Primož Roglič
Primož Roglič (Slovenian:
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Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Primož Roglič | |||||||||||||
Born | Trbovlje, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia | 29 October 1989|||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)[1] | |||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)[2] | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Team Jumbo–Visma | |||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||
Rider type | All-rounder | |||||||||||||
Professional teams | ||||||||||||||
2013–2015 | Adria Mobil | |||||||||||||
2016– | LottoNL–Jumbo[3] | |||||||||||||
Major wins | ||||||||||||||
Grand Tours
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Medal record
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At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič became the first Slovenian to win a Tour de France stage. In September 2019, Roglič won the Vuelta a España, becoming the first Slovenian to win a Grand Tour competition.[5]
Career
Ski jumping
Born in Trbovlje, Roglič is a former ski jumper who competed from 2003 to 2011, and was the Junior World Ski Jumping champion in 2007.[6] He set his personal best at 183 metres (600 feet) at Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze flying hill in Oberstdorf, Germany in 2011. He suffered a crash in front of his home crowd in 2007 at the Letalnica bratov Gorišek ski flying hill in Planica, Slovenia.[7]
Road cycling
Adria Mobil (2013–2015)
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. Roglič quickly made the jump to paid levels for the 2013 season with the continental Adria Mobil team. After three seasons with the team his successful 2015 season, including a win at the 2015 Tour of Slovenia, got him a contract to ride with LottoNL–Jumbo for the next season.[8]
LottoNL–Jumbo (2016–present)
2016
At his first year at World Tour level, Roglič showed his talent straight away when placing 5th overall at the Volta ao Algarve. Just one month later he 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,[9] where he surprised with a second place in the opening time trial in Apeldoorn, being only one hundredth of a second slower than winner Tom Dumoulin.[10] He won the 9th stage, a 40.5-kilometre (25.2-mile) individual time trial in Chianti. That came as a surprise for many as Roglič had to use his spare bike because his bike did not meet the UCI requirements. This meant he did not manage to get his cycle computer onto his spare bike in time for the start. It was therefore hard for Roglič to know how much time he had left of the stage, and what his watt numbers were. Just two weeks after finishing the Giro d'Italia, Roglič won the Slovenian National Time Trial Championships. In 2016 he finished 10th in the Time trial at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
2017
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In the 2017 season Roglič started out by winning the Volta ao Algarve overall. One month later he finished 4th overall in Tirreno–Adriatico. At the Tour of the Basque Country, Roglič won two stages, stages 4 and 6 – the latter of which was an individual time trial – and finished 5th overall. It did not take long before he got another win; at the end of April, Roglič participated in the Tour de Romandie, where he won the individual time trial on stage 5, en route to 3rd overall. As his last preparation race for the Tour de France, he won the prologue of the Ster ZLM Toer, and finished 2nd overall.
In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France.[11] He won stage 17 of the race[12] 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, he targeted the individual time trial, which finished on Mount Floyen, a 3-kilometre (1.9-mile) climb averaging 9%. He finished 2nd in the event behind Tom Dumoulin.[13]
2018
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The 2018 season showed Roglič's potential in the stage races and grand tours. He managed to win the general classification in the Tour of the Basque Country, the Tour de Romandie and the Tour of Slovenia.[14] During the early stages of the Tour de France Roglič managed to avoid the crashes and mechanical issues that many other GC riders fell victim to putting him in position to compete with the elite GC riders including Geraint Thomas, Tom Dumoulin, Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana, Romain Bardet and Mikel Landa among others. He was able to stay with the elite riders through the high mountains answering nearly every attack to the point that after he attacked on the descent and won stage 19 of the race he was in a podium position in 3rd place overall, behind only Thomas and Dumoulin. Roglič finished the Tour with an impressive 4th place finish, after Froome was able to regain the 3rd podium position in the final time trial.[14]
2019
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He won the 2019 edition of Tirreno-Adriatico as well as the Tour de Romandie and was one of the pre-race favorites going into the Giro D'Italia. He finished on the podium in 3rd place, wore the Maglia Rosa for six stages and also won two stages, both individual time trials.
In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Vuelta a España.[15] Going into the individual time trial in stage 10 he stood in 2nd place overall at :06 behind Nairo Quintana, 0:11 ahead of Miguel Angel Lopez and 0:14 ahead of Alejandro Valverde. Roglič would win the ITT in convincing fashion over his primary rivals and following this stage he took over the lead in the General Classification by nearly 2:00 on Valverde, just over 2:00 on Lopez and exactly 3:00 on Quintana. The Red Jersey would not be in question for the remainder of the race as Roglič dominated in the high mountains, answering every attack to come against him and only gained more time on his rivals as the race progressed.
