{"id":544324,"date":"2026-03-16T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544324\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:54:12","slug":"final-day-flourish-sees-jonas-vingegaard-crush-paris-nice-gc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544324\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Day Flourish Sees Jonas Vingegaard Crush Paris-Nice GC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danish rider close second on stage to Lenny Martinez, Vingegaard has biggest GC winning margin in almost 90 years.<\/p>\n

\"Jonas<\/p>\n

Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Lenny Martinez (Team Bahrain – Victorious) distance the other GC riders on the final stage of the 2026 Paris-Nice (Photo: Szymon Gruchalski\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Updated March 15, 2026 11:27AM<\/p>\n

Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> sent a clear message to Tour de France rivals such as Tadej Poga\u010dar and Remco Evenepoel on Sunday, sealing his overall win with dominance at Paris-Nice<\/a>. The Danish Visma-Lease a Bike rider dropped all bar Lenny Martinez<\/a> 21km from the finish and while the latter took the stage, Vingegaard raced to a stunning GC win.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard was visibly stronger in the finale. Rather than allowing the Frenchman to take the final stage as a reward for his collaboration, he disputed the sprint, forcing Martinez to lead out in the final kilometer. He then tried to lunge by before the line, but appeared to leave it too late and came up just short.<\/p>\n

However the distancing of all of his GC rivals saw him end the race 4:23 ahead of Dani Mart\u00ednez<\/a> (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), who crashed during the stage. Georg Steinhauser (EF Education-EasyPost) was next, finishing 6:07 behind.<\/p>\n

The gaps are staggering for an eight day event, and Vingegaard\u2019s dominance is further underlined by his two stage wins, plus victories in the points and mountains classifications.<\/p>\n

The final winning margin was the fourth-biggest in the history of the event, with the other three occurring back in the 1930s.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday was almost the perfect day,\u201d he smiled. \u201cWe had a lot of fun today, we raced full gas all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Beating Jonas is even more special\u2019
\n\"LennyLenny Martinez (Team Bahrain \u2013 Victorious) beats Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) to win the final stage of Paris-Nice (Photo: Szymon Gruchalski\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The final stage crossed three category one climbs and Vingegaard\u2019s crucial acceleration came on the last of those, the C\u00f4te du Linguador.<\/p>\n

He put in a searing acceleration with 21km to go, with Martinez straining to hold his wheel, and the two then worked together on the run in towards the finish. Often a GC winner will allow a breakaway companion to share the spoils but on this occasion, Vingegaard really wanted to reach the line first.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I would have loved to win the stage as well but Lenny was very strong,\u201d he said. \u201cHe deserves to win as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

They were seven seconds clear of the next group, led in by Harold Tejada (XDS Astana Team).<\/p>\n

Martinez\u2019s result was his first victory of the year, following on from podium finishes in the Faun-Ard\u00e8che Classic and the Faun Drome Classic.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019I\u2019d been chasing this win since the start of the season.,\u201d he said. \u201cBeating Jonas after going on a raid with him makes it even more special!\u201d<\/p>\n

Martinez\u2019s GC chances more or less ended in the team time trial on stage 3 when his Bahrain-Victorious team was over a minute behind the winners Ineos Grenadiers, dropping 49 seconds to Vingegaard\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n

However he is exiting this race in fine form and with a big morale boost prior to the Ardennes classics.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard also has more pep in his step, and will feel psyched looking towards the Volta Catalunya and the Giro d\u2019Italia.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danish rider close second on stage to Lenny Martinez, Vingegaard has biggest GC winning margin in almost 90…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,214038,63,784,68224,85,269682,269683,69110,269684,251345,67883],"class_list":["post-544324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-audio-true","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-daniel-martinez","tag-tag-georg-steinhauser","tag-tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-tag-lenny-martinez","tag-tag-paris-nice","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544324","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=544324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}