49 Facts About Jonas Vingegaard

Jonas Vingegaard is best known for winning the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Tour de France.

In 2023, Jonas Vingegaard achieved his second successive Tour de France victory, before finishing second overall to his teammate Sepp Kuss at the Vuelta a Espana.

Jonas Vingegaard played both football and handball from an early age.

Jonas Vingegaard was a spectator, alongside his father, when the first stage of 2007 Danmark Rundt departed on 1 August from Thisted, the main town in the region.

Jonas Vingegaard subsequently enrolled in the club and started riding his first races.

Jonas Vingegaard cycled with the Thy Cykle Ring for five seasons, until he moved to Aalborg Cykle Ring in 2013.

In 2014, his last year as a junior rider, Jonas Vingegaard joined Odder Cykel Klub.

In large parts of the 2017 season, Jonas Vingegaard did not take part in many races as he was sidelined with a broken femur after a crash in the 2017 Tour des Fjords.

Jonas Vingegaard cycled the 6.5 kilometers in 13.02 minutes, which was 12 seconds faster than the previous record holder Tejay van Garderen.

Jonas Vingegaard simply has a pump and a heart that is in a class of its own.

Jonas Vingegaard's [heart] is far clear of the average of Danish, male cyclists'.

Jonas Vingegaard completed his first Grand Tour, the 2020 Vuelta a Espana, where he rode as a domestique for Primoz Roglic, who went on to win the race overall.

Jonas Vingegaard won stage 5 of his first race in 2021, the UAE Tour, before winning two stages and the overall in the Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali.

On stage 5, a 27.2-kilometre individual time trial, Jonas Vingegaard finished third to enter the top ten on GC.

On stage 8, the race's first mountain stage, Jonas Vingegaard finished with the main GC group, losing almost three and a half minutes to Tadej Pogacar, who took over the yellow jersey.

Jonas Vingegaard rose to fifth on GC at exactly five minutes down.

On stage 11, which featured a double ascent of Mont Ventoux, Jonas Vingegaard attacked on the second climb of the Ventoux.

Jonas Vingegaard safely finished the last stage to become the second Danish rider to achieve a podium finish in the Tour de France and the first since 1996.

Team Jumbo-Visma dominated the 2022 Criterium du Dauphine where Jonas Vingegaard finished 2nd behind teammate Roglic, and won the queen stage of the race.

Jonas Vingegaard started the Tour de France in strong form with Pogacar being the only GC rider finishing ahead of him after the opening stage individual time trial.

On stage 5 Roglic suffered a crash which cost him time and Jonas Vingegaard nearly lost considerable time himself.

Jonas Vingegaard suffered a mechanical and could no longer ride his bike, but teammate Nathan Van Hooydonck was nearby to give him his bike.

Thanks in part to the powerful effort of Wout van Aert near the end of the stage, Jonas Vingegaard lost little time.

Relentlessly advancing, Jonas Vingegaard won the stage and the yellow jersey and gained +2:51 on Pogacar.

Jonas Vingegaard defended his lead the following day which concluded with a mountaintop finish on Alpe d'Huez.

On stage 17 Jonas Vingegaard was the only rider to stay with the UAE Team Emirates combination of Pogacar and Brandon McNulty up the final climb.

Inside the final 500 meters of the very steep finish, both Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard attacked to go for the stage win, but Pogacar took it on the line.

The only time Jonas Vingegaard lost was the four seconds difference in bonus time.

The battles between Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard continuously blew the rest of the field apart.

Jonas Vingegaard crossed the finish line in Paris about a minute behind the sprinters, riding side by side with his remaining teammates to finish a historic Tour win, setting a record for the highest average speed ever throughout the entire race.

Jonas Vingegaard started off the 2023 season in late February at the O Gran Camino stage race in Galicia, Spain.

Jonas Vingegaard swept the race, winning all three stages that were contested, as stage one was neutralized, in addition to the overall title and the mountains classification.

Jonas Vingegaard next entered and won the Tour of the Basque Country, along with three stage wins and the points classification in the process.

Jonas Vingegaard's performanced cemented him as one of the two favorites for the 2023 Tour de France alongside Pogacar.

However, Jonas Vingegaard proved to be on another level, leading by a wide margin at all time checks and finishing 1:38 ahead of Pogacar.

Jonas Vingegaard described the stage win as "one of my best days on the bike ever," and commentators widely agreed it was one of the best and most shocking time trial performances in the history of the Tour.

Jonas Vingegaard next competed at the 2023 Vuelta a Espana, going into the race as co-leader alongside Primoz Roglic.

However, Jonas Vingegaard soon rallied to take stage wins on stages 13 and 16 as well as second to Roglic on stage 17, moving himself into second with only 8 seconds to Kuss.

In 2024, Jonas Vingegaard again began his season at the O Gran Camino from 22 to 25 February, where he won the general, mountain, and points classifications.

Jonas Vingegaard secured victories in all stages except the stage 1 time trial, each by a margin of more than 10 seconds.

Jonas Vingegaard achieved first place in stages 5 and 6, finishing 1:24 ahead of second-placed Juan Ayuso.

Chapeau to Jonas Vingegaard," adding that "I think he right now is on another level so we have to fight for second, I'm happy.

Jonas Vingegaard sustained a punctured lung, together with a broken collarbone and several ribs, necessitating hospitalization.

Jonas Vingegaard had reeled Pogacar back in on the penultimate climb in Massif Central after Pogacar had pulled away from the field earlier in the stage.

Jonas Vingegaard started the 2025 season by competing in the Volta ao Algarve.

Jonas Vingegaard finished second on the stage behind Joao Almeida, but took the overall leader's jersey.

On stage five of Paris-Nice, Jonas Vingegaard crashed with 84km remaining, suffering a cut lip and injuring his wrist.

Jonas Vingegaard lost 26 seconds on the stage, losing the leader's jersey to teammate Matteo Jorgenson.

Jonas Vingegaard is the son of Claus Christian Rasmussen and Karina Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen from Hillerslev, Thy.