, up from 1,770 in 2024.
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As cycling’s dominant rider and a prolific Strava uploader, it’s no surprise that Pogačar took around 20 per cent of all the new KOMs, finishing up with 362 for his three weeks’ work. The highlight was almost certainly his 53:47 up the iconic ascent of Mont Ventoux, the Slovenian two minutes clear of anyone else, six minutes clear of any time set before the 2025 Tour.
For context, in 2013, Laurens ten Dam battled to ninth on the Ventoux stage, finishing 1:53 down on Chris Froome’s race-crushing stage-winning time. Ten Dam’s time was six-and-a-half minutes slower than Pogačar.
It was the same story on the Hautacam, perhaps his best performance of the whole Tour and the day that almost instantly ended hopes of a GC fight. Pogačar’s 33:27 KOM-winning ascent was three minutes faster than second-fastest Strava uploader Oscar Onley. Frighteningly, that means his average speed up the 8% average was 23km/h.
Let’s hope his Strava notifications were off, the app’s data suggesting Pogačar received nearly 2 million ‘Kudos’ during the race, his runner-up ride behind Mathieu van der Poel on stage two “becoming the most ‘Kudos’d’ activity of the summer” with 117,999 thumbs up.
With Jonas Vingegaard opting out of sharing rides on Strava, Lenny Martinez’s breakaway exploits earned him the second-most KOMs (126), while Bruno Armirail was third in the Strava standings with 80.
Thankfully, Pogačar appeared to avoid losing any KOMs to jealous ride-flaggers, the world champion having seen his 2023 Tour of Flanders win and Queen Stage performance at last year’s Giro d’Italia erroneously flagged.
3 thoughts on “The real prize? Tadej Pogačar took 362 Strava KOMs during the Tour de France”
Let’s hope he never decides
Let’s hope he never decides to ride around Thailand, where I hold several KOMs. Albeit all downhill 😂
Tadej is not over 2 minutes
Tadej is not over 2 minutes faster than anyone else. I guess you forgot that Jonas was right behind him. Tadej only beat him by 2 seconds so Jonas deserves some credit for also beating any previous KOM time by a substantial marjin.
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They don’t mean two minutes faster than anyone else in the race, this article is specifically about Strava times and so obviously they mean two minutes faster than anybody else who has uploaded their time to Strava.