Rider Profile
Jonas Vingegaard
Visma-Lease a Bike
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2024 - Visma-Lease a Bike
- 2023 - Team Jumbo-Visma
- 2022 - Team Jumbo-Visma
- 2021 - Team Jumbo–Visma
- 2020 - Team Jumbo-Visma
- 2019 - Team Jumbo-Visma
Biography:
2022 and 2023 Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard, born December 10, 1996 in Hillerslev, Denmark turned professional in 2016 with the Danish Continental team ColoQuick-Cult and with a top finish in the Tour du Loir et Cher and taking best young rider, he gained the attention of Jumbo-Visma and signed as a neo-pro in 2019. A win on a tough stage of the Tour de Pologne was his first major professional result. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 interrupted his season but he made his Grand Tour debut in the Vuelta a España, where he supported teammate Primož Roglič in the overall victory.
Vingegaard had his breakthrough season in 2021, winning the Jebel Jais stage of the UAE Tour ahead of Tadej Pogačar, then claiming two stages and the overall of the Settimana Coppi e Bartali. After finishing as best young rider in the Itzulia Basque Country, Vingegaard made the Jumbo-Visma Tour de France squad and soon proved his talents.
He entered the 2021 Tour de France as a backup plan for leader Roglič and, when the Slovenian crashed out, Vingegaard tenaciously clung onto Pogačar, tracking him closely though the Pyrenees to hold onto second place.
In 2022, Vingegaard showed he was equal to the two-time Tour de France champion Pogačar or better, and took the maillot jaune off his rival's shoulders on stage 11 to the Col du Granon, going onto win outright.
In 2023, Vingegaard had another stellar season, claiming his second Tour de France overall win with a blistering display of force in the stage 16 time trial then crushing arch-rival Pogačar in the remaining Alpine stages. Vingegaard also turned in dominating performances in the Itzulia Basque Countryand Critérium du Dauphiné. Following the Tour captured two major mountain stages in the Vuelta a España en route to second overall behind Jumbo-Visma teammate Sepp Kuss.
Key results
Winner 2023 Tour de France, stage 16
Winner 2022 Tour de France, stage 11, stage 18
Second place 2021 Tour de France
Second place Vuelta a España 2023, winner stage 13, winner stage 16
Winner 2023 Itzulia Basque Country, stage 3, stage 4, stage 6
Best young rider Itzulia Basque Country, second overall (2021)
Winner 2023 Criterium du Dauphine, stage 5, stage 7
Second place 2022 Criterium du Dauphine, winner stage 8
Winner of stages in Tour de Pologne (2019), UAE Tour (2021)
Winner of 2021 Coppi e Bartali (stage 3, stage 5)
Winner of La Drome Classic 2022
Related Articles
‘Really explosive’ - Vingegaard ready to defend yellow in Tour de France mountain finale
By Sophie Smith published
News Climbers saved their legs on a flat Friday for penultimate day of the Grand Tour with six classified climbs on stage 20
Jumbo-Visma boss rejects suspicion over Vingegaard's Tour de France dominance
By Barry Ryan published
News 'We open the doors and we're as transparent as possible. I ask you, what more can we do?' says Plugge
Voeckler suspended from Tour de France after moto stalls in front of Vingegaard
By Laura Weislo published
News France Télévisions commentator penalised along with driver for one stage after stopping traffic on Col de la Loze
Jonas Vingegaard: I don't take anything I would not give to my daughter
By Barry Ryan published
News Dane virtually seals second Tour de France victory with exhibition on Col de la Loze
Jumbo-Visma and UAE Team Emirates undergo extra anti-doping tests at the Tour de France
By Daniel Ostanek published
News Blood tests for riders of both teams shortly before the start of stage 17
Dumoulin: Jonas Vingegaard's Tour de France time trial was the 'best time trial ever'
By Daniel Ostanek published
News 'No-one could have imagined that it would be a hammer blow of more than a minute and a half' says Dutchman
'We are only celebrating when he is in Paris' Jumbo-Visma still wary of Pogacar after Tour de France time trial
By Sophie Smith published
News Dane leads by 1:48 after stage 16 but Jumbo-Visma claim the Tour de France is not yet won
Jonas Vingegaard: At one point I even doubted my power meter
By Alasdair Fotheringham published
News Defending Tour de France champion inflicts stinging time trial defeat on Tadej Pogacar
Blogs
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'Untapped gold' in store for inaugural RADL GRVL in South Australia
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UCI Gravel Worlds - new course, same criticisms cast doubt on event
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Nathan Haas blog: We need to talk about the Unbound mud pit
Was it wrong to not re-route the course? -
Ellen van Dijk - Leading by example
'I have the chance to show the world how normal it should be to perform at a top level as a mother' -
Rukhsar Habibzai - The day I left home
'It is a story shared by thousands of Afghans. It is the day we left home, left our souls and left Afghanistan'