Primož Roglič

He won the 9th stage, a 40.5 km individual time trial in Chianti.

That victory came as a surprise for many as Roglič had to use his spare bike because his bike did not meet the UCI requirements.

Roglič did not manage to transfer his cycle computer onto his spare bike in time for the start, and it was therefore hard for Roglič to know how much time he had left of the stage, and what his power numbers were.

Just two weeks after finishing the Giro d'Italia, Roglič won the Slovenian National Time Trial Championships.

Primož Roglič (born 29 October 1989) is a Slovenian professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam.

He started as a ski jumper and switched to cycling several years after an accident suffered at Planica.

Born in Trbovlje, Roglič started to compete in ski jumping in 2003, and was the Junior World Team event champion in 2007.

He has two Continental Cup wins, the second level of international ski jumping.

He set his personal best at a distance of 185 m in Planica.

In 2007, Roglič suffered a crash as a test jumper during official training in front of his home crowd at Letalnica bratov Gorišek, the ski flying hill in Planica, Slovenia.

He finished 10th in the Time trial at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

In 2011, Roglič performed his last international competition in Szczyrk and officially ended his ski jumping career in summer 2012.

Roglič took up cycling in 2012, after quitting ski jumping, because he felt it was too hard to be at the highest level of the sport.

He initially rode with the development team affiliated to the UCI Continental team, where he was coached by former professional cyclist Andrej Hauptman, who noted his power and helped him develop his bike handling skills.

At the age of 22, Roglič underwent testing at a sports lab, where his VO2 max was recorded at 80.2, close to the best numbers of riders such as Chris Froome and Egan Bernal.

Roglič has credited the work he undertook on building core stability, balance, flexibility and acrobatics as a ski jumper as being beneficial in his switch to cycling.

Roglič quickly made the jump to paid levels for the 2013 season with the continental team.

He took his first professional win the following year, taking a mountainous stage of the Tour d'Azerbaïdjan by winning a two-up sprint against Will Clarke.

After three seasons with the team – culminating in a successful 2015 season, including wins at the Tour de Slovenia and the Tour d'Azerbaïdjan – he signed a contract to ride with for the 2016 season.

During his first year at the World Tour level, Roglič immediately showed his talent when placing 5th overall at the Volta ao Algarve.

Just one month later Roglič finished 2nd on Stage 7 at the Volta a Catalunya, when he lost the sprint to Alexey Tsatevich.

Roglič started in the Giro d'Italia, where he surprised with a second place in the opening time trial in Apeldoorn, a hundredth of a second slower than winner Tom Dumoulin.

At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič became the first Slovenian to win a stage.

During the 2017 season, Roglič started out by winning the overall title at the Volta ao Algarve.

One month later he finished 4th overall in Tirreno–Adriatico, and at the Tour of the Basque Country, Roglič won stages 4 and 6 – the latter of which was an individual time trial – and finished 5th overall.

It did not take long before Roglič secured another win; at the end of April, Roglič participated in the Tour de Romandie where he won the Stage 5 individual time trial, en route to placing 3rd overall.

At his final preparation race before the Tour de France, Roglič won the prologue of the Ster ZLM Toer, and finished 2nd overall.

In June 2017, Roglič was named in the startlist for the Tour de France.

He won Stage 17 of the race becoming the first Slovenian to win a stage of the Tour de France.

He had also collected so many points on the climbs that he finished 2nd in the Mountains classification.

At the World Championships in Bergen, Roglič targeted the individual time trial, which finished on Mount Floyen, a 3 km climb averaging 9%.

He finished 2nd in the event behind Tom Dumoulin.

The 2018 season showed Roglič's potential in stage races and grand tours.

In September 2019, he won the Vuelta a España general classification, becoming the first Slovenian to win a Grand Tour competition.

He has also finished on the final podium at the 2019 Giro d'Italia (third overall), and at the 2020 Tour de France (second overall), being the first Slovenian to wear the yellow jersey, before losing out to compatriot Tadej Pogačar.

Between 2019 and 2021, Roglič spent a 75 weeks (former record) as the No. 1 ranked cyclist in the UCI Men's road racing world ranking, and has twice finished as the year-end No. 1.

He won the 2020 Vuelta a España, defending his title from 2019.

In 2021, he won an Olympic gold medal in the men's individual time trial.

He then went on to win his third Vuelta in a row, becoming the third rider to do so.

In 2023, he won the 106th edition of the Giro d'Italia, the first Slovenian rider to win a Giro.