CYCLING specialist Tadej Pogacar's relationship with Tour de France is special – and so is his relationship with fiancée Urska Zigart.
The Slovenian icon secured Tour de France success in both 2021 and 2022.
But Pogacar's true love story started last year when he got on one knee and asked Zigart for her hand in marriage.
Find out more about her below…
Who is Tadej Pogacar's fiancée Urska Zigart?
Born on December 4, 1996, Urska Zigar was raised in Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia.
Pogacar confirmed that he had his fiancee in a cycling camp for a team who are based in the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana.
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Zigart has decided to keep her family off of social media but she revealed in an interview that her mother encouraged her to quit her first hobby of athletics for bike racing.
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Urska stuck to her mothers words of wisdom and is now a professional cyclist who only started racing at 18 unlike her two-time Tour de France champion partner Pogacar who began cycling from age nine.
The Slovenian signed a contract with the Mitchelton-Scott team for the 2021 season which was later renamed Team BikeExchange.
But Sadly in April 2022, partner Tadej Pogacar withdrew from Liege-Bastogne-Liege following the tragic death of Zigart's mother.
What has Urska Zigart won?
In 2020, Ursyk Zigart competed in the Tour de'Ardeche and Giro Rosa.
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She also rode in the Slovenian National Road Race Championships behind her teammate Ursa Pintar and Spela Kern of the Lviv Cycling Team.
However, the Slovenian star triumphed to the Slovenian National Time Trial Championships.
What did Tadej Pogacar say about his fiancée's win?
Slovenian icon Pogacar admitted that the tension was high when watching Zigart's title winning race.
Tadej said: "I was filming with our sponsor Met Helmets,” he says. “I checked Twitter and the livestream.
I knew she was in the breakaway. I was so nervous. When she won my heartrate went sky high. I was celebrating her win so much
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