{"id":538316,"date":"2026-03-15T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:27:09","slug":"jonas-vingegaard-wins-first-paris-nice-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538316\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard wins first Paris-Nice title"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his third attempt, Jonas Vingegaard won Paris-Nice on Sunday. He adds the Race to the Sun to his two Tour de France yellow jerseys, his Vuelta a Espana title and overall wins at Tirreno-Adriatico, Itzulia Basque Country and the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9. Vingegaard took two stages on his way to the victory, and Lenny Martinez barely edged the Dane out of his third on Sunday. By coming 14th in the Race to the Sun, Canada\u2019s Nickolas Zukowsky (Pinarello-Q36.5) achieved his career-best WorldTour stage race GC.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Stage 4 saw Zukowsky rise 67 spots on GC in brutal conditions. Photo: Getty Images\/Pinarello-Q36.5<\/p>\n

Preliminaries<\/p>\n

With Jonas Vingegaard leading second-place Dani Martinez by 3:22 and Martinez on top of Georg Steinhauser by 2:28, there seemed like little chance of the first two spots shifting. However, K\u00e9vin Vauquelin, who had a bad day on the stage that Juan Ayuso crashed out, was only 19 seconds off the podium.<\/p>\n

The Course<\/p>\n

The final day around Nice contained three Cat. 1 climbs, the most prominent Col de la Porte in the first half. C\u00f4te de Chateauneuf-Villevieille was plopped in the middle. The final Cat. 1 was the shortest and steepest: C\u00f4te du Linguador, 3.3 km of 8.2 percent, cresting 19 km from the finish. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Assume they\u2019ve reached the sun. Image by La FlammeRouge.<\/p>\n

Zukowsky\u2019s compatriot Guillaume Boivin did not start the final stage. <\/p>\n

Vingegaard was leading the mountains classification but only by eight points over Casper Pedersen and 12 over Mathis Le Berre. Would these two aspirants join the last breakaway of the 84th edition? Five riders dashed away but Pedersen and Le Berre weren\u2019t aboard. However, this quintet didn\u2019t make it to Col de la Porte, whose slopes elicited plenty of slicing and dicing before Valentin Paret-Peintre tipped over solo.<\/p>\n

Paret-Peintre carried on solo towards C\u00f4te de Chateauneuf-Villevieille, Marc Soler his closest pursuer. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Soler is a dogged pursuer.<\/p>\n

C\u00f4te de Chateauneuf-Villevieille was a big problem for Dani Martinez, who bumped into a teammate and hit the ditch hard. The Colombian chased behind Vingegaard, Vauquelin and Steinhauser. Could he hang on to the podium? It was all Red Bull hands to the pump. Demon descender Paret-Peintre chipped away at Vingegaard\u2019s KOM lead but he was running out of mountains.<\/p>\n

Paret-Peintre was lassoed with 24 km to go. At that point, Martinez and company trailed a minute. On the final climb of the 84th edition, C\u00f4te du Linguador, Vingegaard attacked, Lenny Martinez joining in. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Vingegaard and Lenny Martinez on the attack.<\/p>\n

Steinhauser and Vauquelin were in the closest chase group. Lenny Martinez was on a romp, but Dani Martinez still had to toil to ensure his final podium. French Martinez led out the sprint and barely held off the Dane. Colombian Martinez fought through the pain to hold his runner-up spot. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the third consecutive season that a Visma rider has won Paris-Nice. Vingegaard\u2019s next race is the Volta a Catalunya, March 23-29.<\/p>\n

2026 Paris-Nice, Stage 8
1) Lenny Martinez (France\/Bahrain-Victorious) 3:06:42
2) Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark\/Visma-Lease a Bike) s.t.
3) Harold Tejeda (Colombia\/XDS-Astana) +0:10
33) Nickolas Zukowsky (Canada\/Pinarello-Q36.5)<\/p>\n

2026 Paris-Nice Final GC
1) Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark\/Visma-Lease a Bike) 25:25:11
2) Dani Martinez (Colombia\/Red Bull) +4:23
3) Georg Steinhauser (Germany\/EF Education-Easypost) +6:07
4) K\u00e9vin Vauquelin (France\/Ineos) +6:24
14) Nickolas Zukowsky (Canada\/Pinarello-Q36.5) +28:29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his third attempt, Jonas Vingegaard won Paris-Nice on Sunday. He adds the Race to the Sun to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[206048,78767,49,48,635,20826,5900,18782,28668,82,11588],"class_list":["post-538316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-paris-nice","tag-2026-uci-worldtour","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-guillaume-boivin","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-lenny-martinez","tag-nickolas-zukowsky","tag-sports","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538316","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=538316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}