Matej Mohorič

Matej Mohorič (born 19 October 1994) is a Slovenian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Mohorič turned professional in 2014. He won the Slovenian National Road Race Championships in 2018 and 2021, and the UCI Gravel World Championships in 2023.

Early and personal life

Born on 19 October 1994, in Kranj, Slovenia, Mohorič currently resides in Šenčur, Slovenia.

Career

Mohorič won the 2012 UCI World Junior Road Race Championships and the 2013 UCI World Under-23 Road Race Championships, becoming the first rider to win world junior and under-23 titles in consecutive years.

Mohorič signed with , a UCI ProTeam, for the 2015 season. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España, but he withdrew on the 6th stage. Subsequently, it was announced that he would join from 2016 on a two-year contract. Mohorič secured his first Grand Tour stage win when he soloed to victory in Stage 7 of the 2017 Vuelta a España. In Stage 10 of the 2018 Giro d'Italia he took his second win in a Grand Tour, winning a two-man sprint against Nico Denz.

In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France.

He participated in the 2020 Tour de France and the 2021 Tour de France, garnering two stage wins in the 2021 Tour after crashing out of the Giro two months before. His second victory came the day after a police raid on the Bahrain Victorious hotel stemming from allegations of doping; Mohorič celebrated his win by 'zipping' his lips, adding in a post-race interview, "At the end of the day I’ve got nothing to hide. I don’t care too much."

In 2022, Mohorič won the Milan-San Remo monument, attacking on the descent of the Poggio using a dropper seatpost. He defeated Jonas Vingegaard to win the 2022 CRO Race.

He won stage 19 of the 2023 Tour de France in a photo finish with Kasper Asgreen, by a margin of 0.004 seconds. He later received praise for his interview after the race, in which he talked about the cruel nature of professional cycling.

After the Tour, Mohoric rode the 2023 Tour de Pologne, where he won stage 2 and took the leader's jersey. Heading into the final stage, Mohoric was tied for the overall lead with João Almeida. During the stage, Mohoric won an intermediate sprint, gaining bonus seconds and winning the overall by a single second.

In October 2023, Mohorič won the UCI Gravel World Championships, holding off Florian Vermeersch and Connor Swift during a solo attack in the final 20 km of the 169 km course in Veneto, Italy.

Major results Gravel 2023 1st UCI World Championships 2025

Road

2011 3rd Overall GP Général Patton 7th Overall Regio-Tour 2012 UCI World Junior Championships 1st Road race

1st Overall Giro di Basilicata 1st Points classification 1st Mountains classification 1st Stages 1, 2, 3 (ITT), & 4 1st Overall Giro della Lunigiana 1st Overall Junioren Radrundfahrt Oberösterreich UEC European Championships

4th Road race 2013 1st Road race, UCI World Under-23 Championships National Championships 4th Road race 4th Time trial 7th Piccolo Giro di Lombardia 2014 5th Time trial, National Championships 2015 5th Road race, National Championships 6th Japan Cup 2016 (1 pro win) 2nd Time trial, National Championships 3rd Overall Tour of Hainan 1st Stage 6 2017 (2) 1st Stage 7 Vuelta a España 1st Hong Kong Challenge 3rd Road race, National Championships 6th Overall Tour of Guangxi 8th Trofeo Laigueglia 2018 (7) 1st Road race, National Championships 1st Overall Deutschland Tour 1st Points classification 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 3 1st Overall BinckBank Tour 1st GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano 1st Stage 10 Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 1 Tour of Austria 3rd Overall Tour of Slovenia 7th Giro della Toscana 2019 (1) 1st Stage 7 Tour de Pologne National Championships 2nd Time trial 5th Road race 3rd Gran Premio di Lugano 5th Milan–San Remo 9th Gent–Wevelgem 2020 3rd Road race, National Championships 4th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 10th Milan–San Remo 2021 (4) 1st Road race, National Championships Tour de France 1st Stages 7 & 19 Held after Stage 7 Combativity award Stages 7 & 19 2nd Overall Benelux Tour 1st Stage 7 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne 2nd Clásica de San Sebastián 7th Overall Tour of Slovenia 1st Points classification 8th Amstel Gold Race 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2022 (2) 1st Overall CRO Race 1st Milan–San Remo 2nd Time trial, National Championships 2nd Gran Piemonte 4th E3 Saxo Bank Classic 5th Paris–Roubaix 9th Gent–Wevelgem 2023 (6) 1st Overall Tour de Pologne 1st Sprints classification 1st Stage 2 1st Stage 19 Tour de France 1st Stage 4 CRO Race 2nd Overall Tour of Slovenia 1st Stage 5 3rd Road race, National Championships 3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec 6th Strade Bianche 7th Overall Renewi Tour 1st Stage 5 7th E3 Saxo Classic 8th Milan–San Remo 2024 (2) National Championships 1st Time trial 3rd Road race 1st Stage 2 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 3rd Japan Cup 5th Strade Bianche 6th Overall Tour de Pologne 6th Milan–San Remo 8th Overall Renewi Tour 10th Gran Piemonte 2025 2nd Overall Tour de la Provence 5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec 2026 8th Tour of Flanders 8th Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Giro d'Italia — — 98 135 30 — — DNF — — — — Tour de France — — — — — 119 76 31 86 72 127 126 Vuelta a España — DNF — 30 — — DNF — — — — —

Classics results timeline

Major championships results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish