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Jonas Vingegaard puts the icing on the cake of a remarkable year for Team Visma | Lease a Bike by winning the Vuelta a España for the first time in his career. During the last Grand Tour of the year, Vingegaard has to battle illness for several days, yet still secures three stage wins along the way. The final showdown takes place on the vertical slopes of the Bola del Mundo, where Vingegaard rides away to win in the red jersey ahead of teammate Sepp Kuss, who finishes seventh overall. The podium ceremony the next day becomes a moment that will live forever in the minds of many fans, as the team improvises a podium from cooling boxes to celebrate the winners of La Vuelta.
The Tour de France Femmes begins in the best possible way, as Marianne Vos sprints to victory on the hilly opening stage and spends several days in the yellow jersey. Things only get better when Pauline Ferrand-Prévot delivers a performance for the history books on the summit finish to Col de la Madeleine, where the French icon takes a huge win and rides into yellow before the last stage. Cheered on by the whole of France and supported by her teammates, Ferrand-Prévot doubles up on the final mountain stage, winning in yellow and securing the team’s first Tour de France Femmes title. The team becomes only the second in history to win both the men’s and the women’s Tour de France - though not in the same year.
Jonas Vingegaard goes down fighting in the Tour de France, finishing second overall. The team sets the Dane up for a series of big attacks in the final week, but the competition holds firm. During the Tour, Simon Yates claims a stage win on stage ten, and Wout van Aert goes all in on the final day, dropping Pogačar on Montmartre on his way to a solo victory in the rain-soaked Parisian streets. The team also celebrates victory in the team classification on the podium on the Champs-Élysées.
The 2025 Giro d’Italia goes down as one of the most unpredictable Grand Tours of the modern era, as Simon Yates turns everything on its head on the mythical slopes of the Colle delle Finestre. Yates attacks the two favourites, Del Toro and Carapaz, early and catches Wout van Aert just after the summit. From there, the gap to his competitors grows enormously, and the Brit secures an emotional Giro victory the next day in Rome – on the same day Olav Kooij also takes his second stage win of the race. Another memorable moment takes place in the historical town of Siena, known from Strade Bianche, where Wout van Aert hangs on for a popular win after a fierce battle on the gravel roads and the final climb.
On 12 April, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot enters the velodrome in Roubaix alone, crossing the line as the team’s first Paris–Roubaix winner. The victory is secured with a big solo attack 25 kilometres from the finish, after Marianne Vos had selflessly waited for her teammate during an earlier dangerous move. The triumph comes just a week after Ferrand-Prévot had taken second place in the Tour of Flanders. On the men's side, Wout van Aert takes fourth in both Flanders and Roubaix.
For the second year in a row, Matteo Jorgenson brings home the yellow jersey in Paris–Nice, following a dominant week that includes a victory in the team time trial. Elsewhere in France, 19-year-old Matthew Brennan wins multiple one-day races in his first professional season and ends the month with two stage wins in the Volta a Catalunya – his first at WorldTour level. It would only be the beginning of a historic breakthrough season for the Brit.
The Vuelta a España marks the final race in the cycling career of Robert Gesink. The Dutch rider was a flagbearer for a generation of Dutch cyclists and a guardian of the team’s culture. Throughout his entire career, he was part of what is now Team Visma | Lease a Bike, serving as a leader in Grand Tours, a stage hunter, and a road captain.
In the Tour de France Femmes, Marianne Vos once again showcases her class by taking home the green points jersey for the second time.
Just three months after their heavy crashes, Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert line up at the start of the Tour de France. Their mere presence in the toughest race of the season is already impressive. Jonas wins a stage and once again competes for the overall victory but ultimately finishes second—a remarkable achievement considering how his season unfolded.
Within the span of a week, team leaders Wout van Aert and Jonas Vingegaard suffer heavy crashes. For Van Aert, it marks the end of his spring classics campaign, while for Vingegaard, it dashes his hopes of defending his title in the Tour of the Basque Country. From that moment on, a long and challenging recovery begins for both riders. Against all odds, they manage to make it to the start of the Tour de France in the summer.
Despite the setbacks, there is yet another double victory to celebrate. Matteo Jorgenson and Marianne Vos both win Dwars door Vlaanderen. However, these victories feel different from those during the Opening Weekend, overshadowed by the team leader’s serious crash.
For the first time in the history of the sport, a team wins both the spring stage races Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico in the same year. Jonas Vingegaard is unstoppable in Italy, winning two stages and the overall classification. In France, newcomer Matteo Jorgenson showcases the progress he has made since joining the team. The American claims victory in the race, finishing in his European home base after a thrilling battle.
With a double, double victory during the Belgian Opening Weekend, Team Visma | Lease a Bike starts 2024 strong. Jan Tratnik wins the men's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, while Marianne Vos takes the victory in the women's race. A day later, Wout van Aert strikes in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, winning the race for the first time in his career.
