Sunday, March 15th, stage 8: Nice > Nice
A year after crashing out of Paris-Nice 2025, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) claimed emphatic revenge in the 84th edition of the Race to the Sun, concluded on Sunday at the Allianz Riviera stadium. The Danish star had to settle for second place on the day, behind Bahrain Victorious’ Lenny Martinez – the only rider able to follow him on the final climb of the race and the first French winner of the final stage since Arthur Vichot in 2014 -, but he increased his margin in the overall standings to historic proportions. His gap of 4’23’’ to Dani Martinez (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) is the biggest recorded between winner and runner-up of Paris-Nice since 1939 and the fourth biggest in the history of the race. Vingegaard is the first Danish winner of Paris-Nice. He also secured the polka-dot jersey, as the winner of the KOM standings, and took the green jersey, as the winner of the points standings. Third in the overall standings, Georg Steinhauser (EF Education-EasyPost) also stepped on the podium to receive the best young rider’s white jersey.
Stage 8
- Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) 3h06’43”
- Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) +00’00”
- Harold Tejada (XDS Astana Team) +00’07”
GC
- Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) 25h25’11”
- Daniel Martinez (Red Bull – Bora – Hansgrohe) +04’23”
- Georg Steinhauser (EF Education – EasyPost) +06’07”
