Paul Magnier may only be in his second year as a WorldTour pro, but the French sprinter proved on Sunday in the Tour of Guangxi in some ways he’s already in a league of his own as he blasted his way to a fifth bunch sprint victory out of a possible five this week in China.
From stage 1 in Fangchenggang all the way through stage 6 in Nanning, the 21-year-old Soudal-QuickStep racer has been simply unbeatable in his own speciality.
It seems hard to believe that Magnier only claimed his first win at the WorldTour level as recently as the 2025 Tour de Pologne.
Yet thanks to his remarkably strong second half of the season, he’s ended up with 19 victories in his palmares in 2025. All bar one – his first race of the season, the Etoile de Bessèges – taken from June onwards, and just one less than the most prolifically successful rider of the year, the all-conquering Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG).
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