From 2024 the team rebranded as Team Visma | Lease a Bike and presented the star-studded ensemble in front of a full house in Move Amsterdam. Despite the name change and 'new' main sponsors, the colours yellow and black are kept, allowing the team to continue building a legacy. The colours are part of the firm identity and will be secured in the company behind the team, under a new company name: Yellow B.
With the overall win in La Vuelta a España, the team becomes the first cycling team ever to win all three grand tours (Giro, Tour, Vuelta) in one year and also do so with three different riders (Primoz Roglic, Jonas Vingegaard and Sepp Kuss). With the entire organisation, we have given colour to sports history: Colouring History!
The team dominates La Vuelta a España from start to finish and surprises friend and foe by winning the final classification with Sepp Kuss. In addition, the team wins no less than five stages and fills the entire podium of the final classification with Jonas Vingegaard (second) and Primoz Roglic (third).
Christophe Laporte becomes European Champion on the road. The Frenchman grabbed the gold medal in Drenthe, the Netherlands, in a nerve-wracking duel with teammates Wout van Aert and Olav Kooij.
For the second year in a row, Team Jumbo-Visma wins the Tour de France with Jonas Vingegaard. Where it has long been a second’s game between Vingegaard and his rival Pogacar, the Dane delivers a sledgehammer blow in the time trial to Combloux and wins by a minute and a half. The following day, Tadej Pogacar breaks on the Col de La Loze and Jonas Vingegaard secures his second Tour victory.
After a stunning finale, the team wins the Giro d'Italia for the first time. Primoz Roglic captures the pink jersey in a nerve-wracking time trial in the penultimate stage, allowing him to ride into Rome in the pink jersey the following day and hold up the Trofeo Senza Fine opposite the Colosseum.
The team has a great start to 2023, including victories in Omloop het Nieuwsblad, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, E3 Saxo Classic, Gent-Wevelgem and Dwars door Vlaanderen. In Gent-Wevelgem, Wout van Aert and Christophe Laporte cross the finish line together. The victory is awarded to Christophe Laporte which demonstrates the team spirit.
Tobias Foss surprisingly becomes world time trial champion in Wollongong, Australia. This makes him the first road World Champion for our team.
For the first time, the Tour de France Femmes is organised. Marianne Vos wins two stages and wears the yellow jersey for a long time. She eventually wins the first ever green jersey in the Tour de France Femmes.
The team achieves the absolute dream goal that the entire organisation has been working towards for so long. Team Jumbo-Visma wins the Tour de France with Jonas Vingegaard. The team also conquers the green jersey with Wout van Aert and wins no less than six stages.
A remarkable Giro d'Italia in which Koen Bouwman eventually managed to win two stages. With 294 points, he overwhelmingly wins the mountain classification, making him the first Dutchman in 27 years to finish with the blue jersey around his shoulders.
In the first stage of Paris-Nice, Team Jumbo-Visma crushed the entire peloton on the final climb before the finish. Wout van Aert, Primoz Roglic and Christophe Laporte race together to the finish, where Christophe Laporte finishes first.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Primoz Roglic wins the first gold cycling medal for the team in the individual time trial. Tom Dumoulin wins silver (time trial) and Wout van Aert also (road race). The team closes the Games in Japan with success.
After an unlucky start, the team recovered in the Tour de France with four stage wins and another second place in the overall classification. This time with top Danish talent Jonas Vingegaard. Wout van Aert makes history with victories in the queen stage, the time trial, and the sprint on the Champs-Elysées. He thereby demonstrated his versatile skills.
For the first time in the team's history, the Dutch home race, the Amstel Gold Race, is won, not once, but twice. Both Wout van Aert and Marianne Vos write the race to their names. Earlier that year, the same success was booked at Gent-Wevelgem.
The team will from now on also compete in various races with a women's team. Multiple World Champion and Olympic Champion Marianne Vos is the leader of the new women's team.
Team Jumbo-Visma crowned itself the best team in the world at the end of the year 2020 by finishing at the top of the world ranking for teams. A unique achievement and new highlight in the team's history
Team Jumbo-Visma wins La Vuelta a España for the second time in a row. Primoz Roglic once again takes home the red leader's jersey after a rivalling duel with Richard Carapaz. Again, he ends the season as the best cyclist in the world.
The team dominated the Tour de France, winning three stages and riding more than half the stages in the yellow leader's jersey. Primoz Roglic loses the yellow jersey on the Planche des Belles Filles time trial, one day before Paris. With his second place, though, he achieved the best final result of the team
Team Jumbo-Visma shoots out of the starting blocks after the Covid19 break and wins race after race. Wout van Aert first wins the iconic Strade Bianche and a week later also the team's first Monument: Milano-Sanremo.
The Team Jumbo-Visma Academy sees the light of day. Several initiatives to stimulate and development of cycling are set up. The team also starts a Development Team to better train future top talent according to the team's working methods.
