Pogacar’s dominance continues to be overwhelming: He has been injured for more than a month, but continues to lead the UCI ranking with a firm hand

He has been injured for more than a month, since the untimely fall on August 29 in The Returnbut the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar continues to comfortably lead the ranking of the International Cycling Union (UCI) with 10,581.75 points, compared to the Belgian’s 7,286.61 Remco Evenepoel (2nd) and the 6,586.46 of the Mexican Isaac del Toro (3rd).

In the latest update of the UCI ranking, from September 28, there is no change in the top five positions, maintaining the Danish Jonas Vingegaard fifth place, despite the fact that he, like the Slovenian, the leader of the Team Visma-Lease a Bike has been KO since his fall on July 19 in the 15th stage of the Tour de France.

Regarding the last ranking, there are three changes. On the one hand, the British Tom Pidcock has risen one place and is sixth and the Belgian Jasper Philipsen falls from sixth to seventh place. In the top ten positions, the most important jump has been made by the Dutchman Mathieu Van der Poelwhich goes from 13th to 10th place.

The first Spaniard in the ranking is the Balearic Islands Enric Mas. The winner of The Vuelta 2026 He has improved two places and is behind the Frenchman Benoit Cosnefroy and ahead of the Slovenian Primoz Roglic.

Looking ahead to the next updates we will have to be attentive, even if it is out of curiosity, to see what happens both with Pogacar as with Vingegaardlet’s see if they maintain or lose their positions since both will not compete again until 2027.