Video: How a fish factory worker became a Grand Tour champion
Jonas Vingegaard worked in a fish factory in northern Denmark until he was 21. Four years later, he won the Tour de France. Four years later still, he is fighting to complete the Grand Tour Grand Slam by winning the Giro d'Italia.
Vingegaard has now won the Tour de France twice and has finished second three times. He came back from a 2024 crash that should have ended his career to finish second at the Tour just twelve weeks later. Last year, he won the Vuelta a Espana and this week, for the first time, he starts the Giro d'Italia, chasing the career Grand Slam, a feat only seven riders in cycling history have ever achieved.
This is the story of how a quiet Dane from a fishing village became one of the most consistent Grand Tour riders of his generation. From a quiet upbringing in Thy, to a Strava KOM on the Coll de Rates that got the WorldTour to notice him, to the Col du Granon in 2022, the day Jonas Vingegaard arrived.
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