Jonas Vingegaard joins the Volta a Catalunya's collection of stars
January 14 th 2025 - 12:30 [GMT + 1]
Jonas Vingegaard, double winner of the Tour de France, has confirmed this Tuesday the presence of the Volta a Catalunya in his 2025 calendar in the official presentation of his Team Visma-Lease a Bike team. The Danish cyclist will make his debut in this way in the historic Catalan cycling race and will seek to take over from Tadej Pogačar as winner of the race on his way to the Tour de France, joining a list of stars that already included another former winner as the Slovenian Primož Roglič.
The 28-year-old Danish cyclist has confirmed the presence of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya in his 2025 calendar, which will include the assault on two of the Grand Tours, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. The Catalan UCI World Tour race, which once again assures the presence of the biggest stars of the world cycling scene, will hold its 104th edition between the 24th and 30th of March.
After the stellar victories in the last two editions of the Slovenian Tadej Pogačar (2024) and Primož Roglič (2023), the double winner of the Tour de France joins the Catalan race, which continues to have as protagonists of the last editions the great dominators of the Grand Tours of the last five years. In the Volta, the winners of the great stage races of the last few seasons have shone, such as Pogačar (triple winner of the Tour and a Giro) and Roglič (four times winner of the Vuelta and a Giro), the North American Sepp Kuss (winner of the Vuelta 2023) or the Belgian Remco Evenepoel (World, Olympic and Vuelta 2022 champion).
"We are glad that, year after year, the best cyclists in the world choose the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya as one of their main objectives for the season. In recent years, we have been able to enjoy the greatest present stars with cyclists such as Tadej Pogačar, Primož Roglič, Remco Evenepoel, Sepp Kuss, Enric Mas and many others, and it is a great joy to add the name of Jonas Vingegaard this 2025", celebrates the general director of Volta a Catalunya, Rubèn Peris.
Vingegaard, winner of the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023, is one of the few riders who has been able to beat last season's dominator, Tadej Pogačar, who made his mark by dominating the 103rd edition of the Volta a Catalunya before going on to a historic year with wins in the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and World Championship. For his part, after a major crash in April, Vingegaard was able to recover in record time to take second overall in the Tour de France behind the Slovenian, who also won a stage victory. This year, the winner of other WorldTour events such as the Tour of the Basque Country, Tirreno-Adriatico, Criterium de Dauphiné and Tour of Poland, will be looking to add the Volta a Catalunya to his list of victories, where he will take over from Pogačar himself.
It will be Vingegaard's debut in the Catalan race, which in recent years has also seen the victory of a rider from the Dutch Team Visma-Lease a Bike (then Jumbo-Visma) in the 2023 edition, won by the Slovenian Primož Roglič, who is one of the other riders who has already confirmed his presence in the Volta a Catalunya in 2025. A fact that multiplies the expectation for the Catalan race, which will once again feature an exciting seven-stage route between Sant Feliu de Guíxols and Barcelona with up to three mountain stages and the presence of all the great teams of world cycling.