Philipsen claimed his second victory at this year’s Tour after 116 kilometers. For the prestigious triumph on the Champs-Élysées, he finished ahead of the Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen, while the Norwegian Alexander Kristoff was third. The members of Vingegaard’s team did not fight for the first place, they crossed the finish line together celebrating in the main field.
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Vingegaard took his first Grand Tour victory. Last year he still finished second behind Pogačar on the Old Lady, but this year he repeated the triumph of compatriot Bjarne Riis from 1996. Last week, in the mountain 11th stage, Vingegaard took advantage of a weaker day of the reigning two-time champion Pogačar and stripped him of the yellow jersey, which then, with the help of his top defended the team.
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He definitively confirmed the victory in Saturday’s time trial, in which he beat Pogačar by eight seconds and was just short of teammate Wout van Aert. The Belgian was another big personality of this year’s Tour: Vingegaard’s key helper took care of three of the six stage championships of the Jumbo-Visma team, and he dominated the points competition. In addition to the most prestigious yellow jersey, Vingegaard won the dotted jersey for the best climber, Pogačar defended the white jersey for the best young rider.
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The start of the last stage was, as usual, in a festive spirit. For the first kilometers after the start in the trendy Défense district of Paris, the peloton rode at a slow pace, jersey holders posed for photographers and members of the Jumbo-Visma stable clinked champagne as they drove.
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The pace of the race increased significantly only after arriving in the center of Paris. Five kilometers before the finish line, on the climb to the Arc de Triomphe, the sprinter teams preparing for the mass finish were surprised by the arrival of Pogačar and Thomas, but their attack did not last long. Philipsen, who was second behind Van Aaert last year on the Champs-Élysées, managed to take the prized victory.
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| Business card of the Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard: |
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| Date and place of birth: 10 December 1996, Hillerslev (Thisted; Denmark) |
| Nationality: Denmark |
| Height and weight: 175 cm, 60 kg |
| Professional career: ColoQuick CULT (2016-18), Jumbo-Visma (since 2019) |
| Biggest achievements: Tour de France winner (2022); winner of the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali stage race (2021), 2nd at Tour de France (2021); winner of two stages in the Tour de France |
| Family: married, with his wife Trine they have a daughter Frida; his mother-in-law is the famous Danish cook Rosa Kildahl |
| Others: mountaineer who started cycling in the Danish continental team ColoQuick CULT, earned extra money by working in a factory as a fish packer, used the money he earned to go to train in the mountains; his first success on the international stage was second place in the Tour of China (2016); in 2019 he transferred to the Dutch professional stable of the highest category Jumbo-Visma and won the 6th stage of the Tour of Poland race in the same year; in 2020 he completed the Vuelta as the domestic of the winner Primož Roglič (he was 46th overall); won stage 5 of the Tour of the United Arab Emirates last year and overall victory in the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali stage race; then he took on the task of supporting Roglič at the Tour de France, where in the end he successfully jumped behind Roglič with an overall second place (a battered Roglič retired after the eighth stage after several falls) – Vingegaard was twice second in stages and twice third in time trials; this year he was second overall in the Tirreno-Adriatico and Critérium du Dauphiné stage races; Vingegaard is the second Danish winner of the Tour – in 1996 Bjärne Riis celebrated the overall triumph (in 2007 he admitted to the systematic use of doping, even during the Tour). |
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