Urška Žigart


Urška Žigart is a Slovenian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam. Žigart has won the Slovenian National Time Trial Championships four times, and won the Slovenian National Road Race Championships in 2024.

Career

In 2020, she won the Slovenian National Time Trial Championships and competed in the Tour de l'Ardeche and Giro Rosa. She finished third in the Slovenian National Road Race Championships behind her teammate Urša Pintar and Špela Kern of the.
In November 2020, Žigart signed a contract for the 2021 season with the team, later renamed. In 2022, Žigart won the Slovenian national time trial championship for the second time – repeating this in 2023 and 2024. In 2024, Žigart also won the Slovenian national road race championship.
From 2025, Žigart has been a rider on Team.

Personal life

Žigart's partner is cyclist Tadej Pogačar, a four-time Tour de France winner.
They became engaged in September 2021. After Pogačar withdrew from the Slovenia team for the Paris Olympics due to "extreme fatigue", he said his decision was also swayed by the Slovenian Olympic Committee, which had not selected Žigart, who had won the Slovenian road race and time trial championships that year, to compete at the Games.

Major results

;2016
;2018
;2019
;2020
;2021
;2022
;2023
;2024
;2025