Jonas Vingegaard Weight and Height

Jonas Vingegaard is 1.75 m tall – the figure given by both his team, Visma | Lease a Bike, and ProCyclingStats. The team does not list his weight; according to ProCyclingStats he weighs 58 kg. Below are the figures on Jonas Vingegaard's weight and height that have a source, and the ones that circulate without one – including the claim about his VO2 max.

How tall is Jonas Vingegaard?

Jonas Vingegaard's height is 1.75 m. The figure appears on the team's official rider page and on ProCyclingStats, and the two sources agree. That makes him neither especially tall nor short for a professional cyclist, but he is built like a pure climber: slender and light, with a very low body weight for his height. Jonas Vingegaard is 29 years old, and his listed height has not changed during his professional career. More about his background on the Jonas Vingegaard age and biography page.

How much does Jonas Vingegaard weigh?

Jonas Vingegaard's weight is 58 kg according to ProCyclingStats. It is the only source that gives a number – the team's rider page lists no weight, and English Wikipedia simply cites ProCyclingStats. Elsewhere you will see 60 kg, but we have not been able to trace where that figure originally comes from.

The number is best treated as approximate. A rider's weight changes over the season: it is usually lowest before the big stage races and higher in the winter break. What Vingegaard weighs on the start line of the Tour de France is not public. Using 1.75 m and 58 kg gives a BMI of about 18.9 – low for most people, but normal for an elite climber.

Why weight matters so much for a climber

On a long climb the rider is fighting gravity, so what counts is not raw power alone but power relative to body weight – watts per kilo. A lighter rider has less mass to lift up the mountain and can hold a high speed for the same output. That is one reason why Vingegaard has taken his biggest wins on mountain stages such as the Col du Granon and Hautacam in 2022 and Blockhaus and Piancavallo in 2026.

Neither Vingegaard nor the team has published exact power data. The watts-per-kilo figures that sometimes appear in the media and on forums are calculations based on climbing times and an assumed weight – not readings from his own power meter. That is why we do not give a watts-per-kilo figure.

Weight is not everything, though. In flat time trials aerodynamics and raw power matter more, and yet he won the time trial to Combloux at the 2023 Tour de France by 1:38 over Tadej Pogačar. Read more about his time trials.

The Team Danmark test and the Coll de Rates record

The best-documented physiological data on Jonas Vingegaard date from 2018, the year before he turned professional at WorldTour level. In March 2018, at a training camp in Spain, he set the record on the Coll de Rates test climb: 6.5 km in 13:02, 12 seconds faster than the previous record holder, Tejay van Garderen. The record helped earn him his contract with Jumbo-Visma.

That summer he was tested at Team Danmark, the Danish elite sports organisation. Physiologist Lars Johansen told TV 2 that his heart and cardiovascular system were "in a class of their own" – perhaps around 15 per cent above the average for Danish male cyclists. According to Danish Wikipedia he climbed Alpe d'Huez in 42 minutes at the age of 16. His early years are covered on the Jonas Vingegaard education and youth page.

Jonas Vingegaard's VO2 max – what is known?

Search for Jonas Vingegaard's VO2 max and you will often find 97 ml/kg/min, supposedly measured when he was 17. The figure is not documented. It traces back to a forum post relaying something his father is said to have mentioned, and The Week has written that the real value was more likely around 80. Neither Vingegaard, the team nor Team Danmark has published a measured value.

So we say that his VO2 max has not been officially published. What is documented is the 2018 Team Danmark test, the Coll de Rates record – and his results in the big races since.

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