{"id":542750,"date":"2026-03-15T22:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/542750\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T22:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:07:08","slug":"jonas-vingegaard-claims-maiden-paris-nice-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/542750\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard claims maiden Paris-Nice title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard claimed his first Paris-Nice title after finishing second in Sunday&#8217;s finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vingegaard was pipped to the line on stage eight by Frenchman Lenny Martinez but had already done enough to stay clear in the general classification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colombia&#8217;s Harold Tejada &#8211; winner of Friday&#8217;s sixth stage &#8211; crossed the line third in a small group seven seconds behind the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vingegaard, 29, finished four minutes and 23 seconds clear of Daniel Martinez to seal the title after the Colombian slipped adrift following a crash with 50km remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory sets the Dane on a positive path before his tilt at a Giro d&#8217;Italia and Tour de France double in May and July respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Saturday&#8217;s stage had to be shortened because of heavy snow on the summit finish, conditions were much better for Sunday&#8217;s 145km stage, which started and ended in Nice on the Allianz Riviera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vingegaard led Martinez to break away from the peloton for the final climb but the Frenchman found an extra gear to come out on top in the sprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard claimed his first Paris-Nice title after finishing second in Sunday&#8217;s finale.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-542750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}