Visma unveil special kit to honour Vingegaard’s Grand Tour treble
The Visma | Lease a Bike riders will race the final stage of the 2026 Giro in a special kit paying tribute to the Dane’s sweep of all three Grand Tours. The Dane himself will, of course, start the final stage in the pink jersey.
The dark kit features the silhouettes of the three Grand Tour countries, France, Italy and Spain, in the colours of their respective leader’s jerseys.
By winning the Giro d’Italia, Vingegaard will become the eighth rider in history to complete that treble, following Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Felice Gimondi, Alberto Contador, Vincenzo Nibali, Chris Froome and Jacques Anquetil. The names of those seven riders, along with Vingegaard’s, also appear on the jersey Visma will wear today.
The 29-year-old Dane previously won the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023, and the Vuelta a España in 2025. The Giro d’Italia will now be added to that list.
It is not the first time Visma | Lease a Bike have worn a special kit to celebrate a Grand Tour treble. In 2023, the team raced the final stage of the Vuelta a España in a one-off jersey as Sepp Kuss rode towards overall victory in Madrid, after Primož Roglič and Jonas Vingegaard had already won the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France earlier that season.
That made the team the first in history to win all three Grand Tours in the same year.
After winning the Giro, Vingegaard’s next challenge is to take on Tadej Pogačar at the Tour de France, after suffering two consecutive defeats against the Slovenian. It also means that Vingegaard has another milestone within reach: winning three Grand Tours in a row.
Only a select group of riders have achieved such a feat. Chris Froome won the Tour de France and Vuelta a España in 2017 before adding the Giro d’Italia in 2018, while Eddy Merckx completed an even longer sequence in the early 1970s, winning the 1972 Giro and Tour before taking the 1973 Vuelta and Giro. At the time, however, the Vuelta was still held in spring, before the Giro.
Catching Merckx’s streak does not appear realistic for Vingegaard, as a start in this year’s Vuelta is effectively ruled out.
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