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Team Visma | Lease a Bike's season in numbers

Team Visma | Lease a Bike's season in numbers

The 2024 cycling year is behind us. Relive the past season of our teams in numbers!

Last season, 58 riders defended the colours of Team Visma | Lease a Bike, divided into three teams. Our riders collectively rode 363,693 competitive kilometres. That is nine times the circumference of the earth!

Team Visma | Lease a Bike ended the season with 61 wins. In a season filled with ups and downs, we witnessed some memorable moments. The Dutch team made history by becoming the first team ever to win Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico in the same year and Marianne Vos rode to her 250th professional victory in Dwars door Vlaanderen.

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Team Visma | Lease a Bike grabbed its first win in the Clasica de Almeria in early February thanks to Olav Kooij. It was the first of 32 victories the WorldTour team managed to record in 2024. Kooij won a total of eight races, with the ninth stage in the Giro d'Italia as highlight. It was his first stage win in a grand tour. Just like in 2023, Team Visma | Lease a Bike dominated the Flemish opening weekend. Jan Tratnik and Wout van Aert won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne. For the second season in a row, the Dutch team managed to win both classics.

grand tour stage wins

Team Visma | Lease a Bike recorded five grand tour stage wins in 2024. In the Tour de France, we witnessed the renaissance of Jonas Vingegaard, who managed to win stage eleven after recovering from a serious injury. In the Vuelta a España, Wout van Aert was the absolute protagonist. The Belgian won three stages, wore the red leader's jersey for two days and was leader in both the points and mountain classification. Unfortunately, a fall caused an early exit.

Jonas Vingegaard recorded the most victories last season. The Dane celebrated a total of nine times. Besides an emotional stage win in the Tour, he also captured overall victories in O Gran Camiño, Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour of Poland. Matteo Jorgenson (Paris-Nice) , Sepp Kuss (Vuelta a Burgos) and Koen Bouwman (Coppi e Bartali) also won an overall classification each.

bidons used during the Tour

Jorgenson impressed in his first season with Team Visma | Lease a Bike. The versatile American showed himself in the spring classics, culminating in his victory in Dwars door Vlaanderen. A few weeks earlier, he managed to win the overall classification of Paris-Nice. In the summer, he continued to show his excellent form in the Critérium du Dauphiné and the Tour de France. Discover all the statistics below!

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Team Visma | Lease a Bike Women

Our women's team raced 56,236 race kilometres in 2024. Seventeen times a rider from Team Visma | Lease a Bike Women was the strongest last season. Marianne Vos had an impressive spring with victories in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Dwars door Vlaanderen and Amstel Gold Race. She also won the overall classification in the Volta a Catalunya and the points classifications both the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift and the Vuelta Femenina. In that Vuelta , Riejanne Markus was on the final podium.

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Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development

The youngsters of our development team showed their talent once again last season. The fifteen promising riders rode a total of almost 76,000 kilometres. Colby Simmons racked up the most race kilometres: 6,991. Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development recorded twelve victories. The victory king was 19-year-old Jørgen Nordhagen with five wins. Furthermore, Matthew Brennan won the final stage of the Giro Next Gen and Darren van Bekkum won the Ronde de l'Isard.

Devo riders raced with the WorldTour team in 2024

In 2025, four riders from the development team will step up to Team Visma | Lease a Bike's WorldTour squad. Besides Jørgen Nordhagen, also Matthew Brennan, Tijmen Graat and Menno Huising signed a contract with the main squad. During the season, fourteen riders from Team Visma | Lease a Bike Development already had the chance to compete in races with the WorldTour team.

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© @MarcoGaianigo

Championships and Olympic Games

The Team Visma | Lease a Bike riders also managed to win at the national and international championships. Anna Henderson (Great Britain), Riejanne Markus (Netherlands) and Tomos Pattinson (Great Britain) became national time trial champions. In Hungary, Attila Valter took his third consecutive national title in the road race. In doing so, he equalled the record of three wins.

At the Olympics, three of our riders rode to a medal. Wout van Aert and Anna Henderson won bronze and silver in the Olympic time trial. In the road race, Marianne Vos sprinted to the silver medal, her third career Olympic medal. In early October, she achieved another milestone by becoming world gravel champion in Leuven. It was her fourteenth world title ever, across all cycling disciplines.

In Belgian Limburg, Edoardo Affini was crowned European time trial champion again. The Italian could celebrate again a day later, as he and his teammates captured the European title in the Mixed Relay. In the road race, Kooij sprinted to silver. Shortly afterwards, Affini finished third in the World Cup time trial.

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