A successful 2019 season was crowned with the wins of two classic races in October; Giro dell Emilia, which was his first win among the classics[16] and Tre Valli Varesine.
2020
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Roglič's first race of the season was the Slovenian National Road Race Championships, on 21 June. On the final climb to the finish at Ambrož pod Krvavcem, Roglič soloed away from Tadej Pogačar in the closing 2 kilometres (1.2 miles), winning the national title for the first time.[17] The following weekend, Pogačar beat Roglič by 8.5 seconds in the Slovenian National Time Trial Championships.[18]
Career achievements
Major results
- 2014
- 1st Croatia–Slovenia
- 1st Stage 2 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
- 3rd Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 4th Road race, National Road Championships
- 7th Overall Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- 9th Overall Tour of Al Zubarah
- 2015
- 1st
Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan- 1st Stage 2
- 1st
Overall Tour of Slovenia- 1st Stage 3
- 1st
Mountains classification Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali - 2nd Overall Tour of Croatia
- 2nd GP Izola
- 4th Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake
- 1st Stage 5
- 5th Overall Istrian Spring Trophy
- 2016
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial - 5th Road race
- 1st
- 1st Stage 9 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
- 4th Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes
- 5th Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 7th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
- 10th Time trial, Olympic Games
- 2017
- 1st
Overall Volta ao Algarve - 1st Stage 17 Tour de France
- 2nd
Time trial, UCI Road World Championships - 2nd Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 1st Prologue
- 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 5 (ITT)
- 4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stages 4 & 6 (ITT)
- 2018
- 1st
Overall Tour of the Basque Country- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Tour de Romandie - 1st
Overall Tour of Slovenia- 1st Stages 4 & 5 (ITT)
- 1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 3rd Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 5 (TTT)
- 4th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stage 19
- 6th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 7th Giro dell'Emilia
- 2019
- 1st
Overall Vuelta a España- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 10 (ITT)
Combativity award Stage 10
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Tour de Romandie- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 1, 4 & 5 (ITT)
- 1st
- 1st
Overall UAE Tour- 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 6
- 1st
Overall Tirreno–Adriatico - 1st Giro dell'Emilia
- 1st Tre Valli Varesine
- 3rd Overall Giro d'Italia
- 3rd Chrono des Nations
- 4th Road race, National Road Championships
- 7th Il Lombardia
- 2020
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race - 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Tour de l'Ain- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 2 & 3
- 1st
- 1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné
General classification results timeline
Grand Tour general classification results | |||||
Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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58 | — | — | 3 | |
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— | 38 | 4 | — | |
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— | — | — | 1 | |
Major stage race general classification results | |||||
Race | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Has not contested during his career | ||||
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52 | 4 | 29 | 1 | |
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44 | — | — | — | NH |
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— | 5 | 1 | — | NH |
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— | 3 | 1 | 1 | NH |
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— | — | — | — | DNF |
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— | — | — | — | NH |
Awards
Slovenian Sportsman of the Year: 2019[19]
References
- "Team Jumbo-Visma - Primož Roglič". Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- "Primož Roglič". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- "Cheery Christmas for ambitious Team Jumbo-Visma". Team Jumbo–Visma. Team Oranje Road BV. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- "Team Jumbo-Visma 2020 roster presented in Amsterdam". Bianchi. F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- John MacLeary (15 September 2019). "Primoz Roglič makes history". Telegraph. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- Woodpower, Zeb (20 January 2016). "Former ski jumper Primož Roglič on domestique duty at Tour Down Under". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- Jaka Lopatič (9 April 2017). "Grozljiv padec v Planici, ki mu je spremenil tok dogodkov" (in Slovenian). Siol. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- Woodpower, Zeb (20 January 2016). "Former ski jumper Primož Roglič on domestique duty at Tour Down Under". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- "Giro d'Italia: Tom Dumoulin wins Apeldoorn time trial". BBC News. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- "2017: 104th Tour de France: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- "2017: 104th Tour de France: Stage 17". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- "First Worlds medal for Roglic". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 21 September 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- "Tour de France: Roglič 4th Overall, Best Ever Slovenian Result (Video Highlights)". STA. total-slovenia-news.com. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- "2019: 74th La Vuelta ciclista a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- "Roglic wins Giro dell'Emilia". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- "Roglic gets the better of Pogacar to claim Slovenian National Championship". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- Farrand, Stephen. "Tadej Pogacar beats Roglic to win Slovenian TT championship". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- T. O.; D. S. (17 December 2019). "Primož Roglič, Janja Garnbret in odbojkarji so športniki leta" [Primoz Roglic, Janja Garnbret and the national volleyball team are the Sportspersons of the Year] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
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