Jonas Vingegaard Statistics, Records, Watts, and More: The Best Climber Ever?

Jonas Vingegaard on a podium after winning a Tour de France 2023. Source: Sirotti

This article summarizes the most impressive stats, performances, and records of one of the greatest cyclists of all time, Jonas Vingegaard. I created them based on several sources and also my own calculations. These stats are updated once a year at the end of the cycling season.

Hopefully, you will like them. Please contact me or comment below if you know of any other records or interesting stats about Jonas.

NOTES

  • Most of the following statistics are based on Jonas Vingegaard’s professional career at the World Tour level, where he has been riding since 2019.
  • I update these stats once a year at the end of the season.

Jonas Vingegaard Victories and Win Rates

GT Victories
WT Victories
GC Victories

During his career, Jonas Vingegaard has won 27 races from 251 race days, a win rate of 10.8%! He has won 6 GC races (of which 2×TdF). He rarely participates in one-day races; he mainly focuses on stage races. He has already won 18 stages.

His top 10 rate is even more impressive. Since 2019, he has finished in the top 10 in 69.2% of races (or stages) he completed1.

In 2023, Jonas Vingegaard won 1 one-day race, 4 GCs, 9 stages, and 2 time trials. His win rate was 23.1%, meaning that, on average, he won every 4th race2 he entered. He finished 41.5% of last year’s races on the podium and 49.2% in the top 10!

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2023 Win Rate
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2023 Podium Rate
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2023 Top 10 Rate

Jonas Vingegaard has only 5 DNFs and 1 DNS in his WT career. He finished all the races he started in 2021 and 2023.

Jonas Vingegaard averages about 7811 racing kilometers per year.

Line chart showing Jonas Vingegaard Racing Kilometers between 2019 and 2023.
Jonas Vingegaard Racing Kilometers

The longest race that Jonas Vingegaard has ever ridden was Liège-Bastogne-Liège (2021), which was 259.1 km long.

The shortest race or stage3 that Jonas Vingegaard rode was the 1a stage of the 2021 Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali from Gatteo to Gatteo, and it was only 97.8 km long.

The highest average speed of Jonas Vingegaard in a race or stage4 that he won was 47.05 km/h. It was the 5th stage of the 2023»75thCritérium du Dauphiné from Cormoranche-sur-Saône to Salins-les-Bains.

Jonas loves racing in Denmark and France. He has participated in 11 different races here. His next-most visited countries for racing are Belgium, Spain, and Italy (6).

Jonas Vingegaard in Grand Tours

Jonas Vingegaard has won the Tour de France GC classification 2 times (2022 and 2023). He also won the mountains classifications in 2022. He is also the first Danish to win the Tour de France twice.

Jonas Vingegaard has won 3 stages at the Tour de France and 2 at Vuelta a España.

Jonas Vingegaard has finished in the top 3 in 4 of 5 Grand Tours that he’s finished (Vuelta 2023, Tour 2021-2023).

Jonas Vingegaard won the 2022 and 2023 Tour de France with a BMI of about 20.6, which is ~1.1 lower than the Tour de France GC winners’ BMI average.

The BMIs of the Tour de France general classification winners
General Classification Winner BMI

Jonas Vingegaard’s Most Impressive Watt Performances

The following power performances are based on calculations from Gabriel Stróżyk (NaichacaCycling) and charts from Kārlis Ozols (CyclingGraphs). Each performance is estimated in etalon watts per kilogram (ᵉW/kg).

  • Jonas Vingegaard did 7.38 ᵉW/Kg for 13:31 min on a TT bike (!) on Côte de Domancy to Combloux in 2023.
  • Jonas Vingegaard did 7.46 ᵉW/Kg for 11:17 min on Alto de Arrate in 2023.
  • Jonas Vingegaard did 7.01 ᵉW/Kg for 16:24 min on La Asturiana in 2023.
  • Jonas Vingegaard did 6.92 ᵉW/Kg for 20:58 min on Col de Marie Blanque in 2023.
  • Jonas Vingegaard did 6.32 ᵉW/Kg for 36:30 min on Hautacam in 2022.
  • Jonas Vingegaard did 6.09 ᵉW/Kg for 50:47 min on Col du Tourmalet in 2023.
  • Jonas Vingegaard did 5.75 ᵉW/Kg for 59:15 min on Mont Ventoux in 2021.

Jonas Vingegaard FAQ

Sources and Notes

  1. Excluding TTT, points GC, KOM GC, and youth GC. ↩︎
  2. Includes one-day races, GCs, stages, and time trials. ↩︎
  3. Excluding prologues, ITT, and TTT ↩︎
  4. ITTs and TTTs excluded. ↩︎

Preview image source: Sirotti

2 thoughts on “Jonas Vingegaard Statistics, Records, Watts, and More: The Best Climber Ever?”

  1. Profile picture of Petr Minarik - the founder of cyclistshub.com

    I have just been looking for similar stats about Jonas for a long time and yours are the best I’ve discovered till now. Good job!

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