{"id":1939652,"date":"2026-05-16T07:54:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1939652"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:54:39","slug":"vingegaard-couldnt-deliver-pogacar-size-power-at-the-giro-but-he-wont-be-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1939652","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard Couldn’t Deliver Poga\u010dar-Size Power at the Giro \u2013 but He Won\u2019t Be Worried"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jonas Vingegaard broke but didn\u2019t bury the opposition Friday at the Giro d\u2019Italia on the Blockhaus, and he didn\u2019t deliver mind-bending watts, either.<\/p>\n
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But despite online chatter that \u201cJonas is washed,\u201d the Dane won\u2019t be listening.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s probably right where he wants to be.<\/p>\n
Online data sleuth \u201cNa1chaca\u201d calculated that Vingegaard pushed 6.35w\/kg for 37:17 when he set a new record time and took a statement victory Friday on the notorious Abruzzan climb.<\/p>\n
Weighing in at ~58kg, that\u2019s around 370w of mountain-climbing power.<\/p>\n
For us on the couch, that\u2019s crazy.<\/p>\n
But as everyone on social media was shouting, they\u2019re not numbers to worry Tadej Poga\u010dar ahead of their match-up at the Tour de France.<\/p>\n
In fact, Vingegaard\u2019s power output was almost average for the modern WorldTour.<\/p>\n
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#GirodItalia, Stage 7 \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf0 JONAS VINGEGAARD<\/p>\n
Not that great, to be honest. pic.twitter.com\/SiPNJUTzGh<\/p>\n
\u2014 \u064b (@Na1chaca) May 15, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
As a reminder, Poga\u010dar blasted 7.0w\/kg for 39 minutes when he uncorked possibly the greatest climbing performance in history on the Plateau de Beille at the 2024 Tour de France.<\/p>\n
He dialed that up to 7.5w\/kg for half the time one year later on Peyragudes.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard pushed impressive power on Blockhaus, but it was far from what Poga\u010dar has delivered countless times.<\/p>\n
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The four-time champion remains firmly at the top of the power ranking for the 2026 Tour de France.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard didn\u2019t need to finish the Giro on Blockhaus<\/h2>\nVingegaard won Giro d\u2019Italia stage 7 to Blockhaus, but not by the margin expected.<\/span> (Photo: Gruber Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
But here\u2019s the thing.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard\u2019s finish line Friday wasn\u2019t the top of the blustery Blockhaus. It\u2019s not two weeks down the road in Rome, either.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s 10 weeks away in Paris.<\/p>\n
An \u201cunderwhelming\u201d performance that still eliminated half the competition from the GC fight on Friday is part of a structured power progression to the July grand d\u00e9part<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Yes, Vingegaard and Visma-Lease a Bike would have hoped to do a lot more damage on Friday than claw only 13 seconds over a career-best ride from Felix Gall.<\/p>\n
But the 29-year-old\u2019s victory after the longest grand tour stage in five years was clinical, controlled, and efficient.<\/p>\n
He looked far from flustered when he gave his winner\u2019s interviews a few minutes after he successfully saw off the Austrian\u2019s late chase. He gave the air of a man with a whole book of matches still to burn through the summer.<\/p>\n
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And besides, Vingegaard knows he can finish what he started on Blockhaus on Tuesday\u2019s time trial.<\/p>\n
Gall stands to lose 3-5 seconds per kilometer against Vingegaard against the clock on Tuesday \u2013 that\u2019s 4 minutes of bad news on the marathon 42km test.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard could all but end the Giro d\u2019Italia on Tuesday with one decisive time trial effort. Then it\u2019s eco-mode and Tour de France preparation all the way to Rome.<\/p>\n
What did Vingegaard\u2019s power numbers mean for the Tour de France?<\/h2>\nVingegaard and Visma believe the Giro is the perfect warm-up for the Tour.<\/span> (Photo: Gruber Images )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The Blockhaus was an important first gauge of Tour de France form for Vingeaard.<\/p>\n
It was by far the hardest climb so far on the 2026 WorldTour calendar, and the Dane\u2019s longest racing effort since last September.<\/p>\n
Would Visma-Lease a Bike have hoped to see more than 6.35w\/kg?<\/p>\n
Yes.<\/p>\n
Who wouldn\u2019t want to see mind-smashing power?<\/p>\n
But history shows Vingegaard gets better the more he races. In fact, the science-backed Killer Bees are rationalizing his Giro-Tour double on the premise \u2013 and the numbers show they\u2019ve got good reason to.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard unleashed his best performance of the 2025 Tour de France in the third<\/em> week of the race, on stage 16 to Ventoux. The Dane tested Poga\u010dar all the way up the G\u00e9ant de Provence with 55 minutes of 6.5w\/kg resilience.<\/p>\n
Nearly eight weeks and thousands of kilometers of racing later, Vingegaard was still going good.<\/p>\n
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He sealed victory at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a on the penultimate stage by climbing the Bola del Mundo at 6.2w\/kg for 38 minutes.<\/p>\n
Vingegaard\u2019s power numbers were underwhelming Friday, but that\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n
They were warm-up watts good enough to beat an underpowered GC field.<\/p>\n
For Vingegaard and Visma-Lease a Bike, it\u2019s the power numbers in late July that matter most.<\/p>\n
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Giro-dItalia-2026-Stage-7-HarryTalbot-9916.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated May 16, 2026 04:01AM Jonas Vingegaard broke but didn\u2019t bury the opposition Friday at the Giro d\u2019Italia on the Blockhaus, and he didn\u2019t deliver mind-bending watts, either. But despite online chatter that \u201cJonas is washed,\u201d the Dane won\u2019t be listening. He\u2019s probably right where he wants to be. Online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1939652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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