{"id":144925,"date":"2025-09-15T05:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/144925\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:38:11","slug":"2025-vuelta-a-espana-final-standings-vingegaard-wins-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/144925\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a Final Standings: Vingegaard Wins Overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pidcock and Riccitello big GC surprises while UAE racks up 7 stage victories and 2nd with Almeida in protest-marred Spanish grand tour. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vingegaard\" src=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2235379975.jpg\" data-loaded=\"true\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2235379975.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"py-tight text-left font-utility text-utility3-size leading-utility3-line-height text-text-secondary\">Visma-Lease a Bike celebrates its second grand tour victory of 2025. (Photo: Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Updated September 14, 2025 02:53PM<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-primary underline hover:text-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/tag\/visma-lease-a-bike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visma-Lease a Bike<\/a> won its second grand tour of 2025 after <a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-primary underline hover:text-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/tag\/jonas-vingegaard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> secured the red jersey Saturday atop the Bola del Mundo.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s final stage and podium ceremony were canceled after thousands of protesters poured onto the Madrid finishing circuit to show solidarity with Palestine during the ongoing war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Protests marked the Vuelta since it hit Spanish roads in stage 5, and despite the cancellation of Sunday\u2019s final stage, the results will stand.<\/p>\n<p>With victory, Vingegaard adds his third grand tour title to his two Tour de France victories in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Visma closes out another banner grand tour racing season, winning the Giro d\u2019Italia with Simon Yates and finishing second at the Tour with Vingegaard.<\/p>\n<p>UAE Emirates-XRG won seven stages, the best team prize, and finished second with Jo\u00e3o Almeida, to go along with second in the Giro with Isaac del Toro and victory at the Tour with Tadej Poga\u010dar.<\/p>\n<p>Q36.5\u2019s Tom Pidcock surprised many to hit third for his first grand tour podiium and fended off attacks from Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe\u2019s Jai Hindley.<\/p>\n<p>American\u2019s rode well, with Visma\u2019s Sepp Kuss finishing seventh in his second-best grand tour ride after his 2023 Vuelta win, while Matteo Jorgenson rode to 10th in his second career top 10.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"text-primary underline hover:text-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/tag\/matthew-riccitello\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matthew Riccitello<\/a> was the breakout rider of this Vuelta, climbing to fifth overall and the best young rider\u2019s jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Mads Pedersen won the green points jersey and Jay Vine won two stages and the King of the Mountains jersey.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pidcock and Riccitello big GC surprises while UAE racks up 7 stage victories and 2nd with Almeida in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,54263,82,62507,57421,68586,62999,72751,54267],"class_list":{"0":"post-144925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-parent_category-road","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tag-joao-almeida","14":"tag-tag-jonas-vingegaard","15":"tag-tag-matthew-riccitello","16":"tag-tag-tom-pidcock","17":"tag-tag-visma-lease-a-bike","18":"tag-type-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}