
Tadej Pogacar took his third stage victory this week, as the world champion sealed overall success in the Tour de Suisse 2026 on Sunday after catching French climber Lenny Martinez 800 meters from the line.
After a cat-and-mouse chase up the final climb to Villars-sur-Ollon at the end of a brutal 152-kilometer mountainous stage, the last of the race, Pogacar gradually ate into the Frenchman's 1 minute, 30 second lead.
For a while, it looked like it would be touch and go, but Pogacar picked up the pace in the last couple of kilometers, and with one kilometer left, his success looked inevitable. Just 200 meters later, he sauntered past Martinez and came home to win by seven seconds.
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"It was really good to test the legs, the lungs on the climb, it was a really nice climb for that," said the 27-year-old Slovenian.
Martinez said he was disappointed and rued Pogacar's insatiable will to win.
"We tried, but he was just too strong in the end," said the 22-year-old, who had been part of an initial 11-man breakaway that broke clear with about 140km to ride. "Tadej wins a lot of races, and he keeps wanting to keep winning, so it's difficult. I knew he wasn't going to let me win."
It was Pogacar's first victory at the Tour de Suisse -- in his first appearance -- and means that he now has won six of the seven most historic week-long stage races.
Having also won the Tour of Romandie in his first participation earlier this season, the only one he has yet to win is the Tour of the Basque Country -- where he was third in 2021 and sixth two years earlier.
Pogacar has seemed on a mission this season to tick off the few remaining major races he had yet to win, claiming Milan-San Remo glory in March and then coming close to winning Paris-Roubaix in April, when he was pipped by Wout van Aert.
He has been in ominous form this week, laying down a marker ahead of his bid for a record-equaling fifth Tour de France victory next month.
His overall margin of victory ahead of Ecuador's Richard Carapaz, 6:32, was simply stunning and will leave new Giro d'Italia champion Jonas Vingegaard with much to ponder at the Grande Boucle.
Pogacar has 13 wins from just 16 race days this year, compared to seven from 36 for Vingegaard, who is himself in the form of his life having won all three of his races, triumphing at Paris-Nice and the Tour of Catalonia before the Giro.
Dutchman Bart Lemmen finished third in Sunday's Stage 5 from the breakaway, just over a minute and half behind Pogacar, while Carapaz held on to second place overall as he came home seventh at two minutes back.
Czech Mathias Vacek came home 12th to finish third overall, with Norway's Tobias Foss fourth.
Tour de Suisse 2026 Stage 5 Results – Top 25
- Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 4:12:24
- Lenny Martinez (Bahrain - Victorious) – 4:12:31
- Bart Lemmen (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 4:13:57
- Jarno Widar (Lotto Intermarché) – 4:14:17
- Matthew Riccitello (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 4:14:19
- Enric Mas (Movistar Team) – 4:14:19
- Richard Carapaz (EF Education - EasyPost) – 4:14:24
- Ilan Van Wilder (Netcompany INEOS) – 4:14:29
- Tobias Foss (Soudal Quick-Step) – 4:14:31
- Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) – 4:14:36
- Sergio Higuita (XDS Astana Team) – 4:14:38
- Mathias Vacek (Lidl - Trek) – 4:14:40
- Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 4:14:51
- Primož Roglič (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 4:15:33
- Mauro Schmid (Team Jayco AlUla) – 4:15:50 (B4)
- Louis Vervaeke (Soudal Quick-Step) – 4:16:01 (B5)
- Mattia Gaffuri (Team Picnic PostNL) – 4:16:18 (B3)
- Walter Calzoni (Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) – 4:16:22
- Wilco Kelderman (NSN Cycling Team) – 4:16:22
- Jan Hirt (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 4:16:22
- Simon Dalby (Uno-X Mobility) – 4:16:22
- Giovanni Aleotti (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 4:16:51
- Bauke Mollema (Lidl - Trek) – 4:16:55
- Tiesj Benoot (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 4:16:59
- Darren van Bekkum (XDS Astana Team) – 4:16:59
Tour de Suisse 2026 Overall Standings – Top 25 After Stage 5
- Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 15:08:43 (B24)
- Richard Carapaz (EF Education - EasyPost) – 15:15:15 (B6)
- Mathias Vacek (Lidl - Trek) – 15:15:36
- Tobias Foss (Netcompany INEOS) – 15:16:17
- Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step) – 15:16:34
- Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 15:16:36
- Matthew Riccitello (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 15:17:31 (B1)
- Sergio Higuita (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 15:18:06
- Primož Roglič (XDS Astana Team) – 15:18:09
- Bart Lemmen (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 15:18:27 (B8)
- Wilco Kelderman (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 15:18:42
- Enric Mas (Movistar Team) – 15:19:59
- Finlay Pickering (Team Jayco AlUla) – 15:21:05 (B1)
- Tiesj Benoot (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 15:21:11
- Mattia Gaffuri (Team Picnic PostNL) – 15:21:22 (B3)
- Felix Großschartner (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 15:22:10 (B1)
- Simon Dalby (Uno-X Mobility) – 15:22:57
- Marc Hirschi (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) – 15:25:31
- Andrea Bagioli (Lotto Intermarché) – 15:26:08
- Liam Slock (Lidl - Trek) – 15:27:05 (B4)
- Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) – 15:30:00
- Jhonatan Narváez (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 15:31:14 (B15)
- Javier Romo (Movistar Team) – 15:31:48
- Paul Double (Team Jayco AlUla) – 15:32:12
- Lorenzo Germani (Groupama - FDJ United) – 15:32:23
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