Jonas Vingegaard will ride into Madrid on Sunday evening set to celebrate becoming Denmark’s first-ever winner of the Vuelta a España, victory in the third Spanish Grand Tour of his career, and likely refreshed to fight for more such challenges in the future.
The Dane’s two Tour de France wins in 2022 and 2023, not to mention his second place in the Vuelta a España, have been followed by two successive, categorical defeats in July by Tadej Pogačar.
But the Vuelta a España has ended exactly as Vingegaard would have liked when he came into the race as top favourite, with an impressive defeat of his rivals on the last summit finish of La Bola del Mundo and the red jersey securely in his possession.
Victorious on stage 2 of the Vuelta and again on stage 9 when he surprised João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) at the end of the first week, Vingegaard looked destined to cruise to a straightforward triumph.
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