Oscars, Grammys and Rear of the Year rolled into one

It's awards season, and Felix Lowe has gongs to hand out to riders who made the headlines in 2025

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In a racing season when Tadej Pogačar took his supremacy to fresh heights, the Slovenian naturally fills his boots with prizes, and it started at the beginning of the year with the Crash and Grab Award following his solo success at Strade Bianche after hitting the deck at speed and skidding into a bramble bush.

After triumphs in the Ronde and Liège and podiums in San Remo and Roubaix, Pog also takes the Spring Cleaning Up Award. A fifth straight win in Lombardia in the autumn completed a record clean sweep of podium finishes in the previous seven Monuments, including five wins – all after winning another Yellow Rainbow Award for his Tour-Worlds double.

One race Pogačar couldn't win, however, was Amstel Gold, where an incredulous Mattias Skjelmose pipped Pogačar to the line. And by stubbornly refusing to neck a post-race lager on the podium, the Dane wins the Hold My Beer Award.

Also from the Classics, the Ian Stannard Cup goes to Neilson Powless, who channelled his QuickStep-defying predecessor to get the better of three Visma-Lease a Bike rivals on the home straight at Dwars door Vlaanderen. Things eventually worked out for Wout van Aert, however, whose win over the gravel in the Giro and the Parisian cobbles in the final stage of the Tour meant he snared the Still Got It Gong.

Sticking with Visma, Matteo Jorgenson wins the