The cycling team ends the 2019 season with a whopping 52 victories, making this its most successful season to that date. Dylan Groenewegen becomes the victory king of the peloton and Primoz Roglic is ranked first in the world rankings.
Team Jumbo-Visma wins a grand tour for the first time ever with Primoz Roglic winning La Vuelta a España. After an unfortunate start with a crash in the team time trial, he turned La Vuelta a España to his advantage and finished in Madrid with the red jersey around his shoulders.
In the same city of Brussels a day later, the team wins the team time trial by a great margin. Later in the Tour, Wout van Aert books his first stage victory in the Tour de France and Dylan Groenewegen also wins a stage for the third year in a row. Steven Kruijswijk, with his third place in the overall classification, becomes the team's first rider on the Tour de France podium.
The first stage of the Tour de France ends in a sprint in Brussels. As a total surprise, Mike Teunissen, normally the lead-out for Dylan Groenewegen, wins the stage, becoming the first Dutchman in 28 years to wear the yellow jersey.
Primoz Roglic secured his first podium finish in a major tour at the Giro d'Italia. He finished third in the overall classification and won both time trials.
Team LottoNL-Jumbo changed to Team Jumbo-Visma at the end of 2018. Jumbo and Visma are committing to the team for an indefinite period, giving the team the space to continue its development from a stable base.
After winning the Tour of the Basque Country and the Tour de Romandie, Primoz Roglic finished fourth in this year's Tour de France final classification, winning stage 19. Dylan Groenewegen also wins two stages in the most important race of the year.
Primoz Roglic established his name as a classification rider by winning both the Tour of the Basque Country and the Tour of Romandie within a month.
Belgian Victor Campenaerts becomes European time trial champion. The first ever international title for the team and a sign that the vision and development in time trial is paying off.
After three years without a stage win in the Tour de France, it is a double victory for the team. Primoz Roglic wins the tough mountain stage over the Galibier. Dylan Groenewegen achieves a dream goal for the team by winning the royal sprint on the Champs-Elysées in Paris.
Jos van Emden wins the final time trial of the Giro d'Italia in Milan, which was won that year by his good friend Tom Dumoulin. George Bennett wins the first World Tour stage race for the team with the Tour of California.
After a serious crash earlier in the year, which resulted in missing the Tour de France, Robert Gesink returned to La Vuelta a España and won the tough stage to the Col d'Aubisque in magnificent fashion.
Dylan Groenewegen crowns an excellent first season with the formation with the Dutch title. A week later he makes his debut in the Tour de France in red-white-and-blue.
Primoz Roglic wins his first stage in a major tour with a long individual time trial at the Giro d'Italia. Steven Kruijswijk rides in the pink leader's jersey for a good amount of time and seems to be in pole position to win the Giro d'Italia. Sadly, he crashed in a descent two days before the end and eventually finished fourth in the final classification.
After the bad season, the whole team meets to discuss the team culture and the main goal for the future. The dream goal becomes winning the Tour de France and as a guide to the shared culture, the Blanco Course is created. These are ten core values to reinforce the way we work together to achieve this dream goal.
2015 will go into the books as one of the worst years in the team's history. With only six wins, Team LottoNL-Jumbo is by far the worst performing team in the World Tour. Bert-Jan Lindeman provided one of the season's sparse highlights with a win in the seventh stage of La Vuelta a España.
The Tour de France starts with a great atmosphere in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Robert Gesink rides a fantastic Tour de France and finishes sixth in the final classification.
Following the sudden departure of Belkin, two new partners are found with LottoNL and Jumbo to facilitate a unique collaboration between Richard Plugge's cycling team and Jac Orie's skating team. In October 2014, Team LottoNL-Jumbo, the world's first combined cycling and skating team, was introduced to media and public in Tivoli Utrecht.
Lars Boom wins a stage in the Tour de France for the first time ever for the team, winning the heroic fifth stage on the cobblestones to Arenberg. Laurens ten Dam and Bauke Mollema both finish in the top ten of the classification, making this tour also known as Bau & Lau's Tour.
The American company Belkin signed up as the new main sponsor of the cycling team just before the Tour de France, making the team start the Tour as Belkin Pro Cycling Team. Bauke Mollema ranks high and finishes sixth in the overall classification. Later that year, he also wins stage seventeen in La Vuelta a España.
Tom Jelte-Slagter books the first success for the new Blanco Pro Cycling immediately at the Tour Down Under by winning the third stage and the overall classification at the Tour Down Under.
At the end of 2012, it was announced that Rabobank would permanently withdraw themselves as team sponsor. Under the leadership of Richard Plugge, a new start was made, and Blanco Pro Cycling was launched, with the aim of starting from a from a blank sheet of paper to rebuild the cycling team and ultimately give cycling back to the public.