Vingegaard Completes the Grand Tour Set in Rome as Milan Rescues Lidl-Trek With a Last-Gasp Sprint
Sunday evening, Rome. Under the late-spring sun and against the backdrop of the Eternal City, Jonas Vingegaard rolled across the line in the maglia rosa to be crowned champion of the 2026 Giro d'Italia — and with it, to complete one of the rarest feats in cycling. The Dane is now a winner of all three Grand Tours, the eighth rider in history to assemble the complete collection, and he has done it on his very first attempt at the corsa rosa.
The final stage itself was the customary procession into the capital, the GC men toasting prosecco on the bike before the road tilted into the circuit laps around the Roman monuments. There the sprinters were given their stage, and it was Jonathan Milan who seized it, powering clear on the Via dei Fori Imperiali to rescue what had been a frustrating final week for Lidl-Trek. The Italian, already the dominant fast man of this Giro, signed off with the stage win his team had craved.
For Milan, the victory was a release. Having taken multiple stages in the opening fortnight before the race turned to the mountains, the powerful Friulano closed the book on his home Grand Tour with a flourish in front of a roaring Italian crowd, edging the bunch kick to keep the maglia ciclamino debate firmly his.
But the day, the week and the three weeks belonged to Vingegaard. The final general classification reads as a monument to control: the Visma-Lease a Bike leader finished 5:22 clear of Felix Gall, with Jai Hindley rounding out the podium at 6:25 after a relentless three-week fight from the Australian and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe.
Five stage wins, the overall, and a place in the history books: it is hard to imagine a more complete Grand Tour. Vingegaard led from the first week in Bulgaria's Grande Partenza, survived the mid-race carnage of crashes and illness that thinned the contenders, and then turned the final mountain block into a personal showcase, gifting the queen stage to Sepp Kuss at Alleghe before taking Piancavallo for himself.
"This is a dream I didn't even let myself have," Vingegaard said, the trofeo senza fine in his hands. "To win the Giro, and to complete all three Grand Tours — I will need time to understand it." Attention now swings inexorably to July and a renewed rivalry with Tadej Pogacar at the Tour de France, where the Dane will arrive not as a question mark but as the man who has just rewritten his own legacy.