Preview: Il Lombardia 2025

Pogačar and the Pursuit of Coppi

Update 14:48: Mattia Stenico will also start, this has been adjusted in the message below.

The Race of the Falling Leaves returns, and with it comes history’s weight.

For the fifth autumn in succession, Tadej Pogačar lines up as the man to beat — and the man chasing immortality. Should he triumph again, the Slovenian would equal Fausto Coppi’s all-time record of five victories, and become the first rider ever to win Il Lombardia five times in a row.

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🏆 Most Wins

• 5 — 🇮🇹 Fausto Coppi (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954)

• 4 — 🇸🇮 Tadej Pogačar (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

• 4 — 🇮🇹 Alfredo Binda (1925, 1926, 1927, 1931)

• 3 — 🇮🇹 Damiano Cunego (2004, 2007, 2008)

• 3 — 🇮🇪 Sean Kelly (1983, 1985, 1991)

• 3 — 🇮🇹 Gino Bartali (1936, 1939, 1940)

• 3 — 🇮🇹 Costante Girardengo (1919, 1921, 1922)

• 3 — 🇮🇹 Gaetano Belloni (1915, 1918, 1928)

• 3 — 🇫🇷 Henri Pélissier (1911, 1913, 1920)

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🏅 Most Podiums

Even if Pogačar equals Coppi in victories, he still trails the master of Lombardy consistency: Gino Bartali, who reached the podium nine times.
Pogačar, by contrast, has won every edition he has started — four starts, four wins.

• 9 — 🇮🇹 Gino Bartali (1935–1947)

• 8 — 🇮🇹 Fausto Coppi (1946–1956)

• 6 — 🇮🇹 Franco Bitossi (1967–1977)

• 6 — 🇮🇹 Gaetano Belloni (1915–1928)

• 5 — 🇧🇪 Eddy Merckx (1966–1974)

• 5 — 🇮🇹 Felice Gimondi (1966–1973)

• 5 — 🇮🇹 Alfredo Binda (1925–1931)

• 4 — 🇸🇮 Tadej Pogačar (2021–2024)

• 4 — 🇪🇸 Samuel Sánchez González (2006–2012)

• 4 — 🇮🇪 Sean Kelly (1983–1991)

• 4 — 🇮🇹 Aldo Bini (1935–1945)

• 4 — 🇮🇹 Costante Girardengo (1919–1924)

• 4 — 🇫🇷 Henri Pélissier (1911–1920)

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🌈 Wins by Reigning World Champions

Eight riders have won Il Lombardia as reigning world champion — including Tadej Pogačar last year.

• 2024 — 🇸🇮 Tadej Pogačar

• 2006 — 🇮🇹 Paolo Bettini

• 1998 — 🇨🇭 Oscar Camenzind

• 1982 — 🇮🇹 Giuseppe Saronni

• 1973 — 🇮🇹 Felice Gimondi

• 1971 — 🇧🇪 Eddy Merckx

• 1965 — 🇬🇧 Tom Simpson

• 1927 — 🇮🇹 Alfredo Binda

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👶 Youngest Winners

• 20y 161d — 🇮🇹 Giovanni Gerbi (1905)

• 21y 033d — 🇧🇪 Jean-Pierre Monseré (1969)

• 21y 168d — 🇮🇹 Vito Taccone (1961)

• 21y 218d — 🇮🇹 Gianni Motta (1964)

• 21y 286d — 🇱🇺 François Faber (1908)

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👴 Oldest Winners

• 36y 069d — 🇮🇹 Gaetano Belloni (1928)

• 35y 148d — 🇮🇪 Sean Kelly (1991)

• 35y 146d — 🇩🇰 Jakob Fuglsang (2020)

• 35y 046d — 🇮🇹 Fausto Coppi (1954)

• 34y 147d — 🇪🇸 Joaquim Rodríguez (2013)

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🌱 Youth Movement

This year’s youngest participants, Paul Seixas (19 years, 17 days) and Mattia Stenivo (19 years, 15 days), both make their Il Lombardia debut. Stenivo narrowly edges Seixas as the youngest rider in this year’s race — and together they become the two youngest Il Lombardia starters of the 21st century.

Only two riders this century have begun any Monument at a younger age.

• 18y 177d — 🇺🇸 Andrew August (2024, Paris–Roubaix)

• 18y 196d — 🇺🇦 Andrii Ponomar (2021, Milano–Sanremo)

• 19y 015d — 🇮🇹 Mattia Stenico (2025, Il Lombardia)

• 19y 017d — 🇫🇷 Paul Seixas (2025, Il Lombardia)

• 19y 039d — 🇬🇧 Ben Tulett (2020, Liège–Bastogne–Liège)

• 19y 054d — 🇬🇧 Joshua Tarling (2023, Paris–Roubaix)

• 19y 195d — 🇫🇷 Eddy Lembo (2000, Paris–Roubaix)

• 19y 153d — 🇮🇹 Filippo Turconi (2025, Milano–Sanremo)

• 19y 162d — 🇨🇴 Daniel Felipe Martínez (2015, Il Lombardia)

• 19y 176d — 🇩🇪 Emil Herzog (2024, Ronde van Vlaanderen)

• 19y 183d — 🇩🇪 Emil Herzog (2024, Paris–Roubaix)