Jonas Vingegaard wins Giro d’Italia to complete Grand Tour set
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Team Visma-Lease a Bike's Jonas Vingegaard celebrating on the podium with the trophy, wearing the maglia rosa jersey, after winning the Giro d'Italia on May 31, 2026.
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- Jonas Vingegaard won the Giro d'Italia, becoming cycling's only active rider to claim all three Grand Tours: Giro, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España.
- Vingegaard secured his dominant Giro triumph with five stage wins and a 5m 22s lead. He now prepares for a Tour de France showdown with Tadej Pogacar.
- Visma–Lease a Bike is confident Vingegaard will be at his peak for the Tour. Jonathan Milan salvaged his Giro by winning the final Rome stage.
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ROME – Jonas Vingegaard sealed his Giro d’Italia triumph on May 31, riding into Rome in pink on the final stage won by home hero Jonathan Milan, and becoming the only active rider to have claimed all three Grand Tours.
Dane Vingegaard rolled into the Italian capital to add the Giro to a pair of Tour de France titles in 2022 and 2023 and the Vuelta a Espana from 2025, the triple crown of road cycling’s three-week showpieces.
Tadej Pogacar has won the Tour de France four times as well as the Giro, but he has yet to win the Vuelta.
Vingegaard, who is with Team Visma-Lease a Bike, is just the eighth man to win all three, joining Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx and Vincenzo Nibali in reaching one of road cycling’s hardest goals.
“Winning all three is very special for me, it’s difficult to find the words to describe it,” Vingegaard told Italian broadcaster RAI.
He added that he would stay in Rome for a few days with his family.
He will then return to Denmark to begin preparations for the Tour de France and a showdown with Pogacar, cycling’s biggest star and his key rival for the Grande Boucle, which begins on July 4.
“It all depends on how you come out of the Giro,” added the 29-year-old Vingegaard.
“If you’re completely exhausted and need two weeks of rest afterwards, it’s not ideal. But I’m not completely exhausted.”
Visma chief Richard Plugge said that his team are a “yellow jersey organisation” and is confident Vingegaard will contend for overall victory on the Tour.
“Jonas is getting even stronger after this,” said Plugge.
“We planned it so that he will be at his peak in the Tour de France, so we’re looking forward to that fight.”
Vingegaard did not have Pogacar to contend with on the Giro, which he won without ever really looking like being challenged.
He had little to do on May 31 beyond looking at the ancient monuments of Rome’s historic centre, after finishing the hard work with a classic mountain stage win the day before.
He finishes the Tour with five stage wins and a gap of 5min 22sec over Austrian Felix Gall in second. Australian Jai Hindley was third.
Portugal’s 24-year-old Afonso Eulalio won the white jersey as best young rider.
He wore the overall leader’s pink jersey for eight stages after claiming a massive lead on a drenched stage five.
Italin veteran Giulio Ciccone won the mountains classification and French rookie Paul Magnier snatched the sprint points jersey due to his three stage wins.
For Milan, crossing the line first in Rome after a typically powerful late burst salvaged his Giro, the Italian winning his first stage of the 2026 edition of his home Grand Tour.
“I’m pleased to have finished my Giro this way,” he told RAI. AFP
