Vuelta 2022 – Primoz Roglic secures Jumbo-Visma on stage 4 historic record at Tour of Spain

No other racing team in the history of the Vuelta had managed to produce four different overall leaders in the first four stages. Two teams had previously only managed a similar feat.

In 1946, Joaquín Olomos, Antonio Martín, Dalmacio Langarica and Delio Rodríguez successively held the overall lead for Team Galindo, albeit in five stages. Langarica, later overall winner of the sixth Tour of Spain, had defended his lead on the 4th stage.

58 years later, the North American US Postal team repeated the feat, also bringing four different riders to the (then) gold jersey in the first five stages: Floyd Landis, Max van Heeswijk, Benoît Joachim and Manuel Beltrán. Curiously enough, overall victory went to Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros), a driver who had been under contract with the Americans the previous year.

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In general, it has only happened three times in the history of the Vuelta that four different drivers held the overall lead after the first four stages. But not in 1958, 2011 or 2016 did all four drivers drive for the same team.

Primoz Roglic

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Roglic reaches for the next record

This underscores Jumbo-Visma’s strong form and aspirations to another Grand Tour triumph, following the show of force at the 2022 Tour de France when Jonas Vingegaard rode the yellow jersey for the first time in his career on the Champs-Elysées.

Speaking of four: Roglic, the new wearer of the “Maillot Rojo”, is reaching for the quadruple this year, the fourth overall victory at the Vuelta a España in a row. In the 76 editions so far, no driver had managed to do that either.

So far, only the Spaniard Heras has managed to win the Vuelta four times. So it doesn’t have to be the only historic record that Jumbo-Visma and Primoz Roglic break on this tour.

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